/vr/ - Retro Games

A little late on this news, but I've finished stage 1 of Nambona's Revenge, and on real hardware.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq04VdcUZdY

And as an extra surprise, I've decided to release a 1 level demo!
http://namboner.com/myfilehostingshit/NambonasRevengeDemo1.bps

>>5121098
You should fix your link for "best SM64 hack ever made".

>>5121232
I'll add "The bestest SM64 hack ever made" then.

Rom hack recommendation without the blog post this time:

Hyper Metroid. It's fucking good. peak upside: lacks all the things that tend to irk me about SM hacks, except for... Peak downside: (from my experience) was larger maps making the backtracking aspects of Super Metroid a bit of a pain. Otherwise it was amazing and different enough that the original to feel like a whole new experience.

While im at it do you guys know any other hacks for SM that are good? I've heard Super Zero mission is neat, but aside from that i don't hear much.

Any good SMW hacks that loosely stick with the original style graphics with a new overworld and levels? Something you'd see out of VLDC for instance but follows the normal beat the level to continue formula.

>>5122017
Here's a few:
Airy
Ancient Chozo
Darkholme Hospital (Opinions vary on this, I personally like it)
Digital Cube (This one is just a short puzzle hack)
Eris
Escape II
Ice Metal Uninstall
Phazon Hack
Z-Factor
Y-Faster
Redesign Axeil Edition (I cannot stress enough how much Axeil Edition improves Redesign. If you played the original a long time ago I urge you to give this version a shot)

>>5122082

Thank you kind sir, now that i think of it i do remember taking a look at Eris. I've seen a few of these names, but plenty are new to me as well. I'll think about it on the redesign... i knew a new version was released, but damn my experience with the original was so frustrating.

>>5122017
>Hyper Metroid
Got missiles, Grapple beam, morph ball and bombs, then went to grab Charge beam. Both doors locked gray, and there are no enemies left to kill. I can safely say I've had more fun with the randomizer than this hack at this point.

>>5122059
I'm keen for some SMW hack recommendations too. I trawled a few on smwcentral but didn't find any great ones that have a feel like the original game. I guess i'm looking for a SMW "sequel" type hack that isnt trivial or kaizo.

Also, i remember reading about a /vr/ SMW romhack collaboration a while back (maybe 6 months) - did that go anywhere? If so does anyone have a link?

Reminder: you should start a disassembly of your favorite game.

>>5122687
I don't think you looked hard enough.
I figured it out in less than five minutes.

>>5122816
I did. I started a lot of things.
Finishing things isn't what I do.

>>5122864
Did you put it on GitHub so other people can contribute?

>>5122886
Don't overestimate what I mean by "start"

But on that note; Is there any interest for doing a /rhg/ disassembly?

>>5121098
yeah, no

>>5122082
>Y-Faster
Kraid shoots "spikes" at you.

>>5123178
It's glorious.

>>5122687

what >>5122818 said. If you're playing a new classic style metroid game and not shooting everything/anything that looks suspicious then you're doing it wrong.

>>5123178
>>5123830

Which hack has "Barf kraid" again?

What are some rom hacks with good story. I want to experience something new, but I've played most games with good story. Any console is fine.

>>5122059
Shameless plug: https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=16483

>>5125141
why does the length say " 7 exit(s) " but the description says " 6 exits." ?

>>5125187
Miscount, it's seven

>>5125141
i like the

Has anyone checked out this new Void Divergence mod for Final Fantasy V?

It's changes all sorts of mechanics and adds many as well! It might become the Brave New World of FF5.

I'm guessing the answer is no, but is there any sort of romhack that gets rid of SNES add-on chip stuff from games to make the roms playable on an everdrive? For example, Mega Man X 2 and 3 use CX4 chips to do some 3D wireframe stuff. I'm wondering if anyone has ever gone through and disabled/replaced these effects.

where my New Threat anons at?

Why is kaizo shit so popular. Who actually plays ugly levels that are mostly spikes and hidden boxes and that are almost impossible to finish? It's fucking stupid.

>>5128043
Some players really dig that challenge

>>5122017
this looks real good. Is it recent?

>>5128115
It's a couple years old. 2015.

>>5127993
Of course not. To do so would require extensive modification to remove all parts of the game that rely on the special chip. The only thing like this I'm aware of is I think Star Ocean, and all the chip did was compression so the hack just decompresses everything and expands the ROM to fuckhuge size.

>>5128043
Found another in the "STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE" crowd.

>>5125054
> zophar.net/hacks/nes/legend-of-zelda2.html

it lists a hack where you are zelda going to save link, says there are a lot of changes in it

I only love Mega Man romhacks

>>5128679
Thanks. I didn't mean it had to be Zelda though. Anything with a good story would be great.

>>5128590
He's not saying "don't like what i don't like", he's saying "why are there more impossibly hard and badly designed levels than there are normal, playable levels?" which is a good question, as only mad people want to savescum grind kaizo levels. The answer of course is that the romhacking scene has a high proportion of mad people in it.

I know this chart is old as fuck, I saved it in 2016, but it provided me with some good original smw romhacks to play.

>>5129610
In terms of SMW romhacks that stay true to SMW in terms of style, I recommend:

1. Super Mario Worldwide 2
2. Return to Dinosaur Land
3. Super Moogle World

>>5125141
So did anyone try it?

>>5122771
After the first thread got archived, the main organizer behind the collab seemingly disappeared so it basically died there. Only 4 levels from 3 different posters + a few graphical changes were ever made. You can get the latest baserom here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Yu1O3ossDKknjxvxXBxSZd7DSDYkOKc6

Also the thread for reference:

>>/vr/thread/S4857264

>>5129578
That's really not that many kaizo hacks though. People just consider anything harder than the original game to be "kaizo."

The issue I find with many SMW hacks is artificial difficulty. There is no payoff for things like Kaizo unless you have autism.

>>5129632
>>5125141
I've enjoyed it thus far, my only issue is the music in the castle annoys the fuck out of me. The little techno synth that loops over the castle music gives me a headache. I liked the boss though, a good change up idk if you made it or not but it is good. Didn't realize quite how to damage him until I died twice.

>>5129632
I was dragging my heels on playing yet another SMW hack but this is actually really charming. Most hacks I've played are either boringly vanilla, unrecognizable madness bolted on to the SMW engine, or somehow both. This hits that sweet spot where it feels different, but naturally so. I look up and wonder if there's a secret and there it is. I need a powerup but there doesn't seem to be one, so I snoop around and there it is. Feels good.

If I'd known it was going to be so solid I wouldn't have let you pay me so much for those assembly hacks

>>5122687
Don't bother. I got to Norfair and couldn't find fucking Super Missiles anywhere. At that point I already had access to like 50 rooms, so no shit I didn't bother re-checking them for that one hidden stash with the god damn Super Missiles.

>>5130136
Ah shit nigger, I'll send you an e-mail.

>>5129847
You're the only one so far to mention the castle track, so hm. The boss was custom made, yeah. I was planning to change up the boss to be easier cause it's world 1 but I thought it was intuitive enough myself.

>>5130153
Goddamn, you really suck at Metroid.

I'm trying to play the secret of mana gameplay improvement patch on my super everdrive china version and it gets a black screen on the save load menu everytime. It plays music but there's a black screen.

Anyone else see this issue?

Really sucks because having the scroll fix would be really nice.

>>5130513
Is the scroll fix even in the improvement patch? I thought it was a separate patch.

>>5130515
>Is the scroll fix even in the improvement patch? I thought it was a separate patch.
I'll look and see if i can find a separate scroll fix and use that. I mainly wanted it for that, the mp meter, and the better cpu ai

>>5130515
>>5130520
The separate scroll hack works fine it appears. I will have to make do without the gameplay improvement patch I guess.

>>5129827
it's a problem with modern platformers in general.
they have no sense of balance, they just stuff as many hazards onto the screen as possible, then give you savestate-like checkpoints so that it's not unplayable.

>>5130546
You know with SNES you have to mind the headers. It's always the first thing to check if the patch isn't working. The second thing is check for rom revisions.

>>5130586
IF I CAN DIE THEN IT'S INSTANTLY KAIZO AND ITS BAD

Sometimes I get so worked up playing Kaizo I can't get to sleep without at least two joints.

