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/rhg/ - ROM Hacking General #2 Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv Fri Feb 20 05:13:42 2015 No.2245051 [Reply] [Original]

Here's some points of discussion:

1.) Project showoffs
2.) Hacking help
3.) ROM hack recommendations

Our ROM hack recommendation list can be found below:

http://pastebin.com/pYxhe4L7

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 05:47:41 2015 No.2245078
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Been working on a Super Metroid "sprite editor"
It's a work in progress, but here's a GIF of the tool's precursor - Super Metroid sprite visualiser. It's all of Torizo's sprites visualised.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 12:10:06 2015 No.2245476 >>2245078 I tell you what, I look forward to monitoring your progress.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 22:03:56 2015 No.2246507 bump

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 10:55:00 2015 No.2247526 http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=10515

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 11:00:45 2015 No.2247536 File: 449 KB, 531x664, shining force 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] So what is /vr/'s opinion on the shining force romhacks? Never seen them mentioned http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1736/

Anonymous Sat Feb 21 14:00:33 2015 No.2247776

>>2247526
>http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=10515

>When Mario defeated Bowser and his great Alliance,his enemies become disapeared for a long time,but while our Hero are on Vacation,they planned takeover Rosalina's Observatory and use the power of Power Stars to travel through the Space for search for the lost fragment of the old Magical Crystals,Mario must collect the legendary Shiny Stars to break the Power of stars and rescue Rosalina.

Jesus christ, why does he have to crowbar a stupid story in there? It's a game about jumping on bloody platforms.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 14:01:34 2015 No.2247779 >>2247776 >use the power of Power Stars to travel through the Space for search for the lost fragment of the old Magical Crystals,Mario must collect the legendary Shiny Stars to break the Power of stars and rescue Rosalina. wat

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 14:29:55 2015 No.2247818 >>2247536 I'm almost positive that I played this. If I remember, it ends up being unplayable after a certain spot. Some of the items don't work proper. Solid, but I would have liked to finish.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 14:31:46 2015 No.2247825 >>2247818 When was the last time you played it? This version came out a year ago so I just wondering if you played it after that. Just want to know if the gameplay tweaks and new classes are worth it

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 14:37:04 2015 No.2247838 DKC romhacks when

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 14:41:54 2015 No.2247852 >>2247838 there's a few but they're all kaizo hacks

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 14:52:27 2015 No.2247881 >>2247825 last year or 2013 Give it a shot anyway.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 21 15:00:14 2015 No.2247895 >>2247838 Soon. Shame the guy who's coding the editor is a massive dick. One of the most competent, knowledgeable and smart guys I've had the pleasure of knowing.... but jesus, what an asshole.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 13:56:00 2015 No.2249906 >There are people on /vr/ who haven't played Rockman 4 Minus Infinity yet.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 22 15:06:29 2015 No.2250073 >>2249906 How do I git gud enough to get to the secret shadowman boss/100% it. Shit's already tough enough as it is

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 02:47:26 2015 No.2251405 File: 2.95 MB, 300x224, ff6beyondchaos.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] FF6 Beyond Chaos trailer video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_YNjF6eDL4

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 02:52:58 2015 No.2251415 File: 366 KB, 928x712, 056805486068.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Somebody hack Jackal already! I want spread guns, laser, homing missile on my Jackal. I want contra stuff on my Jackal. They're both made by konami too.

Anonymous Mon Feb 23 05:12:22 2015 No.2251527
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Found an obscure, never uploaded before hack for LttP that puts the GBA translation into the SNES version, uncensors a bit of the text, changes Agahnim's cloak to red and Link's hair to blonde. It also contains a few new things like turning for the Pegasus Boots. It's pretty much a definitive version of the game like Sonic 3 Complete, but nobody knows about it and it's not on romhacking.net.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrB73Xo5Lis

>>	Razz Mon Feb 23 05:26:11 2015 No.2251542 >>2251527 There's a grammar mistake in that picture.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 05:32:45 2015 No.2251548 >>2251542 It's captured from the video, which was at 1.00 at time of release. It's version 1.2 now and the grammar is fixed.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 05:35:42 2015 No.2251550 The Wily levels in MM4-∞ really disappointed me. The Robot Master stages were a boner and some cents, the Cossack stages were pretty cool, but then you get to the Wily stages and they're just awful. At least Pharaoh Man's stage was amazing

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 05:46:25 2015 No.2251556 Does anyone know of any romhacks for Demon's Crest? I've looked around but found absolutely nothing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 05:50:05 2015 No.2251558 >>2251548 >>2251542 D'oh wait, no it's not fixed. I guess it's not definitive after all. Darn. Maybe he'll update it someday.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 05:52:40 2015 No.2251560 >>2251405 >LOL we swapped the sprites >So random! >Ex-dee Keep us updated on that, buddy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 11:37:37 2015 No.2251803 >>2251560 It's a customizable randomizer. You can turn off the sprite swap. Lots of people like it, so of course I included it in the trailer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 16:38:20 2015 No.2252256 File: 2 KB, 256x224, shot01.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Once upon a time I was working on this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 16:42:04 2015 No.2252260 >>2252256 Keep at that shit, and make the mad duck a character

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 17:29:38 2015 No.2252298 >>2251527 Why would they change his robes from green to red in that screenshot? That's the king's corpse, not Agahnim.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 17:38:59 2015 No.2252312 >>2252298 The king's robes and Agahnim's robes use the same palette, so his robes changed to red too. Besides, red is a more royal color than green. Both the king in Zelda 2 and the king in Wind Waker had red robes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 18:13:10 2015 No.2252362 >>2252298 >The king's corpse >corpse Did you not play LttP?

Anonymous Mon Feb 23 20:29:15 2015 No.2252632
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Might as well repost this from old thread:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/2v2msuy4zx3nr7w/100sss.smc
In short its my smw hack, feel free to criticize it.

Now with 15% more custom sprites!

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 21:27:48 2015 No.2252756 Hi. I've been a programmer for a year. I want to hack PSOne games because muh childhood. Like, make my own stages for a bunch of 2D platformers, maybe change some functionality? Is it doable /vr/

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 21:33:28 2015 No.2252773 >>2252756 lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 21:37:04 2015 No.2252791 >>2252756 It's not. CD games are encoded completely differently from cartridge-based systems and PC games. You can't just open a hex editor for that shit. If you want to hack a PS1 game, the most you can do is change the text and maybe fix some bugs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 21:38:41 2015 No.2252794 >>2252791 One can't extract the data from the CD, alter it in some form, and rebuild the disc?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 21:40:14 2015 No.2252804 >>2252794 No. If it were that simple games wouldn't have taken years to produce.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 21:40:46 2015 No.2252805 >>2252804 Can you go into more detail

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 23 21:43:10 2015 No.2252809 >>2252362 Did you? Agahnim kills the king before the game starts. The intro outright says he eliminated the good king. Look at that sprite, even. It's a skeleton wearing robes and a crown.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 03:21:30 2015 No.2253284 >>2251556 I don't think you'll ever find one m8. That game is too beautiful to be hacked.

Anonymous Tue Feb 24 04:08:05 2015 No.2253325

>>2252791
>>2252804
You're entirely wrong.
you can definitely do both, just edit the iso in a hex editor OR rebuild the disc.
sources:
1) just try it out. Any hex editor will do.
2) http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/848/ , more specifically http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,18204.msg262145.html

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 17:02:49 2015 No.2254319 >>2247838 >>2247852 There is one "proper" DKC hack called Kremling's Revenge: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/893/

Anonymous Tue Feb 24 18:19:17 2015 No.2254486

>>2253325
Yeah, I kept wondering why I could somehow "fix bugs" but not reprogram the game, and how I could "change the text" but not the stages. I assumed there was something about the disc

I'm assuming that since we have a well-understood disc format, we also have a file system (hopefully the ISO one)? And because of that, game data is more segregated, yes? As in, there will be different files for different data? For example, one file per audio file?

Is there a consistent organization when it comes to game data, or does every developer do their own thing? Are franchises expected to follow the same organization

Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:52:52 2015 No.2254671

>>2254486
Your hunches as basically right. There's some trends but not everyone follows the same conventions, but games by the same developer will generally follow the same format.

Even if you look at the disk's file system it's usually a crapshoot because a lot of data is stored in gigantic files rather than being neatly organized. But the worst part of hacking disc-based games is probably figuring out what kind of compression scheme they're using and all of the bullshit that comes with that.

Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:55:54 2015 No.2254681

>>2254671
>But the worst part of hacking disc-based games is probably figuring out what kind of compression scheme they're using and all of the bullshit that comes with that.

Yeah, that sounds really annoying. Hopefully Capcom games have already been figured out and I can at least touch the game data itself without wasting time on things that don't matter

Time to read PSX assembly docs

Anonymous Tue Feb 24 21:31:52 2015 No.2254876

>>2250073
Well for Shadowman they nerfed the requirements, you just have to beat the game without dying, it's not something you need a TAS for anymore.

I still haven't 100%ed it. I came close. I hit every requirement except I was TWO MINUTES off from having a perfect time score. You just need to play the game enough to memorize most of the levels so you can speed through them, especially Wily 3.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 02:04:14 2015 No.2255357 >>2254671 There's 700 MB of space in there. Devs rarely compressed anything. Of all the PSX games I have hacked, not a SINGLE ONE has used any compression for the graphics.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 02:09:52 2015 No.2255362 >>2255357 Compression is extremely common, what are you talking about? I've only ever come across two ps1 games without any compression in sound, graphics, or script. You are high.

Anonymous Wed Feb 25 04:21:31 2015 No.2255548

>>2255362
I demand examples. Klonoa, Tombi!, Crash Bandicoot, Umihara Kawase Shun, Mega Man 8 to name a few. Open that shit in GGD and the graphics are right fucking there.
I mean, why the fuck _would_ they compress? There might be some unknown encoding in there but usually it's not that hard to figure out. Compression, though - not so much.

Unless you think compression is the same as encoding.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 16:05:35 2015 No.2256481 >>2255548 >Mega Man 8 Why, that's one of the Capcom games I had in mind when I started talking about PS1 hacking. I'm also interested in X4, X5 and X6. Can you please share your knowledge?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 16:19:33 2015 No.2256502 >>2256481 Don't have any notes near but I'm certain that ./STDATA/ contains all the sprites as PAC files. PLAYER.PAC is contains Mega Man's and Rush's sprites and palettes

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 16:21:04 2015 No.2256505 >>2256502 I see. Have you explored stage data or game code?

Anonymous Wed Feb 25 16:32:55 2015 No.2256524
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Projects? Working on stupid stuff like that for C1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c5R8kmAAE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL2g9ETEyLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRAbct4S0-w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFZIBPXVqsI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkU6c88fh2E

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 16:35:31 2015 No.2256530 >>2256524 Mleh ignore me, read project showoffs, didn't get the ROM-specific theme.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 16:56:12 2015 No.2256559 >>2256505 I'm pretty sure I had some notes on the level data on my old hd. I'll check it out as soon as I can. Also, I remember Mickey's wild adventure having a very simple level format

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 16:57:44 2015 No.2256564 >>2256559 If you can find it, it would be very awesome!! If there's anything on Mickey as well, I'd be delighted

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 17:20:05 2015 No.2256605 >>2256530 It's ok. At least you were close.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 17:56:13 2015 No.2256652 >>2256564 Get Mickey's Wild Adventure and unpack the files and try to crack them yourself. could be a fun exercise

>>	Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv Thu Feb 26 14:23:36 2015 No.2258284 >>2256524 >>2256530 Don't worry, it's OK to talk about PC-based mods. It's not like there's a dedicated thread for that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 01:44:58 2015 No.2259338 File: 605 KB, 256x192, 1336603437042.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw learning the SNES's assembly language to try and find where Hourai High's random encounter trigger happens

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 01:56:58 2015 No.2259348 >>2259338 >C++.gif

NESfag Fri Feb 27 09:25:10 2015 No.2259745
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I started a MM5 levelhack years ago. I admit i know nothing and just used an editor, megaflex, which is a pretty good editor.

The idea is that i think MM5 is the worst MM on NES. The level design is terrible, flat and too easy. But I think it has potential and a lot more could be done with the assets of the game, that they could have done much more than what they did.

After making 10 stages I've lost all motivation for it though, even though not much is left to be done. I have little free time these days and when I have I'm usually too tired from work to be creative, and if then I've focused my creativity on making maps for another game instead; but I hope I can finish it someday.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 12:29:57 2015 No.2259892 >>2247536 I've played quite a few SF2 romhacks and they're pretty great

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 14:44:26 2015 No.2260050 >>2259745 That's neat, would you mind sharing more?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 14:57:44 2015 No.2260059 >>2245051 How did early ROM hackers figure out all this stuff without documentation?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 27 15:03:12 2015 No.2260070 >>2260059 Trial and error. And dumping memory.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 12:20:36 2015 No.2261703 http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=10963 Heads up, the full version of Kola Kingdom Quest just got released.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 22:15:48 2015 No.2262542 Crossposting this from the translation thread: http://lparchive.org/Policenauts/Update%2042/ It's one of the best treatments of ROM hacking I've ever read. Lots of things were cleared up. Is there more?

Anonymous Sat Feb 28 22:37:13 2015 No.2262598 [DELETED]

>>2262542
>that complete freak out about being able to grope women in the game, implied to be a young adult
Holy fuck I hate slowbeef. He always was a SJW. Do you realize that if people weren't there to tell him "it's not a big deal" the romhack may have never happened?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 22:38:55 2015 No.2262605 >>2262598 Yes but that's not the point. He explains lots of stuff in the article.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 22:39:52 2015 No.2262609 >>2262605 Yeah I'm just criticizing the article itself. Sorry for being off-topic.

Anonymous Sat Feb 28 22:42:13 2015 No.2262618 [DELETED]

>>2262598
i watched his let's play, he literally starts screaming in a high pitched voice about the mc having the option to hit on a teenage girl and omg japan that is so creepy

then the mentioned scene comes up and it's obviously played for comedy and the game even PUNISHES you for trying to hit on the girl by locking you out of the mansion for a couple minutes. for fuck sake
ill try to find the scene on youtube

Anonymous Sat Feb 28 22:44:27 2015 No.2262623 [DELETED]

>>2262618
You think that's bad, you haven't seen his Touhou videos and the comments on them. It screams insecurity. We ain't here to talk about this stuff though.

By the way I beat Minus Infinity again, is it normal that I beat that hack way more often than vanilla MM4?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 22:47:51 2015 No.2262630 >>2262623 anyway, scene comes up at 15:00 minute mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39vk4q8nLXE the game goes out of its way to show you hitting on her is a bad idea

Anonymous Sat Feb 28 22:51:30 2015 No.2262645

>>2262623
I like the way they designed the last level on minus infinity, there's some sort of reverse shmup rank system going on, the more you die the easier the autoscrolling session gets
but your grading score at the end of the game will also decrease

Anonymous Sat Feb 28 22:53:09 2015 No.2262646 [DELETED]

>>2262630
Well what can I say, that's goons for you. He tends to go out of his way to claim Snatcher isn't a VN either because liking a VN is too embarassing or some shit.

