/rhg/ - ROM Hacking General #12

[Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv No.3523146]

Here's some points of discussion:

1.) Project showoffs
2.) Hacking help
3.) ROM hack recommendations

Our ROM hack recommendation list can be found below:

http://pastebin.com/pYxhe4L7

Every hack featured on the list above can be downloaded at:

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/50m95vbbuyf25/vr's_ROM_Hack_Recommendations

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>>3412407

[Anonymous No.3523192]

anyone know of a hack for CV bloodlines to give more continues?

[Anonymous No.3523279]

>>3523192
Just use a game genie code

[Anonymous No.3523353]

>>3523279
it crashes the game. I'm on ed-md

[Anonymous No.3523360]

>>3523353
Sucks to be you, then.

[Anonymous No.3523361]

>>3523360
nah, it's still really fun, just gotta get good. all the passwords seem to leave you with 0 continues regardless

[Anonymous No.3523364]

Are there any good Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest hacks?

[Anonymous No.3523392]

>>3523364
Final Fantasy has a few I believe, but I think all you're going to find for Dragon Quest is translations.

[Anonymous No.3523521]

>>3523392
There are a couple of randomizers for DQ games, and at least one using a DQ game for a full conversion (Dragoon Warrior X or something like that).

[Anonymous No.3523526]

>>3523521
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1/
the first hack on rhdn holy jeeb

[Anonymous No.3523760]

You guys have been a great help to me, thank you.
Let me ask, are there any hacks for either Diddy Kong racing or Mario Kart 64? I've never seen one, but I'm not really that in the loop.
Also, where do I go to become in the loop about particular romhacks or modding communities? Only mod community I'm involved in is Smash Bros, and they are they're own community.

[Anonymous No.3523850]

>>3523760
I've never heard of hacks for either of those games, and romhacking.net doesn't have any. The only Mario Kart games with more than a few hacks I've seen are Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart Wii, with a few sparse custom tracks for Mario Kart DS and 7.

As to communities, Pokécommunity and Skeetendo are alright for Pokémon hacks (the latter only deals with Gen 1 and 2, making it more /vr/-friendly), and SMWCentral does Mario hacks, mostly SMW as you could guess.

[Anonymous No.3523903]

>>3523850
Ah, so these communities are sort of divided up by what games they are?

[Anonymous No.3523905]

>>3523903
I'm sure there are general forums for ROMhacking as a whole, but I don't know any to recommend, I usually just go to this thread for hack discussion.

[Anonymous No.3523942]

>>3523760
Adding to what >>3523850 said, see jul.rustedlogic.net, Kuribo64, Origami64 and related sites for Mario games (Mario 64, Mario 64 DS, Sunshine, Galaxy, Galaxy 2, Paper Mario, NSMB)

[Anonymous No.3523962]

>>3523760
Kid Chameleon has a small community on the game's wikia.
http://kidchameleon.wikia.com/wiki/Projects
http://kidchameleon.wikia.com/wiki/Board:Kid_Edit

[Anonymous No.3524120]

>>3523146
Is OP pic a thing? Didn't find it in the mediafire folder.

[Anonymous No.3524412]

>>3523850
Why does SMWCentral have a subforum specifically for Super Mario All-Stars, despite there existing zero SMAS hacks that aren't bugfixes or graphics hacks, while SMB3 for NES is relegated to the miscellaneous hacks forum?

[Anonymous No.3524432]

Yeah I'm playing TactHack here, and I'm at this point where the Tactician triggers a rockslide. In the scene after Mr. Moustache yells BY THE GODS then runs off screen and then the game crashes to black screen. Skipping the scene just takes it directly to the black screen. I believe it was Chapter 13?

Yeah how do I avoid the crash or what have you? I'm using Visual Boy Advance. Progressing past this just makes the screen fade to black and nothing else happens.

[Anonymous No.3524464]

>>3524432
GBA isn't retro.

[Anonymous No.3524467]

>>3524464
oops

[Anonymous No.3524468]

>>3524467
It's alright.

Are there any NES/SNES Fire Emblem hacks? I assume GBA is a better base since that's how it goes for Pokémon, but I'm curious if anyone chose the older games as a base for something.

