What is your policy is on including patches that are basically "open source" whereby the existing patch even includes a readme detailing the hex edits required if you'd rather manually "recreate" the patch?
Basically I recently had the aforementioned friend with an Everdrive confirm that Zoinkity's 3/4 player music patch for Mario Kart 64 works on real hardware even when combined with Patcher64+'s existing widescreen patch for Mario Kart 64, and the download for the patch includes exactly as I described - a readme signed by Zoinkity himself detailing the (tiny) hex-edit that is all that is required to achieve this.
...I've not actually tested it on the Wii virtual console version of MK64 however.
(the readme describes something about correcting the checksum which I did not do, but it seemed to work anyway? Maybe because I applied Patcher64+'s widescreen patch first and then manually hex-edited the resulting rom as the readme describes)
The patch+readme in question can be find on the Everdrive forum in the second post:
And here's the entirety of the readme posted in text-form:
Basically I recently had the aforementioned friend with an Everdrive confirm that Zoinkity's 3/4 player music patch for Mario Kart 64 works on real hardware even when combined with Patcher64+'s existing widescreen patch for Mario Kart 64, and the download for the patch includes exactly as I described - a readme signed by Zoinkity himself detailing the (tiny) hex-edit that is all that is required to achieve this.
...I've not actually tested it on the Wii virtual console version of MK64 however.
(the readme describes something about correcting the checksum which I did not do, but it seemed to work anyway? Maybe because I applied Patcher64+'s widescreen patch first and then manually hex-edited the resulting rom as the readme describes)
The patch+readme in question can be find on the Everdrive forum in the second post:
And here's the entirety of the readme posted in text-form:
Zoinkity's 3/4 player music patch for Mario Kart 64:
Dolphin 5.0 CPU benchmark
CPU: Xeon E3-1246 v3 (4c/8t Haswell/Intel 4th gen) — core & cache @ 3.9GHz via multicore enhancement
GPU: Intel integrated HD Graphics P4600
RAM: 4x8GB Corsair Vengence @ DDR3-1600
OS: Linux Mint 20.3 Xfce + [VM] Win7 SP1 x64
CPU: Xeon E3-1246 v3 (4c/8t Haswell/Intel 4th gen) — core & cache @ 3.9GHz via multicore enhancement
GPU: Intel integrated HD Graphics P4600
RAM: 4x8GB Corsair Vengence @ DDR3-1600
OS: Linux Mint 20.3 Xfce + [VM] Win7 SP1 x64