Troubled Brawler Paprium Slowly Getting Dumped Chip by Chip

[ProjectLittleMan No.8183825]

Spansion Flash Dump
https://github.com/ArcadeHustle/WatermelonPapriumDump/blob/main/ChipDumps/RT809H/S29GL064N90BFI03%40BGA48_20210924_142237.BIN

Current progress: https://pastebin.com/pJMG4JDu
//Base logic for decoding 256 u16 blocks (512bytes)
//Key appears to vary within file, can't tie to some logic right now. Might be arbitrary?
//Might not cover whole file correctly

Time for a Patreon? lol
>>8132902

Hi Fonzie!

[Anonymous No.8183847]

Cool

Downloading and not playing it will be a real savings over buying it and not playing it

[Anonymous No.8184356]

>>8183847
Sometimes I like to take mine from the box and look at it, which is honestly more exciting than actually playing it.

[Anonymous No.8184629]

it will get dumped and then people will complain that it won't work on cheapest fake everdrive

[Anonymous No.8184650]

>>8183825
Actually excited for this, I hope these madlads can really pull this off

[Anonymous No.8184664]

>>8183825
Eh, it's getting ported anyway. Even after the dump the chips have to be emulated. The port will be out long before that nonsense.

[Anonymous No.8184702]

>yfw eventually the dump will be fixed to work on those megadrives which have issues playing the legit card
I'd kek hard.

[Anonymous No.8185445]

I will buy it IF they release it on Xbox and IF they honor Zebbe’s promise that I will get a discount on the game as a reward for beating the Eternal Slip minigame in Pier Solar over 10 years ago. Otherwise I’ll emulate.

[Anonymous No.8185575]

>>8183825
Bravo on the progress so far. Looking forward to datamining this trainwreck, especially cause there are STILL things that are not explained or found in the game (such as the 11 missing sound test songs -- do they even exist? The rest of the music is a fucking banger so it'd be nice to dump it all)

[Anonymous No.8185616]

That explains a lot

[Anonymous No.8185623]

>>8183825
Fonzie will be out with a new game or a superior version by the time these guys finish

[Anonymous No.8185637]

wait please don't dump this
I bought this physically
I wanted to support homebrew...
I want old consoles to be bigger than new ones
Don't dump this

[Anonymous No.8185661]

>>8185637

[Anonymous No.8185767]

>>8183825
why is Kevin allowed to use vr as his personal blog?

[Anonymous No.8186464]

>>8185637
Ignore this guy and dump the rom, I too bought a physical version but Fonzie needs to suffer for his 2 month dev time and sitting on his ass the next decade crying about the locust money mafia.

[Anonymous No.8186710]

>>8185767
Are you dumping /vr/ games? No? Ok then.

[Anonymous No.8186715]

>people hate this guy and game do much they're going to spend 10,000 hours decompiling the game to get the ROM instead of spending money buying it

[Anonymous No.8186737]

>>8183825
Do you have anything else to say?

[Anonymous No.8186787]

Remember: it's neither about preservation, nor piracy. It's about making Fonzie seethe.

[Anonymous No.8187294]

>>8186787
And the naysayers too. More sooner than later ;)

[Anonymous No.8187367]

Hope your next step is making a romhack that makes the game good

[Anonymous No.8187683]

>>8186715
sending out broken shit shouldn't be rewarded
plus all money from the current preorder-round goes toward the switch-port

[Anonymous No.8187810]

Was this the game that bled some black shit into people's Genesis'?

[Anonymous No.8188052]

>>8187810
No, fuck Fonzie and all. but that was just a pcb with a production error.

And in the end it didn't matter anyway, they peeled that shit off like a week after.
just Fonzie wasting money again.

[Anonymous No.8188067]

more like pap-smear-ium

amirite?

[Anonymous No.8188097]

maybe someone will do a wack0 and get the source code. anyway, based thread.

[Anonymous No.8188119]

someone made a Genesis game with DRM/online updates? gay.

[Anonymous No.8188135]

>>8183825
I did actually buy it and haven't got it so this will be cool. If he had his shit together he could have made sales for all this time to get funds to make another game like the developer on tanzer and tanglewood are doing.

