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The following Hacks have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):

• Slowdown and Unstretch patch (Bug Fix)(Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions)(PSP)
• Black Borders to the Original Games (Improvement)(Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles)(PSP)
• Mama Mohammad! (Spoof)(Super Mario Bros.)(NES)
• FF1: DoS - Unrunnable Battle Notification (Improvement)(Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls)(GBA)
• No Power Drain (Improvement)(Gauntlet)(NES)
• Secondary Weapon Slot and Remote Barrier (Improvement)(Contra)(NES)
• Super Castlevania IV No Candles Mod (Improvement)(Super Castlevania IV)(SNES)
• Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - Gamecube to N64 (Bug Fix)(The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask)(N64)
• ISS Deluxe Real Names Patch (Improvement)(International Superstar Soccer Deluxe)(SNES)
• Asterix & Obelix XXL PAL 60hz Patch (Improvement)(Asterix & Obelix XXL)(GC)
• Doshin The Giant PAL 60hz Patch (Improvement)(Doshin the Giant)(GC)
• Mini Lunar Ball (Complete)(Lunar Pool)(NES)
• Ditris (Complete)(Tetris (Tengen))(NES)
• Super Mario Bros SUICIDEXTREME V (Complete)(Super Mario Bros.)(NES)
• Battletoads & Double Dragon - on Ragnarok (Complete)(Battletoads)(NES)

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[Dwedit]

The Battletoads hack is seriously amazing.

[nesrocks]

The Battletoads hack is seriously amazing.

I gotta play it! The feature list does sound incredible.

[MathUser2929]

There's actually a battletoads hack that came out before this that added Jimmy. No character select screen, you had to press a button combination to play as Jimmy. No Billy.

This new hack looks really good tho. These guys make a great team. I wish they didn't have to have green shoes and vest's tho.

[KingMike]

Now that we're starting to see GameCube hacks, I'm going to guess these are going to require downloading "scene" ISOs (which were hacked to massively reduce the size. Pure GameCube (and Wii) ISOs, such as dumped through a Wii with homebrew are a constant huge size (though at least untouched GC ISOs can compress somewhat, Wii cannot it seems).

[Axiphel]

Now that we're starting to see GameCube hacks, I'm going to guess these are going to require downloading "scene" ISOs (which were hacked to massively reduce the size. Pure GameCube (and Wii) ISOs, such as dumped through a Wii with homebrew are a constant huge size (though at least untouched GC ISOs can compress somewhat, Wii cannot it seems).

Both Gamecube and Wii games be compressed with Dolphin to the GCZ format. A lot of them compress greatly like Animal Crossing going down to 32MB from 1.4GB.

[Bruiserjoe]

The Battletoads hack is seriously amazing.

Agreed

[Maeson]

Now that we're starting to see GameCube hacks, I'm going to guess these are going to require downloading "scene" ISOs (which were hacked to massively reduce the size. Pure GameCube (and Wii) ISOs, such as dumped through a Wii with homebrew are a constant huge size (though at least untouched GC ISOs can compress somewhat, Wii cannot it seems).

Well, you can reduce the size of GC and Wii games.

For gamecube you have DM Toolbox or DML Conv (others are not very safe, like Gamecube Iso Tool) that remove the garbage data and give you a working, smaller ISO. They are pretty easy to use.

For example Wario world goes from a full gamecube ISO, 1.35 GB to 260 MB. Depends on the game of course, some are not even worth trimming.

That said, the PAL 60hz hacks (Or the Skies of Arcadia mod) were made to be applied on clean 1:1 ISOS... But the IPS patch also works with trimmed isos (As I tested it, and worked both on Dolphin and on my Wii) as long as they are good dumps, because it doesn't have checksums.

I thought it was easier to find the clean images than finding trimmed games. In fact I went to the RHDN IRC to waste others' time asking several things just to try to be as convenient as I could, lol.

For Wii there's a disc format named WBFS that does pretty much the same, removes unnecessary data, gives you a smaller file.

[UnrealGecko]

Really interested in that Lunar Ball editor and hack, as I'm a pretty big fan of that game... Thank you!

[noit]

Really interested in that Lunar Ball editor and hack, as I'm a pretty big fan of that game... Thank you!

Thank you! I will probably update the editor soon, there are some rough edges regarding the size in bytes of the levels (If the size of all levels exceeds what the rom originally held I ignore the later levels intentionally on write, so the data is lost), and regarding empty levels (Like when you press the Del key on a level, it corrupts the rom since the game assumes there is at least one thing per type per level). I forgot to put this on the readme file.

[FCandChill]

Comment removed because reasons...

[Dwedit]

ROM was doubled in size to 512KB.  This is not completely standard as seen below:

Code: [Select]

7  bit  0
---- ----
xxxM xPPP
   |  |||
   |  +++- Select 32 KB PRG ROM bank for CPU $8000-$FFFF
   +------ Select 1 KB VRAM page for all 4 nametablesGoing from 256KB to 512KB means you change the bank bits from xPPP into PPPP, so you could select up to 512KB instead of 256KB.
Many emulators allow a size of 512KB, but the real AxROM board does not have the extra bit to store another bank bit.  You need to change a chip and a few wires to put an expanded AxROM game onto a cartridge.

[nesrocks]

ROM was doubled in size to 512KB.

Is this about the battletoads hack? What does that mean exactly, that it won't work on the real console?

[dougeff]

Dwedit kind of already explained how it can be done on real hardware...

You need to change a chip and a few wires to put an expanded AxROM game onto a cartridge

I'm pretty sure people have done this already, maybe with BNROM (a variant of AxROM).

Edit, oh right... Haunted Halloween 85 is that size.

[nesrocks]

Thanks, just wanted to make sure. So it seems some emulators need to be updated. I heard that it doesn't work on virtuanes for example.

[Warrax]

Battletoads hack crash when I start a game (just before character select screen) on my Everdrive. Runs fine on emulators.

[Dwedit]

I guess report that to the people who made the mappers for the everdrive?