#romhackthursday — Public Fediverse posts

Romhack Thursday: You Are Just A Blue Switch
This is a mostly silly hack by Daizo Dee Von, a winner in SMW Central's Questionable Level Design Contest for 2025, that replaces Mario in Super Mario World with a mobile version of one of the Switch Palace switches, but it does have so
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-you-are-just-a-blue-switch/
#niche #retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #DaizoDeeVon #niche #retro #romackthursday #romhack #smwcentral #supermarioworld #YouAreJustABlueSwitch

Romhack Thursday: Hyper Metroid Super
Why do people play romhacks in the first place? I'm setting aside joke hacks (most aren't that funny), and hacks that seek to make something completely different from the original. I'm talking about the normal style of hack, the type that tries to deliver more of the original
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-hyper-metroid-super/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #HyperMetroid #HyperMetroidSuper #metroid #RealRed #retro #romhacks #romhackthursday

Romhack Thursday: About Parallel Launcher
This week's find isn't a romhack specifically, but a way of playing them, both in patching and running them in an emulator, in a fairly automated way, at least if the hack you seek to play is for an N64 game, and especially if that game is Super Mario 64. It's Paralle
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-about-parallel-launcher/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #emulator #mario64 #ParallelLauncher #retro #romhack #romhackingcom #romhackthursday

Romhack Thursday: Mario Adventure 2
Another romhack! There's lots of hacks and it's not always easy to find one I consider notable enough to present. This week's definitely has technical skill on its side.

Mario Adventure 2 might sound like a successor to Mario Adventure, a 2001 hack of Super M
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-mario-adventure-2/
#niche #romhacks #romhackthursday #dreamcast #mario64 #n64 #nintendo #ParallelLauncher #romhacks #romhackthursday #sega #SonicAdventure2

Romhack Thursday: NES Tecmo Super Bowl 2024
There's a whole community out there that exists to update old console sports games with current rosters and stats. This isn't the first time we've linked to one of these hacks, but it's been a while, so why not? This one's a recently-released hack updat
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-tecmo-super-bowl-2024/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #RosterUpdate #sblueman #techmobowlorg #Tecmo #TecmoBowl #TSBTool

Romhack Thursday: Some Sonic the Hedgehacks
Maybe I don't boost them as often as I should, but I wrote a couple of ebook collections of romhack writeups. (first - second)

While I wrote them at breakneck speed to meet deadlines so the style isn't as settled as I'd like, and in the (gosh) eight years since I wrote the
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-some-sonic-the-hedgehacks/
#niche #retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #amy #kirby #niche #retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #sega #sonic

Romhack Thursday: The Ocarina of Time Practice Rom
Every GDQ, I find out about several things that I feel are worth telling all of you about. It happened once again this year, and that's why I'm now pointing you to an invaluable speedrunning resource, the Ocarina of Time Practice Rom.

Of course, I don't
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-the-ocarina-of-time-practice-rom/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #ocarinaoftime #OoT #PracticeRom #retro #romhack #romhackthursday #tool #zelda

Romhack Thursday: Pentris
Didja ever finish a satisfying round of Tetris, and then, basking in the glow of your high score, stop to wonder to yourself: why four?

Why did Alexey Pajitnov, revered creator of the game, decide to use tetrominoes, the possible combinations of four squares attached to each other, as
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-pentris-2/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #bulletproofsoftware #nes #Pentris #retro #romhack #romhackthursday #tetris #texas #Zohassadar

Romhack Thursday: Max in Streets of Rage 2
There are lots of Streets of Rage romhacks. Just a partial list: Billy, Nick Fury, The Punisher, Nightcrawler, Ditto, Colossus, Zitz and Pimple, Wolverine, Garfield and many more than that.

