Originally posted by Reshaper256 @ http://board.acmlm.org/thread.php?pid=123017

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For general hacking (finding data, editing gfx, using someone else's editor to create new levels, etc...) it's often more convenient to use only headered ROMs, to avoid having to switch back and forth between them. Many editing programs don't support 'headerless' ROMs, such as zcompress. While this is true in most cases, there are a few exceptions, usually when you draw nearer to ASM hacking - Geiger's SNES9x Debugger requires that your ROM be headerless before loading it.

Generally, the more ASM work you do the more you like headerless ROMs, as you don't have to subtract the x200 byte header when converting from ROM addresses to CPU addresses. I generally release my patches for 'headerless' ROMs, because it's fairly easy to figure out how to make it work for a headered ROM, and my patches are usually specialized and for people with enough intelligence to do that.

When releasing a completed hack to the general community, however, I would be sure to release a patch for a headered ROM, as many people who I would expect to play the hack are generally not ROM hackers who would understand the difference.

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