Best Rom Hacks?

thelostsoul

Offtopic, but I couldn't resist:

@thelostsoul Haha, I also use domain filters in my web searches, but with startpage.com as a privacy filter for Goole. 😊

I switched my main search engine to https://duckduckgo.com/.
http://www.goole.com/ exists!

Clyde

@thelostsoul said in Best Rom Hacks?:

I switched my main search engine to https://duckduckgo.com/.

I prefer SP, because DDG is located in the Land of the ~~Free~~ Patriot Act, which severely limits its privacy capabilities. In contrast, SP is based in Europe and can be configured to only use European servers.

http://www.goole.com/ exists!

Hilarious! 😄

Triquick

Found a rom hack that just came out that people really should give a chance:

Mega Man 4 Voyage
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4268/

A Rom Hack of Mega Man 4 that completely changes level layout/Robot Master AI and interactions for a fun and challenging little game. And the best part is that its not ball busting hard like most Mega Man Rom Hacks! The author actually does the smart thing and starts off small with each stages gimmick (usually a simple room that demo what it is) before ramping the different scenarios. The Robot Master AI and gimmicks are greatly improved to create interesting fights without going overboard and overwhelming. I haven't completed the whole game yet but its worth your time to give it a chance if you enjoy Mega Man games.

quicksilver

Just got around to trying out this rom hack. It recreates the original super mario bros for NES on N64. It runs great on my pi too!

hansolo77

@quicksilver I downloaded the patch but apparently none of my no-intro romsets have a compatible game to patch it to. What is the checksum of the unpatched game you used? I'd really like to try this! :)

quicksilver

@hansolo77 I'll take a look tonight and report back

Edit:
@hansolo77 The checksum is: 48DE9B252C5740A6CA5BABE6B025EA41 and the rom name is Super Mario 64 (U) [!].z64

hansolo77

Ah I see. That little [!] makes me think it's a GoodSet, mine's a No-Intro. And my roms end in .n64 not .z64. I'll have to see if Google can help me out. :) Thanks!

quicksilver

@hansolo77 Yea I think I had to find this Mario 64 rom separately as well for a different Mario 64 romhack. Luckily I still had it floating around on my computer and it worked.

akafox

I have fallen behind on my translations/hacks. I try to keep up with them every month but I have other retropie things i need to finish!

However I do recommend the MSU-1 hacks for many games. Gives CD music to a lot of games. Some are worth it some not so much. Depends on the game. However seeing Legend of Zelda link to the past with a full motion intro on a SNES is awesome to be sure. Chrono Trigger has a VERY in depth hack for that sound track and SEVERAL FMV to go with it. But you have to pay for the soundtrack.

And yes there are many homebrew/remastered games that are really good. Asteroids that looks vector (like it should) on the Atari 2600 is a great conversation topic..as is the voice version of Berzerk (a GREAT arcade port now!) for the same system.

thelostsoul

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Mods and Romhacks

Super Mario Land DX based on Super Mario Land
A new colorization of SML is out. There is also an older and different version by "Drakon and Spikeman" floating around, which is based on a buggy colorization. This one is a complete new work from ground up by "toruzz", similar to the SML2 DX colorization and s/he even updates the graphics.

quicksilver

@thelostsoul I'll have to check this out! I literally just played through and beat this game over the weekend. A very short game, can be beaten within an hour or two.

pjft

I am not sure this qualifies as a proper ROM Hack but since it's in the romhacking.net site and it's something I'm enjoying a lot I'll share here (apologies if it's already been shared).

Super Road Blaster is, of all things, a conversion from a laserdisc game to the SNES. It's something that shouldn't really exist (an actual cartridge of such a game would take upwards of 6000 Mbit, whereas the largest commercial SNES cartridge was around 48, I believe), and yet it's probably the most enjoyable way to play this game on RetroPie, since it doesn't work on Daphne, the Sega CD version has terrible graphics and the PSX version controls terribly (same for the Sega CD one).

So yeah. It's a classic FMV game from 1986, published by Data East with animation from Toei. The video has been compressed from the HD iPhone version, and it's a mighty impressive feat for the system, really. And the controls being simple button presses instead of an attempt to simulate an analog steering wheel make the game infinitely more enjoyable and responsive.

It relies heavily on the MSU-1 chip, so it needs an up to date version of lr-snes9x (in the experimental packages section) to run.

Hope this helps someone!

thelostsoul

@pjft well, its a port and I don't know if this is considered homebrew or romhack, that does not matter (for now, I have you in my sight now, ... don't make any sudden moves!).
I had this game on my Sega CD and its the first and only FMV based game I ever owned and played. It looks quite impressive what they achieved with the conversion here. It shows how the SNES addon could have looked like. Besides the video quality, is there any other difference between the Sega CD version? It is the one on my Pi too, alongside with some other FMV games I want to try soon.

@quicksilver I also beat it by accident this year. When I just wanted try to capture a screenshot in the first stage, I ended up in the credits and I don't know what happened there. I wish some of the romhacks with new level design would work with this colorized version.

pjft

@thelostsoul so, I'm very... slowly... going to try to describe it, without any sudden moves.

Video quality is the main one compared to the sega cd one, but I seem to also find it more responsive - unsure if it's the hint positioning on the screen or just placebo.

I'd vouch for the SNES version unless you do have some strong attachment to the Sega CD version, I suppose :)

I'll slowly back off from the thread now before you shoot me.

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GtBFilms

@pjft Thanks for this! Just got it working and its great fun!

pjft

@GtBFilms glad to hear:)

There are also Amiga versions of Road Blaster and Time Gal but I have no idea of how to actually get them to work on Amiberry - and I tried.

https://pixelglass.org/

I can't for the life of me figure out how to get those going, as I never had an Amiga, but I may start a separate thread for them. :)

thelostsoul

It's been a while since the last post was done on this thread, but the topic never gets old. I have created a new extensive list of 50 SNES Romhacks, plus more stuff and thought can share it on this place. - SNES Mods and Romhacks Collection

shavecat

Amazing Hack for n64 that i just found by mistake haha

been along since someone posted here so hope its cool ;)

thelostsoul

@shavecat The mod looks really cool, good to see Falco there. But to be honest, I do not remember if Falco was in the original game or not^^. It's been a while. Here is the Young download Link for the mod:

smashremix0.9.3c.zip (current version)
All downloads

Emulatre71

I wouldn't say best but it's an interesting rom hack, which lead to another project of something similar. Mega Moemon, replaced Pokemon and giving it the Japanese moe treatment.