Research date: 2026-09-06 UTC. No MAME source or original ROM was modified.
The NAND scrambling is recovered for kof2002um, kof2002umj, and higurashi. The decoded software is little-endian MIPS, targeting NEC VR5500 / MIPS IV, not SH-4. Both the first-stage loader and the actual game executables establish this independently.
The graphics software exposes a Yatagarasu-specific rendering / geometry / video-output interface. Its register layout and command construction are different from Dreamcast's PVR2 interface. This research does not establish the provenance of every underlying graphics IP block; it does establish that using the Naomi/Atomiswave machine model as the starting assumption would be misleading.