/rhg/ ROM Hack General

[Anonymous No.4952378]

http://www.baddesthacks.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=667

>10th Anniversary

someone actually spent 10 years of their life making these.

>I am asking the community for help here. There are two choices as far as where this hack can go.

>1) Traditional Bigger Badder Better Super Mario Bros. 3 hack that will beat the tar out of NHMFTDN2 in terms of offensive content but does not innovate. It would take the same approach as the first two hacks in that I wont give a fuck and will just vandalize the livong shit out of everything. Each Koopa Kid would be adapted into a celebrity penis that I mighy just get the community involved in designing a la megaman where I give the name and you guys could maybe draw it out to be converted into NES graphics. Dick #7 would be Hitlers Dick and the final boss would be someone that if you pay attention has been forshadowed a couple times already.

>2) MGS3 style prequel starring Hitlers Dick that would go into detail about why he exists and what his first mission as a Dick Nazi was. It would be a radical departure from the other two games just like MGS3 was to 1 and 2 and would also be a hack of a souped up less shitty version of Rambo. Rambo has lots of text so theres plenty of opportunity for wierd bullshit.

>MGS3 style prequel

How is this even a thing still?

[Anonymous No.4952429]

didn't read, but Sonic 2 XL is a fun challenge.

[Anonymous No.4952474]

>>4952429
I dont know about that. All it really does is make legitimate ROM Hackers work harder to get noticed. These LOL SO RANDOM XD hacks are cancerous

[Anonymous No.4952487]

>>4952474
It's actually a challenging game that highlights some of the original's design.

[Anonymous No.4952984]

>>4952487
yeah but its shit.

[Anonymous No.4952995]

>>4952487
let me elaborate,>>4952474
is completely correct. Its on the same level as nazi hacks. And it hinders good rom hacks. It's bad.

[Anonymous No.4953006]

>>4952378
>>4952474
ITT:
stupid romhacks are bad and holding back legitimate ROM Hackers from being noticed
cancerous
literally offensive

The baddesthacks people were shooed away from rhdn but by all means feel free to start your revolution on the romhacking dot net boards as if their mods weren't cucked enough, and campaign until curation is enforced.
None of that bullshit "anyone can do their own romhack for funsies" nonsense.
The people behind and the content need to be vetted and approved to provide a safe and welcoming place where
>Final Fantasy VI - My Little Poney Edition
>The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker - Gender-Neutral Retranslation
can be posted, and hard mode mods and retranslation mods echoing the concerns of toxic weaboo audiences are recognized for the unwelcoming cancer they are and no longer given a pass in 2019.

[Anonymous No.4953012]

>>4953006
To illustrate the point here, a sample:

>>4952995
>Sonic 2 XL is on the same level of the nazi-themed gory shock bait romhacks so unwelcoming i had to dredge them up from the obscure internet hellhole known as baddesthacks
"Fat shaming" sonic is on the same level as Super Naked Nazi Peach on her period romhacks, you heard it here first folks.

[Anonymous No.4953037]

>>4952378

[Anonymous No.4953039]

personally I feel this thread could have remained buried for a few more weeks.

[Anonymous No.4953816]

>>4953012
>"Fat shaming" sonic is on the same level as Super Naked Nazi Peach on her period romhacks, you heard it here first folks.

It's senseless garbage with absolutely zero redeeming value. Go play a real ROM Hack and stop playing trash. End of story.

I'm tired of ROM Hackers spending 100's of hours retranslating games, creating new levels, and making new gameplay. Only to be left un noticed because other people are Loling at trash like Sonic XL and Headless Naked Mario.

The aren't art, they aren't legitimate, and I promise you, they aren't appreciated.

[Anonymous No.4953863]

Rec me a mario world romhack (that's actually good) none of that TSRP2 shit.

[Clarence No.4954057]

Back in 2009, I made 40 nude rom hacks and I am proud of them. We were finally able to play the games they were meant to be played before NintenCRAP censored them.