>>2262645
Wow, does it? That's some very good programming if it's true. I liked all the shmup references in Minus Infinity in general. Like the Gradius III cube rush showing up on Dust Man's stage.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 1 02:31:20 2015 No.2263051 Report and ignore.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 1 08:23:34 2015 No.2263421 >>2262645 Is that the hack with Zero in it?

>>	NESfag Sun Mar 1 08:32:29 2015 No.2263428 >>2260050 Sorry I'd rather not until it's finished. Problem is I can't say when that will be. BTW any great MM romhack came out recently?

Anonymous Sun Mar 1 14:11:18 2015 No.2263741
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I've been playing a shit ton of the Final Fantasy V: Ancient Cave rom hack. I'm sure you've all heard of it but it's a pretty awesome romhack that turns FF5 into a roguelike where you go down 100 random floors with randomly generated loot. The English patch for it is pretty great too.

Also, the custom classes romhack for the GBA release is pretty good too. You get all the jobs earlier and balances them all pretty well. It even lets you set 3 abilities to your characters instead of the usual 2. You can have a white mage that doesn't attack but can use black magic, summons and lance all at once.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 2 10:07:54 2015 No.2265503 Where can I find Pokemon Red Twitch Plays Pokemon Version?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 13:18:44 2015 No.2267512 Bump.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 14:19:27 2015 No.2267596 >>2251542 There isn't. It would sound better if it said "as if", but it isn't actually incorrect.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 14:20:29 2015 No.2267601 >>2252256 Looks pretty cool.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 3 17:51:13 2015 No.2267950 >>2252256 I would play this every day

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 4 17:24:38 2015 No.2270164 >>2263741 >The English patch for it is pretty great too There's an English patch? Nice, I didn't know that.

Anonymous Wed Mar 4 17:33:07 2015 No.2270171

I've been playing this a lot lately (first romhack in a while), it's pretty well done, my only complain would be that the levels are bullshitting long, it's challenging, but not kaizo challenging.
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=6304

Any good recs.?

Anonymous Wed Mar 4 17:57:04 2015 No.2270186

I'm interested in rom hacking as a means of doing translation patches. However, I don't know anything about how rom hacking works. Is it reasonable to assume that I could start with something like a graphics hack and work my way into making translation hacks happen? I'm willing to learn, but I have no idea how you get the knowledge to do things.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 4 18:14:51 2015 No.2270205 >>2270186 http://www.romhacking.net/start/

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 5 05:45:43 2015 No.2271346 I've posted this before... since I have 0 knowledge of how to do anything involving any of this... what would it cost someone to get a romhack made? Specifically I just want some new/harder levels for Super Conflict.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 5 10:50:56 2015 No.2271692 >>2271346 Romhacking only really works as a passion project. For the amount of time I'd have to invest, you'd have to pay me like $500 even for small hacks.

Anonymous Fri Mar 6 02:02:18 2015 No.2273337

>>2271346
The SonicCD hack to add the spindash to the game was a $100 bounty. After about 8 years, Taxman took his engine to SEGA and subsequently made the remake of SonicCD and then later the Sonic 1 and 2 Remakes on mobile.

So... roughly $100 to tempt someone to attempt, and about $60k/year after.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 02:15:29 2015 No.2273352 >>2271346 Money bounties are rarely involved in the ROM hacking scene and are generally frowned upon. Even in cases like >>2271692 someone would definitely do it for free.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 02:19:42 2015 No.2273357 meh why is it that whenever someone describes the romhacking process this shit always sounds painful

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 02:27:19 2015 No.2273363 >>2273357 Because it's unlikely that you've ever used the tools or heard the terminology. But just like riding a bike, once you get the basics down it's not that hard.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 02:37:50 2015 No.2273375 >>2273363 >most projects take about 10,000 years to complete sure

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 04:23:25 2015 No.2273471 >>2273375 The problem isn't the lack of knowledge, but lack of motivation, time or other factors. Extreme example - Gideon Zhi. We can all agree that although he's a douche and takes forever, he is still a skilled hacker.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 06:01:06 2015 No.2273570 >>2273352 Well I have asked people before but they either aren't interested or want way to much. I don't think what I'm asking for would be super difficult but not knowing literally anything about how it's done is a problem.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 06:08:08 2015 No.2273573 File: 15 KB, 364x152, z3c-logo[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2273471 >mfw it's been over ten years and it's still not done

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 6 06:15:03 2015 No.2273578 >>2273357 no official source, documentation, or tools fans supply some and if you're lucky they'll even work, but unless your target is mario or sonic popular that only gets you so far it's a wild world out there

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 04:16:47 2015 No.2275719 >>2270171 What kind of SMW hacks are you interested in?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 08:13:41 2015 No.2275968 >>2273570 Would anyone who knows mind just taking a look to see if what I am asking for is even hard?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 10:44:24 2015 No.2276102 >>2259338 A random encounter/difficulty hack would turn Hourai High from a 6/10 to a 9/10 in a heartbeat

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 16:59:08 2015 No.2276670 File: 20 KB, 447x335, oh you, anon!.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2252632 open the file >touhou music starts playing world map >boulder dash world map music starts playing

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 18:21:52 2015 No.2276848 So I just had a cool idea for a hack, dunno if it's been done before.. Putting Roc's feather into Link to the Past. Would that even be possible?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 18:43:59 2015 No.2276890 >>2276848 someone did that in zelda1 hack, so its possible, but I guess not easily.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 13:09:20 2015 No.2278352 Bump.

Anonymous Sun Mar 8 16:28:35 2015 No.2278625
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>>2276670
Um ok?

Anyway, in case someone cares heres newer version:
www.mediafire.com/download/79dm5qtd5z0ar21

World-map is now completely changed(webm related) along with many other changes.

Anonymous Sun Mar 8 16:51:23 2015 No.2278658

Anybody try out the Maternalbound patch that restores all the censored text in EarthBound?

https://starmen.net/forum/Community/PKHack/WIP-MaternalBound-Uncensoring-Other-junk-hack

I'm currently without a computer, so I can't ips patch or expand any roms on my phone. If anyone knows where I can find a pre-patched rom, with the title screen and run button patches as well, I'd appreciate it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 16:51:36 2015 No.2278659 I wish there was an easy way to make more levels for this game, since it's got so many elements to it. It's probably the best 2d mario engine, besides the small gba resolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy-9FAwwMvM

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 21:50:13 2015 No.2279097 I can't wait until Shin Megami Tensei If... is complete.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 22:07:42 2015 No.2279110 File: 13 KB, 387x309, 1418677926289.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2278625 What that a sign to warn about the pit?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 22:09:43 2015 No.2279114 File: 13 KB, 387x309, 1418677926289.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2278625 Was that a sign to warn the player about the pit?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 22:14:23 2015 No.2279120 >>2278659 How is there not a ROM hack of Super Mario All Stars to include all the extra content from Super Mario Advance 4?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 22:19:26 2015 No.2279124 >>2279114 There are few cases where you have to jump down in order to progress, and then in some parts theres nothing below(just pitfall, lava or whatever) so I added few of those to avoid blind jumps.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 22:44:33 2015 No.2279142 >>2279124 But the music block and coins are already directing you. That's one of the key points of coins.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 22:47:05 2015 No.2279150 File: 194 KB, 815x542, SNES-SMW-2D-LAND-BIG-Cartridge.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I wish someone would remake Super Mario Land 2 using SMW. I'd kill to have that on an actual cart.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 22:49:08 2015 No.2279154 >>2279120 I don't think you realize just how much they changed in those games. Shit like that would require modifying the source code.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 02:54:53 2015 No.2279457 >>2279150 It has been done, but it was way back in like 2004 so no custom music, enemies or correct screen scrolling. Or bosses.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 03:51:07 2015 No.2279540 >>2279457 So basically everything that made it fun and unique. That's too bad. I wish someone else would pick it up, Mario Land 2 doesn't get enough love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6T9AktYx-4

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 06:38:47 2015 No.2279773 >>2259338 Are you hacking Hourai High or making a tool to make hacking it easier? Either way, good luck, anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 06:52:14 2015 No.2279803 File: 61 KB, 934x382, 860486068.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2276102

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 15:02:10 2015 No.2280365 >>2275968 No one? I would really appreciate it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 9 15:08:50 2015 No.2280373 >>2247895 /vr/-bukowski?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 05:31:59 2015 No.2281524 >>2279150 That sounds like a pretty cool idea, actually. The SMW hacking got so advanced over the years that I think it is possible to fully re-create both SML and SML2.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 10 05:34:50 2015 No.2281528 >>2281524 True. Sml2 scrolling can already be done, rabbit powerup has been done, bubble powerup has been done.. the only thing I can think of causing problems (still doable though) are the bosses, enemies and the gold coin scenes. Minigame hill too.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 08:16:31 2015 No.2283398 >>2245051 Oh hey, I didn't even realize /vr/ had a ROM hacking general. I made this SMW hack if anyone is interested. http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=10342 It's got custom bosses, which I guess is a big deal.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 08:26:20 2015 No.2283408 Did those magnificent bastards who made S3&K Complete ever fix the bug they introduced to the multiplayer zones? It's been in there for several revisions now.....

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 08:29:39 2015 No.2283409 >>2278658 I still can't believe all the extraneous bullshit they added to Mother 25th Anniversary. Why couldn't someone just stick with stuffing in Tomato's script while adding a few of the gameplay conveniences from Mother 1+2 and call it a day?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 11 08:32:12 2015 No.2283412 >>2273471 I don't know why he even bothered releasing that shitty Tactics Ogre SFC hack. It's buggy as all hell and he just shoved that hackneyed dogshit out the door anyway.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 16:04:26 2015 No.2285635 Bump.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 16:52:02 2015 No.2285701 >>2252791 >fixing bugs >not editing game code Nigga you what

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 17:05:45 2015 No.2285736 >>2265503 ... What? That's a regular Pokemon Red ROM as I understand it. The fancy chat controls were done outside of the ROM and interacted with the emulator itself.. Maybe I'm confused at what you're asking.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 12 17:30:47 2015 No.2285786 I just want Ganbare Goemon 2 3 and 4 translated And maybe a Mischief Makers hack with new/edited levels I'm gonna go learn japanese AND rom hacking now

>>	Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv Fri Mar 13 10:51:30 2015 No.2286864 >>2283398 It's a fun hack, I hope that it will be finished one day. >>2285736 I checked it, they are playing a ROM hack that lets you catch all 151 Pokemon among other minor things that make the game slightly more managable.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 13 14:04:04 2015 No.2287084 >>2286864 >>It's a fun hack, I hope that it will be finished one day I've put it on indefinite hold, though. Not sure I will pick it up one of these days.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 13:34:59 2015 No.2288685 Bump

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 15 16:12:57 2015 No.2290746 >>2263428 >BTW any great MM romhack came out recently? Have you played these? http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1300/ http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2300/

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 13:27:36 2015 No.2292260 >>2261703 The new versions of This hack needs a name and Yoshi's Strange Quest also got released.

>>	Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv Tue Mar 17 08:41:43 2015 No.2293646 >>2292260 Thanks for the reminder. I really should get around to updating the list.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 12:00:36 2015 No.2293804 >>2252791 >>2252804 Lmfao what are mods

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 12:10:18 2015 No.2293817 >>2293804 He didn't know what the hell he was talking about. This is rather well documented at this stage.

Anonymous Wed Mar 18 15:06:26 2015 No.2295797

Any romhacker here? I need some guidance

I'm a very passionate learner, and I've been starting to study japanese. I'm doing alright, and its beem very fun to start to being able to read things I've been exposed all my life mostly because of videogames.

In fact, being able to completely manipulate snes games, and give rom translations to the community, has been a dream for me...

So I wondered, would it be too diffucult to learn to hack roms in a complete way (being able to dissasemble and modify text lenghts and most graphics)? Are there enough resources in the community for anyone with enough interest to be able to learn? I've never programmed anything beyond very very basic java, and I've never done anything on hex beyond swaping text directly. But if there's a clear roadmap to learn what's needed to do ASM hacking, I'd be very interested to turn that into a new hobbie for the next couple of years. Or is it really as difficult to learn as people say, and I have no chance of succeeding without real programming experience?

Anonymous Wed Mar 18 20:37:28 2015 No.2296383

>>2271346
>Specifically I just want some new/harder levels for Super Conflict.
I remember looking into that game, merely interested in mapping the ROM out to post on Data Crystal.

In order to pull off new levels for the game, you would need someone to figure out how the game stores levels. Start making random edits to the non-graphical data until it changes a level, then poke around that area of the ROM. Have fun.

Anonymous Wed Mar 18 20:43:47 2015 No.2296402

>>2295797
>So I wondered, would it be too diffucult to learn to hack roms in a complete way (being able to dissasemble and modify text lenghts and most graphics)?
Um....those aren't really one and the same. Let me explain.

Graphics are one of the easiest parts of ROM hacking since most graphic editing tools out there (Tile Molester and whatnot) can see and modify them easily. Modifying the text length that the game engine will accept is trickier, since that requires that you know enough about the ASM to understand what part of the code is the part of the game engine that handles the text strings, and how to modify it without having to redo pointers.

Unless you are talking about pointer linked text blocks, which is damn easy. Just change the pointer to a nice big blank spot at the end of the ROM(or expand the ROM for more room).

If you really want to get into ROM hacking, I highly recommend you start by messing around with editors, like Lunar Magic or Stake. That way you can start learning about backgrounds/sprite layers, tiles and tilesets, palettes, and all that other important info before you start trying to learn ASM.

Anonymous Thu Mar 19 07:55:12 2015 No.2297213

>>2296402
Thanks for the guidance
Actually, I've played with graphic editing tools before, and I thinm I have some grasp of it. I guess what's bothering me the most is being able to freely add and reduce text space. I don't mean breaking text boxes or adding text beyond them or anywhere at a, I mean adding enough pages of text as needed within the system the game already has. I guess the "add as much text as you want at the end and point to it" is the way to go, but I don't know how to start learning this. Is there any specific documentation you can point me to? I know there's a bunch of stuff collected in romhacking.net but I prefer to ask someone with experience to guide me a bit whenever possible.

I guess editing fonts for japanese to english translations would be a mix of editing font graphics with graphic tools and editing the way they're assigned to different 'letters'. That would pretty much cover what I'd be interested in doing

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 17:52:08 2015 No.2299408 Bump.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 18:04:11 2015 No.2299421 >>2297213 Make sure you get a solid foundation before you start TLs, jp-en translation scene is filled with overconfident people who can't even pass N2.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 18:13:46 2015 No.2299434 >>2252256 Neat.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 18:29:22 2015 No.2299456 >>2278625 Will it work on original hardware? Not expecting anything, but I like playing romhacks on my SNES.

Anonymous Fri Mar 20 19:33:09 2015 No.2299550

>>2299456
It works on higan so there shouldn't be reason why it wouldn't(I don't have snes flash card so I cant test myself, and even then my TV doesn't have any overscan). But depending on your TV, HUD can be cut-off since its on bottom and is 8pixels in height(overscan area in most TV's, apparently).

