/vr/ - Retro Games

I'm going to be booting up Super Metroid Vitality tonight myself... looks pretty awesome
https://metroidconstruction.com/hack.php?id=623

>>7155960
I need to get around to finishing battlekid

>>7155998
Gonna try this out myself, thanks for the reminder.

SMB3mix is pretty much a Must Play if you like mario whatsoever. New worlds, levels and powerups, taken from and inspired by different games. Nintendo quality level design. ASM hacking. Save files. One of the most polished romhacks in existence. Feels like an entirely new old Mario game. If you haven't played it, do yourself a favor and load it on the everdrive.

I am playing Creepy Brawlers, not quite halfway thru I think

>>7157216
I'm bad at it, I'll admit, but it seems rough and closer to the side of Power Punch 2 than Punchout. It's mad fucking gay how you have to beat 4 in a row or so and get sent back to the first of the set if you lose.

>>7158169
>Power Punch 2
the graphics resemble PP2 but it plays closer to Punch-Out, not as tight though. I do like how there's a little more back-and-forth in the matches than the original Punch-Out, you're not totally screwed if you take a couple hits

>>7155998
>>7156537
Played through Vitality myself back when it came out, it's very well worth a playthrough, some eerie rooms and it's very exploration focused, the author's made a few other hacks but this one plays the nicest. There's some shit that's actually a surprise to see in a Super Metroid ROM hack, caught me off guard. I don't want to spoil anything, but I'll at least say that you'll want to make sure you have gravity suit before fighting Ridley because he's a raging asshole in this hack.

>>7155960
https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK

This is easily the best retro console development kit.

>>7158325
Baller. I'll #include it. I'm getting a mega everdrive X7 for christmas, so, maybe ill start playing around with it...
I'm doing NES development myself, as far as C goes, NESlib gets mixed reviews and CC65 isn't the greatest program to work with. I'm sticking to raw ASM myself for the engine portion of the project.
There are a couple new C compilers for the NES though, Kick C and VBCC, the latter seems to be fast and well liked.
https://github.com/clbr/neslib
http://www.compilers.de/vbcc.html

>>7158321
I like it so far. The environments are beautiful and level design is interesting. Sometimes i can't tell what i can or can't stand on, but, that's a very minor nitpick in a very enjoyable experience.

>>7158520
C compilers might work if you want to program an adventure game with little animation but otherwise trying to do that on a 6502 is foolish.

>>7158593
I agree with you personally.
The running consensus on NESdev is to design your game in C and use-ASM for the intensive parts. It's not my approach, but, i can definitely see the value in that.
Lizard uses this approach, and it is a wonderful fully fleshed out game, so, it can be done. Many other NESdev competition games do too.

>>7158605
American Homebrew NES games just look like Gen 1 NES games.

Compare to the few Japanese ones.

>>7155960
Posted about it in the last thread, but here's a GameBoy game I just finished working on. It's called "Weekend" and takes place out in the countryside. It's a tongue-n-cheek exploration game but can be serious at times. I've been pretty happy with the response so far and it even got featured on the official itch.io twitter. I'd love to hear what you guys think about it.
>https://kirb69.itch.io/weekend

>>7158620
I'd love to play some Fami-brew. Do you have a link to any collections?

>>7158621
Awesome! I'll load it up on the SD2SNES SGB2 later tonight. People are doing some cool stuff with GBstudio, like the dude who demade Among Us. It's perfect for earthbound / pokemon style RPGs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvogng4e56E

>>7158662
oops that Among Us was just an animation, but someone did actually do it ...in spanish
https://guimitomo.itch.io/amongus-gb-skeld

>>7155960
I don't know if this counts, but I've been messing around with FFHackster to make a more post apocalyptic/western adventure.
>>7158621
Haven't checked out the link yet anon, but that screenshot looks neat.

>>7155998
>>7158321
I have a quick question, does this game require bombjumping?

I'm a little confused because the page for this hack says the difficulty is Vanilla, but I'm in the first area of the game and already encountered two rooms where it looks like bombjumping is required to proceed. Am I missing something?

>>7155998
It's very fun.

>>7160004
Don’t you bomb jump in the original game?

>>7158620
>American Homebrew NES games just look like Gen 1 NES games.
Not really. They look like circa 1991 games but are often NROM which is retarded as fuck.

>>7160041
I mean like, the vanilla game has bombjumps that are 1 or 2 blocks high, but Vitality has places where the player has to bombjump like 7 or 8 blocks, like you have to do speedrun-tier bombjumping just to get out of the room with the bombs.