[Anonymous No.4954527]

That Golden Axe 3 nude Sarah romhack is a blessing, nothing like seeing a sexy naked amazon with blue pubes.

[Anonymous No.4954580]

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

Amazing

[Weretindo No.4954848]

>>4953816
Oh plz, I'll namefag for once. There are tons of high quality ASMings on RHDN that gets overshadowed by the "hundreds of hours" put into recoloring Mario Land 2, and the majority of high quality, not-menu-based RPG shit gets overshadowed by Pokemon while PokeCommunity still has a higher Alexa ranking than every ROM hax site.

The primary problem with this isn't the amount of feefees hurt by BHDN or anti-BHDN, it's the legality and unhelpful Programmer Cult that can barely string together proper ASM instructions or instructions for any of their fucking level editors and chronically treats themselves as gods for every little dumb thing they do.

Is it really this hard to comprehend why MUGEN gets more attention, including all the raper chars like Assault Abe & Kuromaru, than hax for any fighting game? How about the 200+ Zelda Classic "Quests" compared to the ~15 Zelda hax?

You're an unhelpful cult and probs always will be.

[Anonymous No.4954884]

>>4954848
>it's the legality and unhelpful Programmer Cult that can barely string together proper ASM instructions or instructions for any of their fucking level editors and chronically treats themselves as gods for every little dumb thing they do.

I get this sense in the games hacking community as well.

I randomly showed up because one hacker was working on a game I liked, got inspired and started a little project related to his, MIT licensed open source git repository and everything. I got respect for that; the hacker said he helped me because I seemed to be doing it for the right reasons, rather than just trying to one up him with a "better" program.

[Anonymous No.4955192]

>>4953816
Oh wait you're really triggered by Sonic XL
Checks out everything in the bingo too
>not art
>not legitimate
>no one would miss it if it got censored
>senseless
>garbage
>trash
>I'm tired of (something i like happens) only to be (something i wouldn't play happens and people play it! those few hours of attention wasted from things i like is an incredible waste of the retro vidya human instrumentality karma and they need to be purged)

Here's a piece of advice sweetheart:
Stop telling me what to like or what to play. You can shove your condescending attitude where you know.

Sonic XL is a funny hack that serves as a fun gameplay challenge (avoiding rings) spinning a risk and reward mechanic around it. You equating it with the BHDN stuff means you think it is offensive and that's purely the single reason why you want no people to play it, and imply not so subtly its existence is a PROBLEM that "holds back" good stuff (TM).

Who feels upset about other people's success or fun? Who feels that someone somewhere you don't otherwise know is having a lol playing this? Salty jealous gossiping high school cliques, that's who. No amount of burgers or attention will satiate your thirst for your control boner over what other people do, like, or laugh at.

You know it takes a special kind of disingenuous asshole to start a thread about celebrating retro game hacks that's 90% about how they should be removed or politicized. Retro game HACKS, a medium all about SUBVERTING the original creative vision in variable ways, and YOU want to curtail it with rules and taboos.
It's incredibly telling you want to remove an interesting challenge hack (that's less obnoxious than the red rings or the omochao or boomed ones that instantly kill you or cause actual cringe impeding gameplay) because it doesn't pass your politics.

[Anonymous No.4955198]

>>4953816
Oh wait you're really triggered by Sonic XL
Checks out everything in the bingo too
>not art
>not legitimate
>no one would miss it if it got censored
>senseless
>garbage
>trash
>I'm tired of (something i like happens) only to be (something i wouldn't play happens and people play it! those few hours of attention wasted from things i like is an incredible waste of the retro vidya human instrumentality karma and they need to be purged)

Here's a piece of advice sweetheart:
Stop telling me what to like or what to play. You can shove your condescending attitude where you know.

