ROM Hack - Zanac/Zanac - FDS/NES + SRAM

Zanac/Zanac - FDS/NES + SRAM

Original game : Zanac

Platform : NES

Author : Makimura Manufacturing

Release date : 28 September 2012

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.0

Modifications : O

Downloads : 1738

ROM Information

Zanac.nes - NOINTRO
CRC32: 2165C0C2
MD5: 737D8E7FD11E55B2AC43DE154060AD4D
SHA-1: 7D568770DCDA9DFD3E5A898C3A9F4A575533986B
SHA-256: 7E75A19B9E11715C0EB19A2017A322DF02F5CF4F7B30ACEF0FA7A0615236BDA4

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Zanac.FDS - NOINTRO
CRC32: 349B244B
MD5: B152912CCD919322FA577470AC1F84F8
SHA-1: FBDB20149C17EAEA37650FEE8246B5334E59D730
SHA-256: 154D3108B1BF82EF13EAA3CFCBF677783D9E7A16ECC8A2D004AFF318AFC095E5

Disksys.ROM - NOINTRO
CRC32: 5E607DCF
MD5: CA30B50F880EB660A320674ED365EF7A
SHA-1: 57FE1BDEE955BB48D357E463CCBF129496930B62
SHA-256: 99C18490ED9002D9C6D999B9D8D15BE5C051BDFA7CC7E73318053C9A994B0178

Hack description

Here is a ROM hack which allows you to play either the Famicom Disk System version of Zanac or the NES version on one ROM. SRAM is also added to the new patched ROM and the mapper has been upgraded to MMC1.

In the .RAR are two ways you can patch. The .BPS file is a ready made patch which can be applied to an NES ROM of Zanac as listed below in the ROM/ISO info box. The other is by using the patching program where you will need the original NES ROM, the FDS ROM, and the DISKSYS.ROM all together in the same directory for it to patch correctly. Either one will get you the desired end result.

Contributions

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Reviews

Great! But what does the SRAM support actually do here?	capncrunch992	2022-09-27	Version 1.0
So this hack adds a very straightforward multi-boot menu allowing you to choose between the FDS/disk (Japan) version and the ROM/cartridge version. Although the differences between the two are fairly trivial, it's still a welcome feature for enthusiasts. But what does the added SRAM function do? As far as I can tell, it doesn't save high scores or progress. If I play the ROM version that has the continue feature, resetting or powering off doesn't allow me to continue. The patched ROM does indeed indicate the presence of SRAM support, but I have no clue if any data is being written, or what that data contains. Maybe the author could shed some light on this, because the readme file unfortunately does not.

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