/vr/ - Retro Games

Here is a WIP titlescreen from a romhack I'm working on. Anyone else for any back projects they're working on?

>Rom hack general
>STATE 0 SAVED.
Seems about right.

>>834610
i am not following the implication here.
is it that one should not use an emulator to play hacked roms..?

>>834638
I think he was implying "HURR DURR SAVESCUMMING NOOB LOL"

Save states are fine with me though

>>834638
>>834653
No, what I am implying is that some of these rom hacks amp up the difficulty in silly ways that people find themselves constantly using save states.

I always like playing Mega Man rom Hacks. My favorite being Minus Infinity for Mega Man 4, and Dues Ex Machina for Mega Man 2

Both of those games in addition to being very difficult, had some very cool tricks that showed that the hacker knew what he was doing.

Anyone know of any good FF6 romhacks?

>>834569
Is this a hack of Phantasy Star?

>That zsnes requirement for SMW hacks
God damn this sucks. Using anything other than zsnes fucks up the sound so horribly. Why do romhackers do this? It kills any chance to play the hacks on real hardware or at least on retroarch or wii emulators.

>>834894

people say zsnes is accurate enough even though it has so many ugly workarounds to make things work. if that is what a lot of people use, it's likely that romhackers use it too and don't even notice that it doesn't work properly. or maybe these workarounds make it easier? not sure.

>>834840

Nope, a hack of Starflight

>No FFV GBA ROM hacks
I know, not retro, but it's a remake of a retro game.

>Pic related
>The romhack that ruined Mario and Romhacks for me

This is possibly one of the greatest games ever made. This game is fucking QUALITY.

>>834894
Because a whole lot of people don't want to go outside their comfort zone and move on to more modern emulators. Annoys the hell out of me too.

>>834894
when the SMW hacking scene was at it's biggest ZSNES was the emulator most people used and things like flashcarts in the like were not in wide use yet and wii wasn't even a thing

>>834931
>>835026
you two are complete morons
see >>835037
the peak of the SMW hacking scene was quite a long time ago

>>834984
I want to try this. link to patched version?

>>835058

you're a moron for not explaining why you think they're morons

I have not played a better hack than Final Fantasy V Ancient Cave

pic semi related

To this day, I have no played a greater romhack than FF5 Ancient Cave. It turns FF5 into a roguelike similar to the Lufia 2 minigame Ancient Cave.

Give it a shot if you want fun

>>835387

I can cosign this. It's really addictive.

>>835387
Any link to it for someone who's new to ROM hacks?

>>835469
No. Use Google.

>>835058
That may be but it caused a lot of fuss between hackers and emu devs. Thanks to that close minded behavior SNES emu devs really look down on hackers now, and in turn it made most rom hack authors set in their own ways.

>>835387
Wow, thanks, I never heard of it.

Personally, I love the really shitty romhacks. I love a good trainwreck, and boy, are there a lot of them.

SMW's romhack catalog is particularly rife because of the extremely low barrier of entry due to the extremely simple and powerful editing tools. Not only that, but SMWCentral (the biggest SMW hacking site) got hit HARD by the brony plague, so a lot of untalented autists have flocked to the site.

>>835530
Wolfenstein guards can make romhacks?

Believe or not, the dude who made this wasn't trying to make a creepypasta. He just had shit taste in palettes.

My favorite Mega Man hacks so far:
The Rise and Fall of Dr. Wily
Battle of Gamma
Rockman 3 Alpha
Mega Man 3 Ever & Return
Rockman Claw & Exhaust

There aren't nearly enough hacks for 4, 5, 6 and 7.

>SMW's romhack catalog is particularly rife because of the extremely low barrier of entry due to the extremely simple and powerful editing tools

For the record, this is also the real reason so many SMW hacks are ZSNES-only. One of the click-and-drool SMW editing tools does something to the ROM that works fine in ZSNES but screws up real hardware and accurate emulators, so literally all hacks created using that tool end up being ZSNES-only.

