Getting Clock Tower to work

Post by **badinsults** » Sat May 02, 2009 5:44 am

Ok, I have an NSRT verified rom of Clock Tower, plus Gideon Zhi's translation patch. However, even with a header or without a header, I have had not sucess at getting the translation patch to work. Am I missing something?

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat May 02, 2009 8:13 am

The game works fine for me. Here's my NSRT scan of the ROM I have.

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---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
       File: Clock Tower (J).smc
       Name: CLOCK TOWER SFX          Company: Human Entertainment
     Header: SWC                         Bank: HiROM
Interleaved: None                        SRAM: 16 Kb
       Type: Normal + Batt                ROM: 24 Mb
    Country: Japan                      Video: NTSC
  ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM)         Revision: 1.0
   Checksum: Good 0x4D73            Game Code: AJEJ
---------------------------Hashes---------------------------
      CRC32: CBCD0DAD
--------------------------Database--------------------------
       Name: Clock Tower
    Country: Japan                   Revision: 1.0
     Port 1: Gamepad                   Port 2: Gamepad
    Genre 1: Adventure                Genre 2: Text

Post by **badinsults** » Sat May 02, 2009 4:46 pm

That is the same ROM I have, but yet the patch still isn't working. It is like it doesn't recognize it at all.

alyxx · Post by **alyxx** » Sat May 02, 2009 5:14 pm

Have you made sure the file name of the patch matches that of the room?
Example:
ROM: clocktower.smc
Patch: clocktower.ips

ZSNES will only do the patching if the file names match.

Post by **badinsults** » Sat May 02, 2009 5:17 pm

Come on, I am the freaking administrator of this board. Let's make some assumptions, such as me knowing how to soft patch the game.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Sat May 02, 2009 5:30 pm

Does ZSNES show "IPS" when you load the ROM?
Black screen, or are the screens the same as the unpatched ROM?
Tried hard-patching? (Lunar IPS etc.)
Tried another emulator?

Post by **grinvader** » Sat May 02, 2009 5:34 pm

creaothceann wrote:Does ZSNES show "IPS" when you load the ROM?

It doesn't. The ips is not loaded (and the rom left untouched) for whatever reason, even after a name change.

I'm kinda stumped as to what could cause this. (i.e. it's not any of the classic stuff)

Post by **badinsults** » Sat May 02, 2009 5:45 pm

Hardpatching the rom works. Not really an ideal way of doing things, though.

Post by **grinvader** » Sat May 02, 2009 7:04 pm

The issue has been found. ZSNES tries to open '<romname>.ips', which is case sensitive on unix.

The patch extension was in caps.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sat May 02, 2009 8:32 pm

badinsults wrote:Come on, I am the freaking administrator of this board. Let's make some assumptions, such as me knowing how to soft patch the game.

LOL U R NOOB!1111

alyxx · Post by **alyxx** » Sun May 03, 2009 9:02 am

Gil_Hamilton wrote:
badinsults wrote:Come on, I am the freaking administrator of this board. Let's make some assumptions, such as me knowing how to soft patch the game.
LOL U R NOOB!1111

That was unnecessary.
There was no way I could know he was the administrator other than looking at his post count, which I know some people get faked, but either way, I am just saying it might've been a possibility. Even the best ones make simple mistakes sometimes.
And in a way, I was right, the file names didn't match on Linux.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sun May 03, 2009 9:18 am

alyxx wrote:
Gil_Hamilton wrote:
badinsults wrote:Come on, I am the freaking administrator of this board. Let's make some assumptions, such as me knowing how to soft patch the game.
LOL U R NOOB!1111
That was unnecessary.
There was no way I could know he was the administrator other than looking at his post count, which I know some people get faked, but either way, I am just saying it might've been a possibility. Even the best ones make simple mistakes sometimes.

I was making a joke about badinsults starting a "noob" thread, not about you not knowing his long, proud(?) history.

If I were taking a shot at you, I would've directed it AT you.
I admit I DID smile at the "basic troubleshooting" response, but didn't feel the oversight was worth commenting on, especially as you HAVEN'T been around long enough to know who's who(and some of the oldies have changed screen names a time or two anyways, so what's new today might be old yesterday).

Post by **grinvader** » Sun May 03, 2009 1:23 pm

You're also not used to the rough love zboarders tend to develop with other fellow members.

Yet.

alyxx · Post by **alyxx** » Sun May 03, 2009 6:14 pm

Oh, sorry then... *is blushing like mad*

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Sun May 03, 2009 7:09 pm

alyxx wrote:other than looking at his post count, which I know some people get faked

Nah, grinvader's really made that many posts. It's just that we've purged a lot of the older posts from the late 90s and early 2000s.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sun May 03, 2009 8:56 pm

byuu wrote:
alyxx wrote:other than looking at his post count, which I know some people get faked
Nah, grinvader's really made that many posts. It's just that we've purged a lot of the older posts from the late 90s and early 2000s.

Don't think we even HAD post counts in the late 90s.

alyxx · Post by **alyxx** » Sun May 03, 2009 9:39 pm

I'm not saying it's fake, I am just saying it's possible, and his member title does not give me any hints he is an admin. And who bothers visiting profiles these days?

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Mon May 04, 2009 3:36 am

alyxx wrote:I'm not saying it's fake, I am just saying it's possible, and his member title does not give me any hints he is an admin. And who bothers visiting profiles these days?

Assuming badinsults didn't join in the hide-the-admins game..

next time you check the users online option, and you see badinsults in the list. his name will be colored yellow to indicate he is an admin.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon May 04, 2009 5:18 am

POWER OVERWHELMING

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Mon May 04, 2009 7:18 am

alyxx wrote:I'm not saying it's fake, I am just saying it's possible, and his member title does not give me any hints he is an admin.

We actually had an admin with a negative post count at one point.

alyxx · Post by **alyxx** » Mon May 04, 2009 7:44 am

I'm so new to all of this. *feels confused*

Post by **Agozer** » Mon May 04, 2009 11:27 am

Gil_Hamilton wrote:
alyxx wrote:I'm not saying it's fake, I am just saying it's possible, and his member title does not give me any hints he is an admin.
We actually had an admin with a negative post count at one point.

I wouldn't be too surprised if that was pagefault. I don't remember clearly who that was, really.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Mon May 04, 2009 11:34 am

Agozer wrote:
Gil_Hamilton wrote:
alyxx wrote:I'm not saying it's fake, I am just saying it's possible, and his member title does not give me any hints he is an admin.
We actually had an admin with a negative post count at one point.
I wouldn't be too surprised if that was pagefault. I don't remember clearly who that was, really.

It was JB.
*coughs*

doktor_kris · Post by **doktor_kris** » Mon May 04, 2009 1:18 pm

That's the JB who had the highest post count before the board got hacked/wiped some years ago, right?

Post by **Nach** » Mon May 04, 2009 3:40 pm

Gil_Hamilton wrote:
Agozer wrote:
Gil_Hamilton wrote:
alyxx wrote:I'm not saying it's fake, I am just saying it's possible, and his member title does not give me any hints he is an admin.
We actually had an admin with a negative post count at one point.
I wouldn't be too surprised if that was pagefault. I don't remember clearly who that was, really.
It was JB.
*coughs*

*coughs*

That seems to be going around. I have the perfect cure though, here, have a Vectrex.

Although don't let it go to your head, having a Vectrex won't make you Lord of the Bored.