/hbg/ - Homebrew & Romhacking General

[Anonymous No.10552239]

Gameplay and development discussion:
What homebrew / hacks are you playing /vr/? Are you working on anything? Would you like to learn? Projects and questions welcome.

Active Communities:
romhacking.net
smwcentral.net
metroidconstruction.com
gbatemp.net
sonicretro.org
mariopartylegacy.com
pokecommunity.com
baddesthacks.net
pouet.net
romhacks.org

Huge Community List:
pastebin.com/edWKBJqn

IPS/BPS Patcher:
romhacking.net/utilities/1040

Huge Archive:
archive.org/download/En-ROMs/En-ROMs/

Other Archives:
archive.org/details/rom-hack-patch-archive
mediafire.com/folder/50m95vbbuyf25/vr's_ROM_>Hack_Recommendations
archive.org/details/hbmame_0244_roms

Quality of Life Improvements:
https://pastebin.com/4gmM7wc6

Desplash Patches:
mega.nz/folder/FZtzjZJa#qtrGXSbVNjiXUrnGUGSVMw

AtariDev:
forums.atariage.com

NESDev:
wiki.nesdev.org
forums.nesdev.org

SNESDev:
snes.nesdev.org/wiki/Main_Page
github.com/alekmaul/pvsneslib
wiki.superfamicom.org

N64Dev:
n64dev.org
n64vault.com

GC/WiiDev:
devkitpro.org
github.com/devkitPro/gamecube-examples

SegaDev:
smspower.org

MegaDev:
gendev.spritesmind.net/page-doc.html
github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK

SaturnDev:
antime.kapsi.fi/sega/docs.html
segaxtreme.net
jo-engine.org

DCDev
dreamsdk.org

PSXDev:
psxdev.net
problemkaputt.de/psx-spx.htm

PS2Dev:
github.com/ps2dev

XboxDev:
xboxdevwiki.net/Main_Page

GBDev:
gbdev.gg8.se/wiki

GBADev:
forum.gbadev.org
github.com/pret
forums.serenesforest.net/index.php?/topic/26913-nintenlords-hacking-utilities

VBDev:
virtual-boy.com/development/

Amigadev:
eab.abime.net

PC98Dev:
hackipedia.org/browse.cgi/Computer/Platform/PC,%20NEC%20PC-98
target-earth.net/wiki/doku.php?id=blog:pc98_devtools

Previous thread: >>10510289

[Anonymous No.10552294]

[Anonymous No.10552438]

>>10552239
>romhacks.org
New site? Looks good so far.

[Anonymous No.10552460]

For the translation I said there was plenty of empty space left in the rom, but I'm starting to run into space trouble in many cases. A couple of banks of packed and those are used a lot for text.

See here for instance I had to reduce "points" to "pts" which doesn't look very good. I'm hoping I'll free up some space later so I can come back to it.
Also I often have to do some code changes to change the placement of certain things in some strings like names, numbers, etc it's the second time I managed to pull a code change which uses up the exact same number of bytes I'm replacing (I can't even seem to afford to jump out/in in those cases), though both times I had to do without LDY 00 thus assuming that Y is always going to be the same number when reaching my code. Which seems to work, so far. We'll see!

[Anonymous No.10552464]

>>10552460
That's fine, don't worry about it. Original translations back in the day often had to truncate or simplify English dialog to fit in the ROM since Japanese text is more compact.

[Anonymous No.10552506]

>>10546008

I always wanted a port of Shamus for the NES but then I considered that a Master System port might be better as it's easier to do soft sprites and diagonal firing with it. However there's no existing Z80 version, most versions of the game were on 6502 machines so the code would have to be totally rewritten.

[Anonymous No.10552642]

>>10545476
https://www.6502disassembly.appleiigs.com/va-centipede/Centipede_rev4.html

Here's the source listing for Centipede. This is 6502 so it's much easier to port this to NES than Pac-Man.

[Anonymous No.10552829]

>>10551796
>mindlessly defending uncreative autism simply because it's a romhack
The hacker is not going to fuck you, "sis."

[Anonymous No.10553138]

>he's going full autism mode
>so coward, he didn't even respond in the other thread that's still up.
Oh no, random tile swap hack didn't call it Mega Man: Dewrito Edition just like my nu-street fighter titles and open world slop!

[Anonymous No.10553174]

How hard would it be to expand the romsize on this? Or is it impossible without a major conversion to another mapper? Seems like there isn't a lot of room left.

[Anonymous No.10553183]

>>10553174
dude, it's only got 80k total ROM and MMC1 supports up to 512k PRG and 128k CHR

[Anonymous No.10553331]

>>10552460
>Also I often have to do some code changes to change the placement of certain things in some strings like names, numbers, etc it's the second time I managed to pull a code change which uses up the exact same number of bytes I'm replacing (I can't even seem to afford to jump out/in in those cases)

that is the annoying PITA about NES code. Everything has to fit in 32k pieces and you can't stretch the code to however big you want like on the Mega Drive.

[Anonymous No.10553627]

Pudding Wars - An Original Game Concept by Anon (C) 2023

>be single screen platformer where you're in a factory and have to stop enemies from stealing containers of pudding on an assembly line without getting killed yourself
>there will be assorted gimmicks like invincibility, respawning enemies, etc

[Anonymous No.10553867]

What's the current best way to boot ISOs off a hard drive on ps2?