Many of them seem to exist only for the questionable thrill of playing ch
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-max-in-streets-of-rage-2/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #beatemup #beltscroller #Max #romhack #romhackthursday #sammax #sega #StreetsOfRage

Romhack Thursday: Super Mario Bros. Mini
It's been difficult to keep up a consistent stream of romhacks for Thursdays, due partly to the demise of romhacking.net. Although... it doesn't look very shut down to me? In fact, it's been switched to news only, so while it's no longer a (somewhat) com
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-super-mario-bros-mini/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #gameboycolor #GBC #homebrew #mario #Miko27 #remake #retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #supermariobros

Tombstones: Romhacking.net Calls It Quits, Game Informer Shuts Down
First:

It's a grievous blow to the game editing community, but Nightcrawler, the maintainer of the 19-year-old hack repository and community site romhacking.net, is shutting its doors. The reasons why are the top news i
https://setsideb.com/romhacking-net-calls-it-quits/
#news #niche #retro #FuncoLand #GameInformer #gamestop #GideonZhi #magazine #news #niche #Nightcrawler #retro #romhacking #romhackthursday #tombstone

Romhack Thursday: DKAFE
We've not done Romhack Thursday for a while. As the winds of the 'net, and my attention, blow around randomly, sometimes there's more things that seem worthy of posting than others. This one definitely fits the bill though.

We've posted about 10yard's intriguing Donkey Kong hacks G
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-dkafe/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #10yard #dkafe #donkeykong #emulation #galaga #mame #nintendo #retro #romhack #romhackthursday #vectors

Romhack Thursday: BS F-Zero Tracks Revived
The site of friend-of-the-blog Matthew Green has a wonderful post that describes a new hack that puts the long-lost tracks from two Satellaview versions of F-Zero into the main game, making them playable in a romhack. The creators of the hack, called BS F-Zero Deluxe,
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-bs-f-zero-tracks-revived/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #bs #bsfzerodeluxe #fzero #nintendo #pressthebuttons #retro #romhack #satellaview

zandravandra’s List Of Mega Man Romhacks
It's too light to make it an official Romhack Thursday post, but it is Thursday, so.... or rather, it was, yesterday, when this was slated to go originally, except Fully Ramblomatic premiered and I figured I should strike while that iron was hot. This iron, after all, is more
https://setsideb.com/zandravandras-list-of-mega-man-romhacks/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #alexzandra #megaman #retro #rockman #romhack #romhackthursday #zandravandra

Romhack Thursday: Ultima Underworld on Playstation, in English
The critical consensus on Ultima Underworld is that it was a high point of the Ultima franchise, a then-unique (and still fairly distinctive) kind of game, a 3D fantasy adventure released nine months before Doom, with a detai
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-ultima-underworld-on-playstation-in-english/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #dungeoncrawl #playstation #retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #ultima #ultimaunderworld

Romhack Thursday: Ultima Underworld on Playstation, in English
The critical consensus on Ultima Underworld is that it was a high point of the Ultima franchise, a then-unique (and still fairly distinctive) kind of game, a 3D fantasy adventure released nine months before Doom, with a detai
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-ultima-underworld-on-playstation-in-english/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #dungeoncrawl #playstation #retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #ultima #ultimaunderworld

Romhack Thursday: Ultima Underworld on Playstation, in English
The critical consensus on Ultima Underworld is that it was a high point of the Ultima franchise, a then-unique (and still fairly distinctive) kind of game, a 3D fantasy adventure released nine months before Doom, with a detai
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-ultima-underworld-on-playstation-in-english/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #dungeoncrawl #playstation #retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #ultima #ultimaunderworld

Romhack Thursday: Ultima Underworld on Playstation, in English
The critical consensus on Ultima Underworld is that it was a high point of the Ultima franchise, a then-unique (and still fairly distinctive) kind of game, a 3D fantasy adventure released nine months before Doom, with a detai
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-ultima-underworld-on-playstation-in-english/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #dungeoncrawl #playstation #retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #ultima #ultimaunderworld

Romhack Thursday: Snooplax Explains the History of Mario 64 Hacks
It's another video! And it's Nintendo related! I bet you're just thrilled!

