Big Rom Hacks & Homebrew Thread

[Capeman]

Cheetahmen II (NES):

This game is crap. Absolute crap. And before this patch, it was unbeatable crap. Even when you can beat it, it's still crap. I just played it for a half hour last night because i had to and i can tell you it's crap.

The original patch can be found on Romhacking, but was further refined by @mediamogul (who is apparently some kind of masochist, haha).

His patch which removes any "improvments" in the original patch, to make the game beatable but as authentically bad as possible. It can be found on this thread.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6523/digital-christmas

Uhg this game sucks.

[Afunnyname]

Another good hack is the super Mario 64 multiplayer hack. It allows a second player to control Luigi, I haven't played a lot of it, but it's pretty fun. Besides the troublesome n64 emulation in general the only problem is that the camera is even more annoying.

[lilbud]

@afunnyname said in Big Rom Hacks & Homebrew Thread:

Another good hack is the super Mario 64 multiplayer hack. It allows a second player to control Luigi

So what you're saying is that, in Mario 64, L is Real?

cue X-Files music

[BenMcLean]

Some good rom hacks off the top of my head:

For SNES:

Chrono Trigger: Prophet's Guile

Chrono Trigger: Flames of Eternity

Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes (leaked 100% patch)

Bahamut Lagoon (English Translation)

For Sega Genesis:

Spindash in Sonic 1

Tails in Sonic 1

Knuckles in Sonic 1

Yoshi in Sonic 2

Sonic Tetris

For N64:

Super Mario 64 Star Road

[Omnija]

If you can get past the translations of this rom hack, it's probably the greatest rom hack for FF III/VI ever.

SNES Hacks

Final Fantasy T-Edition

Super Baldy Kart

SMW2 + 2

Super mario Bros - Early Years

Super Mario world Redrawn

[Omnija]

Nes Hacks

Rockman 4 - Minus Infinity

Final Fantasy ++ and World of Chaos

Mother - 25tth Anniversary Edition

Super Pitfall - 30th Anniversary Edition

Zelda - The legend of Link

[Capeman]

Sonic 2 XL - Genesis
Wow... Every ring in the entire game is replace with onion rings, and the more you collect, the fatter sonic gets. You can work off the fat by running, but if you get too fat, you can't move and you die. It's adds a whole new dynamic to the game, and the animations of sonic rolling when he's morbidly obese is hysterical! A must play for sure!
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1027/

[hooperre]

Color me intrigued. Anyone tried it out yet? I'll be testing it for mupen on the RPi3 if someone doesn't beat me to it. May try it on Winx64 PJ64 too if that fails.

Link: http://goldeneyevault.com/viewfile.php?id=349

Edit: Opens with mupen64plus-GLide64, but fails to load levels.

[lilbud]

The new controls hack for Earthbound.
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1111/

[hooperre]

@lilbud said in Big Rom Hacks & Homebrew Thread:

The new controls hack for Earthbound.
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1111/

Would you recommend this for a first timer? I keep putting Earthbound off, but maybe this is the inspiration I need ha.

[lilbud]

@hooperre Yes, it modernizes the controls a lot so the game is a little easier. Though don't take my word for it, I haven't played Earthbound in about a year or so.

[A Former User]

A lot of great recommendations in this thread. Thanks!

[meleu]

Hey! Wazzup fellows!

I'm digging up this thread to talk a bout the homebrew Zooming Secretary, for NES.

Here's a gameplay:

You can get the ROM legally with no issues on the developer's page: https://shiru.untergrund.net/software.shtml

A cool thing about this game is that I've created RetroAchievements for it! Check it out:
http://retroachievements.org/Game/4650

[Capeman]

Nice! If we're on the subject of Homebrews for the next few minutes, i've been trying to get through Streemerz lately with little progress haha. Game is really hard!

Get it here:
https://www.fauxgame.com

[A Former User]

@capeman what in God’s name did I just watch? That was insane.

[Hyruleslink]

Here's a hack of the first NES Final Fantasy called Super Mario Fantasy Adventure. Replaces graphics, music, enemies, items, text to fit a Mario theme. Very impressive:
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1293/

PS. I made a custom NES cover for this game if anyone downloads this and is interested.

[A Former User]

Castlevania: The Holy Relics was released recently and is excellent.

Patch can be found here: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3759/

[Capeman]

OOOHH YEAH! We got a doozie here! Just released! The Mario Land 2 Gameboy Color DX hack! Full color added to SMW2 and the ability to play as Luigi with altered physics! This is an absolutely ambitious hack and one I've been following development of for a long time! Enjoy!
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3784/

[mediamogul]

@capeman

This was a good month for ROM hacks. Two translation hacks that are worth mentioning are 'Super Famicom Wars' and 'Battle Golfer Yui'. Released on Christmas Eve, 'Super Famicom Wars' marks the final entry of the Japanese-only "Nintendo Wars" series to be fully fan-translated into English. The series was first officially introduced outside of Japan as 'Advance Wars' for the GameBoy Advance, which has gone on to have several successful sequels of it's own.

'Battle Golfer Yui' is one that was just released two days ago and I'm dying to play it. Apparently it's an "Adventure/RPG/Golf game hybrid about an evil organization making cyborg "battle golfers" in order to take over the world." That description alone is worth the price of admission and I'm looking forward to putting some time into it this evening. The Japanese have always had a flare for unique and interesting RPG titles. Pretty much everyone knows how amazing 'Earthbound' is and the 'River King' series is another great example, being an RPG/Fishing game hybrid. Good stuff all around and some great games for the new year.

[Capeman]

@mediamogul A golf adventure rpg... SIGN ME UP!