Side Attack Error

Something scrambled like that, rather than total tilt rainbow screen of death colors, sounds a lot like your problem is #2 (possible #1) in Gi Nattak's list. If you still have all the patches saved, go through and double check versions and type for them all and you'll most likely find the source of the problem.

Even if someone made a patch to restore all the code for side attacks, you'll most likely get a complete crash when you run into something that attempts to use broken code (or half overwritten code) later on.

And yeah really take that part about backups seriously, one random unknown mis-stroke key in a hex editor has corrupted a lot of ROM's with no easy way to ever find one stray bit. That Patch Conflict Finder is realy awesome when adding several different patchs as well.

Guess I could have just wrote "Yeah, what he said" but that would have been to simple.