/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5245026
#2? What happened to the dozens of other ones over the years?

>>5245573
did not make it to the bump limit

>>5245026
>lunar magic has an option for tall horizontal levels now
Time for a flood of Metroidvania Mario hacks.

>>5245026
How do you patch PS1 games? I've been trying to add the fix patches to MMX5 and MMX6 but they don't change. I have the right ISO, and I have XDeltaUI, but when I patch the .bin and run the game none of the changes that should be there are there. Do .bin/.cue files need to be patched a special way with XDelta? Google hasn't given me any answer for this.

>>5246319
you might be forgetting to edit the .cue file if you've changed the name of the .bin

>>5246337
...well shit, that's exactly what it was. I feel dumb now, but thank you for helping me anon. I can now play X5 without Alia interrupting me every thirty seconds.

>>5245026
Why haven't you started a disassembly of your favorite game, anon?

>>5246389
Why haven't we started that group disassembly yet? It would be a great teaching opportunity, even people without skills could help fill out a code/data log. I think the last effort that was made was asking for suggestions on the game to tackle.

>>5246404
how about dragon warrior 4
that's a good game

>>5245770
Most have.

>>5245876
It's a damned Christmas miracle if you were already making one.

>>5246319
xdelta requires a very specific rom or binary revision due to the way it works.
It's zero tolerance compared to IPS/UPS/BPS and frankly sucks balls.

I wish romhackers would go instead with bat scripts to unpack the iso and then apply multiple individual ips/bps patches for the files inside the iso that need modification, then repack the iso. That would make it work with isos that are just off one byte and reduce the stress that comes with finding the correct iso dump. As a bonus it would make patches much smaller too.

Your best bet is to go with the redump bin/cue files since that's the closest to a standard for ps1 files and hope it's the one.

>>5247354
>That would make it work with isos that are just off one byte
yeah, let's not.

>>5247354
I don't want to help the anon you're replying to, but if you want to advocate over-complicating the thing with numerous retarded steps, I'm just going to tell people they should reupload the pre-patched ISO to archive.org and call it a day.

>>5248543
it's like modifying a zip file when you want to modify the files in the zip.

if someone puts an extra text file in the zip then the entire zip file is ruined

>>5245026
>*Holds your translation hacks hostage*

Question:

Why are there a berjillion SMW hacks while the superios SNES platformer DKC2 has almost none

>>5249453
>why does a game with a ton of tools and add-in improvement patches have lots of hacks while another game with no tools has none? I DON'T UNDERSTAND

>>5249453
DKC engine is flimsy and complex as hell.

>>5249469
that argument just enters a loop

why does smw have a ton of tools and add-in improvement patches while the superior game has none

checkmate atheist

>>5249479
Because World is easier and better documented.
Neither game was designed to be modded

>>5249453
Because you touch yourself at n...I mean
Because you haven't created an easy-to-use yet powerful editor and fostered a community of people dedicated enough to create the hacks for it.

I really want to do rom hacks but all I have are some AP computer science classes and community college C++ classes. Would I be able to figure things out, or should I just stick to playing them?

>>5249492
Depends on the game/level of hacking. If you wanna make something different, grab some editor like SMW's Lunar Magic or Kirby Adventure's KALE, and start making your own levels and whatnot. If you wanna do something crazy like turn Super Metroid into Super Metroid Arcade, then you need to learn the ROM inside and out, and possibly learn the actual ASM used.

>>5249498
I was thinking maybe Zelda 2 or Golden Sun? I'd prefer GS because I love the djinn system, but I like Zelda 2 enough that I'd like to do something with that if GS is too difficult.
Or fuck it, if RPGs are really difficult, I could go for a good Sonic ROM

>>5249514
>GS
There's a GBA tool, but that's not retro so I don't give a fuck.
>Zelda 2
https://www.romhacking.net/?page=utilities&category=&platform=&game=753&author=&os=&level=&perpage=20&title=&desc=&utilsearch=Go
Try to use the recent editors by njosru.

>>5249526
Thanks. I'll definitely check this stuff out soon. I've wanted to do romhacks, mainly of Pokemon, since I was like 8. So, I'm really eager to finally get into it.

bumping for interest

Anyone who played FF7 hard type or platinum? Which one is better?

>>5249453
>>5249469
http://www.dkc-atlas.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=26
There's not really a dedicated site for it, but there are tools for it.

I made a meme Mario 64 hack and am not sure where I can upload it. Kaze banned me from sm64hacks, fucking shit nazi game designer he is, and rhdn doesn't seem to take mario 64 hacks anymore. I just want to preserve my shitposting.

>>5251078
>Kaze banned me from sm64hacks
Tell us more anon.

>>5251079
Kaze ran a mario 64 hack competition earlier this year, and I entered my meme hack to both his competition and sm64hacks. Not only did my hack not get featured in his twitch stream, but my submission and account was banned on sm64hacks. But never fear, several of his shit hacks appeared on sm64hacks that week and beyond, including one that basically stole my hack's concept. Kaze may be great at hacking Mario 64, but his garbage sense of level design and nazi gatekeeping of hacks sucks.

>>5251078
>not sure where I can upload it.
Dude, the depot. You can upload any console retro thing there. Still waiting on word from the admin if DOS or arcade stuff is welcome, but console stuff is definitely fine. No account needed to upload or download.

