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CPS2 18 in One - Anybody have any experience with it ?
Haze:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on September 07, 2009, 03:27:49 am ---That was... a bit more than what I asked for.
Yeah, Puzzle Fighter is one of the working boards (last I checked about eight months ago) I have. It has no cab to call home though. My other CPS2 has a damaged connector and I can't get anything useful out of it right now. No idea what game it even is. :(
I guess I better seriously consider doing one of the battery modifications to it sometime soon.
Too bad no one came up with a way to replace the SRAM with something a bit more durable. Oh well.
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Yeah, a method to actually reprogram the encryption chip would have been better (still wouldn't solve the problem of Chinese guys reprogramming boards with other games, but at least you could know the code was original and unhacked)
The answer was rather long because I like people to understand the processes involved, so I tend to try and give as many details as possible, you never know, somebody reading the post might find the details really interesting. Educating people on what's involved in certain tasks is never a bad thing :-)
codenamed:
I had one of these boards and it ran flawlessly purchased through welink and sold on klov when I got bored with it. Checkout frizzlefrides cps2 18in1 cab on klov. These boards are cool just hope you dont get a dud as return shippin to china is spendy.
The phoenix version can be turned on and off by the way for every game the board even supports auxillary kick harness for 4 players. The suicide battery on cps2 boards is why there arent many left in the wild dont see a problem with this board except it only has 18 games.
FrizzleFried:
I've had mine for a month or so and love it for the most part. The menu system is a little cumbersome, but overall the board is well worth the asking price. I've heard of some bad boards being sold, but luckily mine seems to be running strong. The A-board does warm up nicely, so adding a fan blowing across the board set may help keep things nice and cool. My only semi-major complaint would be there is no high-score save feature.
Haze:
--- Quote from: codenamed on September 07, 2009, 10:06:34 am ---The phoenix version can be turned on and off by the way
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This doesn't make sense. The encryption chip on the boards is dead, it can't run anything except the Phoenix versions, even if the phoenix messages get hacked out. There is simply no way the 'dead' board can run the original encrypted code.
(If the bootleggers really wanted they could probably create their own encryption chip, and allow it to be programmed etc. but none of the ones I've seen do this, probably because it's cheaper and easier for them to just to use the phoenix ones, or use emulation)
Right now killing a board is like murdering your grandmother, you might be able to give the impression she's still alive by attaching strings to her arms and legs, but she won't be the real deal.