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Pirate Discussion => Hacker Center => Topic started by: NewRisingSun on July 09, 2024, 03:10:02 PM
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Finally, this "gem" can run as a normal mapper 4 game. I spent a whole evening removing the mapper 114 copy protection, changing register addresses and removing all self-checks and anti-debug traps.
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Congratulations on the conversion! I tried to convert Super Donkey Kong from Hosenkan (game runs on same mapper and engine) to mapper 4 using technical references between the two mappers and it got the CHR going, but didn't initialize the game. How difficult was it for you to do the conversion? I couldn't even imagine. You're a wizard to the community.
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Finally, this "gem" can run as a normal mapper 4 game. I spent a whole evening removing the mapper 114 copy protection, changing register addresses and removing all self-checks and anti-debug traps.
I'm glad to see that such uninteresting ports are still interesting to someone. Nevertheless, I dare to disappoint you - the MMC3 mapper hack was made almost 2 months ago, and I improved some graphics in it (except for the levels).
RHDN link: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8644/
Ready (patched) version is below.
Also, "Toy Story" has been improved (don't worry, all involved are listed in the credits): https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8386/
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NewRisingSun, you missed one important detail that is present in all ports by Ei-How Yang - they also check the integrity of the CHR-ROM. It's easy to check, it's enough to delete at least one tile (or more tiles) in the CHR-ROM, the game will freeze after the warning screen.
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I would rather have a straight mapper conversion than somebody's idea of a graphical improvement of it. That is what my mapper 4 conversion offers. It's not designed to be "CHR-hacking-ready", either.
Edit: I am surprised you did not correct the glaring grammatical error at the start ("It begin in old London Town") in the improvement hack as well. ;)
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I would rather have a straight mapper conversion than somebody's idea of a graphical improvement of it. That is what my mapper 4 conversion offers. It's not designed to be "CHR-hacking-ready", either.
However, it wouldn't hurt to do it.
Here is our version, with the corrected Disney logo. The logo itself has been corrected in the graphic editor.
Edit: I am surprised you did not correct the glaring grammatical error at the start ("It begin in old London Town") in the improvement hack as well. ;)
My improvement primarily concerned grammatical errors made in the main text, and I'm also not an English speaker, this is so, by the way.