>>5251078
SMWC?

>>5251320
How do I upload to TRD? I can see everything that has been uploaded, but cannot upload anything myself.
>>5253180
Nah, my hack is a texture hack along with a few other tweaks.

>>5253576
Front page, lower left corner has some buttons. One is the discussion board, another is the upload form.

>>5253587
Oh, and if it bitches about your file extension, just zip or rar it up and submit it anyways, the admin will figure it out.

>>5253587
>>5253598

Thanks. It's now in Pending Approval/Nintendo 64. :)

>>5253630
>TRUSTJAZZ
Ok, but how jazzy is it?

>>5245026
Any other romhack recommendations anyone could give? Already downloaded a lot from the list but it feels sparse and mostly covers the big few games for rom hacks. Looking for more NES romhacks that aren't "lol I made everyone retardedly hard".

>>5254882
Legend Of The Blob Bros. 2

>>5255325
Whoops it's already in the OP list ..

>>5245026
>http://pastebin.com/urs2AUgv
>June 2017
We need to make a new list.

>>5255826
What would you like to see changed?

>>5255835
Just add the recent good hacks. I made this list:
Super Mario Bros. - Two Player Hack http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4180/
Super Mario Land 2 DX http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3784/
The Legend of Zelda - Link's Shadow http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3960/
Castlevania: The Holy Relics http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3759/
Super Mario Bros. Continued http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4201/
Super Mario Bros: The Early Years http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4033/
Donkey Kong Country Palette restoration http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4051/
Sonic 3D Blast: Director's Cut http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3810/
The Legend of Oasis / The Story of Thor 2 (4 in 1 hack) http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3403/
SMB feat. Piranha Plant http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4221/

>>5255826
That's just when it was last edited. Whoever made it could edit it more. It's just been a while.

>>5255860
>smb piranha plant
meme hack?

Has anyone here ever played the FF6 romhack "Brave new World"? I think it gets too much hate because of the cringeworthy lines and dialogue, but the additions to the gameplay are really solid. Limiting magicite so that specific users have specific niches they can fill really helped give everyone a unique roll, not to mention rebalancing all the specialty roles. My favorite had to be how you can get Celes to wear a badge from General Leo which lets you use his shock ability. I thought that was cool.

>OP pastebin recommends the bob-bomb mafia
>but not super Mario RPG Revolution

OP, you have failed at life.

>>5255876
Kind of, but it's pretty well done.

>>5255908
OP made the thread. Some other guy wrote the pastebin.

>>5249491
>Family Guy joke

Fag.

Bump

>>5247354
Yeah - trying to get the unworking-designs patches running recently was a fucking nightmare. It took me half a dozen rips from different sources until i found a working one. It sure as shit wasn't a "redump" ISO that worked in the end.

>>5255897
Is this copypasta? Oh well, I agree with what you say. I just wish that BNW wasn't the only FF6 romhack that gets discussion.

>>5245026
Rom hacking is theft of ip.

>>5255860
I'd say to also add the SMB3 Randomizer:
https://sites.google.com/site/smb3randomizer/

>>5256412
>"redump" ISO
Redump uses .iso's? I thought they went bin+cue for everything that wasn't DC?

anybody here ever use NESRomTool? it's for mac, and before I devote any time to figuring out how to build it for windows I want to know if does anything different than something like Napit. the dev boasts something about compound sprite extraction and I'm wondering if that means it somehow knows how to extract complete sprites how they'd appear in game without having to manually puzzle together the 8x8 pieces

>>5245026
Is T-Edition any good? I want to play a FF6 hack that's not BNW.

>>5256747
So is Team Fourstar, but you probably watch them anyway

>>5257398
if you speak moon.

>>5247354
>bat scripts
You can do that with less platforms than you can run an XDelta patcher on.

>>5258163
I wish windows would just ship with a standard scripting language already like every other OS out there. They could literally just ship IronPython with Windows.

>>5256412
Are there dumps uploaded of these? I had trouble with these too.

That Mega Man X6 Improvement patch is a goddamn lifesaver. The game is still complete ass (though I'm playing with the light patch; maybe the heavy patch that more drastically alters the game by removing nightmare features entirely would improve it; I'm not really a fan of them culling all the Reploids that don't give anything in that patch though, I think collecting them is part of the fun when there isn't the constant looming threat of permadeath) and I wouldn't wish this hell on anyone but it made getting 100% completion so much less painful. God bless ROMhacking.

>>5258349
>I wish windows would just ship with a standard scripting language
t. time-traveller from 1997.

>>5246452
Wouldn't Dragon Warrior 4 be a little big?

Bumpkus.

You guys find that Kirby 64 romhack that adds in the other characters? I loved using Waddle Dee's grab.

>>5264759
Nope. sounds neat though.

>>5245026
thoughts on Ocarina of Time Nimpize Adventure?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sotmg3OiVfI

pretty sure this is one of the few (if not the only) complete romhacks of ocarina of time

>>5267129
ZFG's playthrough of it was interesting, it's pretty alright but, it's not that interesting if the items are all vanilla

>>5267129
Are you trying to pull a return to subcon?

What about this https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/676/

>>5267615
i always thought that was a little mini hack. unless it changes the entire game start to finish?

>>5267616
Don't knock mini hacks. Sometimes it can be easier to make something feel different when you don't worry about re-using every feature from the original game.