Also heres latest demo that finally got approved in smwcentral:
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=11022

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 22:42:04 2015 No.2299818 >>2299550 I'll try it out and see what happens. When do you think it'll be done/will it be challenge over fun? 1.5x-2x vanilla SMW difficulty is best imo... It's just hard to find decent romhacks. Anyway. Looks good so far. Keep up the good work.

Anonymous Sat Mar 21 00:44:03 2015 No.2299952

>>2299818
Dunno when its done, but right now Im around halfway done so maybe in few next months, depending how busy Im IRL. For difficulty, it varies but it shouldn't be that hard for normal path, but anything optional/secret will be hard(not savestate/kaizo-tier hard since I dont use any of that shit when Im testing/playing it).

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 21 00:52:15 2015 No.2299961 >>2299952 >but anything optional/secret will be hard(not savestate/kaizo-tier hard since I dont use any of that shit when Im testing/playing it Perfect.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 21 01:22:46 2015 No.2299998 >>2283409 I'm with you. The graphics edit was unnecessary and undesirable.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 21 10:43:56 2015 No.2300490 >MaternalBound finally fixes that long-standing Mother 2 title screen bug. Thank you based jesus. EarthBound got a grand localization, but this just makes it damn well better.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 21 10:51:43 2015 No.2300498 >>2300490 What bug was that?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 21 10:59:10 2015 No.2300503 >>2300498 The game would crash when the original Mother 2 title screen was inserted, and did the full animation. This one's been as old as the Mother 2 screen insertion. Turns out it was just a pointer pointing to shit.

Anonymous Sat Mar 21 13:14:40 2015 No.2300645
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>>2299998

If it were ONLY a graphics edit that would be one thing. But you can quite clearly see they've taken "improving" the game so unnecessarily far that actual area layout is being altered (objects added and removed, routes altered, areas being physically connected where before they were self-contained entities etc.). At that point can you even call it the same fucking game? The worst part is the guy who did it appears to have no ROMhacking skills whatsoever beyond going crazy with the various Mother editors floating around out there.

He just did this to be a fucking attention whore in my opinion.

Anonymous Sat Mar 21 15:53:38 2015 No.2300882

Does anyone know where someone would start say, reverse engineering Megaman Legends to make a source port on PC?

A year ago or so I found a bunch of information online about the file types the game uses. All audio and textures have been found, and the other unknown files can be individually extracted from the file "packages" even if we have no idea what they are.

Likewise, the file structure appears the same between all versions of the game (PS1, PC, PSP, no idea about N64).

I managed to find the screen resolution in the PC exe in a hex editor, but adjusting it didn't adjust the 3d rendering resolution, just the full screen "window" size.

I figure that comparing the files across each version (particularly the "executables" of each version) and cross referencing any known asm codes (not sure if that's the right term) for each system could help to figure out how the PC version works. If it's the same resources across each version, the majority of version differences would be in how the engine interacts with the hardware, right?

Anonymous Sat Mar 21 20:06:15 2015 No.2301250

>>2300882
>reverse engineering Megaman Legends to make a source port on PC?
>Likewise, the file structure appears the same between all versions of the game (PS1, PC, PSP, no idea about N64).

I'm confused anon, why would you be trying to port Megaman Legends to the PC if there already IS a port?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 21 20:12:30 2015 No.2301253 >>2301250 I'm guessing they want to make something that runs better on modern operating systems as well as possibly port it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 22 00:53:27 2015 No.2301660 >>2300882 If it has a PC port, what stops you from decompiling it and rewriting the source code?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 22 01:00:45 2015 No.2301670 >>2301250 Windows 7/8/further compabitility, Macintosh compatibility, Linux compabitility, bug fixes, ability to mod the game - you know, exact same reason why all source ports are made. >I'm just guessing, I'm not him.

Anonymous Sun Mar 22 08:40:29 2015 No.2302062

>>2300645
This. I have no idea what they were thinking, or on that note why the MaternalBound guy decided to chip in with Faithful if he was only going to only change the title screen and one stat.

At least MaternalBound doesn't go nearly that far, it's mostly a text/bugfix sort of hack.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 22 15:54:48 2015 No.2302615 Are homebrewers welcome on the ROM Hacking General?

Anonymous Sun Mar 22 16:34:24 2015 No.2302675

>>2302615
Homebrewers and PC modders. This is kinda catch-all thread in regards to this stuff.

At least, provided it's /vr/ related. Mods of PC games past 2000 probably won't be welcomed, and homebrew will probably only be allowed if it's for a /vr/ console.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 22 16:44:08 2015 No.2302696 >>2302675 Yeah, I'm thinking 80s and 90s - the NES and GBC sound like my two platforms of choice.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 22 16:45:17 2015 No.2302701 I am looking for quality nes, gb, and gba hacks monster party lets go again seems pretty nifty so far

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 22 16:46:22 2015 No.2302703 >>2302696 And, to be brutally honest, my primary issue is that I'm reasonably good at coding, but I'm utterly horrible at the arts. The main reason why I never put out any (often bad) idea I come up with.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 22 17:24:46 2015 No.2302772 File: 802 KB, 500x281, _NO 1367136806813.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw no SotN level editor ever

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 22 18:46:03 2015 No.2302913 >>2302772 I remember seeing a Super Mario Sunshine level editor Never found it again

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 22 22:06:27 2015 No.2303207 >>2302772 Relax anon, the guy is still working on SNEER. We might see a full fledged editor someday.

Anonymous Sun Mar 22 22:13:07 2015 No.2303220

>>2303207
Although I'm just now realizing he hasn't updated it since 2012. Ok, we might not get a level editor then.

Maybe someone can build off of what this guy has done. Though with all the pointer-dependant stuff the guy was talking about, it might be easier just to re-write the whole game.

Anonymous Sun Mar 22 23:10:25 2015 No.2303312

>>2303220
Pretty sure tons of SNES games are pointer dependent and no one had a problem making editors for those. You just slap a ton of space onto the end of the game and repoint some data. Of course with the CD type file structure of PS1 games I'm not sure it's that easy, but someone could always just make an editor for one of the GBA or DS games instead even though that likely wouldn't be as popular as SotN. Really I think HoD had a beautifully bizarre tileset that could be put to very good use, but the game has a stigma around it due to the level design being confusing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 24 11:24:08 2015 No.2305935 >>2302701 Check the Pastebin list in the OP.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 25 06:19:14 2015 No.2307647 Ever play a hack of a game that turns it into a totally different game?

Anonymous Wed Mar 25 06:46:54 2015 No.2307663

>>2307647
someone did a SMW hack that changed evvvvvvverything. Characters, levels, music, bosses, map, etc. The only thing that made it recognizable as a Mario-based game was the physics and the powerups.

>>2303207
Even if we get a SotN level editor, it might take a long time we get anything good out of it.
The more complex the original game is, the harder it is to make a hack out of it, even with proper tools.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 25 09:31:01 2015 No.2307757 File: 27 KB, 446x501, 2zisu8g.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2278625 I was making a compliment about the music you put in the game, I really like it. I just started to play this version, it looks and plays good so far

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 25 10:43:14 2015 No.2307845 >>2307663 Nah there's many people myself included who would jump on it to make a hack

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 25 10:46:36 2015 No.2307848 >>2307845 I understand that, but even so, it requires a thorough plan and you must be ready to face problems. Editors alone do only so much, you still need some hacking knowledge.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 25 10:46:50 2015 No.2307849 >>2307845 I think the point is that community interest doesn't always translate well into a finished product.

Anonymous Wed Mar 25 10:54:40 2015 No.2307863

>>2307848
Since SotN isn't really primarily played for its storyline I don't see why an editor can't make a full hack of everything important. Take Super Metroid or SMW. Of course it needs an editor as full-featured as the editors for those games to allow that to happen and as the years roll by without anyone working on it, the chances of that get more and more slim.

>>2307849
I'd expect to see a lot of shit hacks but at least some good ones as long as the editor is good enough. If the editor is no good (no room size changes or even worse no room location changes) then of course it won't happen. Even if the state triggers and events (all those meetings with Maria, etc) remain the same, one could still make an entertaining alteration of the map to make exploring the game new again.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 26 01:14:44 2015 No.2309202 >>2307663 >>2307663 >someone did a SMW hack that changed evvvvvvverything What's it called?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 26 09:33:21 2015 No.2309808 >>2309202 i can't for the life of me remember but iirc the characters were all moe and animey

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 26 12:18:09 2015 No.2310005 >>2254319 This kind of sucks

Anonymous Thu Mar 26 19:52:08 2015 No.2310710

>Try that LoZ romhack, The Legend of Link
>Oh hey, this looks interesting...
>The map you can buy is effectively worthless
>Finally find level 1 after much wandering
>Have to hold down B with the lamp the entire time since Dark=Fun
>Room with pits everywhere except a small path, skeletons shoot swords which knock you off path
Great concept, terrible execution. Someone should take all the improvements this guy put into the ROM, and make a decent hack out of it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 26 19:57:10 2015 No.2310716 >>2309808 are you talking about Touhou Mario, by chance?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 26 21:56:35 2015 No.2310939 >>2310710 Just wait until you start trying to jump over pits with the Roc's Feather. It's a goddamn nightmare.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 26 23:04:06 2015 No.2311108 File: 15 KB, 200x297, King-James-Version[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2251542 Not according to this grammar guide

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 26 23:22:08 2015 No.2311172 >>2310939 Oh hell no, I've already lost interest in it. The "EVERY ROOM IS DARK!!!" thing turned me off, and the pit-everywhere room made me quit in disgust.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 00:31:17 2015 No.2311309 >>2307647 Dragoon X Omega games did a pretty good job. It is almost 100% changed in the second hack(Dragoon X Omega II).

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 01:07:54 2015 No.2311360

>>2245051
Whenever I use lips to patch a file, it never seems to work. I've had this problem forever.

lips always says its successful, but when I launch the game in snes9x, it's just a black screen. tried it with zsnes and the same thing. Anyone know why?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 01:10:18 2015 No.2311365 >>2311360 Patch may require a headered ROM but you're using a headerless ROM or vice versa.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 01:13:33 2015 No.2311371 >>2311365 It seems to happen with every .ips I try, though. How do people normally do it? I'm using Super Mario World U [!] if that helps...

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 01:29:05 2015 No.2311389

>>2311371
Check the patch's documentation and see if it specifies using one or the other. For checking information on the ROM you're using there's tools like NSRT, it can also apply/remove header too.

http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/400/
Linked the Windows version as I'm assuming you're using that OS since you mentioned LIPS

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 01:34:08 2015 No.2311395 >>2311389 >http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/400/ thanks so much, dude

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 01:37:35 2015 No.2311397 What are the chances of that big ass Romancing SaGa 3 romhack getting translated?

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 03:51:15 2015 No.2311552
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I tested out the English fan-translation patch of Metal Gear 2 on the Virtual Console version. It works fine except in the ending, where it fucks up the spelling of the spelling of Gustava Heffner's and J. Jacobsen's names (since they had different names in the original game). Any advice on fixing this?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 01:02:56 2015 No.2313460 >>2311552 Either try and figure out where those names are located and adjust accordingly or try and contact the person/people who made the fan-translation patch for assistance.

Anonymous Sat Mar 28 01:21:03 2015 No.2313494

>>2311552
seems like a screw up on the translator's part, not a bug in the game.

>>2313460
that particular fan translation was made during the MSX translation boom of the late 90s. I doubt that it would do any good to try to contact the people that made the fan translation even if you could some how find up to date contact info for them.

Anonymous Sat Mar 28 13:20:10 2015 No.2314167

Not a hacker myself, but I've played plenty of hacks, and the biggest problem I've regularly experienced with platformers/action games is that in the drive to make the games more challenging for an expected experienced player base, they insert tedium and remove options for player movement to narrow it down to one difficult execution to navigate around an obstacle or enemy placement. I don't mind hard games, but you have to set it up a little. If you want a difficult platforming section, introduce those two earlier in the level separately and THEN put them together. This was a classic Mega Man design trick.

Some advice for anyone making Zelda/RPG/hacks with added puzzles, in my opinion good puzzles are brief but headscratchers, not a long slog through multiple rooms and floors with no challenge as to what key you need or what item to use. When your brain solves it faster than you can execute it through the game, it gets old real fast. So if you're doing a Zelda hack or something like that, how about this? Make a room with a puzzle that the player can solve immediately upon first seeing it, even if you've made it to be difficult. If a player who's not good at puzzles can't figure it out, make another exit and a string of other rooms that will give clues as to how to solve the puzzle. Good players can skip all that, not-so-good players can still progress. Everybody wins. An example of a game I thought had player-friendly puzzles, a manageable level of difficulty, I mean, is Brain Lord.

Anonymous Sat Mar 28 13:38:38 2015 No.2314195
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>>2313494
>seems like a screw up on the translator's part, not a bug in the game.
The bug occurs because the fan-translation changed spelling of Natasha Marcova and Yozev Norden to Markova and Yozef respectively. The thing is that in the VC version, those characters were named Gustava Heffner and J. Jacobsen respectively and patch replaces a letter in their names when it's not supposed to.

>that particular fan translation was made during the MSX translation boom of the late 90s. I doubt that it would do any good to try to contact the people that made the fan translation even if you could some how find up to date contact info for them.
The last version of the patch was made by a guy named Bifi a year ago and he still updates his site regularly. I could try contacting him.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 28 15:13:12 2015 No.2314343 z-factor is really good It's my favorite super metroid hack so far, nice and big and right at a difficulty level where I can do tricks to get stuff but don't need to to progress. Although I could do without some of the dumb speed booster tricks.

(PS1)ACE COMBAT 3 electrospher(...) Sat Mar 28 17:56:44 2015 No.2314691 [DELETED]

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Currently editing Mission 23 of Ace Combat 3.

Making final revisions, less than 10 missions left to edit for Disc 1. Hoping to get my hands on Disc 2 later this year.

After that some Search files, namely character bios for the whole cast.

>>	Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv Sun Mar 29 13:25:43 2015 No.2316309 File: 4 KB, 256x224, Rockman Install Metal .png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The list is now up to date. http://pastebin.com/pYxhe4L7

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 29 13:28:30 2015 No.2316310 >>2314691 Wow, that's neat. Dashman's the same guy helping out with SRWGC's translation on /m/.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 12:58:14 2015 No.2318253 Bump.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 19:28:46 2015 No.2319107 >translation romhack >unfinished >last update 2007 Every time

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 14:42:12 2015 No.2320713 >>2319107 To be honest, that also applies to ROM hacks, the most popular ones out there (Brutal Mario, Sonic Megamix, Pokmon Prism) have all been abandoned.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 31 16:41:29 2015 No.2320964 >>2320713 Thats why you never market your rom hack until it's 99% done and don't set ridiculous goals

Anonymous Tue Mar 31 19:17:02 2015 No.2321182

>>2320964
This is also why I tell starting ROMhackers to work on creating something worthwhile before announcing their new project. Still ends the same way though.
>Hey everyone, I'm working on a new hack that's gonna be the best hack ever!
>A few weeks or months later
>Completely disappears

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 1 14:09:06 2015 No.2322574 >>2321182 >>2320964 >>2320713 >>2319107 yeah, agreed. stay underground for as long as possible so you can release it and won't have to worry about C&D or something like that or abandoning it and disappointing people.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 1 22:25:52 2015 No.2323216 >>2251415 Would you be okay if I made an entirely separate game that also had mouseaim/twinstick controls? B/c a tank game like that is something i've been wanting to do.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 1 22:34:45 2015 No.2323228 Any good River City Ransom Romhacks?