[Anonymous No.10553989]

Just finished Full Quiet, it was pretty great and looked nice for an NES game. I think I either missed or accidentally skipped some dialog though.

What is the deal with Ferris and the rest of the team? I'm pretty sure the dreams you get are out of sequence and reference past events, same for the radio transmissions. Sometimes everyone works together as normal, but a few transmissions seem to imply he's responsible for Tolah getting trapped in the parallel dimension, breaking the relays, and I'm pretty sure a present vision of Oannah states that he crossed to the other dimension but "changed form" somewhere. Did he pull the entire team into it as well? It's extra confusing because Pap at the shack in the plateau says they never would've made it this far without him, which is certainly a present event and not in the past.

[Anonymous No.10554127]

>>10553867
> ISOs on ps2?
ethernet is faster than hard drive, i have mine freemcbooted and hooked to an old XP machine loaded w OPL manager and ISOs

[Anonymous No.10554214]

>>10553989
Neat game so far. ROM was a bit of a bitch to find but it's Googleable enough.

[Anonymous No.10554319]

>>10554127
>ethernet is faster than hard drive
No. But either is faster than that dead hamster in your skull.

[Anonymous No.10554336]

>>10554319
> that dead hamster in your skull

[Anonymous No.10554586]

>>10552464
I do compromise quite a bit, but this string is one of the strings the player is going to see the most, so I'd rather compromise somewhere else if possible.

[Anonymous No.10554612]

>>10554586
Just write "35 damage". Also you "take" or "receive" damage, you don't "get" it.

[Anonymous No.10554619]

>>10554612
The "got" is from the original version. And I had to squeeze that word where I could, but I'll see what I can do when I'm done with the rest and have a better view on the space I managed to free.
I wasn't sure if making do without "points" altogether was proper.

[Anonymous No.10554801]

>>10554319
So what's the best way to do it? Is there a drag and drop option for files?

[Anonymous No.10554845]

>>10554336
He's still dead
>>10554801
>So what's the best way to do it?
Get a knowledgeable grownup to do it for you.
>Is there a drag and drop option for files?
Yes, several.

[Anonymous No.10555494]

and the assembly language LARPer schizo ruins yet another thread

[Anonymous No.10555725]

>>10555494
You could always ignore him.

[Anonymous No.10555797]

>>10554801
> Running PS2 ISOs
You'll need FreeMcBoot before you do anything. Burn it to a CD, run it, and then copy the files to a memory card so it boots every time.
After that, you can use ELF to load games from a hard drive, USB drive, or Ethernet which is the best but most annoying and complicated option. You have to connect to a Windows PC running SMB file share (an antique and jank ass protocol)
USB and Hard drive don't have as fast of a data throughput as Ethernet, so you might run into stuttering FMVs and slower speeds, which is why you want to set up Ethernet if possible.

[Anonymous No.10555928]

bump

[Anonymous No.10556820]

>>10555725
But he can't. His bogeyman is everywhere. Under his bed. In his head. Even in many places at the same time.

[Anonymous No.10556841]

>>10556810
It can work if you use char sprites for the enemies and limit the playfield to only one palette. As far as diagonal shooting, the GBC version was able to pull it off and that didn't have a d-pad with diagonal directions either.

[Anonymous No.10556847]

>>10553867
exfat opl.

[Anonymous No.10557535]

Sneek peak of a small scene in the first dungeon that was entirely cut from the US release. Drinking the wine restores HP. In the US version there isn't any wine to be found anywhere despite the big deal made out of finding some before getting there, I thought the joke was supposed to be there is no wine anywhere.... Well, there is.

[Anonymous No.10557807]

https://twitter.com/stivisromhacks2/status/1741117308276281823

[Anonymous No.10557876]

>>10557535
it would appear they thought having you drink hooch would fail NOA's content guidelines

[Anonymous No.10557884]

>>10557876
That is very much possible, plus they called the wine "grape juice". However, it's still very much possible to order and drink "root beer" at bars.

[Anonymous No.10558242]

>rhdn still down
Did NC run out of heroin money again?

[Anonymous No.10559039]

Need advice on a Kirby ripoff.

Setting is cosmic horror sci fi, Alien xenomorph expy villian protagonist.

What logical method could exist for power stealing when your protagonist is a tiny pink neotanous xenonorph? Does he burrow into people's skulls? Secrete mutagenic saliva? Clearly can't swallow enemies.

Enemies are humans with flamethrowers, ice guns, swords, etc.

Gameplay intended to be clone of kirby franchise.

[Anonymous No.10559041]

>>10558242
yea wtf?

[Anonymous No.10559070]

>>10553138
>be me
>find people "improving" NES sprites by adding more colors to sprites.
>decide to try and improve a sprite within sprite limits for Mega Man
>use some neat overlay techniques and add an extra outline color
>post it
>people don't believe and want to see it run in ROM
>I learned CSA to put it in, which was a trip
>people want a full walk cycle
>give it
>people want animation and damage frames
>do it
>make firing and jumping frames
>get the animation running decently in MM2
>everyone now expects a full fledged hack
It's really difficult to find motivation to do it bros...
How do you guys do it?

