Finally Sega Saturn CD protection has been cracked

[the_fog]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOyfZex7B3E

Kudos to this engineer. I also had this on my longterm list . It's definitely a good thing for all collectors and people preserving old video games.

[MrCreamy]

Watched this in full yesterday evening. Really astonishing stuff, not to mention incredibly admirable. I know I'd love to see something similar for the PS2 in the future.

[StuntmanSnake]

I heard about this over on the GDEMU blog.

Pretty incredible!

[Vedita BR]

Watched this in full yesterday evening. Really astonishing stuff, not to mention incredibly admirable. I know I'd love to see something similar for the PS2 in the future.

Isn't this already done by modchips and ESR?

[the_fog]

Watched this in full yesterday evening. Really astonishing stuff, not to mention incredibly admirable. I know I'd love to see something similar for the PS2 in the future.

Isn't this already done by modchips and ESR?

I guess he means the DNAS problem. I'm working on it Currently I'm stumbling through a wood of encryption, decryption, checksums, keys, modifications, tricks, more tricks and even more tricks. I know pretty well now why my DNAS answer packet isn't accepted (a combined sha checksum of the question packet, modified and buried in a lot of DES encryptions overlaying themselves), it just takes a lot of patience to fiddle with the selfmodifying libDNAS and not to loose track. But I'm sure it is possible to emulate it.

[Vedita BR]

Watched this in full yesterday evening. Really astonishing stuff, not to mention incredibly admirable. I know I'd love to see something similar for the PS2 in the future.

Isn't this already done by modchips and ESR?

I guess he means the DNAS problem. I'm working on it Currently I'm stumbling through a wood of encryption, decryption, checksums, keys, modifications, tricks, more tricks and even more tricks. I know pretty well now why my DNAS answer packet isn't accepted (a combined sha checksum of the question packet, modified and buried in a lot of DES encryptions overlaying themselves), it just takes a lot of patience to fiddle with the selfmodifying libDNAS and not to loose track. But I'm sure it is possible to emulate it.

So, you were able to spoof the SSL cert? wow.

[the_fog]

So, you were able to spoof the SSL cert? wow.

In short: Yes! That was the first step and I found a solution that works for all gateways (jp,us,eu).

[legendaryk]

oh wow! Props to that guy for doing all of that in his spare time.

Experience and patience... I guess Baron Zemo was right.

[MartinMilk]

Nice, does this mean some of the most rare games finally can be ripped?

[Valgar]

YES!! Finally!! i can finally play my saturn because i noticed my cd drive was acting weird and is on the verge of dying out. i can finally finish dragon force 2!! haha thanks the_fog for the post, i guess this dude by far surpasses zorlon and cafe-alpha. i had to buy 2 action replay carts just for flashing and save game management, you know how hard they are to find especially the ones with the 40 pin connector jeeze haha. thanks again for the post