Anonymous Thu Apr 2 03:39:16 2015 No.2323573

>>2323228
According to romhacking.net, there are two. Both are spoofs. Here are the exciting plots.

"In this hack you must save Pussy City. The city was once a paradise of free love, but then the pimps moved in and forced all the girls to charge money. Go defeat the pimps and save Pussy City from paid sex acts! The classic obscene hack from last millenium."
"Someone has cloned the evil doctor John Harvey Kellogg (the cereal guy, see road to wellville to get all the jokes) and now its up to famous actor Wilford Brimley (quaker oats commercials,”our house” “coccoon” and “the firm”) to stop his cereal empire!"

Pick your poison.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 15:08:20 2015 No.2324181 What are some good SMW hacks to come out lately?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 2 15:37:15 2015 No.2324230 >>2278625 >www.mediafire.com/download/79dm5qtd5z0ar21 This is some good stuff, keep it up

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 3 14:27:24 2015 No.2325841 >>2285736 http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2362/ There it is. Now it's time for a hard question: what's the definitive version of Pokemojn Red/Blue? (excluding the Game Boy Advance remakes)

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 00:12:38 2015 No.2326694 >>2324181 http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2356/

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 03:29:27 2015 No.2326916 >>2326694 It looks pretty generic...

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 11:06:21 2015 No.2327339 File: 4 KB, 256x224, 652757566.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Would anyone happen to have any guides or tips on hex editing for this game?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 11:28:17 2015 No.2327359 >>2326916 It's not as generic as it looks.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 5 06:51:25 2015 No.2328765 File: 81 KB, 256x224, mariozelda.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2326694 What the hell is going on here? >>2324181 What hacks are you into? Vanilla, choclate, long, short?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 5 15:07:36 2015 No.2329293 >>2324181 If you'd like you can try this hack I made. http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=10342

Anonymous Sun Apr 5 22:59:52 2015 No.2329852
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>>2328765
Basically, it's an illusion.
Mario and enemies basically walk on 'invisible' platforms. Sometimes you've got angled platforms to move up or down in a room, and bottomless pits are clearly defined.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 5 23:15:51 2015 No.2329871 >>2329852 Thats just retarded, perspective is just wrong, not to mention messed up palette(s) on sprites

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 5 23:20:08 2015 No.2329878 >>2328765 strawberry

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 00:08:59 2015 No.2329941 >>2251405 is this shitty wubstep music actually in the game? dear god

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 00:12:42 2015 No.2329946 >>2251527 huh, I didn't even know that the GBA translation was different than the SNES translation, now I guess I have a reason to play it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 00:13:00 2015 No.2329947 >>2329941 nah it's just a fan remix

Anonymous Mon Apr 6 00:17:29 2015 No.2329957

>>2273363
>But just like riding a bike, once you get the basics down it's not that hard.

If what I read about old game development was true, it's far from riding a bike. First you need to find the materials from which your bike is made from. Then you have to build all the parts individually, and then put them together. But here's the catch; you can only put this bike together if you're operating a magnet crane, and there's no way around it. Hopefully your bike won't fall apart once you sit on it. Then in order for you to ride it, you have to ride it in a VERY specific manner, or else it will break.

Now for a faux-retro game, all you need to do is just buy a bike and it's done.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 11:32:56 2015 No.2330568 >>2329946 From what I remember it's not a new translation, just a few changes. I played through both and didn't really notice, it's not very notable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 19:07:35 2015 No.2331369 What's a good list of the best SMW romhacks? Preferably something without all the insane difficulty ones

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 6 19:12:31 2015 No.2331376 >>2331369 There are dozens of varying difficulty in the OP pastebin.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 04:16:31 2015 No.2332147 Super Mario Star Road is so damn good. But what the fuck is this? A Banjo Kazooie reference? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1hbznF8-UM

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 04:40:56 2015 No.2332167 Has anyone made a hack of Yoshi's Island where they remove Mario's crying sound?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 7 17:34:43 2015 No.2333128 >>2332167 None that I know of.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 8 04:38:44 2015 No.2333916 >>2333128 Yoshi's Island has a complete disassembly available, so doing this should be fairly trivial. Fun fact: Baby Mario's cry is Baby Bowser's cry, just sped up.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 8 16:22:33 2015 No.2334757 >>2333916 Too bad that Yoshi's Island hacking scene is basically dead, so we won't see even simple hacks like this.

>>	Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv Thu Apr 9 17:15:47 2015 No.2336504 File: 704 KB, 2216x3562, The List - Part 1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2331369 Here, keep in mind that it was made a long time ago, so it's a bit outdated.

Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv Thu Apr 9 17:20:52 2015 No.2336510
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>>2336504
The second part. Here's a list of hacks I personally enjoyed that aren't featured on these lists:

http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=6351
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=9543
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=8843
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=10342
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=10488
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=10346
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=10963
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=showhack&id=4780&force_old=1

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 9 19:05:48 2015 No.2336703 >>2336504 I played Mario Gives Up 1 a while ago seeing this list, and that DKC level threw me for a fucking loop. I've never gotten the patch for Mario Gives Up 2 to work properly, though, which is sad.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 9 19:41:31 2015 No.2336771 >>2332147 >Super Mario Star Road >good AHAHAHAHAHA

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 9 21:02:12 2015 No.2336892 how can you guys still find SMW hacks interesting

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 9 21:20:10 2015 No.2336930 >>2252256 why didn't you finish anon? looks cool

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 03:46:57 2015 No.2337524 >>2336892 because Nintendo will never release a good mario platformer ever again also advances in ASM hacks

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 03:48:24 2015 No.2337528 You know what I'd like to see? /vr/ making a collaborative SMW hack, like 2ch's VIP series.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 10 16:12:11 2015 No.2338321 >>2337528 I bet that would be cringe worthy as shit. 2ch users probably hate it because its full of memes too if you think about it. We just find it funny and cool because we're unfamiliar with it.

>>	Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv Sat Apr 11 15:44:47 2015 No.2340152 >>2336703 http://www.mediafire.com/download/t51fp330lmyu2zh/Mario+Gives+Up+II+%28v.1.0%29.7z There you go. Enjoy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 12 08:15:59 2015 No.2341531 Bump.

Anonymous Sun Apr 12 08:23:31 2015 No.2341535

>>2338321
He said /vr/. /vr/'s content-to-meme ratio is well within acceptable bounds, regardless of why ALTTP had such a retro feel and whose wife enjoyed the Retron 5.

Now, the guy who wanted to make a crossboard hack with Guy Fawkes masks for Dragon Coins, that was cringeworthy as shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 12 10:47:39 2015 No.2341663 >>2341535 >the guy who wanted to make a crossboard hack with Guy Fawkes masks for Dragon Coins What? Gross. I wasn't even talking about something full of memes, just a normal SMW hack made by people from /vr/.

Anonymous Sun Apr 12 11:59:10 2015 No.2341727
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>there is a re-translation of the PS1 version of Castlevania SOTN, even though the game made it to the west to begin with

>there is no translation of the Jap-only Saturn version, version which has lot's of extra content

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 12 12:22:27 2015 No.2341752 >>2341727 Saturn was harder to program for, so I assume it's harder to hack as well. Not to mention that you at least have a base when re-translating the PS1 version, while with the Saturn version you have to start from scratch.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 12 15:40:38 2015 No.2342143 Why is Voyager of Time in the recommendation list?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 12 16:28:11 2015 No.2342218 File: 31 KB, 550x400, 6688[2].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2307863 >Since SotN isn't really primarily played for its storyline

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 12 16:31:16 2015 No.2342226 >>2329852 Wait, wait wait. So like, you can just put assets from Zelda II in SMW right? Could you just, like remake the whole game in that?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 12 16:54:55 2015 No.2342269 >>2332147 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PM5UvszmNY The upcoming DS version looks better. Less hacky N64 emulators too.

Anonymous Sun Apr 12 17:01:58 2015 No.2342287
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>>2341727

Well, it's not like the game needs text to be playable. You can play the Saturn port right now and get through it fine.

Also, don't think that the Saturn version is some lost art. It has slowdown. The extra content mostly isn't good. It cut corners everywhere. The new sprites are amateurishly bad.

Look at this thing. It just completely clashes with the rest of the game's art style. The ghost sprites are also really half-assed looking generic sprites.

The port was rushed by a b-team. They didn't have the time or the A- talent to do it right. To make SotN Saturn great would mean having to rebuild the game engine to take advantage of the Saturn. Not happening.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 12 17:02:58 2015 No.2342291 >>2341752 >>2341727 It'd make more sense to add items from Saturn version to PS1 version.

Anonymous Sun Apr 12 17:13:55 2015 No.2342324

>>2342218
I don't think it is either. I barely remember the key points of the story. Like Alucard's mom was a human and executed for witchcraft or something. And there was some other chick who was running around the castle but I don't remember whether she did anything important. But apart from that did it even have a plot?

Anonymous Sun Apr 12 17:17:29 2015 No.2342334

>>2342324

It has a plot. But the focus of the game is exploring the castle and exploring this cool world with cool animations and finding all the different weapons and techiques and secrets.

For the plot, the chick you refer to is Maria and she's searching for Richter. She gives you the glasses to see through deceptions which is her main contribution.

Alucard's mom was executed for witchcraft which put Dracula on the path to evil.

Shaft's plan was to use Richter to protect the castle through brainwashing him, and then to resurrect Dracula. Alucard then confronts Dracula, kills him and leaves.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 13:39:35 2015 No.2343780 File: 21 KB, 504x205, DesertScreenshot.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I am doing a complete overhaul of Super Mario Kart as a hobby for me and my friends to play, replacing all the tracks and drivers. It's really fun I must say.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 13:41:38 2015 No.2343786 File: 29 KB, 509x216, Doom_Tree_Screen1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2343780 I also have a Sailor Moon themed on on the go but I stopped work on it until I get the first one complete.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:51:38 2015 No.2343982 >>2343780 Looks kinda strange but I admire your determination. I take it you've read smkdan's notes and use Epic Edit for the track editing?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 15:57:29 2015 No.2343997 >>2342226 There'd be a lot more to it than just "putting assets from Zelda II in SMW," but a remake could probably be done.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 13 16:13:03 2015 No.2344027 >>2343982 Thanks I guess, doesnt need to look amazing when the target audience is only four people big so i am satisfied. Epic Edit is invaluable for SMK hacking.

Anonymous Tue Apr 14 02:24:39 2015 No.2345014

>>2344027
Yeah, it's a great editor. The author, Stifu, is really friendly too and I remember the development being spiffy and him taking users' problems into account when it was a WIP. Wish more authors were like that.

If you're interested in fine-tuning, here's the item probability editor:
romhacking.net/utilities/440/
Miscellaneous statistics editor:
romhacking.net/utilities/520/
And smkdan's notes:
smkdan.eludevisibility.org/smk.html

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 11:43:22 2015 No.2345484 >>2343997 It's possible, and the SMW engine would be great for rremaking games in, especially Famicom games. The engine is pretty fast, well known and understood. You'd have to, among other things, tweak the physics to match the original though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 13:16:16 2015 No.2345615 Did anyone ever get a working Co-op SMW hack going?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 14:52:13 2015 No.2345773 >>2345484 Tweaking SMW's physics can be a right bitch. Don't forget having to code in spells, the sword, the shield, the enemies and bosses, NPC's, health and magic etc.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 15:39:37 2015 No.2345815 >>2345615 I think so yeah. Obviously not a fully (luigi cant fly, get P-balloons) but it's okay. check out the smwcentral forums

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 14 17:04:52 2015 No.2345926 File: 162 KB, 854x472, 2015-04-14 23_01_45-Romancing Saga 3 Hack - Final Boss - YouTube.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 12:00:40 2015 No.2347342 >>2343786 >>2343780 Cool! Anything releasable yet?

Anonymous Wed Apr 15 14:57:14 2015 No.2347635
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>>2252256
I remember seeing this years ago, and wondered why you didn't finish.

It also made me frustrated that 17 year old me couldn't figure out how to change the graphics in SMK.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 19:23:13 2015 No.2348205 File: 11 KB, 124x207, FabongWins.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2347342 Probably wouldn't be worth your while playing it until it's finished but most of the circuits are done

>>	Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv Thu Apr 16 14:11:03 2015 No.2349441 >>2342143 Some anon recommended it a long time ago. I've never played it, is there something wrong with it? >>2345615 http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=showhack&id=6311&force_old=1 http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=6593

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 17 11:48:42 2015 No.2351174 >>2349441 I played Voyager of Time a little, and I didn't find it that good. I was wondering why those who like it like it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 10:34:50 2015 No.2352876 >>2351174 I guess it's the "holy shit a full OoT hack" factor that attracts people.

Anonymous Sat Apr 18 12:27:59 2015 No.2353005
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Just throwing this out there but I'd like to see a "Romhack Ideas" thread. Reasonable ideas that is. For instance, I loved the GBC Crystalis port. They cleaned up bugs, added more dialogue so that it wasn't so damn confusing for new players. The one MAJOR flaw was that they removed almost every piece of music from the NES version and replaced it with utter shit. If someone was able to hack the original music back in, that would be amazing.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 13:50:48 2015 No.2354730 >>2353005 I've always wondered why did they replace the music, all NES-to-GBC ports had their music intact.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 19:50:27 2015 No.2355380 >>2252809 That's what Agahnim looks like if he isn't wearing his mask, dumbass.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 19:57:41 2015 No.2355394 >>2353005 They also zoomed the screen in and did other stupid shit. Would make more sense to port the GBC changes to the famicom version.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 02:30:26 2015 No.2355997 >>2251556 There's no hacks but I did some messing around and figured out the locations and format of the level data. So if someone wanted to do a hack, the resources are there... https://github.com/abyssonym/demons_crest_hacking

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 02:34:16 2015 No.2356005 >>2353005 The GBC version of that is a fucking travesty. They butchered the music, inserted godawful art, and fucked up the scrolling. It's too bad because it's an awesome game.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 12:16:30 2015 No.2356624 >>2247776 Yet you need some base "storyline" that justifies all the stuff in the game so it doesn't appear to be just a bunch of random bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 12:19:51 2015 No.2356635 >>2329946 In before ragequit over annoying Link screams on every sword swoop/stab.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 21 01:37:06 2015 No.2357748 http://www.insanedifficulty.com/board/index.php?/files/file/80-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-hardtype/ Really shocked this doesn't get more attention. I mean it's a sotn romhack. We've been dreaming about this for ages!

