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1.  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 06:05:39 JST 

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   @pawlicker Might be some viral marketing stunt, as Vinny's stream and some other videos are yet to be struck down. Either way, those collectors are mentally ill greedy babbies.
   • µPD7220 Enthusiast (pawlicker@outpoa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 06:10:09 JST µPD7220 Enthusiast

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     There was a scandal a while back where a collector who was trying to get into the biz removed Akai Katana and DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou from MAME because he had the arcade rerelease rights...and it's funny because the former was in MAME for a year or so before. Half his anger was from it being playable for everyone, half was arcades in poor countries were converting CV1000 PCBs to DDP SDOJ (and the original ROM got released because said arcades were flashing the shitty romhack the group who had it made as a teaser first to PCBs and to avoid that from causing issues).
     
     https://archive.org/details/DodonpachiSaidaioujou
     
     Akai Katana is now on Steam BTW and the composer was literally the same one who did many PC-98 VNs along with more games and it was unfortunately the last game he worked on before he died :(
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   •  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 06:15:02 JST 

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     @pawlicker >half was arcades in poor countries were converting CV1000 PCBs to DDP SDOJ
     Heard they also like ripping tracks from DDR/PIU and putting them into machines with Stepmania installed. There's this article that covers the reverse-engineering of protection schemes and mentions the issue.
     https://habr.com/ru/post/179067/
   • µPD7220 Enthusiast (pawlicker@outpoa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 06:25:12 JST µPD7220 Enthusiast

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     Also I've been aware of Cookie's Bustle for a while but I unfortunately never got around to playing it; I now have another reason to mess with it.
     
     It was well known in niche Japanese game circles.
     http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/cookies-bustle-japanese-video-game-obscurity/
     https://twitter.com/HG_101/status/1616213159374737408
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   • µPD7220 Enthusiast (pawlicker@outpoa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 06:30:57 JST µPD7220 Enthusiast

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     Here's a github you might enjoy.
     https://github.com/ArcadeHustle
     
     Everything on here is basically "hoarded" knowledge that was being held by arcade sceners trying to make money off of it in some way, shape, or form with regards to piracy.
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