Rom hacks that blew you away?

Brave New World is a romhack of Final Famtasy 6 that greatly fleshes out the combat and esper system. The stats work in different ways now that actually make sense.

It got a lot of negative reception when it first came out due to the devs changing the script into some edgelord nonsense but you can thankfully patch the rom without the script changes now.

Every boss battle is a puzzle with multiple solutions. The ways you can build each character is really interesting. There was clearly a lot of thought put into balancing characters, equipment and relics. It's more difficult than the vanilla game but it is not a "hardtype" hack.

I can't recommend it enough. It even has a set on RetroAchievements if you're into that sort of thing.
 
This Super Mario World hack, A Plumber For All Seasons:

It feels like a dlc expansion to the original game. All of the sprite work is redone and it all looks awesome.
 
Super Mario Bros: Peach's Adventure
Sonic and Ashuro
 
Mine are only gonn be listing the NES, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis hacks; if I go beyond that, it'll take too long.

Still curious to know my preferred hacks for another console/handheld? Just ask me in DM!

In alphabetical order, since I can't possibly remember the order of my exposure to each hack:

NES:
8 Eyes - Simon Belmont
Castlevania - The Holy Relics
Castlevania II - Restoration & Map
Celeste Mario's Zap & Dash
Contra - Red Falcon War
Crystalis - Mesia hack, Sky Tower Exit & Screen Shake fix
Double Dragon 2-Player
Double Dragon II Final Boss Edition
Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari - Girl Version
Ducktales 2 - 2-Player hack ft. Darkwing Duck
Evil Dead - Zelda 2 hack
Extra Mario Bros.
Final Fantasy III - 2-Player hack
Junkoid
Kirby's Halloween Adventure
Legend of Link
Legend of Super Mario
Little Nemo - A Wonderful Wand Edition
LOL, a Sprite Hack
Mario Adventure
Mario Adventure 3
Mario Fantasy Adventure - Final Fantasy hack
Mario's Moon Adventure
Mario in Some Usual Day
Megaman in the Mushroom Kingdom
Metroid - Dark Alliance
Metroid - Rogue Dawn
My Little Pony - Dr. Discord's Conquest
Nintendo vs Capcom
Peach & Daisy in the Ultimate Quest
P.O.W. - 2 Player hack
Present Panic- A Princess Adventure
Rambo - hack of P.O.W.
Rockman 3 - Last of Mushroom Kingdom
Roll-Chan 1-6 & Tokyo Olympics
Royal Flush - Princess Sidestory
Shatterhand - 2 Player hack
Shinobi - Arcade Version
Snake's Revenge - Military Stencil font hack
Super Mario Bros. - 2 Player simultaneous co-op hack
Super Mario Bros. 3+
Super Mario Bros. 3mix
Superman - hack of Sunman prototype
The Terminator - Journey to Silius restoraton
The All-New Punch-Out!
Ultima - A New Exodus
Ultima - Exodus Remastered
United Mario Bros
Zelda II - 2-Player
Zelda II - Amida's Curse

SNES:
8-Bit Mario World - Desert Land
Actraiser II - Play intro hack
Alien 3 - Assembly Cut
Brutal Mario
Chrono Trigger+
Chrono Trigger - Crimson Echoes
Chrono Trigger - Prophet's Guile
Conker's High Rule Tail
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Unveiled
FF4 - Celes x Terra
FF4 - Job System
FF4 - The Darkness Within
FF4 - Ultima
FF4 - Unprecedented Crisis
FF5 - 3 Slots Hack
FF5r
FF6 - Return of the Dark Sorcerer
FF6 - T-Edition
FF6 - The Lion Armlet
Goof Troop - Space Treasure
Hyper Metroid
Illusion of Gaia - Apocalypse Gaia
Kaizo Mario World
Legend of Zelda - Parallel Worlds
Link to the Past - Ancient stone Tablets dash hack
Link to the Past - BS-X Mascot hack
Lufia Restoration hack
Lufia II Restoration hack
Mario & Friends - Ghost's Galley, Volcanic Panic
Megaman 7 Restoration & Refit hack
Megaman Bass - Megaman 7 hack
Megaman X3 - Zero Project
Megaman Xmix
Merry Mountain Christmas Adventure - Mario hack
Mortal Kombat - blood fix hack
My QLDC Level - Mario world hack
Rockman 7 - EP
Rockman X3 - Tsuraranoma
Secret of Evermore A Button Swap & 2-Player hack
Secret of Mana - Climate Crisis
Seiken Densetsu 3 - 3-Player hack
Star Fox EX
Super Ghouls'n Ghosts - Maiden hack
Super Junkoid
Super Luigi RPG - Star Powered
Super Mario RPG - Armageddon
Super Mario RPG - Legend of the Axem Rangers
Super Mario World- Simultaneous 2-Player hack
Super Metroid - Ancient Chozo
Super Metroid - Ascent
Super Metroid - Darkholme Hospital
Super Metroid - Phazon
The Firemen - NTSC patch
Terranigma - NTSC patch
Toadette's Kaizo Tuesday

