Romhacking Retro Thread

[Anonymous No.6721838]

I made this modification in Sonic 1 as replacing Sonic with Jack Frost from Megaten using Sonik Sprite, i know that he's off because im terrible at art.

[Anonymous No.6721842]

>>6721838
yeah pack it up, you've got no real talent here worth speaking of.

[Anonymous No.6721909]

>>6721838
hee ho

[Anonymous No.6722080]

update

[Anonymous No.6722085]

>>6722080
ops wrong pic
fuck the converter and only png

[Anonymous No.6722127]

post link faggot

[Anonymous No.6722209]

>>6721838
cute mod op, well done

[Anonymous No.6722231]

Where's the DL link

[Anonymous No.6722371]

>>6722127
>>6722231
its wip so no link

[Anonymous No.6722398]

You're going places kid

[Anonymous No.6722406]

The virgin Kaze Vs The Chad Kruko
KAZE:
>the few things he made that runs on an N64 still run like shit
>just plops Mario into a 1:1 Hyrule recreation
>Has a dumb meme sense of humor
>Constantly stomped by Nintendo

KURKO:
Games run near flawless on N64
Retextures and reimagines Hyrule to make the characteres look like they belong there
>Sense of humor pretty on point with the actual games
>Actual Rareware team complimented his work

[Anonymous No.6722414]

>>6722406
Nothing personal Kaze.

[Anonymous No.6722416]

>>6722406
Unironically awesome.
>>Actual Rareware team complimented his work
Source on this?

[Anonymous No.6722421]

>>6722416
It was Grant Kirkhope on twitter but he replies to just about everything he gets tagged in, it's still cool though.

[Anonymous No.6722531]

http://ff4fe.com
Well?

[Anonymous No.6722915]

>>6721838
>i'm retarded and gay
You are indeed

[Anonymous No.6723142]

>>6722406
Kino

[Anonymous No.6723309]

Not sure where else to ask, but how hard is it to translate a game from Japanese to English? More so the technical side of translating, how involved is the process and how difficult would it be to learn?

[Anonymous No.6723352]

>>6723309
Very

[Anonymous No.6723920]

Forgive my blathering, but I've just installed four android emulators with absolutely no luck. Bluestacks runs like garbage and nox, memu, and VDplayer automatically just say 'sonic 1 has stopped working' when I try to open the damned thing.
has anyone made a rom hack that comes close to the 2013 mobile versions? They're so damned tempting. I wish they didn't exist, because it's hard to just boot up the ol sega emulator knowing there's fantastic, high-quality ports out there. I'm not even a widescreenfag but the idea of seeing more of the zone at a time is appealing.

[Anonymous No.6724051]

May as well post my romhack. Level and graphics hack of SMB1, very short.

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5198/

Would definitely be glad to get any feedback or even just impressions. Only one real review so far which was pretty critical, but my irl friends liked it, but they're my friends so there's a clear bias there. Would like to hear what anons think of it.

I'm also down to answer any questions people have if they want to try their hand at hacking this game, though this one hack is my only experience so I'm far from any sort of expert.

[Anonymous No.6724072]

>rhdn hack is decent but bugged as fuck and broken
>leave review that mentions the bad bug
>review rejected
>meanwhile there is literally a review up on the hack page mentioning the same bug

Why do I even bother? Seems like my review is always rejected if it is negative.

[Anonymous No.6724189]

>>6724051
For a first hack, it's not that bad. But you need to know how GFX works i.e coins as peach.

[Anonymous No.6724292]

>>6723309
Most games have their inner coding compressed. You need to know how to de-compress and re-compress that text without fucking the whole structure. And, since japanese uses a lot less space than english, you'll probably need to find workarounds, through ASM most of the time, to show more characters in menus and stuff. You should check out RomHacking.net, since there's lot of documentation for several games. You can try working with hexadecimals and stuff on easy, documented games and go from there.

[Anonymous No.6724480]

>>6723309
It would be incredibly difficult to learn for someone who can't locate the rams of information readily available on this using google

[Anonymous No.6724538]

>>6721838
How did you do this, anon?

[Anonymous No.6724894]

>>6724538
As i said, Sonik Sprite, its old but useful tool that can edit gfx without needing decompressor to edit it. Hence, it's hell to do so.

