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Robotron patch
Malenko:
--- Quote from: nitz on January 28, 2011, 10:03:17 pm ---
What is this new hack of UMK3 you speak of? The only ones I know of are the Zeus hack in MisfitMame and the Ultimate Mortal Komat Trilogy hack of the Genesis version (which are all I can find with a quick google search).
--- End quote ---
Juggernaut hack. Makes human smoke and noob selectable , unlocks the 3 hidden characters, and doesnt disable shang tsung or stryker. Also fixes the Bios and Endings of all characters including human smoke and noob
nitz:
Cool, thanks! :cheers:
wongojack:
I compiled the patcher on Win7 in VS 2008 and successfully patched my robotron rom. If this is something you aren't comfortable with, I will share my patcher files with you. However, I could only run the exe on the machine where I compiled it (even though I created a 'release' version). I guess different versoins of Windows .Net or something made it so I couldn't run it in XP.
After you create/get the patcher you just run it from a command line. Usage is:
RobotronPatch.exe <file> <patch_file>
If it works, it gives you a message that it was successful.
Check my account profile . . .
EDIT: The patcher worked on another machine with Win7. I think the problem was that my arcade machine is just barebones XP. Probably need .Net
Gray_Area:
I was under the impression that the current Blue rom set was behaving improperly, and someone fixed it themselves, versus waithing for MAMEDev to fix it.
wongojack:
I got a question about this, so I thought this might be helpful. Again check my profile for info about these files.
I got it to work by putting the following files in the same directory lets say its c:\robotron
1) RobotronPatch.exe
2) robotron.sbb and robotron.sb5 <- from yer rom image
3) The two text files that I copied directly from robohobo's original post and just saved in notepad with different names
Mame5EntriesRobo
MameShotCornerRobo
In windows 7, I opened a command prompt as administrator. Right click on cmd and choose 'Run as Administrator.' If you don't see Run as Administrator then hold down SHIFT and right click Command Prompt or cmd in the start menu. You can also right click cmd.exe inside the windows\system32 directory.
Once you get an administrator command prompt, you will know it because it tells you in the title bar. Then type cd \ to take you to the root of c: Now type cd robotron and you should get to a prompt in this example it happens to be c:\robotron>
Now that we are in the dir with all our files, you can type RobotronPatch.exe then ENTER and the patcher prompts you to supply <file> <patch file>. So we know from robohobo's research that we want to patch robotron.sbb and robotron.sb5. Type RobotronPatch.exe robotron.sbb Mame5EntriesRobo.txt (spaces separating the exe and both file names)
This will modify robotron.sbb so if you want to save your current rom then do this on a copy. Next run the patcher against robotron.sb5 with the other text file. It will report success when finished. The patcher handles some errors so you may get an error message and I can try to help you with that if you PM me.
When you are done, zip up all the robotron files into robotron.zip and point MAME at it. You'll know it at least partially worked if you can enter more than 5 high scores with the same initials.
I renamed the original rom and created another folder only with this patched rom in it then added the path as a second roms path for my MAME UI. In my UI (Mame Classic 097+) Robotron shows as not working, but when you launch it it works. The audit also reports a bad checksum on one of the files.
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