IGS PGM English Patch Index
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jcmorrisii
Grand Master
Bump to share a new english patch from @iq_132 !!! This is for Demon Front v107KR, the single PCB board, NOT the cart.
Have to burn 1x 27c322, and 1x 27c160 then replace the ROMs at U43 and U62.
Tested working on my PCB!
Thanks @iq_132 !!!!!!!
Demon Front English Patch for v107KR
Have to burn 1x 27c322, and 1x 27c160 then replace the ROMs at U43 and U62.
Tested working on my PCB!
Thanks @iq_132 !!!!!!!Demon Front English Patch for v107KR
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FrAshi
Professional
Thanks for this! Works great!Bump to share a new english patch from @iq_132 !!! This is for Demon Front v107KR, the single PCB board, NOT the cart.
Have to burn 1x 27c322, and 1x 27c160 then replace the ROMs at U43 and U62.
Tested working on my PCB!
Demon Front English Patch for v107KR
Question for Demon Front:
What are the differences between the cart and stand alone PCB versions? The cart seems to command a much higher price in comparison, especially now when you consider that you can language patch the PCB version.
What are the differences between the cart and stand alone PCB versions? The cart seems to command a much higher price in comparison, especially now when you consider that you can language patch the PCB version.
Good to know. I briefly searched online and wasn't able to figure it out. I know that SvG carts tend to be more desirable vs PCB due to gameplay/balance differences and wasn't sure if the same thing applied to Demon Front. I guess it would matter a bit less since it isn't a competitive fighting game unless the differences were severe.
jcmorrisii
Grand Master
There are no gameplay differences with the Cart vs single board on Demon Front, and for what its worth I could never point out anything that differed from 105 to 107 other than that the 107 was for Korean markets only. So if your in the market and collectibility or whatever isnt a big deal go for the single board and patch it.
Tailsnic Retroworks
Champion
Is English Dodonpachi Bee Storm decrypted for using it in a bootleg cartridge without ASIC?
Hammy
Enlightened
Yeah i did the attract mode and level 1 only.
That took several weeks by eye and not great. I think there's over 20k lines to change...
A good "tech demo" to prove that cracking it is possible.
If anyone wants to check it out let me know, but don't get excited because i won't be the one finishing it for now (there's much more fruitful hacking work going on at the moment)
That took several weeks by eye and not great. I think there's over 20k lines to change...
A good "tech demo" to prove that cracking it is possible.
If anyone wants to check it out let me know, but don't get excited because i won't be the one finishing it for now (there's much more fruitful hacking work going on at the moment)
I'm a bit curious what the nature of the actual changes are. is this removing security code, or migrating ARM code into the main CPU or something else altogether? Do you have any examples of changes you made and what they did?
Hammy
Enlightened
Basically it's reading a table or math result from the protection device, but it calls it VERY often. Each request needs the returned value, and there's a crazy number of them.
It needs some kind of script to run it and put the value in, by eye it was getting stupid.
Also it's one of those where you would need to trigger all in game events to get all of the values.
Attract mode was easy because it's the same any time.
It needs some kind of script to run it and put the value in, by eye it was getting stupid.
Also it's one of those where you would need to trigger all in game events to get all of the values.
Attract mode was easy because it's the same any time.
Hammy
Enlightened
It would be possible to make a modded mame driver and run it with the values printed, running tests on the board would be a lot slower.
Honestly it was a couple years ago since i last looked at it.
If you are interested in the "demo" let me know. I don't want to post it as we don't want unfinished crap floating around.
Honestly it was a couple years ago since i last looked at it.
If you are interested in the "demo" let me know. I don't want to post it as we don't want unfinished crap floating around.
leonk
Professional
I recently purchased the Chinese version of KoV Super Heroes Plus. I dumped the 27C322 file and it identified as:
Knights of Valour Super Heroes Plus / Sangoku Senki Super Heroes Plus (ver. 100)
I downloaded the ver. 101 / World ROM (p0600h_101.rom) and applied the patch in that link. When I open the patch file (kovshp_force_world.xdelta) in an editor, this is all that shows up:
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The "English" patch is 115 bytes long. What exactly does this do? Most of the menu text is still in Chinese.