ROM Hack DS #4708: Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing (USA)

DarkWay · Feb 28, 2010

I'm not an expert in hacking or coding or anything but I was in one of those moods to just try something new, so I've just been poking around the files in this game using DSlazy and as usuall when you unpack a rom it creates a current.nds file, and a nds_info.txt I was poking in the text file and found this:-

ARM7 binary hash : 5658DD68819AD7E2D38612A53E197B8D7EFD730F
WARNING! ARM7 binary is NOT verified!

WARNING! ARM7 RAM address does not point to shared memory!

2 other areas also caught my attention, these being :-

0x6C Secure area CRC 0x38F2 (DON'T KNOW, decrypted)

and

DS Download Play? / Wireless MultiBoot signature: INVALID

now I'm not a hacking or code expert at all, I'm a very basics kinda guy. This is also the first time I've looked at this file from unpacking a rom so if anyone could tell me if this sort of thing is normal or whether this is the area we (by we I mean the experts

) should be looking at to permanently fix the apparent AP in this game (I don't mean this file in particular, but the areas the file specifies).

just hoping someone could shed some light on this for me

also please don't flame me for starting up a thread like this, all I'm trying to do is help

thanks

Dark^'^Knigh · Feb 28, 2010

I'm not going to flame you for trying, but you need to leave it to the "tech-sperts". I could have done that, but like you, would have no idea what any of it means. For that matter, did you unpack any other roms to do a comparison to see if it's normal stuff?

I think everyone can rest assured that there would be a plethora of people "out there" trying to create a fix.

Off-topic: thanks for the report...I needed to cool my heels

DarkWay · Feb 28, 2010

Dark^'^Knight said:
I'm not going to flame you for trying, but you need to leave it to the "tech-sperts". I could have done that, but like you, would have no idea what any of it means. For that matter, did you unpack any other roms to do a comparison to see if it's normal stuff?

I think everyone can rest assured that there would be a plethora of people "out there" trying to create a fix.

Off-topic: thanks for the report...I needed to cool my heels

whilst leaving it to the

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"tech-sperts" is all well and goood I'm just trying something new out and if I could help anyone with this information then I'm happy, not only may this info be possibly useful but I was also asking for clarification from these QUOTE

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"tech-sperts"

so whilst attempting (pretty poorly) to help everyone else out I'm also asking for information at the same time

and no problem

Dark^'^Knigh · Feb 28, 2010

@Darkie,
Well, given the overwhelming response to your post, I think we can both safely presume that your revelations are useless. Leave it for the

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"tech-sperts" to sort out a patch/fix for your Sonic game, it'll come soon enough.
BTW, if you want to learn about hacking/coding, you would be better off making a thread and see if any

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"tech-sperts" can be bothered helping you. There are a few QUOTE

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"tech-sperts"

floating around, so you never know your luck

Akotan · Feb 28, 2010

When I tried to load this game on my M3Simply using YSMenu, it displayed an error... I never saw any other game making YSMenu ask me to restart the DS system.

DarkWay · Feb 28, 2010

Rockstar said:
Cards That can currently play this game:
1.Acekard 2/2i/RPG(Arm7 Fix With SimCity(J)+Hold X While Booting ROM)
2.M3i Zero/Real(Arm7 Fix With Ace Attorney Investigations)
3.CycloDS Evolution(Update to latest BETA Firmware)
4.Supercard DSONE(Clean Mode On EOS With SD Speed Set To 3)
5.G6 DS Real(No Patch Required)
6.EDGE (Firmware v1.8)

I'll update this in a little bit.
updated to include EDGE
credit to Rockstar for the initial post

Magrão · Mar 15, 2010

Akotan said:
When I tried to load this game on my M3Simply using YSMenu, it displayed an error... I never saw any other game making YSMenu ask me to restart the DS system.

It is exactly what happens to me man, just change my flashcard is N5, fixs I tried but I did nothing!

jack969 · Mar 17, 2010

I'm not an expert but I do have some idea on hacking, coding, etc.

And in your first discovery I don't really know what that is but in you last 2 that is something not normal in you average ds game. It's very, very odd.
I will unpack the game in about 5 minutes and see what I can find.

jack969 · Mar 17, 2010

This is everything I found in the NDS txt file:

Header information:
0x00 Game title SEGA RACING
0x0C Game code CS3E (NTR-CS3E-USA)
0x10 Maker code 8P (SEGA Japan)
0x12 Unit code 0x00
0x13 Device type 0x00
0x14 Device capacity 0x09 (512 Mbit)
0x15 reserved 1 000000000000000000
0x1E ROM version 0x00
0x1F reserved 2 0x00
0x20 ARM9 ROM offset 0x4000
0x24 ARM9 entry address 0x2000800
0x28 ARM9 RAM address 0x2000000
0x2C ARM9 code size 0x11B998
0x30 ARM7 ROM offset 0x11FA00
0x34 ARM7 entry address 0x2380000
0x38 ARM7 RAM address 0x2380000
0x3C ARM7 code size 0x23708
0x40 File name table offset 0x143200
0x44 File name table size 0x14A1A
0x48 FAT offset 0x157E00
0x4C FAT size 0xBB98
0x50 ARM9 overlay offset 0x0
0x54 ARM9 overlay size 0x0
0x58 ARM7 overlay offset 0x0
0x5C ARM7 overlay size 0x0
0x60 ROM control info 1 0x00416017
0x64 ROM control info 2 0x001808F8
0x68 Icon/title offset 0x163A00
0x6C Secure area CRC 0x38F2 (DON'T KNOW, decrypted)
0x6E ROM control info 3 0x051E
0x70 ? 0x2000A74
0x74 ? 0x2380158
0x78 ? 0x00000000
0x7C ? 0x00000000
0x80 Application end offset 0x03E9BE20
0x84 ROM header size 0x00004000
0x88 ? 0x00004B88
0x15C Logo CRC 0xCF56 (OK)
0x15E Header CRC 0x9A66 (OK)
0x1BC ? 0x60000000

Banner CRC 0x80D6 (OK)
English banner text, line 1 Sonic & SEGA
English banner text, line 2 All-Stars Racing?
English banner text, line 3 SEGA

ARM9 footer found.

1000 2000 118998
DS Download Play / Wireless MultiBoot signature: INVALID
header hash : BDC58E4EC4CBB84D36FFDD37FD467C83B22393A2
ARM9 hash : D79B3459B3D27AEDF9B1A1ED4D0880FE687D78C3
ARM7 hash : 5658DD68819AD7E2D38612A53E197B8D7EFD730F
combined hash : 63F583369E8847AA25391BE6830977DF27895CAC
signature hash : 077C2D9EA97DACEE0CA4A40A68DB068902302223

File CRC32: 7FD3419A

SMT dumper v1.0 curruption check: OK

ARM7 binary hash : 5658DD68819AD7E2D38612A53E197B8D7EFD730F
WARNING! ARM7 binary is NOT verified!

WARNING! ARM7 RAM address does not point to shared memory!

ROM Hack DS #4708: Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing (USA)

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