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Locked my SA-1 ROM and forgot to keep a backup patch.

Hi. I released a demo of my hack recently but I watched a couple of people play through it, only to find there were many errors that I didn't notice.

At first the ROM was unlocked, but afterwards I replaced it with a locked ROM patch.

Now I don't have a backup and I can't even make vital changes to prevent the game from breaking. (boss battle not ending, unecessary pauses, awkward message boxes)

So how do I unlock my ROM? Do I have to make a few hex edits? Change the header a bit? Any help as soon as possible would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Use this program: Recover Lunar Magic v1.4
Originally posted by Syndical
Use this program: Recover Lunar Magic v1.4

I tried that already but it only supports LoROMss, Sa1ROMS are out of the question for that.
Unless for some reason you turned it off or deleted the files, all you need to do is grab a fresh rom, name it the same as your old hack and use the last restore point in LM.
Originally posted by mario90
Unless for some reason you turned it off or deleted the files, all you need to do is grab a fresh rom, name it the same as your old hack and use the last restore point in LM.

I never created a restore point.

I'm an idiot.
They create automatically though. Check if there's a sysLMRestore folder within your ROM folder. There should be a .lrp file there.
Open a new ROM with LM, go to File->Restore->Restore ROM to previous state->Browse...->select the lrp of your old ROM->Select the last restore point and click OK.