[Anonymous No.3524496]

>>3524120
You can get it on baddesthacks.net

[Anonymous No.3524572]

>>3523760
I can't remember the dude's name but someone recently did a Mario Kart 64 sprite editor.
HyperHacker (or Cellar Dweller? can't remember) has been working on a M64 track editor since 2004 though lmao

My communities of choice are jul, acmlm's board, smwcentral and romhacking.net forums

[Anonymous No.3525448]

>>3524120
It's in the 'Monster Party' folder.

[Anonymous No.3525520]

>>3524496
>>3525448
Thank yall.
I hadn't seen a Monster Party folder, maybe I got the wrong console.

[Anonymous No.3526729]

I programmed a NES Zelda 2 music "editor",
although it looks more like a hex editor at this point.

What is a good music file format(like midi?) for importing music into zelda 2 format?

I've looked at a program called "FamiTracker" which I hoped would be good to use to create the music but I'm not sure exactly what to do.

Or what else should I do with this project?

[Anonymous No.3526763]

>>3523353
What do you mean it crashes the game?

[Anonymous No.3526769]

>>3523850
Mario Kart 8 has a pretty active custom track community, actually

[Anonymous No.3527135]

>>3526769
Huh, really? Do they have any substantial map packs, like enough to replace all the current maps, or is it still blooming like Smash 4 modding is? Have they figured out how to make special servers just for people using said map packs, like MKWii has?

[Anonymous No.3527243]

>>3526729
MML

[Anonymous No.3527607]

Has anybody ever done anything nice with a Splatterhouse game

[Anonymous No.3527670]

>>3523353
Try Blast 'em. It's a radical ninja Genesis emulator.

http://rhope.retrodev.com/files/blastem.html

[Anonymous No.3529190]

http://www.vg-resource.com/thread-29559.html

Anyone manage to find a full model with PSXPrev yet?

[Anonymous No.3530169]

>>3523146
Sorry for being a fucking weenie, but I'm just getting into playing ROM hacks for the first time and I'm running into some issues.

I'm trying to play SMW: Call of Cthulhu, I've patched a clean ROM with the .ips, but no matter what emulator I use it just leads me to a black screen with no audio or anything. I've tried about 6 different emulators at this point and I've patched a few different ROMs thinking maybe the others weren't clean, still with no results. I even tried renaming the ROM to match the .ips and nothing.

Am I doing something wrong or missing a step?
I don't really understand why its impossible to find pre-patched ROMs instead of just the .ips file, but I guess I'll have to learn how to do this some day anyway.

[Anonymous No.3530208]

>>3530169
1. make sure it's headered (an .smc file usually, but sometimes those don't have headers either so use tush to find out/add one)
2. there's a prepatched rom in the op link you weenie

[Anonymous No.3531124]

Anon, what the fuck are you doing on 4chan when https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG4PCVfu4qo just got released?

[Anonymous No.3531924]

>>3531124
Oh no you don't. Not after I was tricked into downloading the mess that was Star Road.

[Anonymous No.3531941]

>>3531124
It's great but kinda unstable. I want to play but certain warps keep crashing.

[Anonymous No.3532156]

>>3531924
But Star Road is good. You would have had a point if you were talking about Kaze's old mods.

>>3531124
Thanks for letting us know!

[Anonymous No.3532429]

>>3532156
Star Road is not good. It's full of all kinds of dumb little things that make it impossible to play.

[Anonymous No.3532889]

Rate my font /vr/

[Anonymous No.3534196]

>>3531124
I'm few stars in and it's surprisingly pretty fun.

[Anonymous No.3534212]

>>3529190
Yes
http://www.vg-resource.com/thread-29559-page-3.html

[Anonymous No.3535726]

Does anyone have that image that lists good Mario 64 hacks?

[Anonymous No.3537227]

Yes.

[Anonymous No.3538350]

>>3535726
Check the archives, someone posted it in the previous thread.

[Anonymous No.3539616]

bump

[Anonymous No.3539838]

Any good adult rom hacks?

[Anonymous No.3540556]

>>3532156
Speaking of Star Road, the Super Mario 64 version of Star Road 2 is cancelled, it will now be a hack of Super Mario 3D Land.

[Anonymous No.3540567]

>>3540556
what
you must be lying
what
it's actually true
okay.

[Anonymous No.3540587]

Is Metroid Redesign: Axeil Edition any better than the original?