>>5269265
i only play romhacks if i want to experience the whole game in a new way so short stuff doesn't really do it for me. is zelda's birthday a full modification of the game or is it only something i'll get a few hours out of?

Bump off of page 10.

Anyone here has played or is playing FFV: Void Divergence? It's not quite complete yet but I'm having a blast with what it's there. I'm like a bit after the first Gilgamesh fight and it's been awesome so far.

>>5248715
Translate and release them yourself.

>>5271575
I played it a bit but fell off. I'll play again next update

>>5258159
Argh!

>>5272489
What did feel off in your opinion?
While it alters most of the math and is...in essence radically different from the original game I think it works pretty well as "its own thing".
The ability to mix and match job commands in a more elaborate way is pretty cool, gives you a lot more control, like if I want Lenna to be a dedicated caster that doesn't even use item/fight commands I can do that and it's actually workable.
I also like the field element system, I think having 5 elements there makes it more flexible and interesting than the inspiration (Chrono Cross), and it's fun to set a "combo" for better damage with summons or better chances for status effects to stick.
Being able to modify difficulty and encounter rate on the fly is also interesting, if you feel things are too easy you can just crank difficulty up a notch and it feels right again, or you can disable EXP gain for a while so you can grind without becoming overpowered.
And while some of the new classes are still obviously not finished the ones that are have a bunch of nice tricks. At first I was turning Crusader off but turned out to be quite useful, and Tinkerer is actually a lot of fun with how consumables got reworked. Arcanist (?) with spells that work with certain conditions is also fun to work with. And having more variety with the caster classes is awesome.

That said I think there are some flaws, regular encounters aren't super exciting in most cases, at least around the second world, the brave/default system is neat but the underlying ATB makes it a bit wonky at times (like enemies would sneak attacks during extra turns from time to time, Byblos was particularly annoying), and while I like the new gear system, you gotta be a lot more careful than you should when auto-equipping. (doesn't help it still uses FFV's interface mostly untouched so you better have the equipment reference sheet handy because the game itself doesn't tell you shit).

But all in all I kind of love it.

The second revision of the Genesis/Mega Drive hack of Sega Sonic Bros got released over new years. Just uploaded it to the depot if anyone wants it.

>>5271575
I effortlessly destroyed the game on max difficulty so I'm waiting for balance passes when praetarius is done adding content.

Should Nightcrawler run and hide?

Any gfx fags in here?

>>5274746
Whole tileset, for my romhack of super metroid

>>5274749
>my romhack of super metroid
Is it good?

>>5274536
Threatening an egomaniac, I'm sure that will work well.

>>5274749
Is that a minge monster?

>>5274807
hard to say because its not done yet
http://forum.metroidconstruction.com/index.php/topic,4628.0.html

>>5276734
That's looking good.

>>5276734
Shit, man. That looks amazing.

>>5245876
You know, that wouldn't be so bad.

>>5274376
I found it to be fairly adequate in difficulty so far, but I'm still not far enough to see if my job combos break the game or not.
Just for discussion's sake, how would you change things?

blump

>>5282842
have another, /vr/ without /rhg/ feels empty.

>>5254882
Are Fire Emblem romhacks kosher?

>>5271575
Just beat Siren. I don't get how to use the field elements thing in any practical manner. Very interesting how he overhauled the mechanics so much but at this point I'm not sure if it would be better to just make your own game.

>>5284208
Well, field elements increase damage and chance for status ailments of that element to stick (like if the field is all poison it's very likely that doomclaw will work in one try for example), this affects all spells, weapons and summons get an even bigger buff (the dev says 3x the boost). The best way to set it up is with double actions (like X-Magic) or accumulating a couple extra turns by defaulting. It's actually pretty worth it if you aim to exploit a weakness.
As for making his own game, I'd play it really, his other hacks show a style that aligns pretty well with my tastes, but hey if he decided to make a romhack, why not? He doesn't seem to be shilling or attention whoring it very much so I think he's literally doing it for the fun of it.

>>5246319
>>5259971
Glad to see people still mentioning this hack. Cheers!

Where do you think Peridot's star will be? The visor would be a cool place. I still dont think Lapis will have one.

>>5286734
Wrong thread, also SU went to shit a long time ago

>>5287554
Oh shit im sorry
Its gotten better though

>want to do a hack of an older game because it sounds fun and rewarding
>original idea of hacking pokemon crystal went down the drain once i realized how much more work it'd require than other games
>tfw no ideas for hacks
what do bros? i can do the art by myself but i'm technically inept and a brainlet so i'm only interested in hacking games that are seriously piss-easy to hack. pic semi-related so i don't sound completely like an idea guy
>>5284208
there aren't any NES FE hacks that aren't intended as just a proof of concept, but there's a couple FE4/5 hacks that might interest you and a shitton of GBA ones but i'm not sure if that still counts as /vr/

Are any patches, hacks or mods for Star Fox 64?