Sonic XL is a funny hack that serves as a fun gameplay challenge (avoiding rings) spinning a risk and reward mechanic around it. You equating it with the BHDN stuff means you think it is offensive and that's purely the single reason why you want no people to play it, and imply not so subtly its existence is a PROBLEM that "holds back" good stuff (TM).

Who feels upset about other people's success or fun? Who feels miserable knowing that someone somewhere you don't otherwise know is having a lol playing this? Salty jealous gossiping high school cliques, that's who. No amount of burgers or attention will satiate your thirst for your control boner over what other people do, like, or laugh at.

You know it takes a special kind of disingenuous asshole to start a thread about celebrating retro game hacks that's 90% about how they should be removed or politicized. Retro game HACKS, a medium all about SUBVERTING the original creative vision in variable ways, and YOU want to curtail it with rules and taboos.
It's incredibly telling you want to remove an interesting challenge hack (that's less obnoxious than the red rings or the omochao or boomed ones that instantly kill you or cause actual cringe impeding gameplay) because it doesn't pass your fattso death cult politics.

[Anonymous No.4955204]

>>4955192
My honest opinion is that Sonic 2 XL, or any joke hack that pretends to be legitimate, are worse than B*** stuff. at least those subhuman insipid filthmongers have the decency to isolate themselves.

ROM Hacks exist to improve games, not turn them into sick, ableist jokes. They don't exist as vessels for dick jokes, your shitty fanfiction, your stupid creepypasta crap, or for any other reason but to IMPROVE games. ROM Hacks have a terrible reputation among the general public because of everything i just mentioned. How many people passed up on Dragoon X Omega or Super Mario 3Mix due to the stigma rom hacks have?
You and people like you are responsible for my mediums poor reputation.

Now, get out of my thread.

[Anonymous No.4955206]

>>4955204
meant for>>4955198

[Anonymous No.4955226]

>>4955204
ROM hacks exist for whatever the hacker wishes. What are you, some kind of hack auditor? My sides.

[Tools for reverse engineering (...) No.4955281]

I wanted to reverse engineer a NES game, as in, disassemble it.

So what I want to do is get the assembly code and label all the variables and label all the functions and ideally put a comment on every line of assembly to say what it does.

I started playing with radare2 but I'm not sure if this is the correct tool to use. Has anyone here ever done this? I know there are a few disassemblies on github and elsewhere online.

[Anonymous No.4955351]

>>4955204
Who died and left you in charge, you parasite illigitemate goblin poser.

ROM hacks can exist without having to earn a seal of approval by anyone.
The whole concept of romhacks is doing modifications that are not normally allowed by the developers or the console. There's no ERSB or Sony or government agency or official mod shop to whine to, to get modifications removed. That's the beauty of it.

A thread on /vr/ won't cut it, I urge you to start a romhack site with your own rules here, where well crafted romhacks with lots of reprogramming and novel ideas and not shitty sprite swaps are rejected because your holiness rejected it.
Go full gears, you said ableist so hard type romhacks should be out too.
Let's see how welcoming it will be, you a person who is strangely found of kicking people out and banning expressions. Let's see how successful it will be. How long until you start issuing false dcma notices for other competing sites that don't have your rules, i wonder.

[Anonymous No.4955371]

>>4955281
You must give more details about what you want to do, and post a detailed review of the content to be included to OP, before we can help.
You could be making a politically incorrect hack like ableist non colorblind friendly extra boss HP mods for all we know.

[Anonymous No.4955389]

>>4952474
>senpai won't notice my hack
>the other hack authors are going out of business because their hack failed to get enough downloads to be profitable to sustain them financially
You know you could say something unique to the situation instead of copypasta from "steam doesn't curate to pravda levels reee" articles.
So disheartening the latest culture war takeover isn't even worth as much effort.

[Anonymous No.4955397]

>>4955204
>any joke hack that pretends to be legitimate, are worse than B*** stuff
Brace yourselves boys and girls, here comes the fun police.
A joke hack, so unforgivable. Even bona fide neo-nazis have more decency.