>>7160064
I never had to do any bomb jumps higher than a single tile while playing Vitality

>>7160045
>game has to look a certain way based on it's mapper scheme
I don't get this. I think the bulk of programmers messing around with NES programming are doing it for a challenge and satisfaction from making it for an older system. It's not about LARPing that you are a dev in the year 19xx, making a period-correct piece that fits into the timeline of the NES.

All I'm saying is to be realistic that if you use NROM you're going to pretty much be limited to Nuts & Milk tier of game no matter how many fancy graphics you slap on it.

>>7160004
not sure about bomb-jumping yet but wall-jumping seems to be required.

Requesting dump of this game from last thread
>>7132951

>>7160997
seconded

>>7158621

Alright I'll give it a download and try it out on retroarch.

>>7160045
NROM is cool because you have to use compression techniques

>>7162089
code or gameplay complexity isn't really the main bottleneck when considering an NROM, it's the amount of data / content that suffers. you can get very creative with reusing of assets, but, the limit is harsh.

>>7162096
or you can use CNROM which lets you select different graphics sets (up to four of them total) but you're still limited to a fixed game engine

CNROM usually stores the level data in unused parts of the CHR ROM and you read it by blanking the screen.

>>7160465
usually these guys go overboard with the pixel art or Famitracker music when it's not the most space-efficient setup

Metroid Rogue Dawn

>>7162272
This is the only romhack I want on a cart

>>7162272
These stupid shaders makes my eyes fuckin bleed

>>7162272

>>7162305
>NOOOOOOOO THE SHADERINOS ARE MAKERINO MY EYERINOS BLEEDERINOS!!!!
grow up

For a ripe slice of vintage internet, play Awful Fantasy 3

>>7162560
Holy shit.

>>7162560
I miss early 2000's Something Awful.

>"I stopped being a slut when I realized all I was getting was lots and lots of sex"
holy shit, moooooddd

>>7162787
Go away.

>>7162272
that looks dope.

>>7160064
>you have to do speedrun-tier bombjumping just to get out of the room with the bombs.
You don't have to bombjump. You can turn into a ball while jumping upward and that lets you slip through 1-block gaps that are above you

>>7163797
Personally, I think that's bad design to use that mechanic for things other than accessing secrets, but in Vitality you have to do that to escape the room you get the morph ball so I don't know how he didn't learn that mechanic and apply it to future situation.

noo /vr/os i didn't save the links from the previous romhack thread holp

>>7158321
>Missed the gravity suit, spazer, and some 40% of expansions on my very first run
Can confirm, Ridley was a doozey. I even died in the room after and had to fight him again. Still finished the game though. B)

>>7162272
>>7162351
Rogue dawn does such a fantastic job of adjusting Metroid 1's gameplay to reach its full potential. Plus it looks amazing visually.

>>7162272
there are some fun easter egg developer rooms too. i found like 2 of them, there are probably more.

>>7164967
IIRC there's at least five.

If someone wants to be a bro they could edit the OoT Master Quest Redux patch with Patcher64+ Tool to undo the censored parts and undo the text revamp. I'd do it if I had access to a Windows machine.

>>7165531
Nah.

>>7158520
VBCC looks pretty good, I'd like to know how banking works with C compilers though.

>>7164967
nose picker room

>>7166610
For graphics, it's fairly straight forward. It can get a little messy for code and data banks though, you basically declare a bunch of $2000 size segments in your config file.
https://sudonull.com/post/61267-Game-development-for-NES-in-C-Chapter-24-Appendix-2-working-with-memory-banks

you guys liking Mad Piano update?

>Recommended download
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/50m95vbbuyf25/vr's_ROM_>Hack_Recommendations
https://mega.nz/#F!JcsF0T5a!K3ECQlMzhDoDXJfyOxzR9w

>Pre-parched and Improvement
https://mega.nz/#F!jpMxlQyZ!oCwbRyPFaMcZl3gOF5mvSg

>General hack / Translation
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks

>SMW hacks
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&s=smwhacks

>Metroid Hacks
http://www.metroidconstruction.com/hacks.php

>Super mario 64

https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&s=sm64hacks

>sanic

http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_hacks
https://sonichacking.org/

put this in the next OP

Does anyone have "The Legend of Zelda - Perils of Darkness" version 1.4 and willing to share ?
It seems there was again a little drama around it and now you can only find sanitized 1.5

>>7168940
based

>>7162305
Suffer

>>7168859
what in the actual fuck are they doing over there
they're starting to make sakurai look sane

>>7168859
mad piano has some sick combos and a recovery / spike. fuckin hilarious i saw wizzy gettin dunked on

>>7155960
>to this day you must apply patches yourself
XD

hard pass

>blatant homebrew
Generally shit. I mean, they have cavestory, but other than that.

