Capcom programmed CPS-2 arcade boards to “suicide” when their original battery failed. The original decrypt key would be lost forever and the boards would die if their original battery died. The technique for decrypting the CPS-2 bios was first researched and documented at the Arcadehacker Blog and made open-source by the team that perfected it. […]
Neocps1 has been working on a Cadillacs & Dinosaurs arcade ROM conversion to CPS-2. It originally ran on CPS 1.5 hardware, which is technically much closer to CPS-2 than CPS-1, primarily because the sound samples are all in Q-Sound on CPS 1.5. The CPS2 conversion could be burned to EEPROMs and installed on a real […]
ROM Carts / Flash Carts / SD Multicarts This page describes ROM carts, which are custom game cartridges that can be loaded with multiple “roms” for each system. Optical Drive Emulators and mod chips are discussed farther down on the page. Intro: ROM carts allow you to play almost every game on original hardware with […]
