Thursday, February 2, 2012

The Spider is ready

With the help of Raf, I've managed to get replace the 29f400 with a socketable 28f400. The result can be seen in the pictures below.

Good news is that it works perfectly and that means several things:
* Both 29f400 and 28f400 can be used
* I changed the BIOS from a Mexican one to a USA one and worked perfectly.
* This is an SF2 cartridge, which might be even better given the peculiarity of the encryption in this game (data not encrypted, code encrypted).
* It´s much easier and safer now to attach the probes from the signal analyser.
* Nope, I can't get back to life dead cartridges yet....

I will setup everything this weekend and let's start seeing what's going on.






Stay tuned.

13 comments:

  1. That's great! Thank you so much for still working on this!

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  2. Great job man - I appreciate your hard work! I'm really looking forward to hearing what you discover with the signal analyzer!!

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  3. Awesome work man ! Keep it up ! We are counting on you !

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  4. "I just want to tell you good luck. We're all counting on you."

    bit.ly/xEIOoI

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  5. Do you have some kind of documentation or diary of your setup and findings? Or is there a central site where such info is kept? I think the biggest problem in completely hacking the cps3 is the lack of interest. Not the enthusiasts - they love the games but engineers who are capable of doing such things as reverse engineering.
    Pablo, your Project is awesome and you deserve the biggest respect for taking on this task, but you should consider to move this website-content and your documentation to a project-management site. (Don't know of many, maybe Google-Code, Github or Sourceforge) To draw interest to this.
    I'm also totally willing to setup a website for free, even hosting. What do you think?

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  6. Here's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 990927:

    http://ianc.net/cps3/updates/jojoba_990927-idc.rar

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  7. Dumps we have that work with the tool:

    Red Earth/Warzard 961023 (ISO disc label CAP-WZD-3)
    Red Earth/Warzard 961121 (CAP-WZD-5)
    Street Fighter III: New Generation 970204 (CAP-SF3-3)
    JoJo's Venture 981202 (CAP-JJK-140)
    JoJo's Venture 990108 (CAP-JJK-160)
    Street Fighter III: Third Strike 990512 (CAP-33S-1)
    Street Fighter III: Third Strike 990608 (CAP-33S-2)
    JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 990913 (CAP-JJM-110)
    JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 990927 (CAP-JJM-120)


    Dumps we have that DON'T work with the tool at present:

    Street Fighter III: Second Impact 970930 (CAP-3GA-1) (needs decryption table)


    Dumps needed:

    Street Fighter III: New Generation 970312
    Street Fighter III: New Generation 970403
    Street Fighter III: Second Impact 971016
    JoJo's Venture 990128 (I have this, so I will make an ISO shortly.)

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  8. @Alex. Your idea sounds good, but the programm is basically finished except for the SFIII-2nd support.

    Regarding the phoenixing of cartridges,
    I could certainly need a help.

    Let me think it over and see how to make this open.

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  9. Updated!

    Dumps we have that work with the tool:

    Red Earth/Warzard 961023 (ISO disc label CAP-WZD-3)
    Red Earth/Warzard 961121 (CAP-WZD-5)
    Street Fighter III: New Generation 970204 (CAP-SF3-3)
    JoJo's Venture 981202 (CAP-JJK-140)
    JoJo's Venture 990108 (CAP-JJK-160)
    JoJo's Venture 990128 (CAP-JJK-161)
    Street Fighter III: Third Strike 990512 (CAP-33S-1)
    Street Fighter III: Third Strike 990608 (CAP-33S-2)
    JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 990913 (CAP-JJM-110)
    JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 990927 (CAP-JJM-120)


    Dumps we have that DON'T work with the tool at present:

    Street Fighter III: Second Impact 970930 (CAP-3GA-1) (needs decryption table)


    Dumps needed:

    Street Fighter III: New Generation 970312
    Street Fighter III: New Generation 970403
    Street Fighter III: Second Impact 971016

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    1. Thanks for all the info Ian.

      @La pastilla roja de matrix : Any news on the SF 3.2 compatibility ?

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