[Anonymous No.3540618]

>>3540587
it is ridiculously better than the original.
the quality of life changes alone make it better

[Anonymous No.3540650]

>>3540618
no more random inescapable spike pit in a a room full of enemies?

[Anonymous No.3540675]

>>3540650
I don't even recall such a room in the original hack.
But if you want to get a feel for the changes Axeil Edition makes, check out it's readme. It details the changes pretty well.

[Anonymous No.3540691]

>>3540556
Well, I'm glad that there's going to be ASM hacking for a 3DS game, and that it's probably going to be closer to Mario 64 than anything Nintendo has done recently. It's disappointing seeing Star Road 2 N64 going away like this though. I'm scared I won't enjoy the physics in 3D Land that much compared to Mario 64, and looking at Star Road DS I doubt he'll change them that much.

>comments from people who can't look for info about 3ds hacking
>comments from people asking what 3ds flashcard to use
>comments from people thinking the scene won't change at all by the time the mod is released
>comments from people not reading the description and making assumptions
HELP
sorry for going off topic in this part of the post

[Anonymous No.3541032]

>>3540618
damn you were right I'm having a blast playing it, I'd say even better than hyper metroid so far

[Anonymous No.3541037]

>>3541032
Just watch out for Tourian. It's completely different from the original Redesign, and the Metroids are asslickers.

[Anonymous No.3541058]

>>3540556
Is he just throwing away all the work he put into Star Road 2 or will he at least release a mini-bundle with the content he's completed?

[Anonymous No.3542189]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEaUQJP_p1A
Official trailer for Pokémon Prism. It's ACTUALLY coming out.

[Anonymous No.3542846]

is GBA allowed in these threads?

i'm trying to test out a hack i did in Sonic Battle with the Sonic Battle Hack Suite but the result made it look choppy

what should i do to fix the problem?

[Anonymous No.3542862]

>>3542846
>is GBA allowed in these threads?
It depends on the day.
I'm not going to be an asshole and bitch about it, but I don't have experience with that program either.

[Anonymous No.3542874]

>>3542846
DO A SPINDASH

[Anonymous No.3542917]

>>3542846
>is GBA allowed in these threads?

No, only consoles released in or before 1999 are allowed. GBA was 2001.

[Anonymous No.3543195]

>>3542846
Try out Tile Layer Pro

never tried it tho

[Anonymous No.3543232]

>>3542189
HELL YEAH

Anniversary Crystal is THE best Pokemon game ever, not even exaggerating. This should top it and I can't wait

[Anonymous No.3543291]

>>3542189
FUG

this looks good

[Anonymous No.3543318]

>>3543195
>>3542862
>>3542917
ok, so i found the sprites that i've inserted in game

how do i re-arrange them? i just want to get rid of the top-left/bottom-right bits flying around the sprite swap. (as you can see here >>3542846)

[Anonymous No.3543543]

Are there any sort of romhack out there that transplants the stuff from Doki Doki Panic onto Super Mario USA so you could play Doki Doki Panic with the extra polish?

[Anonymous No.3543560]

>>3543543
I don't believe so.

[Anonymous No.3544437]

>>3540691
It's really fucking stupid too. Instead of of considering what this could mean for 3DL hacking, they start acting whiny entitled children that are too stupid to hack their 3DS (and since this most likely won't require CFW, these guys are stupid enough that they can't even install fucking homembew) or too poor to buy even a used one

[Anonymous No.3544519]

http://www.d.umn.edu/~bold0070/projects/smw_hack_extract/ Does this actually work?

[Anonymous No.3544531]

>>3543543
Speaking about Super Mario USA, I was gonna fix up the POW-block since the O wonks out and moves one pixel to the left in one frame. When I open the ROM in YY-CHR however, I can't find the graphics for the POW-block. Are the graphics compressed, and how do I de-compress them if so?

[Anonymous No.3544565]

>>3543543
Why not the reverse so that you can play Super Mario USA with the extra FDS sound synthesis?

[Anonymous No.3546004]

>>3543318
Use Tile Molester
Hold shift and push left until it looks 'okay'
then shift pixels with the ÷ and + buttons.

