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Tales of Phantasia English crash

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Why the freakin' heck doesn't Tales of Phantasia work on the Zsnes WIPs!? It really sucks saying as that's one of my favorite RPGs! When
ever I load the game, it shows the infomation as follows

ROM name: TOP English (C) DEJAP Type: Normal
Interleaved: No Bank: Lo Checksum:Fail
Video: NTSC CRC32

When the ROM starts, it's just a black screen, no sound at all. I have savestates, but the game freezes after I load them. I know that even
if a ROM's checksum fails the game can still be playable. Please help.
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oh, crap!

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Ah, crap! I tried the Zsnes 1.36 official, and it STILL doesn't work. I still
need some suggestions on what to do!
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Post by snkcube »

Is the checksum okay without the translation patch?
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Post by Clements »

My guess is that you didn't add a header when you either hard or soft-patched the rom. NSRT can do this.

My soft-patched Japanese rom works perfectly with the latest WIP.
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Post by Agozer »

this is definitely a header issue. You need to add a header to your unmodified rom using NSRT and then patch it.
whicker: franpa is grammatically correct, and he still gets ripped on?
sweener2001: Grammatically correct this one time? sure. every other time? no. does that give him a right? not really.
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Post by Nach »

Don't forget you can remove the header from the IPS patch instead which will save space.

Although based on your output it doesn't look like a header problem to me.
I'm guessing you tried applying a patch made for an interleaved dump to your non interleaved ROM.
Give me the output of NSRT on your ROM so we can further help you.
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Re: Tales of Phantasia English crash

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gaijinx1 wrote:When
ever I load the game, it shows the infomation as follows

ROM name: TOP English (C) DEJAP Type: Normal
Interleaved: No Bank: Lo Checksum:Fail
Video: NTSC CRC32
Yeah, blank CRC32. Riiiight. :roll:

Give the NSRT output of the japanese original rom. ToP is one of the several games NSRT can fix, so you don't need to download every ToP rom in all the intarweb.
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NSRT results

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Here are the results of my Tales of Phantasia English ROM;

Cart Name: ToP English <C> DeJap Company: Namco Ltd.
Header: GD3 Bank: LoROM
Interleaved: No SRAM: 64 Kb
Type: Normal + Batt Size: 48 Mb
Country: Japan Video: NTSC
ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM) Version: 1.0
Checksum: Corrupt CRC32: FE3C8403

Any help will be appreciated
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Post by grinvader »

Give the output of the JAPANESE rom.
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ToP (J)

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Alright, here's your frikin' Japanese Tales of Phantasia ROM info!

Cart Name: TALES OF PHANTASIA Company: Namco Ltd.
Header: GD3 Bank: Extended HiROM
Interleaved: EHi Interleave+Swap SRAM: 64 KB
Type: Normal + Batt Size: 48 KB
Country: Japan Video: NTSC
ROM speed: 120ns (FastROM) Version: 1.0
Checksum: Good 0x7C57 CRC32: E9946B84
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Re: ToP (J)

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gaijinx1 wrote:Alright, here's your frikin' Japanese Tales of Phantasia ROM info!

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Cart Name: TALES OF PHANTASIA     Company: Namco Ltd.
Header: GD3                                    Bank: Extended HiROM
Interleaved: EHi Interleave+Swap      SRAM: 64 KB
Type: Normal + Batt                          Size: 48 KB
Country: Japan                                Video: NTSC
ROM speed: 120ns  (FastROM)            Version: 1.0
Checksum: Good 0x7C57                  CRC32: E9946B84
Much better. Just deinterleave your ROM, and the patch should now work.
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Re: ToP (J)

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gaijinx1 wrote:Alright, here's your frikin' Japanese Tales of Phantasia ROM info!
Next time, please don't be so rude.
<Nach> so why don't the two of you get your own room and leave us alone with this stupidity of yours?
NSRT here.
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Re: ToP (J)

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adventure_of_link wrote:
gaijinx1 wrote:Alright, here's your frikin' Japanese Tales of Phantasia ROM info!
Next time, please don't be so rude.
Yeah, calm down a bit. :wink:
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sorry

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I apologize, I was just annoyed at the fact that I couldn't play the ROM.
If you have any information whatsoever about TopE.smc, it will be greatly appreciated. Sorry.
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Post by Agozer »

Just run NSRT with this syntax:

nsrt -deint gamename.smc
whicker: franpa is grammatically correct, and he still gets ripped on?
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Re: ToP (J)

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adventure_of_link wrote:
gaijinx1 wrote:Alright, here's your frikin' Japanese Tales of Phantasia ROM info!
Next time, please don't be so rude.
I thought he was being humourous.
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I was being sarcastic

Post by gaijinx1 »

Sorry about that! I finally got the Tales of Phantasia ROM to work on Zsnes in English. I can now make cheat codes for ToP, heheheh...
Oh, well, so now I'm gonna just play ROMs for a while. Later!
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