Consoles to Corrupt‎ > ‎

NES Games

This page will tell you how to corrupt NES games.

These programs up top just run the ROMs. We're now going to get a program to mess with the memory of these ROMs. There are many corruptors to use. The Real Time Corrupter is an emulator with a built-in corrupter. So, that won't be included in the list of corruptors. There is a main one that I will be using here. It is called the Vinesauce Corruptor.

Though, I'll mention the RTC. Now, after downloading a corrupter, an emulator, and a ROM, we can have some fun!

Here is a simple video on corrupting with the Vinesauce Corrupter. Keep in mind that understanding the place in the memory that will affect the game play is key to good corruptions.

Something else worth noting: The video is showing how to corrupt SNES Games. Nothing is different for NES Games, just put your NES emulator in the emulator directory.

Vinesauce Corruptor

To understand where to corrupt, you'll need understanding of the programming structure of these ROM files. Luckily, there is some information on the topic. Click here to learn more.

It is very simple once you get on the right track. A good increment is helpful for corrupting. Make this small. To ensure amazingly entertaining corruptions, make sure to have the start byte low. Automatically ending the end byte is good in some cases. If you start the start byte low, it well most likely crash. Now it is a fight against trial and error. You will eventually get a really cool one, but you don't, and get to the end of the ROM, change the increment and start over.

RTC

In RTC, there will be no 'bytes', it will contain many different engines:

Nightmare Engine (Bytes)
Hellgenie Engine (Cheats)
Distortion Engine (Graphics)

The one we are looking for is the Nightmare Engine as it changes the bytes in the ROM, but other engines can corrupt in varying ways, too.

- Go to the Gallery for what the corruptors could do if used right.

Dolphin Emulator Corruptor
Nes Corruptor Emulator

Corrupt randomly an existing file. Irish tour 74 rar. Select an existing file from your computer and define how much do you want to corrupt it.

Dolphin Emulator Corruptor

Nes Corruptor Emulator

ROM Poison is designed to be a simple, but powerful, ROM corruptor. Due to the nature of ROM corruptors, this can be used on any file, but it is intended to be used with video game ROMs (such as NES, SNES, and N64 games). It is written in C11 using the Qt5 libraries, making it multiplatform. I tried going into the MACOSX folder and clicked on the application and it said 'You cannot open the application 'VineSauce Romcorrupter 1.2.1 (Mac Release #1)' because it may be damaged or incomplete', and when I go into the Vinesauce Romcorrupter (Mac Port) folder and then into the Vinesauce ROM Corruptor v1.2.1 (Beta) folder and try to open the application, it opens and then immediately.