StarTropics is an action-adventure game for the NES that plays something like a cross between The Legend of Zelda and Dragon Quest. Players control American teenager Mike Jones, whose uncle Dr. J has gone missing from his laboratory on C-Island. Mike sets out to find his uncle, taking his ship/submarine on a journey across a tropical island archipelago.

Designed especially for international NES players, StarTropics is notable for being one of the few first-party NES games to never be released in Japan. One of its more innovative features at the time was requiring players to interact with a physical note included in the game box to progress in the story.

This patch fixes the header to use MMC6, in order to play hacked ROMs in emulators such as Mesen.
With this, the following hacks are playable:
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[li]Music Fix[/li]
[li]No Movement Lag[/li]
[li]Refined Mike Sprite[/li]
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You will need an IPS patch installer to patch the rom such as Lunar IPS.

Database match: StarTropics (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210216-231042)
File SHA-1: FDD3D68C7B5B2F9DC7EC50D9888B0A8EDBAAEC28
File CRC32: 2ED79B73
ROM SHA-1: 74C53FE9AC779F146C59AC01E701C9BF912B3C7B
ROM CRC32: 889129CB