[Anonymous No.6724954]

>>>/v/521139771
/v/'s making a collaborative Super Mario World romhack, if anyone's interested

[Anonymous No.6725106]

>>6723920
I wish somebody would remake the first two games in widescreen like that guy who remade Sonic 3, but it seems like the mobile ports have killed any interest. Android emulators suck ass and there's no two-player functionality for Tails in the Taxman port. As a result it feels like there's no definitive way to play Sonic 1 and 2

[Anonymous No.6725294]

>>6724292
>japanese uses a lot less space than english
less SCREEN space due to fewer glyphs per word, but much more DATA space due to the much larger alphabet and the need for characters to be larger in order to be legible.

[Anonymous No.6725307]

>>6725106
Not even just the widescreen but bug fixes, spin dash, ability to play as tails and knuckles in sonic 1... It's just too tempting to simply ignore. I'm sort of happy to hear i'm not the only one having trouble with android emulators, but it's kind of baffling that NOBODY has managed to make a good one, and that 90% of them are chinese. I know PCs are dying, but come on. it shouldn't be this hard.

[Anonymous No.6726396]

>>6724189
>For a first hack, it's not that bad.
Thanks!
>But you need to know how GFX works i.e coins as peach.
Coins looking like Peach was an intentional thing. Or am I misinterpreting what you're saying?

[Anonymous No.6726403]

>>6725294
The font takes up more space, but the stored script will usually take up less space. This is something translation patches usually have to struggle with.

[Anonymous No.6726407]

>>6725294
In the overall memory, sure.

The important practical consideration for translation hackers though is character count. A certain amount of memory is set aside to print X number of characters, and while it's easy to change those characters to English ones, extending the number of characters to be printed in a dialog box can be a hell of a lot of work.

[Anonymous No.6726417]

>>6726407
ah, I see. I remember something like this coming up in the Cat Ninden Teyandee famicom game fan translation attempt

[Anonymous No.6726624]

okay, i managed to get an OLDER version of bluestacks that runs better. now I just have to figure out how to get the debug command to work when it involves, apparently, a two-finger upward swipe

[Anonymous No.6726629]

>>6726624
Stop wasting time with this shit

[Anonymous No.6728735]

Bump

[Anonymous No.6729654]

What are the best vectorman mods

[Anonymous No.6731614]

Ok so if I use cheats on FCEUX, is there a way to save a ROM with the changes on it?

[Anonymous No.6732372]

>>6721838
keep it up

[Anonymous No.6733409]

>>6732372
Thanks! I'll will.

[Anonymous No.6734834]

>>6731614
What do you mean by cheats? Are you messing with the hex code? Cause it is possible to save that, though I dont remember how off the top of my head. If thats what youre after look up the documentation for whatever menu youre using and info should be there.

[Anonymous No.6735393]

>>6725106
>>6725307
There is a guy attempting to give sonic 2 the same treatment
https://twitter.com/heyjoeway/status/1283515082161434624?s=20
Same guy who ported srb2 and srb2kart to switch, so I have hope
I believe he has plans for sonic 1 as well, but don't quote me on this

[Boomslang No.6735401]

>>6721838
Give me the rom so i can prank my friend

[Anonymous No.6735682]

>>6734834
When you open the "Cheats" window, and add like, "Addr: 039E Val: 30".
I usually know just enough to change some colors on the ROM Memory at the Hex Editor if possible, but I'm generally illiterate in the whole finding memory addresses thing.

[Anonymous No.6737684]

>>6735682
Ah sorry, in that case I cant help you. Im familiar with ROM editing but not the cheats menu.

However, it might be a worthwhile experiment to open the ROM Memory and go to address 039E and change one of those pairs to 30 to see if the result is the same as the cheat. Because you can definitely save edited ROM Memory, and it sorta looks like editing ROM data is all the cheat function is doing anyway.

[Anonymous No.6737693]

>>6721838
based anon making shitty romhacks with SOUL

[Anonymous No.6738186]

>>6737684
True, I guess, thanks for the tip.

[Anonymous No.6738865]

>>6721838
Is this a joke? Why would you post this thinking we would care about your shitty rom "hack"?

[Anonymous No.6738875]

>>6738865
Because we do. OP put a lot of work into it and we're very happy for the opportunity to experience it and provide feedback

[Anonymous No.6739859]

>>6738875
>we
>implying the entire thread isn't just op samefagging and circle jerking himself

[Anonymous No.6740082]

kektus

[Anonymous No.6740124]

>>6722406
mark kurko really killing it with the mods. full soul.

