{"id":623,"date":"2009-11-24T08:53:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2012-10-12T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T03:50:31","slug":"rom-release-ak-live-hit-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/rom-release-ak-live-hit-gang\/","title":{"rendered":"ROM RELEASE – AK LIVE Hit Gang"},"content":{"rendered":"

My apologies if people waiting to enthusiastically play games find my current ROM releasings boring. As I’ve said before, I’m throwing up the stranger oddities of the ROM Dumps first.<\/p>\n

So, you’re probably gonna ask me what makes this one strange.<\/p>\n

Basically, one day among a few other ROMs Callis<\/a> wanted me to sort through, he found a bit of what looked like bootable data in one of them and showed this to me..<\/p>\n

\"Onos,<\/p>\n

\"Obviously,<\/p>\n

He asked me if the text data was corrupt, but having seen a few cases like this before, I proposed to him that for some reason the emulator he was using could not detect it as a BS-X BIOs compatible ROM, and therefore would not do a font call, which led to the corrupt fonts.<\/p>\n

After obtaining the ROM myself, I tried popping it in every emulator I got only to get the same result.
\nRealizing that it might need it’s header hacked to boot up, I decided to pop it open in a Hex editor and-<\/p>\n

\"This<\/p>\n

For anyone wondering what I’m trying to point out, basically the header is somehow, well, messed up;
\n1) The byte for filesize is not one that’s functional with the BS-X (it’s 4mb according to ucon64 – an impossible filesize.)
\n2) There is NO checksum or inverse checksum
\n3) Not highlighted on here, but the “Maker” value is -blank-.<\/p>\n

to summarize, if you’ve read this<\/a> a long time ago, you’d kinda have an idea what’s wrong here.<\/p>\n

After Callis assured me that was how the ROM was dumped, I went to making a header hack. The hack shall be included in with the ROM upload, as an IPS Patch. Then, after applying it, you should get -this-…<\/p>\n

\"Yay!\"<\/p>\n

\"All<\/p>\n

instead of corruptness over there. Indeed, my initial hunch was correct, although the circumstances a bit more bizarre than I expected.<\/p>\n

Now, that may leave you wondering, is there anything important in this ROM?<\/p>\n

\"Um...\"<\/p>\n

Well… not really. Besides the state of the dump, the ROM’s a AK LIVE Magazine, made to promote the band and their music. Of course, this still makes one wonder how the ROM ended up the way it was – many “locked” ROMs simply have the “Number of tries” value set to the “lock”. Was it really necessary to remove the checksum…?<\/p>\n

Click around here to download!
\nAK LIVE Hit Gang
\nAK LIVE\u30d2\u30c3\u30c8\u30ae\u30e3\u30f3\u30b0
\nROM & IPS
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n