List of the best Rom hacks!!!

[Eternal Myst]

No problem,but I have not tested it yet,so I don't know if it's the translation or the fact that the website was lying.
Tell me if it is the translation when you play it
woot!

Earthbound Zero is not a translation of Mother (The Japanese title), but an unreleased official Nintendo prototype.

Nintendo came very close to releasing it in the US, so close that they had completed the translation and done some other things and even burned the EPROM to an NES cartridge. For whatever reason, they decided not to publish it stateside, and the prototype card ended up being forgotten about...

Fast forward to about 1998 or so, and somebody had gotten their hands on the prototype and were auctioning it on eBay. The winner of the auction refused to allow the NES emulation community to dump it unless he was paid for it, stating the value of such a rarity would decrease if dumped to a ROM file.

A fund raiser was held by two guys named Demi and Wildbill, who paid the buyer and got it dumped. However, the dominant NES emulator of the time was NESticle, and due to its inaccurate emulation couldn't run the game. So the game was hacked to allow it, but Nintendo had put in a checksum that would crash the game in two places (Complete with a "This is an illegal copy of blah blah blah).

So another hacker named TrelaneQ disabled the checksum routine, and all was well. To avoid confusion with the SNES Earthbound, Demi put "Zero" at the end of the title.

There's actually several changes from the japanese version, such as the ability to dash when moving around. And despite being a prototype, it is a fully complete game (A Holy Grail so far as game prototypes go). I actually went through it myself when the ROM was first distributed after it was dumped.

Sorry for the long winded reply, but I was around when all this happened, so yeah.

Damn.I never knew that.Well out of all prototypes.I am very amazed.I thought that the game needed a translation patch.Did not know it was actually prototype that was never released,and well was.

Okay, so I'm playing Brutal Mario right now.

Oh my God, I'm fighting K. Rool from Donkey Kong Country 2! It's fairly accurate, and slightly insane because I didn't think stuff like this was possible for Mario. Wow. Very impressed, too bad most of the text is in Japanese. =P

Edit: Okay, seriously I wonder how this guy did this. Having the functionality of the ON/OFF switches control so much, and I just went through a level where fire actually interacted with the wood! I am impressed, very impressed.

Japanes Haxors are 1337.

QUOTE(Pyrofyr @ Jun 1 2008, 12:26 PM)

EEk, sorry I've taken so long to see you post your AIM, I'll contact you ASAP and I can make a seperate area on my site and give you rights to it, which should work without a problem.

I totally have to try some of these new ones, they look boss. :3

You know, I would in all honesty love to see more re-translations because a lot of games it's not even just textual differences, but the graphical diferences that change the ambiance.

Well I will go look fore some.You can use what ever you want with you site,and I don't want any rights to it.

.Right now I will go look for some re-translations.

 

[Eternal Myst]

yay ^^ got a copy of the games ^^ and I was wondering on 1 tiny little thing... saving in Parallel Worlds? Only Save State that works? or in wich emulator does it work?

Yes.Only SaveStates work.For the PC I use Snes9x or Zsnes.I don't think the DS emulaor has SaveStates,but I am unsure.The Wii has SaveStates andd plays it flawlesl.

 

[jan777]

what hacks can you recommend?

 

[Eternal Myst]

what hacks can you recommend?

Metroid legacy(same difficulty as super metroid.The game starts out the sam but the farther you get the more it changes)
Brutal mario(Bosses from oher games appear in that game)
Dr.Mario(you play as a 1337 docter)
Chrono Trigger(I have not played it,but since I ear good things about it I can recommend it)
Mario adventure(best nes hack ever)
Super Demo World:The Legend Continues(I don't know if it works on the wii,because you have to expand the rom size.The expander comes with the download)
Metroid Pocket Edition(Sexy graphics)
Final Fantasy VI(Awsome game,Awsome translation)

Also I will update the list soon,and the next set of hacks are going to be great)

Also always read the read.me to know what version of the game to use with what hack

 

[JJBro1]

ok i patched the super metroid JU rom with the metroid redesign with lunar ips and the game freezes everytime samus tries to enter the space ship in her ship.

 

[Doomsday Forte]

ok i patched the super metroid JU rom with the metroid redesign with lunar ips and the game freezes everytime samus tries to enter the space ship in her ship.

This is where I'd gladly offer to send you my working ROM, but that's illegal here so instead, let me try to figure out what happened.

Was this an original JU ROM? That is, from wherever you downloaded it from did it have a [!] in the filename? If not, get it again and make sure it has that, the [!] ensures that it's a perfect rip of the game.

Secondly, where exactly did it crash? Before you could start out in Ceres Station, or after landing on Zebes?

Thirdly, what emulator are you using? I've tried to open it in ZSNES and it refuses to run so I have to use SNES9x.

That's all I can think of right now. I used SmartIPS and an original U ROM I think and it runs okay for me.

 

[JJBro1]

ok i patched the super metroid JU rom with the metroid redesign with lunar ips and the game freezes everytime samus tries to enter the space ship in her ship.

This is where I'd gladly offer to send you my working ROM, but that's illegal here so instead, let me try to figure out what happened.

Was this an original JU ROM? That is, from wherever you downloaded it from did it have a [!] in the filename? If not, get it again and make sure it has that, the [!] ensures that it's a perfect rip of the game.

