Shin Megami Tensei text proublem

True_Albel · Post by **True_Albel** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:37 pm

For some odd reason this only happens in the new Zsnes.

When I started playing it, the text that tells you your name, stats, and everything else is cut in half. Here is a picture of it...

http://tinypic.com/18ns04

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:16 am

Hmm, how odd. Would you mind using NSRT.

ipher · Post by **ipher** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:11 am

confirmed with both 1.0 and 1.1 roms, added to the bug tracker

True_Albel · Post by **True_Albel** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:22 am

Digital Devil Story (V1.0) (J).smc
Name SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI Company Atlus
Header FIG Bank LoROM
Interleaved No SRAM 64 Kb
Type Normal + Batt ROM 16 Mb
Country Japan Video NTSC
ROM Speed 200ns (SlowROM) Version 1.0
Checksum Bad 0x4F20 != 0xAD74 CRC32 1AFE71A8
Database
Name Not found in Database
Country Unknown Version 1.0
Port 1 ??? Port 2 ???

This was version 1.0. I have 1.1 but the translation wont work with that one.

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:21 am

This is a bad rom. Find a good one.

True_Albel · Post by **True_Albel** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:33 am

It works well with Snes9x. I thought it was becuase of the translation.

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:39 am

A good hint is never to hardpatch your roms. Keep them clean, use the autopatch features of the emulators.

edit: besides, NSRT scanned the unpatched rom -> (J).
And 1- it's not in the database, 2- bad checksum => Bad rom.

The fact it runs doesn't mean that it's good.

ipher · Post by **ipher** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:43 am

Did I not say that I confirmed the bug? It occurs on nonpatched good 1.0 and 1.1 roms (SF Bug #1102018). The translation isn't causeing this.

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 6:31 am

I never said the contrary. I just pointed out that bug or not, his ROM was bad.

True_Albel · Post by **True_Albel** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:16 pm

That is the patch version... But I did not know the emulater had a patch! I used a patch program. How do you patch with Zsnes?

NOTE: The second game has no problems.

Post by **Agozer** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 6:10 pm

True_Albel wrote:How do you patch with Zsnes?

Put the IPS patch in the same folder where ZSNES stores sram and savestates, then rename it to match the rom image's filename.

i.e. The ROM image's filename is So.smc, so rename the translation patch to So.ips

Louis Cypher · Post by **Louis Cypher** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:52 pm

The first game has a number of issues which were bypassed in zsnes through hackjob code. Of course, when it plays my version of the game (which I've played through in its entirety on a real SNES and works fine, other than the known issues like the gun shop and the turtle) it still locks up when leaving your mom in the very beginning 'cuz I changed internal header name to "SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI" instead of "DIGITAL DEVIL STORY" (which is an egregious misnomer.) ZSNES looks for "DIGITAL DEVIL STORY" and when it doesn't find it, it crashes! Hooray!

My translation is not a "bad rom."

*grumble grumble*

Xgamer4 · Post by **Xgamer4** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:54 pm

To come out of nowhere (and 6 months late at that...), the people who wrote the patch had already know about that. Here's an excerpt from the Readme I downloaded along with the patch and ROM, describing about emulator errors:

---------------------------------
4.1 The Game that Hates Emulators
---------------------------------
The following issues are emulator issues and are NOT
caused by the patch. It is recommended that you use
SNES9X with the game, as ZSNES has a fairly major
bug which causes the game to lock up. The following
are known issues:

Issue: Game locks up when changing scenes
This is a problem with ZSNES' SPC engine.
Use SNES9X.

Issue: The top half of the names in the stat window
are missing.
This is a problem with ZSNES. Use another
emulator.

Issue: Demon fusion graphics are garbled.
Issue with both SNES9X and ZSNES' graphics engines.
I think.

Issue: Fuma Bell effect does not wear off.
I have no idea what causes this, but it's an emulator
issue.

END EXCERPT

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:26 pm

Xgamer4 wrote:To come out of nowhere (and 6 months late at that...), the people who wrote the patch had already know about that. Here's an excerpt from the Readme I downloaded along with the patch and ROM, describing about emulator errors:

Ah... Louis Cypher is the guy that made the patch in the first place. The post above yours... Made in January.

Topic Resurrecting is not a nice idea.