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Hacking multi-game arcade boards

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kruuth:
Hey, first post, and I wasn't sure where to stick this.  Anyway.  I was wondering, has anyone ever looked into hacking one of these multi-game jamma arcade boards like the 138 or 352 in 1?  They're running a version of *nix and checking the games listing against some sort of encrypted checksum files on an SD card.  Thoughts/ideas?

TIfanx1999:
Hey, welcome to Omnimaga! I'd say this is pretty much the right place to put this. Now when you say multi-game arcade boards are you reffering to like the atari controllers with a whole slew of games built in, Arcade machines with multiple games on them, or something else? I've never seen a topic here about such an endeavor, but that is not to say that no one here has attempted it.  What exactly are you wanting to do, modify it so you can run different games? It's probably doable, it just depends on how things are set up and if the board has writeable memory.

Keoni29:
I think other forums have more users that have experience with the arcade boards you're talking about.

kruuth:
I'd love to find one.  Unfortunately everyone seems to put their hands up on this.

What I know is that it is running everything off the SD card.  There's some sort of serial number on the SD, and then there's a checksum for the games listing.  I don't even know where to begin.

willrandship:
What's the brand name?

I actually had a 5-in-1 arcade thing, but it did real hardware, either emulation via FPGA or just an ASIC with all the stuff inside.

Yours sounds like much more fun. Have you got a directory listing to show?

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