Fan Games/Rom Hacks

[ctrl-alt-delete]

Let's compile a list of some of the better fan games and rom hacks across the internet.

For example, I had never heard of Super Mario Bros X until now. (Link to come.)

Also, there is reggie! (http://rvlution.net/reggie/) which is a New Super Mario Bros Wii Editor.

I'll add in some organization/editing as some suggestions come in.

[Tim]

http://www.ff6hacking.com/forums/portal.php

They have resources for hacking FF6 and also projects being worked on.

[Glenn the Great]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono_Trigger:_Crimson_Echoes

[Ventus]

Here is a List of Romhacks and Fan games I've found that was pretty good.

Romhacks
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Chrono Trigger Flames of enternity: Hack of, Chrono Trigger (I've heard this is based off of Crimson Echos)
Homepage: http://metronomeproject.blogspot.com/

http://metronomeproject.blogspot.com/2012/01/greetings-true-believers-we-are-proud.html#comment-form
The link to the game is on that page somewhere, I'm not fully linking the file here.
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The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds: Hack of, Link to the past
https://sites.google.com/site/zeldaparallelworlds/

Zelda 3 - Goddess of Wisdom: Hack of, Link to the past
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/662/

Ultimate Zombies Ate My Neighbors: Hack of, Zombies ate my neighbors
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/59/

Mario Adventure: Hack of, Super Mario brothers 3 (NES)
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/70/

The Legend of Zelda: Shadow of Night: Hack of, ZELDA II (NES)
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/728/

Astyanax Remix: Hack of, Astyanax (NES)
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/146/


Fangames
Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX
http://www.zelda-solarus.com/jeu-zsdx-english

Mari0: Mario Based Portal type game?
http://stabyourself.net/mari0/

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Well that's all I can think of right now :P

[mrz84]

I've come across a few good ones over the years. If any of the links don't work, or aren't ToS-y, let me know. I have all of them in a zip/rar file I can get to you via email, just pm me.

SNES:

Jonbound (Earthbound/Mother2 Hack)
>> http://pkhack.fobby.net/gameplay.php

Chrono Trigger: Another Stupid Spoof (Contains foul language, basically just a text hack, but good for a laugh)
>> http://www.zophar.net/hacks/snes/chrono-trigger/chrono-trigger-another-stupid-spoof.html

SD3 Improvement (Secret of Mana 3, A color/graphic hack)
>> http://www.zophar.net/hacks/snes/seiken-densetsu-3/sd3-improvement.html

Super Metroid Justin Bailey (Super Metroid - Samus graphic hack)
>> http://www.zophar.net/hacks/snes/super-metroid/super-metroid-jusin-bailey.html

Here's some for those you love games and MLP:

http://www.equestriagaming.com/p/pony-mods.html (has a bunch of them all in one place for various systems)

Pony Poki Panic (Doki Doki Panic nes hack)
>> http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/791/

Pony Fantasy 6 (FF6 hack with MLP - it is a total hack, everything is changed except for the backgrounds I think. Haven't played it in awhile)
>> http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/05/pony-fantasy-6-complete.html

[trudatman]

somebody makes frequent updates to NHL '94 (SNES) that I enjoy very much.

[MasterSwordUltima]

Acmlm's board was the net haven of cool rom hacks. He's done some really cool stuff, like the Weird SMB series, and Maio Fantasy (an impressive hack of Final Fantasy 1).

Zophar's Domain was also the cool spot to go to for hacked games and hacking tools in general.

[Lx6]

http://www.runouw.com/index.phphttp:// (http://www.runouw.com/index.php)

This site has some fan games on it.

[Aliem]

I like romhacking.net for a lot of neat hacks.

Ventus: Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX looks fairly decent. Imma grab that, thanks :D

[Ventus]

Janus : Yeah its a pretty good game. the puzzles are pretty darn good to. :P but that's not all, the game has some pretty awesome dungeons.

[trudatman]

somebody makes frequent updates to NHL '94 (SNES) that I enjoy very much.
don't tell the NHL94.com messageboard, but I think he may work on an update for the short 2013 season.

[Ventus]

I've just noticed that a new version of LTTP Hack Parallel Worlds has come out with a new easier version called Parallel Worlds remodel.
Tried some of it and its nice to get passed the guard house pretty quick. So for that game has been edited to make it beatable at any skill level.

Check it out here: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/956/

[mrz84]

Nice. I'll have to try it out myself!

[Ventus]

There is finally a Hack for Links awakening! I'll be giving it a try in awhile.

Here it is:

Hard awakening
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1188/

[mrz84]

There is finally a Hack for Links awakening! I'll be giving it a try in awhile.