[Anonymous No.10559271]

>>10559070
You were autist enough to start this, you're autist enough to finish it. Take design cues from Metaquarius, get a memorable hacker name and you could be as renowned as him, so long as your skills deliver. There is a pantheon for the rom hack community where people are remembered for years. Make it the best you possibly can, top 10 MM hacks should be your aim.
>>10559039
Nanite cloud swarm parasitic control perhaps?

[Anonymous No.10559506]

>>10559070

[Anonymous No.10559619]

>>10559271
>Nanite cloud swarm parasitic control perhaps?
Kirbymorph is 100% biological, albeit biomechanical (pressurized carapace, hydraulic musculature, etc). Nanites aren't an option.

Fuck, maybe I'll make him psychic. Force people he bites on the neck to like him, or inject "like me" poison and mutagens that transforms you into an engineer hybrid.

[Anonymous No.10559638]

>>10559619
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zRk04r4dj0

[Anonymous No.10559659]

>>10559619

[Anonymous No.10559891]

>>10559070
Your Mega Man looks chubby and mean. The chub comes from the transparency you replaced with dark blue around the waist. The mean comes from the small eye and mouth.

[Anonymous No.10560037]

>>10559070
Looks awesome. Og Megaman looks retarded.
>>10559891
Its American box art kirby/mario.
And that's a good thing

[Anonymous No.10560283]

>>10559039
Bop enemy on head to knock them over and make them vulnerable, hit them with tongue, inject liquid insides into victim, host takeover complete, empty exo-shell crumbles away. When done with host, explode out with bloody confetti and fresh exo-shell body.
Maybe make the transition be a very vulnerable time.

[Anonymous No.10560393]

>>10559070
idk

[Anonymous No.10560747]

I've made a lot of progress, I believe I'm about 80% done on the translation. I've found more scenes that were cut from the US release including 2 mini bosses.

When I'm done with the translation there are two things I'd like to try to do, first increase the walking speed, because it's faster in the US release (I believe it might just be because they cut the step sounds), and also see if I can import the US battle theme to the JPN version because it's about the only thing that's better in the US release. If I succeed they'll be optional extra patchess.

[Anonymous No.10561587]

Happy New Years, faggots.

[Anonymous No.10562270]

bump

[Anonymous No.10562929]

https://youtu.be/t6D4BlEMYGY

[Anonymous No.10562941]

>>10561587
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QXvLYSlcOw
hny, /hbg/

[Anonymous No.10563613]

https://twitter.com/gasega68k/status/1741609395274862877

[Anonymous No.10563838]

Kino -
>>10515370

[Anonymous No.10563843]

>>10562929
When is Nintendo-Konami alliance vs DC universe crossover remix?

[Anonymous No.10564464]

Konami’s classic cabinet -
https://www.www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgX2k-1r6wg

[Anonymous No.10564558]

Has someone ever written a TATE C64 game?

[Anonymous No.10564756]

I found in a blog of some schizo a romhack of the snes final fight 2
https://files.catbox.moe/50xk4t.7z

Its a shitpost hack that changes the number of enemies on the screen to the maximum which results in severe lag and sprite errors.

[Anonymous No.10565165]

>>10564756
which blog?

[Anonymous No.10565457]

>>10564558
>machine that relies on super wide pixels for performance
God that'd be fucked up.

[Anonymous No.10565463]

>>10565457
You'd pretty much be stuck with the monochrome hi-res mode.

[Anonymous No.10565486]

>>10562941
RTYI is gonna be LIT

[Anonymous No.10565502]

>>10561587
Is this something we can play? Where is it if so?

[Anonymous No.10565684]

>>10565502
>Is this something we can play?
Yee. It's a huge modification of SMB1, everything is edited without a trace from the original.
>Where is it if so?
On Romhacks.org.
And eventually my neocities site if I make one.

[Anonymous No.10565706]

>>10565486
i've been holding off on a 64 flash cart, desu i've got a cart for every game i could want probably, but RTYI 1.0 will be the first game i play on my shiny new flash cart

[Anonymous No.10566065]

>>10565165
https://weretin.wordpress.com/

[Anonymous No.10566315]

>>10565684
Bro where? I looked at the entirety of their SMB stuff and nothing like that in picture or name is on there. This is a weird troll if you're messing with me.

[Anonymous No.10566350]

I gave up on my NES game again. I couldnt even figure how to write attributes in a rectangle to the screen

[Anonymous No.10566356]

>>10566350
Explain your specific problem so we can help.

[Anonymous No.10566362]

>>10566315
It wasn't released yet. I should had mentioned but I thought you mean where it be released.

[Anonymous No.10566382]

>>10566356
My specific problem is that I want to reveal areas of the game. Dark areas use one entirely black palette. So when I enter a rectangular dark room it should be completely revealed, changing the attributes according to the tiles beneath. When you leave a room you have seen I want to change the attributes to the dark blue palette. It's a roguelike with rooms and corridors.

[Anonymous No.10566414]

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8341/
Hot off the heels of the PC remake

[Anonymous No.10566795]

>>10566382
Ok, once you can deal w the attribute table properly you'll have to store where you've been in RAM, and when you re-enter a room have it check what to load onto the attribute table.
Now, this could be kind of a problem with the 2K of RAM the NES has: You could think about targeting a cart with an 8KB memory expansion like MMC3 or VRC6.

