NEOGEO ROM CHANGES FOR KAWAKS 1.41
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THIS DOCUMENT EXPLAINS HOW TO CONVERT YOUR ROMSETS THAT WORK WITH PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF KAWAKS
TO ROMSETS THAT WORK WITH KAWAKS 1.41, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T WANT TO DOWNLOAD NEW ROMS.
The King of Fighters 2000 (encrypted)
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a) Locate your M1 rom. It is either named 257-m1.bin or kof2k_m1.rom.
If it is named kof2k_m1.rom, rename it to 257-m1.bin.
Then, make a copy of this rom in kof2000.zip under the name : 257-m1d.bin
You should have twice the M rom in kof2000.zip: as 257-m1.bin and 257-m1d.bin
b) Locate your V roms. Normally, they should be in kof2000.zip
They should be named either 257-v1.bin, 257-v2.bin, 257-v3.bin, 257-v4.bin
or kof2k_v1.rom, kof2k_v2.rom, kof2k_v3.rom, kof2k_v4.rom.
257-v1.bin, 257-v2.bin, 257-v3.bin, 257-v4.bin are the correct names :
If needed rename
kof2k_v1.rom to 257-v1.bin
kof2k_v2.rom to 257-v2.bin
kof2k_v3.rom to 257-v3.bin
kof2k_v4.rom to 257-v4.bin
That's all !
If your The King of Fighters 2000 (encrypted) ever used to run in a previous Kawaks, it should
also run in Kawaks 1.41
The King of Fighters 2000 (fully decrypted)
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a) Do what is asked to "fix" The King of Fighters 2000 (encrypted) (see above)
b) If you have it, rename kof2000n.zip to kof2knd.zip
That's all !
If your The King of Fighters 2000 (fully decrypted) ever used to run in a previous Kawaks, it should
also run in Kawaks 1.41
The King of Fighters 2000 (nonecrypted P)
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a) Do what is asked to "fix" The King of Fighters 2000 (encrypted) (see above)
b) If you have it, rename kof2000c.zip to kof2000n.zip
That's all !
If your The King of Fighters 2000 (nonecrypted P) ever used to run in a previous Kawaks, it should
also run in Kawaks 1.41
Metal Slug 3 (all versions)
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Locate your V roms. Normally, they should be in mslug3.zip
They should be named either 256-v1.bin, 256-v2.bin, 256-v3.bin, 256-v4.bin
or mslug3_v1.rom, mslug3_v2.rom, mslug3_v3.rom, mslug3_v4.rom.
256-v1.bin, 256-v2.bin, 256-v3.bin, 256-v4.bin are the correct names :
If needed rename
mslug3_v1.rom to 256-v1.bin
mslug3_v2.rom to 256-v2.bin
mslug3_v3.rom to 256-v3.bin
mslug3_v4.rom to 256-v4.bin
That's all !
If your Metal Slug 3 ever used to run in a previous Kawaks, it should
also run in Kawaks 1.41
The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle (The big, fully encrypted set)
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This one *requires* a new rom: 251-sma.bin
You only have two solutions:
- You find and you download the new rom (it's VERY small)
- You know how to handle hex editors:
+ Trim your kf99_p1d.rom to only keep the 262144 last bytes (delete everything before 0xC0000)
+ Rename the trimmed kf99_p1d.rom to 251-sma.bin and copy it to kof99.zip