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 21 01:42:10 2015 No.2357758 >>2357748 Literal artificial difficulty. Whatever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 21 05:52:53 2015 No.2357990 I'm starting a Super Metroid hack, there any decent resources for using SMILE? Written resources are preferred, I'm really tired of stumbling on autistic mouth breathers on youtube, but if anybody can actually find some decent ones that'd be great.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 21 13:29:10 2015 No.2358425 >>2357758 1. It's a SotN romhack. The first of its kind. It might usher in new rom hacks. 2. A lot of the ideas are nice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 21 17:04:01 2015 No.2358727 So the Seiken Densetsu 3 hack guy got tired of people asking him for a fix only patch and made one http://www.insanedifficulty.com/board/index.php?/topic/6274-fix-only-patch/

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 21 22:02:50 2015 No.2359187 >>2358727 >Seiken Densetsu 3 into the trash.

Anonymous Tue Apr 21 22:25:56 2015 No.2359220

>>2358425

We need a level editor for SotN. But time is running out really. The game is only 3 years older than Super Metroid, which means its core fans are only a bit younger. If it's going to be done, in order to have the optimal amount of fans produce hacks for it, it's going to either be soon or never. As time goes on people will simply fall away, especially now that IGA is gone from Konami and no one is left to carry on the MV-style Castlevania legacy

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 22 07:35:10 2015 No.2359830 >>2359187 Still a better game than Secret no matter how much your nostalgia says otherwise.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 22 09:10:10 2015 No.2359934 >>2357990 metroid construction has a bunch of great text tutorials and some visual ones too but the truly most invaluable resource is the #metconst channel

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 22 14:57:30 2015 No.2360501 >>2356624 ...no you don't? It's a romhack. For fun.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 22 15:34:31 2015 No.2360593 >>2358727 that nigger should fix the petrified/dead player & ghost ship three player hack glitches

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 22 19:20:08 2015 No.2360954 >>2360593 The ghost ship is meant to be played with two players in the first place.

Anonymous Thu Apr 23 07:23:01 2015 No.2361689

>>2247776
It's still better than this:

http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=11088

>A hack inspired by the famous creepypasta game 'SONIC.EXE'.
>SONIC.EXE captured Yoshi and Peach, and now Mario must save them!

What the hell happened to SMW Central recently? It's like they dropped the quality control altogether and accept everyhing, no matter how shitty it is, as long as it's fully playable.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 10:08:31 2015 No.2361806 >>2361689 Hacks have a glorious tradition of incredibly shitty stories. They just may be basing submission on the gameplay or something silly like that.

Anonymous Thu Apr 23 17:28:41 2015 No.2362462

>>2361806
I couldn't care less about the stories in ROM hacks. It's just that the new moderation system where only the assigned staff member can decide if the hack should accepted or not is pretty crappy, especially if you compare it to the old system where each submission was followed by week or two of voting session where every single member could chip in. I know that we are talking about ROM hacks here, but some kind of quality control is always nice and SMWC's staff members can be way too lenient when it comes to the gameplay.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 17:47:24 2015 No.2362518 >>2362462 >>2361806 Because the stories are straight up fan fiction tier. Fan content should avoid stories in general, and this isn't just for rom hacking.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 04:12:53 2015 No.2363449 >>2361689 I deliberately didn't check that tripe's thread out because the name alone clued me in it was going to be shite. I was right.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 09:27:10 2015 No.2365885 http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,19638.0.html yo dis one of you guys?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 14:35:07 2015 No.2366254 >>2355997 >I did some messing around and figured out the locations and format of the level data. >Rather than upload this info to Data Crystal where everyone will find it, I stuck it in some github no one will ever see. Why?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 16:39:45 2015 No.2366472 >>2366254 Nothing stoppping you from doing that faglord.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 17:22:26 2015 No.2366530 Any cool romhacks in development to keep an eye on this year? So far Ive been mostly interested in Megaman hacks, but the most interesting ones are either already released or cancelled.

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 17:24:29 2015 No.2366534
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http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2385/

This just came out. It's made by the guy who did Super Nazi Penis Cartel Freedom Fighters. It's actually really fucking good as far as the gameplay goes.

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 23:42:04 2015 No.2367152

>>2366254
The github also includes my script for analyzing maps and counting the various enemies and items, for anyone savvy enough to be able to use it. I use git for revision control in all of my projects, so it's much easier to just upload it to github than to muck around in a wiki.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 15:15:31 2015 No.2368272 >>2366534 The Baddesthacks community is truly a treasure.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 16:03:24 2015 No.2368367 zole has been out for like 3 years and there still arent any zelda oracle hacks?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 16:27:25 2015 No.2368430 is the romhacking website considered bad at all? whenever im using it it makes my internet connection shitty and things just stop working

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 17:30:01 2015 No.2368605 >>2368430 On my end never had problems with it. Maybe theres something wrong with your computer/internet

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 18:48:09 2015 No.2368740 >>2368430 you probably just have comcast

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 19:41:14 2015 No.2368850 >>2368430 sounds like a comcast issue.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 20:14:43 2015 No.2368910 >>2368740 >>2368850 why would comcast in particular have trouble with the site?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 20:16:46 2015 No.2368916 FFHackster 2.0's being worked on. Cool.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 00:10:45 2015 No.2369335 >>2368910 Comcast is known for doing shitty things like making certain websites slower, especially Netflix. Wouldn't be surprised that you've found another site they slowdown.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 02:02:35 2015 No.2369525 >>2368367 Unless I'm mistaken, ZOLE has been around for way longer than three years. It's just that making hacks with an editor any less than a fully functional one drives users away.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 15:35:46 2015 No.2370446 i tried patching a smw hack with LIPS but once it patches my emulator says that the rom is bad

Anonymous Mon Apr 27 15:51:13 2015 No.2370464

>>2370446
That's nothing to be concerned about. SNES roms have an internal checksum that emulators use to check all the data in the rom is legit.

If a rom is modified in almost any way, the old checksum won't match the new data, hence the bad rom message. It was useful in ye olden days to check the integrity of the rom during development.

Most romhackers aren't really aware of it or bothered by it enough to fix it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 15:54:12 2015 No.2370470 >>2370464 I mean I literally can't play it.It won't load

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 15:55:53 2015 No.2370472 >>2370446 >>2370470 What hack are you trying to use and what's the exact ROM you used?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 15:59:40 2015 No.2370479 >>2370472 im trying to play mario gives up and I used the rom downloaded from emuparadise so i believe the exact file name is "Super Mario World (USA) [!].sfc"

Anonymous Mon Apr 27 16:23:40 2015 No.2370529

>>2370479
I'm assuming you mean this one?
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=6026

If so, looks like the issue was that the patch needs a headered ROM. Which it would be nice if they mentioned either on the hack's page or in the TXT file included.

Here's a prepatched version via Mega
#!l5dWHRxQ!aFh-tEw6aWdrEkpVSfEgV4GHVRvFlgER7gjUxNBbwk4

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 16:43:52 2015 No.2370558 >>2370529 Christ, didn't know it was something as simple as the header. Thanks for the link, but I had already downloaded TUSH so i can just add a header myself.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 28 09:48:29 2015 No.2371826 smw central's 8th Annual Vanilla Level Design Contest hack is out: http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=11254

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 28 10:38:09 2015 No.2371873 >>2371826 I hope it's not like last year's where every level was way too fucking tedious

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 28 14:40:32 2015 No.2372134 File: 1.93 MB, 400x400, 1423187001485.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >MFW this Super Metroid Phazon hack >Fighting kriken soldiers from MP:H

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 28 16:44:34 2015 No.2372318 >>2366534 What emulator are you using for this? I patched the version I was supposed to but it's not doing anything.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 28 17:09:12 2015 No.2372358 >>2372318 I got it to work on FCEUX SP for Windows and nes.emu for Android. Make sure you're loading the file that you patched, and that your IPS patching program isn't creating a new file for the patched version of the rom.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 28 17:10:12 2015 No.2372360 >>2372134 Links? Screenshots?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 28 18:02:21 2015 No.2372443 http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,19638.msg277243.html#msg277243 #shotsfired

Anonymous Tue Apr 28 18:26:16 2015 No.2372482

>>2372443
That Esco guy has always been a retard. He's basically one of those kids that shows up and claims he's going to make an amazing hack and then does nothing. I'm amazed there's anyone left who takes him seriously after he announced he was switching to Game Maker.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 00:01:16 2015 No.2373056 >>2372482 "SotN Hacked" has been in development for like 8 times the time it took to make the game. And it's blatantly not legal to just remake a game and distribute it on the internet. If it ever gets finished it will face take down notices.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 00:06:01 2015 No.2373068 >>2373056 >it's blatantly not legal to just remake a game and distribute it on the internet. Says the moron posting in a romhacking thread.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 00:07:30 2015 No.2373071 >>2373068 Romhacking is legal dipshit. The hosts site ips and other files that merely modify the game's content. They do not distribute the games.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 02:38:01 2015 No.2373254 >>2373071 This. Patches are literally files that contain the new original data to be patched to the ROM. Crimson Echoes got a C&D though, but whatever

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 13:48:01 2015 No.2373881 Hey, I made a hack and want to upload it to Romhacking.net, but it looks like I can only link to the IPS file I created? Is there a way around this, or is there another romhack site that hosts the files for you?

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 14:27:00 2015 No.2373936

>>2373881
All submissions have to be approved before they'll host it themselves. I think it's just to prevent people from uploading random shit onto their server.

In the mean time, any file sharing site should do; Mega, Dropbox Google Drive, etc. Doesn't have to be a direct link.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 14:37:39 2015 No.2373950 >>2373936 Oh okay, that makes sense. I didn't realize they were manually approving every submission.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 15:00:56 2015 No.2373993 which gamepad software do you guys use?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 16:48:52 2015 No.2374202 Is there a way to hack any classic gameboy game to have full color? Like that Metroid II DX color hack, I mean.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 16:50:52 2015 No.2374205 >>2373881 Just upload the ips file to romhacking.net. It's official and how it works.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 17:06:11 2015 No.2374223 >>2373254 >>2373071 Some romhacks however are actually legal grey areas. They haven't been tested legally. They include a little more than simple instructions to change the data.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 29 17:17:58 2015 No.2374235 >>2374205 It won't let me. I have to send them a link to it instead.

Anonymous Wed Apr 29 18:08:22 2015 No.2374296

>>2374235
It won't let me use ZippyShare, so I'm just going to post it here instead:

http://www57.zippyshare.com/v/sZa5kGFm/file.html

For use with Tiny Toon Adventures (U) [!] -- this lets you swap characters at will with SELECT instead of having to find the powerup in-level.

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 10:29:31 2015 No.2375432

>>2374296
I updated the patch. Now, you can double tap SELECT to cycle through each of the 4 playable characters instead of just swapping between Buster and your chosen character. The order you cycle through them depends on who you choose as your helper; picking Furball (the cat) should consistently work like so:

Buster --> Furball --> Dizzy --> Plucky --> Buster

For use with Tiny Toon Adventures (U) [!].nes

http://www30.zippyshare.com/v/3QbqL3hL/file.html

Anonymous Thu Apr 30 14:09:07 2015 No.2375747
File: 3 KB, 256x224, Tiny Toon Adventures (U) [!]_selswap_withtimer_allchars.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>2375432
I made a thread on romhacking.net: http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,19670.0.html

Also started on editing levels (see pic related)

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 01:41:27 2015 No.2376823 >>2263741 how do i get this to work? I found a file on romhack but it's just a zip with an IPS and SRM file???

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 06:13:00 2015 No.2377095 How hard is it to hack SNES games? I'd love to see a hack for the DKC games to make them have simultaneous multiplayer.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 10:12:15 2015 No.2377251 >>2377095 Depends on the game. SMW has a huge hacking community so there's lots of documentation on that game. DKC much less.

Anonymous Fri May 1 12:33:08 2015 No.2377379

>>2377095
>>2377251
Hacking in something like that (co-op) to a game that has none is typically difficult. For example, if you wanted to hack in a 2 player mode for the NES version of Double Dragon, it would be simpler to do something like instead modify Double Dragon II (which has 2p co-op) and extract/modify/insert the levels from Double Dragon 1 into that game.

Anonymous Sat May 2 02:04:55 2015 No.2378584

>>2377095
i did this in smw like this:
-extend the sprite table or redirect sprite pointers to a new sprite
-generate it whenever p1 on screen
-give it object interaction the same as p1. literally copy paste code
-set it to move based on controller2 data
-set animations based on controller2 data
-set up w large indexed table to give it sprite interaction (with every single sprite)
--implying youd also have to make a custom spriteXsprite interaction routine

i gave up on the last part when coding all the floating platforms and interacting with yoshi

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 05:17:43 2015 No.2378739 >>2378584 Sprite x object interaction is even worse from what I've heard, especially when it comes to slopes.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 06:32:47 2015 No.2378804 >>2251527 >Link's hair to blonde people who think this is necessary should prob kill themselves

Anonymous Sat May 2 19:13:51 2015 No.2379972

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEr4QFSaHso

So it looks like Mario 64 romhacking has died. In its place, the new standard is to use Mario 64 DS. This is a good thing.

Advantages:

>better graphics
>DS emulation is superior to N64 emulation
>DS flashcarts are ubiquitous, whereas N64 flashcarts are expensive
>Works on real hardware. N64 romhacks typically don't

What do you think of this new era of romhacking?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 21:33:05 2015 No.2380243 >>2379972 I think people should stop hacking Mario games so much.

Anonymous Sat May 2 21:33:25 2015 No.2380246
File: 54 KB, 256x351, FF1_USA_boxart.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Ok, so I'm interested in hacking Final Fantasy 1 NES in order to fix certain bugs found in the game. Namely these:
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Critical_Hit_Bug
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Intelligence_Bug
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Running_Glitch
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Bugs
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Enemy_Attack_Bug
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Equipment_Bugs

There's a huge thread on gamefaqs about hacking this game, but they seem to want to hack/fix other things in the game that I'm not concerned about. How hard would it be to fix these?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 21:44:23 2015 No.2380263 >>2380246 Probably not that difficult. FF1 seems to be relatively well-documented and there's already a couple bugfix patches out there.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 22:12:44 2015 No.2380302 >>2380263 True but I haven't seen one that incorporates all these fixes together. Or one that doesn't add a bunch of other stuff like decreasing the encounter rate.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 23:24:51 2015 No.2380404 >>2380246 >http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Intelligence_Bug This is not a bug. NES FF1 uses tabletop -style spell calculation intentionally as do all RPGs from that era. Spell damage is supposed to be a bunch of dice rolls with no modifiers.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 23:34:35 2015 No.2380428 >>2380404 Then how does it calculate spells? From what I've read the intelligence stat doesn't do anything in the game as it is, but would make sense if that was its function.