>>5288317
no

>>5288253
Just make a Krazy Kreatures mod like me that only requires a few sprites

for a second i was thinking of a golden girls themed final fantasy hack with some sick 90's vaporwave miami aesthetics going on, but it wouldn't work considering how the first one's class-based and the other ones on the nes have been barely hacked at all
hmm maybe i could do something with zelda too? i have no idea bros help me out what kinda ridiculous hacks do you like
>>5289734
that actually looks like a surprisingly fun game, but i'd rather do an rpg or action game instead of am arcade or puzzle one so it's more than a graphics mod

>>5274536
"Recommended" lists are still boring.
I just want all the known sites.
https://pastebin.com/edWKBJqn

>>5288253
>>original idea of hacking pokemon crystal went down the drain once i realized how much more work it'd require than other games
Did your idea require rewriting a lot of code or somesuch (i.e. making it so more than 253 Pokémon can fit in the game by making species index two bytes) or was it just the amount of assets you'd need to make for a completely original region?

I'm going to make a romhack that bumps this thread. Maybe.

besides the first zelda and final fantasy games, are there any other rpgs/action rpgs that are easy to hack?
>>5290860
the latter. even without making any fakemon (pic related) it'd still be a colossal amount of maps, new sprites (since i'm pretty much a perfectionist and there's a lot i'd want to change), new music and i also have to come up with an actual story and characters to go along with it and that's really not what i'm interested in.

anyone got a link to a FFVII Hardtype patch or pre-patch? Wanna dick around with it on my PSP

>>5292782
What, you are incapable of browsing rhdn yourself?

>>5292946
I suppose I just ran a look through the recommended list, and ran through deadlinks on google for 15 minutes. Cheers for a recommendation bud, sorry to inconvenience you.

>>5292946
>>5292964
oh wait its more dead links. Very helpful anon, clearly I asked because the simple solution evaded me.

>>5292975
So you ARE completely incapable of googling "rhdn". Holy shit you are dumb. I bet you can't find the romsets on the internet archive either.

>>5292964
>>5292975
It's just THIS EASY, you mong. Goddamn, filename related.

>>5293014
now attempt to download the mediafire link
http://www.mediafire.com/?167pthcdq6msxby

>>5293019
What does mediafire have to do with rhdn? I told you to google rhdn, are you incapable of following simple directions?

>>5293029
got it, thanks anon-kun. I was looking at the instructions from the modder, not using the database of the website. Much apologies, I haven't usually had trouble finding the Patch itself.

>>5293047
Stacy spotted.
It's Over.

>>5259971
My favorite part of the MMX6 patch is giving Normal/Shadow X an air-dash. It actually makes them usable in all stages now.

>>5292548
couldn't you team up with someone

Great news for anyone that's been wanting to get into Wario Land 4 hacking / level editing, but don't have the technical know-how to write a level editor! A user at WarioForums is working on a Lunar Magic-type editor for Wario Land 4 and the current release on his GitHub runs fairly well.

https://warioforums.com/threads/a-new-project-for-wl4-rom-hacking-and-level-editing.2981/

I haven't had much time to play around with it, but I'm really grateful to see someone put time into developing this and I'm very eager to see what people will / can do with it.

https://github.com/Goldensunboy/WL4Editor/releases

>>5298242
wario is best boy

>>5298242
This game is cookie enough as is, my body isn't ready for whatever weird romhackers out there can come up with.

>>5292350
You should.

Still useful to have this on the board, gonna get a few of these bad boys on my PSP

It's pathetic, but I may as well ask. I'm trying to get this Final Fight CD Colors patch working on a US Sega CD.

http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=18318.0

Problem is, you gotta patch the Japanese BIN, and the Sega CD is region locked. I've got the image files patched, and there are converters, but they only seem to patch ISO files. How do I convert Final Fight CD to an ISO that I can region change? Every program I'm trying is giving me errors. I know I'm missing something.

>>5257062
It's not possible to do anything better than dump the 8x8 pieces. There's no index in the game that tells you what sprite appears right/below another one.

And if you're talking about colors, no to that as well. You have to figure out the palettes manually and can use Photoshop or something to mass apply the palettes.

>>5302972
>mount patched BIN+CUE with your favorite virtual drive software
>rip ISO from mounted disc
>convert region
It's not like Sega CD had any copyright protection to worry about.

>>5303480
Doesn't seem to work. The mounted drive is always 23.1 MB, which I don't understand, regardless of the image mounting software. Guess I'll keep experimenting.

What's the go-to resource for working with tiles and sprites? I was thinking about editing Link's sprite in LttP, but I'm not sure what's the most up to date way of doing it.

I've got Tile Viewer Pro, but it doesn't seem to have any option for exporting the block of tiles I want to work with.

>>5304438
I fucking did it. Sega CD games can't be converted into just an ISO, because they're audio CDs, but you can extract the tracks and make the rest into an ISO with certain programs. I used bchunk. The ISO region patched too. It triggers the US bios when I loaded it in an emulator. Not I just gotta convert the bin and audio tracks back to bin/cue and burn this sucker.

>>5305703
*iso and audio tracks.

>>5304661
Can't you copy and paste with the clipboard? I thought TLP could do that.

>>5305703
Whoops, forgot the Sega CD games always took advantage of multiple audio tracks. Sorry bout that. Glad to hear you got it working. If it works on hardware, do us all a favor and upload the patched disc to the depot.

>>5304661

Why do you need to export Link's sprites? To me it's easier to edit them in TLP.

Did you just not find the sprites in the rom?

>>5306758
Well, I made a cuesheet for the iso and wav files, and tried to use that in a burner. The burn failed on the final track, track 29, but the error message didn't seem to imply the track was corrupt, just that the size was too big for the burner?

