diff --git a/changelog.txt b/changelog.txt
index 62dea3c0..d9fe6e57 100644
--- a/changelog.txt
+++ b/changelog.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ---version 2.0.4 yet to be released---
 
+08-nov-2008 - zeromus - big endian wasnt compiling. fix issues.
 02-nov-2008 - shinydoofy - added --fcmconvert for SDL
 02-nov-2008 - zeromus - emulua - add rom.readbyte and rom.readbytesigned
 
diff --git a/src/state.cpp b/src/state.cpp
index 4fef6f58..61e84ef4 100644
--- a/src/state.cpp
+++ b/src/state.cpp
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ SFORMAT SFCPUC[]={
 	{ 0 }
 };
 
+void foo(uint8* test) { (void)test; }
+
 static int SubWrite(std::ostream* os, SFORMAT *sf)
 {
 	uint32 acc=0;
@@ -118,7 +120,7 @@ static int SubWrite(std::ostream* os, SFORMAT *sf)
 
 #ifndef LSB_FIRST
 			if(sf->s&RLSB)
-				FlipByteOrder(sf->v,sf->s&(~FCEUSTATE_FLAGS));
+				FlipByteOrder((uint8*)sf->v,sf->s&(~FCEUSTATE_FLAGS));
 #endif
 
 			if(sf->s&FCEUSTATE_INDIRECT)
@@ -129,7 +131,7 @@ static int SubWrite(std::ostream* os, SFORMAT *sf)
 			//Now restore the original byte order.
 #ifndef LSB_FIRST
 			if(sf->s&RLSB)
-				FlipByteOrder(sf->v,sf->s&(~FCEUSTATE_FLAGS));
+				FlipByteOrder((uint8*)sf->v,sf->s&(~FCEUSTATE_FLAGS));
 #endif
 		}
 		sf++;
@@ -197,7 +199,7 @@ static bool ReadStateChunk(std::istream* is, SFORMAT *sf, int size)
 
 #ifndef LSB_FIRST
 			if(tmp->s&RLSB)
-				FlipByteOrder(tmp->v,tmp->s&(~FCEUSTATE_FLAGS));
+				FlipByteOrder((uint8*)tmp->v,tmp->s&(~FCEUSTATE_FLAGS));
 #endif
 		}
 		else