Don-chan Puzzle: Hanabi de Don! is a puzzle game for the Nintendo 64 (Aleck64).

Hanabi de Doon! Don-chan Puzzle Retail N64 Hack

This series of patches allow a retail N64 console to run the various Aleck64 title. It mimics the hardware registers used for the DIP and hardware switches and pushes N64 controller output to the joystick registers. The bootstrap has one additional opcode to pass the correct seed byte.
You'll need an 8MB expansion pak, and optionally a 4K or 16K eeprom to save settings and scores.


As of version 1.1, standalone patches were abandoned in favor of an autopatcher. This requires either 64bit Windows or something compatible.
You'll need to provide both ua3003-all01.u3 and ua3003-alh01.u4. (MAME's filenames in doncdoon correspond to these two ICs.) Although these two files are natively little endian, the patcher accepts either byteorder. They will be tested against known good SHA512s. Incorrect or bad files will display an error.
Select any applicable DIP switches, then output an N64-compatible ROM usable on hardware. Output is native byteorder (big endian), using a 5101 CIC.


Release Log

V1.1 ‎Aug ‎31, ‎2021
*Gamma correction fix for console. Aleck's RGB out doesn't use gamma!
*Timestamp added to header at 0x34.
*Change to (bloated) autopatching method.
*Added DIP switch reference.
V1.0 Jan 02, ‎2015
*Original Release

Two binaries are required:

ua3003-all01.u3
MD5:
f4ca9922c486691426dfa3e6f1bf9a6c
SHA512:
2f78b5fcfac0eceab7b5808f5ed01568e8dd2005486711191f2e09a6f562aab20527acb24ddefa5032fa5dce511a986be5eccad4baffff4db87e4d9611ef6c8d

ua3003-alh01.u4
MD5:
e8848fcd631b852ce464a2ba567762b7
SHA512:
e920539fd4ae1da013ae7cfa515fc2bf6758e42215d013a98157298df61a806fd187b15a9aa621c75f0480647bcae4b22c019fcc994a98b50df925143f1a5ce9