ROM Hack [Release] Ultimate GG (Game Gear) VC Injector for 3DS

[CoolFangs]

If anyone can figure out how to inject sms roms that would be awesome, I'm dieing to play Wonder Boy in Monster Land

Unfortunately we're limited to the systems officially released as VC by Nintendo as far as injection goes. You can try the RetroArch emulators, although I don't know how good SMS compatibility is at this time.

 

[Ricken]

Someone used too much gasoline on their motivation (wow my wordplay sucks. You're on fire)
Time for some SA--SONIC

 

[Asdolo]

New version 1.1!

What's new:
* Changed: Removed an extra rom check, so you should have no errors with any .gg rom
+ Added: Now you can specify a short game name when making the icon of the CIA.
* Fixed: Now the icon has the official Game Gear VC border!

Links in the OP!

 

[CheatFreak47]

New version 1.1!

What's new:
* Changed: Removed an extra rom check, so you should have no errors with any .gg rom
+ Added: Now you can specify a short game name when making the icon of the CIA.
* Fixed: Now the icon has the official Game Gear VC border!

Links in the OP!

Nice job, made some really nice official looking GG VC with this.

Spoiler: screenshots

You should backpedal the shortname feature into your other 2 injectors, that's a good feature.

Thanks for this, finally I can enjoy one of the best Game Gear sonic games, Sonic Chaos on my 3DS in style.

 

[focusonme]

dude you are fire

 

[darkalex004]

Great job, you're amazing!
But, I have one trouble with that injector: When I'm going to create the .cia the program says "Could not read exheaderfile!" and the .cia is not created. When I choose the option to create a .3DS the .cia is not created and the .3DS is created but is corrupted.
I hope you can take a look and try to fix it.

 

[Asdolo]

Great job, you're amazing!
But, I have one trouble with that injector: When I'm going to create the .cia the program says "Could not read exheaderfile!" and the .cia is not created. When I choose the option to create a .3DS the .cia is not created and the .3DS is created but is corrupted.
I hope you can take a look and try to fix it.

My apologies, I'll look into it!

Do you have that problem with all roms?

 

[Deleted User]

Not to go off topic, but do you have plans to make NES and SNES injectors as well?

 

[Asdolo]

Not to go off topic, but do you have plans to make NES and SNES injectors as well?

Yes, I'm currently making the NES one. For the SNES you'll need to wait more...

 

[Deleted User]

Yes, I'm currently making the NES one. For the SNES you'll need to wait more...

Oh cool! I'm really looking forward to it. I really only need the NES one since I know how to do SNES manually.

 

[darkalex004]

My apologies, I'll look into it!

Do you have that problem with all roms?

Don't worry, it's not your fault, you're making a great job
I tried with 11 ROMs and I have the same problem with all of them (I don't make any modification on that ROMs, if it can help you)

 

[Asdolo]

Don't worry, it's not your fault, you're making a great job
I tried with 11 ROMs and I have the same problem with all of them (I don't make any modification on that ROMs, if it can help you)

What Operative System are you using?

 

[darkalex004]

What Operative System are you using?

I use Windows 7 Ultimate

 

[Asdolo]

New version 1.2!

What's new:
* Fixed: Now the injections should be region-free (not tested).
* Fixed: Now the parental control won't be a trouble.


Links in the OP!

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Cool. Now i can play NINKU anywhere.

I have a question though. Sonic Drift 2 supports multiplayer modes, is it possible to somehow use that in the injected games as well?

 

[3DxMan]

Current version: 1.2 (08-11-2016)

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Hello everyone. Today I'm releasing a Windows tool that will make the Game Gear injection process much easier and customizable. I'm introducing Ultimate GG VC Injector for 3DS.

What does it do?:
It takes a Game Gear backup file and converts it to an installable CIA for your 3DS with CFW. It does all in a one single program.