People asking for ancient cave stuff, here

http://archive.foolz.us/vr/thread/282756/#282819

I typed up a post on it a long time ago. Download links and everything are in the thread. Scroll down, it's the first few posts past Pokemon.

Am I the only one?

>>835604

I used to have the SNES ones.

Anyways, posting more terrible SMW romhacks

>>834894
The SMW romhackers didn't realize for a long time that the tool they used to hack the music did echoing wrong. The result was the hacks would only work properly in ZSNES and not on anything else. By the time the bug came to everyone's attention there were a ton of completed hacks that had the problem and many people were unwilling to stop using the tool that caused the error.

>>834984
My dick.

>>835482
because of one game?
this really isn't a problem in many other game hacks to be honest

>>835710
He's overstating it. There's only one emudev that feels that way, needless to say which one.

The powers that be at SMWcentral were actually fairly quick to discourage using addmusic when the bug came to everyone's attention.

>>835616
>>835618
>koomba u fagget
>who r u fart face?

Please tell me which romhack this is from. I will play it for the oscar-winning dialogue alone.

>>835747
It's in the file names.

I don't have a direct link though, but it's somewhere rotting in SMW Central's Hack Moderation board.

>>835768
Ahh, I should have guessed that's what the file names were all about. I'm sure I can find it if I poke around in there. Thanks!

>>834490
Got a nice list of hacked roms:

https://mega.co.nz/#F!R8RCnZZY!Zxyqoynu9GVWIwFHCISK2Q!whQw0TBI

There are some pretty crazy DKC hacks on Niconico Douga.

>>835810

any links?
or search suggestions?

>>835838
There's a fairly small but interesting community of DKC hackers floating around somewhere, including editing tools for all three games. There's a bunch of Japanese stuff on niconico like that anon said, but there's also a ton of stuff on youtube. Shouldn't be too hard to find.

>>835838
Orifiel
http://nicoviewer.net/mylist/6584110
Heppoko
http://nicoviewer.net/mylist/8026669 (Worlds 1-2)
http://nicoviewer.net/mylist/9981003 (Worlds 3-4)
http://nicoviewer.net/mylist/19479495 (Worlds 5-6)

These are two of the most prominent DKC hackers there. They might not seem like much for the first few levels, but eventually they come up with some pretty bizarre and creative concepts.

>>834984
I'm stuck at an air level where every surface is slippery.

>>835530
>got hit HARD by the brony plague
There was a thread on /mlp/ awhile back that was claiming ownership for it, and saying it was "an attack on bronies", likely meaning it was a strawman raid.

We could base these threads around FFV Ancient Cave alone. It's so bitchin

Hey is there an FF2 hack that makes it fun??

>>834658
This is the major problem with rom hacks. There are many that rely on frame perfect glitches to even beat.

Anyone play this link's awakening hack?

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1188/

>>835387
>>840076
See >>840108

>there will never be a good Mega Man ROM hack other than Minus Infinity
>there will never be an MM hack with unique bosses and music
>all the talent for the graphics, design, and music flock over to the easy program tools
>meanwhile the ones that try to be unique all suffer from programmer graphics

Is it too difficult for an autist-level hacker to ask for graphics and music from other people? Is it too hard for them to consider that, and think that an impressive ROM hack would deter their fame that they'd get from a 2 month fangame? Anyone can make a Megaman fangame, only the Japanese can hack the original MM games apparently.

>>840093
The Mod of Balance hack changes some things up a bit. Also, it adds in twelve classes for the Final Fantasy 1 game.

Is it possible to romhack a game on MAME

FRANCE SUCKS !
STRUB MY BALLS

>>839168

They're full of shit because what I'm talking about wasn't a raid or anything like that. This was before /mlp/ started anyways.

It's just users going brony and attracting other bronies, including a lot of moderators.

