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Battle Gear 3 North America

Turns out Battle Gear 3 did release in the USA and Canada in 2003 with NESYS online support I recently discovered a cabinet a friend of mine purchased, despite being Japanese was running English software. I initially assumed they had converted it to run the EU Offline build, but I saw something peculiar when it was in attract mode. NO "NESYS" SETUP. CAN'T USE KEY.   I hadn't seen much footage of the EU build but I was 100% sure that game did not have the NESYS features in the EU. Entering the TEST MENU revealed this was BATTLE GEAR3 V2.01A Aug 11 2003 18:37:01. Which seemed strange as I recall the earliest version of Battle Gear 3 Japan we knew of was V2.04J. The ID Taito used to identify these games did not match on the HDD or Dongle either. (BG3-USA) M9005951A VER.2.00A (the hard drive being a 30.0GB MAXTOR) BATTLE GEAR 3 B3900068A  (the dongle which is likely where it derives 2.01A  from) Talking to some folks we found out this cab likely participated in the 2003-2...
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Tekken 6BR Dongle Flash

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Making a write up of how I did this so I don't forget in the future. I have a Tekken 6BR HDD but I don't have the dongle but really want to play it, and I couldn't find any to buy online, it's a game namco won't support me with on the original hardware so it is time to get creative. After researching I found you could create your own dongle using a compatible flash drive. As long as you knew the parameters the game was looking for (in Tekken 6BR's case, it was USB VID, PID, and Serial Number reported to the Namco System357)  Now it's time to find a compatible USB Flash Drive that I can rewrite the parameters using tools that can rewrite the firmware. I first opened up a program called "ChipGenius" which will tell me the Controller Part-Number that I can use to find the appropriate flashing software that can rewrite what I need.  In my case I found an older 2GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive with a "SM3255AA" Controller, conveniently it is common eno...
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