Let's Play "Mario's Challenge From Marisa at the Scarlet Devil Mansion"
Channel: Kappatechy
Date: 2011-04-23

...also known as Scarlet Devil Mario.
Some of you may have seen this hack before. I know I have. 'Course, I only watched, like...two videos of it...and now that person's made his SDM LP private, for some reason...
But I digress.

When Raocow did his Let's Play of this game, the ROM was kept private, for reasons I don't fully comprehend. However, I managed to find a copy using Google, and, once my own Let's Play is completed, I'm going to be distributing the IPS patch for it!

What's that? You don't know what an IPS patch is? Well, see, here's the thing...it's not actually legal to distribute ROMs. What IS legal is using a program such as LunarIPS to create a file that delineates all the differences between a hack and the original ROM it was made from, then distributing THAT file. ZSNES (which is the emulator I use) will automatically patch ROM files with IPS patches that share their filename.

For more information, I'd recommend visiting SMWCentral, which can be found at www.smwcentral.org (assuming I got the last bit right...I'll have to check that...)