>>7170864
....how retarded are you? you open lunar magic, pick a patch, pick a rom, and click OK. You can't be that fuckin smooth brained, right?
Much like console releases and shovelware, 90-95% of hacks and homebrew are shit. Some are pretty good. A few are fucking amazing.
You're missing some seriously good gameplay experiences. Oh well. Your loss. dumbass.

>>7170864
You can't be asked to take 60 seconds out of your day to patch a fucking ROM? I wish I could lawfully kill people like you. Worthless lazy spastic cunt.

>>7170890
>>7170913
I gave up with eng patches never working with xdelta honestly. I figure often you'd have to download winxp to do such things as it will XD win7. Or linux I guess I could use, but my netbook is locked out of the bios boot order and removal of the cmos might destroy the things drivers and then my keyboard won't work and such.

The point is, I'm not stupid, just tired of XD

>download game hack
>more than one patch to choose from
>get ancienty
>XD deleted

>>7171058
*anxiety

not stupid

believe

Though I am too old to learn new things and lived too shit a life to have been stable and efficient in the past. In fact there's too much discord in my life to even play games all that often, much less learn things that are 'resistant' to solutions. Why else would I be here shitposting?

>>7171058
>more than one patch to choose from
This is why most patches come with Readme files.

Thought I'd ask here

There's a romhack to translate most of the japan metroid fusion rom to english

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4907/

However the biggest point of using the japanese rom is to play hard mode that was added for the japan release, but you have to complete the game on normal to unlock it. How hard would it be to patch the game so that hard mode is available from a new save?

>>7171058
>>7171068
>you open lunar magic, pick a patch, pick a rom, and click OK

>>7171093
There is a site for that

>>7171078
depends. could be just some byte or bit that toggles it on, most likely. could be more complicated? it would be easy if you had 2 savestates, one with it enabled, one with it disabled, and you could compare the memory. Try like searching the metroid2002 forums or maybe there is something about it here:
datacrystal.romhacking.net/wiki/Metroid_Fusion

>>7171078
There's a 100% completion code...

https://gamehacking.org/game/5334

>>7171104
>>7171108
Thanks that sounds like something I can do

>>7171849
You could try Game Genie Guy to patch the rom, not 100% sure if it supports GBA though??

>>7171108
fuck me I cannot get this to work

No&GBA doesn't recognize the code and I just get a question mark and can't activate it

VBA-M doesn't have an action replay option

The USA rom checksum I have is right

>>7172037
Action Replay and Gameshark are interchangeable. VBA just uses Gameshark for simplicity.

>>7172061
Action Replay is the original name for the devices developed by Datel, Gameshark is what Interact called them when they distributed them in North America.

>>7172083
Hence why they're interchangeable.

>>7172087
I'm just stating that they're not only compatible but the exact same, except for GBA I think. The Gameshark device for that console was an original creation by Interact.

>>7172091
>except for GBA I think
Not in my experience.

>>7172037
>>7172061
Clicking info on gamehacking.org, it gives me the cheat code is other formats

None of them work, I think it's just fake

>>7160045
Is NROM the same as UNROM?

I'll probably start working on a beta recreation of Mega Man 4 if the prototype ArtofNP has been teasing isn't similar enough to it

>>7157206
>everdrive
Kill yourself.

>>7172576
Is there a problem, schizo?

>>7172205
NROM means no mapper and 40k ROM max. UNROM works as follows.

>CHR RAM
>first 16k of PRG ROM is fixed, the rest of the PRG ROM can be swapped in 16k banks
>normally 128k of PRG ROM, a few UNROM carts have 256k ROMs

>>7164009
>adjusting
Fuck you and your tranny thought processes.

>>7172596
It did such a fantastic job of transitioning Metroid 1's gameplay

>>7172576
everdrive is amazing. i have plenty of carts too dumbass.

>>7172596
You probably shouldn't bring your fetishes into this discussion you little hoople-headed cocksucker. But fine. It fixed the shitty problems with Metroid 1's controls and physics, does that suit your delicate sensibilities better?

>>7172037
Did you use the enable code as well?

Hacker help? I'm starting on a DX hack of a certain GB game. I'm getting a good feel for the code structure but I need help with adding palettes. You do that by paging in an alternate table of OAM but I don't believe you can see that while debugging on BGB. Can anyone help me?

