This is a guide meant to help players patch Skies and get to playing! Do not ask me or anyone else for ROMs. We only distribute patches


1. Skies uses a U.S Xeno patched ROM as the base ROM. That means to patch Skies to a game you will need that specific ROM. I can not legally distribute ROMs, but I can give out a patch that will convert clean copies of North American U.S Explorers of Sky to the Xenophobe dump. 
You can find this patch here: 

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/y62fstq47i1u5gm/clean_to_xeno.xdelta?dl=1
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---> YOU ONLY NEED THIS PATCH IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE XENO ROM ALREADY <---



2. You will need special software to patch Skies onto your ROM. Please use this:

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https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/704/
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This can also be found in the Discord in the #how-to-patch channel. We can also further help you here if need be.

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https://discord.gg/uTJPcg9sdZ
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Alternatively, you can *****try*****:

https://hack64.net/tools/patcher.php


3. ---> IF YOU HAVE A XENO ROM ALREADY SKIP THIS STEP <--- 
Open up the patching software and apply the "Clean_to_xeno" patch onto your ROM dump. Now you have a Xeno patched ROM for Skies.



4. Open your software and choose the Xeno Explorers Of Sky ROM as the base, and the Skies Patch as the patch, choose an output destination and name, and you're all ready to play! You'll know this will have worked if the intro sequence is changed.

---> If you have any problems or issues, consult our Discord listed in Step 2. <---



OPTIONAL STEP 5. If you're updating the ROM, if you want to keep your original save, patch the newly updated Skies patch onto ANOTHER Xeno patched ROM. Make sure the new Skies ROM name/directory matches your old one exactly, the save should carry over.