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ShadowMage
02-22-2005, 09:32 PM
Which do you prefer?

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hcs
02-22-2005, 11:03 PM
Hard patching, as I rarely remember to set up the filenames correctly for soft patching. Much easier to work with.

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The 9th Sage
02-23-2005, 04:05 AM
> Which do you prefer?

Soft-patching so I can preserve the original ROM in it's regular form....except of course in the rare instance I'm patching a ROM with two different patches.

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The 9th Sage
02-23-2005, 04:10 AM
> Hard patching, as I rarely remember to set up the filenames
> correctly for soft patching. Much easier to work with.

Hey, that's that girl from WPJ2 isn't it? I wish that guy wanting to translate it luck...I'd love to play it and understand it.


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hcs
02-23-2005, 06:16 AM
> Hey, that's that girl from WPJ2 isn't it? I wish that guy
> wanting to translate it luck...I'd love to play it and
> understand it.

Heh, yeah, Josette by name.
I'd like to see it translated, too, I'll be doing some hacking to try and find a starting point for it when I can find some time.

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ShadowMage
02-23-2005, 07:04 PM
I ask because I'm trying to decide which method to use myself. Currently I use a mix of both, but for various reasons I've decided to start my ROM collection from scratch and this time I'm going to pick one method and stick with it.

I know that soft-patching makes updating a translation/hack easier, since you can just swap the old .ips for the new one, but what advantages are there to hard-patching?

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hcs
02-23-2005, 07:41 PM
> I know that soft-patching makes updating a translation/hack
> easier, since you can just swap the old .ips for the new
> one, but what advantages are there to hard-patching?

It's really just a matter of my own laziness, I'd rather patch once and be done with it, and have a ROM that I can use in any emulator I choose.

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The 9th Sage
02-27-2005, 02:51 AM
> I ask because I'm trying to decide which method to use
> myself. Currently I use a mix of both, but for various
> reasons I've decided to start my ROM collection from scratch
> and this time I'm going to pick one method and stick with
> it.

I recommend NSRT for auditing your SNES ROMs...I think it's surpassed GoodSNES in accuracy by quite a bit personally.

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ShadowMage
02-27-2005, 06:54 PM
> I recommend NSRT for auditing your SNES ROMs...I think it's
> surpassed GoodSNES in accuracy by quite a bit personally.

Alright, I'll check it out.

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