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For those of you who downloaded the Super Famicom emulator you might
as well not waste a disk...since it is a COMPLETE hoax. I downloaded
it and tried to boot it up on a 500 but the system kept rebooting. So,
being the curious one that I am I looked at the startup-sequence to
see what was going on. It shows some digitized images from a-couple
of Super Famicom games, then tries to load the "emulator" which is
330684 bytes big. Well, since the emulator wouldn't load I loaded the
file into a hex editor to see if I could find any helpful ascii text
in the file. To my suprise I found text from CygnusED Pro 2.12 in the
file! Any of you who are familiar with CED Pro will know that the
program file is 110228 bytes big. Now multiply that times 3 and
presto! You get 330684 bytes. Boy, inventive souls over at Pendle
Europacom....the "inventors" of the emulator. It's real hard to
load a file into a hex editor and cut and paste it back 3 times, huh?
And almost as funny is their message just before loading the
emulator: "IF THIS EMULATOR CRASHES, PLEASE KEEP TRYING. IT
SOMETIMES DOES THIS" C'mon guys, we're not that stupid! There is
also the possibility that a virus has been encrypted in one of the
files since the pictures are executables and there is a program which
will re-boot your system over & over in the startup-sequence, so
wipe it just in case. Anyways, thought you-all would like to be
enlightened by this.
If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is!
Merlin!