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Tried to Make a Rom Hack of KOF2002 Work on the MiSTer

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 1:37 am
by Darilheid

I know some of you might consider this a lame request. :D
I was trying to get the romhack "The King of Fighters 2002: PlayStation 2 Hack Ver.1.0" to work on the Mister.
However, after decrypting it using Aluzed's python script it didn't work.
I even tried setting it to ram=2 and then to ram=3, still no success.
I guess the modder did something crazy that might not work on real hardware, but if someone knowledgeable could take a look into this it would be cool because this hack adds some characters that are available only in the PS2 version, like King, Geese, Shingo, Goenitz, etc...
Link to a video showing the Hack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvxatWUKwhw
Link to download the hack:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/z9xs3f2l ... 9.rar/file

I also found on my old files a rom hack that makes special moves really easy to come out, like doing an inverted half circle forward does a dragon punch.
Spining the dpad like crazy will make almost any desparation move come out.
Specially valuable for someone with a controller that's not ideal for fighting games.
I don't know who made it because it's more than 20 years old, I can't find it anywhere on the web, not even a mention to it's existence.
After I decrypted it using the python script it worked well on the Mister. I made it available on the archive.
https://archive.org/details/kof2002f


Re: Tried to Make a Rom Hack of KOF2002 Work on the MiSTer

Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 3:28 am
by gamesfan

well first off mame roms for neogeo are encrypted so you need unencrypted roms.
that doesnt mean your out of luck.

have you tried converting the roms to .neo?

https://www.neo-geo.com/forums/index.ph ... ty.267537/


Re: Tried to Make a Rom Hack of KOF2002 Work on the MiSTer

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 3:06 am
by Darilheid
gamesfan wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 3:28 am

well first off mame roms for neogeo are encrypted so you need unencrypted roms.
that doesnt mean your out of luck.

have you tried converting the roms to .neo?

https://www.neo-geo.com/forums/index.ph ... ty.267537/

I did decrypt both roms, one worked and the other did not.
Do you think that even if I am decrypting the rom correctly and it does not work, then maybe it would work by just converting it to the *.neo format?