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New and improved


1.) Project showoffs

2.) ROM hack recommendations

3.) Talk about amazing experience


Recommended download
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/50m95vbbuyf25/vr's_ROM_Hack_Recommendations
https://mega.nz/#F!JcsF0T5a!K3ECQlMzhDoDXJfyOxzR9w

Pre-parched and Improvement
https://mega.nz/#F!jpMxlQyZ!oCwbRyPFaMcZl3gOF5mvSg

General hack / Translation
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks

SMW hacks
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&s=smwhacks

Metroid Hacks
http://www.metroidconstruction.com/hacks.php

>> No.6092486

>>6092454
I love this idea, I'd really like to have the best and most polished SM64 hacks. It has a lively community even to this day, and imo it's the best 3D mario, a smidge better than 3D World.

>> No.6092495

>>6092486
sorry forgot to link SM64

https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&s=sm64hacks

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http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4470/
Anyone played this? I thought I had scoured the site for Mario Kart hacks, but I missed this one.

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>>6092454
Are there any games that have a decently sized rom hacking community like SMW?

>> No.6092632

>>6092612
>sanic

http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_hacks

they also have a hacking contents ever year
https://sonichacking.org/

Next is pokemon go to
>>>/vp/

https://www.pokemoner.com/cia
https://pokemonromhack.com/


and Mario 64 / smash brawl is somewhat big

http://forums.kc-mm.com/Gallery/BrawlView.php

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6092646

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

>> No.6092683

>>6092646
how do you do that please link a tutorial or info dump on this thread

>> No.6092692

>>6092454
Currently playing NBA Jam 2k20. Games pretty fun.

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6092754

>>6092517
I almost forgot how fun the first mario kart is.

>> No.6092757

>>6092754
>ctgpr
My nigga

>> No.6092768
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>>6092757
200+ new tracks
https://www.chadsoft.co.uk/


I feel like the wii is the best retro console. my favorite rom hack
> mario 3 mix
> kirby bizzare adventure
> a bucket list of kaizo mario hacks

Any anon who read this. hack your wii you won't regret it.

>> No.6092773

Hows the Super NT? I have a SD2SNES and original SNES with S-Video cables with a trinitron. Wondering how the NT is for taking to a friends house to play games/rom hacks.

>> No.6092835

>>6092768
real nigga know of the purity offered in a wii and wii u

>> No.6092839

>>6092768
>a bucket list of kaizo mario hacks
Make sure to put Super Gracie World on that list.

>> No.6092846

>>6092839
What the best way to share my collection of kaizo rom hacks

>> No.6092884
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>> No.6092890

>>6092846
mega.nz

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6092904

>>6092692
Forgot image.

>> No.6092942

>>6092890
I always thought you had to pay

This how you get started with Kaizo play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpgPLsNv9uE&list=PL8ooUSoeobwqRqJ_GbAEYhMGOhMvrjk4I

Here is my Kollection
https://mega.nz/#F!6xVSmK6J!cbYBOHrZxJs6-iOeOw_ofA

I filter the hack by music and advance engine modification

>> No.6093049

>>6092942
I always thought Kindergarten was a bit too demanding for someone who's completely new to smw hacks.
What are you on right now?
Also, pretty bold of you to upload all of those as rom files.

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6093056

>>6093049
what do you mean by "bold"

I am playing a meme hack called super diagonal world

also for some reason kaizo Mario on wii is slight slower , I accidentally wasted my time getting good in slow motion Mario.

>> No.6093256

Mega Man X
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3409/
https://www.romhacking.net/translatons/3452/

Mega Man X2
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4777/

Mega Man X3
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4086/

Mega Man X4
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=26255.0

Mega Man X5
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=29471.0

Mega Man X6
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=26507.0

>> No.6093390

>>6092683
I'll give you a brief walkthrough.

1. Figure out the main CPU of the console for the game you want to disassemble. If doing Genesis, Motorola 68000.
2. Google "(cpu here) disassembler", find a disassembler.
3. Run your ROM through the disassembler. For the Genesis example, there will be some Z80 code in there as well, so you'll need to figure out what part of the code is Z80 and run that through a Z80 disassembler.
4. Understand the ASM for that CPU well enough to be able to figure out what the disassembled code is telling you, and start making comments.
5. If you can reassemble the code into a working rom with the same hash as the original, you got it right. If not, something isn't correct.

