I will keep the Patreon suspended for May 1st as I've already committed to that.
Great news, however! I now have a source to procure 100x delayered die scans of the SNES PPU1 (revision 1) and PPU2 (revision 3) chips! I estimate it taking 3-4 months at current funding levels to cover the scanning, hardware (several of each chip), and related tooling costs.
The scans will be made publicly available, and we already have a volunteer to help try and vectorize the resultant scans.
I believe we have advanced SNES emulation as far as possible through software analysis alone, and that the future of emulation progress will come from hardware decapping analysis. Hopefully this is the start of an exciting new chapter in emulation!
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