[Anonymous No.10566802]

>>10566414
>additional buttons, more item hotkeys, L/R item swap
Blessed

[Anonymous No.10566804]

>>10563554
Jungle De Ikou
Shamanic Princess
Devil Lady
Birdy the Mighty (honorable)

[Anonymous No.10566894]

>join muh discuck server for download muh hack

I know that rhdn now has a 1mb limit and the patch file of the hack have 4mb, but the author have no excuse to force us enter in his shitty discord in order to download his mod

Anyway, here is the hack
https://files.catbox.moe/oirkvs.gba

[Anonymous No.10567071]

>>10566894
>noooo you can't just download our hack without our coomer shit and gay politics in your face

[Anonymous No.10567138]

>>10566894
>900 pokemon
link doesnt work

[Anonymous No.10567202]

>>10567138
Works fine for me

[Anonymous No.10567229]

>>10567202
alright closing this thread as the issue has been fixed.

[Anonymous No.10567643]

>>10566382
Here's one idea.
Keep you a list of the rooms in the map, and for each room, it has a number for what palette it should be (and keep it updated as you go in and out of the rooms)
Also every tile has a number for which room it belongs to. When you go to draw the tile, you look up what color that room should be and set the attributes to that color.

[Anonymous No.10568024]

>>10552239
progress yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL5lb9_U2KQ&si=itQiEjF5QDp7_AM9

[Anonymous No.10568308]

>>10565457
It's kinda weird, now that you mention it. The chipset was designed to be sold to arcade manufacturers eventually and TATE games were still pretty popular in 82.

[Anonymous No.10568790]

>>10565706
>nintendo hires RE2 n64 port team to do the impossible, FF7 on 1 Cartridge.
>they pull it off

Imagine the world

[Anonymous No.10569440]

Pretty much the only thing I have left are the list of enemies (there are actually 2 lists, though sometimes the names are shared between the two), and their moves in combat. Due to my process (I do everything empirically, editing things live while playing; yes I'm aware this is prone to forgetting things but I'll figure that out last) and the fact that a lot of enemies aren't the same between the 2 versions, this is going to take quite a while for few strings.
At least I found the RAM value that sets which enemies spawn so I can just spawn wherever. Hopefully I can manipulate what their attacks are in the same way.

The game is actually very much able to spawn 3 different enemy types at once, unless one of the enemies is bigger sized. Something it doesn't utilize a lot.

I managed to replace the "got X pts of damage!" by "takes X damage!" btw

Other than that I only have the intro left

[Anonymous No.10570020]

>>10569440
Very cool! Looking forward to checking it out!

[Anonymous No.10570106]

>>10566894
Discord is the greatest cancer of modern internet.

[Anonymous No.10570223]

>>10552239
Hey, im new here. Where can I start learning to make NES games?

[Anonymous No.10570256]

>>10570223
nesdev.org

[Anonymous No.10570453]

>>10570256
Took me a while and whoa, that’s so much info.
Where do I start reading when it’s NES making? NESASM tutorial? Another one by bunny boy?

[Anonymous No.10570457]

>>10570453
Forgot to include image, my bad.

[Anonymous No.10570721]

>>10570457
Do what you can

[Anonymous No.10570770]

kino
https://youtu.be/6afVlFjq0UI

[Anonymous No.10571547]

>>10570453
Nerdy Nights is still the best tutorial probably, it does some outdated and dumb stuff, but it will get you printing graphics and moving sprites on screen.
After that i would get the heck away from NESASM3, buggy ass piece of shit, but fine to learn the basics on. ASM6F is great and i love it.
> what next
You can try these NEShacker videos, they seem good to learn from, but were made well after i already knew how to do stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEiNs7pKNh8&list=PLgvDB6LWam2WvoFvh8tlUqbqw92qWM0aP

[Anonymous No.10572134]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EdIcVL3nZic

[Anonymous No.10572243]

Anyone can help translate this monster's name? He's not in the US version. Google translate says "Flames Hillit". Is that correct? Is that supposed to be Ifrit?

Out of 80+ enemies this is the first one that gives me trouble

[Anonymous No.10572249]

https://youtu.be/V5uWqdK92i0?si=GzoHy4Xd57w5NPRx Is this video good? Or its missing something?

[Anonymous No.10572316]

>>10572243
are you trolling? that's basic japanese, as in a kid that started school could read
you sound like you could be in a rough time if that's already stopping you

[Anonymous No.10572324]

>>10572316
in for*

[Anonymous No.10572357]

>>10572316
Tell my you're EOP without telling me
NTA. You're just too cringe to ignore.

[Anonymous No.10572379]

>>10572357
whatever makes you happy anon, considering you even tried to make a post

[Anonymous No.10572391]

>>10572243
Flame Spirit

[Anonymous No.10572396]

>>10572357
Don't talk to him

>>10572391
Thanks

[Anonymous No.10572414]

I wonder how people ever translated before Google etc became a "viable" option to use. I guess they were too retarded compared to younger generations.

[Anonymous No.10573172]

Smash Remix update incoming

[Anonymous No.10573208]

I like that someone ported a bunch of Sega evolution and msx games to master system .

[Anonymous No.10573219]

>>10572414
Kek, many people translated things, but it actually involved knowing those said things. Google wasn't our God, research was real and arduous, but the pay off was way better than just typing shit into Google and never learning anything.

