Purchasing Metroid (J).fds

[Buddybenj]

Hasn't 1.3 only been known to exist on Virtual Console? Or did somebody find an original disk with 1.3 on it?

[C. V. Reynolds]

Hasn't 1.3 only been known to exist on Virtual Console? Or did somebody find an original disk with 1.3 on it?

I'm not totally sure. Ototo lists it on his site here, though:

http://blog-imgs-67.fc2.com/o/t/o/ototo ... -03_00.txt

It has a breakdown of all of the sub files inside.

EDIT: From the best I can tell, the checksums do not match the Virtual Console version. This seemingly confirms the existence of an FDS disk with a version 1.3 on it.

[drummerdave4689]

Wow, thank you! What's the difference between metroid.fds and metroidb.fds? I have RetroArch 1.3.4 and it's not able to recognize either...

[KingMike]

Hardcorehubz dumped each side of the FDS games (most games were a single two-sided disk) separately.

Most of the time FDS games are distributed with all sides combined into a single file.
So if you want to play the game in most emulators, I assume you need to combine "metroid.fds" and "metroidb.fds" in that order into a single file?

[drummerdave4689]

Ohhhh I see. So how do I do that?

[KingMike]

Could copy and paste with a hex editor that supports insert+delete (probably most non-ROM-hacking-oriented hex editors).

Or the DOS copy command. (if you know how to open a Command Prompt in the same folder)
I THINK it's
copy /b metroid.fds+metroidb.fds outputfilename.fds

[drummerdave4689]

You, sir, are a badass! Thanks a lot

[Connie]

...and if it still doesn't work, you may need to add the following to the start of the combined file:

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4644531A020000000000000000000000

The 02 signifies 2 sides.

For 256 Kbyte files, which are effectively 2 disks/4 sides, replace 02 with 04