bsnes' creator collected all the NTSC cartridges, I believe (USA and Japan, even the rare ones that were Japan-only special editions) but I don't think they managed to get a full PAL set.
All the enhancement chips used in officially licensed games were collected, decapped, and dumped via an electron microscope. Yes, even the ones only used by a single Shougi game each. :)
One of those shogi chips was actually a 32 bit ARM processor:
bsnes' creator...
I still can't get over the tragedy of what happened to them. That shouldn't have happened under any circumstance.
Re:The Hearts of the Super Nintendo
by ThrowawayTestr on Monday April 01, 2024 @11:51AM
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If it makes you feel better, Byuu faked his death at least once before and there's still no hard evidence he's dead.
> Wayne Beckett, founder of Hong-Kong-based Datapower Development, said Near, whose full name was David Kirk Ginder, was an employee and confirmed Ginder's death to USA TODAY.
from https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/07/23/how-toxic-onli...
That's hard enough for me to think it's legit, though I'd agree that it's not conclusive.
Re:The Hearts of the Super Nintendo
by ranger_danger on Monday April 01, 2024 @05:42PM
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there are so many holes in even THAT story it's not even funny.
I'd love to learn more if you had a reference
I sincerely hope there's hope for it. Even so, such behavior towards an individual who brought nothing but joy to a common shared passion of many is beyond sad and evil.
Re:The Hearts of the Super Nintendo
by ThrowawayTestr on Monday April 01, 2024 @12:46PM
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Byuu tried to extort the owner of kiwifarms and "killed" himself when the owner refused. I encourage you to read Byuu's thread yourself instead of news articles that drastically misrepresent what happened.
Hmm, not to pollute thread anymore, I'll see what I can find and read. I remember marcan of Asahi confirmed it as well?
Thanks for calling yourself out as a perpetrator. The blood on your hands here is quite visible.
Some more evidence seems to have come forward, via a FOIA request by Null: https://twitter.com/TheRalphRetort/status/177609783413719452...
I don't know if all the enhancement chips were collected and decoded, as IIRC a pair of them are literally used for a single japanese-only game.
Although for IP reasons the enhancement chip firmwares can't be distributed with higan, so you have to "dump them yourself".