What are your favorite romhacks?

[IrkenElite]

Final Fight CD music into the arcade ROM. Such a banger OST.

 

[Jade_Tyrant]

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Hello! everyone
In this thread, you can share your favorite romhacks (and you can put a link so that others can download the romhacks, but you don't have to).

One of my favorite romhacks is "Shotgun Mario 64"! It's funny to demolish Mario 64 characters

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Unless you count widescreen hacks or english patches to be ROMhacks then I think I would consider Pokemon Crystal Clear or Fire Emblem: The Sun God's Wrath is really good. I earnestly think that Fire Emblem community is the most underrated when it comes to rom hacks.

 

[JulyCoder]

Metroid Zero Mission has the "Project ZM" hack that I've enjoyed a lot. It's the only way I've beaten the game so far. I love Romhacks that improve a game, but the downside is that RetroAcheivements won't activate for them. Tradeoff!

 

[Strategist]

I've tried a lot of fun romhacks, but my favorites have been the Final Fantasy randomizers. Free Enterprise and Worlds Collide are really fun. And you could spend months trying all of the different Fire Emblem romhacks. My favorite FE romhack I've tried is Iron Emblem, but I do like the randomizers as well.

 

[Shadowruls]

Metroid Zero Mission has the "Project ZM" hack that I've enjoyed a lot. It's the only way I've beaten the game so far. I love Romhacks that improve a game, but the downside is that RetroAcheivements won't activate for them. Tradeoff!

Some romhacks actually have their own dedicated achievements (only learned this like last week). But I do agree, when a game is recoloring, bugfixing, an undub, or adding a much needed feature, it really should still count as the same game

 

[deceptionfalls]

Pokemon Blaze Black & Volt White are so so good, they genuinely enhance one of the weaker aspects of pokemon which is the difficulty, plus add back again mons from older gens, and other small tweaks on top of Black and White which are already 10/10 games for me and bam, you got yourself the perfect pokemon game of all time. Huge shoutouts to Drayano for making some of the best pokemon hacks ever.

 

[Olimar_Retro]

Recently I've been speed running pikmin regrown, it's a different take on pikmin 2 and restores lost content back into the game, another title that I tried was grandia redux, I haven't got far into it but I do want to complete it again with the challenge, should be a bit of fun

 

[adriankarasu]

Wario Land 4: Parallel World
New Super Mario World 2: Around The World
Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 Color Edition
Super Mario Land DX
Super Mario Land 2 DX
Pokemon Unbound

I discovered the first ones by chance, and they seemed like the perfect excuse to play them again.

In the case of SM Around the World and Wario Land Parallel World, quite a few elements are changed; it’s not just a graphical upgrade. However, speaking of that, the graphical improvements are really well done.

And finally, Pokémon Unbound—it includes all available Pokémon and mega evolutions. It’s a very detailed hack.

(As for the Wario Land games, I’m not objective; it’s my favorite series.)

 

[RageBurner]

Nothing specific comes to mind, but speaking broadly I like hacks that fix bugs and or correct serious game flaws.
Front Mission DS has horrible loading times and I posted a request on RHDN for someone to fix it, and the person actually did!

Sadly they never got to officially post the hack before the submission system was frozen, and I've been unable to reach them to even say thanks.

 

[fake-kun]

Mega Man 4 Voyage.

From all the Mega Man romhacks I've tried out, this is the only one that felt like it could be an official game.

 

[PhrawzT]

Mega Man 4 Voyage.
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From all the Mega Man romhacks I've tried out, this is the only one that felt like it could be an official game.

I'll have to check that one out. I did enjoy Mega Man 4 as a kid.

 

[Ikagura]

I'm quite a simple man about hacks: I love direct improvements over vanilla (without going overboard with the original intent from the dev unless it's a hack that tries to make it like a totally new game inside the engine).

Sonic 3 Complete (despite AIR existing I find it convenient when you have machines that can only emulate the Genesis or just want to boot up the emulator instead of a program).

Sonic Classic Heroes (which basically replaces Sonic 1 and 2 as you could still play as a solo character in this).

Sonic 3D Blast DX (which fixes basically almost every issues regarding the original game, wish there was a secret "No Flickies" option or as a post game bonus).