>>7172908
The master code?

Yeah, I got No$GBA to take the master code but the 100% completion code still did nothing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0SEhWAXQAk

>>7171093
>if it's simple to attempt then it WILL WORK!
not my experience with xdelta

>>7171072
as if I can't read faggot

sometimes shit just doesn't work

>>7172231
There is a youtube video out there where you can see some stuff, I think it's TGS; and there are two western journos taking pictures

You can clearly see that players didn't "get" this boss and instead of trying to shoot the snake would wander on the back of the sphinx being retards

>>7174968
This one, Tokyo Toy Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYVfNE-_LFM

There are some tiles in Ring Man stage and Pharaoh Man stage which didn't make it to the final game, you should be able to recreate them

>>7174915
Delta Patcher Lite instructions (for moron who have trouble tying their own shoelaces, or counting past five):
1.Open original file (your ROM, dimwit)
2.Open patch file
3.Apply patch file
4.Rename if needs be, type file extension at the end of file
5.Done
If you're still having trouble, it's because you're USING THE WRONG ROM. There are plenty of utilities that check for headers, checksums and other crap. USE them. Good grief... Unbelievable bone-idleness... Profound retardation... You decide, ladies and gents...

>>7175012
>using the WRONG ROM
>you can't tie your shoes nor count unless you know to DOWNLOAD EVEN MOAR SOFTWARE TO TRY TO FIND THE ORIGINAL FILE

Fuck mame by the by. It's shit too. Why? Because I can't follow simple instructions? No, because I have zero faith in the first place that it'll ever work and you only prove it when people like you go and imply my rom sources are bad. They're fine for everything else aside from your advanced autism software.

Go fuck yourself.

>>7174968
>>7174973
TCRF has great documentation on this. You can add Bright Man to that list as well

>>7174915
I don't see what your ability to read "faggot" has to do with anything?

>>7174915
Nobody help this guy

>>7175043
>DOWNLOAD EVEN MOAR SOFTWARE TO TRY TO FIND THE ORIGINAL FILE
That's right, cum drinker. You need shit to do shit. Lazy. Fucking. Cunt. Who. Can't. Be. Asked. To. Do. A. Quick. Search.
How are you still alive? Do you even know how to dress or feed yourself? Are you homeless? You useless fucking spastic. Literally too stupid to live...

>>7175043
> Because I can't follow simple instructions?
Seems that way.
> imply my rom sources are bad.
You may have a rom that works just fine, but, you need the exact version the patch requires. The patcher goes through and changes the exact byte addresses, which change based on region, 1.0, 1.1, etc. Luckily, patch sites and readme files tell you exactly what version you need, what the file should be named, and even file checksum hashes if you want to verify.
Luckily, in most (almost all) cases, you don't even need to worry about the checksum hashes, because you can just search for the filename and get the correct rom.

>>7175043
Have fun with your bad dumps that can't be patched then.

Are there any good homebrew RPGs? Most of the good games I've found are basic platformers and adventure games, but I've yet to see anyone make an RPG that went beyond an Alpha build

>>7175804
The only time I've had to look at checksum hashes is when patching FDS files. Pretty much everything else I've tried - I just made sure the file name was the same.

>>7158621
Hey i played this yesterday.

- collision was sometimes a bit janky /hard to see where exactly you can or can't go. (probably because of the engine)
- music was cool
- art was ok.
- I would have really enjoyed a run-button, towards the end it got a bit tedious for me.
- i liked story and dialog and it kinda got to me at the end.

All in all i really enjoyed it!

>>7162272
I clipped through a block and got stuck

How do I save so I can reset? Was it select + A + B or start + A + B? It's not doing anything and I don't want to lose my shit

>>7176223
nvm PM'd myself the fix ;)

>>7175863
> Pretty much everything else I've tried - I just made sure the file name was the same.
Yeah, that's usually the case. ROM names have been standardized for like 20 years, i remember renaming tools in like the NESticle days.
FDS is weird because alot of times they were dumped with save data, so, to this day, there are some games without perfectly clean verifiable dumps. the gigaleaks changed alot of that though!

>>7176369
>gigaleaks
don't call them that. it's dumb.

>>7176381
ok genius what should i call them then?

>>7176369
Seeing as how you could rewrite the games on the disks, are the only rips considered clean found on verifiable games that were never overwritten?

>>7176464
yes. from what i understand. ...i think there is some other weirdness from it even being booted up once and initialized, but i'm not 100% on that...

