Guided practice runs
A guided run is a card that walks one browser workflow step by step on homebrew practice files. No commercial game data is involved, and nothing is uploaded.
Runs
| Run | Steps | Files |
|---|---|---|
| Apply | 5 | Waits for you to add files; Continue loads first-weave.zip |
| Apply cheats | 4 | Loads hello-world.nes |
| Weave | 4 | Loads first-weave.zip |
| Create | 5 | Loads hello-world.nes and modified-world.nes |
| Create cheats | 4 | Loads hello-world.nes |
| Test | 2 | Loads hello-world.nes |
Guided Apply's steps are add your files, or identify the original ROM by game name or checksum instead, then check your original ROM (with the Simple and Detailed views), patches and cheats, and apply. Continue on the first step moves to the Identify search under the empty drop zone; there, Continue with no files in loads first-weave.zip. Once a ROM is added or the patches supply the ROM checks, the page hides the search, and Continue and Back pass over it; with a ROM but no patch yet, Continue on the first step loads first-weave.zip instead. Your first patch in the browser follows it to a verified checksum.
Apply, Create, and Weave include a Simple/Detailed comparison. Its buttons change the live view without advancing the guide. Apply frames the Identify search before any files are added; the comparison names the Detailed view’s Identify drawer.
Guide cards fit their content without an internal scrollbar. The first step includes a click/drop demonstration; reduced-motion preferences disable its movement.
On screens 640 px wide or narrower, a step with a Try it line shows its title, Try it, and buttons. More shows the step's explanation, including the first step's demonstration and practice-file download, and stays open on later steps. The guide does not open a patch's menu for you on these screens.
A step that needs a control the page does not show, such as the Simple/Detailed switch, is left out. ✕ or Esc ends a run; files already added stay. The guide never opens drawers, including the optional download jobs. A patch menu opened by the guide closes again when it ends, including after its final action.
Where a run starts
- A link with
?guide=, as in the table above. It works even when the sample link is hidden. - The sample link below an empty drop zone, named for its page: Patch a practice ROM offers Apply and Apply cheats, Make a patch from practice ROMs offers Create and Create cheats, and Share practice patches as a weave and Play a practice ROM offer their own run.
Hide practice-run links in that menu removes the sample link; the Show practice-run links setting brings it back.
Ways files get into Apply
All of these feed 0x01 Inputs, which puts each file on its card.
| Route | Accepts |
|---|---|
| Drop files | ROMs, patches, archives, and weaves, several at once |
| Drop a folder | Every file inside, including subfolders; hidden files are skipped |
| Add files | The file picker; touch screens show Tap to choose files |
| Archives | ZIP, 7z, RAR, tar, and nested archives; see container formats |
| Continue with no files in | Guided Apply only: on the Identify step, loads first-weave.zip onto the bench |
| Download first-weave.zip | The guide card's first step: saves it to add by any route above |
Practice files
| File | Contents | Sample link download |
|---|---|---|
first-weave.zip |
hello-world.nes, two IPS patches, and a weave manifest |
Download a test weave (Apply, Weave) |
first-create.zip |
hello-world.nes and modified-world.nes |
Download samples (Create) |
hello-world.nes |
Homebrew NES ROM that shows HELLO WORLD |
Download the sample ROM (Test) |
The first step of every run offers its practice files as one download on the guide card: first-weave.zip for Apply and Weave, first-create.zip for Create, and hello-world.nes for Test and both cheat runs.
The practice cheat catalog unlocks only for hello-world.nes, matched by checksum.