Here is the scoop on the FIFjr:
Now that Billy has chosen to sell this grail on Ebay, we may as well let you know what is inside it. With a move like this, wherever these machines are now is probably where they will remain or Disney will try to recover them.
We were lucky enough to have the machine twice:
The first time we had it we dismantled the entire thing only to find out that the bios of each PC used to run the game is encrypted.
The encrypted bios then boots an encrypted version of windows on SCSI hard drive #1
Once this boot is successful, the second SCSI drive then boots, and it is this drive that runs the game software.
A Jpac is the controlling interface.
We tried everything to ghost/copy the drives and they cannot be seen by any other computer.
Once you put all of the original hardware back together the machine boots right up.
When we received the game for the Kong Off, upon arrival, the computer was flipped over and had been damaged during transit. We never got a a chance to have it up and running at the Kong Off or attempt the ghosting process again.
In the end, especially when you are dealing with Disney, it was a blessing in disguise to not be the ones responsible for figuring out how to emulate this thing.
I guess the three sets of artwork and the custom cpo's to match the final game with the extra jump button will remain in their tubes.
Hope to se you all at The Kong Off 3 next November
J-O
Now that Billy has chosen to sell this grail on Ebay, we may as well let you know what is inside it. With a move like this, wherever these machines are now is probably where they will remain or Disney will try to recover them.
We were lucky enough to have the machine twice:
The first time we had it we dismantled the entire thing only to find out that the bios of each PC used to run the game is encrypted.
The encrypted bios then boots an encrypted version of windows on SCSI hard drive #1
Once this boot is successful, the second SCSI drive then boots, and it is this drive that runs the game software.
A Jpac is the controlling interface.
We tried everything to ghost/copy the drives and they cannot be seen by any other computer.
Once you put all of the original hardware back together the machine boots right up.
When we received the game for the Kong Off, upon arrival, the computer was flipped over and had been damaged during transit. We never got a a chance to have it up and running at the Kong Off or attempt the ghosting process again.
In the end, especially when you are dealing with Disney, it was a blessing in disguise to not be the ones responsible for figuring out how to emulate this thing.
I guess the three sets of artwork and the custom cpo's to match the final game with the extra jump button will remain in their tubes.
Hope to se you all at The Kong Off 3 next November
J-O