>>840342
Mame is a pain because it does a million checks inside zip files, but hacks do exist for stuff like final burn alpha.
I know of some brazilians who hacked new moves and stuff into KOF 2002 back in the day, but most of them are just regular cheats you can find on mame enabled by default, like playing as bosses, etc.

>>840332
>Mod of Balance
>Starts game with upgraded classes.
Wow, just be even more casual and break an easy as hell game even more.

>>840182

http://www.megamanxcorrupted.com/

>>840118
>http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1188/
Balls bustingly hard!

>>840480
That ain't a ROM hack, is it? It's far too detailed for something like that, something that'd be like a PC fangame. If it is indeed a ROM hack, then god almighty, that's impressive.

I'm still learning MIPS assembly, almost finished with frame pointer on chapter 28.
8 more chapters to go before I can go back to romhacking.

>>840407
There's an option to not have that, I think.

Also, Mod of Balance actually does make the game challenging.

>>840480
is this an elaborate fake?
because if it's not, then wow. looks really fucking impressive

>>840928
Are Playstation games coded in MIPS too or just the N64?

>>843598
both the N64 and PS1 had MIPS ISA processors, the PS1's is based on older MIPS architecture and doesn't have a FPU - one of the main benefits of the N64's CPU

Finally beat Zelda Challenge: Outlands the other day. Felt good, man.

I won't lie; I used some outside resources to find a few things. I only did it when I was at my wit's end, though, and only near the end of the game.

Haven't started the second quest yet.

>>839168
Except that's dead wrong because I saw posts on smw central's forum looking for some of the humorous mario world hacks that guy posted, and I saw at least one seemingly well respected member of the community that has a brony avatar, I rolled my eyes in real life. Then I saw his little motto above his avatar saying "Season 4 is great so far!". This is the problem I have with bronies: WHO THE FUCK CARES AND WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO INSERT MLP IN EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE

>>843565
>>840553

It's a flash game.

>>834569
I love you. Tell me more about your ideas for it.

>>843637
>I saw posts on smw central's forum looking for some of the humorous MLP eps that guy posted, and I saw at least one seemingly well respected member of the community that has a gaming avatar, I rolled my eyes in real life. Then I saw his little motto above his avatar saying "Currently playing The Last of Us, and it's been great so far!". This is the problem I have with gamers: WHO THE FUCK CARES AND WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO INSERT GAMING IN EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE
Perspective is a magical thing.

>>843637
Oh no he changed his avatar to something he liked

>>834772
Best Game Ever. It re-do's all the enemies and items, making things not just harder, but more awesome. Even basic early game items have shit like stat boosts. Also, edits to spells and abilities with some nifty new graphics and shit.

>>843825
>>843726
But the bronies are fags.

>>840928
An Azure Dreams hack with changed item effects and monsters and and everything would be amazing.

>>844145
Wow. That's really the best argument retards can come up with. Just... Wow.

>>840543
Yeah I'm stuck on the second dungeon. Good stuff, but I hear there may be some frame perfect stuff later on. I hope not.

I-Is A Super Mario Thing allowed here?

>>843637
>This is the problem I have with bronies: WHO THE FUCK CARES AND WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO INSERT MLP IN EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE

>Still being mad about people enjoying ponies

>two thousand thirteen

Sorry, but you sound like those faggots from /v/ being butt-blasted about people posting anime-styled images, even if they're vidya related. If that's what they enjoy who gives a shit?

>>844158
Yeah, that's my main goal.

Too many useless items, like Harash (reduces attack power), Horrey (reduces defense power).

Who wants to throw Harash at KILLER when I can throw Oleem and instantly kill it ?

Unless, well, all items starts unidentified in Monster Tower.

There is Red Oleem in game with the same effect as Blue Oleem, but never used.
I guess at some point they want to make all items appear unidentified in the tower just like in clasic roguelike.