[Anonymous No.3546870]

I just want to tell you guys that the version of Super Mario 3Mix available on Romhacking.net is an old version, check out Southbird's website.
http://www.sonicepoch.com/sm3mix/

[Anonymous No.3546946]

>>3546870
Is there a changelog? I only played the romhacking.net version, does the new revision add anything worth replaying (beyond the replay value already inherent to the hack) like revamped levels or upgraded music?

[Anonymous No.3546986]

>>3546946
There's no changelog unfortunately, but since it's called a revision, I believe that it's only bugfixes. That's something the hack really needed though.

[Anonymous No.3546990]

Anyone who knows what I could use as cover art for a Famicom cartridge of Super Nazi Penis Cartel Freedom Fighters 1337? I've seriously been considering commissioning an artist to draw something for me, but it would be neat if there was already something that would work as a label.

[Anonymous No.3546994]

>>3546986
Oh, by the way, the version on Romhacking.net is several revisions old.

[Anonymous No.3547173]

Anybody want to assist in finding a Game Genie code for Pokemon Blue?

Here's where I'm at so far:

Pokemon Always Stays in the Ball
01431ED1

Address: D113
Value 43

The pokemon will always be caught successfully.

Problem:
This value is share by other functions. It must be turned off before selecting another action, like attack, or the game will freeze.

What I would really like is to locate the appropriate opcode, if possible, to always catch successfully without interfering with other parts of the game.

You can get set an access breakpoint at D11E and get an idea of where how forks for successful catches vs failed catches.

Sure you can just get master balls, but this is a more challenging code to discover and it always fun to find new codes.

[Anonymous No.3547186]

>>3523192
Yeah. Die to the continue screen and either save state or, if you have a debugger/cheat finder, search for the value of continues you have.

Resume game and use a continue. If using a debugger/cheat finder, you can probably just search for the new value among the old results and narrow it down to the exact address.

If not using a debugger, die to the continue screen again and create a second save state. You should have two save states that are very similar except for the number of continues. Compare diff and it really shouldn't be difficult to find.

[Anonymous No.3547202]

>>3547173
Game genie has codes on/off button for an reason.

[Anonymous No.3547243]

>>3539838
It's not good, but Super Peen Bros, if you can find it, is one where you can play as a giant goomba stomping penis if you get a mushroom. It's a pretty good 8-bit penis, if I do say so myself.

[Anonymous No.3547252]

>>3547202
You don't think it's possible to find an opcode instead of freezing the value of D11E?

Think of it as setting your health points vs setting NOP for the opcode that registers a character dead. Right now my code if the former and I would like to find something similar to the latter.

[Anonymous No.3547259]

>>3543543
Well, once upon a time, there was a sprite hack, but that's about it was, sprite edit hack.

[Anonymous No.3548865]

>>3541058
I sure hope he'll release the N64 version. It looked fun.

[Anonymous No.3549504]

Just beat Zelda Parallel Worlds on my repro cart with no save states and feel like a champ. What were any of your experiences with the game and are there more hacks of ALttP around? So I heard there was a glitch with the mushroom? Kinda skipped over 100%ing it cause I didn't bother with the Heart Container in the Parallel Tower and missed an item on the left of the Cane of Somaria. Anyone know about that?

[Anonymous No.3549549]

>>3540691
wow really? Awesome, the one thing I've been waiting for is for someone to step up and make a good 3D game out of the 3D Land/World titles.

Can't wait to see what comes of it.

[Anonymous No.3549553]

Rec me some good hacks that feel like completely different games entirely

[Anonymous No.3549562]

>>3549553
Extra Mario Bros.

[Anonymous No.3550681]

>>3549553
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker for the SNES turns SMW into a pretty cool action-puzzle game.

[Anonymous No.3550763]

>>3542189
They started playing it on TPP like half an hour ago, for anyone interested. Still haven't gotten out of the starting cave, chose a qt girl, nothing much has happened other than getting their Larvitar started. Just remember the chat is cancerous if you do check it out.

[Anonymous No.3550784]

>>3526763
hangs up on a red screen. apparently I'm missing a master code, which isn't available that I can find for CV:B and I think this tutorial is beyond me. My best guess is that the game is failing the CRC check because the ED patches the game rom before loading, which is probably a more or less naive way to implement cheats.

https://codehut.gshi.org/ImprovedMasterCodes.txt
you are welcome for the 11 day late response

[Anonymous No.3550874]

Is replacing .STR's in PS1 games possible?