It's so intense. My friend was talking to me about it and he's real concerned. He started weeping. But I love the kaizo so much, I can't quit.

A guide to romhack difficulty, since people seem to be confused.

>vanilla
>on par with the original game in terms of challenge
>you won't find many hacks like this, since most romhackers make something they would enjoy and they tend to be experts at the game they are hacking

>normal
>much harder than the original game, usually from the very start, likely to require special techniques and skills the vanilla game doesn't
>most common hack you will find, these hacks are the reason most romhacks are considered "hard mode" hacks

>kaizo
>designed to be as hard as possible to play
>less common than normal hacks but more common than vanilla hacks, only masochists play this shit on real hardware, everyone else savestates through and then says "look what I beat!"

>>5131101
Having Normal as a separate, harder category from Vanilla is fucking stupid. Normal and Vanilla should be interchangeable, and Normal renamed to Difficult.
Otherwise, people just get confused.

>>5130165
Nah man, that is good for world 1. Remember the SMW boss in I think World 1 where you had to knock buddy into the lava? not exactly easy.

Perhaps it was just my ears then.

>>5131109
But your average "normal" romhack is much harder than the original game. This is the way things are. You can scream that romhackers should change their naming to reflect difficulty better, but they won't. That is what they consider a normal hack.

>>5125141
I really enjoyed your romhack, i played it a few months back. I went through a whole bunch of romhacks looking for quality and a familiar smw feel, and not being too difficult, and yours was one of the few i found that fit that criteria. Kudos!

Have you updated it in the last few months? The copy i played only had the first island.

>>5129847
>>5130165
I actually really liked the castle music. Felt new/fresh but kept an original tune.

>>5128048
>>5128590
Levels can be hard without invisible blocks and being 99% spikes and awkwardly placed enemies. Kaizo garbage is the definition of artificial difficulty.

>>5127980
Can you tell me more about it? The only FFV hack I played is the ancient cave one, while I love it to death I kinda wish it had the localization upgrades so I don't play it as much as I'd like, so was looking for something else FFV to try.
I mean I can go and look for a point list of features but I'd prefer to hear the opinion of someone who played it. You know a lot of those sound great but then aren't what you expected.

>>5129578
Well that's actually a bit of a composite problem. You know how some games used to be hard as nails because the developers tested the game to death and kept finding it progressively easier to the point they had to up the challenge? Combine that with a player that knows the game even more than that, then designs their own levels.
The only way they are gonna consider it challenging is by making it a lot harder or to rely more on advanced techniques or exploits.
It's sadly a natural thing unless the thing has several testers of varying skill levels to keep things in check.

>>5131624
It's turn based FFV with BD-style turn building, only in-combat MP management(since it fuels turns), CC-style field elements, and new or rebalanced jobs, equipment, and abilities. I wouldn't call it great yet, certainly not on the level of the other FF hacks on that site, but it has the potential to get there if it's polished up.

>>5132393
Sounds pretty cool, I'll check it out

Note: Void Divergence has had zero effort put into balance as of yet

>>5132546
Keep us updated, I'd like to hear your opinion throughout the game

>>5130153

How the fuck are you this bad.

I am playing New Threat and having a good time. It makes FF7 a very engaging and deep experience.

>>5122816
But other people already disassembled my favorite game.

>>5129720
>People just consider anything harder than the original game to be "kaizo."
You and I both know that's bullshit.

>>5132979
was it SM?

>>5133002
Pokémon Crystal. I've messed with it a lot but never finished anything worth publicly posting besides music used in other hacks.

What newer SMW romhacks have been making rounds?

>>5133364
Invictus, but I've been annoyed with it going everywhere, mainly because of some really shit things that happened between me and Juzcook (the author) in January.

>want to play mario world romhack
>realize I've already played the handful of good ones

>>5132984
if my time in mario maker has taught me anything, it's that kaizo just means there's an invisible block somewhere

Does anyone have experience with CoilSnake, or Earthbound hacking in general?
Any idea what I'd need to do to have an alternate start?

Why should I play New Threat? Why is it so good?

>>5134182
>watches this
needs a non non biyori hack

>>5132393
That...actually sounds pretty good. I'll give it a shot sometime around Christmas.

>>5134182
I don't get the reference. The edits are kinda cute tho.

Alright, so I want to go through this game again and I want to know if any difficulty hacks are worth looking into. I found something but the Google results that I get are mixed.

>>5134182
I believe they call that part the flyover, so search the resources for that term.

Void Divergence is pretty fun so far

>>5132848
Really that good? Might try to put it on my pstv, if possible.

>>5135438
Can you play the PC version of FF7 on pstv?

Preview of Stage 2 of Nambona's Revenge, done savestateless with a new capture card, and some ASM show-off at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E69ohAhRKF4

>>5135705
Ahh, shit. My bad.

>>5134362
It's FFVII with an equipment system that has some depth, enemies that actually fight back, character differences that go deeper than limits, lots of new content, and an actual dedicated character building system.

>>5129638
Thanks anon. It's a shame it died, i'm going to give this WIP a play anyway.

>>5136004
Well, i've failed to get a working rom for this one. Tried Lunar IPS and FLIPS patchers, and tried patching 3 different SMW roms, but none worked. Am i missing something obvious?

I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask but I need help regarding extracting sounds from wizards and warriors 3 for the NES, normally I'd just reduce sound channels to isolate the sounds from the music but this game has the sounds and certain parts of the music on the same channel.

Is there anything that can be done?

>>5136091
Nevermind I'm fucking retarded, because those parts of the music and the sounds share a channel, the sounds take priority, giving me a gap to cleanly cut the sounds I want out.
Disregard me, I suck cocks.

>>5136142
Good. Now I don't have to suggest something complicated that likely wouldn't have worked anyways.

>>5135892
That sounds good

>>5128030
What's this?

>>5136015
Try this one:

https://bin.smwcentral.net/u/26283/vrhack040718.bps

Might not be the most up to date version, but still it includes all four completed levels plus another one I was working on before the collab died.

Is there any way to inject sfc-quality music tracks into the Dragon Quest games on the DS? I love the graphics and music of the originals, but the quality of life improvements on the DS ports are too much to resist. There's only one problem: literally all DS music is cancer.
except eo

>>5122816
How do I learn about it? Not retro but I'm surprised that there's no Kirby and the Amazing Mirror hacks yet.

How does one begin with romhacks for gen 2 Pokemon?

>>5137814
Start by downloading the Crystal disassembly and building the original ROM from it. Then start changing stuff.

>>5137562
Thanks, that one worked well. Quite fun levels, some interesting gimmicks but not too hard. Wish /rhg/ had finished it!

Bumpin'

Got some really bad designer's block right now.
Don't know what to add into the level.

Planning to make all the levels at least 2 minutes long, but so far it's only 1 minute long.

What's done of the level so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGwVidQiuM4

>>5141915
cool

>>5141915
you might wanna try designing good levels, that usually prevents me from having block

>>5142017
This. Fuck off with your outdated meme kaizo shit.

>>5142031

>>5141915
Make a hack so that bad players like me can enjoy it. Something SMW special zone difficulty for those that can finish the game but arent particularly good.
Youre welcome for the inspiration.

>>5142167
outrageous is harder than any SMW hack, to be quite honest with you

>>5142181
do you mean tubular? because even that isn't harder

>>5142193
i found tubular the hardest and it's easier than a lot of hacks i've attempted to play

Actually, just had an idea.
In the next section, I'll have sprites go through Layer 2, and also have the horizontal level wrap enabled so that when you go above the top of the screen, you come out the bottom, and vice versa.

>>5142193
tubular can be memorized since it's not a RNG clusterfuck

>>5141915
Maybe you can have a section where it looks impossible to pass through, but if you do some tricky, difficult maneuvers that seem impossible to execute, then you can make it through.

Bmp

>>5141915
Oh my!

>>5142220
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qESmNGxg4g4

>waiting for Final Fantasy VIII New Threat

Damn it, Second Reality Project Re: is kicking my ass
Damn it, this is a hard hack!

Hi, is there anyone who can compose ports to insert into smw using amk? Asking because id like to have an unsampled version of this machine from sonic heroes.