>No one mentions Pokemon
Actually I'm happy because most of the hackbase is shit, but there are a couple gems in the retro like Brown and Dark Energy.

>>844860
pokemon usually gets griped at in /vr/ because /vp/ get's enough traffic.

>>844860
Yeah, I feel very... underwhelmed by all the Pokemon Rom hacks, and there are so many.

It IS Possible to do more than what people do, albeit with slightly more programming prowess.

Majority of romhacks just change game text, enable legendaries as wild/wandering, change the starters, increase shiny appearance rates, shit that doesn't really mean hacking.

It's the equivalent of using the Gameshark/GameGenie/PAR really. There's nothing wholly unique about any romhacks. Some have certain events changed and locations modified but in terms of a legitimate, new type of game RPG, there just isn't a patient enough community to do it, or they just don't have the technical skill.

>>844215
Hi everyone, this is Raocow.

>>843565
It's a game that's never coming out and has left me blue balled for years.

>>845314
>http://www.megamanxcorrupted.com/

Yeah it is. I've talked to the guy on youtube, he's still working on it.

>>844321

I'm not the same guy but there's a big difference between people using anime styled reaction images and people incessantly putting a pony motif on everything. Like EVERYTHING.

I'm playing Mechwarrior and someone wants to modify the Hollander into a pony. Why do they need to do that? Why do they need to shove mlp stuff into the game that clearly isn't even related at all?

I don't go around shoving Sub-zero, Zangief, Lord British, Galuf, Sandro etc. into all their stuff.

>>834490
Brutal Mario is great but for the huge amount of bosses which soon gets tedious I gave up at pic related just because it takes too long and I was just sick of endless bosses

>>835854
>>835870

>>835387
>>835589
>>835594
>>835601
Great to see all these new hacks. Let's keep the list on >>835807 constantly updated with new stuff!

/vr/ is a great place to learn about new hacks, especially for roms outside of the usual NES and SNES lineup.

>>835854
Do you know where I can find 'em?

It's a shame those japanese dudes never leave in download links in their videos.

>>843694

Basically what it looks like. Game will be relatively unchanged, you start as an alliance captain before Shepard, but after the first contact war, and go exploring. Races will be changed for Mass Effect races (when I eventually find their portrait graphics...) and story text will be changed, so that the supernovas spreading across the galaxy become systems going dark after reaper attacks. Game ends just after the reaper war, may have to hack to shorten it a bit. Very much a WIP, but it is slowly getting somewhere. Would you like to know more?

Anyone play this? Favorite lttp hack.

>>834984
Your dick will fall off when TSRP2R comes out. And it's coming soon. This year I think. Pic related it's OC made by me.

>>846352
dkc-atlas.com has a few in their forums, but don't know if any are complete.

Don't really know much about the Japanese stuff.

>>846352
pgrmdest is a Japanese DKC2 hacker that does a load of videos and always has the latest version of the hacks on his site.

>>847328
Got that wrong, it's "prgmdest".

>>847313
There are "Boss Rush" hacks of DKC1 and DKC2 made by "Mattrizzle"

>>847349
Yeah, they're pretty solid. My only complaint is they don't really add anything new to the games.

He still needs to do a DKC3 version to complete the set. =)

Have you guys heard of this lost FF5 romhack called 'Dead Bartz'? They say it's been completely wiped off the internet but others say its still around.

For those who don't know about it, Dead Bartz was a romhack for the SNES version of FF5. It popped up on Final Fantasy fan sites shortly after the PSX re-release of Final Fantasy V and VI. While it converted the game into English using RPGe's fantranslated script, Dead Bartz's big feature was the incapacitation of one of the hero's. After Galuf and Lenna join the hero party, players would notice- by the first battle or by checking the menu- that Bartz had been mysteriously KO'd. Phoenix Downs, Life, and every hero-raising ability are ineffective in reviving him. The player has to go through the whole game with only three party members.

