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Diddy Kong Pilot - 2001 Proto Proper GBA conversion

Original game : Diddy Kong Pilot

Platform : GBA

Author : saulfabreg

Release date : 26 May 2022

Category : Bug Fix

Patch version : v1.0

Modifications : O

Downloads : 749

ROM Information

Database match: Diddy Kong Pilot (Unknown) (Proto) (2001)
Database: No-Intro: Game Boy Advance (v. 20210227-023848)
File/ROM SHA-1: E14BFB4D63C6BD35C3A1A4AAD4EB91E94D0402B3
File/ROM CRC32: 8903CC5F

Hack description

For some reason, the 2001 No-Intro prototype release of "Diddy Kong Pilot" (which later, in 2005, was changed to "Banjo-Pilot") is only a rename of the original ELF file to GBA extension, causing this game to not load and even crash on some emulators, and even maybe on real systems, making it unplayable.

This patch makes this 2001 prototype playable on most emulators that don't support or have poor support for ELF files, and also on real hardware, by doing a proper conversion from the development ELF to a vanilla GBA image, also fixing the checksum in the converted image to be able to boot.

Apply this patch to the No-Intro release of "Diddy Kong Pilot" (2001 Prototype).

Enjoy!! :)

- saulfabreg

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Contributions

ContributorType of contributionDescription
saulfabregHackingProper ELF to vanilla GBA image conversion

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