Jared, that is a given... It's impossible for one person alone to find all of the little secrets ME holds, but here as a collective people are able to work on and (un?)discover things that people would have never thought of.
The one main difference about NefMoto vs. almost ever other forum (or maybe even EVERY other forum) is that most here are genuinely doing it for the challenge and to move the platform forward. For a long time everyone was in the dark and tuners made it seem like they were performing magic and while they kinda were, it just stopped at the basics for most.
I am absolutely looking forward to this emulator experiment. I don't really tune for money, I just don't have the time but as long as I either own an ME car or have close friends that do I will always have something to tune/play with.
This is the best and most stimulating comment that I have read in these amazing forum.
Like the forums around the world doing custom android firmware for mobile phones why we can not take some routes like the ROM mods of the EVO people, check it here -->
http://www.evoscan.com/ecu-mods.
At end is just a microprocessor runing a program. Of course is not easy, but as Notorius VR said, one alone is very difficult, but with many people helping is should be easy to reach it.
I will to add something. I know emulation /emulator is really useful for fine / live tuning, but anyone have think about modify the connection protocol between the ECU and our tools through the OBD2 port. Basically ME 3xx, 5xxx and 7xx ECUs use a simple serial communication protocol KW1281 or KWP2000 that can be used for diagnostics or flashing using a dumb KKL or KL interface. But today as an example an USB device using a serial protocol can be really really fast.
The problem is ours ECU uses fast processors with multiple process capabilitires but it connection to the exterior is really poor, slow and small in capacity. That is why reading RAM directly show us so good and useful tuning capabilities. Then maybe I am nuts but can be possible to improve and open it communication channel with our ECUs allowing us a new world of posibilities???
