Hey I've been having a nightmare of a time getting Perfect Dark running. Can we get the OP edited to contain additional information, or/and a French guide, as in its current state, the opening post is barely coherent at best.
I downloaded Mario Golf USA "original". Has the title ID of "0005000E10199300" so I guess it's a modified version of DK64 EUR? Either way the compatibility list says at least the Japanese version of PD works, and the USA one only works with a header swap anyways...
Speaking of header swaps, I couldn't even find concrete information on the size of the header. I ended up writing a Python script to do it, I copied the first 0x40 bytes (I found one post on a forum saying that was the header size) of the JP ROM to the USA ROM. Seems unfair to users who have no clue how to do that though.
Next thing, I guess the N64 ROM must be in big endian format? That's another thing I found absolutely no information for, I ended up looking up what byte ordering the N64 uses and converting my ROMs from "swapped". This information should absolutely be in the OP.
So now I have a Japanese header USA ROM of Perfect Dark. I copied it over to my 10199300 "Mario Golf" by renaming the ROM to "Unmfe0.443", overwriting the existing ROM in the folder, and renaming the config from "UNPDJ0.744.ini" to "Unmfe.443.ini".
The problem I'm having is that I get extreme stuttering, and I can't get passed the intro with Joanna typing on the terminal, it freezes about 0.5s into her typing.
So how do I get Perfect Dark running? I expected this to be easy as the OP more-or-less says "copy rom, edit one file" :-/...
Edit:
Exact same issue with faked Japanese header (Change NPDE to NPDJ).
Japanese ROM loads fine.
USA ROM doesn't load at all.
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