Nestopia ue zelda6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Immediately close the FDS image in Nestopia. Information Saved - Allows you to select a starting level up to the last level you completed, saves levels you build with the construction editor in the game.įix : Side B - Zero out the last byte in the last file and remove all tiles for all construction levels using the in-game utility, then save.įix : Side A - Delete all three save files in the main menu, then create file one. NES/Famicom Connection : Adventures of Lolo 1, 2 & 3, Eggerland - Meikyuu no FukkatsuĮggerland - Souzouhe no Tabidachi (HAL Laboratory, 1988) NES Port : Castlevania II : Simon's Questįix : Side B - Start a new game, commit suicide until you see the Game Over screen, then save. Information Saved - Three slots, items acquired, character level, time taken in game in days Information Saved - Three slots, progress through gameįix : Side A - Zero out last file, except for the last eight bytes, should say DR.CHAOS in ASCIIĭracula II - Noroi no Fuuin (Konami, 1987) Information Saved - Allows you to select a starting level up to the last level you completedįix : Side A - Game creates a save file when you save your level progress, delete file with FDS ExplorerĬlu Clu Land - Welcome to New Clu Clu Land (Nintendo, 1992)įix : Side A - In the last file, this pattern must repeat ten times : 14 EF EF EF 24 00 00 00 Information Saved - Number of times you have beaten the game NES/Famicom Port : Castlevania/Akumajou DraculaĪll Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. Information Saved - Three slots, last stage completed and number of continues Please let me know if I overlooked anything before I publish this information more broadly :Īkumajou Dracula (all versions) (Konami, 1986) ![]() Here is a list of the games and what I did to make them "pure". Whether it would actually correspond to a pristine, errorless dump of a sealed Disk Card is an issue that may never be known for some games, but for other games the changes are so obvious and minor that it can hardly be doubted that this is how they should have appeared. I made it a point to alter no more bytes than was necessary to make the game appear to look pristine. FDSExplorer makes it easy to delete the last file in these cases, but you have to verify that the game creates a file before you delete it. On a couple of occasions, I discovered that my image was pristine but the game actually created a file once there was saving. ![]() Chaos did not follow the typical rule about writing changes to all files after starting a new game, but its save file is really simple and my image came with one unused file. With a little deductive reasoning I could figure out how the file could be corrected so that no save games would be present at startup. For games with three save slots, I simply deleted two and made a third with a file name that was easy to find like ABCDEFGH. Once I figured out which side was being saved, I opened the disk image in FDSExplorer and looked at the file. Metroid was almost unique among the games I looked at because it saves to both sides. Nestopia tells you when a disk is being read or written, so I just played until there was a save. So the first thing I had to do was to observe which side was being written. Sometimes the save file has an obvious name and is so small it could be nothing else, but for other games it is not so obvious. What made this much easier was the fact that Famicom Disk System games always seem to save to the last file on a disk's side. I used Nestopia UE 1.46 and FDSExplorer 1.63 and my favorite hex editor. Restoring a Famicom Disk System game to a pristine state is more than just deleting or zeroing out the last file. I have always wanted a tool or utility that could take these disk images and do just that, but since none exists I decided to investigate the images and try to fix them myself. Unfortunately, for most games there is no way to restore the game to a pristine, never-played state within the game itself. A lot of Famicom Disk System dumps of games that save information to disk have information saved to disk like save games, high scores and worlds/rounds/levels/games beaten. ![]()
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