Stage 2 is complete!
https://youtu.be/T3cP61slwiY

>>5146875
Autism

>>5146931
Thanks for the feedback!

>>5146875
At 20 seconds in, can't you just crouch-jump up along into the munchers to shrink yourself instead of needing to get the poison mushroom?

>>5146973
Red munchers kill you instantly, regardless of whether you have a powerup or not.

>>5147017
Ah, I see. I guess I've only seen the regular yellow ones before. Do the other color munchers have other properties?

>>5147197
Purple munchers hurt Mario, but let sprites through.
Green munchers instantly kill mario, but let sprites through.

>>5146039
wait a minute, FF8?

Any noteworthy SM64 romhacks that work on real hardware via flashcart?

Do the Final Fantasy V/VI GBA music hacks (replacing the iffy GBA music with the SNES music) work on real hardware, and if so, how exactly? My understanding is that the reason for the GBA FF's shittier music was because of an inferior soundchip. Do the romhacks just add pre-recorded SNES tracks or what?

Crab

anyone still interesting in composing sonic heroes - this machine for smw, using smw's samples please?

>>5146875
Why do you keep posting these when no one likes your shit? Like, take a good long look at this level: in one part you're keeping an enemy alive by pressing On/Off blocks at the right time and in another part you're fucking about with vertical screen wrap and gravity. These are ideas that could easily be the main gimmick of their own levels but instead you're awkwardly blending them together resulting in a shitty unfocused level. Just because it's Kaizo doesn't mean you should try out all conventions of proper level design. Tl;dr fuck off faggot.

>>5148164
i like his levels. I don't understand the hatred for his levels other than some rumor about making bad doom levels or somethings and permanently prejudging him on that.

Of all the translations that Gideon Zhi sat on for 8+ years, which should bhdn hack now?

>>5135884
Will this hack be publicly available? I'm interested in trying it out.

>>5148214
Madara 2

>>5148214
I'd say Goemon 2, since turn-based shit is dull, although I don't care about playing it.
I kinda rather see Time Twist for FDS translated since there's Jew themes and black lynching themes, but I know I won't play it since I don't care.

>>5148214
still waiting on ganbare goemon 2-4 and retrans of mystical nigga

>>5148171
I definitely did make a lot of trolly Doom levels, but not really anymore.

>>5148164
I like seeing videos of his levels. I'd never bother playing them, but posting them played out is kinda neat. You do have a point though. He could focus on things like themes and just making it look better and it would improve the levels immensely.

>>5148864
The current level I'm working on has a cape theme to it, so it's not mostly a variety pack like the first two levels.

>>5148930
I want to see it

>>5149085
Well you're in luck, because I just finished a playthrough of the first half.
https://youtu.be/zgZwIsp8U_Y

>>5149090
awww the music is so beautiful

>>5149096
Had a hard time trying to find a good song to use.

What are some romhacks about bumping threads?

>>5149696
this one i guess

>>5148017

i can't answer your question entirely, but i do know that the music/soundfix for GBA ffVI adds full orchestration and voice to the opera house performance as a personal touch by the creator of the patch.

Some of those soundhacks are a little weird like that FF6 soundhack that turns the battle theme into its metal version

How's Metroid: Rogue Dawn? I just remembered it existed today and the only thing I can remember about it is that the graphics looked kind of nice.

>>5150381
This, I'll never understand adding unfitting music to games. How jarring does it have to be before you stop

>>5150569
It's excellent. The story is very fanficy, but it doesn't detract from the great atmosphere and smooth gameplay.

I'm waiting for Return of the Dark Sorcerer

I just want this to be released in English:

https://poematocx.com/ff6t/

>>5151014
I'e half a mind to just play this with my zero knowledge of JP. I don't care.

I'll figure it out!

Baddest Hacks is down. Anyone know why?

>>5151940
How long has it been down?

>>5151984
Since at least this morning

>>5151940
Admin said DNS error.
Might be up tomorrow.

>>5152261
Cool, thanks.

Damnit I hate ice

>>5152474
>The Second Reality Project
Ice is the least of your worries.

Are any JRPG rom hacks worth it? Like in new story + settings / etc.?

>>5152615
New story? That's a tall order

But when it comes to favourite JRPG romhacks, I'd say New Threat, Brave New World, Alternate Fantasy, and Super Mario Armegeddon are the best

bump

>>5152615
Well, have you played Dragoon X Omega 1 & 2 yet?

I've been pretty active in the SMW romhacking scene from 2010 to 2012 (I've made a pre-patched romhack pack and a few charts, for example the one >>5129610 posted), but since then I've been out of the loop. What are some great SMW romhacks that have come out since 2013? I'm talking something that can parallel masterpieces like SMW2+3, TSRP2 etc.

>>5156341
Here's an image of my mediafire folder, just to not look like some fake shithead

>>5156347
umm that image doesn't prove anything especially cuz you just showed 3 compressed files
an actual mediafire link would be more proof

>>5156374
Alright, here you go then:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/831iidazfebdhau/SMW+Hacks+v3.rar
I guess this still makes for a good collection, it's just outdated.

>>5156375
neat thx i was just bullying anyway

>>5156378
No problem lad, enjoy the pre-patched romhacks, you also have two charts there.

>>5149696

I believe in the power of the romhack

>that 30 year old boomer who still plays Brutal Mario

>>5158605
Why the hell not? It's a good hack even if it's unfinished.

>>5158627
>mediocre level design
>bosses/gimmicks feel cheap

I don't get the love for this hack

>>5159339
These goddamned kids and their new-fangled tools...Back in my day we didn't have all these sprite tools and AddMusics, we had TRASM, and boy did it do its job. We didn't need a goddamned overhaul for TRASM, but then this goddamned new generation needed "a better assembler." A better assembler, as if that were possible! What kind of goddamned tomfoolery are these goddamned kids trying to pull on us older folks?! Brutal Mario didn't need your goddamned PIXIE or GIPPY or whatever goddamned tool you goddamned teenagers are using today. I can't even keep track of it, goddammit! What kind of name even is PIXIE? What, is Tinker Bell just going to magically solve all your goddamned problems? Goddamned kids always relying on fairy tales, it never changes! These goddamned teenagers are always causing a ruckus for us old folks and goddammit they make this shit too hard for older folks. I'm an old man, sonny, do I look like I know what a goddamn SA-1 remap is? I just want my good ol' reliable Yoshi's Island sprites, and you little goddamned rascals can't even convert the goddamned YI Ball n' Chain. The ball and chain, goddammit! That was a classic back in my day, and your new-fangled gadgets can't even add it into your hacks anymore because your new little gadgets can't even support the goddamn thing! Just work with me, boy! It's not that hard to go back to the old ways, goddammit, just give me back my goddamned TRASM! These goddamned kids don't know squat about how the oldies did it old-school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD0KIXre7a8

Hope you guys don't mind of this Peach

Huh, that FFV Void Divergence hack is...actually pretty cool.
I just wish it had some form of ancient cave built in. Because damn I'd play that to death.

>>5160393

>>5160393
Why?

>>5122059
This Hack Needs A Name.

It is like Super Mario World but in an alternate dimension.

>>5161108
Super Mario Elseworld
Super Other World

>>5148491
>>5148694

>>5148694
There's a 99% complete Goemon 2 SFC translation DDS Translation is sitting on since 2014 or so because the lead translator/image editor Avicalendriya won't allow it to be released "unfinished".
https://twitter.com/DDSTrans/status/1052039501181329409
It'll surely be released at some point, in some form.

There's also this Rai who has been appearing on an off on message boards since 2012 showing some progress on hacking Goemon 3 and 4 SFC.
Here's the last I saw anything from him, in 2016.
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=22957
Not too sure about this one, but it's the closest thing to an actual translation project for those two games.

Personally, my most wanted Goemon translation is the first PS1 game, the one that plays a lot like Goemon 3 SFC and has two new characters instead of Yae and Sasuke.

>>5148263
I'm working on it on and off, expect it to be finished around late december though. Not planning on making it too short but don't expect much content

>>5160393
>Fat Toadstool
>Plays this game
>Ahh my pingy

What SMW hacks won't break in Snes9xgx? A ton of the ones I tried get broken-ass music.

>>5161672
I assume most modern hacks could be played on modern hardware.

