New Games In Danger (Score 1)

One would be inclined to think that the oldest games are the ones in most danger of disappearing. Fortunately, at this time, most people realize that the truly rare games are of value and keep them for resale, and eventually reproduction. Many of these games continue to plug along year after year, and some will still be working in thirty years or more. Unfortunately, for video game "preservationists", Capcom has been including a battery, on the boards of its CPS2 (and some of its CPS1 games) and if not replaced on its boards, the data on the boards dies with the battery. The CPS1 games are already dumped and emulated, but a rather nasty form of encryption, so far unbroken, protects CPS2. CPS2 games will slowly die, and without a verified correct dump, we may have the ROMs on which to build an emulator. CPS2's most famous game is Marvel Vs. Capcom. Now with M vs. C 2 taking the spotlight off of M vs. C at the arcade, it perhaps may be time to consider working on cracking the encryption and saving CPS2 before it rots away. Personally, I love CPS2. My favorite beat-em-up of all time is sitting in my basement right now, Dungeons of Dragons Tower of Doom (the four-player arcade game with the most buttons per player at four each plus player start). One day my battery will die and the game will be no more. I hope that I will be able to use an iMicro to output RGB to the monitor and wire the controls to a USB Happs interface, but with no roms, and eventually no more working boards, there will be no D&D: TOD, ever again :(