One important thing that people ought to know is that the RAW data is not
100% error free. If you would scan/dump the same dotcode over and over
again, you will get slightly different RAW data each time. These errors get
corrected by the Reed-Solomon decoding of the e-Reader and the resulting BIN
data is therefore error free. Remember this if you decide to print out some
dotcodes using my printing tool. E.g. if you have printed a dotcode based on
a RAW dump containing lots of errors, then you will add these "printed"
errors to your own "scanned" errors and lower the chance of getting a
successful read.

-----Original Message-----
From: Damien Good [mailto:d_good@...]
Sent: donderdag 1 januari 2004 13:07
To: gbadev@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [gbadev] Re: e-Reader dissection

more e-reader info at http://www.alpha-ii.com/caitsith2/ereader

the released bin/raw data of the e-reader cards might cause controversy, but
at the same time, the items these cards unlock, can also be unlocked with an
action replay, and the bin/raw data is very similar, that it might help
with the reed-solomon code cracking. (heck, the dotcodes on the actual
powerup cards look very similar, with only a few bytes in the bin data, and
maybe 20-60 bytes in the raw data being different.)