If you don't know ASM well, you won't be doing any disassembly work.

>> No.6093684

this thread is kino

>> No.6093925

>>6093256
>X5 romhack
>- Opening theme replaced with the japanese opening song "Monkey"
>- Ending theme replaced with the japanese ending song "Mizu no Naka"
I liked the US versions of the songs, but disabling Alia's hints is a godsend, thank you for this anon.

>> No.6093952

>>6092454
>Pre-parched and Improvement
Nice selection in here, but why do so many of the Mega Man hacks insist on refilling weapon energy on death? That is a part of the game's challenge.

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>>6093952
zoomers

>> No.6094065

>>6093952
www.megamanmaker.com
www.zeldaclassic.com
>>6092454

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6094217

Splatterhouse Chrome kicks ass.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gcysR85kd8c

>> No.6094229

Kaizo sucks

>> No.6094232

>>6094229
explain yourself

>> No.6096060

I'm curious: what's a rom hack (for any game) that takes a so-so looking game aesthetically, and overhauls everything into something that looks great?

>> No.6096117

Cool thread

I’ve just started working on my first romhack. So far I’ve just been fucking with graphics, tweaking some values, and doing real time hex editing but it’s been fun.

Moving onto level editing soon which will be the fun part.

Also god damn is hunting for hex values tedious. It’s kinda zen once you get into it but it can take a while to identify what things are.

>> No.6096250

>>6096060
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3060/

>> No.6096515

>>6093256
>X6 finally has a proper translation, even if unofficial
THANK YOU!

>> No.6096978

>>6096250
Woah, shit. I guess it wasn't hard to one-up the original, but this is real snazzy. I'll be sure to try it out!

>> No.6097787

Bump.

>> No.6098002

>>6096515
X4 too.

>> No.6098693

>>6093256
>more romhacks hosted in rhdn-forums, which aren't listed on rhdn
can't explain that.

>> No.6098824

>>6098693
Patches bigger than the 30mb filesize limit in rhdn
Copyrighted media included in the patch

>> No.6099338

>>6092757
>>6092768
I'll stick with a track pack that doesn't force me to exclusively use my Wii's dying optical drive in order to play it.

>> No.6099370

how hard would changing soundtracks in a SNES game be for a complete shitter

>> No.6099383

http://ngplus.net/index.php?/forums/
Mostly difficulty increasing romhacks for SNES rpgs. I personally had a lot of fun with the chrono trigger one.

>> No.6099429

>>6099370
Depends on how much you know, and the game involved. If you understand the SNES's sound format pretty good and can ID sound data in a ROM without too much trouble, it might not be too hard. If you know none of the technical details involved and just suddenly decided you wanted to get into romhacking by changing out SNES music, you have a lot of learning to do and will likely give up long before you complete it.

Some games already have sound editing tools for them, like Earthbound, Secret of Mana, Super Mario World, and Super Mario RPG. Wouldn't take much experience or learning to be able to start creating with one of those.

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6099542

All I want is a basic romhack of Tetris DX that fixes the piece randomization, to use the standard Random Generator that modern Tetris brand games do.

https://harddrop.com/wiki/Random_Generator

Tetrix DX has some really bad tetromino randomization at times. "I" piece droughts are common, but even trying to mitigate the droughts is difficult when it won't give you the L/S or J/Z pieces that help with shortening a stack.
I've had shit before where four of the five next tetrominos given were T pieces.

I still play Tetris DX quite regularly, it's a go-to quickplay thing for retro handheld devices and a good way to test out their buttons.

>> No.6099661

>>6092454
Nice, i really needed some Sonic 3 and Knuckles romhacks, thanks!

>> No.6099669

>>6098002
X4 didn't need it nearly as much as X6.

>> No.6099723

>>6099542
What have you tried?

>> No.6099820

>>6098824
you just explained it

>> No.6100524

>>6098824
>Patches bigger than the 30mb filesize limit in rhdn
then the entries in the database have a link to the external download, many such cases
>Copyrighted media included in the patch
doubt.jpg

>> No.6100640

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3959
Anyone play this? Author updated it a few days ago. Seems to be a difficulty hack for majoras mask.

