ROM Hack 4507 - Zelda Spirit Tracks Anti-Piracy Hack

[Ryufushichou]

Normmatt said he will only be including the patch in the next Akaio firmware, nothing else so anyone without acekards is shit outta luck.

I beg to differ i have an acekard but this game runs fine on my R4iGold with no patches past the train
and is still running.... so i am not shit outta luck

you realize i dont give a damn, right?

 

[Leo99999]

So is this patch going to EVER be released outside the firmware or will there need to be another patch?

 

[gisel213]

Normmatt said he will only be including the patch in the next Akaio firmware, nothing else so anyone without acekards is shit outta luck.

I beg to differ i have an acekard but this game runs fine on my R4iGold with no patches past the train
and is still running.... so i am not shit outta luck

you realize i dont give a damn, right?

Sure VV...tryin 2 play this game now

 

[ZANZAROTH]

Girls girls lets keep it friendly okay XD

 

[Subtle Demise]

Narin is making a fix? Great!
I wonder how you can convert AR Code to HEX Value so that I can patch the ROM. The AR Code may not work, remember that other DS game where the fishing hook would break? It checked the RAM for edits in that section of code, if there was something being forced to a value that was not written in ROM then the AP would still get set off.

You can use DSATM to inject the cheats into the ROM itself.

 

[Guy.brush]

you realize i dont give a damn, right?

while gbatemp is really the best and most up to date site concerning dls and info, the aggressive atmosphere in the forums is really what drove me away towards other, nicer communities. I feel really sorry for you vincent. Your parents hit you a lot, don´t they?

 

[iPikachu]

Girls girls lets keep it friendly okay XD

i lol'd. best post in the whole topic.

 

[loserkidsblink18]

Nintendo's new forms of AP are getting.. strange, don't you think? How does the ROM detect that it's a pirated copy anyway? And you think that once it DID detect it was a pirated ROM, then it would just stop the game from working at all rather than having a glitch-like problem occur (via Bowser's Inside Story, Chrono Trigger and now, the gear box). It just seems like a rather unorthodox way to go about things. I guess they are achieving their means - well.. for a few days anyway.

At least they seemed to get their message across with New Super Mario Bros. Wii the old fashioned way. The good ol' "fuck you, not playing this!" rather than "y cant i get past dis part?"

I'm just trying to understand the technology behind this. It.. somehow knows that it's a pirated game.. and then.. disabled a layer or something?

 

[Ryufushichou]

you realize i dont give a damn, right?

while gbatemp is really the best and most up to date site concerning dls and info, the aggressive atmosphere in the forums is really what drove me away towards other, nicer communities. I feel really sorry for you vincent. Your parents hit you a lot, don´t they?

Yes yes they did, then i hit them back and they were the ones crying.

 

[metal01]

you realize i dont give a damn, right?

while gbatemp is really the best and most up to date site concerning dls and info, the aggressive atmosphere in the forums is really what drove me away towards other, nicer communities. I feel really sorry for you vincent. Your parents hit you a lot, don´t they?

Yes yes they did, then i hit them back and they were the ones crying.

Ha my mom tried to hit me once, karate class paid of then...blocked her, grabbed her arm and went behind and twisted it, didn't go over well but that was the last time she did that.

 

[Okami Wolfen]

Looks like AKAIO beat me to it, yo!

Nice and quick, just like I like it. :

EDIT: Train's working. All aboard!

 

[ZANZAROTH]

Nice and quick, just like I like it. :

So many ways to respond to that... sensation overwhelming... can't handle pressure... someone stop me before I make the worst sexual pun ever

 

[Guy.brush]

@ loserkids: I think you got it quite right. As far as i understood, playing roms with your cart changes some adresses, or better, the cart changes the rom in order to run it (game>cart>dshardware in opposition to game>dshardware). what the AP does is send out a request and if the wrong digit returns, it just stops loading... in this specific case the train control layers. Hope I got it halfway right. If anyone knows better feel free to correct me on this

 

[Leo99999]

Nintendo's new forms of AP are getting.. strange, don't you think? How does the ROM detect that it's a pirated copy anyway? And you think that once it DID detect it was a pirated ROM, then it would just stop the game from working at all rather than having a glitch-like problem occur (via Bowser's Inside Story, Chrono Trigger and now, the gear box). It just seems like a rather unorthodox way to go about things. I guess they are achieving their means - well.. for a few days anyway.

At least they seemed to get their message across with New Super Mario Bros. Wii the old fashioned way. The good ol' "fuck you, not playing this!" rather than "y cant i get past dis part?"

I'm just trying to understand the technology behind this. It.. somehow knows that it's a pirated game.. and then.. disabled a layer or something?

I think thye just got bored and decided to screw with pirates

You have to admit, it's actually quite funny for them. the best one I know of is DQV, the ship which you start on doesn't ever reach shore! XD

 

[panmusic]

So,the fastest solution will be Xenos's patch,am I correct?
Does anyone know how long it takes to release the patch?Also,are there any sites in order to learn Xenos's progress?

 

[mattmagician]

Now...to wait for a fix for the good 'ole R4...

...;-; I want a new card.

 

[BasedKiliK]

Looks like AKAIO beat me to it, yo!

Nice and quick, just like I like it. :

EDIT: Train's working. All aboard!

Good God, AKAIO fixed it already? Shit, man.

Time to update my loader.

 

[Subtle Demise]

So,the fastest solution will be Xenos's patch,am I correct?
Does anyone know how long it takes to release the patch?Also,are there any sites in order to learn Xenos's progress?

Yeah pretty much unless you can rip it out of AKAIO lol.

 

[metal01]

a bit off topic but what is the best cart out there currently, I have an R4i sdhc and it seems compared to the others to be crap.

 

[Sardana]

Okay, you guys made me get an account so I could talk on here.

By the way, I use an R4IIISDHC (clone card) and I can get up to the train but suffer the layer vanishing too.

Guys, seriously. How long has this ROM been out for? About a day. People have lives. You should be grateful that we actually get to see the intro (well, those lucky enough to have it not freeze) before the general public.

I've had a look at the code (having patched KH by myself) and am completely stumped.

Now for the weird AP thing. I have noticed the hearts too. I don't think that what Nintendo is doing is odd at all. They're basicly sitting back in their chairs and watching us stare blankly at our screens. We've been given a taste and they want us to go out and by a legal copy of this game. I think it's quite clever. I seriously laughed when I got to the train, bless Nintendo.

Now, has anybody had the chance to check the multiplayer? This is what interests me the most. PH had a weird little tutorial yet ST does not. I wanna know if we could entertain ourselves with this 'til the patch gets released. Won't get to test it out 'til tomorrow.

Now, I have a question. To those using NO$GBA... How in hell do you use the mic function?

While you all wait, go to youtube and look up old Zelda ads.

Also, when the patch is posted for us, don't forget to say our thanks to the people who took time out of their lives to give it to us. Sorry for the long... reply?

~Sardana -- Edit: Spelling, sorry guys