[Anonymous No.10573231]

>>10573219
>but it actually involved knowing those said things
ohohoho

[Anonymous No.10573245]

hohohoho

[Anonymous No.10573402]

>>10570457
>>10570256
Who will ask him in atariage snes selection?

https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?p=206370&hilit=Darkstalkers#p206370

[Anonymous No.10573472]

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

[Anonymous No.10573582]

>>10573472
He's in

[Anonymous No.10573648]

>>10573472
Is dat sum shante music?

[Anonymous No.10574369]

>>10573472
finally a trans character

[Anonymous No.10574487]

>>10574369
what tranny?

[Anonymous No.10574812]

>>10574487
Your mom

[Anonymous No.10574837]

>>10574812

[Anonymous No.10574845]

>>10574837
The ending was so terrible. It made cartoon theorists look like Steven Hawking.

[Anonymous No.10574913]

Did the intro (another thing entirely cut from the US release) and fixed the formatting for the "Hold reset to turn off" screen. Now working on the list of enemy moves, there are a couple of loose ends after this but I'm close to having a beta version ready.

I need help again though. I don't understand what the text for this physical attack says. The name of the enemy comes before it. Anyone?

[Anonymous No.10574946]

is it stabbing?

[kandowontu No.10575086]

>>10573648
well sunnuvabitch

[Anonymous No.10575309]

>>10574913
>おそいかかった!
It's the past tense of 襲いかかる (to attack; to go for; to come at; to pounce on; to jump on; to swoop down on).

[Anonymous No.10575318]

>>10575309
Okay thanks, that is weird there are 2 types of those generic "attacking" text but there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason when either is used. I suppose it's just flavour. US version only has one.

[Anonymous No.10575624]

>>10574845
Haven't watched all that much, but I definitely intend to skip the last season. The show's good as a "wackiness of the week" thing.

[Anonymous No.10575626]

>>10566894
LOL did Facebook kick their asses out?

[Anonymous No.10575640]

https://youtu.be/ZkDYdaUKIB0

[Anonymous No.10575857]

>>10575640
I'D JUST LIKE TO STAB YOUR FUCKING CHEST OPEN AND RIP YOUR HEART OUT LITERAL SUBHUMAN

[Anonymous No.10576574]

>>10575857
I don't get how that relates to this hack. Time for meds.

[Anonymous No.10576886]

>>10573472
>account terminated
What in the unholy mother of ass? Was it the Dragon King references that set the ninjas off?

[Anonymous No.10577046]

>>10576886

[Anonymous No.10577792]

>>10575086
Cornbread!

[Anonymous No.10577850]

>>10576886
Sorry for linking to xitter, but apparently it was a Youtube fuckup.
https://twitter.com/SmashRemix/status/1743624163099632071

[Anonymous No.10577935]

>>10573245
Is he wrong though? Is he?

[Anonymous No.10578921]

Vhiff

[Anonymous No.10579687]

hi /hbg/ this probably isnt appropriate for this specific thread but i really am at the end of my rope here and i figured the people here would be pretty capable of helping me out. i know next to nothing about the inner workings of games, but i need one, just ONE sprite ripped from a game that i cannot for the life of me locate anywhere on the internet-- and ripping the game for its sprites myself is completely out of the question because im confident im going to get lost and confused and i dont plan on ever doing something like this again so the knowledge would ultimately be wasted. it would mean the world if someone were willing to lend a hand

[Anonymous No.10579703]

its late and i dont expect people to get back to me soon but the sprite in question is from the sega saturn version of puyo puyo 2, (this sprite could exist in another version of puyo puyo 2 but to the fullest extent of my knowledge i only know of it existing on the sega saturn) theres a sprite of draco centauros crossing her arms, it appears in the scene where she offers arle a swimsuit. i truly cannot find a high quality image of this sprite anywhere

[Anonymous No.10579718]

>>10579703
https://spritedatabase.net/tutorial/saturn

[Anonymous No.10579874]

>>10579687
>>10579703
play the game on an emulator until you see the graphic, take a screenshot and crop the image.

[Anonymous No.10580552]

>>10579874
i have no idea how to play puyo puyo and this is from one of the last stages in the game. but if that really is the only option then i guess im just screwed

[Anonymous No.10580585]

>>10580552
> i guess im just screwed
have some cheat codes
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/saturn/577557-puyo-puyo-tsuu/cheats

[Anonymous No.10580602]

>>10580585
i got excited for a second but i dont think any of these are for saturn and none of them seem useful for just skipping to that cutscene anyway

[Anonymous No.10580605]

>>10580602
dang, i didn't / don't have a Saturn but did some sort of Action Replay / Game Shark device exist for it?

[Anonymous No.10580630]

>>10580605
i wouldnt know, i barely even know how stuff like that works on other consoles to begin with

[Anonymous No.10580640]

>>10579703
This scene?

[Anonymous No.10580654]

>>10580640
no, i believe thats puyo puyo~n. or puyo 4 i guess some people call it

[Anonymous No.10580670]

its here, the cutscene at exactly 1:57:28

https://youtu.be/EIU3_8SOQKs?si=KqN2ZepamaZgtmNP

[Anonymous No.10580746]

>>10576574
NTA, that dolphin is from Bomberman Jetters, said dolphin appears in the fangame Power Bomberman, and that fangame is played in /v/ every friday around that time for him, and because he lives i na place where his timezone doesn't let him play he posts that every opportunity he has.