>> No.6102473

>>6100640
no

>> No.6103256

Is there even a Kirby romhack?
Superstar and Kirby 3 has much potential.

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6103292

>>6103256
sadly no one cares about kirby rom hacks
here is a complete list with links
https://www.levelsmack.com/best-kirby-rom-hacks/

but only 2 pure hacks exist
>bizzare adventure
>puresabe

I am sorry fren
I may get into haking my favorite game series

>> No.6103398

>>6103292
Missing Kirby in Gimmick

>> No.6103772

There was this Sonic rom hack I saw here a long time ago but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. Not sure if it was 1 or 2, but it was really colorful and had music that people responded to with "peh peh peh" or some shit alluding to the vocals in the song. It was only 2 or 3 acts long, and the boss had Sonic flying in midair for the entire fight while some bright ass colors flashed in the background. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

>> No.6103860

>>6103772
I played through a shit ton of sonic rom hacks but i need more details

here is a list to help you find it
http://info.sonicretro.org/Category:Hacks_with_advanced_engine_modifications

http://info.sonicretro.org/Category:Hacks_with_basic_engine_modifications

>> No.6103961

>>6103860
I looked at the list of hacks on Sonic Retro and didn't find it, checked the links you posted again and it doesn't seem to be there. I for some reason thought the title was Sonic Utopia before I realized that was the 3D classic Sonic fan game. Like I said there were only 2 (maybe 3) acts in the entire game, all of the same level. It was pretty much unrecognizable as Sonic 1 or 2, whichever it was a hack of, aside from Sonic's sprites being the same. I don't think there were any gameplay additions like the homing attack or anything. The levels were trippy and mechanical looking. The boss seemed to take place in some sort of colorful void with Sonic flying around in his animation from whenever he'd get swept through water tunnels or break away from the walls you can grip onto in Wing Fortress from Sonic 2. In the original thread someone posted a video of it being played on an actual Genesis, but the music lagged really bad and it didn't run perfectly. It honestly looked like a CD or 32X game with how many colors there were.

>> No.6104139

IMO the best way to play through Sonic 1 and 2 these days is Sonic Classic Heroes. The dev still seems to be working on it, at least it's thread on the Sonic Retro forums has people posting in it still including the dev, but there hasn't been a release since late 2013. It's still perfectly playable though, playing through it as just Sonic is a good time.

>> No.6104567

>>6092768
>I feel like the wii is the best retro console.
>>6092835
>real nigga know of the purity offered in a wii and wii u

I absolutely adore my Wii(s) but have just got myself a super cheap Wii u. I know absolutely nothing about how stuff works on the Wii u but really looking forward to getting stuck in. So other than the obvious stuff, (wiiu.hacks.guide etc), are there any good places to visit/things to read up on that you can point me at? Ya know- any special pastebins or anything? After I sort out BOTW and the other few decent Wii u games, I want to get MAME/FBA and up and running and mostly use it as an emulation box.
Peace!

>> No.6104572

>>6093056
I think he means- why the hell wouldn't you just upload the .ips files. Maybe?

Also, I'd like to ask-
Why the fuck wouldn't you just upload the .ips patches?

>> No.6104802

>>6104572
Not that anon you are asking, but unless you are dealing with RHDN or some other site trying to be legit, why not just share the pre-patched ROMs? The worst that could possibly happen is one butthurt romhack dev might send a C&D to mega, so you just reupload it again. And that's only if mega bothers to listen.

>> No.6104814

>>6092454
pre-parched. sweet.

>> No.6104824

>>6104139
I agree. I like how you can switch characters during gameplay and both games being combined into one long one.

>> No.6104869

>>6104572
because patching is annoying and somewhat time consuming

i have no reason to upload ips file

>> No.6105061

>>6104567
>>>/vg/hbg

>> No.6105194

>>6104802
Nah, you missed the point. The point being- that 98% of what you're uploading is just a repeat of a reppeat of a repeat of a repeat..........

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>>6105061
Now, I KNOW you were trying to be nice. Or, at least nice/sarcastic, but... ???

