Tales of phantasia freezes using zsnes 1.40 or above

mclaud2000 · Post by **mclaud2000** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:13 am

I was playing tales of phantasia (the english version) on zsnes 1.36 (windows ver) and it worked perfectly, but when upgraded to 1.42 the game freezes at start, even if you load a savestate the game freezes.

Here's the info from nsrt v3.2:

---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
File: tales.fig
Name: ToP English (c) Dejap Company: Namco Ltd.
Header: GD3 Bank: LoROM
Interleaved: No SRAM: 64 Kb
Type: Normal + Batt ROM: 48 Mb
Country: Japan Video: NTSC
ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM) Version: 1.0
Checksum: Corrupt, Bad 0x5373 CRC32: 0B8EC02A

Post by **Nach** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:17 am

Please get a good ROM, and if it's interleaved/hacked, use -fix and -deint.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:25 am

I've had no problems using a soft-patched good dump of the game.

SDWolf · Post by **SDWolf** » Mon May 16, 2005 5:21 am

I've been running into the same problem. I'm using v1.2 of dejap's patch, and the game works just fine without the patch.

NSRT 3.2 ROM info follows:

Long Name: Tales of Phantasia (J).smc
Cart Name: TALES OF PHANTASIA
Company: Namco Ltd.
Header: None
Bank: Extended HiROM
Interleaved: No
SRAM: 64 Kb
Type: Normal + Batt
Size: 48 Mb
Country: Japan
Video: NTSC
ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM)
Version: 1.0
Checksum: Good 0x7C57
CRC32: E9946B84

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon May 16, 2005 7:46 am

Follow Nach's advice..

Part of this also requires you to use .ips version that patches with the ROM with no issue.. the Tales of Phantasia translation comes with 4 different formats... just run them through the auto-ips patcher and see if it runs... if it runs, it works.

Post by **Nach** » Mon May 16, 2005 10:53 am

IIRC, the Tales of Phantasia patch wants a header.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Mon May 16, 2005 11:02 am

Use IPS.exe that comes with NSRT to strip the header away from the patch, or alternatively add a header to the rom using NSRT. I prefer the former.

CyberBotX · Post by **CyberBotX** » Mon May 16, 2005 5:30 pm

I've had no problems with the April 11 WIP under FreeBSD (*nix version) running ToP with the 1.2 DeJap patch. I did soft-patching through ZSNES as well, and did was Clements did, used the ipsedit utility that came with NSRT and removed the header from the IPS since I also removed the header from my ToP ROM. No big problems with it.

SDWolf · Post by **SDWolf** » Mon May 16, 2005 11:39 pm

Clements wrote:Use IPS.exe that comes with NSRT to strip the header away from the patch, or alternatively add a header to the rom using NSRT. I prefer the former.

That was it. I stripped the header from the patch, and now it works beautifully.

Thanks!