ROM hacks you consider the Definitive Version of a game (No Rockstar)

[Deleted member 42501]

Sometimes modders really improve the quality of life when it comes to bringing old games upto spec. What are your faves? I'll get it rolling with:

Earthbound (New Controls)
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1111/

"Say goodbye to navigating several menus only to find that guy in front of you just farted. This patch brings more modern controls to a SNES classic!"

Totally improves the flow of the game and makes it a much more enjoyable experience when I replayed it last year.


Sonic CD ++
http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_CD_Plus_Plus

"Adding the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 style Spin Dash and the newer Homing Attack into the game. This enables the gameplay to be significantly speedier, while Sonic CD is known to be one of the more slow-paced games in the classic Sonic series."

This patch actually made this game way more tolerable than without as it adds a lot the experience by making it flow more instead of plodding around the badly laid out courses.


Super Ghouls'n Ghosts Restoration
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3473/

"It also removes most of the slowdowns, making the game much more enjoyable to play as well."

Self explanatory and quite possibly proof that coders have been lazy/patch reliant since forever.


Yoshi's Island: Pacifier Edition
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2658/

"This is a simple hack that mutes Baby Mario’s crying and the timer countdown sound that normally plays when Yoshi is hit and loses Baby Mario."

Lot more fun without the whining, Louis.



Whatchu got? Also feel free to add in actual ROM hacks that totally redo a game if they're up to par with the original.

 

[tech3475]

Sonic 3 Complete (not sure if I can link to Sonic Retro as it’s the whole rom).

Basically fixes all the issue I had with Sonic 3 and Knuckles such as restoring Big Arms, Super Sonic uses the level music, etc.

It was a big reason for me getting a flash cart and stop using my original.

 

[MikaDubbz]

Pokemon PInball Generations, it's the original Pokemon Pinball game but with 2 extra pinball boards (gold and silver) and when you play those boards, you run into Johto Pokemon, as the Pokedex has also expanded to the first 251 Pokemon that made up the first 2 gens. Now currently, the Gold and Silver boards are just retextures of the red and blue boards but with different locations and pokemon, but I believe the intention is to one day make them completely different pinball boards as well.

Also, to that same end, there have been a lot of great DX color patches of great Game Boy games lately, stuff like Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2, as well as Wario Land 1, Kirby, Pokemon Red and Blue, etc. etc. I'm hoping we might see Donkey Kong '94 receive such a treatment at some point soon, as that's like my favorite original Game Boy game.

 

[lordelan]

Rosy Retrospection - It's the first thing coming to my mind as it adds all modern Tetris features like 3 preview pieces and hold into the old GB's Tetris. Pretty awesome.