A question about ROM hacks.

[WNDG]

Hello, I have a question about ROM hacks, especially translation hacks. How reliable are they against new emulators or newer versions of the current ones? Thanks.

 

[Yuki Senoue]

Depends. If they're made to be compatible with real hardware, yeah, they'll run in accurate emulators, even if a newer version is released. Emulation nowadays doesn't focus in only speed, as it was in the past. Accuracy for some devs is more important than speed.

 

[Yousef]

I ran all hacks I found on Delta and it recognized each one.

 

[Clippy]

Ancient romhacks e.g those made with ZSNES and its inaccuracies in mind might have issues on newer, more accurate emulators. Other than edge cases like that everything should run fine.

 

[TruxtonTatsujin]

most should be fine unless you're trying to play some N64 romhacks. Some of the Mario 64 ones can be a configuration nightmare to set up. Most of them don't run real hardware either.