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Chip decapping has been used by the "emulation" community to reverse-engineer and recover data from special proprietary chips, such as those in SNES cartridges. It has also been used to to reverse-engineer other hardware to create emulators for other platforms besides the SNES.
Chip decapping has been used by the "emulation" community to reverse-engineer and recover data from special proprietary chips, such as those in SNES cartridges. It has also been used to to reverse-engineer other hardware to create emulators for other platforms besides the SNES.
= Is this legal? =
Decapping a chip and reverse engineering it is infact legal in the US, and most likely in other countries too. Check out the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_Chip_Protection_Act_of_1984 Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984], which states reverse engineering a chip is not prohibited.
However, we do not endorse piracy, and any information revealed by the chip decapping will be used to advance progress for homebrew applications and games on 3DS, not piracy.
= How much? =
= How much? =