Hi all!
I have started collecting the awesome (at least I think so;) PGM brawlers and shooters!
But something has been bugging me for quite some time now.. My PGM games are all different releases, china/japan/korea/taiwan.. and quite a few are not the latest versions.
I have been checking around and reading the comments in the drivers, and I thought there would be a way to change the region/language of most of the games.
I am not skilled enough to accomplish it myself though, so I thought I would ask for some help!
The games region seems to be determined by the protected ASICs, but all the regions seems to be available in the Pxxx/Txxx files from the start? (could be wrong here but the language change if I change the region in the emulator....)
Wouldn't there be a way to edit the ROM, so that when the ASIC reports region "korea", the area corresponding would be containing the "world" data for example?
I just assumed that IF all 4 regions are stored in the ROM from the beginning, it might not be impossible to re-route the region check, or just replace the korean data with the world data?
I might be completely off here, but I thought I would ask at least.. Since I would like my games to be in English where possible, otherwise in Japanese..
This also go hand in hand with updating the software version/revision also, since many of the games have many revisions. Burning a new eprom, or making a adapter for a 64m flash to dip is no problem for the original PGM carts.. although the PGM2 system is a completely different beast.. Anyone ever seen 48pin DIP maskroms?? These are dumped so it should be possible to read them and use a adapter/smd flash with an updated rom, but I cant seem to find the pinout, or any info about them at all.. Oriental Legends 2 and Knights of Valour 2 are both availible in english, so it "should" be possible but then again.. I am not sure.
I realize that my post got much bigger than I thought.. I have just been thinking about this alot lately
. Main question is if it would be possible to change region on my PGM carts.
And if anyone has some info about the PGM2 roms in the picture below, then please share it with me
Thanks all!