Anonymous Sun May 3 10:17:42 2015 No.2381046

>>2380428
It just randomly selects a number from a fixed range, like 48 - 128 to simulate rolling dice. INT may have been supposed to factor into all or nothing spells like instant death ones, or maybe it was just for show. You'd be surprised how many RPGs back then had stats that didn't actually do anything.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 4 13:58:16 2015 No.2383173 >>2379972 I wonder if it would be possible to modify the controls to mimick those from the N64 version.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 4 14:03:53 2015 No.2383179 >>2381046 Also friendly reminder that the lead programmer for FF1 was said to have not fully understood what an RPG was, so stats being off or odd isn't to be unexpected.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 01:28:44 2015 No.2384346 >>2378739 na map16 stuffs made it easy

Anonymous Tue May 5 05:44:37 2015 No.2384551

I've wanted to mod FF12 IZJS since it came out, but modding feels like way too much effort. I spent about a week editing hex values trying to track down monster data, the closest I got was editing a monster's current HP (but not what he spawned with, which was my intention) and toggling status effects on the party.
I assume most data like this is packed into an array or table of some sort, but was I having trouble because it was compressed or something?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 5 07:00:46 2015 No.2384593 >>2245051 Nhl 94' updated 2014-15 roster comes out tomorrow.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 10:35:53 2015 No.2386695 >>2245051 I would love to make some sprite/texture hacks for nes games, mostly to get better with pixel art. Any suggestions for getting started?

>>	NESfag Wed May 6 10:38:46 2015 No.2386701 >>2386695 Make a 8-bit style Alucard sprite for Castlevania 1

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:45:39 2015 No.2386881 >>2386701 I meant what kind of programs should I use.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 13:49:10 2015 No.2386975 >>2386881 I prefer ASEprite, though GraphicsGale, GIMP, Grafx2 and Photoshop are all good and viable as well.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 13:54:20 2015 No.2386985 >>2386881 YY-chr Tile Layer Pro

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 16:59:24 2015 No.2387315 >>2386975 I can just do the spritework in photoshop and import it in a rom? I didn't think it was that simple. Good to know.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 17:11:12 2015 No.2387334 >>2387315 Well, for NES games, you can export the graphics, modify them, and then reimport it.

Anonymous Wed May 6 18:17:34 2015 No.2387462

>>2387315
You can do that in YY-CHR, but at least with paint.net palette/colors gets messed-up, but YY-CHR has 'replace color' function so its easy to fix.

With snes games theres program called 'SnesGFX' (can be found in smw centrals tool selection) which adds extra step, but it basically converts(along with some useful options/functions) any image to snes format(I think it has few other options too but I only have used for SMW) so anything can be ripped and inserted easily.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 01:37:35 2015 No.2388172 Does anyone happen to have a link to Megaman Forever Demo 3? I just learned about it and looks interesting but the author abandoned the project a long time ago and now all links on google are dead.

Anonymous Thu May 7 03:15:50 2015 No.2388278

I want to play Zelda 1 and 2, but the puzzles with hopelessly obscure solutions ruin it for me. I don't want to look up answers when I get stuck, because it pulls me out of the game and sometimes I find out that the puzzle actually had a reasonable solution. Are there any hacks that try to "fix" NES games for an era where they don't need to sell Nintendo Power subscriptions?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 04:55:08 2015 No.2388346 >>2388278 1 is pretty confusing and archaic. Ignore it. 2 is pretty fresh and one of the best action platformers ever. There is maybe 1-2 spots where i got confused and had to look something up.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 05:30:51 2015 No.2388363 File: 9 KB, 480x448, 130409-zeldaii-11-02.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2388346 Zelda 2 has very cryptic stuff, too. Invisible items hidden on the map, having to summon a temple out of nowhere, etc. It's not on Simon's Quest level, but...

>>	Anonymous Fri May 8 08:25:18 2015 No.2390510 >>2388278 Ignore that other guy. Read this http://www.nesfiles.com/NES/Zelda/Zelda.pdf then play Zelda 1.

Anonymous Fri May 8 08:34:15 2015 No.2390521

>>2388278
whatever the anon says below you is a lie, the game is cryptic, but just like most nes games and you can get hints from old people inside caves, not confusing at all and a lot of fun. If you haven't played it and finished you are a fucking casual

>>2388346
fucking
casual

>>	Anonymous Fri May 8 08:40:01 2015 No.2390526 >>2388346 >There is maybe 1-2 spots where i got confused and had to look something up. ha ha ha faggot

>>	NESfag Fri May 8 08:46:08 2015 No.2390531 People who download the rom tend to forget that the game originally came out with a booklet that gave you tips, as well as a map of the entire world area and which tells you where most temples are.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 9 14:04:04 2015 No.2393328 >>2371826 The overworld design in this hack is amazing, it's so colorful.

Anonymous Sun May 10 05:02:16 2015 No.2394738
File: 1.89 MB, 2562x2242, BlasterMaster.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Someone should make a Blaster Master hack and add some sort of save/password system. Just throwing that out there.
It's a pretty long game, I don't know how they never considered that.
Having to clear the whole thing in one sitting is just annoying.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 03:08:44 2015 No.2396561 >>2366254 idk... I like github. It tends to be more informative. You just need to know what you're looking for.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 11 03:12:04 2015 No.2396564 Just finished playing both Mario Gives Up hacks. That was fun.

Anonymous Tue May 12 06:17:47 2015 No.2398490

>>2247838
>>2254319
The Japanese scene for DKC1-3 romhacking is actually pretty decent. Here's a site with a bunch of hacks:
http://ux.getuploader.com/donkeyhacks/

I recommend checking out ANEsdk and ANEsdk2. It's a hack made by a guy to torment his older sister, who uploads her playthroughs to nico. ANEsdk has a kaizo version and an "easy" version, and ANEsdk2 looks pretty casual so far.

Seems like the patches need to be applied to J version 1.0 in all cases.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 06:41:24 2015 No.2398508 >>2398490 The Japanese DK hacks are usually very creative but too difficult to be fun. Something a bit more casual friendly would be A+.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 22:08:08 2015 No.2399885 File: 58 KB, 256x224, 714e5be3-f7c3-4383-a444-b3568aa3ae17.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What's the top 5 SMB1 hacks for you guys?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 23:09:17 2015 No.2399957 Has anyone/can anyone made a hack of FFIV SNES so that the graphics and script and extra stuff of the GBA version is in SNES version, with all bugfixes?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 01:31:45 2015 No.2400174 >>2399885 lol what the fuck is this

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 03:50:10 2015 No.2400310 >>2320713 Prism's still alive and kicking. Koolboyman's been releasing regular updates on his Facebook page and there's even a release date set for September of this year.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 13 12:14:47 2015 No.2400765 File: 381 KB, 500x500, chr000.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is there any way to align tiles better than this? Do I have to export them and do it manually? How do you re-import a midified snapshot without messing up the palette?

Anonymous Wed May 13 15:09:30 2015 No.2400946

>>2400765
in yy-chr try different settings in "pattern" box on down-left side of the program, although its usefulness varies from game to game, some games are just tedious to work with and some are simple/easy.

In TLP(tile layer pro) you can arrange tiles much easier, but personally I dont like its GUI and its lack some features that are in YY-CHR.

As for importing snapshot, I always get mixed results, sometimes for simpler edits they import without issues and then sometimes colors are messed up(especially when ripping graphics from something else).
For latter, and since this is nes we are talking about, use color replace function(top right button with six color boxes and arrow in-between, or just press control+R), first color(from the left) is always transparently so play around with latter three until its what its supposed to be.
Also color replace function only changes whatever area you have selected, so change zoom to 1x if its entire page(left side screen) you'll need to be fixed.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 09:44:03 2015 No.2402268 File: 100 KB, 1392x1113, Näyttökuva 2015-05-14 kello 16.43.28.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2400765 Use Tile Molester. You can specify the block width with it. In this case it would be 2 x n tiles.

Anonymous Thu May 14 09:46:20 2015 No.2402272

Ninja gaiden Trilogy has so much potential. but it needs fan mods to make it as good as the originals

>MSU-1 music to fix the awful music
>uncensor graphics
>Fix font
>Add SRAM saving
>add credits
>Restore missing graphical features (Ninja Gaiden 2 dark/light scene, parallax scrolling in 3)

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 10:20:18 2015 No.2402321 File: 72 KB, 211x244, 1431426974600.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2359187 >Best Mana >into the trash

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 10:38:13 2015 No.2402343 >>2402268 I've downloaded this from at least 4 places and it doesn't work, there's not executable file.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 11:01:17 2015 No.2402376 >>2402343 iir tile molestor is a jar file so you need java

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 13:20:35 2015 No.2402601 File: 41 KB, 1366x768, Jesus wept.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2402268 Mine's broken.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 14:00:51 2015 No.2402667 >>2402601 iirc you can use those arrow buttons at the top to shift the alignment

Anonymous Thu May 14 14:40:52 2015 No.2402721

>>2402601
Push the right key from your keyboard; it skips one tile. Down skips one row, Page Down skips one graphics page. Shift + right/left stretches the canvas.
+ and ÷ skips one byte.

I've been using TM since its initial release and although it gets a lot of shit about its GUI, I think it's one of the most feature-rich and robust editors out there.
If you need help with any game/anything with it, do ask.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 14:55:52 2015 No.2402739 >>2399885 Extra Mario Bros. is one of the best hacks of anything I've ever played

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 15:38:41 2015 No.2402823 Would anyone be interested in co-producing a hack? I could do all the hacking, I just need a level designer and possibly a graphics artist. The game is Pocket Bomberman.

Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv Fri May 15 16:21:21 2015 No.2405125

>>2399885
Speaking from my experience, Extra Mario Bros., Mario vs Air Man, Switch and Super Mario Unlimited are all worth checking out. I'm sure there are still many good SMB hacks I haven't played, though.

>>2400174
It's an old Japanese SMB hack called Giabbit. It's been a while since I last played it so I'm not sure if it's good or not.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 16 12:43:48 2015 No.2406575 Bump.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 09:24:23 2015 No.2408265 http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=11239 The demo of Super Mario Land 4 remake just got released.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 09:44:13 2015 No.2408295 >>2408265 Patching roms is such a bitch, either just release the patched rom or just tell me exactly which version of the rom to download and tell me which emulator it works on.

Anonymous Sun May 17 10:01:43 2015 No.2408327

>>2408295
>tell me exactly which version of the rom to download and tell me which emulator it works on.

Yeah, that can be a pain. If the author isn't a total spaz, they should have that documented from where you download the patch, or at the very least spell it out in a readme.
Emuparadise sometimes will have pre-patched hacks in their normal rom listings.
Beyond that, just try it in a few different emulators.

Anonymous Sun May 17 10:55:15 2015 No.2408386

>>2408295
Download rom, make sure it ends in .smc, then run it through this:
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=4603
and then patch the rom that was ran through(or file that was made by romclean).

For emulators use snes9x or higan, if its old hack(made before 2009 or 2010) then zsnes.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 11:19:14 2015 No.2408421 File: 136 KB, 574x449, ice hug.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2408386 Thanks.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 11:19:39 2015 No.2408423 >>2394738 can't you just use states like a faggot

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 18:49:40 2015 No.2409204 File: 73 KB, 1033x622, FUCK.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2245078 >>2245078 I need this. I REALLY FUCKING NEED THIS.

Anonymous Sun May 17 18:52:09 2015 No.2409210

>>2408295
>>2408327

It isn't so much which version you need to patch with as much as it is trying to find a clean rom.

And considering 90% of you people most likely get them off of CoolRom or some stupid shit it doesn't work.

Rom Hustler strangely enough is the only place with a clean SMW rom.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 18:54:23 2015 No.2409215 >>2409210 I just torrented a superpack of SNES roms and it has all the clean ones.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 18:56:24 2015 No.2409218 >>2409210 Can't forget the Internet Archive too, heck the No-Intro set on there was updated too.

Anonymous Sun May 17 19:02:34 2015 No.2409230
File: 10 KB, 150x150, butterdog.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>2409204
Wouldn't be that hard to backwards engineer it. Look to see what memory address gets copied to OAM every V-blank. Then look to see where in the table are Samus' entries. Then set a breakpoint for the code that writes to those entries. Once you have the location of the write, you should be able to extract the ASM of the sprite writing routine. Then reverse engineer it.

If I remember right, SM stores its sprites as a list of subsprites, which in turn are stored as lists of OBJs whose attributes are modified (like X and Y position) when the sprite is drawn.

The final key of the puzzle is then to write a program that graphically displays what a sprite structre. Keep in mind that the reason that >>2245078 doesn't have GFX is because the tileset isn't a part of the sprite definition (unless the OBJ name is also dynamic, which is likely, but that would be passed to the draw routine as an offset.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 19:06:01 2015 No.2409236 >>2409230 I was just thinking about doing something like this, this method is a lot more straight forward than what I had in mind. Thanks man.

Anonymous Sun May 17 19:14:24 2015 No.2409261

>>2409236
I'm a little bored and may help figuring out the sprite format.

The problem is that I have to rustle up a good debugging emulator for Linux, or fire up some ancient version of Windows I might have laying around so I can use Geiger's. I've been out of the hacking loop for a while because I've been developing my own dis/assembly tools and have stalled other hacking, so anyone please let me know if someone's released a better Linux debugger over the past couple years.

Actually I should just aim that question at all; what is your choice of SNES debugging emulator nowadays?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 19:19:23 2015 No.2409274 >>2409261 What am I thinking, I'll just Wine it up...

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 19:20:15 2015 No.2409275 >>2409204 Maybe you'll eventually find the Naked Samus Sprites!

Anonymous Sun May 17 19:31:55 2015 No.2409303

I tried my hands at romhacking Pokemon Fire Red with an Original story. I wrote everything out on paper, designed the towns, did NPC dialogue...and then I tried delving into the software. Maybe I tried biting off more than I could at the time...maybe I should complete it.

Basically it took place in a region that resembeled the Pacific South-west, and it went into detail about the Pokemon war that LT Surge mentioned in Gen 1. And the crime syndicate is involved in catching large pokemon, rupturing the ball, causing a massive thermonuclear explosion if the Global Pokemon leagues did not cease.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 19:43:48 2015 No.2409330 >>2409275 I have found a room a complete room that is not in the game but appears on developers' maps (Alternate Chozo Room in Lower Norfair). I don't know if anyone else has ever stumbled across it, but it's pretty nifty. No naked Samus tho.

Anonymous Sun May 17 20:03:11 2015 No.2409385

>>2409261
For graphics stuff you want NO$SNS. None of the others come close in that department. It's a bit lacking in some of the more traditional debugging features at the moment though.

For code debugging there's Geiger's, MAME/MESS and a few different bsnes forks. Geiger's is tried and tested but has its limitations.

MESS's debugger isn't really well known, but it's actually very powerful. Most of the magic is done through its console, so be prepared for that. It can do sound debugging, which can be useful.

There have been a few debug versions of bsnes over the years, but most are fairly basic. Just tracing and simple breakpoints, etc. Performance really hurts when you have breakpoints set.

With MAME and bsnes, you'd be able to build a native Linux version at least.

There's also Bizhawk, which although a bit buggy has a very powerful Lua interface.

Anonymous Sun May 17 20:11:30 2015 No.2409405

>>2409204
>>2409230
What I really want to do is have a way of assembling samus' tiles into individual poses for easy editing and dumping them bank into the rom to their original, unorganized, locations.

It'd make sprite editing a lot less of a pain in the ass.