Secondly, where exactly did it crash? Before you could start out in Ceres Station, or after landing on Zebes?

Thirdly, what emulator are you using? I've tried to open it in ZSNES and it refuses to run so I have to use SNES9x.

That's all I can think of right now. I used SmartIPS and an original U ROM I think and it runs okay for me.

yes its the original rom with the [!] and i crashed before samus went to the station, and im using snes9x on the wii.

 

[Eternal Myst]

ok i patched the super metroid JU rom with the metroid redesign with lunar ips and the game freezes everytime samus tries to enter the space ship in her ship.

This is where I'd gladly offer to send you my working ROM, but that's illegal here so instead, let me try to figure out what happened.

Was this an original JU ROM? That is, from wherever you downloaded it from did it have a [!] in the filename? If not, get it again and make sure it has that, the [!] ensures that it's a perfect rip of the game.

Secondly, where exactly did it crash? Before you could start out in Ceres Station, or after landing on Zebes?

Thirdly, what emulator are you using? I've tried to open it in ZSNES and it refuses to run so I have to use SNES9x.

That's all I can think of right now. I used SmartIPS and an original U ROM I think and it runs okay for me.

yes its the original rom with the [!] and i crashed before samus went to the station, and im using snes9x on the wii.

Try experimenting.I have tried over and over,and finally got it to work.It all depends were you download the rom,and sometimes there can be an error in patching.So try it again,and again,and if you can't get it to work I have a better solution.

 

[JJBro1]

ok i patched the super metroid JU rom with the metroid redesign with lunar ips and the game freezes everytime samus tries to enter the space ship in her ship.

This is where I'd gladly offer to send you my working ROM, but that's illegal here so instead, let me try to figure out what happened.

Was this an original JU ROM? That is, from wherever you downloaded it from did it have a [!] in the filename? If not, get it again and make sure it has that, the [!] ensures that it's a perfect rip of the game.

Secondly, where exactly did it crash? Before you could start out in Ceres Station, or after landing on Zebes?

Thirdly, what emulator are you using? I've tried to open it in ZSNES and it refuses to run so I have to use SNES9x.

That's all I can think of right now. I used SmartIPS and an original U ROM I think and it runs okay for me.

yes its the original rom with the [!] and i crashed before samus went to the station, and im using snes9x on the wii.

Try experimenting.I have tried over and over,and finally got it to work.It all depends were you download the rom,and sometimes there can be an error in patching.So try it again,and again,and if you can't get it to work I have a better solution.

which is?

 

[Eternal Myst]

"Something illegal" and not on GBATemp.I can help you somewere else to get you up and running,but did you manage to experiment a little here and there.

 

[JJBro1]

"Something illegal" and not on GBATemp.I can help you somewere else to get you up and running,but did you manage to experiment a little here and there.

all i would be doing is the same thing cuz i followed every step i was told by various people and the hack still doesn't work. What did you do to get it working for you?

 

[Eternal Myst]

"Something illegal" and not on GBATemp.I can help you somewere else to get you up and running,but did you manage to experiment a little here and there.

all i would be doing is the same thing cuz i followed every step i was told by various people and the hack still doesn't work. What did you do to get it working for you?

All I did was use a (JU)[!] rom,and downloaded it multiple times from different sites,and tryed different emulators.It does not work on all emulators.

 

[SpaceJump]

"Something illegal" and not on GBATemp.I can help you somewere else to get you up and running,but did you manage to experiment a little here and there.

all i would be doing is the same thing cuz i followed every step i was told by various people and the hack still doesn't work. What did you do to get it working for you?

Try it on ZSNES, works for me.

 

[JJBro1]

"Something illegal" and not on GBATemp.I can help you somewere else to get you up and running,but did you manage to experiment a little here and there.

all i would be doing is the same thing cuz i followed every step i was told by various people and the hack still doesn't work. What did you do to get it working for you?

Try it on ZSNES, works for me.

it doesn't work for me on zsnes

 

[SpaceJump]

Which IPS-Patcher do you use? I use LunarIPS. Maybe that will make to work for you.

 

[JJBro1]

Which IPS-Patcher do you use? I use LunarIPS. Maybe that will make to work for you.

ya thats what im using

 

[SpaceJump]

Hm, then I don't know what the problem could be. You are using a [!] rom and the same Patcher as I do. I'm clueless, sorry...

 

[Eternal Myst]

I don't understand why it does that.There is probably an error in patching.Did you get it to work?
If you use google you can probably find a rom that is already patched.

 

[Eternal Myst]

Double Post...my bad

Update:

Recently added hacks:
SMW2+
SMW2+2
Chrono Trigger Re-Translation
Star Ocean Translation
Tales of Phantasia Translation


Tell me what you think guys.All suggestions are welcome.
If you have mentioned something noteworthy,and it still isn't up there,well please feel free to remind me,anything that was suggested such as difficulty patches or GBA hacks is still to be added.
Adding Difficulty Patches,and GBA Section,and some more metroid hacks
I suggest Playing Star Ocean

SMW2+&SMW2+2 are Yoshi Island Hacks.

Note:always read the read.me
Have any problems just ask mwa.

 

[Corrupedent Droi]

Nice list you got there.Keep up the good work.
I have never heard of Star Ocean and it seems promising.Metroid ReDesign and Legacy look promising as well,but I might as well go try out all of these.