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Re: .BIN format

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Originally Posted by fowlerm
It isn't a rumor - the master firmware (.bin) files are just encrypted .hex files. The bin files are decrypted by IFI loader and then downloaded to the controller.
I'm not at all surprised if they are - if they weren't encrypted, it would be a simple matter of disassembling and reverse-engineering them, and then you could change the code to ignore the "disable" signal or something else equally dangerous and un-GP...

...Not that I wouldn't be extremely curious to know exactly what goes on in the master processor, of course.
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