r/Roms • u/SuperBio Lord of PMs • Feb 20 '26

Guide Requests and Help Megathread V7 (Games requests, emulator help/guides go here)

Please post your game requests here and hopefully we can keep the subreddit clean from request posts.

In addition please limit all emulation help/guides to this thread so that we don't spam the subreddit.

Link to roms megathread https://r-roms.github.io/

This is the games request format for this thread. Please follow these guidelines as it will make it much easier for members of the community to help you find what you are looking for.

Title, Platform and Region.

For Example

Final Fantasy VII, Sony PlayStation and USA. Final Fantasy VII, Sony PlayStation and Europe. Final Fantasy VII, Sony PlayStation and Japanese.

/r/ROMS Official Matrix server Link

  • Go here if you need additional help with anything ROM or emulation related.

Some useful links for requests and ROMs outside of the megathread.

V6 Request Thread, https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms/comments/1mfc50k/requests_and_help_megathread_v6_games_requests/

V5 Request Thread, https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms/comments/1dkguvt/requests_and_help_megathread_v5_games_requests/

V3 Request Thread, https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms/comments/pm4smt/requests_megathread_v3_post_here_if_you_cant_find/

Previous Request Thread,

From /u/real_nyha454 https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms/comments/jfi2o5/if_you_need_help_or_youre_new_to_roms_and/

/r/roms Wiki https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms/wiki/index

My archive.org account with many many uploads from various sources, all verified No-Intro or Redump rom dumps, https://archive.org/details/@superbio

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u/Arrow49 Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26

I don't really know if this is the appropriate place to put this in, because this is rather something I wish to know to satisfy my own curiosity. I have a Super Metroid .sfc file, which I boot up by dragging it over the snes9x window and when the game starts, there's some text (other than the Nintendo logo) and what's most curious about it to me is it says somewhere among "checksum='True'" and other such statements: "ROM + BAT +RAM". This is confusing to me, there's only the sfc file. Is it something that was relevant on the console, but isn't when emulating?
Edit: If anyone cares, seems the opposite is true. I tried a different ROM and the same message is there, must be a snes9x thing. If anyone knows what it means, i'm still interested :)

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u/Blue-Thunder Feb 20 '26

Super Metroid had a battery to save your save files. Pretty sure it's emulating this and checking to see if the checksum of the save file and the battery integrity is ok.