Looking for a Working Seiken Psycho Calibur

[Apachacha]

Okay, so the thing is, every single dump I was able to find, even the translated version, has a glitch where you never get tear drops of either colour and in the first stage the boss never drops a key to open up the cage with the fairy.

And I checked a Nico video and know for a fact it's supposed to drop it. Also must have cleared around 30 screens of enemies and never got one single solitary drop, so I'm fairly certain this dump is bad.

Anyone have any ideas ?

[Zorlon]

Are you sure it's not just an emulator glitch

Not sure what your options are for emulation but...

http://www.fceux.com/web/home.html would be my first choice
http://nestopia.sourceforge.net/ second
http://virtuanes.s1.xrea.com/index.php finally Virtual NES

There may be others nowerdays, it's been a while since I looked to be honest

[Apachacha]

I did actualy find a working version (raps on wood). Had to get it on a japanese site. And yeah, it's not FCEUX's fault, this is just a bad dump, there's a guy named Aschultz on Gamefaqs who made a HEX Cheat guide for the game, stating this reason.

Same thing happened with Takahashi Meijin no Bugutte Honey. Almost no place had the correct version, and the bad one corrupted graphics while scroling and had all top screens in the arkanoid sections have the same graphics as the previous screen, making you have to play arkanoid with invisible obstacles, not to mention the level-exit-critical letters were also all invisible.

[Zorlon]

What is the CRC of the working version, curious if I have a broken version or not

You can find that just by opening the zip file with 7-zip or WinRAR, there should be a CRC or CRC32 info bit

Mine is

C41BE40D

Takahashi Meijin no Bugutte Honey for the NES rom anyway unaware of the FDS version, I get 312E6A31 for the CRC

[Ragnar]

What is the CRC of the working version, curious if I have a broken version or not

You can find that just by opening the zip file with 7-zip or WinRAR, there should be a CRC or CRC32 info bit

Mine is

C41BE40D

Strategywiki specifically mentions Apachacha's issue, and that you need the version you posses to play it correctly. Link:
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Seiken_Psycho_Calibur

[Zorlon]

Yay atleast I know I have the correct dump of the game with matching CRC info

I did actualy find a working version (raps on wood). Had to get it on a japanese site. And yeah, it's not FCEUX's fault, this is just a bad dump, there's a guy named Aschultz on Gamefaqs who made a HEX Cheat guide for the game, stating this reason.

Same thing happened with Takahashi Meijin no Bugutte Honey. Almost no place had the correct version, and the bad one corrupted graphics while scroling and had all top screens in the arkanoid sections have the same graphics as the previous screen, making you have to play arkanoid with invisible obstacles, not to mention the level-exit-critical letters were also all invisible.

Can't say I have had any bad luck there, maybe you should just do what most of us do get either a Good rom set that has the good the bad and the ugly dumps (basicly they have everything even if you don't want it) or get no-intro collections that just have the good dumps, no hacks or bad dumps there just good dumps (or I should say the best dumps available at the time I know of games that have yet to be dumped)

To sum it up

GoodRoms sets if you want everything good, bad and hacked release dumps
No-Intro sets if you just want good dump releases

Most of my sets are no-intro, I have a few other types, but I tend to stick to sets that just have pure releases and none of this lets have every dumps ever done also none of the hacks.

Translations ect you can get seperatly and best to that are pre translated ones around but you don't know if they used a good dump or not to patch in the first place

My FDS set is a No-Intro set, verified with a rom auditing tool (clrmamepro for this instance but there are plenty of others out there)