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Comment by kibwen

7 years ago

They do, absurdly enough. See for example BSNES, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3675123 , "In order to extract these programs from most of the DSPs, we had to decap the chips, scan them in with an electron microscope, and 'tweak' the processors to allow us to dump their protected program ROMs."

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