[Batowl No.10582201]

Got any n64 hacks for me?

[Anonymous No.10582228]

>>10580585
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9uU6BU8q_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLiduLa7nzw

[Anonymous No.10582232]

>>10582201
Best Classicvania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IqKdNmeSSc&si=9qKPFO8OtsBYd0YG

[Anonymous No.10583729]

Finally I have a beta version ready.

Translation of the Japanese version of The Bard's Tales (NES).

If anyone wants to help for testing, let me know and I'll post the hack here. I'll ask for testers in other places as well!

[Anonymous No.10584115]

>>10580670
ok im bumping this matter one last time and after tonight i officially give up. if anyone at all can help

[Anonymous No.10584408]

>>10566894
Btw, I noticed that those guys are the types of retards that love to deleted the old versions of their hacks. The version that I upload in here 1.5 is already deleted in their discord server, since they made the 1.5.1. Anyway, here is the 1.5.1 version in case anyone wants to
https://files.catbox.moe/lu5dj1.gba

[Anonymous No.10584525]

>>10584408
Thank you

[Anonymous No.10584905]

>Mario Adventure III demo came out recently
>/vr/ seems to not have picked up on it at all
How come? https://marioadventure3.com/demos

[Anonymous No.10585224]

Are cheat codes allowed? This are all the game genie codes that I made for disney's aladdin (sega genesis)
https://pastebin.com/tbEY2nPg

[Anonymous No.10585332]

>>10584905
Ate america
Ate dark days
Ate plumbing

[Anonymous No.10585336]

>>10573208
They are also porting colecovison games!

[Anonymous No.10585407]

>>10583729
Based. Post it.

[Anonymous No.10585959]

>>10585407
fastupload
.io
/ugOl8UyrSU5SCAI
/file

PW: 4chan

This is the Rom and the patch (not pre patched), let me know if you find anything or need anything

[Anonymous No.10585991]

>>10584905
I don't know what this is

[Anonymous No.10586446]

bump

[Anonymous No.10586448]

>>10586173
>>10578405
Should be remade. Come on, a near-100% SMS port of the game should be trivial.

[Anonymous No.10586963]

>>10559070
Damn, that looks way better than mine.

[Anonymous No.10587082]

>>10584905
i didn't know there was a II lol, the original is sick tho

[Anonymous No.10587187]

>>10586963
I actually really like this. I don't hack much anymore but if I did and this were a patch free to use as a base, I'd use it

[Anonymous No.10587240]

>>10585224
Much appreciated, those can always be used permanently for new hacks. Have you considered uploading them to Gamehacking.org?

[Anonymous No.10587352]

>>10587082
I believe 2 was lost in a hard drive corruption or something. It was like a race between Mario & Luigi where each had their own side of the ow and their own levels.

[Anonymous No.10587358]

>>10586963
those look nice too man
that other guys looks really realy nice, but yours would probably work better in-game. ime its better to have a darker/clearer outline on small sprites or itll turn into indecipherable mush when in motion, and especially so against similar colored backgrounds

[Anonymous No.10587520]

>>10587240
I made a thread on there in their forum, but they closed the forum because they prefer rotting on discord nowadays. I put my codes on vgcheats
https://www.vgcheat.com/threads/aladdin-game-genie-codes-by-metal64.210517/

[Anonymous No.10587814]

>>10587520
Unfortunate I suppose. I would have mentioned Gamehacking as well if another anon didn't.

[Anonymous No.10588315]

>>10587520
> but they closed the forum because they prefer rotting on discord nowadays
absolute travesty. discussions on forums last forever. discord is where knowledge goes to die =(
there are just disgusting amounts of history and useful information that will be completely lost from the late 2010s until whenever people pick an internet communication solution that can actually fucking last again. i hate people.

[Anonymous No.10588326]

>>10588315
Yeah. People can't just randomly find an answer to something they're having a problem with through a search engine if that solution is on discord, because search engines can't search discord.
I can't tell you how many old forums saved me from buying some new appliance or tool because I found some odd solution to fix the old ones I still had.

[Anonymous No.10588392]

anybody know where to find the english patched roms of Wizardry on gameboy color? Or a utility to patch an unpatched rom? I cannot find a program that will run on win10. I've tried snestool and another one with a weird name and neither worked

[Anonymous No.10588465]

I've never done a romhack, so this question may sound silly, but it's just a curiosity:
is it possible to write a new NES game from scratch?
If not from scratch, at least without starting from an existing game and modding it.

I know that it's simpler to mod levels and sprites, but I have this question because I was thinking about indie devs, and how they make better games than bilion-dollar companies.
In the future years, wouldn't it be nice to have devs making new NES games, that we could play on original (or compatible) hardware, or with emulators?
I've seen wonderful mods, and since the NES is simpler than the SNES as a platform, it could be used as a standard for future games.
Of course, it could be doable if we could arrive to the point that a new game could be made with some high level language like C, instead of writing NES assembly.

