Help

[ReggieD]

I hate for my first post to be one requesting help but I am at a loss.
I downloaded a patch to translate a japanese snes rom to english, but i cant get it to work. I have tried soft patching it with zsnes and hard patching it with various ips programs and nothing works, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[RockmanForte]

try ipswin. I always used it and it's great!

[ubr]

Maybe you got the wrong rom (different version like 1.0 and 1.1), rom already patched, broken header thing or you got bad dump rom. Usually translation patch need specific version.

[alcoatjez]

You could try adding a header to the ROM. You can use NSRT to do this.

[RockmanForte]

what is header and nonheader ? I am very confusion about them.

[alcoatjez]

A header is a small part of a ROM which is (normally) added by a copier. It is not part of the actual carts contents, so you can remove it for the emulators for most systems.
If you have a copier, f.e. the Super Wild Card, your ROM needs a Super Wild Card header to play on that copier. There are plenty of proggies to add and remove headers (Ucon64, NSRT, SnesTool, etc.).
Most translations need a header.

[RockmanForte]

Uh... I am not sure I understand.

Also, why the most translations need a header ?