>>5161672
Either hacks that don't have custom music, or hacks with custom music that were made after 2014.

>>5120879
Hi /vr/! Can you help me a bit?
I'm looking for a hard Super Mario World ROM hack, but not at the crazy level of Kaizo. Like, pretty hard but fair. There is something like that or I should try to play Kaizo until I smash my keyboard against the wall?

I finally added a new section to my level after a week of designer's block, yay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU-HB_T8HVk

>>5162537
I like

>>5162351
Second Reality Project

>>5162673
Well you'll be happy to hear that I just finished it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1styWRfVPoY

but who was romhack?

>>5163902
carol

>>5157651
Yes. This was done in game.

I used an level editor to move the block over (and the goomba away.)
Then I drew the graphics, 4 tiles for both states. Since the brick uses only two tiles, I placed the "This Post" graphics over the pipe graphics, and the "Bump" tiles over the beetle ones (as the hit block is a sprite and the game uses 8x8px tiles, the sprites can only use the sprite half of the tiles.)
The available documentation had the tile makeup of the brick, so that was easy to change. But there is a routine that changes the tiles to make the block disappear when hit, spawns a sprite version of the brick block to do the bouncing part, then changes the tile back to the brick graphics after it's done. So even if you change the tiles, they just turn back to normal after you hit the block.
To fix this, I set a write breakpoint on the PPU memory for that tile (hovering over the tile in the Name Table Viewer tells me what address it lives at.) The break triggered in the middle of a generic write_these_tiles_here function, so I repeated the process. I looked at where it got the value it was trying to write, checked out that memory address, and set a breakpoint there. When that one triggered, I looked at where it was coming from. At this chunk of memory, I noticed a "45 47 45 47" which was the tiles of the brick block I was looking for. I changed it and it worked, the graphics changed to the new tiles after being hit.
For the sprite, I took decided to try searching for "85 86 85 86", the tiles for the sprite version of the brick block. Unfortunately there were no results found. However I tried changing the order, "85 85 86 86" and found only one result. I changed it and it was what I hoped it was.

After a screen capture and trimming the footage, the result was this webm.

If you would like to try doing something of similar scope, feel free to ask and maybe we can walk you through how to do it.

>>5120879
>http://pastebin.com/urs2AUgv
that's way too long to be useful.

what are the top 5 SMW hacks for instance, for a newb to try, having already 100%ed the vanilla games?

>>5165039
Gamma V's hacks are decent if you want something nintendo-like and not being too difficult

Does Super Mario Land 2 DX work on the super game boy with all the correct coloring, etc?

>>5166151
No, SML2DX is basically a GBC-only game.

>>5166151
SGB isn't really capable of displaying colors to the extent of a full-color platformer. That's why you see games like Kirby and Mega Man with the character and the whole stage the same color.

I love gameboy's original colours

>>5166501
b/w and two greys?

>>5160393
This could have been cute instead of fetish creepy if she just had a big poofy dress.

>>5159420
based boomer. old guys rule.

>>5166570
I think he means the green monochrome pea soup "color".

Any good megaman or metroid style roms?

Checking out the Quality hack. Kind of neat. Never noticed the women on the pillars before.

It crashes when I try to go to the next room.

>>5168315
Which emulator? I haven't tested it on my PSX yet, so I dunno if it works on real hardware or not. Worked under ePSXe for me though, had no crashes during the short time I tested it. I think I saved a ways past that point, but I'd have to check.

>>5168338

Mednafen HW.

>it's a "write epic swear words into all the dialogue" hack

Japan has a pretty solid romhacking community, but it's mostly separate from the English speaking one. And worse, there seems to be no attempt at cataloguing or keeping track of them.

From a previous thread >>5119893 → we got a few:

JP romhack page:

http://emu.web-g-p.com/info/page/fc_rom_hack.html

Tactics Ogre romhacks:

http://www.geocities.jp/kt_0t3wqu6irw/to

FF6-t edition:

https://poematocx.com/ff6t/
http://jbbs.shitaraba.net/game/55803/

>>5120879
Pink gold peach is one of the greatest SMW romhackers ever, and he is only 15

>>5170445
post some of his work?

>>5170445
Sup Pink Gold Peach.

>>5170485
He did those New Super Mario World hacks: https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=14059

>>5170445
>>5170485
>>5170709
There's no need to samefag, Pink Gold Peach.

Cool hacks though.

>>5170485
>>5170709
He's working on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj8a0DHn3ak
God-tier work.
>>5170748
I'm not him. He's a huefag. I'm american.

>>5170445
>>5170485
>>5170709
>>5170748
>>5170763
samefig

>>5170773
are you sure about that?

>>5170869
fine.
post some of the asm he personally wrote

>>5170895
why don't you look for yourself? Jealous cuckold.
see:
>>5170763
He added wall jumping and an oxygen bar when exposed to noxious gases. There might be other examples too.

>>5170445
i read his smwcentral profile page and wanted to cringe vomit

Anyone here work with the SA-1 chip?

Anyone here have any general advice for someone trying to make a game work with the SA-1?

I've been off and on hacking Brainlord for quite a few years now. The game suffers from a extremely bad lag issue that pops up now and then, and I haven't been able to pinpoint exactly what is causing the lag.

Went to SMWC for the first time in ages, and saw the SA-1 patch and everything useful that it does, and went and dug around a bit for some information on it, and it seems like trying to make Brainlord run some of it's main processes off the SA-1 chip would be extremely beneficial.
However, I can't find much information on it in regards to general information on how to make a game possibly work with it.

From what I understand, if you set the ROM up to act as if it has a SA-1 chip, everything should work fine just like that, but nothing will change or benefit from it until I change some of the algorithms in the ROM to calculate something using the SA-1 instead of the default SNES CPU.
So I'd need to tear the engine apart and try to make some of the more intensive things use the SA-1 to calculate something instead of the onboard.
But that's as far as my knowledge about the SA-1 goes so far.

>>5172613
This is why the only SA-1 hacks you see are music replacers. Bad ones at that.

>>5172801
>music replacers
thats MSU, SA-1 is completely different chip

>>5172807
fuck
I had this nagging feeling in the back of my mind that I was mixing something up, too
I'll be in the corner if you need me

>>5172801
What the other poster said is right. What you're thinking of is the MSU chip, which is essentially a ROM expansion meant for streaming data (Music is a prime example).

The SA-1 chip is a second processor that's roughly 4x faster than the main SNES CPU, with some built in goodies like a bit of extra RAM and SRAM.

>>5132393
Yooo ended up trying it and this shit is tight. It's clearly incomplete (some stuff like dark knight are clearly placeholders) but I'm having a fuckton of fun with this.

How come nobody is talking about this? No youtube vids or forums discussions or anything I can find at a glance.

>>5172821
No worries dude. I'm glad you can take criticism. You know as a side note, people on 4chan, even on /b/, are a lot nicer than a lot of other places. I play dota2 and other multiplayer games and most people are assholes. Maybe it's because of anonymity?

>>5173231
People like to call 4chan the cesspool of the internet but there actually are a lot of nice people here. You see more of them on the slower boards.

>>5173231
You say that, but the moment there's even a hint in any post that you're a tranny, you get a lot of shit thrown your way, regardless of what board you're on. Meanwhile everywhere else on the internet acts like a echo chamber of ceaseless and needless white knights.
It's just a example, but 4chan is tolerable to you if you act normal to a 'anonymous standard' of sorts.
The rest of the internet is similar, but the standard is different. If you try to mention how dumb the echo chambers of each site is, you still get shit thrown your way in a similar manner.

If you can find a place with people that fit for you, that's great. Even if that does happen to be considered the 'cesspool of the internet'.

>>5173271
>you're a tranny
Be gone you ugly deviant and take your shitty hack with you.

kek

Is there any rom hack that has a good-to-decent story with an original cast of characters? Preferably one based off a game that had none of that, whether its SMW or anything else.

>>5173318
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1876/
good-to-decent story with an original cast of characters, but isn't based off a game that had none of that.

>>5172613
you should try a simple slowrom to fastrom header hack, to see if that resolves any of the issue and move onto sa1 based on your results. sa1 hacks require more work, due to them needing to change more than a couple lines of code to run optimized.

