You need to read the readme included with the patch to know what ROM version you exactly need:

2.4.2 Applying the Patch directly on the ROM.

2.4.1 Emulators Supporting BPS patching on the fly.

2.2.1 Applying the Patch directly on the ROM.

2.1.2 Applying the Patch directly on the ROM.

2.1.1 Emulators Supporting IPS/UPS patching on the fly.

To apply a patch you'll need to do the following steps: This patch on its own is legal, it's meaningless without a copy of the ROM/ISO and hence harmless on its own.

Only a few megabytes generally, so very practical for sharing. When applied to the original Japanese ROM, it produces the English-translated ROM the hacker has on their computer. It's a file containing only the modifications, and nothing else.

ROM hackers not dumb enough to risk having their asses sued resort to another solution. The ROM data is copyrighted data to the original company, and them not selling their product here doesn't mean they'll let someone pirate their games. under the vengeful watchful eye of the publishers for the first legal slip, would be asking for legal hell. Anyone doing this, especially ROM hackers since they're more. They produced, in the end, a working English ROM (or whatever their language is).īut how would they distribute it? While Chinese ROM hackers don't give a shit and just upload the translated ROM as-is, the rest of the world is another matter. Some talented people (this might include you) took these untranslated ROM images and altered them in a process known as ROM Hacking.

There are games which were never translated officially.

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