And, uh, that's pretty much it. Having to cope with one less hero made the romhack challenging, especially during the parts where the player is forced to use an unusual amount of party members (like when the player first arrives in World 3 and Fork Tower).

>>845336
>my little murderers

>>848006
No, never heard of that one. Sounds kind of weak compared to Ancient Cave or some other romhacks.

>>844108
How not to play: http://www.romhacking.net/reviews/837/#review

Real players' opinons: http://www.romhacking.net/reviews/846/#review
http://www.romhacking.net/reviews/979/#review

>>847283
It was okay but easy to get lost.

>>835807
>>835807
>those kaizo hard kirby hacks

>>849178
How do you make Kirby hard?

>>849834
down+b

>>849837

>>835482
Emulator devs, homebrew devs, ROM hackers, and fan translators all get along pretty well, and there's a lot of cross-pollination between their communities. It's just retarded SMW "hackers" (ie people who can download Lunar Magic) that piss everyone off.

>>848006
Even if it is lost, it doesn't sound that hard to recreate.

Oh my, why thank kind ROM hacker. Those force beams were quite stressful. I am more relaxed and ready to complete the rest of the game now. (´･ω･`)

Game is Rockman ABnormality btw. Pretty easy game, but the level design is excellent nonetheless. Highly recommend!

>>847295
I literally cannot control my dick.

>>849872
Why?Because they can't program?

Some hacks made with level editors have much better level design than the "programmed" ones. And if that's a problem for them then why did they make and release level editors

>>851840
personally I think actual games should have had stuff like this in it

I think you know about the VIP series, the romhacks of SMW made by 2chan.
I have a friend who knows how to use Lunar Magic and other tools, and is considering about starting a hack collab here.

Do you think it would be a good idea?
I don't know much about what he is thinking, just that he told me about this idea multiple times, and seems a bit shy about starting a thread.

>>853284
It couldn't hurt to try

>>846487
For sure, its sounds like perfect idea for a rom hack. Mass Effect fits Starflight so well.

>>849178
They're hard as hell, man. It's crazy, and pretty glitchy in some parts.

What's with those insta-kill enemies? Those chickens and chicks will totally fuck your shit up.

Is there any documents on romhacking PS games that isn't convoluted?

I just want to make a hard mode hack, how hard is it to explain how to find HP and stat values for monsters and bosses?

>>854595
For what game ?

It's a complicated process, you need to know at least MIPS assembly language. This is what PSX games are compiled into from C language.
Next, with PSX debugger put a breakpoint memory write on the enemy HP.

Next time you see the enemy again, the debugger should put you in the pre battle preparation modules.

Trace it and find out the table where the game loads the HP and stats.

Next is to modify the table in file.
If the game isn't compressed, you should look at the hex pattern that you find in the HP and stats table.

Pic related. This is what MIPS assembly looks like.
You don't see c = a + b

What you see :
lui $at, 0x1001 # get a
lw $t0, 0($at)
nop
lui $at, 0x1001 # get b
lw $t1, 4($at)
nop
addu $t2, $t0, $t1 # c = a + b

If you don't know anything about MIPS, I'd recommend you to learn it from :
http://programmedlessons.org/AssemblyTutorial/index.html

It would be helpful if you know at least C programming language before jumping to Assembly.

>>855392
Not that anon, but by any chance would you know why I get a weird color bleed effect when opening NES roms in programs designed for altering NES roms like Tile Layer Pro, Tile Molester, TileEd2002, YY CHR, etc?

I'm trying to map out the Castlevania ROM since Stake has some limitations as well as some bugs that make editing a pain in the ass, so much so that graphical editing is borderline impossible without a different program and a hex editor. The problem is most noticeable when you are looking at the graphics for the title screen in game/Stake and in one of the editors at the same time. The color bleed makes it appear as if multiple tiles are stacked ontop of each other to create the finished tile.