>>7175804
>>7175836
>just update all of your redundant drives bro
>just snap the dvd-r's in half while you're at it, you made them for no reason!
No thanks. I'll keep my 'shit' roms as they are rather than stress over tediously altering them for hours while snapping discs in half and waiting for the day that I realize something else 'needs' to be done and snap 'em in half again.

not that I don't use other storage methods, but the point is that going through the redundant drives sounds like such a pain to begin with
anxiety inducing just to think about it

I like to hope that the roms are fine as they are, and my files in general without special softwareschecking on them.

>>7175446
I never asked for any.

>>7175431
Can you not infer?

>>7176895
You have no right to bitch about it then.

>>7176895
Cool man. You do you.
Stop posting in the homebrew and romhack thread if you have no interest in homebrew or romhacks.
Have a nice day.

>>7176895
>Can you not infer?
It's difficult when your grammar is so bad.

>>7173364
You can switch banks in the "IO map" screen (F10 from the debugger) which shows all the system registers. It's under the "GBC banks" header and you'd just flip the value of "FF4F VRAM" (1 for accessing the BG tile attribute data). Now you can edit data in the debugging window as usual. Should flip it back to what you found it as, after you're done though, just in case.

>>7177297
Holy fucking shit thank you so much! I'm gonna list you in the ReadMe file gg

>>7172587
There's one guy who can't stop raving about how ED's are overpriced and everyone who uses them are shills. He admitted years ago to being too poor to afford one, hence his hatred. Just ignore.

>>7160045
Most homebrew is a first attempt at making anything. Aiming for the moon on your first try is retarded as fuck, sticking with something simple isn't.

>that one guy who refuses to audit his roms and wonders why nothing works properly is whining about other people not being retarded like him AGAIN
Every fucking time patching or MAME comes up, this retard shows himself. You would think the masses of people on 4chan on all places calling him a retard would help him figure out how retarded he's being, but apparently not.

>>7177456
>Aiming for the moon on your first try is retarded as fuck
This. make some demos. get some practice.
Fuckin retards always showin up who dont know a while loop from an if statement thinking they can crank out Cave Story in a few weeks.

>>7177578
Hell they probably filter hex

>>7177578
>make some demos.
yeah this is where i'm shooting... i've realized if i can't make some balls bounce around a subpixel, sin curve type path to some goofy music, I probably won't be making very good games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5aoRKQjoho

>>7176912
>>7177085
>>7177135
I assumed backwards compatibility issues, it's a retard check is all.

Also I have learned helplessness. I just bought broken soldering iron. Guess I'll never solder gpio pins onto the price gouged pi zero I bought 2 years ago.


Just last week I was researching why the pocketgo won't connect to the composit, the old firmware could but was shittier, but that takes compiling with c++. As if I'm going to learn to do THAT when my soldering iron comes broken and my items are price gouged and the waveshare lcd is only going to get 15 frames per second anyway due to being a clone and etc etc everything goes awry etc and so why would trying again at patching roms even work? Why should the checksum software or whatever work? I see no reason it'd work. Why are there layers missing on lakka's snes emulator for the pi? Why is it so shit? Why would I bother with that? Why would I even WANT to touch lead? Why would I want to even play possibly shit homebrew, as most I tried made for the pc were awful back in the day?

Why why why?

Because I'd like to, so I try off and on, but it hardly ever works out.

I did hack my ps2 though once they came out with that easy method recently, though it's too little too late to matter I'm sure. Just like with pi's prices in comparison to android setups, they're too little too late too. So are android consoles, too costly when you could make a cyber deck out of a tablet and cheap controller and keyboard. Why do people even bother to sell bastardizations of the gp2x's cock? Oh yeah, ps2 had issues with txt files being too large. Not all emus worked.

But anyway, I give up after too much times go by with a software issue. Weeks ago I tried to install an eng patch, it didn't work, but there was a pre-patched download link I eventually found after an hour of off and on trying while browsing the interweb. How's that going to enforce good behavior? It doesn't. I was so bummed I never even finished the game.

/bye

>>7175857
Nox Archaist has recently been released for Apple II, but I don't think it's been dumped yet. It's basically classic Ultima with modern QoL stuff.

>>7164967
Jill of the Jungle?

>>7178336
> I did hack my ps2 though
Heh yeah i got the Ethernet games working recently too with a crossover cable. That was a fuckin pain dude! There were steps and things i had to do that i found nowhere on the internet:
1. It turned out that you needed a 1.0 version of SMB file share, which needed to be installed AND enabled. Windows 10 does not do this by defualt. This was nowhere in the documentation or any tutorial i found. That was hours of fun...
2. For the shared folder, it MUST be named EXACTLY PS2SMB...
3. Not only did you have to share this folder, but you must SPECIFICALLY share it with a user named GUEST or whatever you named it.