Anonymous Sun May 17 20:30:09 2015 No.2409438
File: 515 KB, 1920x1080, snapshot11.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>2409385
Got Geiger's to work on Linux with some minor graphical glitches. Haven't determined if they are legit glitches in the game (less likely) or glitches in the emulator's display (more likely).

>>2409405
Whatever you want to do, you need to know the sprite structure. Problem with what you are saying is that the animators didn't draw single frames of animation and dumped them into the game, they constructed sprites out of sometimes layered OBJs. For instance, look at your Samus name table. There are clearly parts for Samus' torso and arms that are layered on top of each other to produce the final sprite.

As a side note, I do know Samus' sprite is split between the torso and legs. The game draws 2 sprites to draw her, slightly complicating matters. The benefit being her animation is more flexible.

Anyway, starting the hack. OAM is located at $7E:0370

Anonymous Sun May 17 20:45:37 2015 No.2409458
File: 132 KB, 500x500, Orange-Juice.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>2409438
Okay, by setting a break point at write to $7E:0370, I found the writing instruction to be at $81:89CF. Tracing the program until I hit an RTL at $81:8A36, I return to $90:8620, so the calling instruction is the one before it (most likely). That instruction is..

22 AE 89 81 JSL $81:89AE

So (~ $81:89AE to $8189CF) is where the sprite drawing program is (for at least Samus). Now time to disassemble...

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 20:49:27 2015 No.2409464 >>2409458 I meant (~$81:89AE to $81:8A36)

Anonymous Sun May 17 21:22:16 2015 No.2409523
File: 154 KB, 950x1300, 1378598800348.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>2409464
The sprite ASM. Now to backwards engineer it... (wish this board had monospace)
$81:89AE|8B |PHB
$81:89AF|F4 00 92 |PEA $9200
$81:89B2|AB |PLB
$81:89B3|AB |PLB
$81:89B4|84 12 |STY $12
$81:89B6|86 14 |STX $14
$81:89B8|0A |ASL A
$81:89B9|AA |TAX
$81:89BA|BC 8D 80 |LDY $808D,X
$81:89BD|B9 00 00 |LDA $0000,Y
$81:89C0|F0 73 |BEQ $73 [$8A35]
$81:89C2|85 18 |STA $18
$81:89C4|C8 |INY
$81:89C5|C8 |INY
$81:89C6|AE 90 05 |LDX $0590
$81:89C9|18 |CLC
$81:89CA|B9 00 00 |LDA $0000,Y
$81:89CD|65 14 |ADC $14
$81:89CF|9D 70 03 |STA $0370,X
$81:89D2|29 00 01 |AND #$0100
$81:89D5|F0 27 |BEQ $27 [$89FE]
$81:89D7|B9 00 00 |LDA $0000,Y
$81:89DA|10 11 |BPL $11 [$89ED]
$81:89DC|BF 9F 85 81|LDA $81:859F,X
$81:89E0|85 16 |STA $16
$81:89E2|B2 16 |LDA ($16)
$81:89E4|1F A1 85 81|ORA $81:85A1,X
$81:89E8|92 16 |STA ($16)
$81:89EA|4C 11 8A |JMP $8A11
$81:89ED|BF 9F 85 81|LDA $81:859F,X
$81:89F1|85 16 |STA $16
$81:89F3|B2 16 |LDA ($16)
$81:89F5|1F 9F 83 81|ORA $81:839F,X
$81:89F9|92 16 |STA ($16)
$81:89FB|4C 11 8A |JMP $8A11
$81:89FE|B9 00 00 |LDA $0000,Y
$81:8A01|10 0E |BPL $0E [$8A11]
$81:8A03|BF 9F 85 81|LDA $81:859F,X
$81:8A07|85 16 |STA $16
$81:8A09|B2 16 |LDA ($16)
$81:8A0B|1F A1 83 81|ORA $81:83A1,X
$81:8A0F|92 16 |STA ($16)
$81:8A11|B9 02 00 |LDA $0002,Y
$81:8A14|18 |CLC
$81:8A15|65 12 |ADC $12
$81:8A17|9D 71 03 |STA $0371,X
$81:8A1A|B9 03 00 |LDA $0003,Y
$81:8A1D|9D 72 03 |STA $0372,X
$81:8A20|98 |TYA
$81:8A21|18 |CLC
$81:8A22|69 05 00 |ADC #$0005
$81:8A25|A8 |TAY
$81:8A26|8A |TXA
$81:8A27|69 04 00 |ADC #$0004
$81:8A2A|29 FF 01 |AND #$01FF
$81:8A2D|AA |TAX
$81:8A2E|C6 18 |DEC $18
$81:8A30|D0 98 |BNE $98 [$89CA]
$81:8A32|8E 90 05 |STX $0590
$81:8A35|AB |PLB
$81:8A36|6B |RTL

>>	Anonymous Sun May 17 22:12:53 2015 No.2409615 >>2311108 That's a really shitty translation of it though.

Anonymous Sun May 17 22:28:07 2015 No.2409642

>>2409438
Snes9x 1.51 shipped with an optimization bug affecting a handful of games, most notably Super Metroid and Donkey Kong Country.

Geiger's 1.43 is practically the same but without said bug. I'd recommend using it if anyone is working on either of those games.

Anonymous Sun May 17 23:08:03 2015 No.2409738

>>2409523
Have to split this comment into two.

Here is the analysis of this function. This thing essentially takes in a pose index (A), looks up the subsprite pointer through a lookup table at $92:808D, goes to that location and reads how many OBJs compose the sprite, then the oam is written to one OBJ at a time while calculating X and Y offsets.

ASSEMBLY =======================================================================

$81:89AE | 8B | PHB // PushB();
$81:89AF | F4 00 92 | PEA $9200 // B=$92;
$81:89B2 | AB | PLB //
$81:89B3 | AB | PLB //
$81:89B4 | 84 12 | STY $12 // ySprite=Y;
$81:89B6 | 86 14 | STX $14 // xSprite=X;
$81:89B8 | 0A | ASL A // Y=SamusSpritePointerTable[2*A];
$81:89B9 | AA | TAX //
$81:89BA | BC 8D 80 | LDY $808D,X //
$81:89BD | B9 00 00 | LDA $0000,Y // if(*Y){ // If OBJs to draw
$81:89C0 | F0 73 | BEQ $73 [$8A35] //
$81:89C2 | 85 18 | STA $18 // nSprite=*Y;
$81:89C4 | C8 | INY // Y+=2;
$81:89C5 | C8 | INY //
$81:89C6 | AE 90 05 | LDX $0590 // X=oamIndex;
$81:89C9 | 18 | CLC // do{
$81:89CA | B9 00 00 | LDA $0000,Y // oam[X].x=Y[0]+xSprite;
$81:89CD | 65 14 | ADC $14 //
$81:89CF | 9D 70 03 | STA $0370,X //
$81:89D2 | 29 00 01 | AND #$0100 // if(oam[X].x&0x0100){ // H-MSB set
$81:89D5 | F0 27 | BEQ $27 [$89FE] //
$81:89D7 | B9 00 00 | LDA $0000,Y // if(Y[0]<0){
$81:89DA | 10 11 | BPL $11 [$89ED] //
$81:89DC | BF 9F 85 81 | LDA $81:859F,X // *$81859F[X]|=$8185A1[X];
$81:89E0 | 85 16 | STA $16 //
$81:89E2 | B2 16 | LDA ($16) //
$81:89E4 | 1F A1 85 81 | ORA $81:85A1,X //
$81:89E8 | 92 16 | STA ($16) //

Anonymous Sun May 17 23:09:13 2015 No.2409739

>>2409738
$81:89EA | 4C 11 8A | JMP $8A11 // }else{
$81:89ED | BF 9F 85 81 | LDA $81:859F,X // *$81859F[X]|=$81839F[X];
$81:89F1 | 85 16 | STA $16 //
$81:89F3 | B2 16 | LDA ($16) //
$81:89F5 | 1F 9F 83 81 | ORA $81:839F,X //
$81:89F9 | 92 16 | STA ($16) //
$81:89FB | 4C 11 8A | JMP $8A11 // }
$81:89FE | B9 00 00 | LDA $0000,Y // }else if(Y[0]<0){ // H-MSB not set
$81:8A01 | 10 0E | BPL $0E [$8A11] //
$81:8A03 | BF 9F 85 81 | LDA $81:859F,X // *$81859F[X]|=$8181A1[X];
$81:8A07 | 85 16 | STA $16 //
$81:8A09 | B2 16 | LDA ($16) //
$81:8A0B | 1F A1 83 81 | ORA $81:83A1,X //
$81:8A0F | 92 16 | STA ($16) // }
$81:8A11 | B9 02 00 | LDA $0002,Y // oam[X].y=Y[2]+ySprite;
$81:8A14 | 18 | CLC //
$81:8A15 | 65 12 | ADC $12 //
$81:8A17 | 9D 71 03 | STA $0371,X //
$81:8A1A | B9 03 00 | LDA $0003,Y // oam[X].n=Y[3]; // Sets oam.s too
$81:8A1D | 9D 72 03 | STA $0372,X //
$81:8A20 | 98 | TYA // Y+=5;
$81:8A21 | 18 | CLC //
$81:8A22 | 69 05 00 | ADC #$0005 //
$81:8A25 | A8 | TAY //
$81:8A26 | 8A | TXA // X=(X+4)&0x01FF;
$81:8A27 | 69 04 00 | ADC #$0004 //
$81:8A2A | 29 FF 01 | AND #$01FF //
$81:8A2D | AA | TAX //
$81:8A2E | C6 18 | DEC $18 // }while(nSprite--);
$81:8A30 | D0 98 | BNE $98 [$89CA] // }
$81:8A32 | 8E 90 05 | STX $0590 // oamIndex=X;
$81:8A35 | AB | PLB // PullB();
$81:8A36 | 6B | RTL // return;

FUNCTION PARAMETERS ============================================================

word A= sprite index
word X= x position
word Y= y position

Anonymous Sun May 17 23:10:14 2015 No.2409742

>>2409739

MEMORY =========================================================================

word $12 ySprite // Sprite y position
word $14 xSprite // Sprite x position
word $16 indirect // Temporary indirect address
word $18 nSprite // Number of sprites remaining

byte $0370 oam[X].x XXXXXXXX
byte $0371 oam[X].y YYYYYYYY
byte $0372 oam[X].n NNNNNNNN
byte $0373 oam[X].s HVPPCCCN

byte[0x0200] $7E:0370 oam
byte[0x0020] $7E:0570 oam2
word $7E:0590 oamIndex

word[0x0100] $81:839F oam entry oam2 ? (interleved)
word[0x0100] $81:83A1 oam entry oam2 ? (interleved)
word[0x0100] $81:859F oam entry oam2 byte (interleved)
word[0x0100] $81:85A1 oam entry oam2 H bit (interleved)

????[0x????] $92:???? SamusSpriteData in this bank
word[0x????] $92:808D SamusSpritePointerTable

SPRITE STRUCTURE ===============================================================

word #### // OBJ count [HEADER]
word xxxx // OBJ X position
byte yy // OBJ Y position
byte nn // OBJ name
byte ss // OBJ settings

Grammar: [#]([x][y][n][s])*

PSEUDOCODE =====================================================================

void DrawSamusSubSprite(word A, word X, word Y){
PushB();
B=$92;
ySprite=Y;
xSprite=X;
Y=SamusSpritePointerTable[2*A];
for(nSprite=*Y,Y+=2,X=oamIndex; nSprite; nSprite--,Y+=5,X=(X+4)&0x01FF){
oam[X].x=Y[0]+xSprite;
if(oam[X].x&0x0100){ // H-MSB set
*$81859F[X] |= Y[0]<0 ? $8185A1[X] : $81839F[X];
}else if(Y[0]<0){ // H-MSB not set
*$81859F[X]|=$8181A1[X];
}
oam[X].y=Y[2]+ySprite;
oam[X].n=Y[3]; // Sets oam.s too
}
oamIndex=X;
PullB();
return;
}

Anonymous Sun May 17 23:16:15 2015 No.2409754

>>2409742
Fuck this character limit and no monospace...

>>2409236
Anyway one thing you should glean from this is all the pointers to Samus' sprite data is at or around array $92:808D.

The next order of business is to see how many poses there are, but that can be trickier to figure out without knowing how Samus' poses are strung together. Hopefully the pose data is in a linear array and is repetively structured.

Also I mentioned that Sprites are composed of subsprites in SM. I'm a little bit concerned that this behavior isn't in this code. Maybe it's in the calling routine?

Anonymous Mon May 18 02:23:08 2015 No.2410134

>>2409754

>>2245078 here. There's already a pretty comprehensive article on editing Samus' sprites on. I used it to create (and ultimately repoint) new sprites for Samus jumping.
http://metroidconstruction.com/docs/Samus_animation_editing_guide_crashtour99.txt

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 02:24:46 2015 No.2410136 File: 2.12 MB, 508x388, welp.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2410134 fug, forgot vid

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 17:38:13 2015 No.2411519 Bump.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 18 19:18:20 2015 No.2411747 >>2409754 >Fuck this character limit and no monospace that's your cue to pastebin

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 11:02:45 2015 No.2413251 Is sonic 3 complete the definitive versiom of sonic 3?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 11:21:14 2015 No.2413271 >>2413251 Why are you even asking?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 19 14:27:03 2015 No.2413696 >>2410136 lol i loved the derpjump what romhack is this?

>>	Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv Tue May 19 16:11:20 2015 No.2413941 >>2366534 >http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2385/ I played a little bit of it and to my surprise, it's actually not that bad. Definitely worth a try if you can get past the bizarre humor.

Anonymous Tue May 19 16:21:49 2015 No.2413973
File: 5 KB, 72x72, output.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>2413696
Super oh shit nigger what are you doingtroid. Or something. The point eas to make a lulzy hack.
haven't worked on it in some time though :c
wish I could show you the michael jackson boss fight but here's the screw attack in motion

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 15:20:48 2015 No.2416554 >>2413251 From what I remember it's buggier than the original game On the other hand, it also offfers a buttload of really nifty features.

Anonymous Wed May 20 15:55:34 2015 No.2416632

What do you do when you come across files in unknown formats? I've opened up a PS1 iso and copied all of the files to a separate folder, but I ran into a roadblock when I noticed a lot of the files have an .IKI extension and one with a .XAM extension. Google searches gave me nothing, searches on romhacking.net gave me nothing, and I read through a bunch of different guides, FAQs, and readmes without much luck. It seems like it's just assumed that you'll know what to do with whatever files you have.

Right now I'm just trying to find the file(s) that hold the game's script so I can start trying to figure it out and maybe come up with a table for it. Do I need to try every file in a hex editor until I come across what I'm looking for, or is there some easier method?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 16:07:34 2015 No.2416661 >>2416632 1. You could open the ISO itself in a hex editor and search for suspicious strings. 2. Search the format from Xentax wiki. 3. Upload the files somewhere, I could take a look.

Anonymous Wed May 20 20:03:46 2015 No.2417158
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>>2416661

No luck with Xentax wiki. Here's the file structure of the disk (it shows them as photoshop files because I tried opening them in a bunch of different programs just to see if it would work). The game is Boku no Natsuyasumi for the PS1. I think I'm going to start from square one to see if I made any mistakes or overlooked something.

