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I just made some Garegga patches to make my life easier, and I figured I'd put them up in case anyone else might find them useful.

You can download from here: http://bigcore.rsdio.com/zakk/replay/?p=98
These are IPS patches, not full program roms!


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At least one of these can already be accomplished via MAME cheat.dat, but that's not useful to those of us with real hardware. I've verified the roms work on my PCB and MAME.

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well done, zakk! I'm going to have to give this a shot real soon like.

So what Roms on a real Battle Garegga PCB would have to reburned in order for the new hacks to take effect?

And would the hacks work on any region version of BG PCB or is it pertaining to just the original Japanese region PCB only?

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

prg0.bin and prg1.bin

The patches are for the original Japanese roms. There's a slim chance they may apply to other regions, but I haven't tested it.

I see. In that case, I'd have to get my China region Battle Garegga PCB reburned as a JPN region version in order for these cool hacks to work. ^_~

Thanks again for the clairafication...

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Splendid effort, may I ask what the CRC32 of the original ROM's are supposed to be ?

rtw

I had Steph @hobbyroms sort out the patch integration. Fine job as usual.

'z' is for zakk, btw.
Thanks again for doing this!
How about Batrider 'zero rank at powerup' for the next project? :)

i only had my gregor pcb 2 evenings and i'm already getting pissed off with turning off my cab to reset rank.. i dunno if it's just in my mind but the o.g jap revision seems harder(faster rank increase mebbes?) than the saturn vers to me..
you should have sent me the patched roms oxstu
anyone in europe or uk who can burn me the patched set??

ta

i have a buddy here in sweden whos a whizz at this kind of stuff, if anyone wants a set PM me and ill see if i can sort you out

EXCELLENT effort zakk!!!
i too vote for a no-rank batrider rom, id even spot some cash for your work to give you some motivation if you want (im sure we could get a pool going as i doubt im the only one who wants em?).

For zakk,

Thanks for the awesome work on the Garegga ROM patches. With such a patch, it ain't a "plain vanilla" (umodded) Garegga PCB anymore. ^_~

Count me with sven666 for a "no-rank" Batrider EPRom...there are bound to be some other fellow Batrider PCB owners who feel the same way. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

@oxtsu

Is this the set you patched ?

bgaregga Battle Garegga (Europe / USA / Japan / Asia) (Sat Feb 3 1996)

rtw

rtw- Yes

I know ... just been putting some time into mine and it feels like I am starting again......I can barelky break about 2.5 Million at the moment

BIG S

Zero rank Batrider would be another excellent piece of work.

Batrider sane rank on game start shouldn't be that bad to do. I've got a few other things taking up my time right now, but I'll get to it soon-ish.

Btw, you can 'reset' the rank by going into the test menu and exiting it. Still somewhat of a pain in the ass, but much better than waiting 30 minutes.

I know it's a necro bump, but just wanted to thank Zakk for the Garegga roms. Just burned them and they work great

Were the files removed? I can't seem to find them.

They're there, you just have to go to Misc folder

REV2016

http://bigcore.rsdio.com/zakk/stuff/gar ... es2016.zip

• Mahou characters always unlocked
• Rank reset to power-on value on every credit
• Press start to select ABC ship type
• Press Start+ABC in-game to fast reset. P1 and P2 side both work, even if that player isn't active in the game
• ROM check skipped by default, hold start to access. Using start to begin the game from the test menu also shows rom check

Amazing!

[*]Press Start+ABC in-game to fast reset. - Does this take you to the title screen?

Copyright notice screen

Hey, does this restart item order as well?

Just found this thread and wanted to thank you for making this patch

I've finally managed to get a Garegga PCB but don't have a ROM burner. Would anyone please be able to provide a set of patched ROMs, as these look great?

REV2019!

http://krylon.rsdio.com/zakk/stuff/gare ... es2019.zip for IPS patches.

https://github.com/zakk4223/battle-garegga-patches


Changes in this rom. Bold indicates new changes for 2019.

• Mahou guest characters unlocked
  
• ABC ship type selectable via start button
  
• No rank carry over between credits. Rank starts at power on default every credit.
  
• Item drop order reset to initial value every credit
  
• Quick reset: start+ABC resets to the copyright screen
  
• Scoreboard display bug fixed. Top scores will show the proper letter instead of punctuation for 10M+
  
• Autofire rate display. Bottom left and right display current autofire rate for respective player.
  
• Rank display. Real time display of current game rank.
  
• Rank change display: Per-frame display of rank change during the frame. This excludes per-frame rank adjustments and any rank changes due to shooting (normal and option).
  
• Rank percentage display. Should line up with the rank percentage in the M2 port.
  
• Per frame rank display

Fantastic!

Nice work !

Super!

Thanks for working on these!

I made a slight revision, the GitHub repo and the download site are updated.

Changes:
Rank display is adjusted when in Harder/Special/Extended mode so as not to overwrite the mode indicator on screen.
I hijacked the "Stage Edit" dip switch so it enables/disables the custom hud (autofire and rank related displays).
The default for that dip switch is OFF. So if you want fancy rank display, be sure to flip it to on.
You can still access stage edit mode by starting a credit while holding the C button.

If you forget to flip the dip switch on, you can do it in the middle of a credit and it will immediately start to display the HUD, no reset needed.