Is there any way to fix this, some setting I've missed? Or do most programs just not interpret Castlevania's graphics properly?

>>855420
I'm afraid I can't help much with graphic, as I haven't touched that area.

Maybe you'll get your answer on romhacking.net forum :

http://www.romhacking.net/forum/

>Pokemon Red fully colorized

Kind of disappointing that the Pokemon sprites are replaced with the Gold ones but hnnggghhh I don't care, my dick is ready.

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1385/

>>855631

>"In addition to color, Pokemon and Trainer sprites have been imported from Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal, and so has the battle HUD. If you don’t want this, the “vanilla” patch does not touch these."

Nigger do you even read?

>>834658
hold the phone folks not everyone is as passive aggressive as you are lololol`

>>835585
I didn't realize they released that game for the virtual boy

>>851840
The worst part about playing any MM2 hack is knowing I'm going to have to do a stage with those fucking Quick Man beams. They're not very hard for me in the original game, but in every ROM hack I play, the designer always gets cheeky with them. I just brace for it because I know it's coming. I'll be running along then "dooooOOOOOOP."

>>855675
>http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1385/
Not the guy you're responding to, but personally I never search for any sort of pokeroms without a fever inducing boner akin to a meth frenzy

>>855737
he has a boogey in his nose

>>855737

The force beams in Rockman Exhaust were so hard for me I actually had to give up on the game. It's a shame too, because I really liked the general direction the hack had going.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YBx0MYOqDg

>>856097

Every ROMhack maker is a fucking smart ass with the lasers.

>>856097
I found the hardest part to be the second screen of lasers, but eventually beat it. You can always use a password to skip the stage if it's that troublesome, but you'll probably hit another roadblock at Wily 2.

Holy shit does this look pretty.
youtube.com/watch?v=haWDxT2QG34

Because I feel like this is an obligatory post
>Japanese SMW romhacks
http://www.mediafire.com/download/klz457hv47104yf/SMW_Japanese_Rom_Hacks.rar

My favorite romhacks are probably Beta restorations like Ura Zelda and Super Mario World

>>855631
I really don't get why everyone thinks that the original Blue & Red sprites were inferior. Because those are the only two games where the Pokemon actually looked like monsters

>The color bleed makes it appear as if multiple tiles are stacked ontop of each other to create the finished tile.

Sounds like the graphics in that game are compressed. If a ROM has fairly basic graphic compression, when you open it in a tile editor you'll see semi-recognizable graphics that appear to be overlaid or squashed together. If the compression is more advanced, you won't see any recognizable graphics at all.

I desperately want to play some SMW rom hacks, but I can only find them via torrent. And they're all rar, and I don't trust that. Help?

>>856939
What's wrong with .rar?

>>856840
So I need to decompress the graphics. Thank god there's documentation about that. Thanks for the heads up anon.

>>856939
Bite the fucking bullet and get winrar or 7zip or some shit.
How have you emulated without coming across .rar files anyway?

mario adventure

better than SMB3 but it made me want to stab someone to death. game had me screaming at the top of my lungs. demonicly clever

>>856840
Me again. I'm not entirely sure the graphics are compressed at this point, but how the data is offset on the ROM. I found some tool for NES development called 8TED or somesuch, which allowed me to shift the offset by single bytes rather than by line. Offsetting everything by 8 bytes made the graphics look exactly as they do in-game, where-as the default offset looked just like it did in the other graphical editing tools. Given that I have no idea how to force TLP or TM to shift offset by bytes, I'm thinking the best course of action would be to cut the first 8 bytes of data past the header out, so I can actually alter things 1:1 with the way they look in the game.

It ain't much, but it's progress.

>>834984
>This game is fucking QUALITY.

Emphasis on the all-caps QUALITY.

It won't even work on ZSNES. What a piece of shit.

>>861247
>2013
>still using ZSNES
Well there's your problem right there

>>861329
>Implying

I use bsnes, accuracy profile.