So yeah, this homebrew / hack stuff can be a pain in the ass sometimes. i feel that. But, i don't give up / complain / assume i can't do it.
Sometimes this shit doesn't work as advertised, i get it. The point of this thread is to have a place to ask for help, so, hopefully people do. That's all man.

Ok this is it, I need help applying this crap: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1386/
To keep it short (I dont want to write an essay on the whole context): I have been playing on this patch for a while but turns out that it has a "bad checksum"
Some common errors on this patch when "bad checksum" are that intro repeats or just a black screen (I didnt got any of those), I am midway through the game with no errors, but it still bugs me (and I dont want to suddenly get cucked by the checksum) so I tried to patch another rom...
I checked if it is unheaded (it is), checked the CRC32, MD5 and SHA-1 all of them match with the rom. I patch my ROMs with flips, so to discard that it was messing with the rom I installed the OG lunar IPS and it still doesnt fucking work, what in the world is wrong with this patch, and what the fuck am I missing? I have been browsing for almost an hour.
Please /vr/ you are my last hope.

>>7179953
You might need to add a header. There are multiple applications that can do that.

>>7179962
The patch calls for an unheadered rom

>>7179981
Have you ever played vanilla before? The graphics might be fucky unbeknownst to you

>>7179953
It is possible that the patch contains errors and glitches too... There is a link listed in the description. Did you try posting here?
https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=16476

>>7180047
Not yet...
however I did check that forum for answers and I came across this post
I did check also with TUSH and it says that the rom has no header.

>>7180142
I'm a bit confused actually... if you're patching a rom, it will have a bad checksum unless the patch redoes it. Some do, some don't bother. It really shouldn't be a problem.
> I have been playing on this patch for a while
What problems are you having?

>>7179953
> checked the CRC32, MD5 and SHA-1 all of them match with the rom.
> (romhack) has a "bad checksum"
Ok. Your hack is fine OP. Relax. I think i can clear this up:
A checksum is simply all of the bytes in a ROM added up. This goes in the internal SNES header. Nintendo used this as a sanity check before stamping out thousands (or millions) of carts on the assembly line.
Since you have applied an IPS patch, you have changed some of the bytes in the ROM. This means that the original checksum will be bad. That is not a problem. If your rom had a good checksum before you applied the patch, everything should be just fine.
> Some common errors on this patch when "bad checksum" are that intro repeats or just a black screen (I didnt got any of those)
Right. If the checksum did not match up on the original dump of the rom: that is a problem. Some data could be altered, missing, etc. A bad checksum itself does not cause problems, but rather indicates there are (or could be) problems with the ROM. If you applied the patch to a ROM with a good checksum, you should be just fine (as long as there are no problems with the romhack / patch, like programming errors by the person who made it).
Does that clear it up for you?

>>7180174
I was about to give some extra context but desu >>7180527
cleared all of my doubts, thanks for everything /vr/ ^_^ I thought it was going to get corrupted at some point lol.

>>7180583
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAa561BoWwA&t=3m4s
here if you're interested. the time link goes right to the checksum part. great channel and great series though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M5hwUFptDc

>>7180669
If you ever want to see something massively over engineered (and built mostly because of bad hacks), check out BSNES's header sniffer code. It checks for the checksum, what instructions follow the reset vector and a few other random heuristics.

>>7158321
Finished it a couple days ago, I was >>7156537. Pretty impressive hack, I was most impressed by some of the effects and the way objects would be in the foreground (specifically in the Norfair area, I forget what it's called in Vitality. Akhlys, maybe?). Died way too many times to Ridley, but like a few others have mentioned, I missed the Gravity suit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFF344NbZ4
Well that's something.

>>7183203
yeah i saw that on HN. fuckin neato. 3 core 50mhz FPGA raytracer, the dude made it himself.
reminds me of the juggler amiga demo.

>>7183203
who the fuck even needs texture mapping, this is awsome

>>7176381
Too late to change now
Everyone knows it by the gigaleak now, much like the fappening

>>7178336
Look for the everdrive packs
They come with full sets that have always worked for patching for me and a set of hundreds of prepatched roms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5h23Gp0nQg

>>7183506
is this actually running on a retro console? looks like just a homebrew PC game. looks cool i guess, very final fight, much streets of rage, many beat'em up, wow

>>7172576
You first faggot

Today I played the Streets of Rage Remake and it got me wondering, what are other fantastic fan games? I'm completely new to romhacks, homebrew, and fangames so I don't know shit.