I checked the cuesheet in CDmage and confirmed that it was properly connected to every track, including 29. I then had it convert the files into a single bin with a cuesheet. That burned with no errors.

It's playing on a US Sega CD and the music is there, but I just wish I could be 100% certain there were no issues with track 29. More than likely there aren't, but I won't feel comfortable uploading it until I'm certain.

Never played Anvient Cave but I enjoy rouguelikes. And its the grandaddy of these kind of hacks?

>>5298242
>wario land 4 but with more levels
God I'm already hard

>>5248715
>Goemon never
>here's another SRW release

>>5278196
>>5278596
Glad you fellas like it
Heres a recent mockup for the pause screen

>>5309892
I hope it's got level design to back up those amazing graphics.
Any sort of ETA, or is it a "when it's done" deal?

Has anyone here played Majoras Mask Masked Quest, preferably on a real n64? The game crashed when I tried to go into the great fairy shrine in north clock town. Also I find some changes odd like the door inside the clock tower being changed, replacing links audio clips with those from ocarina of time(in majoras mask its the same VA but he sounds older) and links human tunic being turned to green.

>>5309892
Remember, don't release it unitl it's done so you don' tget C&D'd

>>5307073
>>5306758
It occurs to me that it might just be easier to upload the disc and let someone better than me at vidya test it out to make sure the whole game has no music issues.

https://mega.nz/#!K2Q01S4L!PsN4dN9jQkJnykW_cNy_YAskPc7y5zQVLsXzsmn3Ur4

Go ahead and try this out, if you please. Works in emulators, and on real hardware. Please see if every song is accounted for.

>>5298242
Oh man, more WL4 would be amazing.

.pmub

Played the following SM64 Hacks:

-Star Road
-Rainbow Road
-Green Stars
-Marvel Adventure
-Sapphire
-74
-Fallen Stars
-Last Impact

I thought they were all pretty good (with last impact and rainbow road being more "B"-tier in terms of gameplay quality). What's next, or does this cover all the good ones? 74EE is on the backburner for when 74 is less fresh in my memory.

>>5310732
based

>>5251128
>nazi gatekeeping
he's turkish tho

>>5289926

Please add legit 90s not fake pink and blue 90s.

Which is 80s and is shit

I have 6k roms is there a place where someone can keep them safe?

>>5315761
Print them out onto paper and put them in binders and hide the binders in a high quality gun safe.

Any good final fantasy 5 hacks? Preferably story or gameplay altering

>>5318421
Ancient Cave or >>5271575

playing DKC2: Lost Levels

>>5315761
create a torrent for it and spread it around a little
if anyone wants to keep it safe, they'll seed it

/rhg/, recommend me some "definitive version" hacks. Hacks whose goals are to make existing games objectively better. Like Sonic 3 Complete. Bugfixes, de-censorship, reinstating beta content, the good shit.

Those are the only hacks I care about. Fuck "new levels" or total conversion bullshit.

>>5320591
Reposting what I posted in Jan 2018.

GB Color additions:
Metroid 2 Colorization
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/175/
Super Mario Land Colorization
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1187/
Super Mario Land 2 DX(removes slowdown too!)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3784/

Add Saving SRAM to games without saving or using passwords:
Super Mario Bros 3.
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2886/
Battle of Olympus(also cuts down on grinding for Olives)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3600/
The Goonies 2
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3604/
The Guardian Legend
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3734/
Castlevania 2(also has fixed translation and in-game map)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1032/
Clash at Demonhead
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3793/
Metroid(also adds in-game map and lets you use wave+ice)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1186/
Wonder Boy 3(SMS, hacked to work properly on Genesis too)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3628/
Wonder Boy in Monster World(hacked to work properly on Genesis too)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3641/

Improvements:
Startropics(removes 7 frames of movement delay, MUCH smoother movement)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3307/
River City Ransom(fixed font and text issues)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3453/
TMNT 3(color fixes and adds option to change number of continues)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3468/
Zelda 2(anti-epilepsy)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/740/
Golgo 13:Top Secret Mission(de-censor)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/661/
Robin Hood(access password with A button on start screen, starting from password makes SURE you have the Druid Dagger so you don't get stuck)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3005/

>>5320942
Some Genesis stuff
Color enhancements:
Capt America and the Avengers
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2283/
Castlevania Bloodlines
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2121/
Fatal Fury 2
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2323/
Golden Axe
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2082/
Golden Axe 2
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2104/
Joe & Mac
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2276/
Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3212/
Sunset Riders
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2287/
The Lion King
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2177/
TMNT:The Hyperstone Heist
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2330/
Raiden Trad
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3598/

General improvements:
Contra:Hard Corps(minor control/text improvements)
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/450/
Contra:Hard Corps(adds the 3 hits from the JP original back in, can be used with prior patch if you correct checksum)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/797/
Robocop VS Terminator(remove black border)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3727/
Sonic the Hedgehog(adds in spindash, removes spike bug)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/401/
Mega Man The Wily Wars(SRAM saving, fixed movement delay, increase rate of fire, also has 2nd patch that also includes 2X Magnet Beam ammo, up to 5 bullets on screen at once, and slide in all games)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3837/

SNES stuff
Arcana(fastrom, makes moving quicker since ROM loads stuff faster)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3608/
E.V.O.(fixes text issues, restores poop that was in JP original)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3572/
Super Earth Defense Force(lowers volume of some sound effects since too loud)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2882/
FF6(can display more than 9999 damage or healing, up to 32,000)
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/792/
FF6(button settings menu restoration, if you really wanted to change your buttons)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3148/
There's about 3 different uncensoring/retranslation patches for FF6 as well.

