This would sadly exclude older patches, or uninformed old school hackers who may still be basing their hacks off goodsets. Thats why we have hashes! :)
I have a question, not really a review, but does anyone know how to make words not be capitalized when they are supposed to be lowercase? I'm working on a translation of the game into another language but I really don't know how to change the texts without the words being capitalized.
Your thoughts on that is accurate as that was the actual ROM to patch it with. ^^ No worries Adrian. Good thing I dug in deep and doing some searching around last night and doing some testing of my own. When I found the right one, where I got the original ROM from. put it into notes so I can help any other retro gamers get the right one. Sweet. :) Same here and tested it out on my Mega Everdrive x7 with no issues. @billytime-games! I 2nd with Adrian here. May want to edit the description to let others know about the patch must be patched with the No-Intro ROM of Streets Of Rage. :)
Good idea! I usually use No-Intro as a base for all my hacks. In fact, RHDN would tell users the origin rom would be from a No-Intro set. Any chance we could add that @BenjaminCM ?
I was thinking that the patch might require a No-Intro ROM file as I mentioned in my last post as I tried everything else repeatedly and to no luck. Thanks again JRussellRetroGaming, the arc-angel of video game fixes, you solved the issue of the ''Streets of Rage 1P Bad End'' bug. Yep, I followed your steps, got it from there and patched it the good old fashion way with IPS Lunar not the JS patcher here on the site, turned the ROM into a Binary file and fixed the CheckSum and it works perfectly as intended. BillyTimeGames! It might be a good idea to let the downloaders of your patch know that it has to be a ''No-Intro'' ROM file that the patch requires so nobody else has this problem in future.
There is already another hack of this game with that name.
Hey guys. I have managed to get this ROM patch to work on real hardware. You will need to download the Streets Of Rage ROM from Vimm's Lair in order to patch this Hack to. When you go to their site, click "Vault" then click "Genesis" Over where it says "gameplay" you'll see Streets Of Rage, click that the ZIP file wil download. Once you downloaded it, unzip it. Patch by using v1.1. Once it's patched. You will need to fix the checksum after patching it and you good to go. After trying other ROM sites I came to the conclusion that this site I mentioned here is the go to to get the No Intro's Streets of Rage ROM to patch and work on real hardware. I won't paste the link in case it breaks ROMHack Plaza's TOS. but Google search Vimm's Lair and you can get it from there.
Thank you so much for this! 🙏
Still no luck sorry. Followed the same procedure as before and got the same issue as before, black screen on Regen, red screen on real hardware leaving only Kega Fusion to run the game with a flash of red before Sega logo. The only thing I can think of is that the ROM might have to be No-Intro maybe? But I can't seem to find a No-Intro of Bare Knuckle/Streets of Rage 1, no where is it listed, only II and III have a No-Intro available. I do apologise if it's something i'm doing wrong on my end and i'm making you run around for nothing but it just won't work for whatever reason.
I must have done something to my base rom so I rebuilt the code from scratch and it seems to be working with Kega and Regen. Let me know if you have anymore issues.
Nice game :)
Can confirm that this amazing hack works perfectly on real hardware and in emulators. Love SOR1 thank you!
Sorry to report bad news Billy but still getting the same results sadly on my end. I used the JS direct patcher again with matching hashes, CheckSum's were fixed, tried both revisions (rev00 and rev1) and still just get a black screen on Regen and red screen on real hardware. Works on Kega Fusion but again has a one frame flash of red right before Sega logo. I even tried both PAL 50 and NTSC 60 and the problem is present in both refresh rates as sometimes a particular bug only appears in one refresh rate and not the other.
Corrected a coding mistake I made, so I issued Rev 1.1.
I can confirm it is an error on my part. Either way, I submitted a fix which should resolve the red screen issue. :)
I too couldn't get this patch to work successfully. I first patched it using the patcher right here on the site which checks the hashes, patched it and got a red screen on a real Mega Drive using an EverDrive, then I tested it using Regen emulator and just got a black screen and the CheckSum was already fixed after I patched it, so I thought ''okay maybe it's my ROMS'' so I went and downloaded the ROMS again (Rev0 and Rev1) and used IPS patcher, used the ''Fix CheckSum'' tool separately and still couldn't get the patch to work? Oddly the hack works on Kega Fusion but there is a one frame flash of red right before the Sega logo comes on which indicates that there is something wrong with the patch internally.
I know that, but this patch here was made on my own. I just confronted two different versions of the game and edited bytes in an hex editor.
I made this hack back in 2022 https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6486/
Version 2.1 fixes a graphical issue on Big Blue II.
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I see. I'll be sure to add the needed info to future readme files to prevent any confusion.
Streets of Rage – Bad End 1P (Genesis) Romhack - October 15, 2024