Sega Genesis:
Aladdin - Final Cut
Landstalker - Control & Restoration patches
Megaman - The Sequel Wars
Mortal Kombat Revelations
Shadowrun - Female MC patch
Sonic 1 Megamix
Sonic 1 as; Sally Acorn, Bunnie Rabbot, & Amy Rose
Sonic 2 as; Sally Acorn, Bunnie Rabbot, & Amy Rose
Sonic 3 as; Sally Acorn & Amy Rose
Ultimate Mortal Kombat Trilogy
 
Mine are only gonn be listing the NES, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis hacks; if I go beyond that, it'll take too long.

Still curious to know my preferred hacks for another console/handheld? Just ask me in DM!

In alphabetical order, since I can't possibly remember the order of my exposure to each hack:

NES:
8 Eyes - Simon Belmont
Castlevania - The Holy Relics
Castlevania II - Restoration & Map
Celeste Mario's Zap & Dash
Contra - Red Falcon War
Crystalis - Mesia hack, Sky Tower Exit & Screen Shake fix
Double Dragon 2-Player
Double Dragon II Final Boss Edition
Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari - Girl Version
Ducktales 2 - 2-Player hack ft. Darkwing Duck
Evil Dead - Zelda 2 hack
Extra Mario Bros.
Final Fantasy III - 2-Player hack
Junkoid
Kirby's Halloween Adventure
Legend of Link
Legend of Super Mario
Little Nemo - A Wonderful Wand Edition
LOL, a Sprite Hack
Mario Adventure
Mario Adventure 3
Mario Fantasy Adventure - Final Fantasy hack
Mario's Moon Adventure
Mario in Some Usual Day
Megaman in the Mushroom Kingdom
Metroid - Dark Alliance
Metroid - Rogue Dawn
My Little Pony - Dr. Discord's Conquest
Nintendo vs Capcom
Peach & Daisy in the Ultimate Quest
P.O.W. - 2 Player hack
Present Panic- A Princess Adventure
Rambo - hack of P.O.W.
Rockman 3 - Last of Mushroom Kingdom
Roll-Chan 1-6 & Tokyo Olympics
Royal Flush - Princess Sidestory
Shatterhand - 2 Player hack
Shinobi - Arcade Version
Snake's Revenge - Military Stencil font hack
Super Mario Bros. - 2 Player simultaneous co-op hack
Super Mario Bros. 3+
Super Mario Bros. 3mix
Superman - hack of Sunman prototype
The Terminator - Journey to Silius restoraton
The All-New Punch-Out!
Ultima - A New Exodus
Ultima - Exodus Remastered
United Mario Bros
Zelda II - 2-Player
Zelda II - Amida's Curse

SNES:
8-Bit Mario World - Desert Land
Actraiser II - Play intro hack
Alien 3 - Assembly Cut
Brutal Mario
Chrono Trigger+
Chrono Trigger - Crimson Echoes
Chrono Trigger - Prophet's Guile
Conker's High Rule Tail
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Unveiled
FF4 - Celes x Terra
FF4 - Job System
FF4 - The Darkness Within
FF4 - Ultima
FF4 - Unprecedented Crisis
FF5 - 3 Slots Hack
FF5r
FF6 - Return of the Dark Sorcerer
FF6 - T-Edition
FF6 - The Lion Armlet
Goof Troop - Space Treasure
Hyper Metroid
Illusion of Gaia - Apocalypse Gaia
Kaizo Mario World
Legend of Zelda - Parallel Worlds
Link to the Past - Ancient stone Tablets dash hack
Link to the Past - BS-X Mascot hack
Lufia Restoration hack
Lufia II Restoration hack
Mario & Friends - Ghost's Galley, Volcanic Panic
Megaman 7 Restoration & Refit hack
Megaman Bass - Megaman 7 hack
Megaman X3 - Zero Project
Megaman Xmix
Merry Mountain Christmas Adventure - Mario hack
Mortal Kombat - blood fix hack
My QLDC Level - Mario world hack
Rockman 7 - EP
Rockman X3 - Tsuraranoma
Secret of Evermore A Button Swap & 2-Player hack
Secret of Mana - Climate Crisis
Seiken Densetsu 3 - 3-Player hack
Star Fox EX
Super Ghouls'n Ghosts - Maiden hack
Super Junkoid
Super Luigi RPG - Star Powered
Super Mario RPG - Armageddon
Super Mario RPG - Legend of the Axem Rangers
Super Mario World- Simultaneous 2-Player hack
Super Metroid - Ancient Chozo
Super Metroid - Ascent
Super Metroid - Darkholme Hospital
Super Metroid - Phazon
The Firemen - NTSC patch
Terranigma - NTSC patch
Toadette's Kaizo Tuesday