>>5320947
Killer Instinct(Play as Eyedol without code)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1369/
Mortal Kombat(restore blood)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2885/
Super Castlevania 4(de-censor)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2928/
Lost Vikings 2(anti-slowdown, faster ROM)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3798/
Super Metroid(general quality of life improvements)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2767/
Yoshi's Island(shuts up crying Mario)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2658/
Super Mario All Stars(physics fix for SMB and Lost Levels)
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/167/
Super Mario All Stars(changes graphics in SMB back to original locations, aka no grass where there was bricks)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/604/

And lastly, PSX.
Castlevania, SotN(removes borders on top and bottom of screen, unlocks and finalizes area next to entrance gate)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3606/
FF9(restore dummied out/hidden dialogues)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2112/
Soul Blade(uncensored intro video)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3737/
Strider 2(un-censors, some fixes)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3743/
Digimon World 2(various fixes, restores 4 dummied out digimon)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2587/

>>5320951
This isn't a complete list, just most of what was available over a year ago.

>>5320942
>Zelda 2(anti-epilepsy)
>https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/740/
boo hiss

the color flashing is part of the game as intended by the devs, to remove it would remove part of the original game

Whats a good resource for learning assembly? I want to hack N64 roms using as few specialized tools as possible (ie level editing software for sm64). I know higher level languages like C for the heavy lifting and Python to do some things quickly. I am looking for a good video or page that can teach me what I need to know about assembly so I can start tinkering around with my favorite games.

>>5321048
And epilepsy inducing flashing lights was an original part of Pokemon's anime, you're still retarded if you think it should stay.

>>5321184
boo hiss
get out

How do you get so triggered by less than 2 seconds of flashing

>>5318421
Listen to
>>5318491

The Ancient Cave one is a bit messy (it's a hack for the JP version haphazardly translated into "English") but very fun, and Void Divergence is a totally different beast that I fucking love a lot even if it's still obviously not finished. The programmer has a lot of fun ideas.

>>5320947
>Contra:Hard Corps(adds the 3 hits from the JP original back in, can be used with prior patch if you correct checksum)
Actually, the US release with the standard one-hit kills is the original version. Japan's version came a month later and added the life meter because they felt it was too hard.

>>5320942
>Metroid 2 Colorization
>Super Mario Land Colorization
These are outdated and buggy, being made with GB Colorizer. Color choices can look off, and graphical glitches are abound. The SML2DX one is good though.
>Zelda 2(anti-epilepsy)
Not really an improvement unless you suffer from epilepsy.
>Mega Man The Wily Wars(SRAM saving, fixed movement delay, increase rate of fire, also has 2nd patch that also includes 2X Magnet Beam ammo, up to 5 bullets on screen at once, and slide in all games)
That's all good, but it's still inferior to the NES release in terms of both control and visuals.
>Super Castlevania 4(de-censor)
Unless you actually care about the opening prologue, the Japanese release has the blood dripping on the title screen, so it's still superior.
>Super Metroid(general quality of life improvements)
This adds slowdown and speeds up the elevators in an unnatural way.
>Super Mario All Stars(changes graphics in SMB back to original locations, aka no grass where there was bricks)
The new graphics are better though.

>>5321491
Slowdowns in Project Base? I don't believe you.

>>5321650
From a review:

>An option should at least exist to use the revised beam graphics from stock project base. This author’s choice to keep project base’s increased rate of fire while reincorporating the original beam graphics is a problem because it seems to result in mild slowdown. The classic beam graphics appear to be slightly animated which is more taxing on resources with the higher rate of fire, especially when there are several other moving objects on the screen. The revised project base beams, especially with the vanilla color palette not only look better but have no animation and therefore yield a smoother game play experience.

>anti-epilepsy isn't good unless you're the target audience for the mod

>>5321690
Oh. I see. But that's only if you're using an alternate patch to restore the original beam graphics.
That's also an old version of Project Base.

>>5320942
>Metroid 2 Colorization
>https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/175/

new version in progress https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=27834.0

>>5245026
Just picked up an SD2SNES, anyone have links to MSU-1 hacks?
Most links I'm finding via Google are dead

Ok guys I'm thinking of playing through Final Fantasy 1 again. What's your favorite version (gba is allowed) and your favorite romhack? Why? Must be 500 words

>>5321184
the weak should fear the strong

>>5323380
Favorite base version is PS1. And the best romhack is Final Fantasy Restored. Fuck your essay.

>>5292548
>come up with an actual story
Pokemon games don't need a story.

>>5320951
Tyvm, great post

Starting to get irritated with how these hacked levels look and play, I'll move on to another hack

>>5320591
There's the Lufia 2 hacks done by Relnqshd. If he doesn't stop looking for more bugs to fix, he'll end up proofreading Akihiro Suzuki's college thesis paper.