>> No.6105261

>>6105194
And this would matter, if we were still on 56k modems. You are arguing that people shouldn't spend another 2 seconds downloading and instead spend a few minutes patching every ROM themselves. The hell is the point of that?

>> No.6105286

>>6105261
Yeah, good.

>> No.6105293

>>6104869
Oh I think you have a reason. And that reason is called control.

>> No.6105310

>>6105293
comtrol what do you mean

>> No.6105434

>>6105310
Nevermind. Chill the fuck out.

>> No.6105584

Friendly reminder that xdelta is fucking retarded to use for patches. Either use a proper patch format, provide a patching program, or fuck the hell off. I get tired of downloading xdelta patch files only for xdelta to tell me they aren't legit xdelta patch files because the retard that made them fucked up somewhere. Why the hell do retards use a patch format that doesn't even bother to check in the target file is legit first?

>> No.6106738
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6106738

Puresabe recently released a Rockman 2020 New Years hack, a one-boss mini-game that looks fun to try out.

https://youtu.be/Q16sTVXyznA

I have the patcher from their site but I can't get it to work for whatever reason. bmaniw.exe always returns a system exception.
The ROM files I've put in the folder are correct, all six have the correct CRC32 checksum, so that isn't the issue.

Any clue what the problem is? Is it just a general Windows 10 issue, or a system language issue or something? I can see that the executable is working from the included info.txt and patch.txt files.
It's a pretty unique patcher in that it's manipulating multiple binaries, not like your conventional single-rom patch.

>> No.6107138

>>6105231
What's the problem? Open /hbg/ and read the linked pastebins n sheeet.

>> No.6107145

>>6105584
>patches file which isn't the proper source-file
>blames patch-program
Smart.

>> No.6107151

>>6106738
>*Troubleshooting
>Q:It can't work.
>A:Ask your brilliant friend.
lol.

>all six have the correct CRC32 checksum, so that isn't the issue.
you sure the files you're using aren't headered? If I read that patch.txt file correctly, it's expecting the roms to be without header.

>> No.6107162

>>6107151
i hope someone share the rom cause i am linux fag so i can't use exe files. ( no wine do not work )

>> No.6107178

>>6107151
That's a possibility. I'm not familiar with how CRC32 checksums work and these ROMs came from a no-intro set, but I can check them with an NES ROM tool and try again. Thanks.

>> No.6107191

>>6107145
>use redump
>patcher is expecting some shit rip and doesn't bother to say in the readme
>this is my fault
Fuck you too.

>> No.6107226

>>6106738
>>6107151
>>6107178
Double checking it, it seems as though that the ROMs are definitely correct, they don't have iNES headers, which is probably why they wouldn't want to run in Nestopia but were fine running in Mesen.

I think it's more likely that the actual patching program itself is buggy, it looks like it was built in C#.

I had the same problem with the 2018 new years hack which has a similar patcher, which uses a .bat patcher instead of a windowed executable.

>> No.6107251

>>6107191
>redump
>NES roms
nice try, troll.

>> No.6107264 [DELETED] 

>>6106738
It's expecting the unheadered Rockman-roms (as in Japanese) matching the No-intro-NES-DAT, named as rockman1.nes to rockman6.nes.
EZ.

>> No.6107268

>>6106738
It's expecting _headered_ Rockman-roms (as in Japanese) matching the No-intro-NES-DAT, named as rockman1.nes to rockman6.nes.
EZ.

>> No.6107276
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>>6107268
I was fairly sure that the ROM set I had was No-intro-NES-DAT, but it might not be, it was one I found on archive.org.

I've tried checking the ROMs that I do have with various tools and I'm not sure if they're headered or unheadered, but they seem to be unheadered. Their CRC32 checksum matches that in the patch.txt after all.

I've tried removing a header from these roms using NES mapper reader, but this results in the CRC32 checksum changing, which wouldn't be valid.