>>7185436
rockman minus infinity is a true passion project, check if your emulator can display the lights in bright man stage

>>7162272
played it a couple years ago, great stuff

>>7185440
> rockman minus infinity ... bright man stage
FCEUX works. Mesen doesn't. Haven't tried everdrive / console yet....

>>7185676
>>7185440
The fucking lighting made the game unplayable, i can't fucking destroy brightman without bumping some enemies or instakill myself because all i see is darkened stage layouts but not even the healthbar.

>>7186291
I'm using the MMC3 version of the game with the latest FCEUX. It should look like this.
Around you should be normal looking, with sprites disappearing outside of the light bar and the level looking a bit darker, but not black.

Speaking of Megaman, any decent hack recommendations? Got through -
Minus Infinity
Spirits of Hackers
Rockman 5 Double Jumper
Rockman 4 Burst Chaser X Air Sliding
The Endless hacks are good fun, and of course Rockman 7 EP is god tier. Did as much of CX as I could handle, brilliant ideas but Cheat Man fucks it over.

Hacks that change a bunch so it's like a game of its own, or new abilities/gameplay changes are what I play hacks for, though I've probably covered a lot of the more interesting in that regard. MI had basically everything.

>>7158621
I loved this game, the characters had so much personality and the ending had me fucked up. Told a better story in an hour than most games tell in 30. Great work man

I'm currently looking for these MSX Golvellius bug fix patches if anyone has them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080930165102/http://novaliaspirit.99k.org/golvellius/patches.html

I may as well try asking here, where do I get roms? I've try looking it up my self but I'm hitting a dead end.

>>7189295
vimm's liar, the-eye, cd romance, archive.org

>>7159069
Drop a link here when you're done, looks sick, anon.

>>7189307
you'r a true gentlemen, thank you!

>>7187101
Wasnt the MMC3 version unfinished?

>>7190456
uhm, i'm not sure... it seemed to work fine, but, i haven't beaten the game or anything. MMC5 is recommended actually...
romhacking.net/hacks/910/

Why haven't you made a disassembly of your favorite game, anon?

>>7192134
> disassembly
brutal work. it takes months even if you know what you're doing with proper tools. there are very few that exist for anything more complicated than say, Galaga.
Dragon Warrior was just finished recently though:
https://github.com/nmikstas/dragon-warrior-disassembly
They are now working on Mike Tyson's Punch Out: (seems like progress has stalled though)
http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=20615

>>7192134
Now, granted, there are plenty of partial disassembles that exist here and there, usually for level data or specific game mechanics, but they are buried in forums and level editors or TAS information or speedruning forums. Data crystal has a bunch of stuff, but, lots of it is incomplete:
https://datacrystal.romhacking.net/

>>7192386
The Pokemon kids have it down. 100% disassembled Pokemon Red (and Blue and Yellow), Gold (and Silver and Crystal), Pinball, Ruby (and Sapphire and Emerald), FireRed (and LeafGreen).
They even have the GBA games decompiled to C that compiles byte-for-byte identical to the original ROMs.
If the Pokemon people can do it, why can't other communities get their shit together?

>>7192435
For one reason or another Pokemon is an especially autistic fandom. Like Sonic but with more trannies.

>>7192435
> Pokemon
yeah, super mario bros, mario 64, etc etc...
a game has to basically be a worldwide phonemenon to have enough people with enough interest to dissemble an entire game.
personally i would not have the patience for that. If you're interested, there are tools, and people to point you in the right direction. maybe you should start one! that would be awesome.

do systems launched as disc based go here? i'm curious if you could put multi disc games on one media if size limit wasn't a problem
i remember something about game memory usage possibly being compatible across discs, so just menus or whatever may need adjusting

I can't seem to find this info anywhere, but what rom does Super Metroid Vitality need? Is it the 1.0 or 1.1?

>>7192605
multi disc ps1*

>>7192481
The Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog games too.

>>7193079
I can't seem to find this info anywhere

>>7193323
My zip didn't come with a read-me, thanks.

>>7168940
dangerously based

>>7193340
>My zip didn't come with a read-me
Stupid dumb reuploaders.
Well, enjoy. It's a fun hack.

>>7179269
damn, I remember that one. God bless Apogee.

>>7193436
I will when I get to my pc, I love metroid romhacks. I wish I could just get the finished rom, I'm stuck at a friends house bored af and I really loved Project Base. I keep hearing this is just as good too.

