Free Fangames Festival (F3) by Kaze Emanuar releases its 2025 fangame and romhack trailers
Renowned Super Mario 64 hacker, Kaze Emanuar, returns this year once again to bring forth a whole slew of brand new and either already released or soon to release fangames and romhacks, be it the games have been released in the last 12 months, or they will be available in the upcoming 12 months.
Kaze starts of the presentation mentioning that the reception towards this year's F3 presentation was outstanding with something close to 100 trailers being submitted for the presentation, but sadly, not all of them made it into the main presentation. With that said, let's begin with the games featured in this F3 2025 presentation:
Crossover games:
- All Hell Unleashed, an NES game where you fight the most infamous horror icons, like Jason, Freddy, Michael Myers, Chucky, Ghostface, and more.
- FNAFMIN1, a Final Nights at Freddy's inspired game, but with a Pikmin theme and characters over it. Made using the Pikmin 2 decompilation project.
- Mushroom Kingdom Fusion, a fangame that combines characters, stages, power ups, music and more, from many popular franchises, like Mario, Mega Man, Zelda, Sonic, Ghosts N Goblins, Metroid, Kirby, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden,
- Lethalmon, a Pokemon-like fangame but with space exploration, where you explore different planets and fight several Pokemon and Gym Leaders.
- Super Mario Odyssey, a Mario Odyssey mod that recreates Super Mario Galaxy in the Odyssey engine.
- Project Green, a full Odyssey mod that makes Luigi the main protagonist, with new levels and assets.
- Super Mario Odyssey 64, a recreation of Super Mario 64 in the Mario Odyssey engine.
- Cuphead Wii U, a complete port of Cuphead to the Wii U using homebrew tools
- FNaF: Wii U Edition, a complete port of First Night at Freddy's, with some extra content, for the Wii U using homebrew tools.
- EarthBound Beginnings, a complete remake of the original Mother 1 / EarthBound Beginnings game for the Famicom / NES, using EarthBound's engine as its base, meaning it will be fully compatible with real SNES hardware as a romhack.
- Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Encore, a mod for TTYD on Switch, adding an Expert difficulty, rearranged item locations, new party skillsets, rebalancing and reimagined dungeons, exclusive enemy variants, and more.
- Battle for Bikini Bottom Deluxe, an expansion to the original Battle for Bikini Bottom, adding 100 brand new golden spatulas to collect, new characters, expanded levels, new collectables and power ups. new options and 30 brand new areas.
- Tanks Rebirth, a full remake of the original Wii Play: Tanks game mode, which adds a level editor, online multiplayer, bigger and better tanks, and more.
- Animal Crossing: City Folk Deluxe, an improved mod of City Folk that adds region-free holidays, skin tone selection, improved item generation, 240 returning villagers, buried treasures, washed ashore bottles, and a lot of quality of life improvements.
- Animal Crossing Deluxe, a hack of the original Animal Crossing for the Gamecube, which adds widescreen support, new customization options, acre screen transitions or modern camera, new bugs and fishes to catch, furniture from different regions, outdoor decorations, and more.
- Shadow The Plumber, a hack of Mario 64 which sees Mario being defeated by Bowser, and being resurrected as an edgy-like-Shadow character seeking revenge.
- Super Mario: Journey Lane, a hack of Mario 64 DS that features new stages and locations, as well as new stars to collect.
- Banjo-Kazooie: Nostalgia 64, which features classic worlds from other N64 titles, as well as new collectables and jiggies to grab.
- Mario Builder 64, a Mario Maker-like hack which allows the player to create their own Mario 64 levels, as well as share them with others and player others' creations.
- Wega & The Lost Media, a 2D platformer adventure featuring a purple Luigi character called "Wega" throughout several stages.
- Sonic Essence: Second Soul, a brand new 2D Sonic fangame with impressive sprite art, new powers and stages.
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2D, a full 2D game recreation of the recent Super Mario Bros. Movie, complete with in-game cutscenes and power ups.
- NSMB: Mario Vs Luigi, a mod for the original NSMB that adds a Vs mode to the main game, complete with online multiplayer to take on other people.
- Mario Kart Double Dash RTGP, a full mod of the original Mario Kart Double Dash, featuring tracks from older Mario Kart titles, starting from Super Mario Kart all the way up to Mario Kart DS, fully remastered for Double Dash, including assets, design and music.