[Anonymous No.4955608]

>>4955204
Guess my Super Anti-Semitic Penis Nose Bros. in Epilepsy Land won't cut it, then.

[Anonymous No.4955730]

>>4955389
It's appropriate cause they're being... hacks

[Anonymous No.4955737]

>>4955608
Needs more fat shaming to cross OP's line.

[Anonymous No.4955747]

>>4952378
I was about to complain about the missing useful links in the OP that used to be here, then I realized this is about getting outrafed about hacks to get them taken down, which doesn't require any talent or know how from those links.
Thank you OP for subverting my expectations.

[Anonymous No.4955773]

>some asshole shits up /rhg/'s OP just to have some pointless drama

[Anonymous No.4955774]

I want to make a predominantly graphical ROM hack of something, but I have no fucking idea which game to hack or how I should change the sprites, what the fuck do I do.

[Anonymous No.4955787]

>>4955774
Go to romhacking.net, and try using some brain cells. No, seriously. I must be some kind of genius since I got into romhacking and ASM programming without needing people to tell me to download a graphical editor or assembler.

[Anonymous No.4955794]

>>4955787
Wait what? I don't want to learn assembly and graphics editing isn't that hard usually AFAIK. I just don't know which game's sprites I want to change and what the theme should be, that's all.

[Anonymous No.4955916]

>>4955737
Well, there's the sequel, Super Obese Dick Blob Bros.

[Germany Team "NerdsFun.de"(...) No.4955928]

..hey we like this thread.

keep on. Love from us. //nerdsfun.de

[Anonymous No.4955931]

>>4955928
Ermorde dich selbst.

[Anonymous No.4955950]

>>4954848
>recoloring Mario Land 2
SML2DX is an achievement and way better than FF6 ASM bugfix #10000000000
shut your dumb ass mouth

[Anonymous No.4955952]

>>4955281
You want to create a ROM map. Basically, every byte in the game's ROM is used for something. Your task is to find what that is.

Radare2 should have 6502 code support, but I bet debugging emulators such as FCEUX will prove useful as well. Reverse engineering means developing a list of symbols. Symbols are names for memory addresses. As you can see in the 6502 debugger in the screenshot, you can have "address bookmarks".

Symbols can point at data or code. It's generally impossible to tell which is which without running the program (static analysis), that's why tracing code while it's running on the emulator (dynamic analysis) is important. You get a disassembly of code as it runs, and you'll be able to slowly figure out the patterns in the code. Using the code you'll be able to figure out what data it accesses and what it does with it. As you start to figure things out, the general structure of the game will become clear to you.

[Anonymous No.4955959]

>>4955389
ROM hackers are making money? Disgusting.

[Anonymous No.4955982]

Look the thing is, B*** and the rest of these joke hack producers need to have thier hacks removed from the general public. we already booted B*** from Romhacking.net.(which isn't enough) Now its time to get in there are ban anything that is deemed shit. Any user at RHDN is able to go in an make edits to hack pages up to and including calls for removal. I don't see why the most powerful Romhacking site on earth needs to host trash like Sonic XL, Chrono Trigger Spoof, ect.

I know a lot of you are angry with me. That's rich too. I've been a ROM hacker since 1997 and was heavily involved with the whirlpool and Romhacking.net since the begining late 2005. You brats dont have the right to tell me anything. If i want something, it will happen.

[Anonymous No.4956007]

So is there a single good Ocarina of Time rom hack? Or is it doomed

[Anonymous No.4956236]

>>4955982
>What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class at the Whirlpool, and I've been involved in numerous secret hacks on RHDN, and I have over 300 confirmed ASM patches. I am trained in 6502 and I'm the top mod in the entire scene. You are nothing to me but just another B***. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this internet, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the chans? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of mods across the EU and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call fun. You're fucking banned, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can hack you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my editor. Not only am I extensively trained in debuggers, but I have access to the entire arsenal of custom built dumpers and patchers. and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable dick nazis off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" modification was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking ips. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over this thread and you will drown in it. You're fucking lame, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.4956293]

>>4956236
kek

[Anonymous No.4956360]

>>4956236
>Mad neo nazi B*** member detected.

