What are your favorite romhacks?

[MasterEn]

i'd say pikmin 1 squared and bikmin 269 are a couple of my favorites to play.

 

[Deleted member 7989]

Sonic Megamix and those Wario Land colorization mods. Idk if I can call them romhacks since they're more of a modded total conversion but Sindacco Chronicles and Forelli Redemption are really cool.

 

[RetroSTG]

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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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I want to play metroid planets but the links are down.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

The Illusion of Gaia randomizer(fun way to replay a childhood favorite) .
Pokemon Crystal clear(This thing looks like black magic to me).

 

[ChuwCroissantier]

The old classic... super kitiku world, a legendary romhack among romhack community, custom bosses and levels... it's all perfect! still other romhacks i love is the Megaman & Bass switching characters, game is more enjoyable like that and the disc are way more fun to obtain

 

[Bobmeboi]

i dont know if any one put this, but CTGP for Wii, ds and, 3ds are my favs

 

[ZEGA ZONICZEGA ZONIC's icon]

Akumajou Remilia (Touhou Castlevania) & Mega Mari for the NES.

 

[Bakuma1997]

i dont know if any one put this, but CTGP for Wii, ds and, 3ds are my favs

Want to play the Wii one, but if you mess the littlest thing your Wii becomes a neat looking paperweight

 

[Bobmeboi]

Want to play the Wii one, but if you mess the littlest thing your Wii becomes a neat looking paperweight

well I modded my Wii so I don't know what to say about that one

 

[The Missing Link]

This thread just gave me a ton of games to try!

 

[hembruh]

i wish CrystalClear's devs weren't such jerks. it's unfair to build a project entirely on open source code, and refuse to share any of your own findings. CC has things like follow pokemon that people have wanted for a long time, but the hackers refuse to share any of their findings. this community thrives on sharing with each other. hoarding information is just wrong.

I've never really looked into it and can't speak on them but that explains a lot. I think CC is awesome, but that said for me personally I've wanted a definitive to me Gen 2 experience that adds a lot of that stuff but is the original game not open world. similar to a lot of the added feature and QoL updates of Gen 1 that have come out in the last few years, and could not for the life of me figure out why a version of crystal with a lot of CC features like following pokemon, the improved dex, character customization, etc existed in a version of the base game with all 251 obtainable and with Stadium 2 support. I was thinking a few months ago I would teach myself how to do it and make it if I could find any information on combining that shit. I'm a gen 1/2 guy and the perfect version of them for me to replay doesn't quite exist yet but there are multiple hacks that have parts of them and I just wish I could pick and choose and make the version for me. that said there are a lot of of them I adore individually. and don't get me wrong, I love Crystal Clear too, I just wish there was an alternative for when I'm more in the mood for the original game that had all the cool stuff they put into it I always wanted.

Sometimes having the most simple QoL things are some of the best hacks. Ones that get the feeling of playing the original.

The Metroid Plus saving rom hack is awesome. I do wish the unofficial update didn't have the mini-map on the main screen as it gets in the way of items and enemies sometimes.

Legend of Zelda and Adventure of Link Redux patches are amazing. You can even mix and match what things you want added to them (I prefer original sprites).

The Castlevania II Translation Plus Map patch is great. Even adds a save feature.

Double EXP/ Gold on Dragon Warrior NES makes those games a lot less tedious.

my personal favorite hacks all tend to be stuff like this or hacks that uncensor while adding QoL that also don't change it altogether THAT much from the original english versions we got, things like the Ted Woosley Uncensored Edition, MaternalBound Redux, things like that. I'm also a big fan of some of the GB colorization hacks, the Mega Man ones are fantastic and the QoL updates are sick. I'm hoping someone adds a Map to Metroid II one of these days.

It's crazy how far romhacking has come since I discovered hacks years ago. it used to be just weird shit like Pokemon Cock version where it was just ridiculous vulgar dialogue or Mario, but hard as shit. and now there are full fledged sequels to classics out there or original games using an old engine that have level design rivaling official products.

 

[trickybus]

I'm only now dipping my toes into mods, so I've started with something simple: an HD texture overhaul for Pandora's Tower, which can be accessed here.* It's been mind-blowing to see how much visual improvement a texture pack can grant. As much of a fan as I am, Pandora's Tower debuted on the Wii, so the graphics are...not great. The textures were considered ugly even back in 2013 ?

This got me wondering about other folks' experience with emulation mods. Which ones do you love? How has it affected your gaming experience? Feel free to flex your favorites, include links, screenshots, etc.
*Unfortunately, all the image links for the before/after screenshots are broken

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Sindacco Chronicles, for sure! It’s practically a full blown game!

 

[MasterEn]

many of the pikmin 2 mods are pretty good. brawl has a decent amount of them too. and dissidia has some good costume mods too. breath of the wild has some mods that striaght up change the whole game, adding in other mechanics from other games or vastly improving the basic stuff already in the game. and there's plenty more out there too.

 

[Cu-Neo]

Not an emulation but, The tale of two Wastelands for Fallout New Vegas: basically you can begin in fallout 3 and then go to the mojave as the same character and viceversa, the best thing is that adds a lot of perks of new vegas to 3 and is a really fun mod, hard to install but really fun at the end.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Auto dash boots Castlevania games. I own a Mac so my arrow keys are tiny. Can't consistently press a direction twice in a row

 

[Ikagura]

SA-1 hacks for SNES games?

 

[trickybus]

SA-1 hacks for SNES games?

Got any specific ones in mind?

 

[fake-chan]

Mega Man 4 Voyage.

 

[Ikagura]

Got any specific ones in mind?

Gradius III.

 

[trickybus]

Mega Man 4 Voyage.

The description for that one sounds amazing!

 

[jankusanagi jankusanagi]

Probably RE: Unicorn Cut, RE2 modified with FF8 characters. It's mostly done to play the "EX Battle" mode, but you can just play the Leon part of the story, but being Squall and with "interesting" weaponry

 

[Deleted member 1816]

Tactics Ogre: One Vision mod.
I'm never playing the vanilla Tactics Ogre ever again after playing this mod.

 

[nathman]

Either Gran Turismo 4 Spec II or SM64 B3313. Both for different reasons, but they're both fantastic.

For GT4 Spec II, I think it's now the optimal way to experience Gran Turismo 4. It adds so many little and big things that just makes GT4 a much better package than it originally was. B3313 transforms SM64 into an entirely different genre of game that you can just get lost in; it's more akin to LSD Dream Simulator than the original SM64.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

Best mods for me are EmuVR and Helixmod's Geo-11. And I use them similarly to what CitraVR did with 3DS games for Duckstation and PCSX2.