The romhack wouldn't work on bsnes (as I expected it wouldn't), so I tried it on ZSNES, since that's the emulator every faggot makes romhacks for and the hack didn't work.

Does anyone know of a good hex editor for windows that will let me copy and paste the hex code into a txt file? Every single one I've tried so far has either spit out the info converted into decimal, or otherwise translated the hex into something else with a simple copy and paste.

>>861650

Doesn't HxD work?

>>861659
>HxD

Why yes, yes it does. Thank you anon.

>>835469
look up http://www.romhacking.net/
start there

>>855392
Which PSX debugger do you recommend?

>>862506
There are three major PSX debuggers :
pSX
No$PSX
PCSX

pSX 1.13 is pretty good at everything, except assembling PSX instructions on the fly and silly register names (r16 instead of $s0, r8 instead of $t0) - Someone with x86 asm knowledge should hack this.

No$PSX can assemble PSX instruction on the fly and has sane register name, but its memory breakpoint is buggy and you can't change the register value (major turn off).

PCSX 1.5 with Debugger / Agemo, the only good thing about this debugger is that it's open source.
Horrible interface

Stick with No$PSX / pSX 1.13, switch between these two programs as you need.

Bad SMW ROMhack poster from a few days ago.

Some autistic underaged weeaboo faggot pretending to be a KAWAII SAMURAI KATANA DESU ONNICHAN~ Japanese made an "Asian Edition" SMW.

Of course, he doesn't know how to spell "Asian".

>>862613
Too complicated for my retarded brain.

I would rather pay for someone else to show me how to do it since it's only 1 PS game I want rom hacked. I would pay more for a "all-in-one" program similar to RPG Maker.

Pic related

Holy shit, already another Chip'n'Dales romhack! I'm in Heaven!

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1384/

>>862968
Don't let that complicated material discourage you.
I only learned MIPS recently and almost figured out how items generation worked.

Pic related.
This is the heart of Azure Dreams engine - how items are randomly generated on Monster Tower.

I need to dig deeper into the game code to find out more stuff, like how special items (Healing Herb) are forced to be generated on floor 28.

>>862979
>http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1384/
This isn't too bad at all.

I'd prefer a romhack that let's you play as Gadget but pipedreams.

>>863950
We know Freehaven, we know.

>>834894
ZSNES is the best emulator

>>834668
You are what's wrong with the hacking community

>>834658
Good hacks are few and far between, but when I find one that isn't retardedly difficult and actually good, I cherish it.

>mfw playing Super ZeroMission
I absolutely adore how this author did the entirety of Crateria, Tourian, and the first bits of Brinstar.
You really get that feeling of familiarity to Super Metroid's original layout and I maintain that this is how the real Zero Mission should have done it.

Basically during the escape from Tourian, shit happens and you break out of the elevator directly into a section of New Tourian, still under construction at this point, and escape through there. You rush through sections of Crateria that you used in Super Metroid to travel to New Brinstar before escaping.

And then if you go back to the destroyed Tourian after.. Let's just say there's more fun to be had.

>>847283
No. Fuck you. That is a terrible hack.

>>861247
What are you talking about? It works just fine on ZSNES.

>>864925
its fucked up if you want to stream with zsnes because you can't stream if it's in full screen, and you can't stretch the screen out to fit your window, so for that purpose snes9x is better.

zsnes is however the best emulator otherwise.

>>864839
What the fuck is a Freehaven?

>>865000
Super Zeromission was fun but I got stuck. Same thing happened to me in a dozen other SM hacks. Sigh.

>>865263
the thing with game hacks of any type is that these people aren't professional programmers or level designers, couple that with very little play testing... and...

>>865283
If you think you need to be a professional in order to make a game, you are sorely mistaken.
Many great games are made all the time by amateurs.

It's just that there are so many SHIT amateur games as well they drown out the good ones.

