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Thanks. This looks cool. A question: when trying to play SNES games, it requires an .sfc file. This is for japanese games for the SNES. Is is possible to make

by petra 7y ago

Thanks. This looks cool. A question: when trying to play SNES games, it requires an .sfc file. This is for japanese games for the SNES. Is is possible to make it run .smc files ? those are american versions, much easier to find, with english text by default.

hauxir 7y ago
smc files work too :)
jchw 7y ago
SFC and SMC files are usually identical. It’s just a different choice in file extension. “SMC” comes from Super MagiCom, a floppy-based cart copying device for backup/piracy. The original .smc files produced by the device contained a 512 byte header. Since it’s pretty easy to detect and ignore most emulators do. If not, it’s easily removed. Because .smc is in reference to effectively a piracy device, the new preferred file extension is .sfc and has been for a while now. (In case it is not obvious, the file format is nominally just a raw dump of the ROM on the cartridge with no added headers.) (Note 2: if you are looking for a way to run homebrew/patches/etc on a real SNES/SFC nowadays, sd2snes is probably the absolute best option.)
aspaceman 7y ago
You can open up the two files in a Hex editor. If there's any differences it'll only be in the header which is a quick fix.