Arg. I'm trying to hack an atari 7800 game (did you know they are cryptographically secure? in 1986?!) and it turns out my rom has no header, which means my emulators has to grab the header info from the gamedb. except I'm editing the ROM, making the hash not match the gamedb!
so now I gotta add a header, but I don't know what settings it needs, because that's grabbed from the gamedb
WHY ARE ROM-BASED CONSOLES SO FUCKING COMPLICATED
this is a joke, btw. ROM-based consoles are so fucking complicated because they can be anything.
There's Super Famicom cartridges that have 32-bit ARM chips inside them, for example
wait the gamedb is just a text file
what if I just make my tool stuff my generated ROM MD5s in there before trying to run it
It works! other than the fact that the output is completely blank for reasons I don't understand.
@foone Premature optimization really is the root of all evil! D:
@elfi yeah I don't think it uploaded properly