[Anonymous No.10588561]

>>10588315
>>10588326
>discord is where knowledge goes to die =(
the worst part about it imo is that it breeds autism like no other. turns into a buncha no-lifes gatekeeping whatever dumb little niche they lord over.

instead of people being able to search the internet for answers, they need to first seek out whatever specific niche discord deals with whatever problem theyre facing, then hope that anyone on at that moment has any idea how to help them. nevermind their willingness to help you

[Anonymous No.10588597]

>>10587520
Wow, shame

[Anonymous No.10588604]

>>10588465
>In the future years, wouldn't it be nice to have devs making new NES games
no
we already have that with romhacks and its free, and more importantly free of IP rights and copyright bullshit. anyone can do anything they want and none of it can ever cost money.
absolutely free
as for indie devs, they already do make more "simplistic" or "oldskool" games simply out of necessity. the difference is theyre not bound by 30yr old hardware limitations/idiosyncrasies, and most important, can read and write their own code

also the last thing id ever want to see incentivized in the vidya industry would be lazy devs swapping a few sprites on a 30yr old game and calling it a new title. cuz you know thats exactly what theyd do: the bare minimum, fuck it, ship it, theyre idiots and will buy it anyways, etc.
we already have that problem with endless remake/remaster drivel, this would just amplify it.
any sort of new idea would die immediately as any studio would see it as a total waste of time, money, and resources. we would just get the same games over and over again, with minor tweaks, for full price

if were bothering to think about those AAA jerks in the first place, my ideal scenario would be a future where more devs release some sort of toolkits for their games. its very obviously just a good idea. so many game series have become "evergreen" infinite moneymakers for studios. look at bethesda, theyve released fuckall for over a decade at this point, yet they can still get people to buy their old broken games every few years cuz muh mods

[Anonymous No.10588789]

>>10587520
>>10588315
Xentax forum had a similar fate. All the users prefer to use the discord server instead of using the fucking forum. I dont know why they create a discord server if they have a fucking forum

[Anonymous No.10588791]

>>10588465
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWQ0591PAxM
>>10588604
>free of IP rights and copyright bullshit
Nothing is free of copyright bullshit

[Anonymous No.10588854]

>>10588791
its more free than any other medium i can think of

[Anonymous No.10589403]

Are there any examples of homebrew games being digitally distributed with an emulator? The only one I can think of is Nox Archaist. Would Nintendo get pissed if someone sold an NES emulator with their game?

[Anonymous No.10589416]

>>10589403
many of the collections of old nes games straight out uses emulation, like megaman collection, and then theres the evercade and bunch more.

[Anonymous No.10589527]

>>10589403
>Would Nintendo get pissed if someone sold an NES emulator with their game?
very
but more importantly theyd actually have legal basis to sue the christ out of whoever was caught doing it
theyre known to occasionally throw C&Ds around, even when they really DONT have much legal argument AM2R comes to mind. afaik that guy didnt actually do anything illegal, but i cant blame him for not wanting to step into the ring with nintys lawyers.
but if you were actually making money off of their shit? wew i would NOT wanna be on the wrong end of that lawsuit. death would be a mercy

>>10589416
all that stuff has to pay licensing fees tho
and/or otherwise own the IP
thats the difference

[Anonymous No.10589583]

>>10589403
There are lot's of them. Just check on Steam. It's the norm.

The other guy is talking out of his ass. If you know your emulation history there is a precedent with Sony sueing Bleemcast and they lost and it's probably why the number 1 reason why emulation has thrived since then, had that court case been bostemulation would have been relegated to chinese/russian bootleg material.

[Anonymous No.10589695]

>>10589583
He's a Nintendo shill who is attempt to demoralize outside forces. A average /v/ermin.

[Anonymous No.10589724]

>>10589527
>afaik that guy didnt actually do anything illegal
AM2R uses a fair deal of art assets from Zero Mission and Fusion. So Nintendo did have legitimate cause for action.
Those assets were always intended to be replaced later on, but we all know what happened before they could.

[Anonymous No.10589735]

>>10589724
>AM2R uses a fair deal of art assets from Zero Mission and Fusion
>Those assets were always intended to be replaced later on
ah my mistake then
i thought that stuff was already replaced by the time he got C&Dd

still its only these edge cases
dude was just unlucky that nintendo just so happened to be making their own M2 remake at the exact same time. i mean what are the chances? M2 was left to rot in the GB library for decades, and as soon as some guy makes a competent remake of it, out comes nintendo with the b&hammer
pricks. their 3DS remake wasnt even as good

[Anonymous No.10589749]

>>10589735
Nah, it was a "down the line" goal of DocM's, among many others. From what I understand, the game was ready to be released, and he wanted to put it out there instead of hold onto it until it was PERFECT.
Which is a stance I can understand.
Though it always makes me think about what would've happened had he did decide to wait, and then Samus Returns got announced.

[Anonymous No.10589781]

>>10588392
Floating IPS (Flips) doesn't work?

