Re: Let's get a FAQ, I'm sure many of us have plenty of information to create one. (nt)

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This message was posted by sledge, posted on August 12, 2001 at 05:09:23 coming from 213.89.118
This message is a reply to Re: Doh! This type of question should be in the FAQ -- if we had a FAQ. posted from The Dumper posted at August 11, 2001 at 21:44:36
> > I have no tried any patching at all. However, I did see a logo screen but it freezes on a screen after it displays "game pak not found" for about a second. thanks

> Whenever a game doesn't work I check with SMC to see if it uses a special chip which might cause it not to work. Uniracers doesn't use a special chip, it isn't over 32Mbit, it doesn't have over 256Kb SRAM so if you dumped it correctly on your DX2 it should work -- it works on mine.

> Now saying just for the sake of argument that you didn't dump it on your DX2, that you downloaded it off the net, the next step is to run it through GoodSNES to make sure it's the golden uncorrupted ROM. If you checked all the previous things, GoodSNES recognizes it as good and your DX2 is not broken, there can be only one thing wrong -- you've got a bad header on your ROM -- happens a lot when downloading off the net.

> Fix your header and it will work.

> For uniracers the first few hex bytes of the header should look like:
> 00 01 04 00 00 00 00 00 AA BB 04 00 00 00 00 00

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Message	> > > I have no tried any patching at all. However, I did see a logo screen but it freezes on a screen after it displays "game pak not found" for about a second. thanks > > Whenever a game doesn't work I check with SMC to see if it uses a special chip which might cause it not to work. Uniracers doesn't use a special chip, it isn't over 32Mbit, it doesn't have over 256Kb SRAM so if you dumped it correctly on your DX2 it should work -- it works on mine. > > Now saying just for the sake of argument that you didn't dump it on your DX2, that you downloaded it off the net, the next step is to run it through GoodSNES to make sure it's the golden uncorrupted ROM. If you checked all the previous things, GoodSNES recognizes it as good and your DX2 is not broken, there can be only one thing wrong -- you've got a bad header on your ROM -- happens a lot when downloading off the net. > > Fix your header and it will work. > > For uniracers the first few hex bytes of the header should look like: > > 00 01 04 00 00 00 00 00 AA BB 04 00 00 00 00 00
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