ianoid Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 I dumped this EPROM cart. Is it different from release, or is it an undumped version? Dumped using MaxFlash. -ian CV Destroyer EPROM.bin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrananka Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 (edited) I just did a binary comparison against the official cart release and there's around 1K bytes difference between them. Edited March 3, 2021 by Ikrananka 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrananka Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Just to be certain, I'd suggest repeating the dump a few more times to verify consistency. I've occasionally found a single dump can be corrupted in subtle ways and now always repeat cart dumps until I get three consistent results. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianoid Posted March 3, 2021 Author Share Posted March 3, 2021 OK, here are 6 more dumps. With cleaning and reinsertion between dumps. Thanks for looking at these! CV Destroyer 2.bin CV Destroyer 3.bin CV Destroyer 4.bin CV Destroyer 5.bin CV Destroyer 6.bin CV Destroyer 7.bin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumbai Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 6 minutes ago, ianoid said: OK, here are 6 more dumps. With cleaning and reinsertion between dumps. Thanks for looking at these! The only subsequent dump that varies from the first is "CV Destroyer 5". The remainder are identical to the first one you supplied. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumbai Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 40 minutes ago, Ikrananka said: I just did a binary comparison against the official cart release and there's around 1K bytes difference between them. Assuming intentional differences, is it typical to expect from among the 1,160+ differences that only 1% (roughly) involve more than a single byte? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikrananka Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 (edited) 16 minutes ago, mumbai said: The only subsequent dump that varies from the first is "CV Destroyer 5". The remainder are identical to the first one you supplied. Agreed. Looks like Destroyer 5 has around 6 to 7K bytes different to the rest so that one looks to be a bad dump. With all of the others being identical I'd say that confirms that the original dump was good. So, looks like @ianoid most likely has a proto version of the game there. Nice ? 15 minutes ago, mumbai said: Assuming intentional differences, is it typical to expect from among the 1,160+ differences that only 1% (roughly) involve more than a single byte? I really don't have enough experience comparing progressive versions of games to provide a definitive answer. What I would say is that with most of the changes being single bytes, the prototype is most likely a fairly late version. Earlier versions may have been missing blocks of code or graphics and these would most likely show up as more contiguous blocks of byte differences between rom files. Edited March 3, 2021 by Ikrananka 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLic0ne t0aD Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Very cool! [emoji41] Thanks for sharing.I'd love to get myself some kind of CV proto or lab loaner someday.. Been after one for about 20 years now. Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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