Hey @gringe, I am trying to play your translation patch on the Nintendo Switch Online - Game Boy Advance app on a soft-modded Nintendo Switch using a tool called "CaVE Database Manager (v1.5.0.2)".
After adding a v1.2.1 or 1.2.0 patched ROM to the GBA NSO ROM Database to play on the Switch, the game doesn't boot:
"An error has occurred within the game."
When adding a v1.1.3 or 1.1.2 patched ROM to the app, the game boots but the text is all garbled up in many places like the opening text and character names. A vanilla, unpatched ROM also boots and runs without issue. I believe there is an issue with the patch that isn't being detected on original hardware or PC emulators. For comparison, a patched Mother 3 ROM works perfectly on the NSO GBA app.
In a reply on the GBATemp forum to a user having issues with FE:TBB patch in 2023, the CaVE developer said:
"I'm 99% certain that the FE:TBB ROM that you have is (not good) because it has an extra 316 bytes of garbage at the end of the file. If you remove those bytes, it will boot. In general... This is the extent of what I will say for helping with hack/translation compatibility. You will likely often need some tool programs to fix the roms in various ways. Fixing header ID's, internal checksum calculations, and invalid ROM sizes to name a few. Figure that out on your own."
and his Q&A on his blog says:
"Hacks/Translations fall into the same compatibility as the last category, but with the additional cavaet that they are more likely to do things that reduce the odds of the game remaining compatible. Often, expanding the size of the ROM, changing or forgetting to change the ROM's header, etc"
It would be great if you could look into this as it could perhaps also help make the patch more stable overall, but I understand if it is not a priority.
Thank you for your work on the patch.
Rare
Hey @gringe, I am trying to play your translation patch on the Nintendo Switch Online - Game Boy Advance app on a soft-modded Nintendo Switch using a tool called "CaVE Database Manager (v1.5.0.2)". After adding a v1.2.1 or 1.2.0 patched ROM to the GBA NSO ROM Database to play on the Switch, the game doesn't boot: "An error has occurred within the game." When adding a v1.1.3 or 1.1.2 patched ROM to the app, the game boots but the text is all garbled up in many places like the opening text and character names. A vanilla, unpatched ROM also boots and runs without issue. I believe there is an issue with the patch that isn't being detected on original hardware or PC emulators. For comparison, a patched Mother 3 ROM works perfectly on the NSO GBA app. In a reply on the GBATemp forum to a user having issues with FE:TBB patch in 2023, the CaVE developer said: "I'm 99% certain that the FE:TBB ROM that you have is (not good) because it has an extra 316 bytes of garbage at the end of the file. If you remove those bytes, it will boot. In general... This is the extent of what I will say for helping with hack/translation compatibility. You will likely often need some tool programs to fix the roms in various ways. Fixing header ID's, internal checksum calculations, and invalid ROM sizes to name a few. Figure that out on your own." and his Q&A on his blog says: "Hacks/Translations fall into the same compatibility as the last category, but with the additional cavaet that they are more likely to do things that reduce the odds of the game remaining compatible. Often, expanding the size of the ROM, changing or forgetting to change the ROM's header, etc" It would be great if you could look into this as it could perhaps also help make the patch more stable overall, but I understand if it is not a priority. Thank you for your work on the patch.