![]() ![]() Oh no! :'( because of the patch our ROM now has BAD checksum informationīut no worries D, get back on the SNES panel & hit "Fix Checksum" and.Ĭhecking the info on the fixed ROM sent to our output folder. This was the info on our Dragon Quest III ROM BEFORE the translation patch was applied Using Uf-Fox to "view" the checksum info on our hard patched ROM: The Game is Dragon Quest III Remake for the SNES, it has been hard patched with an English fan translation patch. In this example I will show you what happens to a ROM that has been hard patched with a ROM Hack/translation patch. Now for some actual Usage examples Fixing up a SNES Japanese ROM that had been hard patched with an English Fan Translation patch Once you have all necessary files set up, READ through Uf-Fox's README file to learn how to properly set up Uf-Fox so it can access Ucon64 & run things smoothly Some examples using Ucon64 & Uf-Fox Now download Ucon64 & Uf-Fox onto your tool folder & not in the output folder, unzip all the files & your done, oh, there might be another zipped archive along with Ucon64 named "ports" or "serialports", delete that you don't need it, it's used if you have a SNES copier/loader that has a serial cable port that can be hooked up onto your PC. Second, make an "output" folder where the fixed ROM will be sent once the application fixes it. You can download Ucon64 along with Uf-Fox here:įirst of BEFORE you download these applications, make sure you create a folder where these guys'll be going, don't pack them in with your ROMs! Some of the copier/loader specific commands on the Ucon64 application itself were left out A big minus for the very few of us who still have working SNES's & copier/loaders. However this comes at a small price, the creator of this Frontend only made his application so that commands essential to emulation users are the ones you can actually benefit using Now things are much, MUCH easier to get by! Now a few years back somebody "finally" said, "Screw this! using command-line is too much of a hassle!"Īnd so, that someone did something & what we have is Ucon64's GUI Fronted Uf-Fox! ![]() Actually to this day PCs generally don't know what these ROM Images are that's why you need an emulator so you can play them on your PCĪside from managing your ROMs, these applications were used to correct errors on your ROMs' checksum values, to make sure they will run correctly both on your emulator or actual console hardware by checking if your ROM was badly dumped, that is it was badly copied from a cartridge or if it is a good dumped copy.Īnd of course these things also allowed you to take saved data from an emulator & transfer it onto your copier/loader if you so need it which is a major plus if you ask me. In those days ROMs were backed up either by Floppy Disk (The SNES Super UFO copier/loader as an example)Īnd things like Ucon64 served as programs that help manage your ROM Collection on your Computers which obviously don't understand what those ROM files you are feeding it back then were. In those days, things like Ucon64, SNESTool & NSRT were practically used to manage ROMs, you see back in those days (& it still rings true to this day) there were things called Cartridge copier/loaders now commonly referred to as flashcarts. What use do we have for Ucon64?īack in the day, the late 90's to be more precise, ROM Hacking was at its infancy, few people only knew how to hack ROMs. You see, Ucon64 was & to this day still is a command-line based application, yep! you read that right Ucon64 uses command-line prompts to do its job & though using command-line prompts may in the very least be annoying to the un-initiated it still does its job right. Ucon64 is one of the oldest ROM management utilities floating around the net & in the emulation community, however its practically been abandoned by many due to its old school ways of doing things. This time around, I'll be taking about one of the oldest tools ever. It's not, Lunar IPS as I've done a small Tutorial on that already Today I'm going to share with you one of the applications I use whenever I apply ROM Hack or Fan Translation Patches onto several ROMs on my retro ROM collection thanks to RomUlation's vast library of retro titles
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