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Hack description

"Dongwu Senlin", alternately "Animal Crossing" or "Animal Forest (Doubutsu no Mori)" in other regions, uses emulated FLASHRAM on iQue and accesses its internal RTC. Functions to check if controller devices are present and send values were stubbed. After patching the iQue title, hardware FLASHRAM, RTC, and controller slot devices will function on retail N64s.

The patched ROM expects a 1Mb FLASHRAM on its board and (optionally) a RTCK-NUS real-time clock; CIC is 6102. Controller Paks are supported. It should now be able to run correctly on 4MB.
In addition, several other liberties were taken. The clock's upper threshold was lifted from 2030 to 2099. The Controller Pak manager, both in-game and at boot, have been translated. The in-game debugger, if activated, will be write-enabled. Animalese support has been expanded; phonetic punctuation should be a thing of the past.

Apply the xdelta patch using the similarly named xdelta; use version 3.0.8 or up. The patch will only apply to a *decrypted* ROM in native (big-endian) byteorder.

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This unQue patch series is directed at restoring save support and reversing library changes in iQue titles so they function reliably on retail consoles and a wider range of emulators--at the expense of breaking iQue support.

Contributions

Contributor	Type of contribution	Description
Zoinkity	Hacking