sm64extend v0.3.1 - fast, compatible SM64 ROM extender

[queueRAM]

This is a replacement for the M64ROMExtender and adds a few new features. It is written in C and compiles for Windows and Linux 32/64 bit (probably OSX as well, but untested). I released it under the MIT license so it can be included in any of your projects.

By default, it creates a 64MB extended ROM that is bit compatible with the extended ROM that M64ROMExtender1.3B generates and further extended to 64MB (before the patches are applied by SM64 Editor). I have tested the resulting extended ROMs with SM64 Importer 1.9.2S/SM64 Editor 2.0.x, Toads Tool 64 v0.6.2S, and Quad64 0.1.1.

​Download sm64extend 0.3.1 (win32)
​Source Code and Project Page

New features:

• ​configurable extended ROM size (default 64 MB)
  
• ​configurable padding between MIO0 blocks (default 32K)
  
• ​configurable MIO0 block alignment (default 1 byte)
  
• ​option to fill original MIO0 blocks with 0x01
  
• ​built-in ROM header CRC computation (non-GPL!)
  
• ​works with US, European, Japanese, and Shindou ROMs (plays in emulators, but TT and level importer only work with (U) ROMs)
  
• ​small: < 20KB binary
  
• ​fast: extends in < 0.5 seconds
  

M64ROMExtender compatible features:

• ​accepts Z64 (BE) or V64 (byte-swapped) ROMs as input
  
• ​fills extended area with fills with 0x01
  
• ​inserts 32 KB padding between MIO0 blocks
  
• ​decompresses all MIO0 blocks from ROM to extended area
  
• ​changes all 0x18 commands to 0x17
  
• ​creates MIO0 headers for all 0x1A commands
  
• ​updates assembly reference to first MIO0 block
  
• ​dumps MIO0 blocks to 'mio0files' directory
  

Usage:
Just drag-and-drop SM64 ROM on the executable for default settings or run from the command prompt specifying these options:

Code:

​sm64extend [-a ALIGNMENT] [-p PADDING] [-s SIZE] [-d] [-f] [-v] FILE [OUT_FILE]

Options:
Optional arguments:
-a ALIGNMENT byte boundary to align MIO0 blocks (default: 1)
-p PADDING   padding to insert between MIO0 blocks in KB (default: 32)
-s SIZE      size of the extended ROM in MB (default: 64)
-d           dump MIO0 blocks to files in 'mio0files' directory
-f           fill old MIO0 blocks with 0x01
-v           verbose progress output
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File arguments:
FILE        input ROM file
OUT_FILE    output ROM file (default: replaces FILE extension with .ext.z64)
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If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to post them here or on the github project page. Since it is MIT licensed, I welcome you to include the source or binaries in your projects - just include a copy of the license file.

[queueRAM]

Update 20 October 2015: sm64extend 0.2.1 release
I've been meaning to get around to this for a while.  This will probably be the final release unless any bugs surface.

• ​add option (-d) to dump MIO0 files to 'mio0files' directory
  
• ​add more ROM validity checks on input file
  

​Download sm64extend 0.2.1 (win32)

[theguy]

Hi! Whenever I try to run this, it says "The program can't start because MSVCR120.dll is missing from your computer." How do I fix this?
Thanks!

[queueRAM]

(14-09-2016, 06:32 AM)theguy Wrote: Hi! Whenever I try to run this, it says "The program can't start because MSVCR120.dll is missing from your computer." How do I fix this?
Thanks!

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Thanks for the report. MSVCR120.DLL is definitely a dependency to run sm64extend. This is the Microsoft C Runtime library and is shipped with the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable. I think the 2013 version is the one that is needed for MSVCR120.DLL: Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013. Let me know whether or not this works for you.

[queueRAM]

Update 21 June 2017: sm64extend 0.3 release
Changelog:

• ​add support for European and Shindou ROMs
  
• ​increase detection of level script and asm references
  
• ​detect optimized ASM references
  
• ​build win32 release with gcc and statically link to drop MSVCR120.dll dependency
  

​Download sm64extend 0.3 (win32)

Thanks to David for suggestions and helping me test.

[queueRAM]

Update 21 July 2017: sm64extend 0.3.1 release
Changelog:

• ​add support for .n64 little-endian ROMs
  
• ​add further validation on SM64 ROM version
  
• ​restrict range of output size to between 16 and 64MB
  

​Download sm64extend 0.3.1 (win32)