[Anonymous No.4956459]

Anybody know of a good n00b-tier TUtORIAL for PSX disassembly and code tracing?

[Degencels Won The Internet, Co(...) No.4956671]

>>4955950
It's true, but it'll never be better than Streets of Rage 2: Syndicate Wars where u play as every enemy character, but it isn't on RHDN cuz those inferiors don't deserve it. Got a lot of [[X] in SoR2] shit, th0.

>>4955982
I know this thread might be a false flag like pic related, but if u tards could remove the Undertale fag's, "Omgerd so edgy, but I lurrrv Toby Fox so kawaii, uguu" hack, I'd appreciate ur hypocrisy.
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1882/

Uh oh, one of the hax from B***********Dot*** is still on the site. Hurry up, better not let down Matt Hardy-senpai & DELET this.
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2823/

[Anonymous No.4956694]

This thread is a perfect example of bullshit in the hobby.. Here you are, whining that some guy drew dicks on things.... meanwhile the same guy managed to redo all the levels, add some physics changes, and add in a timed jump scare. But its not enough because dicks.

A hacker adds a second player to The SNREW version of Final Fight Guy, and manages to get Cody working as well, but he's obviously not doing anything that requires talent.

A hacker completely overhauls Legend of Zelda, Gives it new music, new plot, new items, new overworld, new graphics for literally everything, and literally writes NES code in hex, but since you dont like his jokes he's not worth paying attention to.

Meanwhile we need to worry more about translating games with no text past the title screen, Translating black box games into Hungarian, and changing a characters gender pronouns because reasons.

You're all just jealous people pay attention to the funny shit.

[Tools for reverse engineering (...) No.4956748]

>>4955952
Hey thanks for the reply.

You are correct, it is necessary to step through the code, and FCEUX allows this. Radare2 also allows stepping through the code I believe but obviously it doesn't emulate the PPU so you can't really see what the game is doing.

I began stepping through the code and making notes but what I want is a tool that can spit out the annotated code. For example if I find out that memory address 0x4040 is used for the player's health, I want to label it as a symbol and for the tool to update any other references to that memory address in the code listing to use that symbol. If I find out that a certain address in the ROM is the beginning of a routine that does handles hit detection, I want to label it, so that anywhere there is a jump to that location the label is used. And I want to step through the code and be able to annote the code as I go, so that I can spit out the annotated code into a text file in the end.

Fceux is an essential tool for this but it doesn't seem to have the annotation feature that I need. Maybe I need to create a plugin for Fceux.

[Anonymous No.4956802]

>>4956748
Ok, it turns out fceux can create .nl files which contains comments on both RAM and ROM addresses. So probaby I can use these to mostly do what I want.

[Anonymous No.4956823]

>>4956694
Neo Nazi shitbags are still neo nazi shitbags :)

[Anonymous No.4956827]

>>4956823

Laughing at a Nazi penis hardly means you support Hitler.

[Anonymous No.4956928]

>>4956694
It doesnt matter. these otherwise talented people go around supporting trump and acting like entitled jerks on our forums. rotwang constantly acted like a confrontational asshole. haxor ky0 constantly trolled. pope hentai was going out of his way to repeatedly challenge the mods. nobody is entitled to use romhacking.net. even after the ban they trolled people into thinking romhacking.net had been shut down. they flooded our forums with shock images. they spy on us constantly they accuse people of horrible things and they harrass and disparage our mods on twitter. these people cannot be trusted and never will be.

Its good to see the outside internet finally wake up to this insanity.

[Chad Nonvoter No.4956978]

>>4956928
>supporting trump
I'm kinda with Tit Suey on this one, th0.
http://www.baddesthacks.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=410
Virgin Voters no Densetsu.

