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How do I know if a rom is corrupt? - ivinsjames - 12-22-2010
I know the program ff3ed or whatever its called corrupts roms according to Zeemis.SO how would I be able to tell if the rom is actually corrupt without having to do a trial and error test first?8]
Also can an IPS patch be corrupt?
RE: How do I know if a rom is corrupt? - LordSutebenu - 12-22-2010
well...the easiest way I'd say is to just run the game...if for any reason the game suddenly crashes or restarts itself...your game is corrupt. FF3ED doesn't just corrupt a game...it kills it completely; the latest version of FF3usME can do everything that FF3ED could, only it can also do so much more.
RE: How do I know if a rom is corrupt? - .Gilgamesh// - 12-22-2010
Always backup before you try something new. I made this mistake and all my new events and enemies.
RE: How do I know if a rom is corrupt? - Gi Nattak - 12-22-2010
(12-22-2010, 11:25 AM)Ren sama Wrote: well...the easiest way I'd say is to just run the game...if for any reason the game suddenly crashes or restarts itself...your game is corrupt. FF3ED doesn't just corrupt a game...it kills it completely; the latest version of FF3usME can do everything that FF3ED could, only it can also do so much more.
Almost everything. It can't map edit or change the font
Although of coarse there are other, better programs to do that.Remember that once you use FF3ED, and save, you can never use FF3usME's wonderful dialog editor. I got away with using FF3ED for a good while before it corrupted my ROM. It can do it in different ways, and irreversibly change random code, for instance it created a bug with the Rage list, and destroyed my mini-map. The worst being where it would turn the overworld map black, and the reseting once in or after a battle. Like conflicting patches.
So what I'm saying, is just because it would not appear that corruption has took place, it very well might have somewhere in the ROM.
RE: How do I know if a rom is corrupt? - ivinsjames - 12-22-2010
Ok thanks everone now could a IPS file be corrupt at all?
RE: How do I know if a rom is corrupt? - SSJ Rick - 12-23-2010
no ips files themselves cannot be corrupt
RE: How do I know if a rom is corrupt? - ivinsjames - 12-23-2010
Ok just for the sake of NOT making 3 posts so quickly I have one more question, whats the purpose of having a rom with or without a "header"? I know many patches need a rom with no header.
RE: How do I know if a rom is corrupt? - Gi Nattak - 12-23-2010
(12-23-2010, 08:59 PM)ivinsjames Wrote: Ok just for the sake of NOT making 3 posts so quickly I have one more question, whats the purpose of having a rom with or without a "header"? I know many patches need a rom with no header.
This link explains what a header is, and how to apply and erase it.
http://forum.romulation.net/index.php?topic=17597.0
RE: How do I know if a rom is corrupt? - ivinsjames - 12-23-2010
Cool Nattak thank you and everyone else too.