>>847283
I like it besides the bomb jumping for keys. Sure there was a fix that got rid of bomb jumping and streamlined everything, but I had 0 problems with the original guardhouse or anything else in the game besides that.

>>865354
It ain't just level design either. Many hacks suffer from what I've dubbed "First time hacking or creating anything really" syndrome. It's not really a different game, just replaced sprites, text, or some value replacements to re-balance difficulty usually making it either retardedly easy or retardedly hard.

A hack isn't just some easy replacement you did in an editor in 30 minutes dammit. It's a full package. I'm not expecting a complete overhaul but at least give me a reason to play. New levels, new weapons/powers, something.

>>865263
>>865000
Please provide additional Super Metroid romhacks that might be of value. I would like one that mainly changes the maps, but doesn't focus too heavily on adding new textures (as does Super Zeromission). Also, if it could tone down on the excessive difficulty of wall jumping or morphball hopping, that'd be great too. I'm not that good.

>>865019
All that happens running it on ZSNES is that it displays the Nintendo logo on a white background, then cuts to black.

That's all that happens.

>>840358
I love me some Badderhacks

>>844215
Hello, fellow Raocow fan!

>>861247
>>865019
>>866058
PEBKAC applies somewhere in here, it works in bsnes and ZSNES provided it's applied against a headered ROM, as is standard for SMW hacks. Or rather it only works partially in bsnes because it's Yet Another ZSNES Hack. The gray turtles that explode when stomped sometimes don't work as in the picture, and there's occasional brief static before music starts, probably more.

Im playing Super Mario Bros. 3X right now and enjoying it quite a bit. I'm a little surprised it's a Super Mario World romhack when it could have been a Super Mario Bros. 3 romhack but maybe the SNES rom was just a lot easier to work with than the original NES rom or SM All-Stars.

>>856773
>My favorite romhacks are probably Beta restorations like Ura Zelda
That romhack is dead, sadly.

>>866450
There is no problem with the user. I have patched several Super Mario World ROMs and every single result is exactly the same.

If the result repeats under various conditions, and it has, then the patch itself is faulty.

If you wish to change my mind about the quality of the hack, provide a pre-patched ROM that works for you.

>>867198
World has an editor that allows for changing everything about the game.

3 has 8 different programs in various states of functionality and completeness.

I've yet to try any of them so I can't claim with any certainty that 3 can be hacked to the extent that World can, but it would appear that hacking World is a very simple operation compared to 3.

>>867962
Not that anon, but...

While I understand your frustration, you do realize what you are saying right? You are saying that a patch that hundreds if not thousands of others has used successfully is actually a non-functioning patch because it didn't work for you? Does that make ANY sense to you logically?

>>865000
Super ZeroMission seemed like just another garbage frustration hack to me when I tried it. Plus swapping in the GBA's low-res sprites was a really dumb idea.

>>866039
Here are the best Super Metroid hacks in my opinion:
Super Metroid Legacy - Highest quality SM hack from a simpler age in hacking
Super Metroid Limit - another high quality SM hack from a simpler time
Super Metroid Z-Factor - newer hack, I still haven't finished it but am stuck in Maridia and have quite enjoyed what I have played

Super Metroid Redesign - the best of them all, but also by far the hardest (not to the level of frustration-tier design though); substantially overhauls some play mechanics and not recommended for people new to SM hacks or aren't already Super Metroid experts

You might give Ice Metal a try too, but it's a very bizarre hack that drastically changes the aesthetics.

>>867962
I agree, it's not your fault. It's the fault of ROM hackers having awful standards around that time.

http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=faq&s=ips

This hack is no exception, it breaks exactly as you say if you try to use a ROM without a header. So you have three options:
[ ] Find a headered ROM somewhere.
[ ] Use a tool like NSRT to add a header to your ROM.
[ ] Don't bother with the hack.

>>863097
Nah, I'd rather pay someone else to do it. It'd be faster than learning MIPS.