This is one, however, is far from something the Big N would approve of. Snooplax goes into great detail in explaining t
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-snooplax-explains-the-history-of-mario-64-hacks/
#niche #retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #fanwork #mario #mario64 #niche #nintendo #retro #romhack #romhackthursday #snooplax #video #youtube

Romhack Thursday: Doom on a Commodore 64, kinda-sorta
Look at that title and marvel a bit. Doom on a C64! What an idea. How could it even be possible? What an age we live in. It is a time of wonders. Children are our future.

Of course there's more to it than that. There is a whole class of "r
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-doom-on-a-commodore-64-kinda-sorta/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #commodore64 #doom #radexpansionunit #retro #romhack #romhackthursday #stupiddoomtricks

Romhack Thursday: Speculative Super Mario Bros. Prototype Recreation
Some months ago there were the "Gigaleaks," huge troves of internal Nintendo files and documents that revealed a lot about abandoned
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-speculative-super-mario-bros-prototype-recreation/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #flyer #flyerfever #gigaleak #mario #mariosadventure #nimaginendogames #nintendo #retro #romhack #romhacks #romhackthursday #supermariobros #tcrf #thecuttingroomfloor

Romhack(ish) Thursday: 21st Century Roguelike Pac-Man
It's another romhack post that's really not a romhack, but kind of pretends to be one. Gridlock's 21st Century Roguelike Pac-Man (which I'm going to call 21CRPM) at first looks a lot like the arcade classic, but then becomes somethi
https://setsideb.com/romhackish-thursday-21st-century-roguelike-pac-man/
#indies #retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #21stcenturyroguelikepacman #indie #itch #itchio #pacman #retro #romhacks #romhackthursday

Romhack Thursday: Sonic 2 Score Rush
The gaming world is abuzz about speedruns. Speedruns are what gaming since at least Sonic CD call "time attacks," attempts to play a game while minimizing the completion time. The phrase is a somewhat awkward borrowing from Japanese, as are a number of other gaming terms, like "stage clear" or "le
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-sonic-2-score-attack/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #points #retro #romhack #romhackthursday #score #sonic #sonic2

Romhack Thursday: Snail Maze in a Cartridge
Early Sega Master System units released in the US had a small game included on the system ROM. It's not as cool as the Space Harrier music with FM synthesis included on some Japanese Mark III units, but it's at least a playable game.

Snail Maze, a really
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-snail-maze-in-a-cartridge/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #diy #leadedsolder #markiii #mastersystem #retro #romhack #romhackthursday #sega #snailmaze

Romhack Thursday: Segapede (not really a hack)
Screenshot of Segapede prototype (image from hiddenpalace.org)

In the 90s, there was effectively two Segas, Sega of Japan and Sega of America. Unlike with Nintendo though, where it's fairly obvious that the Japanese division called the shots, Sega w
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-segapede-not-really-a-hack/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #cancelled #craigstitt #hiddenpalace #prototype #retro #romhackthursday #sega #segapede #sti

Romhack Thursday: Winner of QLDC2023
Super Mario World is one of the most hacked games of all. There's a whole website devoted to hacking it, SMWCentral. They do have Yoshi's Island and Super Mario 64 hacks too, but SMW is the main attraction.

They've done a bunch of contests over the years,
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-winner-of-qldc2023/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #2023 #faro #mario #mm102 #qldc #qldc2023 #retro #romhack #romhackthursday #smwcentral #supermarioworld

Romhack Thursday: The Legend of Zelda for SNES
It's not easy to find romhacks that measure up to our exacting standards, that strike me in just "that way," but a conversion of the NES Legend of Zelda, one of the few mainline Zeldas never to have been really remade in any form (unless you count the ab
https://setsideb.com/romhack-thursday-the-legend-of-zelda-for-snes/
#retro #romhacks #romhackthursday #homebrew #infidelity #legendofzelda #port #retro #romhack #romhackthursday #snes #zelda