A question about ASMT (and romhacks in general)

[coffeeninja88]

Hey guys. I'm new here, but I've been watching raocow's videos for a few months now. So, sorry if this isn't the right forum to post this in. But, I have a question. I downloaded ASMT off of SMWCentral a couple minutes ago and I can't seem to get it to work on my ZSNES. It won't show up in the rom list and it shows up as a .ips and a .srm file, instead of .smc like my other roms. Any help would be very much appreciated.

[Terry von Feleday]

The .ips is merely a patch rather than the game itself. You'll have to download a clean Super Mario World ROM first (don't ask where to get one, though!), then use the program Lunar IPS (just google it) to apply the patch to the ROM.

[coffeeninja88]

Oh, okay. I have Lunar IPS and a legit copy of SMW. Well, as legit as it can be. Thank you, good sir.

[coffeeninja88]

Something isn't right. I have a working copy of the SMW rom. But, after I patch it with Lunar IPS, it won't work anymore. Is this a common problem at all? I'm starting to get frustrated. Anyone have any suggestions as to how I can make it work?

[yoshicookiezeus]

Clean ROM Verifier

If your ROM isn't clean, it won't work after you apply a patch to it.

[coffeeninja88]

Clean ROM Verifier

If your ROM isn't clean, it won't work after you apply a patch to it.

Thank you very much, good sir. My rom file came up with three chcksum errors. So, my goal now is just to find a different rom from a more reputable source? Alrighty. Well, I know better than to ask for a rom on a public forum. Thanks again, Mr. Yoshicookiezeus. My search continues.

[yoshicookiezeus]

To help you out, a verified clean ROM should have a filename that ends in (U) [!].

[StarkMaximum]

Is THAT what it means?! I'VE ALWAYS WONDERED

[coffeeninja88]

Is THAT what it means?! I'VE ALWAYS WONDERED

I never knew what that meant either. Wow, Yoshicookiezeus is the most helpful, informative person on the internet.

[flameofdoubt]

Just to clarify if people don't already know, the letter in normal brackets denotes region, it's the exclamation mark in square brackets that means clean, so (U) [!] means a clean North American rom (like mother used to make), with E and J for Europe/PAL and Japan.

[linlin]

as a technicality, things like U and J denote ntsc (region) compatibility used for home consoles and [!] means verified good dump

[Kristian]

I never knew what that meant either. Wow, Yoshicookiezeus is the most helpful, informative person on the internet.

Aside from me right?

Actually, Mr.zeus is indeed a helpful person. I guess. He's p decent at hacking too.