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De-protected PGM games

Love this, i should finally use some of my fluffy pcbs....
Before I get too excited, i'm assuming Demon front and SVG arent de-cryptable (well.. atleast are very difficult to decrypt) due to the extra ARM encryption?
 
Unfortunately, Demon Front, SVG, The Gladiator, The Killing Blade Plus, and Happy 6in1 all run the majority of their code on the ARM7 CPU (the same CPU that's in the Gameboy Advance!) that is built into the cartridge. It would be a total rewrite of the game to make those run on the 68K CPU (the same CPU that's in the Sega Megadrive).
 
iq_132 said:
Unfortunately, Demon Front, SVG, The Gladiator, The Killing Blade Plus, and Happy 6in1 all run the majority of their code on the ARM7 CPU (the same CPU that's in the Gameboy Advance!) that is built into the cartridge. It would be a total rewrite of the game to make those run on the 68K CPU (the same CPU that's in the Sega Megadrive).
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I wonder if it's possible to at least allow for conversion carts of those games, perhaps leading the way to a new repo cart for the ARM games.
 
I'm sure it's just a bank switcher and the likely reason for the games selected are that they're both fairly small.

you could probably cobble together something like this yourself if you wanted to.
 
I didn't do anything, but shouldn't be too hard. You can switch two 2MB P-ROMs already, as used by Ketsui and Trap-Ketsui, you could do the same for the other ROMs. If you have some free time you could even modify one of the games to offset the sprite/tile/music addresses so they can share the same address space without extra banking.

Edit: Looks like a 3D printed case, though. Maybe one of the designs shared here? https://www.arcade-projects.com/threads/3d-printed-replacement-cases-for-carts.10897/
Edit2: BTW, at one point I considered replacing the 74LS138/139 on the Char board with GAL as well, but decided against it since in most cases it is not necessary. It would be easy enough to just rewire the decoders if you wanted to do switch between two rom sets.
 
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Fluffy said:
I didn't do anything, but shouldn't be too hard. You can switch two 2MB P-ROMs already, as used by Ketsui and Trap-Ketsui, you could do the same for the other ROMs. If you have some free time you could even modify one of the games to offset the sprite/tile/music addresses so they can share the same address space without extra banking.

Edit: Looks like a 3D printed case, though. Maybe one of the designs shared here? https://www.arcade-projects.com/threads/3d-printed-replacement-cases-for-carts.10897/
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Ah good to know.

The case gets used in the Puzzle Star Aliexpress variant as well .. could be the same guy.
 
There has been some work done on IGS gambling games recently - dumping the contents of the protection area better.
Hopefully the PGM games can be done again with the new findings when the gambling titles have been done...
 
sadly, there is still no way to dump internal IGS027A firmware from games which doesn't use external ARM ROM, i.e. games from CAVE and others...
 
bytestorm said:
That sure sounds like there will we a way to get the internal rom?? these wizards!!
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long story short:
decade or more ago was developed trojans to dump internal firmware from games which uses external IGS027A program ROMs, but there was a problem - some part of ROMs was "read protected", so dumps was only partial.
after long research XingXing found the way to fully dump internal firmwares and developed new trojan.
using his trojan you may see dumped many of IGS mahjong games during last months.
that's it.
 
GC8TECH said:
I have a full collection of PGM game carts.
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then you may check MAME driver, quick search gives this:
Quanhuang Sanguo Tebie Ban (bootleg of Knights of Valour Super Heroes)
Zhongguo Long Pretty Chance [Dragon World Pretty Chance] (China)
The Gladiator / Shen Jian Fu Mo Lu / Shen Jian Fengyun
The Killing Blade Plus / Ao Jian Kuang Dao Jiaqiang Ban (China)
S.V.G. - Spectral vs Generation / Sheng Mo Shiji (China)
S.V.G. - Spectral vs Generation / Sheng Mo Shiji (Hong Kong)
S.V.G. - Spectral vs Generation / Sheng Mo Shiji (Taiwan)
S.V.G. - Spectral vs Generation / Sheng Mo Shiji (Japan, JAMMA PCB)
Huanle Liuhe Yi (Happy 6-in-1) (China)
Huanle Liuhe Yi (Happy 6-in-1) (Hong Kong)

there is also many other games with IGS027A MCU which needs to be dumped, but they don't use external code ROM, so, no way to dump them atm.
 
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