Features:

• VC GG injection into a CIA
• Easy made custom 3D banner
• Easy made custom text/footer banner
• Easy made whole process!

Requeriments: Microsoft .NET framework 4.5

Tutorial:
You'll just follow the steps in program. But just in case:

Spoiler: Tutorial + screenshots

Step 1:

Spoiler: Rom file selection

Open the program. You'll see this screen:

Press Open GG File button. It'll prompt you to pick a .gg file.

For this tutorial I'll pick the game Mortal Kombat II (Game Gear version).

When you pick a rom you'll be able to go to Step 2 (icon and name).

Step 2:

Spoiler: VC game icon and name

This is the Step 2 main screen:

All the fields are explained in the info boxes, but let me know if something doesn't understand.

Complete the fields making the most legit as possible (if you want to). For example:

I used a title screen screenshot in it's original size as icon (the program will automatically stretch it).

When you complete all the fields you'll able to go to Step 3 (3d banner).

Step 3:

Spoiler: VC GG 3D banners

This is the Step 3 main screen:

Note: The program will load some default values (based on those in Step 2), but you can anyway replace these default values with ohter ones.
Example: if you want the icon and 3D banner to have different images, then first complete Step 2 with the icon image that you want and then complete Step 3 with the banner image that you want. Otherwise if you are too lazy or you want the same standard as legit VC CIA, leave it as is.

For this example, I'll let the same image as the icon, but I'll edit the bottom banner, importing a custom one I made with GIMP (using the import and use custom footer image option):

You can also make your own text banner without leaving the application, as a quick and easy solution. You can change the font type, size, and brightness. Also there's a preview of that text banner (ignore the red borders, they won't be there in the console).

Doing my changes for this example:

When you complete or modify all the fields you'll able to go to Step 4 (VC parameters).

Step 4:

Spoiler: VC parameters

This is the Step 4 main screen:

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You can't do much in this screen. There's no customization optiones like my other two injectors (GBC & GB), because the ingame menu is quite complete and have a lot of options for customizing.
So, here you can just change the Product Code and Title ID of the CIA. The product code is loaded directly from the GG rom, but you can change to any one you want.

I'll let those as is.

Once we have everything ready, press Finish button.

That's it! The application will ask you where do you want to save the CIA file and It took some seconds to create it.
When the CIA is ready, the application will let you know it.

Then you can install the CIA in sdcard using any CIA manager (actually I use the new FBI).

(The tutorial's screenshot are from v1.0)

Console screenshots:

Spoiler

Spoiler

TODO, petitions, etc: For now I'll just read this thread and make changes acording to the best for all. The code will be released much later; I'm planing to do a series of VC injectors... If a new version comes, I'll post here and I'll edit the OP.

Download links:

Spoiler

v1.2: MEGA
v1.1: MEGA
v1.0: MEGA

Changelog:

Spoiler

v1.2:
* Fixed: Now the injections should be region-free (not tested).
* Fixed: Now the parental control won't be a trouble.

v1.1:
* Changed: Removed an extra rom check, so you should have no errors with any .gg rom
+ Added: Now you can specify a short game name when making the icon of the CIA.
* Fixed: Now the icon has the official Game Gear VC border!

v1.0: Initial release

Enjoy!

Thanks for all your hard work these injectors save me hours and hours.

 

[CheatFreak47]

@Asdolo:
Might be a good idea to look into using the emulator version from Sonic Drift 2 so multiplayer might be possible.

Same for the NES injector and the Super Mario Bros. 3 inject.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Also screen size adjustment would be nice

 

[CheatFreak47]

Also screen size adjustment would be nice

Actually Game Gear already supports this, it's an in-game option under screen settings.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Actually Game Gear already supports this, it's an in-game option under screen settings.

Sorry i forgot.

I noticed that the program doesn't auto shuffle the title id automaitcly, I created 2 CIA with the same title id by accident.

I have to remember to shuffle each time i make a new rom unless i close and open again.