>>5173374
I suppose I should've said it in the original post, but Brainlord already runs with fastrom. So sadly that's not a option.
I'm aware trying to make it work with the SA-1 chip would be quite a bit more involved, but it seems like it's the only real option I have besides trying even further to figure out the cause of the lag and perhaps optimizing it.
Though from my findings, it could be any number of things, so that'd be a huge pain.
A upside to attempting to make it work with the SA-1 is, if I do end up doing it, it'd give me more to work with for future hacks I decide to do with the game, which would be pretty great as well.

But yeah, nah. Fastrom is already enabled. I don't have much of a option but to try the SA-1 route.

>>5173271
We can't really continue this conversation because this thread or board isn't for discussing this, but I will say that a lot of /b/tards and even /pol/tards love trannies.
I do agree with the rest of your post.
That being said, are you a tranny and have you got an interest in rom hacking?

>>5173251
agreed. I rarely have arguments here, and I rarely get upset at anything. In fact the only times I get upset are when the russian bots over on /b/ start spamming or sliding anti trump threads.

>>5173684
>We can't really continue this conversation because this thread or board isn't for discussing this, but I will say that a lot of /b/tards and even /pol/tards love trannies.
They 'love' us in the sense that they like the idea of having sex with the more attractive ones. They don't really see us as dating material.
I think it's partially for good reason. A lot of us aren't all that right in the head and demand the world be handed to us. But I strongly believe in giving everyone the chance to be known, and it's sad to see a lot of people don't think the same.
I was just trying to make a general point that 4chan just seems nice if you fit within it's norms, like any other place.
Though 4chan does have more room for outcasts, but not as much room as many seem to think.
Regardless, yeah, you're right, this isn't the place for it.

>Have you got an interest in rom hacking?
Yea, I'm the poster up above looking for SA-1 advice.
I'm 27 now and have been off and on rom hacking since I was 14 or so. The zelda64 games is what got me into it. When I went into hacking the GBA pokemon games for a few years.
At some point I ended up adopting Brainlord as my rom hacking love child, and I tore the game apart and documented a bunch of stuff. Most of the stuff on Brainlords cutting room floor page is due to my contributions.
Though my work isn't constant, I have a pretty poor attention span.

There's something absolutely amazing about taking a game you used to enjoy and just ripping it apart to learn more about it. You notice things about you might have never originally noticed, and you can sometimes appreciate the tricks the devs had to pull to make some things work.
It's a love-hate hobby, since getting into the grits of it can be painful. But it's still a fun hobby to go back to now and then.

Do you have any neat works you've done?

>>5173705
Aaah. I see. I gotta agree with you, I have noticed some of the stuff you've talked about in many of the boards.
>Do you have any neat works you've done?
No, unfortunately not. However, I do want to learn more and create my own romhacks in the future, especially for SMW and SMB3 if possible. Hence, why I am here in this thread. I am sick and tired of the competitive games I've spent the majority of the past 2 years playing (Overwatch, DotA 2, League, Counter Strike etc)
I want to actually have fun while playing games again, and not rage at some retard on my team who doesn't know how to push a button on his keyboard at the appropriate time, which pretty much sums all of the above games.
What sucks is I've probably spent upwards of like $120 on DotA2 skins and passes just in the past year alone. Money down the drain, but oh well.

>>5173735
Like I said, rom hacking is a love-hate hobby.
You can definitely gain a deeper appreciation for games you work on, and you can definitely have a lot of fun with it. But if you start getting into assembly, trying to get things to work 'just' the way you want can be a huuuge chore. It's super rewarding when you can finally pull it off though.
SMWC is a great site and I'm sure they'd be able to help with anything you have issues with in terms of SMW hacking.
The persons themselves can be questionable from time to time, but they are pretty passionate, welcoming, and tend to try to help others more than other communities.

>Competitive gaming
Yeah, I can understand all that. It's definitely the biggest reason I haven't tried to do anything competitive in years. When you have to rely on a team to win, people just don't like to work together very often. Ends up in frustration.

Goodluck with your rom hacking 'journey'. SMW/SMB3 are great places to start, so I think you're definitely off on the right foot.

I have experience hacking NES and SNES games, so I've moved onto PS1. I'm starting out with translating Summon Night on PS1. Just as a way to learn the PS1 architecture and to gain some experience with PS1 hacking (though, this isn't hardcore hacking by any means). Once I get familiar, I'll try to do some fun shit like randomizers, etc.

I'm not much of a review guy but SM Oxide is alright, I give it a 7/10.

Barf Kraid was a good laugh

>giving Super Metroid: Escape II a whirl
>author's favourite colour must be blue
>about to enter Ridleys room on the space station
>or not

WTF, can't even enter the door. I wonder if Higan shits the bed for this particular romhack...

>>5176086
Nah, it just pulls something stupid.
It's been such a long time since I've played Escape II that I don't remember if it pulls anything else like this along the way.
But there definitely is a lot of blue in the game, I remember that much.

4channel.bump

>>5162351
I liked that keytastrophe hack. Not too hard, but clever, kinda short.

>>5162351
Have you tried the Call of Cthulhu? It's the greatest romhack for SMW.
>inb4 edgy contrarians.

Ok so I read through Lunar Magic's help file, and it seems like you can't use the palette export feature to generate useful .pals for YYCHR (since even a masked palette still exports all colors to the file), instead you still need to use ZSNES savestates.
I'm not missing any workarounds to this, right?

>>5179120
you can?

>open palette editor on lunar magic
>press "export level palette to file" (red star with green arrow pointing to right)
>save the file to somewhere as .PAL
>on yy-chr press palette>open palette
>select the .PAL file you saved

>>5179158
I know, but that exports way too much, YYCHR only imports the first few palettes and unless I somehow missed it, doesn't import the player palette

>>5179231
uhh you know theres scroll bar right there?

i wonder if theres anyone here from metconst?
This contest is gonna be hype

>>5179505
There used to be someone here from metconst. Dunno if they're still around.

Anyone know how to edit mode7 graphics? I'm trying to edit the planet from the ending of SM but even though it uses 8bpp graphics it has a 16 color palette, for some reason

>>5121098
Sorry, but your romhack seems like a gimmicky kaizo clone that you would find in Mario Maker.
You can at least start by re-texturing shit and not focus on making the romhack difficult for the sake of difficulty.

>>5122059
>Any good SMW hacks that loosely stick with the original style graphics with a new overworld and levels?
That's literally 90% of SMW romhacks

I hope the whole fucking ROM hacking community dies in a fucking fire.
Fuck all of you.

>>5180237
this man is right

>>5180237
I should have clarified; mainly the SMW hacking community.

>>5180237
>>5180804
Why is it that everyone who dislikes the SMW hacking community is so unhealthily obsessed with it

>>5135883
what's this from? looks good

>>5180957
>>5180957
Nambona's revenge for smb.

>accidentally type Romhacker.net instead of Romhacking.net into bar
>it actually leads somewhere

What the fuck is this shit?

>>5181712
I think it's supposed to be the Nesticle pointer.

>>5181712
Romhacker.net doesn't bring up shit for me.

>>5181712
>>5181928
romhackers.net

>>5148017
I think SM74 has a version that does albeit it's pretty laggy.

The current hacks like Star Revenge 3.5 or SM Sapphire are much much better though, even surpassing vanilla.

Are there any good Simon's quest hacks?

Any ASM programmers here willing to work on a SMW hack for money? Mostly custom sprite/boss work, prices can be negotiated.

Did brutal mario ever get finished? I remember playing it back in 2011 and it was the coolest thing ever with all those custom bosses.

>>5182881
How ambitious is the project?

>>5182961
It's a hack that takes mostly after the original SMW so not overly ambitious, eight worlds, some bonus stuff. I mostly just need simple enemies and the custom bosses are about as complicated as standard Mario bosses, as well as some other minor stuff like a new bonus game

>>5181779
Yeah, it's definitely the NESticle pointer. Thats just what we need. More people glorifying the trash released in that era.

>make a kaizo mario 2
>schedule a race a week after releasing it, prize $200
>everyone says "this is the first mario 2 hack ever made"
>everyone playing it

thoughts?

