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Anyone got info on Master ZED's new game + patch for FFVI?
« on: March 23, 2014, 03:14:17 PM »
Hello, everyone. I recently achieved the impossible--I successfully hacked FFVI, making a grammar cleanup patch, for the first time. It's all thanks to Lord J and everyone involved in FF3usME. Anyway, that's not why I'm here.

I decided I wanted to mess around with Master ZED's new game + patch, and much to my surprise, it seems like it doesn't work.

What the patch does is, once you speak to the man in the Beginner's Classroom who is behind the front desk, you're asked, New Game +? Of course, when you choose Yes, the game freezes and kind of artifacts for half a second, then the screen goes black indefinitely.

So, what gives? I don't know Master ZED too well, so I don't know his type of humor or personality, but I was wondering, was this patch created as a prank, maybe? Or was it never tested? Did I apply it wrong, somehow? Or does something happen in the process due to modern technology...?

I've tried headered, unheadered, (Unheadered just makes the game artifact on startup.) v1.1, v1.0, clean, hacked--nothing. It's all very peculiar.

Thanks for your time.
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Re: Anyone got info on Master ZED's new game + patch for FFVI?
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2014, 04:54:35 PM »
ZED wouldn't release a patch as a joke to the internet. Chances are it's not patched correctly. Or, more accurately, the dialogue changes are what caused the problem. IPS patches are very fickle. Because of your dialogue changes, it is almost 100% certain that ZED's NGP patch will not be compatible with your work. You had this problem with manulowe's "mega patch" back then, too. Have you tried it on a vanilla rom?
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Re: Anyone got info on Master ZED's new game + patch for FFVI?
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2014, 12:19:23 AM »
Funny you should bring up ManuLoewe's patch, I'm hoping to make his obsolete with this one. For starters, I'm not working off v1.1, which is really stupid.

Anyway, it's good to know that Master ZED isn't a jokester with patches, at least! Thanks for the confirmation. But regardless, yes, I tried a clean (vanilla, unmodified, unhacked, unedited, not touched, however you wanna say it.) ROM, both 1.0 and 1.1. No dice.

Unless the ROMs I got were actually secretly hacked, which I suppose I shouldn't discount. You never can be too careful on the internet. I'm wondering now if it wasn't because I patched it with Lunar IPS. Apparently, some folks had a problem patching Project II due to not using Lunar IPS.
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Re: Anyone got info on Master ZED's new game + patch for FFVI?
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2014, 11:19:54 AM »
Well, I just tested this patch (for the first time even!) and it works just fine. Maybe some hashes of before and after will help.

v1.0 of the rom, with a header, before the patch is applied:
MD5: b6758a1a18ada0255ec08548a4b42e07
SHA1: 7b426a38cbf8e02eefb18dc0aa5ae8fe6523364d
CRC32: 437e51c3

v1.0 of the rom, with a header, after the patch is applied:
MD5: cdf16efdd7f9bb7c5cbba6af647ac7cc
SHA1: 4c71cf4e30c52a9787f938bd5d69be85a3c50ff5
CRC32: ca7adb94
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Re: Anyone got info on Master ZED's new game + patch for FFVI?
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2014, 02:32:24 PM »
Thank you for the info! :happy: I'll use it well.
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Re: Anyone got info on Master ZED's new game + patch for FFVI?
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2014, 08:55:53 PM »
Well, after scouring the 'net for a ROM that would work, I've come to the conclusion that ZED's New Game + patch is just incompatible with most common dumps on modern sites. Not a single one out of around 30 or so that I tried had matched the MD5, SHA1, or CR32 provided. Thank you for your help regardless, Lenophis.
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Re: Anyone got info on Master ZED's new game + patch for FFVI?
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2014, 03:11:27 PM »
I don't know if it will help, but NRST is great for looking at lots of roms quickly.  Also, are you sure you have a version with a header?  Some emulators will remove the header, maybe that's causing the problem?
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