Anonymous Wed May 20 20:16:34 2015 No.2417182

>>2417158
That .xam file is music/sound. The folder is named STR, which is often an extension for video data. Either way, those files aren't the ones you should be concerned with. The SCPS is the executable, there may be some text in there -- I don't recall that game having a ton of text. You'll need to look in that .bin file as well, it probably needs to be decompiled. If I can find that iso I'll take a crack at it later tonight.

Anonymous Wed May 20 21:02:07 2015 No.2417260
File: 34 KB, 532x406, boku1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>2417158
>>2417182
Okay, BOKU.BIN is all the resources for the game minus the audio in the STR folder. SCPS_100.38 contains a pointer table that lists all the files and their location.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 21:25:33 2015 No.2417317 I heard neogeo is not a popular console to hack, so there's no tools or anything over it. I just want to hack metal slug and kof games. ;_;

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 21:51:13 2015 No.2417365 >>2417317 If you can muster the ability to hack (besides just gfx hacking), then you can muster the ability to create a few basic tools to make hacking possible.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 21:57:18 2015 No.2417380 >>2417365 I rather code a basic game on Monogame since I already know C# I just wanted to make a pol metal slug hack.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 22:19:01 2015 No.2417416 >>2417380 pol?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 22:22:40 2015 No.2417427 >>2417416 /pol/ the racist board.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 22:24:29 2015 No.2417434 >>2417380 >I rather code a basic game on Monogame since I already know C# This is ultimately why a lot of rom-hacks are ill-conceived. Sometimes it's less effort to build it from the ground up with modern tech.

Anonymous Wed May 20 22:30:53 2015 No.2417456

So probably a gfx hack. All you need to do is look up the graphics format of NeoGeo, write a C# program to read in a game, and draw the data as interpreted by the format.

Alternatively, you could try using a tool like YY-CHR. There are only so many ways to define bitmapped graphics, and it's likely one of the formats supported is almost the right format. Looking at this program, it supports NGP and NGC.

Graphics hacking is low tier stuff though. If you actually want to do something novel with the game, you'll need to learn more than C#, like some 68000 assembly.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 22:35:16 2015 No.2417460 >>2417456 problem is, making anything complex I suppose is easier just to remake the game in monogame I think.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 22:40:13 2015 No.2417471 >>2416632 >>2417260 I just realized that the text is displayed vertically, in which case, never mind. Too much work. Good luck.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 20 22:41:09 2015 No.2417472 >>2417182 >>2417260 Thanks for the help.

Anonymous Wed May 20 22:50:47 2015 No.2417507

>>2417471

I'm not so ambitious as to even think about text insertion or coming up with a patch for it; I just wanted to come up with a translation. Sure, that doesn't do most people any good, but anyone really desperate could use it to help them on their playthrough. Before doing something tedious liking playing the game and transcribing the Japanese myself, I wanted to try and see if I could get the script out of it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 21 16:08:44 2015 No.2418785 >>2245051 Do custom levels exist for Cameltry? It's a shame such a good game doesn't have any user generated content

>>	Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv Fri May 22 15:50:14 2015 No.2420642 >>2418785 None that I know of. There's a sequel for the DS called Labyrinth, so you might want to check that out.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 16:25:00 2015 No.2420690 >>2280373 Hah, I get that reference

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 17:31:15 2015 No.2420815 >>2247776 >Mario must collect the legendary Shiny Stars to break the Power of stars and rescue Rosalina. fucking Rosalina fans with their fanfic-tier storytelling shit

>>	Anonymous Fri May 22 22:00:06 2015 No.2421304 You should update the list to inclube: - Star Revenge 7.5 and 2.5 -Super Metroid Hydellius -The 8th level design contest.

Anonymous Sat May 23 04:39:44 2015 No.2422105
File: 261 KB, 500x281, 2015-05-23-0427-56.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

I'm trying to make a quick item acquisition hack for SM since there's no public patch for it, that and I really want to try to learn to hack these things myself.

Getting pretty close to something I want.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 23 04:42:48 2015 No.2422109 >>2422105 Not heard since there's no audio webms, There's no item fanfare and the music doesn't stop or restart after you pick up an item. Still got to fix the door transitions getting stuck

>>	Anonymous Sun May 24 09:51:51 2015 No.2424421 Bump.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 25 05:44:20 2015 No.2426357 >>2421304 There's Star Revenge 2.5?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 26 02:30:58 2015 No.2428491 Ay yo, I just figured out how to change people's decks in Pokémon TCG. I can post more details tomorrow (finna go to bed) if anyone's interested. I couldn't find any information about it via Google, so maybe it will help.

Anonymous Tue May 26 21:35:01 2015 No.2430013
File: 167 KB, 1024x768, baroque2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

My latest project, Baroque on the Playstation, just started last night. Hacking the kana table was easy enough, the kanji is another story. It's not in a logical order like SJIS or EUC or anything I can see, really. I'm not sure if they stored them by the order they're used in the game or what. Right now I'm just figuring them out line by line, which is a lot of work, but it appears to only be about 400 characters rather than the full set of JIS. The other thing is that there doesn't appear to be an 8x16 font, so everything is monospaced for now. If I get really ambitious I'll redo the font and use DTE.

Still, this has been something I've wanted to do for a long time, so I'll persist. I might take a look at the Saturn version to see if there's any significant difference besides the game engine.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 27 03:59:21 2015 No.2430720 >>2430013 They're ordered phonetically. The grid in that shot has い-う-え sounds, and the ones in the bottom left are が. I assume it's 五十音順.

Anonymous Wed May 27 04:11:07 2015 No.2430738

>>2430720
Thanks, but that's an SJIS table I'm using for reference, it doesn't reflect the game unfortunately. The kanji is ordered really strange, I assume it's in the order of the font -- which I can't find or is compressed. This is one of the problems with hacking a game ported from the Saturn.

Anonymous Wed May 27 04:32:38 2015 No.2430760

>>2430738
Not that anon, but I think he's referring to the top grid, the one inside Oriton; the kanji there are indeed ordered according to their on reading (院陰隠韻 al have イン as their on-yomi, 右宇烏羽迂雨卯 all have ウ as their on-yomi, and so on. 吋 is a bit of an odd one out there considering the sequence, but oh well)

>>	Anonymous Wed May 27 04:35:08 2015 No.2430767 >>2430760 Actually I just realized that THAT's also the SJIS order so forget what I just said, I'm a big dumb baby

>>	Anonymous Thu May 28 04:28:25 2015 No.2433012 Bump.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 29 01:53:21 2015 No.2435261 Is Badderhacks dead? Its been down for months. I'm sadder than I should be.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 29 16:39:04 2015 No.2436049 >>2435261 They have recently resurfaced as Baddesthacks. http://www.baddesthacks.net/

Anonymous Fri May 29 19:20:44 2015 No.2436381 [DELETED]

I'm trying to play SMW Second Reality Project Reloaded but it has a bug where the audio stops and the game will stop at a black screen once I'm dead. t's easily reproducible whenever Yoshi spits out fireballs. It happens on SNES9X 1.53 as well as its Wii version. Patching it to a different ROM and googling didn't help.

Anonymous Fri May 29 19:41:02 2015 No.2436408

Is SNES9X 1.53 a bad version for SMW hacks or something? When playing SMW The Second Reality Poject Reloaded I get an issue where the audio stops and then later freezes on a black screen once Mario is dead. I don't get this issue on ZSNES though, but apparently that's a bad emu for SMW hacks so I'd rather not use it.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 29 19:46:50 2015 No.2436417 >>2252256 making a mockup != developing a game

>>	Anonymous Sat May 30 01:22:30 2015 No.2437006 File: 145 KB, 1440x1080, thefiremen.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] is there an existing hack that makes the firemen multiplayer? i'd love for a 2nd person to be able to take control of the dude with the axe.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 30 01:44:38 2015 No.2437057 >>2436408 The addmusic problem plagued the smw hacking community for some time. Some hacks work only on ZSNES

>>	Anonymous Sat May 30 03:04:25 2015 No.2437184 >>2436049 What was that hack where ernie from sesame street was jacking off? I have had the urge to make a video about it but I cant remember what the name was. It looks like Badderhacks 2.0 has no hacks up yet for me to search for it through.

Anonymous Sat May 30 03:37:39 2015 No.2437220

I'm attempting to disassemble a entire snes rom, so if I need to look at some assembly I can just rip open a file to do it.
How can I do this efficiently?

I've attempted to use DisPel, however, it seems to do some weird addressing thing where it starts disassembly offsets at multiples of 0x8000?
Or something.
Regardless, I need something that disassembles everything, junk or not, and dumps it into a file for me to look at. I need it to have the same addressing as what I'm looking at in a hex editor.

I've done most of my assembly work by taking chunks of assembly I need with snes9x and dumping that to a file to view, then directly edit the asm using a hex editor.
I'm getting a little tired of only being able to look at chunks at once and I'd rather just have one file with all the assembly in it for me to view.
Halp.

Anonymous Sat May 30 09:48:57 2015 No.2437609
File: 386 KB, 1920x1080, snapshot12.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>2437220
I'm actually working on a 65816 disassembler right now. It's actually a non-trivial problem for a few reasons. One of them is that not only are operands variable width, but some operand widths depend on state information. Also indirect jumps can be tricky because you need to supply a list of addresses to jump to, and that list may be in ROM organized as a table (if we're lucky), in ROM all over the place, or once again determined by state. Once I finish it I'll post it to vr, but it may take another few weeks to complete.

As a side note, I haven't used DisPel, but I've got the mapping between physical and logical addresses down very well. You have to define your mapping, but that offers great flexibility in how carts are wired up. You can even sensibly shadow a single ROM address to many CPU areas (think how $00:8000 == $80:8000 on the SNES) and a CPU address to many ROM areas (think memory mapper).

>>	Anonymous Sat May 30 14:49:25 2015 No.2438069 >>2417434 Not to mention most people won't give a crap about some obscure game that you've hacked.

Anonymous Sat May 30 15:59:42 2015 No.2438190

>>2436408
A lot of hacking techniques used on SMW exploited bugs in ZSNES, and will only work on ZSNES as a result. I recall someone saying that ZSNES basically became it's own console seperate to SNES as a result.

If you're going to be playing SMW hacks, it's best to keep a copy of ZSNES around for them.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 30 16:48:36 2015 No.2438304 >>2438069 To be fair, no one will care about your indie game either.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 30 17:27:30 2015 No.2438404 >>2438190 Only true for older hacks, newer hacks works fine in other emulators and even on real hardware.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 31 16:55:48 2015 No.2440837 >>2436408 http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=9541 The latest version appearently works on all major SNES emulators and the real hardware, try it out.

Anonymous Mon Jun 1 03:43:14 2015 No.2442139

Just a heads up, Baddesthacks.net is up and running now. To the guy above who was asking: No, we will not be hosting Ernie and the Muppets Take it All Off or any other Sesame Street porno hacks. The people who own the rights arent privey to seeing thier characters naked. I think you csn get it at I mockery though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 1 21:24:50 2015 No.2443806 >>2440837 Crashed on the first castle for me, and I'm using SNES9X

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 2 06:18:11 2015 No.2444582 >>2443806 Yeah, I checked it out myself and you are right, it still doesn't work properly on anything but ZSNES.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 2 09:21:20 2015 No.2444747 http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2422/ That's nifty as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 2 13:58:38 2015 No.2445173 >>2426357 Brodute release a month ago. An Easier version/sequel of Night of Doom He is now working on Star Revenge 8 and a new version of Redone

Anonymous Tue Jun 2 20:00:11 2015 No.2445871
File: 1.37 MB, 1023x724, 1424025702594.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

I recently discovered the Metroid map/save hack and Phantasy star 2 modernization patchand I will never be able to go back to vanilla. Does anyone have any favorite hacks that make small improvements like this one

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 3 02:17:34 2015 No.2446561 >>2445871 • Kirby's Dreamland 3 air bullet momentum glitch fix • Yoshi's Island wah wah remover

Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv Wed Jun 3 16:56:38 2015 No.2447682
File: 2 KB, 256x224, Blue Mario Bros. 3 (v.1.0)-0.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Oh, I forgot to tell you guys that the list is now up to date.

http://pastebin.com/pYxhe4L7

By the way, does anyone know any good SMB3 hacks? I've been playing a lot of them recently and I just wonder if I'm missing anything worth playing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 3 17:55:13 2015 No.2447781 File: 3 KB, 256x240, soukessen.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Someone from /m/ translated SD Hero Soukessen. It's a NES platformer. http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=18956252964903569367

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 3 18:24:19 2015 No.2447850 I cannot make IPS patches work at all. They apply just fine I can use the program to put the patch on the ROM but I never get more than a black screen when I load it. Anybody know where I can just download a full ROM of SMWC's vanilla design contests?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 3 18:29:45 2015 No.2447862 >>2447850 see >>2408386

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 4 03:20:28 2015 No.2448713 >>2447850 Sounds like your ROM lacks a header, give it one

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 5 00:31:39 2015 No.2450646 >>2430013 Wow, awesome. Greatly looking forward to success with this, I tried Baroque on the Saturn and was pretty stumped by the items and systems.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 5 18:44:22 2015 No.2452048 >>2448713 >hacks that require a header absolutely disgusting

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 5 18:45:32 2015 No.2452050 >>2452048 Lunar magic requires header, if theres none in the rom then it silently adds it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 5 21:04:54 2015 No.2452364 >>2452050 that's pretty dirty

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 6 03:02:43 2015 No.2452883 Do there exist any Paper Mario romhacks?

Anonymous Sat Jun 6 05:38:46 2015 No.2453136
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Hey, J^P, you still working on Kirby's Bizarre Adventure? I remember you posted a demo on /vr/ AGES ago, (almost a year now) that I enjoyed and I'm kinda waiting for the full game.

Anonymous Sat Jun 6 07:50:26 2015 No.2453331
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>>2453136
Basically the rom got corrupted and I lost a lot progress and my motivation went down to zero.

Then I started to work on my SMW hack(webm related) which has been going smoothly, so when I finish this I'll probably go back to finish it, someday.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 6 14:19:33 2015 No.2453928 >>2453331 >walljump with SMB3 aesthetics why though I can see you're using the SMB3 hud patch even though it just came out. That's pretty neato.

Anonymous Sat Jun 6 14:34:35 2015 No.2453958

>>2447781
>Someone from /m/ translated SD Hero Soukessen. It's a NES platformer.
>http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=18956252964903569367

Submit this to romhacking.net

Yes you can submit other people's work. Just be sure to attribute it. If it's an anonymous anon, then just include a readme that includes that information.

Links on forums die. Romhacking.net lives on.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 6 14:40:45 2015 No.2453971 >>2453958 duh, already done http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2354/

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 6 17:06:49 2015 No.2454176 File: 2.76 MB, 256x224, 100ss.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2453928 I like the walljump, thats all.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 7 20:24:25 2015 No.2456647 new thread?

>>	Specter !!EIMQlVZ3gqv Mon Jun 8 04:50:24 2015 No.2457514 >>2456647 >>2456325

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