>tfw too much of a brainlet to write a gameboy emulator

I have the programming knowledge to write it, I just have no idea where to start with it, no guides I read seem to help

Help me out here /rhg/

I've been meaning to find this thread so I can ask this. How good are the Pokemon G/S/C tools? I specifically want to know if it's possible to easily create 'cutscenes' where a character walks up to you, talks, walks to another and plays a 'hit' sound effect, and so on. The game already had these components, and the main reason I want to edit some 'cutscenes' is to recreate the hilarious dub of Yakuza in Pokemon.

>>5327563
http://gbdev.gg8.se/
They have a Discord laying around.

awdawd

Time to play another romhack

DKC: Tag Team Trouble

The Legend of Bump:
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>>5248715
Anyone know if this is from some hack? If so which?


Also how hard is it to make hacks of snes or nes ff games? any hand tools?

>>5329131
That is from some fangame made after 2005 using RPG Maker 2003. It's called Final Fantasy Blackmoon Prophecy. It appears to use assets from various SNES FF games, and some from other games that don't really fit the already jumbled artstyle. Either way, not /vr/.

As for your second question, depends on what you want to do, and which game you want to hack. FF1 has some old tools that let you edit layouts and enemy formations and some spell editing. FF2 has two tools total, one lets you edit text in the game, the other lets you edit a great deal including maps, shops, monsters, and spells. FF3 has three tools, that will let you edit maps, text, and enemy stats. FF4 has about three multi-tool editors worth using, and lets you edit a great deal. FF5 has one multi-tool editor that lets you edit items, jobs, enemies, enemy formations, and shops, but not maps or text. FF6 has 16 tools, I'm not gonna bother trying to summarize them.

So FF6 is probably the one you can alter the most without going deep into hex or learning the ROM locations of shit. As for difficulty of making a hack, depends on how much of a change you want it to be, and how much work you're willing to put into it.

bump

im going to say this?
What hack that retranslates ff6 for snes is better?
Relocalization or TWUE?

Randomizer thread died so I'll ask here.
Does anyone have a link to a compiled build of the OOT randomizer dev branch?

>>5329331
Thanks, shame there are no map tools for ff5.
Will look into the tools for 6.

>>5331384
I used TWUE last time I played and it seemed to be just fine, plus the new menus and the like where great.

>>5245026
Can anyone point me to resources regarding tile swaps on genesis games?
I want to try something on a game called Comix Zone but it seems the game is compressed with something and any of the tile viewers fail to read anything from the rom,its just noise.

>>5331572
>compressed graphics
You'll need to decompress them before you muck around with them. Which format is it using? LZ77? RLE? Try throwing it through different decompression tools until you get something usable.

And romhacking.net is the only real resource for this stuff.

>>5331769
from what i cant tell on romhacking the tools for decompression are all for specific games probably because offsets.
that said i dont even know how to check what compression the game has applied on it.

>>5331572
>>5331769
From random googling, Spriter's Resource says Comix Zone uses LZSS.

Decompressing graphics in a game nobody's hacked before is a solvable problem but I recommend against it for a first project.

>>5332001
>LZSS
>>5331831
Try this: https://pypi.org/project/lzss/#description
You'll just need to identify where all the graphics you wanna edit are on the ROM, copy+paste that to a hex file, then run that through the decrypter. Edit normally, recompress, and put the compressed data back where it belongs. Sounds easier than it really is.

>>5332001
thats already big help.
thanks anon

Bump hard.

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>>5320591
Castlevania III (English Title Screen + Modified Alucard Sprite, use this on Akumajou Densetsu)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1983/
Donkey Kong Original Edition (hi score saving, this rom was released on the Wii Shop Channel, look around for the rom)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1307/
DuckTales 2 (sprite fixes)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4320/
Excitebike (SRAM)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2428/

>>5333861
MegaMan (removes the little bit of deceleration megaman has after moving, this was removed from 3 onwards anyway)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4312/
(Several quality-of-life improvements including saving and removing the score system)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1762/
MegaMan 2 (same deceleration patch as above)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4322/
(Slide and Charge Shot from MM5)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4099/
(SRAM, doesn't work with the other two hacks)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1935/
MegaMan 3 (shit ton of minor improvements)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/992/
Copying this from an old post I found:
>In 6 they really fucked up the slide compared to previous games. You can't slide jump and there is a small wait time at the end of a slide.
>This patch makes the sliding more like the previous MMs (works with both Mega Man VI and Rockman 6):
http://www.geocities.jp/borokobo/zip/Rock6FixSlide2.zip
>This patch makes the scroll speed faster during screen transitions (only works with Rockman 6):
http://www.geocities.jp/borokobo/zip/Rock6kibikibi_090627.zip
>This patch reduces lag (only works with Rockman6):
http://www.geocities.jp/borokobo/zip/Rock6Optimization101.zip
Metroid (SRAM, Minimap, graphical updates, essentially the best version of NES Metroid)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3640/
Mother (improved translation, graphics, etc)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2318/
Ninja Gaiden (graphic fixes)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2237/
(SRAM)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2598/
Ninja Gaiden III (restoration)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/570/

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>>5320591
Link's Awakening DX.
Quality of Life improvements. Prevents annoying dialogue boxes that cannot be skipped with B in the DX version.
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3597/
Restoration. Reverts some localization changes like turning the mermaid's swimsuit into a necklace. Also fixes at least one typo.
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/612/
Photo Album translation. Also has a separate patch to modify some text to look cleaner, sprites to make sense, and removes the text over photos while viewing them.
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2361/
And the Oracle font hack too. For those who don't like italics.
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/927/
All of those definitely work together, from start to finish

There's also a VWF font available. Not sure how well it works.
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2414/

There is a small bug with the QoL improvement one, in that one piece of optional dialogue from Marin is completely inaccessible due to requiring detection of low hearts (Which beeps).
The "...Eeek! You're hurt!" part in this image.
As far as I could tell it had no other negative impact on the game at all.

