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Capcom's CPS-A-01 custom chip - anyone looked into making a replacement?
As we know, the CPS-A-01 chip on CPS1 A boards has a high failure rate, rendering CPS1 A boards useless.
Besides taking the same part from another A board (a pointless exercise unless it's a parts board) the only other option is to rob the part from a CPS2 A board. However that part will also fail one day.
Has anyone looked into fabbing a replacement part? I realise that this likely won't be easy and unless a large number are produced won't be cheap either, but it seems like the only option. As the chip is emulated I guess all of the details of its inner workings are fully documented, it's then a case of getting it fabbed.
One potential fly in the ointment is Capcom getting funny about copyright infringement, but there are other replacement parts out there for variious boards so surely they are unlikely to make a fuss?
As we know, the CPS-A-01 chip on CPS1 A boards has a high failure rate, rendering CPS1 A boards useless.
Besides taking the same part from another A board (a pointless exercise unless it's a parts board) the only other option is to rob the part from a CPS2 A board. However that part will also fail one day.
Has anyone looked into fabbing a replacement part? I realise that this likely won't be easy and unless a large number are produced won't be cheap either, but it seems like the only option. As the chip is emulated I guess all of the details of its inner workings are fully documented, it's then a case of getting it fabbed.
One potential fly in the ointment is Capcom getting funny about copyright infringement, but there are other replacement parts out there for variious boards so surely they are unlikely to make a fuss?