Are AES carts encrypted?

ResO

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Greetings,
I was curious if the newer AES carts are encrypted like their MVS counterparts?
 

DanAdamKOF

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I don't own an AES but I think they are, reason is that on someone's page (nick_th_fury's?) that had info on sac carts for conversions said that for an encrypted MVS game to be converted to AES you need to sac an encrypted AES cart.

EDIT: yes it was NTF's page but he took the info down (gooooo nick!).

<small>[ August 09, 2003, 05:11 PM: Message edited by: DanAdamKOF ]</small>
 

Talen

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Yup, if it's encrypted on MVS, it's encrypted on NGH, same chip and all.

<small>[ August 09, 2003, 05:16 PM: Message edited by: Talen ]</small>
 

BenimaruN

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Talen:
Yup, if it's encrypted on MVS, it's encrypted on NGH, same chip and all.
you sure about that? i started a thread about this on another forum cause i was wondering the same thing. i didn't get an answer yet, but i heard that mvs code isn't always complete, and therefore changes/additions have to be made to aes carts. so theoretically it could be possible to decrypt mvs games for aes release, for whatever reason (probably cost of manufacture). has anyone done, a side by side, chip to chip, bit by bit comparison of aes vs. mvs carts?
 

neo*geo

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they are since kof 98
and did you know you need to kill a kof 99 to make a phantom 1 (blue)
 

neo*geo

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then how come conversions are illegal and phantoms are not cause they both have to kill a cart
 

ResO

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neo*geo:
then how come conversions are illegal and phantoms are not cause they both have to kill a cart
Killing carts isn't illegal my friend, it just bothers most of us. The illegal part is altering and selling a product that SNK owns the copyrights to.
 
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