>>5181712
> not just typing rhdn into the search bar

Why does no one do hacks of arcade games?
I think there's potential

>>5185601
You need to know the hardware to make a good romhack, but learning it to hack just one game (or a handful in the best case scenario) is not appealing to most people.

>>5185601
They're hard to distribute, due to MAME's split-rom nature.
You can't just make a patch and call it a day, and you can't distribute your modified roms outright in most places, because the admins of those places will be up your ass over the slim possibility of legal backlash.

>>5185695
Nah, there are simple solutions for that: https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/893/

>>5120879
Why is that romhacking site filled to the brim with trojans? Do people just put up fake "hacks" to try and get people to download malware? You would think the site would scan files uploaded to it or something.

>>5185910
post example link

>>5182881
can I get a link to your discord or some shit
I'm not a great ASM hacker but I'd like to hang out to possibly contribute and learn more. I've done a few SNES/NES hacks but nothing too big (i.e, having mario all stars boot straight to mario bros 3).

Does anyone here know how to fix the sprite-number-related slowdowns in snes9x? I'm just trying to play some hacks off SMW Central but things slow to a crawl as soon as there are more than 6-7 sprites onscreen

>>5186331
Guess so: Vert#2479

>>5182618
>sweet, an unknown romhack site! Time to check out some underground hacks!
>only hack on whole site: Penisade: A Hack of Renegade 3

>>5186740
I bet that's the sekret club that was dramaed up a while ago when somebody noticed how shitty rhdn could be.

>>5186053
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4229/
This one got instantly flagged as a trojan when I tried to DL it.

>>5187185
that's just a false positive, there's nothing to fear

>>5187185
>he uses MS antivirus
It flags it since he uses some direct DOS style patching program, MS antivirus also flags tools for changing serials or cracking programs. Guess what? You don't have to use the three pre-setup patching .exe files included in the zip, you can just patch normally using the .ips files if you don't trust it.

Get a real antivirus(not McAfee), or prove the .exe files contained within are actually loading viruses. Don't make accusations just because you don't know how to use a PC.

>>5187217
No thanks. Good sites don't give false positives, and only a retard would risk it. Also plenty of other people seem to be able to upload mods without false positives. The only intelligent thing to do is not use such a site. By using it, if you did get malware, it is 100% your fault. I would not suggest anyone use the site, and I've already told numerous people not to.

Fix your shit, m8.

>>5187232
>THIS SITE IS FULL OF VIRUSES BECAUSE MS TOLD ME SO
>Ok, prove it.
>NO IT NEEDS TO BE FIXED REEEEE
How do you fix something that was never broken, and only looks broken because someone is being retarded?

>>5187232

Is there a Warcraft 2 for Android?

>>5187232
I didn't realize my uncle was browsing /vr/

>>5186852
Yeah, the ToS reads like an rhdn counterculture.

Posts are fairly recent. Maybe it'll take off, who knows.

>>5122816
Done two already! Sonic 1 SMS and Elite C64.

>>5188168
Nice.

Bumping past the flood of shit threads.

>>5160393
My dick is confused

>>5122059
What's the one from your pic related?

I hacked Breath of Fire II.

>>5192364
>Gave shaman Katt's 'Charge' to original Katt because 'Taunt' is shit. Higher damage coefficients and 1/4 chance to instagib non-bosses (can make bosses so though). Was pretty hard to hack, because in the end there was hardcoded shit, but now I can even make her charge/attack at once
>Can change monster groups in every dungeon location. Can make a group of any monsters.
>Can attach unique random encounter function to any dungeon location, that is, can make random encounter rate depend on any factor. Already made several functions.

>>5192386
>Made it so a new random encounter function can properly display a monster activity indicator based on what the function is supposed to do
>Can change crit chance algorithm to whatever (changed to scale with luck stat up to 50% at 256 (max: 255))
>Can change buff spells coefficients to whatever, not neccessary a constant
>Made it so every equippable item can have a 16 bit signed stat modifier. All item bonuses now go to the one big variable instead of being truncated halfways.
>Can change item descriptions to whatever, not neccessary a constant text. Can paint it red and insert game's special characters

>>5133409
Which ones are those?

>Paper Mario Pro Mode doesn't work on actual hardware
This is why you test your romhacks with a flash carts. Or have someone with a flash test it for you.

>>5192386
Good stuff man.

>random encounter rate based on facing direction
Silly and non-sensical... No. Brilliant! More enemies when going deeper into the cave, fewer when retreating!

>>5186740
Did you not notice the SNES 2-Player Final Fight hack? I never even knew this was being worked on.
http://romhackers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9

>>5193671
It's based on whether there's Nina in the party and she is not KOd, and it's just a test.
>based on facing direction
This is a good idea combined with modded environtment.

>>5193685
Very pointless.
Just play Final Fight 2.

>>5193685
>romhackers.net
thus it begins.

>create mario 2 romhack
>promise to host race with 200$ bounty to the winner
>shill to everyone on twitch
>romhack becomes popular, everyone says "first ever mario 2 romhack"
>cancel the race with the 200$ payout
is this a smart move to increase popularity of your romhack?

What are some of the best open world romhacks? Looking for a lazy comfy vibe in muh retro.

>>5194267
If by which you mean infamy and being considered a massive flaming faggot, yes.

>>5194624
pokemon crystal clear

>mentioned Final Fantasy VII
>everyone in /vr/: YO ANON, YOU CHECK OUT NEW THREAT? IT'S QUINTESSENTIAL TO THE FF7 EXPERIENCE. WHY AREN'T YOU PLAYING IT RIGHT NOW

I'm so tired of this...

>>5194651
Any if I DON'T want to play Pokémon? Googling "open world romhacks" is pretty much all Pokémon. Google even suggests it.

I'm not a Pokémon-hater, I just got tired of the franchise.

>>5195657
Final Fantasy IV Free Enterprise is a good one
LttP randomizer if you know about glitches

>>5194651
The developer is a cunt. Here's some of the things he's doing:

>Trigger happy mods ban everything on their discord that isn't sucking the game's dick. That includes legitimate bug reports and all forms of criticism.

>Speaking of Discord, the developer freaked the fuck out thinking he was going to get C&D'd when a big name Youtuber gushed about how good his game was. He went into DELETE EVERYTHING mode and gets salty if you post the rom or even talk about it outside the discord.

>The developer uses an open source disassembly and takes features from other hacks like Prism then makes his hack closed source so nobody can data-mine his precious DLC codes

>DLC codes? Yeah, the dude has a Patreon and if you donate you get a password for a special event Pokemon like maybe a shiny or mythical.

>Someone asked him to remove music they contributed from the hack because they didn't like the way it was going then the dev was like "Yes, maybe in the next version." The next version isn't coming out and the hack is on indefinite hiatus or so he says. He also didn't bother replacing the music in the current build even though it would have been piss easy.

>Self inserts. So many self inserts including the Elite Four.

>>5195745
Jesus. Romhackers are such self important children.

>>5195745
>the dude has a Patreon and if you donate you get a password for a special event Pokemon like maybe a shiny or mythical.
>Speaking of Discord, the developer freaked the fuck out thinking he was going to get C&D'd
Given he is actually trying to profit off of a Pokemon romhack, he should be fucking worried. AM2R got C&D for less.

>>5195657
Dudes and dudettes, where's my open world Zelda Oracles hack? They had a nice world, it just had roadblocks freaking everywhere.

>>5195745
LMAO I can always count on 4chan for the hottest goss.

>>5195745
>DLC codes for cash in a romhack
climax-kek.

>>5195825
>dudettes

>>5193685
It looks like Hax0rKyo & Rotwang got pissed off at Baddesthacks and started a new site.
The rules read like something both complained about a few months ago.

>>5195745
good fucking god

>>5188168
my absolute and quintessential nigga

>>5197503
>>>/v/

>>5198049
The rules seem reasonable enough. Don't bring up politics, don't be a /pol/fag, a-
>he thinks Gamergate is a hate group
Oh hell, let me guess he became a salty cunt because someone criticized fake diversity.

>>5198049
>>5198590
i don't get the rules.
it says "this is not a safe space" but also forbids racist hacks?

what kind of turbo-autism site is this

>>5198592
To be fair, if you make a racist hack, you're just fishing for (you)s and being an unoriginal cunt. My D&D channel isn't a safe space and SJWs are told "You are not allowed to fight back" but I still outright ban politics, religion, and MOBA/BR discussion because that shit is irrelevant.