[Anonymous No.4957113]

>>4955389
RHDN already banned this trash. Since its the only hacking site that matters I'd say the matter was settled. I'd like to see B*** removed entirely from the internet but it looks like theyre a cancer that just wont die. I know some of you pieces of shit are in this thread and i want you to know that your hacks and your website do not have the right to exist. please kindly get out of the hacking scene. Nobody wants you.

[Anonymous No.4957124]

>>4952378
Like, it sure beats yet another SMW hack at least. At least they innovated and developed a tool for Monster Party, as opposed to circlejerking the same three games over and over.

[Anonymous No.4957132]

>>4957113 is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[Anonymous No.4957148]

>>4954848
the reason why romhacks outside of very specific games is because no one is autistic (or cares) enough to bother doing the same for other games. with the way hacking resources are, if you wanted to, say, make a hack of F-Zero that adds all F-Zero characters ever made, the documentation on that game is so poor while the documentation on SMW is fucking retarded, you're unironically better off hacking SMW so that it becomes F-Zero and then adding all that extra shit. It's the Skyrim of rom hacking.

[Anonymous No.4957159]

>>4957132
Yeah and you are nobody while I am one of the most important rom hackers there is.

[Anonymous No.4957192]

>>4957159
Congrats.

[GoodSet Did Nothing Wrong No.4957315]

>>4957159
Hi, P.
Could you reupload your old videos?
thx

[Anonymous No.4958843]

>>4956827
Being right of Marx is what makes you a nazi.
Remember, it's all about enforcing your ideology on others. Hobbies are just a avenue for politics.

[Anonymous No.4959230]

>it's literally some other forum drama dragged here
Fuck you OP. Fuck you, fuck the faggot ranting about baddest hacks and whining about fucking trump, fuck the random namefags, fuck the faggot whining about rhdn's moderation. Fuck you all.

[Anonymous No.4959247]

Anyone else enjoying the FF1 randomizer out there? Someone posted a link to a speedrun competition using the seeds generated by the randomizer, but I've just been having fun doing Treasure Hunt mode with randomized quest items.

Also, I enjoyed Dragoon X Omega 2, despite the lame name.

[Anonymous No.4959249]

>>4959247
No, but I've been having endless fun with the FF6 randomizer's Ancient Cave mode.

[Anonymous No.4959270]

>>4959249
That one's great too, I'm enjoying the random abilities the guys are getting every run, I just find ancient cave to have too much variation in how the rooms are connected together (Not as big of deal in FF5's version when it's always about going downwards, but FF6's has a lot of backtracking for the three parties.).

[Anonymous No.4959290]

>>4952378
No clue what edgelord shit you're talking about but you can fuck the fuck off.

[Anonymous No.4959334]

>>4959230
This is not forum drama. This is an existentenial crisis to romhacking. B*** are soiling the hobby. Sonic Retro, SMWCentral, all churning out low quality bait hacks meant to make people assume hacking is a lowbrow activity for fools.

[Anonymous No.4959352]

>>4959290
I was wondering when haxorkyo would find this thread.if it is you: you can pretend all you want that you arent a nazi but you are. You admited to voting for trump and you still pretend otherwise. its pathetic and the rom hacking scene is better without you. you can cling on with your little website all you want but you know you will fade into obscurity. you run around playing the hero pretending to translate smt if, in a pathetic and obvious attempt at getting relevance to your worthless shithole website. you will never be anything.

[Anonymous No.4959375]

>>4959334
Mr. Diddlesworth is displeased with you.

Hacking is meant for fools with no programming merit to make their own game, even less merit than a Steam Asset Flipper.
You even said, "hacking isn't meant for your shitty fanfiction", which is what makes Metroid: Rogue Dawn. Fan games should be treated as subhuman trash and rightfully DMCA'd for having no originality.

