Emulation Support

[Azalin]

Not being adept at speaking or reading japanese, i recently tried to load up the translated starocean rom in SquidgeSnes. Not having anything but a black screen, i tried Bahamut Lagoon instead. Still no luck. Even tried translated FF3 in NES emulator. No luck. No luck with phantasy star 4 in genesis either.

So my humble (or not so) request: Is there any way for emulators to support roms that have been translated by fans? Forgive me if i ask the impossible, as i cannot code so i would not know the difficulties imposed by fan-hacked rom files.

Possible? Yes? No?

 

[Orkie]

Well they should work just like any normal ROM (the header may be incorrect due to the changes, but I've never come across an emulator which doesn't ignore that anyway).

 

[___]

Star Ocean is impossible to emulate at the moment anyway. It makes use of the DSP chip and that is probably not going to be emulated for a long time (if at all). Bahamut Lagoon should work, but real slow. I think I played it before but it was pretty much unplayable.

 

[Shikaku]

Star Ocean is impossible to emulate at the moment anyway. It makes use of the DSP chip and that is probably not going to be emulated for a long time (if at all). Bahamut Lagoon should work, but real slow. I think I played it before but it was pretty much unplayable.

I have a working special ZSNES build for star ocean.... it slowed down my P3 500 MHz a hell of a lot =D

It works fine when I upgraded however...

 

[___]

Well yeah, I meant not on the gp2x... forgot to mention that

 

[PokeParadox]

Not meaning to patronise... but you are applying the IPS patches to the original ROM then putting the patched ROM on the SD card for the GP2X right?

 

[Azalin]

Ah...no. I just discovered this strange "patching" notion. So far my attempts to apply it to Shen Magami Tensei 2 have failed miserably.

 

[lizard808uk]

Use Fusoya's Lunar IPS Patch Tool with the .ips file you want to patch with on a completely clean version of the rom. Usually on download sites denoted with [!] after the name.

Can anyone tell me if Tales of Phantasia works and other 6MB roms either? I understand that SDD-1 isnt emulated (so that counts out SO, Far East of Eden, SF2 Alpha etc) , but what about other DSP type games like Starfox, Mario Kart, Megaman X etc..

I'm on a business trip soon, and a GP2X might be on my budget

 

[PokeParadox]

Star Fox uses the superFX chip which isn't emulated.