/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9385670
Nostalgia for simpler times. NES is my favorite console and I grew up in a Latin American shit hole where Famiclones and pirate carts were easier to find than official NES carts. We were not as bad about it as the Dendy regions, but you could find all sorts of shit passing itself like ports of 16-bit games or "licensed" games that were just sprite and/or title screen hack. In some cases, it was fun to buy a cheap cart with a random cover to see what game it is when you booted the cart. I used to spend a lot of my internet time in NES sites and forums. The late '90s and early '00s were the golden age of simple and crude rom hacks. We are spoiled by the amount of translation shit we have these days, back then rom hack just meant sloppy and shitty for the sake of humor or just to brag you could. There were rom translations, but they were few and far in between In anything text heavy, so people aspiring to do rom hacks were just the bored teenagers and college kids who could not translate, but could come up with their own ideas, like sprite comic and sprite flash videos. I was part of that, and it takes me back to the pre YouTube internet era. Arguably the pre RHDN era, when you had to go to Donut Parodius / The Whirlpool to get your patches if your internet was too shit for getting rom sets.