Secret of Evermore uses the B Button to confirm, with the A Button used to dash. This flies in the face of nearly every other SNES title out there. SoE’s control scheme was likely intended to mimic Secret of Mana’s, but unlike that game, SoE is hardcoded to use the B Button to confirm in menus.

This patch remedies the issue by changing the button inputs, their associated graphics and text, and forcing the game to use Config 2 when a save is loaded.

Please note, upon starting a new game the control scheme will still default to Config 1 (B Button: Confirm, A Button: Dash). However, each time a save is loaded, the behavior of forcing Config 2 (A Button: Confirm, B Button: Dash) will work as intended. Players are advised to change the button scheme manually when first starting a new game.

This patch is compatible with all of assassin17’s bug fixes.

• Name: Secret of Evermore (USA).smc
• Header: YES
• Size: 3 MB (3,146,240 bytes)
• CRC32: 8229628D
• MD5: 6BD8AC9CBF2408883D9E2E5793E8C5B4
• SHA1: 3C0A372C0734B8C77CB79C90AFAEF543C68B2262