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CAPS0ff
Personal blog · caps0ff.blogspot.comhardwaregames
CAPS0ff is a personal blog at caps0ff.blogspot.com about hardware and games. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog from a group recovering ROM and firmware data from arcade machines and old chips through die imaging, decapping and laser glitching. Commenters also point to it for chip-mask image conversion work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-11
What Hacker News says?
http://caps0ff.blogspot.com/ guys have a collaboration tool and they often ask people to help with filling/validating mask image to bits conversion
Comment linking /
on “A look at the die of the 8086 processor”Submitted Extracting the elusive TMS32010 mask ROM as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSurprisingly references is missing http://caps0ff.blogspot.com <- guys recovering data from Arcade and old computer chips.
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on “Pulling Bits from ROM Silicon Die Images: Unknown Architecture”Submitted Taito C-Chip: Extracting data from within package as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere's the blog of a group doing the same sort of things to recover rom and firmware from arcade machines: http://caps0ff.blogspot.com/
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on “Manual chip decapsulation [video]”Submitted Taito C-Chip: data by lobotomy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes. Decapping and laser glitching is all exploited today in amateur settings. Here are dudes working on old Arcade machines http://caps0ff.blogspot.com in fact most recent post is about laser glitching :)
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on “JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023”Submitted If at first you don't succeed boil it in acid as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taking Down #45 Tatakae Big Fighter, the Lazarus ROM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse engineering ROMs optically, with help from acid as a story · 1 points
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