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punk7890 / Star-Fox-64-Randomizer

A Star Fox 64 randomizer with a variety of options. Coded entirely in ASM and is hardware compatible.
MIT License
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Can't get started #1

Closed MystBunny closed 2 years ago

MystBunny commented 2 years ago

It appears I don't have the correct version, so I went looking for 1.0, and I found a few downloads, but all I can get is "Rom could not be recognized" on the toolkit for all of them.

GB-CG commented 2 years ago

Maybe it's byteswapped? You can change it to Big Endian with this tool.

MystBunny commented 2 years ago

No luck. I can't get the tool to recognize or open any of the roms at all. Tried unzipping them, leaving them zipped, dragging them to the exe. The ones I could find have .n64 extension. Should they be another?

punk7890 commented 2 years ago

You can also try this online tool to byteswap your ROM: https://hack64.net/tools/swapper.php

The problem you're having is because it's either not 1.0, or it's 1.0 but in Little Endian byte order. Sadly, the decompression tool only supports Big Endian. If you open the ROM in a hex editor and see "STARFOX64" at 0x20, then it's in Big Endian. If it isn't, you'll see "TSRAOF6X 4".

.n64 extensions are generally in Little Endian byte order.

MystBunny commented 2 years ago

Thank you so much, that did it! Gonna do a blind run on Youtube tonight. Just one last question. What is marathon mode?

punk7890 commented 2 years ago

It runs you through all of the levels in the game in order of blue path, yellow path then red path. At the end of the yellow path, you will be sent to training mode as an extra level.

I've been meaning to make a section in the readme about these options soon.

MystBunny commented 2 years ago

Okay cool, I'll keep an eye out. And thanks bunches for the help. Just finished my playthrough with random dialog and that shit is some WACKY fun! I got reminded by ALL my wingmen how daddy screamed before he died >.>

GB-CG commented 2 years ago

No luck. I can't get the tool to recognize or open any of the roms at all.

I don't understand why the offline tool doesn't work but the web version does. Never had an issue with tool64.

MystBunny commented 2 years ago

I hope it's okay if I link the first half of my playthrough here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KqSUDegxGA