The fan made DX romhacks for Gameboy games like with Kirby's Dream Land 1&2, Mario Land 1&2 and even Wario Land 1 (especially the first Mario Land for adding Luigi and Hard Mode being toggle-able from the main menu).

I would also add official widescreen support for 3D games from the 4:3 era (I recently played F-zero X in wide-screen and it felt like a new experience) if you count them as romhacks.

 

[Darklink]

Celeste Mario's Zap & Dash is easily my favorite romhack. It functionally turned Super Mario Bros. 1 into a brand new game. Mario paint, Celeste gameplay, and an almost Metroidvania-esque map.

Easily the coolest thing someone has done on the NES imo.

 

[Dyne]

Final Fantasy VI Brave New World

For me it really perfects all the flaws in an otherwise flawed masterpiece.
I love how each character has different builds and its all fairly balanced and decently challenging without being an annoying ultra hardmode

 

[Karnik]

Without a doubt, Fire Emblem Hacks: too numerous to list. To name a few, Vision Quest, Elibean Nights, Black Knights Code, Soul of Forest, and Andaron Saga. Many more can be found on FEUniverse.

 

[_IamHanik]

Currently it is emerald seaglass I have been playing for almost a month and it is a damn wonder ♥, and well it is not a hack roms as such, but pokémon añil is a perfect fangame

 

[SaebaSan86]

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Hello! everyone
In this thread, you can share your favorite romhacks (and you can put a link so that others can download the romhacks, but you don't have to).

One of my favorite romhacks is "Shotgun Mario 64"! It's funny to demolish Mario 64 characters

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Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity (Translation hack)
Pokemon Hacks (those are awesome)
Translated Visual Novels and Interactive Movies (I wish there was more of these, specially for older consoles)
Translated RPGs

 

[itsameamerica]

Favorite? Probably Chrono Trigger+, or Final Fantasy VI T-Edition.
I am currently playing the Whirlwind randomizer for Final Fantasy V, and it is a lot of fun.

 

[Castilho]

Man, I love anything that makes it worth playing the game again, especially story-wise. Either major improvements or complete rom-hacks. Some come to mind:

Breath of Fire II Maeson with the retranslation
Final Fantasy 6 - Brave New World
Final Fantasy 6 - Return of the Dark Sorcerer
Chrono Trigger+
Chrono Trigger Flames of Eternity
Final Fantasy 5 Pixel Freemaster
Frue Lufia

And not a romhack, but the Final Fantasy 8 Succession mod is a recent one I just have to include. Square should hire the guy to fix the next ff8 resomething. What an enjoyable experience.

 

[Ikagura]

Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity (Translation hack)
Pokemon Hacks (those are awesome)
Translated Visual Novels and Interactive Movies (I wish there was more of these, specially for older consoles)
Translated RPGs

I am so glad Portable 2 Infinity got translated.

 

[SaebaSan86]

I am so glad Portable 2 Infinity got translated.

Me too. This game is one of the best PSP games

 

[Darklink]

Oh I've just thought of my other favorite rom hack.

Paper Mario Black Pit. A really fun transformation of Paper Mario into a roguelite. Complete with meta progression and achievements.

 

[Cu-Neo]

The Roll-chan hacks

Also A link to the past Redux, Chrono trigger Schala edition, FF VI T edition, FF IV: Daughter of darkness and light and Earthbound girl Ness (T version)

 

[Ikagura]

Me too. This game is one of the best PSP games

Legit one of the best Phantasy Star games besides the Classics and the Online series.

I dare saying Portable 2 is better than what Universe and its sequels had to offer.

I managed to complete Infinity's Episode 2 thanks to a PDF that translated every dialogues and told how to get the best rank for the missions but it's not very convenient compared to a proper translation.

 

[Dyne]

Man, I love anything that makes it worth playing the game again, especially story-wise. Either major improvements or complete rom-hacks. Some come to mind:

Breath of Fire II Maeson with the retranslation
Final Fantasy 6 - Brave New World
Final Fantasy 6 - Return of the Dark Sorcerer
Chrono Trigger+
Chrono Trigger Flames of Eternity
Final Fantasy 5 Pixel Freemaster
Frue Lufia

And not a romhack, but the Final Fantasy 8 Succession mod is a recent one I just have to include. Square should hire the guy to fix the next ff8 resomething. What an enjoyable experience.

This is a great list!