Hacking About Super Mario Advance 4's release

[Reecey]

He dumped it from RAM, not from the eshop files directly. If you apply the ips patch to a rom you'll get the proper rom dump.



Well, I played the game a little and it seems it works OK as long as we use only 1 save slot.
Whenever we try to save a second one, the savedata will become corrupted and the old save slot will be deleted.

How do you do that? sorry I have not been reading every page? I probably wont know unless someone told me how tbrh

 

[CheatFreak47]

How do you do that? sorry I have not been reading every page? I probably wont know unless someone told me how tbrh

I think you're misunderstanding the purpose of this thread. This gif, I believe sums up the purpose better than I can with words.

 

[Hiccup]

I think Reecey wants to know how the ROM was extracted. This is how:
* Buy Super Mario Advance (USA) (GBA) (Virtual Console)
* Make a RAM dump while running it.
* Open RAM dump in hex editor and cut out everything apart from the non-dummy ROM.
* Byteswap it (e.g. with Skelux's "Byteswapper")

 

[Hiccup]

Obligatory reminder:
There are plenty other VCs that aren't dumped. Please PM me, VinsCool, gamesquest1 or CheatFreak47 (or all of us) if you own a genuine Virtual Console title and you have RAM dumping capabilities.

 

[CheatFreak47]

http://www.romhacking.net/

Well would you look at that.

 

[HEADBOY]

I'm curious, would this work on a GBA emulator?

 

[CheatFreak47]

I'm curious, would this work on a GBA emulator?

I think you're misunderstanding the purpose of this thread. This gif, I believe sums up the purpose better than I can with words.

Uh... yes.

 

[Localhorst86]

I'm curious, would this work on a GBA emulator?

Of course it does, it's just like any other GBA game.

 

[ShadowOne333]

@Hiccup I'm sorry, I didn't notice you were a part of the Dumping process too!
I'll add you to he Credits today!
I just oversaw the post, deeply sorry.

 

[Hiccup]

No need. I didn't really do anything.
And don't forget that Nintendo and M2 made the VC ROM

 

[MushGuy]

Not yet!

I still have to figure out how the palette data is stored in the ROM (it's different than Yoshi's Island) so that I can make the Colour restoration.
After that is done, THEN it'll be the Ultimate version. xD

Don't forget music restoration, which needs to be done on all four games.

 

[Hiccup]

Shurely music is a limitation of GBA hardware?

 

[Don Jon]

Can the tile key be extraced from the dump?
And wat is the title id of the game?

 

[emuman100]

This is the best version of the best Mario game ever created, and Nintendo finally listened and made available some of the best content for it. How perfect is this!!! A huge thank you to the people who worked hard on dumping it and making the patch available. I purchased three cartridges for the purpose of fitting all levels. Not needed anymore! I wonder if the pinout of the rom in the official cartridge will match that of a flash...

 

[HEADBOY]

Of course it does, it's just like any other GBA game.

Now I feel I can feel the hot egg on my face...

 

[MushGuy]

Shurely music is a limitation of GBA hardware?

If it was possible on the Final Fantasy games (FF VI, FF V), I don't see why it isn't possible on the SMA games, including correcting pitches, using the proper instruments, etc. Just take a listen to Super Mario advance 2, and you'll know what I'm talking about.

 

[Hiccup]

Yeah, I suppose you can always improve the sound, while staying within the restrictions of the hardware.

 

[CeeDee]

Obligatory reminder:
There are plenty other VCs that aren't dumped. Please PM me, VinsCool, gamesquest1 or CheatFreak47 (or all of us) if you own a genuine Virtual Console title and you have RAM dumping capabilities.

How many other VC titles have changes that are worth dumping for?

 

[Hiccup]

In my opinion any with changes are worth dumping. I don't know any specifics though. Some may have censorship, which could be interesting...

 

[ShadowOne333]

Obligatory reminder:
There are plenty other VCs that aren't dumped. Please PM me, VinsCool, gamesquest1 or CheatFreak47 (or all of us) if you own a genuine Virtual Console title and you have RAM dumping capabilities.

I really hope someone could dump the japanese versions of EarthBound Beginnings and EarthBound, known as Mother and Mother 2 in Japan.
From what I and other memebers from Starmen have gathere, those releases have some changes over the original Famicom and Super Famicom releases.

If someone has a japanese Wii U with those two titles, please dump them