Essential Tools (General)
Please read the NOTICE section first.
NOTICE
The most important tools here for casual users are the Online Patcher and Online Hasher which are the first two tools listed below.
Patching Tools
Online Patcher: Use this to easily patch your ROMs
online. Includes CheckSum features and creator mode. If difficulty
arises with zipped files, unzip the patch and ROM files.
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Online Hasher: Use this to read a ROM’s data such as
its database match and CRC32. Very useful for those wishing to patch a
specific version of a game or create a new hack.
Click here for the RHP page
Floating IPS: A newer alternative to Lunar IPS with the ability to patch multiple files at once among other features. Creator mode included.
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Lunar IPS: Use this to easily patch ROMs from an application window. Includes creator mode.
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beat: beat is the canonical tool for working with beat-protocol files. BPS patches can be any size unlike IPS which is 16 MB.
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xdelta UI: A program for patching xdelta files without the need of command-line usage. Creator mode included.
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Delta Patcher: An alternative to xdelta UI.
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Graphical Tools
YY-CHR: A multi-console program which offers
graphical display and editing for ROM images. Useful for adjusting
sprites in a hack or editing palette data.
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PalMod: A palette editor for a wide variety of games, mostly on arcade.
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Palette Converter: Converts palettes between 15bpp and 24bpp palettes.
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Hex Editing Tools
HxD: A commonly used hex editor.
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WindHex32: A great hex editor for thingy table support alone.
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monkey-moore: A relative searcher useful for editing text in a ROM. Helpful for Japanese scripts as well.
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Oriton: Generates thingy tables. Supports Unicode and hexadecimal values of different lengths.
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Table Auto-Generator: Unlike
other table generators which generate hex values from user input, this
immediately displays a set of common characters in English and Japanese.
The user can then manually fill in the hex value for each.
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Game Genie Good Guy: Patches Game Genie codes directly into a ROM.
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The Game Genie Encoder/Decoder Program: Decodes and encodes Game Genie codes for Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Genesis, Game Boy, and Game Gear game genies.
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CD/Archive Tools
CDmage: Helpful for converting files to BIN/CUE and merging BIN files.
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IsoBuster: Extracts data from ISOs.
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DAEMON Tools: Mounts and extracts ISOs.
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7-Zip: For packing and extracting zip files.
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Audio Tools
Audacity: The most popular audio editing and recording application.
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foobar2000: A popular application for file conversions.
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Video Tools
Loseless Cut: The swiss army knife of video and audio editing. Completely free and useful for replacing video/audio in a loseless manner.
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