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4101/
>Dong Man
Am say, that must put you on Suicide Watch. Look at that, a new Vinesauce hack with a dick joke like right there.

[Anonymous No.4959441]

>>4957159
Who the shit even are you, then, if you're so important? You can't be both anonymous, AND the baddest ass, most important hacker ever.

You aren't the fucking Banksy of ROM hacks.

[Anonymous No.4959531]

>>4956823

I would gladly support the next Hitler if he'd shut people like you up.

Man, you are really annoying.

Some of these rom hacks are really fun.

[Anonymous No.4959535]

Heil Hitler. Death to degenerates.

[Anonymous No.4959536]

>>4959535

This guy gets it.

[Anonymous No.4959546]

>>4959441
>Banksy
>anonymous

You haven't heard? His name is Robert Del Naja.

[Anonymous No.4959563]

>>4959535
>>4959536
Come, now. This roastie's lack of death penalty is proof the lolocaust never happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Grese

[Anonymous No.4959568]

>>4959535
Link to hack?

[Anonymous No.4959587]

>click thread hoping for discussion/links to fun romhacks
>literally nothing but 72 posts of autistic butthurt shitflinging

*deletes /vr/ bookmark*

literally worse than /v/ and /vg/ combined

[Anonymous No.4959589]

>>4959587

You won't be missed.

[Anonymous No.4959598]

>>4959587

Really glad to hear you've done the right thing and decided to delete your bookmark.

Next step, delete your bitchy, whiny, entitled attitude.

[Anonymous No.4959617]

>>4953863
Super Nazi Penis Cartel exists


I did not right that. Those are not my words. Copied straight from OPs source.

[Anonymous No.4959795]

>>4959598
>"entitled"
>literally uses an anonymous image board to wage forum wars on trivial topics whilst tripfagging instead of actually talking about hacking

[Anonymous No.4960434]

>>4956748
>>4956802

>tool that can spit out the annotated code.
>For example if I find out that memory address 0x4040 is used for the player's health, I want to label it as a symbol and for the tool to update any other references to that memory address in the code listing to use that symbol

That's a feature of interactive debugging. The software helps you figure out new data by displaying the data you've already discovered. This involves saving and loading all the symbols (name/address pairs) you've created and showing the name whenever the address comes up. This is extremely valuable for NES games because they aren't very dynamic; there's no memory allocation or anything even remotely like that.

FCEUX should have this capability, as should Radare2.

[Anonymous No.4960438]

>>4957113
I wouldn't even have heard about these "bad hacks" if it weren't for your bitching about them. Ever heard of the streissand effect, retard? First step in making something go away is shut the fuck up about it.

[Anonymous No.4960504]

>>4959375
I'm a programmer myself and my hacks are mostly bug fixes for my favorite games. There are people on RHDN that objectively improve games by removing shitty mechanics and adding new features. They give these games a new life. In order to do this, you need taste. You need to like your favorite games enough to know what's wrong with them, and you need to know how to fix those problems.

You could say taste is the one thing these "bad hacks" people lack, but then again they often aren't fixing and improving their favorite games to begin with. They're not making hacks like Sonic 3 Complete.

[Anonymous No.4960538]

This thread has turned me completely off of ROM hacks. It sounds like an awful community for (and full of) cunts.

[Anonymous No.4960548]

>>4960538
How about learning actual programming instead? If you want to turn this into a programming thread, I'd happily reply to you.

[Anonymous No.4960550]

The only tools to hack arcade games are hex editors and DOS art editing programs.
Add this to the fact that the games I want to hack throw a shitfit and halt on copy protection when certain things are touched, and having to make sure I don't overwrite the original romset when I want to swap out to the hacked on in MAME, and the process of reaching the final product becomes tedious and painful.
I don't even know how to share the shit I've made because of the nature of MAME's romsets being a bunch of mini-roms packed into a zip file. I can't just release a single patch on the usual sites.
Lucky spoiled console pricks.

