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Black Lord
Posts: 24/453 |
Well I was wondering... how I could recalculate the checksum and do it myself... cause unlike some people I like to learn some stuff... and how to do stuff on my own...  |
HyperLamer
Posts: 1136/8210 |
No emulator I've ever used cared about the checksum. All LM does is re-calculate it and write the new one back into the ROM. |
Juggling Joker
Posts: 199/1033 |
The only reason I said that is because I seem to remember someone or another saying something about it, but I may be thinking of a different system now that you mention it. |
Squash Monster
Posts: 142/677 |
I'm fairly sure the real SNES cares about the checksum, but emulators usually don't (unless it's an odd emulator or you turned an option to check it on). |
Juggling Joker
Posts: 198/1033 |
No, Lunar Magic recalculates the checksum when you save. It doesn't juggle any bytes or something wacky like that. And really, I don't even see why it matters. I don't even think the real SNES cares about a good checksum, let alone emulators. |
Atma X
Posts: 424/801 |
Black Lord: LM must do some recoding and probably makes that byte become unused (I'm not certain on that, but that's the only thing I can think of that makes sense). |
Imajin
Posts: 354/452 |
I think LM actually edits the byte that the sum is being checked against... If that makes sense... |
Black Lord
Posts: 23/453 |
Originally posted by Atma X
The only way you could have fixed it manually was to know what address the byte was at, and to change the byte's number back to what it was.
Then how does Lunar Magic fix it... because the byte I changed remained the same... I'm tryin to learn some ASM and I wouldn't mind knowing... |
Sendy
Posts: 42/93 |
DAMN! It's such a shame that LM exists because it RUINS all these fun games with hex and checksum and stops the TRUE hackers from flourishing 
PLUS it means that people who are creative at level design can make hacks which are better than the ASM hackers who are no good at level design, which makes them a bit riled.... HAHAHA!
This was a parody post. Move on..... |
Atma X
Posts: 423/801 |
The only way you could have fixed it manually was to know what address the byte was at, and to change the byte's number back to what it was. |
Black Lord
Posts: 22/453 |
I was messing with my SMW rom and now it gives me a bad checksum... all I changed was one byte... is there an easy way to fix the bad checksum... well even if it is not so easy... I'd be willing to find out... please... help me out someone...
Edit:
Nevermind: I just opened it in lunar magic, saved a level and it was fixed... but if someone still wants to tell me the complex way... I'm all ears... |
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