Maniac Mansion NES Question

metalmario991 · Post by **metalmario991** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:16 am

I believe I heard that Maniac Mansion NES can be run on SCUMMVM but I'm not sure if it is true. Also, I don't know how to get it to work so steps on how to get it to work if it is true would be nice.

Post by **digitall** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:28 am

http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Datafiles

http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Dataf ... nhanced.29

http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/User_ ... ansion_NES

P.S. See Forum Rule #1 i.e. we often have good documentation if you look for it.

P.P.S. You will need either a commercial cartridge dumper to dump a ROM image of the cartridge. If you don't have one, you can build one from an open source design. See: https://github.com/digitall/eprom_reader

metalmario991 · Post by **metalmario991** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:29 pm

Thank you I wasn't sure where to look for the documents.

metalmario991 · Post by **metalmario991** » Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:40 pm

Is there a visual guide to this? I got it wrong and I'm a little confused about the instructions. I've never used Hex Editor before.

Post by **digitall** » Sun Nov 01, 2015 4:27 am

If you are using Unix, then you can do this with the dd utility:
dd if=<ROM Input File Name> bs=1 skip=16 of=<ROM Output File Name>

This should work on OSX as well. If you are running Windows, then you should be able to use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnxUtils to do this.

For more information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29

The options I have given are "bs=1" which sets the block size to 1 byte and "skip=16" which skips 16 blocks, thus 16 bytes before copying the rest of the file.

Apart from this, I think the "extract_mm_nes" utility in scummvm-tools will operate on the full ROM file dumped out and extract the required LFL files which can be used instead of the ROM image.

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