Taken from the Guru's rom dump news :
"Capcom CPS3 board. The system comprises a main board, SCSI CDROM drive with CD and a security cart. It worked on arrival, but died soon afterwards. The culprit is almost certainly a dead security cart which contains a battery that backs-up some data in a custom Capcom chip. These carts are apparently very static sensitive and the data can be zapped easily just by touching the cart edge connector or touching the pins of the connector under the PCB where the cart is plugged in (argghh, now they tell me!). The main CPU is a Hitachi SH-2 but the program is very heavily encrypted and the decryption info is held by that battery in the plug-in security cart which got zapped! It's really doubtful you will ever see CPS3 emulation. The boards are just too flaky for experiments and the games really suck (it's just another damn Street Fighter game), so there's ZERO chance of any emulation developer looking at it unless the encryption is broken manually. "
"Capcom CPS3 board. The system comprises a main board, SCSI CDROM drive with CD and a security cart. It worked on arrival, but died soon afterwards. The culprit is almost certainly a dead security cart which contains a battery that backs-up some data in a custom Capcom chip. These carts are apparently very static sensitive and the data can be zapped easily just by touching the cart edge connector or touching the pins of the connector under the PCB where the cart is plugged in (argghh, now they tell me!). The main CPU is a Hitachi SH-2 but the program is very heavily encrypted and the decryption info is held by that battery in the plug-in security cart which got zapped! It's really doubtful you will ever see CPS3 emulation. The boards are just too flaky for experiments and the games really suck (it's just another damn Street Fighter game), so there's ZERO chance of any emulation developer looking at it unless the encryption is broken manually. "