Sega Genesis:
Aladdin - Final Cut
Landstalker - Control & Restoration patches
Megaman - The Sequel Wars
Mortal Kombat Revelations
Shadowrun - Female MC patch
Sonic 1 Megamix
Sonic 1 as; Sally Acorn, Bunnie Rabbot, & Amy Rose
Sonic 2 as; Sally Acorn, Bunnie Rabbot, & Amy Rose
Sonic 3 as; Sally Acorn & Amy Rose
Ultimate Mortal Kombat Trilogy
yeah i remember finding Sonic 3 and Knuckles with Sally in it over on some spanish website. I posted it online and it was put on Retro Sonic not long after that. :D Dunno if it's because of me or not. But I like to think so.
 
NES
SMB3 Mix
Extra Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. Special Edition (NES remake of the PC-88 version of Super Mario Bros.)
Kirby's Halloween Adventure
Roll-Chan series

SNES
Super Mario World games by Bandicoot
Star-Fox EX

Sega Genesis
Ghostbusters Special Edition
TMNT: Shredder's Revenge (SR2 hack)
 
Mine are only gonn be listing the NES, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis hacks; if I go beyond that, it'll take too long.

Still curious to know my preferred hacks for another console/handheld? Just ask me in DM!

In alphabetical order, since I can't possibly remember the order of my exposure to each hack:

NES:
8 Eyes - Simon Belmont
Castlevania - The Holy Relics
Castlevania II - Restoration & Map
Celeste Mario's Zap & Dash
Contra - Red Falcon War
Crystalis - Mesia hack, Sky Tower Exit & Screen Shake fix
Double Dragon 2-Player
Double Dragon II Final Boss Edition
Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari - Girl Version
Ducktales 2 - 2-Player hack ft. Darkwing Duck
Evil Dead - Zelda 2 hack
Extra Mario Bros.
Final Fantasy III - 2-Player hack
Junkoid
Kirby's Halloween Adventure
Legend of Link
Legend of Super Mario
Little Nemo - A Wonderful Wand Edition
LOL, a Sprite Hack
Mario Adventure
Mario Adventure 3
Mario Fantasy Adventure - Final Fantasy hack
Mario's Moon Adventure
Mario in Some Usual Day
Megaman in the Mushroom Kingdom
Metroid - Dark Alliance
Metroid - Rogue Dawn
My Little Pony - Dr. Discord's Conquest
Nintendo vs Capcom
Peach & Daisy in the Ultimate Quest
P.O.W. - 2 Player hack
Present Panic- A Princess Adventure
Rambo - hack of P.O.W.
Rockman 3 - Last of Mushroom Kingdom
Roll-Chan 1-6 & Tokyo Olympics
Royal Flush - Princess Sidestory
Shatterhand - 2 Player hack
Shinobi - Arcade Version
Snake's Revenge - Military Stencil font hack
Super Mario Bros. - 2 Player simultaneous co-op hack
Super Mario Bros. 3+
Super Mario Bros. 3mix
Superman - hack of Sunman prototype
The Terminator - Journey to Silius restoraton
The All-New Punch-Out!
Ultima - A New Exodus
Ultima - Exodus Remastered
United Mario Bros
Zelda II - 2-Player
Zelda II - Amida's Curse

