Ultimate Versions

[Anonymous No.3736757]

What are some of the best versions of /vr/ games that you know of?

It can be a romhack that revises the game, adding in cut content, doing a better translation, adding small functionality tweaks, improves graphics, or some kind of massive overhaul.

Official and unofficial remakes or ports also count. Just nothing that alters the game to the point of being a different game, like level layouts, story alterations, ect.

They can be huge improvements like pic related, or they can be something as minor as making the mini map in Zelda 1 not useless.

Optional side topic: What kind of improvements would you like to see added to a /vr/ game that wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for a skilled romhacker.

[Anonymous No.3736798]

>>3736757
Hyper SF2 and Hyper SF Alpha, although Alpha could've benefited from at least an arcade mode or something.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 is just barely /vr/ right? THUG Pro takes those maps, plus ones from all the other games in the series, and puts them into one game. It also lets you do cool shit like modify quirks in the physics and controls.

[Anonymous No.3736812]

>>3736798
Hyper SF2 was dogshit

Just ends up being SF2: Champion Edition with all the boss picks

Zero balance

[Anonymous No.3737062]

Conker's Bad Fur Day with all humor removed

[Anonymous No.3737078]

Brutal Doom for best everything.

[Anonymous No.3737135]

>>3736798
those versions are just broken games and not competitive you casual trash ass nigga

[Anonymous No.3737152]

>>3736757
FFVI Brave New World. It fixed almost every problem I had with FFVI while having negligible effects elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.3737182]

>>3737152
Yea, it is good. I just wish they didn't fuck with the script.

[Anonymous No.3737185]

>>3737078
>Brutal Doom for best everything.
Smooth weapons and THAT'S IT.

[Anonymous No.3737189]

Honestly there are a ton of retro games that just had a few (major) flaws only and would otherwise be amazing experiences.

I look forward to these "correction hacks". Even if they may not be "how the developer intended it to play like".

[Anonymous No.3737190]

>>3737135
Games are not sports until they are regulated like sports.

[Anonymous No.3737192]

>>3736757
playing quake one and 2 with what is essentially the doom 3 / quake 4 engine, also with hd textures and models, adds a ton of dynamic dark shadows and can even bring a modern computer to a silky smooth 30fps

[Anonymous No.3737256]

>>3737185
Who is this cutie?

[Ecco The Dolphin No.3738041]

>>3736757
Ecco PC: Fixed and Enhanced Version

http://web8.orcaserver.de/ecco/downloads/games/

[Anonymous No.3738054]

>>3738041

>The original Ecco PC version features redrawn high resolution graphics

REEEE

[Ecco The Dolphin No.3738061]

>>3738041
This version of ECCO uses the enhanced graphics and music from ECCO PC and ads the FMV cut scenes.

It also gets rid of the password system in favor of a save feature.

[Anonymous No.3738064]

>>3738054
It took me a little while to get used to them but it's a very well done fan release.

[Anonymous No.3738102]

I love Metal Gear Personal Area Network, but it baffles me to no end that nobody's given the game a better translation yet, though I think one person is trying to put Metal Gear back into the game instead of the super computer.

[Anonymous No.3738108]

>>3738064

Better than nothing I guess, but just look at how fucking crisp the ice looks in the original.

[Anonymous No.3738113]

>>3738108

[Anonymous No.3738115]

>>3738041

The SEGA CD version is a good one too, much like Earthworm Jim and Final Fight on the system the new soundtrack makes a big difference.

[Anonymous No.3738117]

>>3738115

That soundtrack is GOAT tier imo

[Anonymous No.3738158]

>>3738115
I don't like, I prefer the original yamama sound chip.

[Anonymous No.3738389]

>>3737078
>Brutal Doom

That looks awesome!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oSzYliSASKc

[Anonymous No.3738401]

>>3736757
The fan-made Agony UE4 remake looks pretty cool!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E2WcgH0Omxg

[Anonymous No.3739759]

First Quest Remake in Zelda Classic was fucking amazing, I believe it added some actual puzzle elements to the dungeons, though it's been a little while since I played so I could be wrong.

