Seiken Densetsu 3 / Secret of Mana 2 with 3 player hack

Apparently there’s some sort of taboo to publish a ROM file with a hack applied. This becomes very aggravating when you can’t find the same / similar enough ROM file that the hack maker used.

Me, Amanda and my brother Bengan played Secret of Mana together (paid for it and all, Virtual Arcade rocks). It’s an amazingly good game; there are so few cooperative RPG games, especially >2 players. After finishing it, we felt we had to have more, and SD3 is the obvious candidate. But, the game was never released in the west! There’s no way that I know of to get it in English and pay for it, so I installed Homebrew Channel and Snes9X. After playing for an hour or two, after finally picking up the third player (me, of course), I pressed start to activate my control. Nothing happened. Turns out they removed the three player option from SD3. Just can’t understand why…

Anyways, I hunted hacks all over the Internet, but the one everyone linked to was 404’d, and the second one I found seemed broken; I couldn’t apply it, anyhow. Finally, I found FantasyAnime.com and their SD3 page, and to my great joy they listed the ROM - next to the patch! The patch applied cleanly; tomorrow we play!

The link above is to the ROM file with the hack applied, if anyone else goes googling for it.