[Anonymous No.8188139]

>Be Fonzie
>Develop PCB with expansion port for DLC/Updates
>End up not using it
>Just wasted money again
>That's Fonzie!!

[Anonymous No.8188604]

>>8185637
this but ironically

[Anonymous No.8188930]

>>8183825
S-Stop this right now or I am telling Fonzie...

The game looks so cool desu but from what I hear the AI is off and should be improved.

[no No.8189313]

>>8188139
>Be Fonzie
>Develop PCB with expansion port for DLC/Updates
>Release cart with last-minute changed breaking compatibility with some Mega-Drive-consoles
>End up not using it
>Just wasted money again
>That's Fonzie!!
ftfy

[Anonymous No.8189451]

>>8189313
He needs to stop using the Fonzie name, cuz he ain't cool.
Maybe change it to MoneyWasterDX or something.

[Anonymous No.8189476]

>>8184664
Ported to what? Steam/PC?

[Anonymous No.8189485]

>>8189476

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/09/troubled_brawler_paprium_is_coming_to_modern_platforms_via_a_crowdfunding_campaign

>more modern platforms

Knowing Fonzie that means Switch and maybe consoles.. I doubt he'd trust the PC platform.

[Anonymous No.8189896]

>>8186715
Hi fonzie

[Anonymous No.8190474]

>>8189485
>Knowing Fonzie that means Switch and maybe consoles.
Would Fonzie trust the game on Switch? You can emulate Switch games on PC. So it would be the most pirated version.

[Anonymous No.8190516]

>>8186715
never seen it in stock the few times his site has been up

[Anonymous No.8190524]

>>8190516
Even if you could buy it your chances of actually receiving a copy are slim

[Anonymous No.8190539]

>>8190516
Paprium was "in stock" for maybe a month after the reports of people getting copies in the mail in December of last year. Those who actually gave money to Fonzie then cannot actually be expected to receive anything.

[Anonymous No.8191243]

>>8183825
this is excellent. thanks. also of interest: no surprise why the cart fails on various machines after reading this screencap.
>>8189485
>Knowing Fonzie that means Switch and maybe consoles.. I doubt he'd trust the PC platform.
someone needs to tell that retarded french frog that the switch is more hackable than his cart.

[Anonymous No.8191254]

>>8186715
> 10,000 hours
took way less than that, frogboy. oh well. it's good to see you still raging and still looking like a complete failure and compulsive lying moron.

[Anonymous No.8191269]

>>8190539
>Those who actually gave money to Fonzie then cannot actually be expected to receive anything.
they won't get a thing either. he had no intention of making the cart in enough quantity to fulfill orders. just have a look at the fucking thing. he would be barely making back much money after cart production. he's just a dumb cunt that thinks he's clever by paying other people to do work for him, work he barely understands.

[Anonymous No.8191283]

>>8183825
Fonzie is a dangerous man. You better be careful.

[Anonymous No.8191302]

>>8191283
> dangerous
he's a compulsive lying moron with no credibility left.

[Anonymous No.8192217]

>>8191269
Wait a minute isn't he going to get sued out his ass for this?

[Anonymous No.8192783]

>>8191243
>2013
dayum

[Anonymous No.8193001]

>>8192217
that would require people to sue him in his home country of france, and that's where things get tricky and expensive to the point where people would just cut their losses.

[Anonymous No.8193132]

>>8189485
That's fine, Fonz. It'll be emulateable and/or easily pirated on my PC/Switch respectively. I'll play it for free on both!

[Anonymous No.8193148]

>>8184702
Won't be trivial, and to be fair, his 'DRM' will have worked for some time.

[Anonymous No.8193261]

>>8192217
The alleged upcoming crowdfunding campaign for the Paprium digital version is supposed to also fund the payment for the physical copies that were previously sold. Since none of this stuff has worked out yet I can't imagine it working out this time either.

[ProjectLittleMan No.8193283]

this is also coming from the same crowd that said it was "undumpable" in the first place, right? Perhaps the peanut gallery should stick to eating peanuts?

[Anonymous No.8193363]

>>8193283
Well to be honest the hasn't been dumped yet.

