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34 replies · 138,310 views · Started 14 December 2012

ctrl-alt-delete 14 Dec 2012, 17:53

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! which is a New Super Mario Bros Wii Editor.

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

Ventus 14 Dec 2012, 18:52

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 15 Dec 2012, 00:06

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

MasterSwordUltima 17 Dec 2012, 10:33

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.

Ventus 23 Jan 2013, 17:19

[MENTION=40237]Janus[/MENTION] : 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 02 Feb 2013, 00:22

trudatman wrote: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 21 Feb 2013, 01:30

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/

Jirin 20 Oct 2013, 00:42

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.

Jirin 20 Oct 2013, 03:20

Aliem wrote: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 08 Nov 2013, 23:53

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 09 Nov 2013, 09:45

Chris Miller wrote: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.

Aegix Drakan 30 Apr 2014, 21:59

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

mitsymckenzie777 wrote: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 22 Jun 2014, 16:00

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!

Chris Miller 15 Oct 2014, 18:30

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 19 Nov 2014, 06:09

Speaking of Doom engine mods and Mega Man games, here's another one that falls into both categories: Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch. 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. 😛

Another Metroid 2 Remake: 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. 😛

The Bub's Brothers: 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: 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.

TheDarkOne 25 Aug 2015, 16:31

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.