Hi guys - I bought my first SNESC yesterday and read nearly 12 hours "How to upgrade my SNESC".
I have to be honest, I am still a little bit confused. I tried to work with the "SNES Classic Mini Canoe Compatibility List" (
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...8t2aV5cVswYlnsdKxn9xoIW2Y/edit#gid=2014317767) and now here are some questions, after I set up SFROM Tool perfectly!
1) Some of the Issue-Patches are in the SFROM Tool Database (many from Robin): Do I have to add the additional ROM-Description-Patches (like LoROM to NTSC) in SFROM TOOL / Advanced (also bps-patches?) or do I have to run the patches with Lunar etc.?
2) Some of the Issue-Patches are not in Robins Pack (for example Arcus Odyssey). Do I have to run the named patches for example with Lunar IPS or could I add these patches in SFROM Toll / Advanced? If I use Lunar befor using SFROM Tool, does SFROM Tool still recognizes the ROMS or should I use hakchi2 then to generate the sfrom?
3) Then I found the SFROM Mega Pack - wow!!! Unfortunately I miss some games (for example supper soccer or the adams family): Is the reason, because there are no packages needed or why are they missing? The sfroms reffering the US-Versions, right?
Okay, I hope my questions aren't to bad and you guys can help me!
Thank you so much for alle your work!
- ReyVGM had right answers : to my knowledge, only one or 2 games only needed a VC patch with SFROM Tool to solve any issue with canoe (just remember mother 2/japanese version of earthbound) and SFROM Tool was mandatory only for "SDD1 games" (Star Ocean/Street fighter alpha 2), cause their patches were done using a "perfect" SFROM by DarkAkuma.
- For some games, the Robin patch pack only give the correct preset ID (and not particular .ips patch more), but it's not totally updated, and a few new issues (with a few new preset ID solutions) were found and are not in this pack (but yes, on the compatibility list). However, it should save you a lot of time, cause it's the only way you can patch a bunch of games in a row with the use of SFROM Tool. Btw, SFROM Tool was not originally created for patching games, and so you can also use this tool for some very useful actions, like convert your PC emulation saves (.srm) to canoe save format easily.
- Sfroms refer not to US versions only but for all Super NES/Super famicom games (it's just a format created by nintendo, like a box including any SNES/SFC Roms)
The SFROM Mega pack had the goal to give the "best" games directly available for a beginner user, doing all the work of patching one by one with SFROM and the different patch packs (including mainly Robin64 one) + some translation patches, so to have just to add in hakchi.
BUT, I don't know who really did this job, if it's really reliable, which roms he used for patching (and he clearly used some roms from the Goodsnes rom set, whereas all patches were made using the no-intro rom set, even if most of these roms should be the same, it couldn't be sure at 100%), if this patching work was correctly done, if you really want a translation rather than another (or none), or if you want, like you, some other games. And, as he used not 100% updated packs, some issues should have not been corrected in this "Mega pack". By the way, don't use this pack or robin patch for kirby's dreamland 3 if you don't want to crash the game at the end ...
For me, the only reliable thing to do is to follow that ReyVGM said upper : patch manually each game you want, following the instructions on the compatibility list : take more time, but much more reliable imho.