>>5198592
Its not a safe space for racists. How hard is that to understand ?

>>5198595
>>5199058
ok, i just don't fully get what they're going for

>>5199285
Probably no drama due to politics.
Just natural autismic fits.

I guess they figure that if you want to provoke people, then there are other places to be offensive/offended.
How else would you codify "don't be an asshole" into meaningful legalese?

>>5198049
>BHDN is so bad the founding members have deserted

This is fucking rich.

>>5199285
Pre-Trump BHDN
The "snuff" and smiley spam had to do with Gwonam, mostly in the chat. Pretty much, instead of outright banning him & Dr. Floppy due to the perception of their own rules, despite owning the site, they ran away to get self-coddled elsewhere.

>>5199525
BHDN had KKK hacks 9 years before trump.

>>5199525
Why do BHDN racists always feel the need to insert themselves where they do not belong? Scoot away little boy.

>>5199559
That's because the admins weren't the previous admins.
Jomb made Little Remo, he owned Badderhacks.
Kyo & Rotwang got mad, so they deleted it from the current rendition.
Jomb left the scene for whatever reason; probably wound overdosing or something.
Although, no KKK hacks endorse the KKK, so you can still get off your high horse.

>>5199575
Any hack where you play as the KKK attacking POC is an endorsement. And nobody gives a damn about your internal skinhead drama other than you, and the other 3 people that frequent your containment site.

>>5199605
It'll ironically be one of us edgelords that makes a one vs. one hack of Punch Out where you're Antifa punching Richard Spencer since we know you won't.

I've always called baddest hacks shit and people accused me of being a PC SJW easily offended snowflake or something. Their "hacks" have absolutely zero effort put into them, anyone could download a copy of Nesticle and do the same thing with the sprite editor in 5 minutes.

>>5199631
Why would anyone even want that? Are you retarded?

>>5199631
I think the problem is you'd have to come up with enough actual alt right public figures.
Then again the bar for what antifa considers nazi is quite low.

But Glass Joe could become a trash can.
And Mike Tyson would become capitalism itself.

>>5199641
Its not even SJW or PC to hate them. They're just total assholes that troll and create drama for fun while pretending to make hacks. Before they were removed from romhacking.net they'd do nothing but troll and act like jerks. They're basically just a bunch of lonely incels mad at the world. Just spend 5 minutes there. I dare you. It's a nightmare of insecurity and anger. I want to feel sorry for them but they would love to see my race exterminated so fuck it.

I wanted to play that LTTP: Metroid romhack randomizer crossover, but after going through the trouble of locating both a rom of LTTP and Super Metroid, I realized they were the wrong versions. Apparently LTTP needs a super obscure japanese rom.

It sucks.

>>5195745
>Someone asked him to remove music they contributed from the hack because they didn't like the way it was going then the dev was like "Yes, maybe in the next version." The next version isn't coming out and the hack is on indefinite hiatus or so he says. He also didn't bother replacing the music in the current build even though it would have been piss easy.
Hi, I'm the guy who asked him to remove the music. The hack is on hiatus and I'm fine with him waiting until the next version to remove the music. What I'm hoping for is that, before the next version is completed and released, Shockslayer decides to release the source code, which is the main point of contention that lead to my request. If this doesn't happen by the time the next version comes out months down the line, then I do expect all my music to be removed, but I'm trying to remain diplomatic with him because an open source CC would be beneficial to the entire hacking community.

I don't see much of a reason to remove the music in the current build if nothing else is changed, since people will just play the previous build that still has my music. I like people hearing my music in Gen 2 Pokémon hacks, and I make my music source code public so other people can use them to make their hacks better (since not everyone is great at making music and it's good to use more than the vanilla music when making a ROMhack); the only issue is that CC being closed source might encourage other hackers in the GBC Pokémon hack community to be closed source as well, which would set the progress of the community back a ton. People hacking with the disassembly, making their hack source public, and allowing other hacks to use features they developed for it makes all the hacks better, and I really don't want to risk the community turning back into what the Gen 3 community is like where people keep their custom features to themselves and people spend development time recreating things that already exist in other hacks.

>>5195745
Jesus fucking Christ...

I highly highly highly suggest you guys check out return to subcon.

>>5199802
whys that

>>5199713
The 1.0 J version of Lttp allows for the most fun exploits and glitches.

>hammerdashing
>mirroring push blocks to despawn them
>certain specific chests that are openable in bunny mode

Probably other stuff I'm missing.

Basically, it adds more variety that's not too inaccessible for non-speedrunners.

>>5174682
What about the ds port? Would it be possible to add voice to that port?

>>5200179
Not >>5199802, but it's a hack of SMB2 that's more in line with Kaizo-difficulty hacks of other Super Mario games. It's probably the first of its kind in that regard.

From what I've seen from people playing it, it's reasonably accessible and not excessively precise

Anons, has anyone made an SMW or other Mario hack with a bunch of new ASM abilities and exploration that make it more of a Metroid style game?

I just want a comfy exploration Mario that feels like a seamless world.

>>5199351
Like this; "Don't be an asshole". You don't need legalese, it's a private website, not congress. You simply say "Don't be an asshole" and that's the end of it.

>>5200471
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/369/

>>5200529
Oh wow. Thanks!

>>5199802
return to subcon?
is that the hack that promised twitch streamers to host a race with a $200 bounty? but shortly after renig'd the offer?

>>5200439
>>5200439
>It's probably the first of its kind in that regard.
i heard that meme repeated a lot , along with "first smb2 hack ever", from the twitch streamers.

i'm glad you found success in your hack through deception means .
Luckily ppl bit right into that bait and is now trapped even with the 200$ bait removed.

how popular would the hack be if there was 1000's of SMB2 hacks like there is for SMW?

>>5200583
It's not a meme it's true. Stop calling things you don't like a "meme"

>>5200586
perhaps you would like to respond to the 200$ race renig issue?

>>5200590
I'm not the hack author you paranoid fuck. I just don't like seeing people use words they don't understand.

>>5200593
well as a matter of fact, just because one calls something a meme, does not make it untrue.

good deflection by the way, got me on the defensive when i am not in any way needing to defend my 200$ lie.

>>5120879
Guys why the hell is Lunar Magic a gigantic pain in the ass to work with? Just one slight fuck up and all the palettes go to shit.

>>5200620
Better not tell you Hyrule Magic then.

>>5200586
Is it older than Legend of the Blob Bros.?
Is it better? Probably not.

why do you care, you wouldn't have won anyway, gdf has a fucking sub 19 already

>>5200663
blob bros looks fucking horrible
the first screen in the game has cutoff

>>5200749
well look again, it looks beautiful

do you mean this screen has cutoff?
certainly that an artistic addition . you get the impression of it being a newspaper but you can still read the important "plot" line

>>5200862
i mean the waterfall that covers the entire screen
the first level was full of cutoff

>>5200864
ah you mean this ? and

and then this

probably just that first image tho>>5200867

>>5200870
The first image was the first one i saw, then playing through the first level there was a lot
Once you got to the caves with the bombs it was fine.
I didn't play much, i just decided to check it out because i never heard of it. Maybe it gets better later but it was pretty bland and the characters are hideous.

>>5200875
yes i see the cutoff now that you point it out

>>5198049
Hax0rKyo here. I'm not involved with this. I've retired because of bullshit like this thread and personal problems.

>>5199575
I was admin from 2011 on. The vast majority of the time the site existed. I simply didnt post for awhile.


Proof I am Hax0rKyo: I was 6paklover.

So I recently got the urge to play some of the old SNES classics on my android phone. But so far no luck in finding a reputable website to download them from as most of the classics were taking down thanks to Nintendo.
Any help would be appreciated.

>>5201235
Fuck you and learn to use google.

>>5199739
If I ever make a romhack, I'd want you to do the music. I've never even heard any of your stuff, but I'd still want you. Nice to see someone in the scene who supports better romhacks over attentionwhoring.

