This is a guide meant to help players patch the game and get to playing my ROM Hack!
Please don't ask me or anyone else for ROMs, I also only distribute patches.


1. My ROM hack uses a clean US ROM as the base ROM. That means to patch the ROM Hack, you will need that specific ROM.
(Unless you have the ROM already dumped from a console, then you can skip this part)


I can not distribute ROMs, but I can give out a patch that will convert clean copies of European versions of Explorers of Sky to the US dump, and a patch that will even convert unclean (Xenophobia and Bahamut) copies of any region to a clean dump.

You can find this patch here, and you can find this patch down here:

https://skytemple.github.io/patcher/?region=eu&url=https%3A%2F%2Fskytemple.github.io%2Fpatcher%2Fpatches%2Feu-to-us.xdelta&sha1=5FA96CA8D8DD6405D6CD2BAD73ED68BC73A9D152

https://skytemple.github.io/patcher/?clean


2. You will need special software to patch Explorers of Kirby onto your ROM. Please use these:


DeltaPatcher

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/704/
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xdelta UI

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/598/
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For Android users, use UniPatcher, and for MacOS users, use MultiPatch:

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/746/
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Alternatively, you can *****try***** using an Online Patcher:

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


3. If you have a clean ROM already, skip this step.
Open up the patching software and apply the "xeno_to_clean" patch onto your ROM dump. Now you have a clean ROM for Explorers of Kirby.



4. Open your software and choose the clean patched or unpatched Explorers Of Sky ROM as the base, and the Explorers of Kirby 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 Explorers of Kirby patch onto ANOTHER Clean patched or unpatched ROM. Make sure the new Kirby ROM name/directory matches your old one exactly, and the save file should carry over.