>>5335642
I prefer the original font, but that VWF sure looks nice.

can we talk about people hacking old PC games here? some guy has been fixing the ports of RE1 and 2 recently.

>All these .NSCR files are 'Map files', they will put the image on the right place in game.
>Sometimes, you have a puzzle instead of a complete picture (if you open it with CrystalTile).
>But once you open the graphic alongside the .NSCR file, you will see that the pieces will form a complete picture.
>However, you cannot edit a graphic alongside an .NSCR file.
>If you do, it will be messed up in-game, or the game will crash. Be careful about that.
>The .NCGR files are 'Graphic files', they contain the 'picture' of a graphic.
Once you open it alone in CrystalTile, you will notice that the colors are messed up...
>That's why we also have .NCLR files, these are the pallete files. It will assign a picture its right colors.
>When you opened a graphic file, alongside a pallete file, you can just edit it normaly.
>It won't crash if you would modify it in this way.
What the fuck does he mean "open alongside" in crystaltile2? I can get files in with a palette but it's garbled no matter the image pattern or width/height.

>>5337227
I have no fucking idea. Use a graphics editor that wasn't made by chinese with no manual.

>>5337203
If it's /vr/ and modification of software, it belongs here. I thought the SourceNext ports already had some fanpatch thing?

>>5337281
well i'm talking about the Classic Rebirth patches but he's fixing RE1 as well, which is great since that just won't run on modern PCs anymore.

>>5246389
Because I'm too dumb to write a disassembler

someone teach me

>>5337285
>well i'm talking about the Classic Rebirth patches but he's fixing RE1 as well,
which are linked in pretty much every RE-thread anyway

>>5337830
You don't have to write a disassembler, you can use one that already exists.

Been trying to patch FF7 with the fan translation for PSX but for some reason it keeps giving me the same error. Checked the version and file size it says is needed and its the same. So I have no idea what might be wrong.

Someone actually did it
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=27890.msg370089#new

>>5340104
did what?

>>5339963
>Checked the version and file size it says is needed and its the same.
and the checksum? that xdelta-error happens when the source-file ain't 100% as expected, iirc

>>5340136
Ah never mind that's the issue. Fucking hell this is going to just be annoying now.

>>5340132
Restore the original title screen

>>5339963
>>5340154
Not this anon, but just checked my copy of SotN. No "SLPM_860.23" file. It's only in the redump 1.2 version of the JP SotN. Lucky for you, there's already a copy of the pre-patched SotN available online.
https://www.emuparadise.me/Sony_Playstation_ISOs/Akumajou_Dracula_X_-_Gekka_no_Yasoukyoku_(Japan)_(v1.2)_[En_by_Gemini+Throughhim413_v1.0]/53778
If you can't download it, learn what the work-around script is.

>>5340375
Thanks...but I wasn't looking for SotN at all. Anyways found a file that happen to have the fan translation built in so I'm good.

>>5310152
>Metroid romhacks
>C&D

>>5313376
>I thought they were all pretty good (with last impact and rainbow road being more "B"-tier in terms of gameplay quality)
>he didn't like the finale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TKEw-t1eFI

>>5256743
Are there any other worthwhile hacks?

>>5337203
What is he fixing in re1?
the game installs and runs on w7 and in hardware mode.you can limit fps to 30 with dxtory.

Best romhack translations worth getting?
I find the recommendation list lacking.

>>5342271
>romhack translations
what?

>>5342554
Romhacks that translate a game

>>5320591
Not sure exactly how well this works or if it even counts as a "definitive version", but here's an FFIII hack that ports the remakes Job balances to the Famicom game (Red Mages can equip much more stuff, Scholars presumably get their Item Lore ability and aren't useless, etc).
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2805/

>>5342181
it doesn't run in win10 anymore apparently. here's a list of features:
http://appleofeden.de-doc.com/index.php/downloads/resident-evil-classic-rebirth/

>>5340104
Purdy.

SoM has some really ambitious & complex hacks, even an editor, but no map hacks. Sad.

>>5332067
Just a small update on this I tried the LZSS decompressor and it did absolutely nothing.
From searching around I found out that this game has never been properly tile ripped,its all captured from emulators and put together.
It looks like it uses custom compression and that is way above my head.
I poked around in exodus but it takes someone someone fluent in 68k assembly to piece it together and figure out whats going on.

>>5332067
update.
apparently there is russian tool that does it
>https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fromhacking.ru%2Fnews%2Fcomix_zone_lzss_coder_win%2F2016-02-26-3394

>https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ru&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=http://chief-net.ru/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D558%26Itemid%3D73&xid=17259,15700022,15700186,15700190,15700248&usg=ALkJrhi3s183Cla4Pw7_dFpOAXAr6dwSwQ

Whasamatta? You no like my bump or somephin?

>>5298242
Editor for wario land 4.
Editor for metroid gba.

I guess they figured out that engine.

Bump

>>5348602
I tried that. It would seem this thread is unbumpable, somehow.