>>5200620
Because SMW itself is a poorly cobbled together mess, to the point of allowing arbitrary code execution from fucking controller input. I shit you not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxgEXDnXD6M Hell, for the longest time the Earthbound hacking tools had a nearly 50% chance of completely borking the ROM after you saved your changes just because EB is a fucking mess. That's why the modern EB editing tools wipe everything and give you a blank slate to start with rather than encourage you to edit from the finished product. The only way around is to learn the quirks of LM and how to avoid shit getting fucked up.

>>5201235
>as most of the classics were taking down thanks
I videogame too yes.

>>5201235
Google.com helps.

>>5199713
Not that obscure when they give you the exact name to google to find the rom. It's certainly worth it to find.

>>5181712
>accidentally type 4chan.com instead of 4chan.org into bar
>die instantly

>>5120879
What's a good "repainted" room hack that changes the game to make it more dumb and silly?

how would you guys suggest me to extract a typeface font from a .sfc (SNES Rom)?

Playing Super Metroid Z-Factor. How am I supposed to get this missile expansion in Norfair?
The hack uses regular SM physics and moveset, so no shinespark-to-full-speed-run slope transitions, ballsparks or the like.

The flat platform above where the missile pack is located isn't long enough to get a shinespark going, so the only option seems to be to attempt from the room to the right, but I can't for the life of me figure out how that's supposed to be done. A standing horizontal shinespark just lands in the middle of the slope leading to the SB blocks and horizontal mid-air shinesparks either land just below the blocks or are guided by the last stretch of the slope and hit above the blocks.

The hack's description says that "special/advanced techniques are NOT required to beat it", but I'm starting to suspect beating it doesn't necessarily mean 100%ing it...

>>5204089
The latter of the two cases I mentioned: hitting just above the SB blocks.

>>5194227
should have stole the old whirlpool domain kek

>>5204089
That 100% looks like it requires speedballing. I think the romhack creator is referring to not 100% or lying through his teeth.

>>5204181
Alright, guess I need to look into speedballing then. Thanks.

Final Fantasy III(VI): Brave New World

In case anyone here hasn't played it yet: they basically just take the original game and fix it everything that was fucking broken in it. Moogle charm and economizer removed; Ultima (and every other spell) now limited to specific characters, stats fixed (e.i. vigor effects appropriate abilities, stat growth system is vastly improved, evade actually works, stamina actually does something, etc), physical abilities actually effected by back-row (and putting characters in back-row is generally less overpowered), enemy AI is improved, english script is uncensored, etc etc etc.

I can't put to words how much I love this fucking mod- playing it felt like playing FF3 again for the first time (and it was my favorite gam, until after I beat it a few times and I found all the exploits and it became such a cakewalk)

>>5204181
Yep, speedballing was indeed the trick. Nailed it!
Seemed kind of daunting at first - speedboost through the right side door, jump over a pretty long chasm with a platform in the middle, to land on a pretty short ledge before the slope and the overhang before it - but it turned out easier than I thought it was going to be.

Quite cool hack so far by the way! Still wouldn't play this one from a flash cart on a real SNES though, as the creator seems to have had a massive boner for crumble block obstacles and sometimes downright CB trolling, as well as using one-way routes which can take ages to go around to get ot the room before them again. Plus retrying parts like getting this missile pack would have been an absolute pain in the ass without save states.
Navigation's occasionally been a bit of a bitch too, with crucial routes and power-ups hidden in such ways and without any clues that you'd expect the odd missile or power bomb expansions to be tucked away.
Some really cool and innovative level design techniques here and there too, like somehow making crumble blocks that prevent enemies but not you from passing through, though a couple of times those have been used in those aforementioned sources of frustration as well...
>can't figure out where to go next
>scour every room in the area where you're locked in with the X-ray scope
>crumble blocks... "guess I can't go through those"
>turns out you can and should through *those* CBs...

>>5204242
I think the crumble block thing might be an engine limitation. Not entirely sure.

How would you extract a font from a rom?

>>5204256
what platform/game? If its old game then you could just use graphics editor like yy-chr or emulators debug/hacking viewer, but the method varies from console to console and from game to game..

>>5204268
snes

>>5204253
Could very well be. Forgot to mention were crumble blocks through which you can move through horizontally, but enemies can't. Pretty neat technique really, there's for instance this one vertical shaft that's totally straight for enemies to travel along, but has alcoves made with those special CBs that you can use for climbing up. Unfortunately those don't show up as such with the X-ray scope, but CBs, making you think you're not supposed to try and get up there because it looks to be impossible.
Perhaps there's someone knowledgeable in these things who could explain how this was done?

Pic related: aforementioned shaft will be dug up by Shaktool and you later come back out through the CBs on the right. Kept pulling my hair way too long before realizing this was the way to go forward.

>>5204242
>>5204253
>>5204283
https://tcrf.net/Super_Metroid#Unused_Tiletype
It's not too special, just a completed but unused tile in the game, known as the "Half-Ripper" tile in SMILE. Normally it's supposed to be invisible since it doesn't have a graphic assigned to it, so why the author changed it to a crumble block is a mystery.

>>5204021
Take a screenshot of a name entry screen and recreate the font however you like making fonts.
Or open the rom in a yy-char, tile molester, or other graphic editor and copy-paste the letters onto whatever you prefer. Remember, the letters are probably in a lower bpp than the rest of the graphics.

You weren't expecting an snes to utilize pc font files, were you?

>>5204373
Cool, thanks.
Considering the hack author's obvious penchant for little pranks and other shenanigans like well-hidden paths to crucial upgrades and paths forward, I wouldn't be surprised if he made those blocks show up in X-ray scope as CBs just to mess with the player.

Pic related: without previous knowledge of the CBs after Pac-Man-esque maze with Violas as the ghosts, you WILL go through them when exiting the maze exit and have to do it all over again.

>>5204840
And this is the same guy currently making that Fusion remake I see get posted in almost every Metroid thread in /v/.
Should be a fun time.

>>5204212
Is there a version of this mod that takes out the dialogue changes?

>>5195623
But it's a pro hack

What's the SMW rom hack that overhauls all the levels so they actually fit with the theme of the overworld?

>>5206451
anyone?

>>5206451
I wasn't aware that smw had such inconsistencies.

>>5196663
Square did it for Romancing SaGa 2 on Wii VC, then had an always online Star Ocean Blue Sphere and Chrono Trigger.

They changed their mind after that, but as always romhacking revives the best of gamer nostalgia, even for this. Microtransaction romhacks when

>>5208940
>Microtransaction romhacks when
once ubishit hears about it

>>5204212
While agree with you i should note the dialogue has been reworked. I thought it was really well done in some places, adding detail while staying true to Woosley's style, but the creator also added a ton of dumb cultural references and did so in some of the WORST places (Phantom train). So be warned going in. I definitely recommend it for the gameplay changes at least

>>5211552
Holy shit, someone inform /u/, we finally know how two girls have sex

>>5196663
To be fair, Flames of Eternity beat him to using a hack to sell shit a long time ago.

Their SNES Pis come preloaded with it and they very much encourage buying one when the repro topic pops up. This was pre-SNES Classic.

>>5211613
That's being made by an anon from /u/ though.

>>5212843
Cool. I thoroughly enjoyed the last game I played that was made by an anon from /u/.

>>5204212
>bnw
yikes.
>>5016997

>>5213152
>you should see what they did in Brave New World FF6 patch
>the really sad part is that the gameplay changes are actually REALLY good. but they fucked it all up with changed dialogue thats memey and cringy as fuck. renamed items like "dried meat" to "Redbull". and ALSO has MLP references. hell to even open the PDF file for secrets. the PW for it is "cupcakes"
>SA decided to do a play through, the creator registered an account to join the discussion
>he got banned for talking about fapping to pony porn in that very thread
Well, at least we still have the Beyond Chaos randomizer's AC and speed cave modes.

my son wants to play as bowser in a mario game, could someone point me in the right direction? it doesnt matter which mario but i would prefer pre n64 games.

>>5214667
Smrpg is the only game that Bowser us playable, pre 64. Smk64, is another in, but you don't get playable Bowser again until ssb melee and Mario and Luigi superstar saga, maybe Mario tennis, but I've never played those games much, idk which ones have him playable.

>>5214674
i was looking for a romhack that swaps out mario for a bowser sprite. sorry i wasnt more clear in my post, thank you for the reply though.