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Re: Building an arena controller

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Originally Posted by ConKbot of Doom
Anyone with an OI open, could you try to hook the microprocessor up to a programmer with ICSP (in circuit serial programming) capability, then try to read the hex off of the chip. I know that the guys at IFI are probably smart enough to use code protection, but it might be worth a shot. Then just disassemble the hex to get the assembly. Might not be super helpful to have the assembly, but it would be better than nothing.
Two reasons why I won't do that:

1) reverse-engineering the OI would probably get IFI people pissed more quickly than just messing with it

2) I am the only person working on this for now, and not being a genius programmer, have no clue how to take assembly code and figure out serial data structure from it...
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