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Programming / Project to optimize N64 needs programmers.

« on: May 09, 2021, 10:25:06 am »

I have been following this blog for some time, it is a scener who is trying to create a program that would allow to optimize N64 games. His efforts are going quite unnoticed I think, in the last post he asks for help from volunteers with programming skills. If I were just testing modified games myself I would do it, but this is too big for me to help you.

I think it was worth spreading it here. Thanks.

https://olivieryuyu.blogspot.com/2021/04/microcode-optimization-imem-part8.html?m=1

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Newcomer's Board / How to start? And a question about N64 games.

« on: October 02, 2020, 02:33:12 pm »

Hello, this is my first message here. I have not found a presentation thread so I take the opportunity to say that I am a law student who was always curious about game translations and would like to learn the basics as a hobby.

I have two questions:
1- Is there a tutorial for noobs to learn to translate? I found one from about 12 years ago, but most tools didn't work with Windows 10 and I couldn't do anything.

2- There are N64 games that save game on the cartridge itself and others that require memory pak. Nowadays, with flashcards, the games that save games in the cartridge save inside the SD card. Would it be possible to hack the ROM of the games that save in a memory pak so that they save games as if the original cartridge had had its own SRAM?

It has caught my attention that in the NES there are hacks of this type to record / load games in the flashcards of games that used passwords. On the other hand, in N64 I have not seen anything. Is it impossible?

Thank you.