It's taken awhile, ten years to be exact, but Andreas Naive has successfully managed to break the protection on Capcom's CPS-3 arcade system board. The CPS-3 powered less than a dozen arcade classics, including JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Red Earth, and Street Fighter III.
The security system of the CPS-3 was rather advanced for its time. Any tampering to the game's security cartridge would result in the decryption key being erased, thereby rendering the respective cartridge useless.
So, the decryption is broken, what does this all mean? In one word: Emulation. Now that the decryption task is done, the folks over at MAME have already started work on a CPS-3 emulator.
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Oh you hackers who have no lives, I admire and pity you. Thanks for the emulation.
but I didn't know if the readers who frequent this site were into emulation. Anyway hacking the CPS3 is cool bc now you can get SF3 on your PC.
What exactly is the CP3?
they'll upgrade winkawaks to include the cps-3 emulation.... that'll make a all-around cps-1,cps-2,and cps-3 emulator... now to work on NAOMI so I can play MVC2...
CPS~3 Sounds like C3PO cousin or something!