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Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland #178

Open kjetil-f opened 1 month ago

kjetil-f commented 1 month ago

This game uses a NES ROM and adds hi-res graphics on top (similar to the HD packs for Mesen emulator). It exist a physical NES version of this game, and the Steam demo have a NES ROM of the demo included in the installation folder,

Is it possible to extract the full NES ROM from this game?

RealRelativeEase commented 1 month ago

Don't have the game myself, but according to SteamDB, there's an NES ROM (512 kilobytes) among the installation files.

mjBrickman commented 1 month ago

https://steamdb.info/depot/2633951/history/ According to SteamDB's history feature, the NES ROM was removed in Manifest 3495750955999334612.

kjetil-f commented 1 month ago

As far as I know, the NES ROM is only a demo anyways. However, since they seem to be using some kind of emulation on this release, I'm guessing the full ROM should be inside one of the files somewhere.

farmerbb commented 1 month ago

Yep, the ROM included with the demo on Steam only has the first two levels

farmerbb commented 1 month ago

Hashes of the ROM were posted at https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=38363.msg461710#msg461710 :

CRC32: 97130010 MD5: 90e1a66526fc624ca071c28a78b85b7a SHA1: 1345d8c4e5cc289630d7f0a517adf74e0237e79c

farmerbb commented 1 month ago

Looks like some people have been able to extract audioless versions of the ROM from the retail game: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2633950/discussions/0/4757578733053996569/

RealRelativeEase commented 1 month ago

According to a more recent post on the same thread, the updated version still contains an extractable NES ROM with working audio: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2633950/discussions/0/4757578733053996569/#c6655846466487575461

bmsuseluda commented 1 month ago

According to a more recent post on the same thread, the updated version still contains an extractable NES ROM with working audio: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2633950/discussions/0/4757578733053996569/#c6655846466487575461

i can confirm this

kjetil-f commented 1 month ago

i can confirm this The full version or the demo?

mjBrickman commented 1 month ago

The Steam thread appears to have been taken down. The "steamworks_rugrats" 7z file also does not appear to be present in the Epic Games store release.

bmsuseluda commented 1 month ago

i can confirm this The full version or the demo?

the full version

kjetil-f commented 1 month ago

Quote from another Steam thread: "Hmm, not sure why that topic got nuked. So, the "steamworks_rugrats" file is compressed with the .7z format. You can use 7-Zip to extract it. Once you get the uncompressed file (about 524 KB in size), add ".nes" to the end and it will load in an NES emulator as normal. It works like a normal NES rom, with full audio and no apparent issues thus far. Hope this helps!"

kjetil-f commented 2 weeks ago

Another quote on Steam: "if anyone comes into this topic looking for the rom, they changed it so you have to beat the game first then it appears in the install directory."