Hi everyone,
I am trying to make a reproduction of the hack Bubble Bobble Madness for the game Bubble Bobble on the NES. I splitted the file using TniNES and I got 4 files: Header, CHR, PRG and a Footer (ext: .ftr).
The PRG is 128 Ko., the CHR is 32 Ko. and the footer is 32 Ko. I've never seen a footer file, can I safely ignore it and make my repro only using the CHR and PRG files? What is the purpose of a footer file? Is it made only to pad the ROM to a multiple of 64 (wild guess)?
Look at the footer file.
Some people stuck footers on the rom to give credit to the rom site which distributed the file, other people stick a footer on the game to indicate its name.
I opened it in EditPad Lite, Wordpad, notepad and HxD and it looks like gibberish to me.
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Stuff like that.
Open the footer in a NES graphics editor. Maybe it's intended to be CHR ROM. If not, then it's nothing I imagine. Try combing the header and the PRG and CHR again without the footer data and see if it works on the emulators too.
I think it's an overdump, the footer is probably a duplicate of the CHR.
Alright guys this is slightly embarassing and I feel incompetent but I cannot seem to make the -j command work in tniNES. I tried a dozen different way to rejoin the files back into a .NES file and it doesn't work. =/
Anyone have any experience with the command? I have all 4 files in the same folder as TNINES, all files have the same name with different extensions (bbm.hdr, bbm.prg, bbm.chr and bbm.ftr). I tried without the header or footer. After I run the command it says it created the file bbm.nes but the files doesn't show up. I thought at some point it was some shit with vista permissions. I gave admin privilege to tnines.exe and made sure the folder had open permission from everything, but it didn't work either. And if I make an empty bbm.nes hoping that it will just edit it, my empty file disappear and isn't replaced by a new one.
I downloaded QND, NESImage and cajoNES trying to find another program able to do it, but they don't seem to have that function.
The command "copy /b bbm.hdr+bbm.prg+bbm.chr+bbm.ftr bbm.nes" is the usual way to do it. The /b means binary (not text).
Aaah much simpler.
Thank you Memblers. The ROM seems to work without the footer. I'll give it a try and run it on real hardware
Thank you again everyone for your input.