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The XOR tables are a method of encryption used in CPS2 games. XOR stands for eXclusive OR. This should mean something to those with a bit of experience in electronics or boolean algebra. Anyway, each game has its own table, so to emulate the game, you have to figure out the table. The tricky thing there is that these tables are stored in a S-RAM chip, making it very uneasy to read: as soon as you unplug the battery, all the information is lost (at least that's what they think at CPS2Shock). From their website: They tried dumping it from working CPS2 boards, but from what they say, all attempts have failed. I have no idea how they figure out these tables. I hope that helped you to have an idea of what XOR tables are If it's not clear (and I'm pretty sure it's not ) don't hesitate to ask more explainations on a particular point. I'll help as much as I can

Caps lock please... And about the graphic problems in ms5, the first version that came out only worked in MAME. Be sure you don't use that rom with kawaks.

Tell them that videogames train your reflexes And if my memory's good, it has even been proved scientifically

Sorry I just couldn't restrain myself

There's something strange with the "rkof2003pack.zip" file (containing m1 and s1 roms). In the text file that comes with it, they don't mention any s1 rom. They also mention a m1d rom with a different crc than the one from the m1 rom that comes with the file. Strange isn't it?

If there are that many bootleg stores near where you live, maybe you could find a bootleg of kof2k3 and dump it for us

Welcome! Don't worry it's not that bad The only website I have in mind right now is Emu-Russia but you should find many others in the FTPs and weblinks section.

Excellent

Skykiss Just thought of this one while listening to Jimi

His forum has one member I guess he means he restricts HIMSELF to speak only about KOF2003 By the way, I never noticed any kind of "constant censoring" here.

I have never played the Street Fighter 3 games, so I can't tell about these. So except the SF3s, I'd say the best one was Street Fighter Alpha 3 (and I think the PSX version is even better than the arcade one).

I would say: Lemmings Prince of Persia Street Fighter 2 Capcom vs SNK 2 And I almost forgot Mario Bros

My second best was 0.24, with an average about 0.30s. My best was 0.01: I didn't press on purpose that time

Well, after all these well-argued posts, I don't know where I stand on the debate. But on the above matter, I'd just like to point out that both Capcom and SNK have limitations to work with with character redesigns - notably, that the characters still have to LOOK like themselves. AND most of them have trademark characteristics that MUST be adhered to. Look at Ken from street fighter. He has blonde/red, long hair and his trademark outfit is a red gi. You could change these things but those are the things that make him Ken. So what is left to change? I think I get your point. However, there is much room for changes. I'll take what I think is a good exemple: Terry Bogard. If you compare the Fatal Fury 1 version and the KOF2002 one, they have the same style, same dressing, and most of the same special moves (although some have been added). But the KOF2002 one has a much much better look. So what did they change? They kept the same character, but changed the sprites. If you compare a child's drawing representing a woman and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, both represent (mostly) the same thing, but one looks much better than the other So they redrew the sprites to make them look better, they rethought the design of the special moves, and so on. They must also have added frames to have a better animation. But redrawn characters don't have to have exactly the same style after the redraw. Take Terry in Garou: MOTW. He doesn't have his red cap and jacket anymore and has now "hair in the wind" But he still has his special moves, and everyone recognises him. So redraws can be original, and don't have to be only sprites smoothing. By the way, they have to be careful when playing around with the palette. Characters from CTHD2003 look like they come straight from a 70s disco nghtclub

Maybe you should ask in the request rom section, or preferably look through the MSlug5 thread...

You may have to wait a little bit

I would NEVER give a cent to sites like LINK DELETED, even if it was legit. Come on, if you have to pay money for a game, at least give it to the game devellopers. I don't blame people downloading roms, I do it myself because I can't buy a 300$ cart. What this guy does, however, is something else. He takes other people's work and makes money from it. Warez and such things are acceptable for people who can't find or pay for a game, but not to make money. And don't tell me they need money to host the site, these activities are either benevolent or they are SCAMS. I repeat it, I would rather send bank notes to SNK Playmore in plain mail envelopes (without asking anything in return) than give anything to these guys. I think this is just a scam for newbies.

I have found encrypted sets working with MAME of these three games on www.emu-russia.net.

Now that we've seen the end, what's remaining is to play the game

To use console mode in MAME you have to do one of these things: -rename the console bios in neogeo.zip to the name of an arcade bios (aes-bios.bin to sp-s2.sp1 for exemple) -do the same with the uni-bios and set it to console mode (uni-bios.12) -use James' build (however I don't know how to enable uni-bios in his build) -compile your own build (not as difficult as it seems). I think the kaillera version also has dipswitches added for switching between arcade and console, but I'm not sure about that. PS: if the MAME team has removed console mode by default, it's because MAME is meant to be an arcade emulator, and console mode is, well, not arcade

[HOPELESS HOPE MODE ON] The file is 39 MB large... I'll try downloading it... [HOPELESS HOPE MODE OFF]

For those who have a slower PC or are doing heavy things at the same time (well even for everyone), there is an option you should check: Options menu -> Interface options -> Emulation -> High thread priority I had occasionaly a few dropped frames before checking it, now it's as smooth as possible

strange thing this i have never been to that site before but i got this message when i tried to veiw it vBulletin Message Sorry. The administrator has banned your IP address. To contact the administrator click here If you have a dynamic ip, maybe they banned someone who had it before. Or, more probably they banned a whole provider or geographic region. Also possible is that they use the list from peerguardian and that you accidently got into it... Anyway I had no problem entering the site.

I hate these forums where you have to register to read a post. When someone posts a link to a good post on one of these, you just end up with the "enter your password" dialog box. What's worst is that you can't know if the board is good before registering (I guess they must have much more members who never post because of that).