[Anonymous No.8193383]

>>8193148
>DRM on a prepurchase only short run retrofit
>It melts the legit carts

[Anonymous No.8193445]

>>8193383
Oh, it's shit alright, but it did gatekeep as planned.

[ProjectLittleMan No.8193552]

The varying definitions of "dump" are an intriguing attempt at moving goalposts. What exactly do you call it when you pull bits off of a flash chip again? Is there a term for that? It is pretty hard to argue that 2 of 4 chips inside the fake "undumpable" DT128M16VA1LT aren't "dumped" specifically the i2c flash, and the Spansion. What exactly is S29GL064N90BFI03%40BGA48_20210924_142237.BIN again? Isn't it literally a partial dump of Paprium, in fact likely the bulk of the dumping that needs to occur minus the protection mechanisms suspected to be in the STM32?

"to be honest" lol, who you being honest with here?

[Anonymous No.8193669]

>>8193363
It doesn't matter. In fact, if the game couldn't run on emulators or fpgas, it wouldnt matter too. Why? because the data, the assets, the art, will be ripped and used in shit like OpenBOR. That would be more that enough tu fuck that bastard up ;)

[Anonymous No.8193680]

Hey guys, Fonzie worked really hard on Paprium. You guys shouldn't be trying to dump the rom. It's not fair. Come on guys.

[Anonymous No.8193692]

>>8193680
I literally cannot, and will not stop pirating everything I can get away with. Ethics aren't even a consideration.

[Anonymous No.8193783]

>>8193680
I see the reverse psychology of this board is working wonders.

Also, can anyone give the lowdown QQ of the "PayPal stole my monies" story? I see every reply from the company is saying "Bawww, PayPal stole our money so be mad at them". Like, what really happened for them to violate PayPal TOS and try to sic angry fans at PayPal rather than saying "Oh we fucked up but here's how we can make this right"

[Anonymous No.8194228]

>>8193283
nobody said that
issue was always getting the fpga-bitstream/stm32-stuff/whatever the fuck they used for all that custom shit

[ProjectLittleMan No.8194441]

plenty of people have recited that trope. If you weren't busy sitting in the peanut gallery you'd already know dumping the STM32 isn't a problem at all, unless it is in RDP2. No one has even connected to the SWD on the thing, lets stop acting like you have half a clue, ok?

Move that goalpost again?

[ProjectLittleMan No.8194453]

You keep flapping your gums, and keyboard warrioring. We'll keep doing us.

[Anonymous No.8194681]

>>8193680
>Fonzie worked really hard on Paprium

If only

[Anonymous No.8195105]

>>8185637
Lol too bad

[Anonymous No.8195923]

>>8183825
So who dumped and decoded it? Is it you or HpMan? Reading your twitter, it seems like you are just spouting random things out of internet knowledge and trying to catch people attention (hence the patreon mention in your post I guess) with a mix of technical chat and trolling but maybe I'm wrong?

[Anonymous No.8195931]

>>8185616
That refers actually to the troll game that you get when dumping the cart with a retrode or when running it on emulator-based consoles

[Anonymous No.8195946]

>>8193552
My guess is that the protection mechanism (flash access and decoding, bankswitching,...) is in the FPGA (just like with Pier Solar) and STM32 is only used as coprocessor for real time extra audio processing and data decompressing.

[ProjectLittleMan No.8196086]

Seems like a reasonable suspicion. https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/hb/max-10/ug_m10_ufm.pdf

Reasonable assumption based on the routing.

[ProjectLittleMan No.8196095]

"So who dumped and decoded it? Is it you or HpMan?" what have you done again, exactly, short of read Twitter? Why does any of this matter? You wanna swing on HpMan's sack for working with the dump, by all means do. How about you Tweet him, and ask where he got it if you need clarification on the origin story?

[Anonymous No.8196209]

>>8196095
>"So who dumped and decoded it? Is it you or HpMan?"

OP is clearly a newfag.
Disgusting...

[Anonymous No.8196371]

>>8193552
>The varying definitions of "dump" are an intriguing attempt at moving goalposts.
what did the delusional french frog mean by this? did you even look at the files?
>Isn't it literally a partial dump of Paprium,
I'm looking at a decoded 8mb dump of unique data, no mirroring. consider eating shit sometime.

