Issue with Dragon Quest V Translation and Snes9x 1.43

Phoenix10k · Post by **Phoenix10k** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:38 am

I feel odd talking about Snes9x on a ZSNES owned board, but anyway...

In Snes9x 1.39, the rom loads normally (translation patch and all). However, attempting to load it in 1.43 results in a black screen and no way to advance it. I've used their restore function, and no luck. I went back to 1.39 and it worked fine again.

This is one of the translation patches that adds a DeJap intro screen to the rom pre-load. The screen and subsequent "Press Start To Play" work just fine in 1.39. In 1.43, the screen never appears and pressing start does not advance to the game.

Any ideas? I suppose I can keep 1.39 around for DQ5, and just use 1.43 for Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia. Excellent work on those two games, btw.

EDIT>> Almost forgot, the untranslated DQ5 rom loads just fine, which is why I believe the issue may be the intro screen the programmers added.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:56 am

Did you try posting this at the SNES9X forum?

Post by **badinsults** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:15 pm

Post the rom info. Check to make sure that the checksum is ok.

Phoenix10k · Post by **Phoenix10k** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:10 pm

snkcube: I haven't yet, I didn't think they'd give support for a patched rom.

GOATSnEs: The checksum is invalid, but patching a rom will always do that in my experience. The original untranslated rom has the correct checksum.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:29 pm

Doesn't work for me either in Snes9x 1.43.

ZSNES works fine with it.

Phoenix10k · Post by **Phoenix10k** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:04 pm

I strongly dislike ZSnes' UI (it seems almost counter-intuitive), so I prefer not to use it. I've just decided to keep Snes9X 1.39 around for DQ5, and deal with it.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:29 pm

The Snes9x 1.43 GUI isn't particularly great either. The Load dialog is non-standard and lags like hell if you have 100 or so roms, the resolution selector is awkward with the pointless test thing and to top it off, it doesn't support the XPTheme by default.

Just because Snes9x has a GUI which resembles a standard GUI, does not make it a better emulator than ZSNES which has better compatibility, sound, video (with no borders), features, netplay, uses less specific game hacks, is updated more often (in terms of WIP updates), supports hardware bilinear filtering, and has the CVS freely available to everyone. ZSNES is getting a standard GUI in the future, so I guess it'll please people who cannot be bothered to use a simple non-standard GUI.

ThunderClaw · Post by **ThunderClaw** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:20 pm

I confirm the issue in SNES9x with a good ROM. ZSNES works fine.

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:41 am

Well, I had a few minutes to spare, and I was hoping to find an interesting corner case in emulation, but it turned out to just be something minor. Oh well. I'll submit the appropriate bugfix info to the snes9x team. In the meantime:

<removed>

You can download the above file, and check out readme.txt. Or if you're too lazy to read that file, apply dq5.ips *op top* of the translated dejap dq5 ROM, and it'll work on snes9x 1.43.

Note the /temp/ in the above URL! I'm not keeping this on my server for more than a week or so. I'd appreciate it if someone mirrored it for me.

EDIT: File removed as stated. Since it wasn't mirrored, here's the hex equivalent of the file. If you know how to use a hex editor, great. If not, oh well. Please don't ask me for the file. Problem is fixed in the new snes9x, so wait until then.

17 bytes <dq5.ips>

Code: Select all

50 41 54 43 48 1F 88 01 00 04 18 FB 4B AB 45 4F 46