Thank you so much;
this excellent game is part of "GRADIUS" and it is fascinatingly good; All the PCM packages are beautiful, including the one I liked most was the ROCK version, thank you!!!

I have not been able to get this to work (thought maybe it was something silly with wine, so even tried on a windows computer) rom returns bad reset vector on multiple emulators before and after msu patch. I feel like I might be doing something wrong here, and just not sure what I am missing.

1. convert nes (with matching crc) to smc via Project nested WITH profile
2. patch converted file with the ips in the DL.
3. ...
4. profit?!

There does appear to be something wrong, here. I'll try and get it sorted out.

I redownloaded everything from scratch and it's working fine for me using the "Virtual Console" ROM with the CRC 0000B441. Every other ROM just gives me a hanging black screen, not even that error that was mentioned.

Ok, posted an updated package (EUR profile and supported patch). At this point, it only covers the EUR version of LifeForce Virtual Console rom. My mind is a bit foggy from my cold. I will add the other rom variants at a later time. The EUR version will run fine on emus and mister at 60Hz.

So far, using PN 1.8.1, the EUR Lifeforce VC is the only ROM version that works fine with the recommended settings from here...

Code:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xKZIyNz1DSI3ZBdMfaTEaa_9b6IEABx-ZPwOb6XqcLQ/edit#gid=0

Not having much success with other ROM variants of this game. Mainly, Life Force (USA) f7b55696 and US Virtual Console 4061D767. I get either a looping Title Screen or direct crash (bad reset vector mostly). I have not tried using PN 1.6 (as mentioned in the spreadsheet to get the game going). This is just to get the base game started. No msu-1 pre-hooks have been applied yet.

Hmm, that's odd.
The old v1 patch is working perfectly well for me with "Life Force (USA) (Rev 1) (Virtual Console)" rom.

I patched a NES2.0 headered rom with crc E4AFDB8F.
(not iNES 1.0, hence the different checksum)

Retroplay wrote:The old v1 patch is working perfectly well for me with "Life Force (USA) (Rev 1) (Virtual Console)" rom.

PM with where this rom variant was obtained.

Never mind, found it.

@Retroplay Yup, that did it. So the new patch works for both US and EUR versions. I will update the profiles shortly. Thanks for your help. Much appreciated.

Link updated as V3 up above. Contains one patch that covers both US and EUR profiles.

Thank you for fixing this pev, sorry for the hassle.

Arasoi wrote:Thank you for fixing this pev, sorry for the hassle.

No worries. Glad Retroplay and myself could be of assistance.

Header is listed at DoM.
If you have an iNES1.0 headered rom just replace first 16 bytes in a hex editor with the header listed at Dat-O-Matic.
https://datomatic.no-intro.org/index.php?page=show_record&s=45&n=2954

Code:

4E 45 53 1A 08 00 21 08 20 00 00 07 00 00 00 01

Awesome work guys! Up and going!