@Invader TAK
I can at least respect keeping his word with his contact, regardless if all he'd need to solve their worries is to randomize the bytes that he claims are a unique fingerprint. If you don't have a different unique copy of the same rom to compare and locate it, it's still doable. Its a random 12 consecutive bytes(unused and don't affect the rom function) which stand out from its surroundings. I've located them in several roms, it just takes time visually scanning the entire rom hex knowing what to look for. Though I just can't respect the fingerprint paranoia when it's more than likely disproven, yet he doesn't really seem open towards the facts put forth publicly. The whole ordeal even still has my main contact highly anxious about everything.
@UnknownRespected
Possible I suppose, but when the first two roms first went public, he was specifically worried about these roms being found and checked by Nintendo, and them tracing back to the employee who originally leaked them(one a friend of his). Naturally, uniquely tagging and associating every single cart to a certain employee makes no since itself, nor would it matter 10 years later if true, but this is what he honestly believes. Even though it's been explained what the identifier actually is, as well as a unique identifier for every single rom also being disproven. At that time in early 2016, I had located the "fingerprints"/identifiers, randomized them and surrounding trash code, because at the time we didn't have any facts other than what Purin was saying. It's still done with the roms obtained after the first two, just so there isn't any paranoia about our public roms among Purin, my contacts, and any others who are still worried about this stuff.
But anyway, I don't want to stray off on that topic anymore, nor us to appear talking down on Purin. He's a still a good guy and can be helpful.
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As for that Gen 1 Mew save, hopefully we can get to that this month or next. I don't want to risk having the owner waiting on me, so when I do contact them, I want to be able to pay the service charge fairly quick. This service charge will be a price we'll pay that makes it worth the person's time and trouble to dump the save. As I know, the person who tried before me didn't seem to offer enough to warrant their interest. However they were also trying to buy the cart, while I'm not, so that may make a difference. I'll also have to likely pay all shipping costs for them to borrow my cart dumper.
I'll say it here again, I need to make sure I have enough support, so those legitimately interested in contributing can contact me via private message. Once I see I likely have enough backing, I'll contact the owner and hopefully set a deal. Once I have the service charge set, I'll then do the math and ask those who were willing to help for their contributions. It may be a one time chance.