My only nitpick with it is the shitty MIDIs used for the dungeons... especially the last one. They gave it an awful instrumental MIDI version of the final boss from Sonic Adventure 2... fucking why??

I can completely overlook those, I wish I could play this on a TV.

[Anonymous No.3740037]

>>3739759
Neata

[Anonymous No.3740051]

>>3737062

CBFD: No Fun Allowed Edition

[Anonymous No.3740071]

>>3739759
I tried this years ago. What I can remember of it was pretty good. Wasn't the overworld hugely expanded on too?

>Last boss has a MIDI version of Live and Learn
That's hilarious and also awful.

[Anonymous No.3740162]

>>3740071

Not sure if I'd say expanded, but they made it look like a more natural landscape, like, having actual trees, instead of hundreds of Link sized bushes neatly arranged in rows and columns. There were actual bushes in the game so you could cut them for rupees, and I believe actual shops instead of just the caves, though the caves were there too, some of them had windows where the old men would peek out.

[Anonymous No.3740313]

>>3739759
>ZC won't run on my new PC
>may very well never get to play this again

[Anonymous No.3740314]

>>3736812
>Just ends up being SF2: Champion Edition
true
>with all the boss picks
of all the bosses, it's only CE Bison, CE Sagat, and ST Balrog that are busted as shit
like, Vega hasn't

HSF2 is pretty much ST with edition select. The balance is miserable as a whole, but it provides a fairly wide set of viable characters (if mostly by sheer amount), balancing :^) that out.

[Anonymous No.3740368]

>>3740313
Just install XP in VMware Player.
Its what I do to play a ton of odl DirectDraw games.

[Anonymous No.3740410]

>>3740368
I had never thought of that. Thank you very much, anon. I'll look into that someday.

[Anonymous No.3740419]

>>3737078
Brutal Doom is lame. It completely kills the atmosphere and breaks any semblance of gameplay balance.

[Anonymous No.3740452]

>>3737152
BNW is pretty awesome but there's other options, like Ted Woolsey Uncensored or the patch that contains all over 170 bugfix patches.


That's right, over 170.

[Anonymous No.3740459]

>>3736757
Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition

>inb4
It's better than the BGs, in that they don't fuck it up with new NPCs. It's basically IWD-in-BG2 but you can create a party in character creation with proper widescreen, restored shit, and other stuff.

[Anonymous No.3740460]

>>3737078
>Not Smooth Doom
Really though, definitive for Doom is more along the lines of the best source port than a mod. And that depends on what you want.

[Anonymous No.3742214]

>>3739759

>They gave it an awful instrumental MIDI version of the final boss from Sonic Adventure 2... fucking why??

Fucking LOL. This is most fangame thing I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.3742249]

>>3737078

Project Brutality >>> Brutal Doom

[Anonymous No.3742618]

>>3736757
You know, I like Sonic Classic Heroes but I wish there was a way to turn off drop rolling. Feels very unnatural.

[Anonymous No.3742704]

>>3740452

>the patch that contains all over 170 bugfix patches

Tried looking but couldn't find it, what's the name?

[Anonymous No.3743228]

Sonic 3 Complete is fucking amazing hack.

Someone is working on an improved version of Mega Man X5 too. Hopefully he'll also improve X6

[Anonymous No.3743372]

>>3743228
>Someone is working on an improved version of Mega Man X5
just looked this up. im so excited holy shit

[Anonymous No.3743663]

http://cyxdown.free.fr/reminiscence/

Flashback: The Quest for Identity

>optional Amiga music
>no copy protection
>restored cutscenes
>optional save states
>optional FMV cutscenes from the PC-CD/Sega CD/3DO versions
>optional in-game voice acting from the Sega CD version
>play with or without graphical filters

Some assembly required, though.

[Anonymous No.3743910]

>>3742704
http://slickproductions.org/forum/index.php?topic=2230.0

Keep in mind that it's only objective fixes here, but it's damn convenient even if you do want to hunt down the rage patch.

[Anonymous No.3744539]

>>3737135
You can stop pretending you go to tourneys now
>>3737078
and then there's this faggot