Does the fact that it's a CD-based console make it harder to do or something?

[Anonymous No.3552273]

Anyone ever try that Kirby Dream Course editor that was made for the Game Grumps?

[Anonymous No.3552301]

>>3552273
ew dont watch that cancer.

[Anonymous No.3552305]

>>3550763
Did they change the background color every scanline to create that rainbow? Shit's pretty, I don't know why more GBC devs didn't do that

[Anonymous No.3552328]

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1797/

How hard would it be to make a coop hack like this for FF1 and FF2?

[Anonymous No.3553026]

Any rom hacks that make the game better than before? I've been playing through a Castlevania 2 romhack, and shit, it's really good now.

[Anonymous No.3553762]

>>3553026
The Mother 1 Anniversary hack is pretty good, but not everyone likes every change made in it. Ditto with Zelda: Modern Classic edition.

Sonic 3 Complete is universally regarded as better than vanilla Sonic 3.

Pokemon Anniversary Crystal is leaps and bounds better than vanilla Crystal in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.3554956]

>>3552328
Would probably take some slight work, but if they could do it for FF3, no reason it wouldn't be possible for the older games, outside of possible memory limitations?

[Anonymous No.3555395]

>>3552305
I don't see any other way to do that. Reminds me of the Amiga. That trick was done ad nauseam on that machine.

[Anonymous No.3555570]

Someone finally added a saving function to TMNT http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,22836.0.html

[Anonymous No.3557376]

>>3555570
Pretty good idea, I suppose.

[Anonymous No.3558374]

bump

[Anonymous No.3558728]

>>3553026
There's Mega Man 3 Improvement which gets rid of the lag, fixes some bugs and brings some previously unused content back.

[Anonymous No.3560373]

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3125

Rather hard, but fun.

[Anonymous No.3560403]

Here's some decent Mario based ROM hacking sites:
DSHack.org ~ Mario Kart 7 and Mario Kart DS
Kuribo64.net ~ Super Mario 64 DS and New Super Mario Bros 2
NeoMarioGalaxy.net ~ Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario 3D Land
Wikitockdom.com ~ Mario Kart Wii and a bit of Mario Kart 8
SMWCentral.net ~ Super Mario Bros Wii

And there's also GBAtemp.net which has ROM hacking sections for lots of different consoles games.

[Anonymous No.3560409]

Also, gamebanana.com has a lot of stuff. CS:GO, Super Smash Bros 4, TF2.

[Anonymous No.3561391]

>>3550874
It's easy if the filesize is relatively the same. I've replaced STR files with japanese counterparts and added and reencoded with subtitles. As long as the resulting filesize is similar, no problem. It'; a matter of replacing files on CDmage or a similar program, and maybe expand the possible size as much as the TOC allows you (which isnt that much more). If it is a lot bigger, then you need to research a way of rebuilding the CD and TOC without breaking the game.

[Anonymous No.3561635]

Best Shining Force II hacks? I'm looking for something more difficult than Super or Ouch but not something incredibly cheap that causes me to eventually abuse save states out of frustration.

[Anonymous No.3561638]

>>3561635
Shining Tactics is a good one. It's difficult but well-balanced. Using Boost is mandatory or else you will get splattered.

[Anonymous No.3561957]

rip vidyamon

[Anonymous No.3562212]

>>3561957
He comes and goes.

[Anonymous No.3562223]

>>3562212
Viiidya-vidya-vidya-vidya-vidyamon

[Anonymous No.3562608]

>>3560403
>smwcentral
>super mario bros wii

[Anonymous No.3562679]

>>3561638
>Using Boost is mandatory or else you will get splattered.
He's not kidding, Tactics enemies after the blocked cave are as strong (or stronger) than endgame vanilla enemies and it goes up from there.

[toruzz No.3563563]

Here's another For the Frog the Bell Tolls DX update video: https://youtu.be/YDQPOaCMCl4

[Anonymous No.3563598]

>>3523146
>- Kirby's Bizzare Adventure [http://www.mediafire.com/download/btuif0zcbun7kuu/Kirbyhack2.nes]

So is that just the second demo?

[Anonymous No.3563754]

So is PS1 translation just fucked for the most part?

[Anonymous No.3564005]

>>3563563
That looks absolutely amazing. Good job.