>> No.6107293

>>6107276
the patcher skips the first 16 bytes of the rom-files and then checks the remaining bytes if they match the checksum in patch.txt.

the no-intro-dats are made the same way when the rom-manager is set up properly: skipping the first 16 bytes (if the content of the file is starting with "NES" aka the iNES-header) and then doing the hashing on the remaining data.

apparently, your files have no header (the first 16 bytes) and that's why it crashes at that stage, because it gets less data than expected.

add a generic header to the files and the patching will work.

>> No.6107305

>>6107293
Ah, that explains it. Rom utilities are performing their CRC32 checksum on the unheadered portion of a headered rom.
I'm performing a CRC32 checksum on a headered rom.

Thanks, will look into adding the header.

>> No.6107317
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>>6107305
>Rom utilities are performing their CRC32 checksum on the unheadered portion of a headered rom.
only when set up that way.
>I'm performing a CRC32 checksum on a headered rom.
no, you're not, the "ROM header"-field in the pic of >>6107276 would look like pic related.

>> No.6107324

>>6107317
That was a slip-up, I meant to type "CRC32 checksum on an unheadered rom"

I might need to manually hexedit these NES roms to add the header.

>> No.6107326

Instead of adding headers you can try to change the six entries in patch.txt from
c 1 10 1
c 2 10 2
...

to

c 1 0 1
c 2 0 2
...

Maybe that works.

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6107335

>>6107326
Huh, yup that worked a treat, thanks this produced a working ROM.
Such a simple instruction tweak, parse unheadered ROMs instead of headered ROMs.

Thanks a bunch.

>> No.6107354

>>6107335
can you share it please make a mega link

>> No.6107365

>>6107354
Sure, have some temporary links.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/unfq58t1fzic18s/Rock2018NY.nes?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a2qllpqdstrbqnc/Rock2020NY.nes?dl=0

>> No.6107414

>>6107365
thank you fren

>> No.6107709

>>6092454
I'm having trouble figuring out what exactly was changed in that webm. It doesn't look like a romhack at all.

>> No.6107716

>>6107709
It is not a rom hack .

>> No.6107721

>>6107716
Then why is it being used as the OP image for a rom hacking thread?

>> No.6107723

>>6107251
I was patching a bin+cue, but nice job failing to keep up with the conversation. I never mentioned NES roms, so I assume you must be retarded.

>> No.6107736

>>6107721
for the lulz

>> No.6107876

What's a good SMW hack for someone who has never played more than a few levels because the most high-profile hacks are hard?

>> No.6107885

>>6107876
Beat the game, including the star world levels. Then you might stand a chance with The Second Reality Project Reloaded. That's about as easy as SMW romhacks get. After that it's a sliding scale all the way to Kaizo.

>> No.6108037

Just finished Mega Man & Bass with the character switching and multi-equipment patches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W89v61v_fTc

It's a massive improvement for the better, being able to complete the CD collection in a single game save and being able to take advantage of all the equipment upgrades simultaneously, which really dampens the game's harsh difficulty.

The game still has some flaws but this is the best way to play it.

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6108047

>>6094061
>zoomers caring about megaman

>> No.6108053

>>6108037
Character swapping is neat, but being able to use all the equipment at once is game breaking.

>> No.6108061

Has anyone played Super Mario Niggers?

>> No.6108064

>>6108053
Yes, but it also makes it much more enjoyable when just playing it casually.

It has some of the hardest bosses in the series even when using their weaknesses, and the game already lacked anything like E-tanks to help the player through.

It's a game infamous for being inaccessible and frustrating, and the multiple equipment alleviates that. It doesn't make Burner Man any less terrible as a boss though, even if mostly due to the boss room and camera work employed.

>> No.6108067

>>6108061
Sounds like one of those juvenile hacks that crudely edits sprites and text in-emulator to make everything rude.

>> No.6108225
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>>6108061
http://www.i-mockery.com/romhacks/superkkkbros/

this is sad
this site give you a fake rom of super mario kkk

His readme txt is

>If you're one of the racists that actually created this rom hack
please do us all a favor: KILL YOURSELF.

>> No.6108239

>>6108225
>acik 1997 acik 1997 acik 1997
Do you think he'd take me to court if I claimed his romhack as my own?

>> No.6108240

>>6108225
good. trash hacks like that should be wiped off the internet.
and by that I mean cheap reskins. I care not for the content.

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>>6108240
>>6104572