SNES:
8-Bit Mario World - Desert Land
Actraiser II - Play intro hack
Alien 3 - Assembly Cut
Brutal Mario
Chrono Trigger+
Chrono Trigger - Crimson Echoes
Chrono Trigger - Prophet's Guile
Conker's High Rule Tail
Donkey Kong Country 2 - Unveiled
FF4 - Celes x Terra
FF4 - Job System
FF4 - The Darkness Within
FF4 - Ultima
FF4 - Unprecedented Crisis
FF5 - 3 Slots Hack
FF5r
FF6 - Return of the Dark Sorcerer
FF6 - T-Edition
FF6 - The Lion Armlet
Goof Troop - Space Treasure
Hyper Metroid
Illusion of Gaia - Apocalypse Gaia
Kaizo Mario World
Legend of Zelda - Parallel Worlds
Link to the Past - Ancient stone Tablets dash hack
Link to the Past - BS-X Mascot hack
Lufia Restoration hack
Lufia II Restoration hack
Mario & Friends - Ghost's Galley, Volcanic Panic
Megaman 7 Restoration & Refit hack
Megaman Bass - Megaman 7 hack
Megaman X3 - Zero Project
Megaman Xmix
Merry Mountain Christmas Adventure - Mario hack
Mortal Kombat - blood fix hack
My QLDC Level - Mario world hack
Rockman 7 - EP
Rockman X3 - Tsuraranoma
Secret of Evermore A Button Swap & 2-Player hack
Secret of Mana - Climate Crisis
Seiken Densetsu 3 - 3-Player hack
Star Fox EX
Super Ghouls'n Ghosts - Maiden hack
Super Junkoid
Super Luigi RPG - Star Powered
Super Mario RPG - Armageddon
Super Mario RPG - Legend of the Axem Rangers
Super Mario World- Simultaneous 2-Player hack
Super Metroid - Ancient Chozo
Super Metroid - Ascent
Super Metroid - Darkholme Hospital
Super Metroid - Phazon
The Firemen - NTSC patch
Terranigma - NTSC patch
Toadette's Kaizo Tuesday

Sega Genesis:
Aladdin - Final Cut
Landstalker - Control & Restoration patches
Megaman - The Sequel Wars
Mortal Kombat Revelations
Shadowrun - Female MC patch
Sonic 1 Megamix
Sonic 1 as; Sally Acorn, Bunnie Rabbot, & Amy Rose
Sonic 2 as; Sally Acorn, Bunnie Rabbot, & Amy Rose
Sonic 3 as; Sally Acorn & Amy Rose
Ultimate Mortal Kombat Trilogy
by the way i did find another Sonic 2 with Sally in it, but it's Sonic and Sally together!
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Zelda OoT Master Quest felt somehow like a hack more then a full blown Big N release.....A fuckin awesome one though.I like the Castlevania GBA Games Hacks alot.
 
Zelda OoT Master Quest felt somehow like a hack more then a full blown Big N release.....A fuckin awesome one though.I like the Castlevania GBA Games Hacks alot.
Super Mario Bros 2 (J) is also k8nd of an official ROMhack of sorts 😂
 
There are thousands out there, but beyond the usual color edits, text edits, difficulty changes, uncensoring, etc, what are some hacks that blew you away?

TMNT Shredder's Re-revenge on the MD. More than just another lazy SoR2 palette switch. The music, and enemies all have been redone as well to fit into the turtle universe. And those pixels are high quality as well.

MD+ Moonwalker. Seeing 16-bit Jackson flip that coin into the jukebox, and the real studio version of Smooth Criminal with vocals starting up was cool as shit.

And the most recent DBZ BT3 hack with Crossover Legends. Crazy work with all those characters.
Honestly, Pokemon Clover. Like think about it. A bunch of goobers on 4chan have worked on that game for YEARS. A bunch of anonymous people just combined their powers to make a needlessly long and elaborate shitpost that still totally works as a Pokemon game. And that one is an actual romhack, unlike Sage (which I wish they'd finish).
 
As someone who dropped Pokemon when it went into the Switch, playing Pokemon Radical Red was a real eye opener.
Gotta second the Radical Red love here. I like the new pokemon games but I don't like playing them (I like the mon designs, I don't like the bugs and glitches coupled with Nintendo trying to milk me of subscription money) and RR is a great way to play with those mons without putting up with 5fps gamespeed or textures refusing to work.

Plus so many quality of life features added, even with the harder overall difficulty the QoL updates make the game experience so much more enjoyable. Grinding is easier with the PokeVial, being able to swap night and day to catch mons without fussing with system clocks, letting Slacking use Slack Off on Truant turns makes him actually viable, pokecenters let you change natures at will so no catching 50 of a mon just to get 1 with Adamant on it, the Link Cable item is an evolutionary stone for mons that evolve by trade ripped straight from Legends Arceus. It's worth some hair pulling trainer fights and gym battles
 

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