Re: ATTN: Dumper. GD Header Questions

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This message was posted by The Dumper, posted on June 04, 2001 at 05:06:05 coming from 216.127.80
This message is a reply to ATTN: Dumper. GD Header Questions posted from Dammenion posted at June 04, 2001 at 03:25:28
> I dumped my own DKC and compared the headers and found 3 bytes differance

> First byte on the 00000010 row seamed to turn off the protection since I changed that last
> "8020" to "8220"

> 10th and 11th bytes in the 00000020 row
> "2700 0000" to "270C 0C00"

> Changing those to the values I stated aboved got all DKC's to work perfectly.

> I was searching for Game Doctor header information and only found your old post on the romhacking board asking the same thing. But I read that you only found 1 byte differant on your dump of DKC from that message.

> I was just wondering if you know what the above changes do so I can know what values to look at when I run into something similar. DKC uses 16k ram so one of those changes must mean that. Just not sure which one since I got 3 bytes differant.

>
> Again thanks for your help
> Damm

> BTW I was using Hex Workshop in case the rows are differant

I think the 80/82 are the sram sizes. Don't know what the others are. It's on my list of things I'd like to get to someday to research the Game Doctor header format.

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Message	> > I dumped my own DKC and compared the headers and found 3 bytes differance > > First byte on the 00000010 row seamed to turn off the protection since I changed that last > > "8020" to "8220" > > 10th and 11th bytes in the 00000020 row > > "2700 0000" to "270C 0C00" > > Changing those to the values I stated aboved got all DKC's to work perfectly. > > I was searching for Game Doctor header information and only found your old post on the romhacking board asking the same thing. But I read that you only found 1 byte differant on your dump of DKC from that message. > > I was just wondering if you know what the above changes do so I can know what values to look at when I run into something similar. DKC uses 16k ram so one of those changes must mean that. Just not sure which one since I got 3 bytes differant. > > > > Again thanks for your help > > Damm > > BTW I was using Hex Workshop in case the rows are differant > I think the 80/82 are the sram sizes. Don't know what the others are. It's on my list of things I'd like to get to someday to research the Game Doctor header format.
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