Wednesday 17 June 2009

Moving in

00000000: 00 FF FE 00  00 00 02 06  00 00 03 D6  00 00 03 DE
00000010: 00 00 03 E6 00 00 03 F2 00 00 03 FA 00 00 04 02
00000020: 00 00 04 0A 00 00 04 12 00 00 04 1A 00 00 04 26
00000030: 00 00 04 32 00 00 04 32 00 00 04 32 00 00 04 32
00000040: 00 00 04 32 00 00 04 32 00 00 04 32 00 00 04 32
00000050: 00 00 04 32 00 00 04 32 00 00 04 32 00 00 04 32
00000060: 00 00 04 32 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00
00000070: 00 00 11 26 00 00 02 00 00 00 0B 10 00 00 02 00

The remainder of the first block is intentionally blank:

00000080: 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00
[...]
000000F0: 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00

Subsequently, certain important information is disclosed:

00000100: 53 45 47 41 20 4D 45 57 41 20 44 52 49 56 45 20
00000110: 28 43 29 53 45 47 41 20 31 39 39 31 2E 41 50 52
00000120: 53 4F 4E 49 43 20 54 48 45 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
00000130: 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 48 45 44 47 45 48 4F 47

Which is to say:

|SEGA MEGA DRIVE |
|(C)SEGA 1991.APR|
|SONIC THE |
| HEDGEHOG|

The majority of the remainder of this block is also left blank. Afterwards things necessarily become human-unreadable:

00002660: 0E AE 0E 4E 08 08 0E A0 08 00 00 00 06 26 0A 2A
00002670: 0C 4C 0E 8E 0E EE 0A AA 08 88 04 44 08 E0 02 60
00002680: 00 EE 00 88 00 44 00 0E 00 46 00 00 0E EE 02 20
00002690: 04 42 06 64 08 86 0C CA 00 44 00 EE 00 0E 00 0A

Consequently: