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Mario Bros. (1983)

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Yeah this really cheesed me off! I mean this is one of very few modern released games I was looking forward to actually buying, actually supporting the devs and they release the game on Steam and I buy it only to discover there's no NES ROM file included as there was with the demo. I guess we shouldn't have expected this as it was never an advertised feature. But we assumed that if the demo had the ROM file, the full version would to. Okay so whatever I bought the game and it didn't have the ROM file. But then only days later I hear that the game is going to be free on EGS in just a matter of days? Oh FFS you have to be kidding me. So I got a refund on Steam (the first time in 12 years I've ever done this!) and get the game for free on EGS. The EGS version doesn't include the NES ROM file either but at this point it's a free game so whatever. But then just a few days later I find out the Steam version gets a new update that now gives access to the NES ROM file!

Anyway, it's here now and it doesn't change the fact that the game itself is actually really good. If I didn't know any of this I'd still happily buy this game on Steam right now to get access to that sweet sweet NES ROM. It's possible the EGS version eventually gives access to the ROM file but as of making this video no one has figured it out.

If you have the Steam version here's how to get the ROM file.
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In the game files under Rugrats_Data/Plugins there is a file called "steamworks_rugrats" with no file extension. Its a tar.xz compressed archive so extract it with 7zip or similar and rename the resulting file with .NES at the end.