[Anonymous No.4960551]

>>4960548
You're insufferable.

[Anonymous No.4960560]

>>4960551
Seriously, how butthurt are you? Fuck off. Nobody cares how turned off you are.

[Anonymous No.4960563]

>>4960551
>>4960560
y'all both gay

[Anonymous No.4960573]

>>4960550
>The only tools to hack arcade games are

You're expected to create your tools yourself. You want an interactive editor for every single game, don't you? That shit only happens in specific communities for popular games like Mario/Sonic, and only because skilled reverse engineers managed to figure out the structure of the game, its stages, its graphics and shit. That task is way too hard for the common ROM "hacker", if the term can even be applied to such people. They're more like lusers using programs other people made.

>I don't even know how to share the shit I've made because of the nature of MAME's romsets being a bunch of mini-roms packed into a zip file. I can't just release a single patch on the usual sites.

Release a zip of patches?

[Anonymous No.4960591]

>>4960560
>Seriously, how butthurt are you?
Not much. To be honest, I think I misinterpreted your response. Sorry.

[Anonymous No.4960602]

>>4960573
I admit I'm not skilled enough to program stuff from scratch, but I at least know how to search for bytes and edit them properly, so maybe there's hope for me to learn one day.
I'd kill for someone to make a native Windows/Linux port of Turaco, or AGE, so I don't have to open DOSBox every time I want to change the way something looks.

[Anonymous No.4960656]

>>4960602
>Turaco
>04 October 1999

Wow. How many games does this support anyway? The screenshot shows pacman. Here's a complete, commented disassembly of the entire game:

http://cubeman.org/arcade-source/pacman.asm

Figure out how the game stores graphics and make a program to edit that. Games that are old enough might even use literal 1 bit/pixel bit maps. I've read about boards that had literally hardwired graphics -- they had a matrix of wires and that literally resembled the shape of the sprite and which could be modified by shorting or connecting the wires you want to mean 0 or 1.

[Anonymous No.4960687]

>>4960656
Holy shit, found it.

[Anonymous No.4960691]

>>4960656

[Anonymous No.4961331]

It's one thing that many of you passively admit 90% of all hacks are shit, but then make the case that this makes badhacks an exception of extra shit cuz it hurts your pathetic feefees like GoodSet does, which is the only thing ensuring actual archival cuz the rest of you are lazy as fuck.
How much does it piss you off knowing this is in NonGood?
http://www.dlsite.com/ecchi-eng/work/=/product_id/RE193852.html

GoodSet > BHDN > RHDN

I do like how BlueMaxima set up that Flash preservation thing that has like 500+ people in the Discord whereas they intend to archive everything, including all the RAYCISS & SECKSISS Flash gaemz out there, and, ya know, being overall far more useful than you cowards that don't help with shit.

"Oh, let's gib money to Nightcrawler cuz he'll always be here with his site's shitty connection speeds!1"

I don't really care if either BHDN or RHDN goes down tomorrow, cuz GoodSet/NonGood-tier packs will outlast either of you fuckwads. So hard to make a site rip, init?

[Anonymous No.4961367]

>>4960691
>>4960687
That's neat. What game?

>>4960538
Yes, also drama happens. Luckily you don't really have to deal with it much. Then again, there are plenty of things you have to deal with and the general consensus seems to be that if you let something dissuade you, it's ok because there would be many more frustrations that you would have run in to. After all figuring it out is the cornerstone of hacking.

All hacks have value. Maybe some don't have very much, but there is no reason for hate.
I started playing the most recent Secret Of Mana gameplay improvement, and it is excellent. However the scroll fix hack like night and day. You're no longer pushing against the edge of the screen and you can see where your going.

[Anonymous No.4961459]

>>4960538
Not full of cunts at all. We're just tired of being terrorized.

[Anonymous No.4961576]

rom hacking is for faggots

[Anonymous No.4961785]

>>4961576
rom hacking is for faggots is for faggots