Here it is:

Hard awakening
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1188/

Nice. Gonna have to try that too.

[vinipsmaker]

Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX
http://www.zelda-solarus.com/jeu-zsdx-english

That game is quite amazing.
=)

[Jirin]

I just started Mario 74, that's what brought me to this site.

Are there any good challenging fan hacks for any of: Link to the Past, Super Metroid, or Donkey Kong Country 2?

LTTP was my favorite game growing up and I regret terribly that I used guides the first time (I was 9 and stupid!) So I'd really love to play that same game with a fresh set of challenging dungeons. And I think Super Metroid and DKC2 are two games that lend themselves perfectly to challenge hacks because they're games that contain a lot of weird things you can do to get to weird places, Super Metroid with its wall jumping and power jump and DKC2 with throwing your buddy around, Dixie gliding, and all the different animals.

[Aliem]

That game is quite amazing.
=)

HOW did I miss this?! Incredible!

[Jirin]

HOW did I miss this?! Incredible!

Just DLed it. This game is the greatest thing ever.

I think my version is buggy though. My heart gauge never changes. I mean, whether I get a heart container or take damage, it always shows as 3 full hearts. I know I'm really taking damage because of the beeping. Anyone else experience this issue?

[Chris Miller]

If anybody's interested, Crimson Echoes, the most massive Chrono Trigger hack ever, is not dead by any means. I won't give you the link because the rom's on the main site, but look up Flames of Eternity on Google.

Not only is the hack basically finished, and much-refined over the beta version we saw on Youtube, there's a modified version of ZSNES that comes with it, with mp3 music tracks. They're still adding new stuff to it, but you can play it from beginning to end as it is now.

[Aliem]

If anybody's interested, Crimson Echoes, the most massive Chrono Trigger hack ever, is not dead by any means. I won't give you the link because the rom's on the main site, but look up Flames of Eternity on Google.

Not only is the hack basically finished, and much-refined over the beta version we saw on Youtube, there's a modified version of ZSNES that comes with it, with mp3 music tracks. They're still adding new stuff to it, but you can play it from beginning to end as it is now.

No shit? That's awesome, I had heard it was cancelled a few years ago.

[mitsymckenzie777]

I scanned this thread and noticed no one mentioned the fan game Super Mario Bros. Crossover I could be wrong but here is the link.
http://www.explodingrabbit.com/games/super-mario-bros-crossover

[Aegix Drakan]

What's this?! A Fangame Thread? And SRB2 isn't in here?! Sacrilege!

SRB2 (Or Sonic Robo Blast 2, if you insist), is an attempt to create a game that feels closer to the series traditional platforming roots in the Doom Engine.

And it does so pretty well. The game is fantastic. Especially after their most recent big update. They revamped a lot of the old levels, and turned the old special stages into NiGHTS Into Dreams gameplay. It's a blast.

And if you're into multiplayer, it can do that. You can play online/LAN/Splitscreen either in a race or Co-op though the main story (and yes, Tails can still airlift Sonic), and there's also FPS deathmatch and CTF modes where you hurl various types of rings at each other.

Finally, there's a great mod community for it. I just recently poked around in the mod section and found not only a level select mod that basically IS a level, but I also found a character who changes abilities completely at random on every respawn, which is a lot of fun for a veteran player like me. :P

It's here:
https://www.srb2.org/

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Also, do RPGmaker games count?

Because I wouldn't mind plugging my own game in there. XD


I scanned this thread and noticed no one mentioned the fan game Super Mario Bros. Crossover I could be wrong but here is the link.
http://www.explodingrabbit.com/games/super-mario-bros-crossover

Ohh, that's a pretty fun one too.

[DarkFlameWolf]

Mega Man Unlimited and Mega Man Rock Force are two amazing Mega Man fan games.
My upcoming Mega Man: Revenge of the Fallen will be yet another one to add to the list. Good stuff for MM fans!

EDIT: Quad 4's! Hells yes!

[Ventus]

I recently come across this romhack. http://acmlm.kafuka.org/board/thread.php?id=7308&page=1 ( The Legend of Link v1.6) Its in beta but its pretty neat. Its a heavily ASM scripted Hack of The original Legend of Zelda on the nes.
I haven't played through it much but I have looked at it and its pretty neat. ;)

[Chris Miller]

I played a really great Mega Man 4 hack called Rockman 4 Minus Infinity. It's hard as heck, but if you're a really good Mega Man player, you can't go wrong. I don't think anyone's ever added this much to a rom hack before and made it all work so seamlessly.