- Kirby Air Ride Deluxe, a mod of the original Kirby Air Ride with new features, like a fully customizable City Trial, multiple stadiums back to back, customizable music, change music on the fly, start with a different machine on City Trial, toggle items, machines, events and stadiums, new controls, LAN play, and more.
- ZazchBell Mamodo Fury + Update, a romhack of the 3D fighting anime game for the Gamecube, with 8 new characters, 10 extra stages, switch to japanese voices with a button, new artwork, unique music for repeated tracks based on the GBA titles, and more.
- Mario Kart Amped Up 64 v3, a complete revamp hack of the original Mario Kart 64, now updated to version 3, adding full 3D racer models, unique trophies, returning tracks from the original Mk64, new modes, like Elimination, N64 coin, Target zones, more customization options, hidden game modes, compatible with real hardware, and more.
- Dr. Mario Mania, fan game that combines a lot of different aspects and things from different iterations of Dr. Mario, allowing for customizable virus/pill colours, quad-colour mode, item mode, multiple themes, like black and white theme (GB), NES, SNES or WiiWare themes, rules customization.
- All the Mario, a Minecraft modpack that combines assets and aesthetics with Super Mario 64 with Minecraft.
- Left4Dead 2 Beta Pack, a faithful remake of the original pre-release beta version of Left4Dead 2 shown at E3 2009.
- Pokemon Stadium Club, a from-the-ground up and complete recreation of the original Pokemon Stadium 1 mini-games made in Unreal Engine, and compatible with Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android and Nintendo Switch.
- SSB: Alternate Universe, a Brawl mod which revamps movement and adds bugfixes, with redesigned movesets, new mechanics, better single player, edited visuals, online support, and more.
- Angry Birds Refresh, a full on remake of the original Angry Birds videogame.
- Paper Mario: Tower of Trials, a mod of TTYD that expands upon the Tower of Trials of the original, with far more advanced battles, mechanics and enemies.
- Super Mario Bros. Remastered, a full remake of the original NES Super Mario Bros., with widescreen support, improved physics, audio and graphics, new playable characters, extra content from Super Mario Bros. DX (GBC), and support for resource packs, which allows the game to toggle between NES and SNES graphics, or even custom graphics too, and also includes a level editor to share user created levels. Also includes levels from Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros. Special and overhauled All Night Nippon.
- Celeste: Fusion Collab, a mod of Celeste that adds over new 100 maps into the game, as well as new mechanics, and 2+ hours of original music.
- Super Mario Meltdown, a hack of Super Mario 64 that adds over 60 new stars to collect, complete with 30 brand new levels.
- Paper Mario: Mythical Mission, a mod of TTYD that makes Mario explore a strange island alongside a new strange partner
- Paper Mario: Starnova, featured at the end of the Mythical Mission trailer, with more details coming later
- Splatoon 3: Rainbow Alterna, mod of Splatoon 3 with 10+ custom levels, with custom environments, and 55+ layout changes made, custom weapon retextures and ink colours, and more.
- The Legend of Zelda: Ultimate Trial v1.2, a hack of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, with achievements support, enemy randomizer (disabled, logic or no logic), NG+ with random trial rooms, Roc's Feather for double jump, spanish translation, and more.
- StarFox 64: On-Foot Mode, a hack of StarFox64 that adds a new on-foot mode for the game, making all of the Star Fox crew playable on-foot, similar to that of Star Fox Assault for the Gamecube.
- BoxGuy Adventure PoyoPoyo, a hack of Kirby's Adventure for the GameBoy, featuring a brand new character called BoxGuy.
- BoxGuy Adventure 2 PoyoPoyo, a hack of Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Master System, which in a similar way to the oen above, features a brand new character called BoxGuy.
- Super Mario 64: Power Star Madness, a hack of Super Mario 64 with 15 new levels to explore, new music and 141 stars to collect.
- Slime Management, a mod for A Hat in Time, starring Bow Kid in a new adventure, with a new campaign, 80 new slimepieces, and more.
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Online, a mod for TotK that adds online functionality to be able to play the game on multiplayer alongside other Link characters throughout Hyrule.
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