I've been sort of peripheral to romhacking for the last 4-5 years, been following the major developments, etc. I've decided to try my hand at two hacks which should be extremely simple (comparatively speaking).

First -- The leaked release of Crimson Echoes, from what I hear, is legitimately the one that had been memorialized in the youtube videos (or is at least close enough, and fully playable). I recall that Crimson Echoes was originally going to have human Glenn sprites rather than frog sprites -- indeed, I know that FoE has already done so, but CE is the one I've been waiting for.

I've found someone's complete spritesheet (jyaki123 on deviantart, I believe, finished the one by Chrono'99 and Darkken), and I intend to insert it into CE. I might also do Sorin and the Porrean soldiers, since those seem to have also been left out of the leaked build (and are available on the CE site).

Would you suggest Tile Molester or Temporal Flux for this? And I remember hearing about some utility for easily and comprehensively checking the behavior of edited sprites in CT (i.e. without playing the whole game to check all the techs etc.)... is that in TF, or is it a standalone utility, or am I making this up?

Finally, is there anything about CE that would prevent it from being played on the SNES hardware? I've heard conflicting reports about this: some people say you can only use ZSNES for it (including Zeality and an NPC in the game), but others report using Snes9x all the way through without any problems -- and actually most of the bugs and glitches I've heard about were from ZSNES users (probably 1.51?).

I know custom music tends to break hardware compatibility, but apparently that is NOT a part of the recently leaked CE. 

I haven't heard reports about playing through CE with bsnes, which would of course answer my question. My goal is to make a homebrew cart of the game, which is an ambition I've had ever since I heard about CE in the first place.

Second -- back when Zelda-Parallel Worlds came out, I collaborated with Dr. Floppy on the script revision to produce version 1.1. I made a homebrew cart for that, and unfortunately, the title screen is messed up on the SNES (though it works fine on emulators). Specifically, it doesn't show the sword animation and has a few other glitches. At the time, I asked Euclid and/or SePH about it, and he said it was because he "forgot to clear VBlank" or something of that kind.

Really, it seems like to change that would take a few bytes, if that. But I have only the barest experience with ASM, and I don't know how to find the relevant instruction in the ROM. Does anyone have any pointers?

Again, my goal is to make a homebrew of this one. I would wait for 2.0, but SePH is all tied up by Parallel Universes and doesn't want to finish the PW dungeon overhaul anytime soon (if ever).

Thanks for reading; looking forward to suggestions.

I found something for character animation viewing, but it's not a program in its own right. It's a patch by Geiger called "Chrono Trigger: Actor, Animation and Static Checker": http://geigercount.net/crypt/aasc.7z

Is this what you were talking about?

I would advise against anyone helping this person for their request, here's why:

-If you want help in putting a non-altered original SNES game that you own onto a flash cart, or a homebrew game that you created, by all means.
-If you want help to put an altered rom, either a jap-to-english translated or a romhack or w/e that you DID NOT MAKE or help create, then NO you don't get any help for it.

People with similar interests are responsible for the flood of 'repro carts' that flood ebay and other auction sites and sometimes even selling from their own damn websites.  They rip off and take full credit for shit they never contributed to, and they brazenly disobey the wishes of the groups involved that their work NOT be redistributed as a patched rom or cart, but only as the patch file ALONE!

If you're here for the first point, please forgive my demeanor.
If you're here for the latter, please GTFO.  Now!
Get the permission of the creators of CE for you to make a 'homebrew' cart of their creation.  Otherwise don't bother.

EDIT:  Reworded to be less accusatory and more neutral without ruining the original intent of the post.

I couldn't get any PSP emulators to run any of these CT hacks so I support comparability improvements on that ground alone.

Eh. This roots from people relying on substandard emulators far too long. Many either have no way to test with real hardware, or aren't worried about it as relatively few users do either.

The system requirements are not that high, and haven't been for a long while.

Edit: My PC is three years old and runs it fine with a CPU that was released in 2007. I have friends who can run run it on CPUs made in 2006.

Yeah it's more than fine now. Lack of flashcarts was a real issue back in the old romhacking boom. Shelling out for those bulky, slow, hard to find copiers wouldn't be my idea of entertainment.

Wow, can a guy not ask for help with a basic task without getting accused these days? In my opinion anyone stupid enough to buy a repo and thinks its an original deserves what they get.

That said flash carts are very easy to use and the best way to play as you get perfect accuracy, zero input lag, zero video lag, and no audio lag or buffering issues. PCs weren't designed to play back audio at the rate the SNES does so that's always going to be a problem.


Why would playing an emulator over SVideo be better than playing on a CRT with RGB (over your average DB-15 VGA cable).

All you would be doing at that point is degrading the video quality. Many people use a real console over an emulator because the performance is better, not because of nostalgia. Video games are digital data whether they are on a cartridge or on your harddrive, so saying you like to store them digitally doesn't say much. What is so much more convenient about using rom images of a game you own in an emulator than using your own cartridges?

If you think that playing an emulator over SVideo is exactly like the real thing, you're kidding yourself.