>>7193079
> Super Metroid
Bruh. There are no revisions. One version for Japan and the US...

>>7193716
Weird, I thought there was two.

>>7193854
well there is a European version... but it's built for 50hz and no romhack uses it (that i know of anyway)

>>7176381
IM GOING TO SAY IT

>>7194443
Go ahead, be a retard.

>>7175929
sorry I'm a little late getting back to you, but thanks for playing my game. Some of your complaints are limitations of the engine I worked in. If they ever add more features I might consider reworking some of those into the game.
>>7187976
thank you so, so much. I'm glad you enjoyed the story as that was the part I really tried to focus on. Thanks for playing!

>>7158621
>tongue-n-cheek
it's tongue-in-cheek
"-n-" is short for "and", not "in"
i'll give your game a try though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEcOzjg7vBU

>>7192435
>If the Pokemon people can do it, why can't other communities get their shit together?
They do, but some of them are rather focus on bootlicking than do it for themselfs.

>>7192481
Try SMW, it has one of the best tools so far and it has much more freedom than SMB.

>>7197076
Then fuck those people. ROM hacking should be egoless.

>>7179953
>but turns out that it has a "bad checksum"
I don't know how you keep going.

>>7192134
Used to. If you could just get it to crash you were in!
What I am interstellar in was a reference to the algebra (?) used for Tomb Raider which I promptly lost but learning it and making something new would keep me going from now to eternity.

>>7192605
>>7193272
That has been done a lot with PS2, so I guess it's probably possible with PS1.

>>7193272
> multiple games on a single disc
mmm PS1 has it's own issues, there is some crazy wobble etched in the CD that the laser looks for. It also looks for game data at the boot partition table... If you wanted multiple games on a CD, you would have to pull some Jank or have a modded system.
Since the direction seems to be replacing disks all together in favor of flash cards / drives, to save fragile aging lasers AND load games faster (in most cases), i don't see multi-disk games ever being a thing.

>>7192605
> i'm curious if you could put multi disc games on one media if size limit wasn't a problem
OH i thought you meant multiple games on one disk. In that case, like if you wanted FF7 in one file or DVD or something, the game source would need to be modified. It should be possible, but would have to be done on a game by game basis and a ton of work...

Star Ocean Blue Sphere is confusing. How do I learn new techniques? Unlike mainline SO games, there's no EXP

>>7168940
You could probably add my patch archive with the pastebin of sites in the description to the OP.
https://archive.org/details/rom-hack-patch-archive
I'm usually lurking these threads for new content in case anyone posts any previous versions or something that I'm missing.

>>7199124
> 8 gigs
holy shit. based archive

do I really need to jump up this shaft in super zero mission to progress? or did I miss something somewhere else?

>>7199124
Dangerously based.

>>7198173
>>7198186
>>7198357
i see, thanks

>>7192386
you don't have to disassemble the whole thing, you just got to find the good parts

>>7192435
>They even have the GBA games decompiled to C that compiles byte-for-byte identical to the original ROMs.
uh really? do they use some old compiler from 20 years ago?

>>7175012
I did this all the time back in the day, and I just don't have the energy for it now. I do not have the ENERGY to fucking google a specific rom with a specific checksum just to try 55 shitty hacks in hopes that one of them might be good.

>>7200646
Yes, the GBA devkit at the time used GCC so they found a matching version.
https://github.com/pret/agbcc

>>7200670
If you would bother to listen to that anon and use a fucking audit program like everyone else, you wouldn't need to do anything "all the time", you would already know what rom to apply the patch to. I know I have the full NES set of roms, when there's a patch I want to apply I just grab the rom with the right checksum. Never have issues patching. It's almost like these programs were created to eliminate these issues or something.

>>7200670
>I did this all the time back in the day
it's way easier now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBk-QkzMeIk

>>7200670
90% of the hacks on RHDN are shite or unfinished projects. There are tools on the site that helps you filter through the crap.

>>7162560
Yikes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ5jMPzP9Mw

>>7200670
> back in the day
> specific rom with a specific checksum
in the good old days (which weren't so good) there were tons of bad romdumps floating about. This isn't really the case anymore. IPS patchers were command line only, there are plenty now with GUI's. In fact, if you name a ROM the same name as an IPS patch, some emulators will automatically patch it on the fly.
Playing romhacks is way easier now than it used to be.

>>7155960
what exactly is the game in the op?

bump

rip thread

>>7205271
battle kid: fortress of peril. NES homebrew.
>>7205385
>>7205393
more than 2 weeks old, i think. don't worry i'll make a new one

>>7203387
Drink your onions