[Anonymous No.10589890]

>>10589583
i imagine you could also kneecap the emulator to only run your game, which is probably what those collection devs do.

where it probably gets touchy is when the emulator needs a BIOS dump to function

[Anonymous No.10589973]

>>10589890
>i imagine you could also kneecap the emulator to only run your game
this was actually the difference between bleem and bleemcast
bleem could run any PS game on PC, so long as you had the legit disk it COULD potentially run bootleg games too, but you needed to patch it.
it was decided in court that this, ultimately, was not illegal. but they still got brought to court for it constantly anyways. so when bleemcast came around they decided to make it so only "packs" of games would work with each release, in anticipation of more lawsuits
if you wanted to play MGS on dreamcast, you needed a copy of bleemcast MGS, a legit copy of MGS for PS, and a dreamcast.

in fact what actually did them in wasnt even emulation related at all
my exp with bleem was with the PC version, but it was still a pretty beefy emu for the time. you could upscale to higher resolutions, apply bilinear filtering etc.
they wanted to show those features off, so they put before and after pics of sonys games on their packaging. THAT was the part that was deemed misuse of IP, and they were ordered to pull all the copies of bleemcast and repackage them. which ultimately just ended with them going tits-up, as they were barely hanging by a thread from all the prior lawsuits

[Anonymous No.10590215]

>>10589527
What the hell are you talking about? Emulation itself is highly precedented as being not in violation of intellectual property law, and if neither the game nor emulator code contained copyright or trademark violations then it wouldn't be "their shit" to begin with.
Distributing a first-party BIOS with the emulator would be a clear violation, but that goes for any other emulator too. Whether something is being sold for profit or not is not relevant to making a case for it being a copyright violation.

[Anonymous No.10590491]

>>10584905
Demos are frustrating. Awesome let me burn myself out on this content before it gets refined and finished.

[Anonymous No.10590509]

>>10584905
https://marioadventure3.com/about
>many abandoned and stalled projects, totally not some unstable flake at all
>yeah dude my computer totally crashed I didn't just say "fuck it" or anything
>mario adventure kind of a shit, some neat tricks aside
>calling it 3 even though 2 never came out
>12+ goddamn years for a romhack
This sounds like a Mother 4-esque disaster, lol. Show me 3mix 2 and I might get hard.

[Anonymous No.10590606]

Okay I'm done being an asshole. The Adventure 3 demo is pretty neat. Just wish it was done and had new/stolen music, hacks feel so anemic without it.

[Anonymous No.10590651]

>no per column sorting on romhacks.org, particularly "updated by"
I know you lurk here, make your site better.

[Anonymous No.10590681]

Portal 64 got shut down.

[Anonymous No.10590707]

>>10590606
that's an anti-trans canard

[Anonymous No.10590742]

>>10590681
If that gets him to move on to something more original, then that's a net positive in my book.

[Anonymous No.10590829]

>>10590681
Isn't source code available? Maybe someone else can finish it.

[Anonymous No.10590850]

>>10590681
Thanks for the heads up, anon. The link for the patcher he posted has been archived, and here is the latest version (Portal 64 v0.15.0) pre-patched for everyone: http://files.catbox.moe/1pjzv0.z64

And here is the Portal 1 vpk file (portal_pak_000.vpk) necessary to patch the file, in case you need it or want an older version of Portal 64: https://files.catbox.moe/vm0z9u.vpk

[Anonymous No.10590886]

>>10590681
anybody have the last version of the source repo? it seems that the dev took that down already and nobody seems to have re-uploaded it anywhere.

[Anonymous No.10590946]

>>10590681
>20 years later
>retards still announcing their EPIC copyright infringement before its released

>retards still don't understand they should make their own content instead of being an uncreative faggot

deserved desu for both reasons

[Anonymous No.10590968]

>>10590886
latest known fork from 3 days ago: https://github.com/mwpenny/portal64
it's in here: https://archive.org/details/portal64_202401
older versions: https://archive.org/details/portal-64-versions

[Anonymous No.10591384]

>>10590742
Get out of 4chan Gabe

[Anonymous No.10591397]

>>10590651
The majority of the users in romhacks.org prefer suck each other dicks on discord than actually pay attention to the site. Spike "the owner of romhacks.org as well cdromance", has very little enthusiasm to run his site

[Anonymous No.10591517]

>>10590946
>>10590742
>what is passion

[Anonymous No.10591521]

>>10591517
>passion for someone elses creation
>trying to claim glory for their creation by porting it

[Anonymous No.10591560]

>>10591521
I, too, am jealous of their ability to code a game.

[Anonymous No.10591568]

>>10591560
I learned C++ at 16. I have developed my own games that did not involve me stealing others works.
You can do it bro. Stop the projecting posts and just learn instead of being useless.

[Anonymous No.10591576]

>>10587240
Do you plan on hacking aladdin? I reverse engineering for years and write some hacking notes to help future romhackers
https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/aladdin-sega-genesis-hacking-notes.39592/

[Anonymous No.10591603]

>>10591576
Personally, no, though I could just make some of those codes permanent for convenience. I was just pointing out for anon that this was indeed the right thread to post his codes.

Pretty nice work there too, anon, I don't do proper coding or even hacking in general for Genesis, but that looks like it could be useful. Like, those moving ground spikes don't look out of place in the world of Aladdin at all.

[Anonymous No.10591638]

>>10591568
>I learned C++ at 16
Scott Cawthon at 15, more of them were christian games.

[Anonymous No.10591747]

>>10590681
>>10590850
>>>/v/663364579
;(

[Anonymous No.10592216]

>>10591638
There's such a thing?!

[Anonymous No.10593502]

https://youtu.be/32fWcosOEZY

[Anonymous No.10593697]

>>10593502
Ok actually based

[Anonymous No.10593702]

>>10585407
Did you have time to test it? I'll be fixing some things this week end and make an updated version