ROM Hacking
From PHWiki
Some common ways of hacking (modifying/altering) roms include:
- Crack - cracking a rom to remove protection that stops it from being pirated
- Intros / Intro removing - adding a short intro demo to the game, intro removing reverses the process.
- Trainer - Cheat patch
- Translation patch - a very advanced type of hacking (usually) that translates the text of a game
- Save patch - modifying the save routines in a rom to make it save on a different type of save chip. most commonly EEPROM saves are patched to save on flash cards with SRAM chip for saving.
- ROM stripping - aka truncing, cut off unused trailing space from roms to fit more into a flash card.
- Exit hack - makes it possible to exit and switch games without turning the console off
[edit]
Links
- Data Crystal - Wiki about ROM hacking