[Anonymous No.6740170]

>>6738875
This is taking the joke a bit too far. It's literally a tile swap.

>but the art...
He literally said "i know that he's off because im terrible at art."

[Anonymous No.6740183]

>>6740170
>It's literally a tile swap.
A lot of romhacks are.

[Anonymous No.6740192]

>>6722406
Not to shit on Kurko but
>Retextures and reimagines Hyrule to make the characters look like they belong there
You could argue that for a "x character in y game" type project, it's better to make y game actually look like y game to emphasize the culture shock/tonal clash which is ostensibly part of the whole novelty of putting those two things together. It's not Mario running around in the geometry of Hyrule that's the cool part. It's Mario running around in the WORLD of Hyrule.

[Anonymous No.6741292]

>>6740192
This anon gets it.

Games are more than mechanics.

[Anonymous No.6741425]

>>6740192
I don't know, Jiggies in Time would not have been nearly as good as it was if it was just a 1:1 recreation. There's just no way. I've been through the original version of Hyrule already anyway, going through the exact same thing with a different character would only make for a slightly interesting curiosity at best.

Besides that, even with the retexture and reshaping job Kurko did, there was never any doubt in my mind that it was still the world of Ocarina of Time. Hell there are even some cases where what Kurko did looks better than what was done in the original Ocarina of Time.

[Anonymous No.6741436]

>>6721838
This is actually the perfect thread to ask for a but of help. I'm doing a sonic 2 romhack for myself, can op or anyone else help me out? I just want to edit the opening text at this point, the "sonic and tails in..." if I could just edit the bin as is real quick that would be great. Thanks

[Anonymous No.6741445]

>>6741292
What do mechanics have to do with anything? That anon didn't even mention mechanics. And anyway Mechanics are the most important part of any game second only to level design. Hell the reason most rom hacks even exist is because the original games had such good mechanics to begin with so they want to make more use of it. The rest of the hacks usually exist to fix bad mechanics, so that should tell you something.

Hacks that are just "huh, neat art piece, not really fun and the level design doesn't really mesh with the mechanics well at all" simply have no merit besides a 2 minute youtube video.

>>6741436
I've no experience with hacking Sega stuff. But if you want to know the best place to ask, I'd say Sonic Retro, that's basically the Sonic equivalent of SMWCentral.

[Anonymous No.6741461]

>>6741445
Thanks, I already did heh. I saw the "sonic2 text code generator" but don't understand if that just generates hex to be manually entered or what. I'm still learning

[Anonymous No.6741470]

>>6741461
Maybe soned2 can?

[Anonymous No.6741541]

>>6723920
Just download the .apks of the mobile versions and install them, you don't have to buy them

[Anonymous No.6743056]

>>6741436
Bump for help

[Anonymous No.6743421]

>>6743056
.

[Anonymous No.6746454]

>>6741436
I THINK Sonic Retro has some hacking guides. The site datacrystal may or may not have data on the game and where things like the menu text are in memory.

Dunno if they’ll help but it may be worth looking into.

[Anonymous No.6748706]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXTVYFDVz0s
Fantastic upcoming super metroid hack that im helping with just dropped a trailer

[Anonymous No.6748721]

>>6748706
Cool cool. But like... why does it look like shit

[Anonymous No.6748725]

>>6748721
It's all using vanilla tiles, the attention to detail is in the actual room layouts and transparency effects. This is also just not a particularly stunning area to look at compared to some of the other shit in the hack, im pretty sure the lead dev chose to show that off since it's just the starting area.

[Anonymous No.6748840]

>>6722085
Why is green hole zone Australia?

[Anonymous No.6749980]

>>6723920
Do a root kit scan and never use any of your real info. The android emulation scene is shady as fuck.

[Anonymous No.6750354]

>>6722406
anon

[Anonymous No.6751613]

>>6750354
This bob omb sounds condescending

[Anonymous No.6752040]

>>6750354
What am I supposed to discern from this?

[Anonymous No.6753290]

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

Super mario 64

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

sanic

http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_hacks
https://sonichacking.org/

[Anonymous No.6754732]

>>6752040
>>6751613
Saving Mexicans?

[Anonymous No.6754836]

>>6753290
If this is from the sticky of the old romhacking general, the N64 section needs some serious updating. No Banjo Kazooie and only one not very notworthy Ocarina hack?
It should also probably mention something about console compatibility.