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CAVE = PGM??

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I've been told that cave used hardware based after PGM hardware for some of their games.

Is this true and if so what ones?
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I'm considering only the arcade games here.
Strider77 wrote:I've been told that cave used hardware based after PGM hardware for some of their games.

Is this true and if so what ones?
DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou
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Note: These aren't PGM carts, but integrated PCBs implementing the PGM hardware. The only "Cave" game on PGM cart is Dodompachi II: Bee Storm (which actually wasn't developed by Cave).

Everything after Mushihimesama (to date) uses custom hardware based around Hitachi SH-3. Everything prior to Dodonpachi Dai Ou Jo used 1st gen hardware (custom; based around a Motorola M68000), except for Progear no Arashi (Capcom CPS2) and Steep Slope Sliders (Sega ST-V).
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Wouldn't that mean i could swap some roms to make my espgaluda into a ketsui? :lol:
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Jockel wrote:Wouldn't that mean i could swap some roms to make my espgaluda into a ketsui? :lol:
If it wasn't for the game-specific MCUs used on the PGM system as protection devices, then you could have done exactly that ;)
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You probably could, provided that you also had the protection MCU to swap. ;)
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Jockel wrote:Wouldn't that mean i could swap some roms to make my espgaluda into a ketsui? :lol:
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Jockel wrote:Wouldn't that mean i could swap some roms to make my espgaluda into a ketsui? :lol:
yes, where 'some' means 'a whole bunch of surface mounted chips'
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Strider77 wrote:I've been told that cave used hardware based after PGM hardware for some of their games.
CAVE got access to the PGM hardware in exchange for licensing their franchise to PGM. We all know what they did with it...

The two Dai-Ou-Jou versions both use a modified PGM BIOS but in the later boards the BIOS chip is not present. It might be contained inside the program image but it's hard to know since it's encrypted.

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edit: changed to "encrypted"
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rtw wrote:but it's hard to know since it's decrypted.
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Wouldn't that make it easy to know?
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GaijinPunch wrote:
rtw wrote:but it's hard to know since it's decrypted.
rtw
Wouldn't that make it easy to know?
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GaijinPunch wrote:
rtw wrote:but it's hard to know since it's decrypted.
rtw
Wouldn't that make it easy to know?
Sorry my bad, I meant encrypted :D

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