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DS Misc > MKDS Track Hack Patcher

#81453 - Kamek - Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:22 am

I wrote a program to automatically patch the MKDS Track Hack Loader given a list of courses.

It uses Chishm's loader. Just run the program, load the loader, choose your tracks, hit Save, apply NDSLoader, then apply via your homebrew method of choice.

Hopefully this will help the newbies trying to figure out the patch, and stop the never-ending requests for help. If not, then at least you can use an easy method of changing the course list on your loader to avoid having to hex-edit the thing and look up the course numbers all the time.

NOTE: The loader itself is not included, because it is illegal to distribute. You will need to use chishm's tool to dump and patch your Mario Kart DS ROM, and you can use the output of that tool in this program.

Download link: http://rapidshare.de/files/19177383/MKDSHack.zip.html (Rapidshare sucks, but I have no hosting)

#81473 - ?hr - Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:14 am

i always used hexediting :D

how can i add more than 20 levels?

#81481 - falcon!!! - Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:49 pm

u cant

#81489 - ?hr - Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:03 pm

falcon!!! wrote:
u cant

yeah, but WHY?

#81492 - HtheB - Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:28 pm

?hr GmbH wrote:
falcon!!! wrote:
u cant

yeah, but WHY?
you need to rewrite the game :P

#81496 - ?hr - Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:39 pm

HtheB wrote:
?hr GmbH wrote:
falcon!!! wrote:
u cant

yeah, but WHY?
you need to rewrite the game :P

thats not the answer of my question!

@falcon,
is there a 20 tracks limit or what?

#81520 - JaJa - Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:38 pm

Yes, there is a limit.
This hack replaces the original courses with other courses.
Therefore you can't have more than the amount of original courses, which I think is about 20.
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#81522 - tepples - Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:44 pm

But could a more experienced ROM hacker relocate the track list to a different part of memory and then expand it? Look at what has been done to Super Mario World with Lunar Magic and asm hacks.
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#81529 - dafatkid27 - Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:24 pm

I just can't seem to find the MKDS Track Hack Loader .nds file which is apparently FlashMe friendly. Could somebody point me towards it please?

#81532 - mntorankusu - Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:03 pm

This is a really cool idea, but...my track list doesn't actually seem change. At least not to what I selected. And I'm pretty sure I'm using the program correctly.

#81539 - HyperHacker - Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:03 pm

tepples wrote:
But could a more experienced ROM hacker relocate the track list to a different part of memory and then expand it? Look at what has been done to Super Mario World with Lunar Magic and asm hacks.

It's certainly impressive, but you do realize SMW was always capable of having 512 levels right? :-p LM overcomes a lot of limitations, but that's not one of them.