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Re: Slap ROM Patcher

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Post by teroshan »

I recently stumbled upon https://www.hackdex.app/ which is a lovely website dedicated to Pokémon ROM hacks.

It's a really vibrant scene, with a lot of different hacks that go all the way to fully-fledged games, but because it's so rich it can be a pain to find what is available and what the latest version of a given ROM hack is.

This website has a neat feature where you upload any base Pokémon ROM file, and it filters all available ROM hacks that are compatible with it via a neat UI. And of course it offers you a one-click download (well, in-local-storage-patch) to the given ROM hack.

Source code: https://github.com/Hackdex-App/hackdex-website

Re: Slap ROM Patcher

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Post by infinite_spin »

gblargg wrote: post #3

Doesn't the undo functionality cause it to store copyrighted data from the original ROM in the patch?

I think it's similar to adding a note to a book, and then removing that note, leaving you with a the original book. That scenario doesn't violate copyright law as far as I'm aware.

Re: Slap ROM Patcher

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Post by Dylan16807 »

infinite_spin wrote: post #6
gblargg wrote: post #3

Doesn't the undo functionality cause it to store copyrighted data from the original ROM in the patch?

I think it's similar to adding a note to a book, and then removing that note, leaving you with a the original book. That scenario doesn't violate copyright law as far as I'm aware.

That's not how patching a rom works. You directly replace data and the formats that let you undo have to put a copy of the original data in the patch file. So yes it is a risk.
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