ROM Hack Validating roms

[Mumford]

Anyone familiar with how to validate nds roms?, my google fu is too weak to find a solution.
The image on the left is of a clean rom of Bllack 2 but when i add the pokestation patch it loses it's properties thus the image on the right.

I got so far as downloading this DS scene rom tool to check but i'm not sure how to work it to make it recognize the rom....

 

[Auryn]

You can't if you don't make a custom database.
The tools reconize the rom just because of a checksum that will give you all those information.
If you patch the game, it will generate a new checksum that isn't in the normal database so it show up as unknow rom.

 

[Mumford]

Thanks for the reply

You can't if you don't make a custom database.
The tools reconize the rom just because of a checksum that will give you all those information.
If you patch the game, it will generate a new checksum that isn't in the normal database so it show up as unknow rom.

Dayum is that so?.... there any threads on custom databse tutorials?

 

[Auryn]

I never interested on doing it but I believe that if there is a place where the format of a database is written somewhere, it's probably found at " www.no-intro.org ".
Alternatively, just open up a .dat file with an hexeditor, it's probably only coma separated values or something like that. I don't believe it's something very fancy.

 

[Pong20302000]

if you want to check rom data wise

thats the tool i use

thats a patched pokemon rom

security bad just mean its not encrpyted

but its green everywhere else to show it has a decent header and all bytes are there

note it wont tell you tho if its missing the scene header data

if u use wood dumper r85 it will get full dumps

 

[Auryn]

I just stepped into THIS in the news section here at GBATEMP. I believe that is what you are looking for and somebody is doing it for you already