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simply buy zero PIC key for NetDIMM off ebay

perhaps game code doesn't use that symbols from SYSEQU.ASM? check MKINIT.ASM initdata: - I see there mostly hardcoded values

then check guide again ;) at least try to read it until the part where it says you should have/use special "zero key" chip, otherwise it will not work technically your 456E key from WCCF2005/6 can be used too, but all the binaries uploaded to DIMM should be encrypted using 456E chip's DES key

that plus information about unlocked characters/features and other goodies. the whole idea was similar to Virtua Fighter 4 network system they are memory cards, and they had kind of backup of player profile and game progress data from servers, for the case if owner will play the game on some...

quite hard question, because it was unknown CPS 2 or 1 hardware limitations until few years ago, when CPS-2 chips was reverse engineered, so I'd say there very few people on this planet who have good understanding which was actual power/limits of CPS1 and 2 platforms, and they aren't on this...

technically it's still in MAME, commented out because of Exa's legal request, but it takes only few seconds to return katana and sdoj back ;)

IC14 sum should be 60E5/C4CD, not much difference compared to numbers shown of the photo. probably few bits bitrot in this mask ROM. not fatal, you can live with that :)

not sure if I understand the question...

but... CV1K D is in fact a CV1K B with larger memory ;) and that's the only possible problem I may imagine, because "larger memory" is not that simple in SDRAM world, and may require a bit different SH3's SDRAM controller configuration.

does it really matters? high probable CV1K D backwards compatible with B games

special sensor I/O board connected to Naomi (CRX or 2) serial port, or some device which will simulate it. no

you're welcome worth to mention it's possible thanks to work of me and @brizzo several years ago, when we reverse engineered checksum protection performed by Atomiswave ASICs, so now it's possible to hack/edit AW game binaries and run them on real AW, or create some homebews. a bit documented...

have you tried without -ata switch ?

it's by design, it's same in any emulator with recompiler, due to block-based nature sorry, there is no such feature, in later versions at least

FWIW - how works protection in Capcom Medalusion games: code read 20bytes from very beginning of CF card (scrambled game name) then XORing them with 20 bytes of ATA IDENT reply starting from offset 0x14 (SN# area) then XORing together these 20 bytes each other, result byte should be 0.