[4matsy]

Speaking of Doom engine mods and Mega Man games, here's another one that falls into both categories: Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch (http://cutstuff.net/mm8bdm/). It's basically your standard first-person shooter, but with Mega Man weapons and support items instead. (It's also a complete conversion, a standalone game, so you don't need to have the original Doom games to play MM8BDM.) So far, weapons and items from the classic and Game Boy Mega Man series (up to Mega Man & Bass chronologically) have been implemented into the game. There's also several mods downloadable off the cutstuff.net forums such as a co-op mission mode, roboenza (zombies) mode, classes mode, and an expansion that adds weapons and maps from the popular Rockman 2 ROM hack Rockman no Constancy. It's a pretty cool game if you like FPSes. Or Mega Man. Or both. :p

Another Metroid 2 Remake (http://metroid2remake.blogspot.com/): This one is also quite good. It's, as the name implies, a remake of Metroid 2: Return of Samus, except done in the style of the Game Boy Advance Metroid games. It's not complete yet, but about 1/3 of the game has been done in the current demo (up to area 4). It's got some nice new stuff: shiny new control scheme, new boss fights, areas Samus scans when initially entering that you can read up on...good stuff. :3

The guys over at http://toppler.sourceforge.net/ have made a rather nice remake of Tower Toppler/Nebulus/Castelian, which was an old game involving a frog-like dude climbing up a rotating tower (or, at least, rotating from the player's perspective) while avoiding and/or kicking balls at various blocks, bigger balls, robots, and other weird floaty dudes. It's even got a full-featured level editor so you can make your own levels and level packs, though said editor's features all work by keyboard input, so you'll be consulting that keyboard shortcut help menu quite a lot at first. :p

The Bub's Brothers (http://bub-n-bros.sourceforge.net/): Okay. So...imagine if Bubble Bobble was programmed in Python, ran a server from your web browser which supported 10 players over the internet, and had loads of strange items with weird effects (from rewinding time to creating a kajillion clones of yourself to turning you into a sheep at the end of the level and making you lose all the points you got during that level). You get this game. It's great fun. :3 (Though I have been getting this weird glitch ever since running it on my new computer, where it randomly closes itself. Wonder if Windows 8.1 doesn't like it or something...:s)

Pac-Man Tribute Project (http://pacman.shaunew.com/): This guy has created a quite accurate HTML5 rendition of Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Crazy Otto, and a new variant called Cookie-Man, which plays like Ms. Pac, but uses randomly generated mazes, instead of the tired old four. The only things missing are sound and compatibility with patterns, and those will probably never be added, the former because it'd probably summon the Kopyrite Kops from Namco, and the latter because it would require actually using the original game's code to seed the random number generator. There are also a few added features, such as a mode where you can learn how the ghosts behave (complete with markers to show where their targets are located), the famous speedup hack, and a new practice mode where you can select your starting level (with no apparent upper limit...seriously, I checked to see if 65535 was the limit, and when I saw that it wasn't, I quit while I was ahead D:) and use various cheats, such as half-speed and invincibility (explained on the page the initial link of this paragraph goes to). All in all, it's a pretty fun time.

[Tamamo]

Super Marisa World
not just a mario world hack either but aWhole new game

[TheDarkOne]

Two of my personal favorites: Super Metroid Justin Bailey and Chrono Trigger RT. There are others I have played but these two have always been on my ZSNES list.

[firebug]

Dragoon X Omega II (I know, it's a mouthful) is a fantastic hack of Final Fantasy for the NES. Complete overhaul; all new graphics, enemies, storyline, equipment etc. Basically, everything was stripped down to the engine and built back up from scratch.

Screenies:
https://sites.google.com/site/panicus/_/rsrc/1259739385594/DXOII-full.jpg?height=240&width=256

https://sites.google.com/site/panicus/_/rsrc/1259739386345/DXOII-2-full.jpg?height=240&width=256

Author's website:
https://sites.google.com/site/panicus/

IPS patch:
https://sites.google.com/site/panicus/dxo2final2.zip?attredirects=0

[Tamamo]

Monsters n' Girls

it's a 18+ Ghost and Goblins fangame.

[Lelouche Vi Britannia]

I'll just leave this here, hoping to see it finished one day...

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[Matteo]

Metroid Eris (2012 version)
Hyper Metroid

Super Mario World: Return to Dinosaur Land

Breath of Fire 2 : Retranslation

Mario Kart R

[PrufStudent]

super bowsette 64 (hack of super mario 64)

[OliviaM]

really like Breath of Fire 2 : Retranslation

[SF - The Dark Warrior]

https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=5252 - Super Mario Omega. Fantastic romhack that has solid level design and visuals.

https://smwc.me/1618158 a hack my friend is making. Currently a WIP.