[Anonymous No.8196374]

>>8196095
> raging
when you livestream your suicide, please post a link here so we can have a good laugh at your demise.

[Anonymous No.8196381]

I hate everyone posting in this thread

[Anonymous No.8196419]

>>8196381

[Anonymous No.8196432]

>>8196381
I think everyone in this thread is coooool

[Anonymous No.8196446]

I'm gonna emulate this game and all. But you're all a bunch of TORtanic schizos and need to go back.

[Anonymous No.8196471]

>>8196446
>I'm gonna emulate this game and all
no emulator has any support for fonzie's extremely gay custom chips - yet. emulator authors would have to add this functionality.
>But you're all a bunch of TORtanic schizos and need to go back.
cope.

[Anonymous No.8196510]

>>8196446
>But you're all a bunch of TORtanic schizos and need to go back.
Too autistic to be able to see whats ultimately just a joke?

[Anonymous No.8196527]

The original Streets of Rage was 4 megabits. I'd like to see Fonz do a beat em up in just 4 megabits. kek.

[Anonymous No.8196584]

I am curious, is this 8MB ROM file fully decrypted or are there parts still encrypted? It's not very clear to me from what was posted on github and twitter Does the ROM starts in emulators (which would mean the 68000 vectors table and ROM header is correct) then hangs at some point ?

[ProjectLittleMan No.8196601]

>>8196471
Not even the custom version of Gens that is floating around? "Fonzie sent a custom emulator to contributors to let them play the game. He should be able to release the game as a custom emulator + ROM bundle." https://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?35377-Paprium-The-Official-Thread-Mk-2&p=837456&viewfull=1#post837456

[Anonymous No.8196640]

>>8196601
>Not even the custom version of Gens that is floating around?
let me know when his modifications actually ends up in an emulator for the public to use. as far as i'm aware, none of these mods were released to the public, nobody inside of his hand picked reviewers leaked it, and some people (including myself) doubt it's exactly the same software used in the final cart. the problem here is trusting anything fonzie says. it's incredibly difficult to believe the stories of a compulsive liar and thief.

[Anonymous No.8196765]

>>8186464
>locust money mafia.

???

[Anonymous No.8196821]

>>8196765
read his newsletters

[Anonymous No.8196879]

>>8196821
can you link me up fampai?

[ProjectLittleMan No.8197603]

>>8196879
"On our website worldwide shipping is included. But at the moment we cannot sell anything due to #LOCUSTERY #PAYPAL"
https://twitter.com/watermelongames/status/1364050416640606208

[Anonymous No.8197814]

>>8196374
Imagine being so salty about some games dump to write this shit... LMFAO...

[Anonymous No.8197926]

I wish he'd just be honest and accept that the game isn't very fun to play, come on Fonz be a little more humble and admit that it needs patching.
Fix the game for your potential Steam release and then release that MegaWire thing so we can update our carts.

I reaaaaally wanna play mine, but the gameplay is so bland and repetitive that I can't play it more than 10 minutes before I throw in the towel.

[ProjectLittleMan No.8198758]

Sprites are so tasty when you wash em down with haterade! Nom nom nom, delicious!
https://github.com/ArcadeHustle/WatermelonPapriumDump/blob/main/Extracted/sprites/

[Anonymous No.8198785]

>>8198758
Yummy!

[Anonymous No.8198803]

>>8196510
>dogpilling like a rabid pack on a small, single dev who just wanted to make a game for people to enjoy
>joke
This is kind of person I share this board with

[Anonymous No.8199067]

Bump

[Anonymous No.8199087]

>>8198758
This was extracted from the ROM dump? So they are not compressed after all? Huh...

[Anonymous No.8199346]

>>8197926
>but the gameplay is so bland and repetitive that I can't play it more than 10 minutes before I throw in the towel.

So like every beat 'em up ever? Not that I am complaining because I like that the genre is this way. Your complaint is just bizarre here. Better if you just said it sucks in the genre instead.

[Anonymous No.8199467]

>>8199346
>Your complaint is just bizarre here

You clearly haven't played Paprium (or worse, you made it) the gameplay is even worse than The Tick or Double Dragon 3.
its devoid of fun, even SOR1 has deeper gameplay.