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this is a gaming PC made by Sega of all

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people called the a-l-l-s-u-x which

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sounds kind of weird but that's not nearly as weird as the fact that it's

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for sale today for use in arcade games

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it's got a 6 gen Core i5 processor a GTX

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1070 16 gigs of RAM and it runs on

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Windows 10 iot Enterprise for the 250

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bucks we paid for it it's actually a pretty decent little machine at least it

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would be if it weren't locked down with BitLocker encryption a BIOS password and

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always online DRM in order to boot into the installed OS we need a USB key chip

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that's forever owned by Sega a router with sega's VPN pre-installed and an IP

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address that's white listed on saga's servers none of which you are likely to

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get if you're not in Asia and on very good terms with their arcade sales

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division sega's not Asia's but why are things so locked down being because

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money that USB key chip doesn't just act

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as a key to boot up Windows it collects sales data about the machine even when

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it's offline and sends it back to Sega so that they can ensure that they're

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getting their cut of the coins dropped into the machine but aside from a few

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exceptions in large chain arcades none of these games ever make it to Western

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countries legally so how is it that you can find Game Machines like Initial D

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Taiko drum master or blaze blue running perfectly in nearly every major city

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turns out there's a clandestine network of hackers enthusiasts and

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preservationists that are working not only to make these games available in

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their regions but to offer Network support and updates while giving life to

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features and games well after they're retired by their creators truly God's

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work but how do these underground networks come to be in the first place

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what would happen if they were to suddenly shut down and can we still play

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games on this machine right here or is our only remaining form of entertainment

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Segways to sponsors like see Sonic if

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options for any build learn more at csonic.com it's pretty normal inside the

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computer except this is a robust case if

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you can imagine someone getting angry at the game and hitting the side of the arcade cabinet you don't want that to

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cause a shutdown for your business so I guess all the steel makes sense other

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weird thing is the serial cables coming off the back which are just snipped off

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on ours we think this one would govern things like the coin operation of the

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arcade cabinet and then these would work the lights there was once a time when

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each arcade machine would be purpose built but for the last 30 years or so

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they've been largely shells with familiar hardware for example Mario Kart

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GP runs on the Triforce a GameCube modified for arcades the new Street

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Fighter 6 runs on the title type X4 a PC

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with a 4th Gen i5 and a GTX 960 and

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games like Crazy Taxi were released for the Chihiro a slightly modified Xbox

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with its DVD drive swapped out for a

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gd-rom like some kind of Microsoft Dreamcast abomination

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the way the software works is familiar too the name alls stands for amusement

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linkage live system and as implied it's

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meant to be connected to a network at all times so it can not only be

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monitored and updated but also so that new games can be added to it kind of

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like steam in a similar manner players that use their Sega ime identifier card

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will have things like high scores and game progress saved on sega's servers so

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it can be used on any other machine at any other arcade they can also store

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credits purchase with cash right on the machine but in exchange for access to

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this system Sega requires that arcade operators not only buy the machines

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outright and maintain them themselves but also split all revenues 50 50 with

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Sega they aren't the only ones either it's a similar situation with the other

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Majors that make up this oligopoly Bandai namco's bana passport Titus nises

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and the OG arcade network of the bunch konami's e amuse movement so what are

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small arcades to do assuming they're not

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owned by one of those major companies which also is a thing well they could

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install a fresh version of Windows onto the box and run an emulator techno

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parrot is an emulator capable of running newer arcade games on a wide breadth of

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Hardware including the very systems they were designed for

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but like most emulators ROMs are not

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provided and it can take some time to figure out the optimal configurations

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for each game they also lack a lot of

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the online features like events and updates though Lan and netplay is

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supported by titles the other option these companies have is private servers

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if you played World of Warcraft at any point you're probably familiar with the

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idea of private servers and this scenario shares a lot of similarities

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these work essentially as drop-in Replacements of the official servers

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just without the officialness server operators often tweak the features they

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offer to differentiate themselves from the vanilla experience usually unlocking

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far more than the official release unlike wow private servers however these

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require Hardware to get through the client encryption those key chips that

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we mentioned earlier we've unfortunately been unable to acquire any photos but

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through talking with some arcade owners we found out that the existing

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underground networks use some kind of Hardware that's plugged into USB likely

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an fpga or something like a modified safe net I key in order to spoof the key

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chip and get everything decrypted judging by bring a Studio's video on the

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Halls it seems that many systems share key chips obviously not the greatest

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security practice but getting past the key chip is only a small portion of the

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journey for the private servers to act as one-to-one drop-in replacements for

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the real thing their outputs have to match the outputs expected from the

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official servers and doing this is a bit of a black art involving scraping server

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data reverse engineering or sometimes the assistance of leakers

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but even after one private server pulls it off they aren't likely to share their

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code publicly which means that if an existing Network gets shut down it could

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be game over for good if that happened to the private Network's underpinning

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Western all systems arcades would lose dozens of games their online play save

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states DLC and network-wide leaderboards it would be catastrophic businesses

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would close and that's true of bootlegs of any of the big four networks and

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that's to say nothing of the threat to game preservation these closed

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ecosystems pose look at this hotel of you an add-on for the super famicon

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released back in 1995. I was alive it

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distributed unique game levels and events to those subscribed to the

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service but only within a limited release window typically a couple of

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weeks never to be played again in 2023

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some of these releases have been recovered but many more are known to be

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lost and an unknown number have been forgotten completely and that's a major

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reason why many believe that piracy of these systems is justifiable if you

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bought the hardware and you bought the game you should be allowed to play it

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they say well we bought this Hardware we

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bought your Champions on Steam we have techno parrot with a copy of the arcade

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release of the game sure we're lacking the case lights and the coin op

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controllers that would normally plug into the serial ports on the back but those are incidental let's game

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interesting thing about this machine there's no on button so as soon as you

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switch on the power supply it's just on we're running off a different SSD now

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because encryption but here's a game puyapuyu with my Razer Gamepad oh gosh

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oh my God I don't speak Japanese

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no what was it asking me okay who should I be uh the the least

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human one the fish yes I relate to that one yes yes this is

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like Bizarro land Tetris I'd rather have a d-pad than a joystick that's probably

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sacrilege to some people oh no this guy's just dropping a graveyard on me

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here we do have other games but we don't want to risk playing them

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because we don't want to attract the ire of sega's lawyers and it just seems like

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Sega doesn't care about this game as much so that's why we went for it oh a

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