"they"?
"code"?
"data"?

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel [mailto:webmaster@...]
Sent: woensdag 31 december 2003 16:30
To: gbadev@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [gbadev] Re: e-Reader dissection

Sgstair was telling me that they have downloaded the code and are looking at
it. He can tell you how to access that data..

----- Original Message -----
From: "Damien Good" <d_good@...>
To: <gbadev@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [gbadev] Re: e-Reader dissection


> http://www.alpha-ii.com/caitsith2/ereader/dot-code%20block.jpg -
explanation
> on how the raw data is stored in the dotcode blocks in the strip.
>
> Now, the only thing that is really stopping us from
> developing our own dotcodes, is the fact that we do not know how to
> encode/decode the nintendo specific reed-solomon codes.
>
> essentially, it goes like this.
>
> Binary data + reed-solomon codes = Raw data. (unsolved)
> Raw data + 8/10 Modulation = Dotcode dots. (solved)
>
> It would be helpful to know where the e-reader functions are, in the rom,
> and what each of them does. maybe we can reverse engineer the
reed-solomon
> encoding/decoding out of one of the functions.