ROM Availability?

2008-04-30 03:38:11 pm

Hi guys, I've been lurking for a while but never joined till today cause I have a quick question (and maybe if I improve at Metroid games some I'll be able to post more) :)

I'd really like to play some of these hacks, but the ROM I have just doesn't run any of them. I know certain hacks only work with certain ROMs, and SM ROMs seem to be pretty much impossible to find these days, so am I just out of luck?

Thanks gents.

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MoogleEmperor

2008-04-30 04:10:51 pm

You may have the PAL version. Does the name say (E) at the end? You'll need the JU (Japanese/US) version to play the hacks. There might also be header issues; any particular patch can only work for headered or unheadered, though major hacks generally provide a separate patch for both. You can tell if your ROM is headered or unheadered by it's size; 3072 KB if it's unheadered, 3,073 if it's headered. Changing this is easy enough; SMILE can add or remove a header, and it's easy to remove one yourself with a hew editor by simply deleting the first 512 bytes of the file.
You'll need to find the ROM on your own, though.

juicemousezero

2008-05-01 08:49:47 am

Yeah, I definitely have the PAL ROM (German and French subtitles. heh.), so it's not a header issue unfortunately. That's disappointing.

But I appreciate the info. Thanks a lot :-)

DonnyDonovan

2008-05-01 11:47:53 am

It's harder to find ROMs than it used to be, but it's still not that hard. The google is your friend.

juicemousezero

2008-05-01 03:10:57 pm

Yep, I found a headered Super Metroid(JU)(!).smc easily so I guess that's the one I'm loking for, right? I got SMILE to remove the header, that's cool. I'm excited. I figured it'd be a pain, but I was pleasantly surprised.

Gaius_4

2008-05-01 03:49:45 pm

Quote from juicemousezero:

I got SMILE to remove the header...

It may have been better to just copy the file to another folder, then take the header off on the other file... For those times when a patch is for headered... or not. Very Happy

I've got a folder for SM_Backups, then SM_Headered & SM Un-Headered.

Whenever I DL a new patch; I right click and drag a copy to another folder.

I have a SM_Aegis and a SM_Cliffhanger folder both with unheadered SM ROMs in them - waiting on my computer. :P

playerman1230

2008-05-01 07:39:05 pm

Hated by all

I mainly get a file in the WinRAR ZIP archive, so I pull out a good copy every time. Four copies of it on SMILE (Two each on 1.23 and 1.32), and a folder with the IPS patches and patched ROMs. I tend to use SNES 9X Version 1.51 or 1.43-Improvement 12 Beta 8, since they save the memory in a dedicated folder (don't want to look through 20 files of patched stuff just to find my saves and videos).

Acheron

2008-05-01 08:28:57 pm

Acclaimed Threshold

Constant Sorrows

Quote from Gaius_4:

I have a SM_Aegis and a SM_Cliffhanger folder both with unheadered SM ROMs in them - waiting on my computer. :P

While of course I hate headers and think they are the devil, I still intend to release patches for either variation.

juicemousezero

2008-05-02 08:28:49 am

I pulled all the files off my transflash card and got it all working last night. And yeah, my \games\ folder now has a \Super Metroid\ folder which has a bunch of other folders with patches, copies of the NTCS ROM (cause I wanna mess with SMILE a little bit to edit the game, too), and stuff like that. It got pretty elaborate...