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Previous Thread: >>11760032

>>11792324
Based. Thank you! I'm new to MK64 hacks, and never actually ever owned the game despite owning N64 since 1996 as my main console, so a lot of even the base game is fresh and exciting to me.

Linking this here because the thread wasn't up when I posted it.
>>11793372
>>11793380

Moonlight syndrome translation when

>>11793956
Ok, I think I've ID'd every single byte used by the first slot, and managed to force a LVL 1 Ninja in the slot after summoning one in the second slot. Also managed to figure out the HP bytes and the AC bytes, so you can make whatever is in that slot nearly invincible. Viewing them in the menu, both appear with the proper portrait, though oddly the edited one just shows normal HP and AC values. It used the edited values in battle.
Still trying to figure out what all of these bytes do. Doesn't help matters any that nearly half of them are different every time you summon the same monster, with no noticeable difference in abilities or stats.

>>11793937 (OP)
Wait, how does this work? This sounds revolutionnary

>>11794159
It's just an image editor.

>>11790269
You can do music tool such c700 vst, xmsnes or snesmod etc

Asked last thread but it hit the thread limit - are there any decent Sonic hacks and mods worth playing in general?

Tanya's definitely getting a little dumpy and losing her youth lately. I'd still fuck the red pubes off her.

>>11794747
https://sonicfangameshq.com/forums/showcase/hellfire-saga-grand-finale.1574/
This one's beautiful, shows a lot of technical skill (last boss is wild), and plays pretty well. I'm not even that big of a sanic guy but appreciated it.

>>11794754
>her
That a woman?

>>11794874
Yes, if you watch various videos of them you can tell in motion and through her voice she's not a troon. You're either a troon or they live too rent-free in your head.

>is that not a super bimbofied onlyfans thought with her tits and snatch right out?
>THAT'S A MAN!

>>11794992
>You're either a troon or they live too rent-free in your head.
Only you here.

Any new translations or upcoming ones to watch out for?

>>11795457
The upcoming one is SotN port for Super Nintendo.

>>11795457
I'm still waiting for Surging Aura in English. Some nig named RedComet has supposedly been working on that for over a decade.

Also that Yu Yu Hakusho adventure game for Genesis that someone announced probably over a decade ago but has reported nothing since.

Reminds me also that we don't have the SNES YYH games because GideonZhi, an unstable and self-aggrandizing faggot, "claimed" them decades ago but hasn't worked on them since.

>>11796016
So why this come out in 94 instead 92?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJl6eqzGBQ

>>11795523
Really? How is that possible

>>11796895
Great going on past yearly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EKYylTKGJg

>>11796280
Probably because the Spirit Detective and Dark Tournament arcs were the most popular, and they wanted to give Japanese starving Genesis fans something they could really value (like with Wily Wars being a compilation of specifically the first three Mega Man games).

I had a whole two paragraphs that I accidentally deleted concerning syndicated reruns and Gilligan's Island on NES being released thanks to being locally rebroadcast on UPN or WGN Superstation or whatever in the 80s/90s and the Cell Saga being replayed on afternoon Toonami in 2003 like 300 times to make a big deal out of the next DBZ arc's release (same with Orange Islands because Pokemon Gold/Silver hadn't come out yet), to provide some context as to why certain arcs of a show are still popular with most audiences, but this has become more of a blogpost now, so I'll spare you

>>11797372
>Orange Islands
I did like romhack about it

>>11797462
Link?

>>11797309
>avoid your schizo clickbait like the plague

I dont even think that Genny port is ever gonna be finished, i mean, the dude cant decide if he could do the original game or a linearvania style remake!

Personally we should hope the Rondo port ends up better So that SOMEONE hacks it and restores the Belly Dancer Maria project

ick

>>11797462
Show that hack was based on was great, too, imo. That whole arc seemed as much like a vacation as its intended setting, including Tracy Sketchit who was a cool and apparently underrated character (can't get cooler than Pikablu and Scyther as your main guys). I played the romhack in 2020, and was loving up until my Snorlax mysteriously disappeared from my entire game, somehow (I didn't release it nor remember putting it in a PC box). I'll start it over sometime again, soon, especially since it's the 25th anniversary of The Movie 2000.

>>11797497
https://files.catbox.moe/9nhkcs.zip
(beta v. abb2882) (4 different versions: see readme inside, or just avoid included debug versions) https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/pok%C3%A9mon-orange-island-walker.496209/ https://github.com/PiaCarrot/pokeorange/releases/tag/beta-nightly

>>11795457
Fusion-X. A super metroid hack (fusion inspired) that a dude has been working for 10 or so years. A lot of custom code, not just cosmetics.

>>11797546
Some dedication they have. Can’t wait to see Maria in action

>>11797972
Hack creator recently said he's finished with it and will release it after has Japanese and German translations inserted it (which are apparently almost done).

Yaku Yuujoi Dangi got translated
https://romhackplaza.org/translations/misfortune-a-story-of-suspicious-friendships-english-translation-playstation/

So should DS/3DS run on this thing just fine without fuss? Will touch screen stuff work correctly? Got some Etrian Odyssey games left to work through and would like the map drawing to function well.

https://files.catbox.moe/5on9ym.7z

Same anon who worked with Gotta Protector before but here's where I got when trying again recently. Four of those just grey screened so this ones the farthest I got.
I got something to order later which can help me see if it's a busted cart or not but until then I don't think I can do a whole lot unfortunately. Don't know if it's a defective cart or if it's got some protections on it but since it's LRG anything's possible.

>>11797546
Any new contra for TG-16?

>>11799295
I got good news for you, anon. I managed to get your ROM dump fully working (except for the graphics, of course).

I first tried using Mesen's debugger to see where does the game crash, but I noticed the game was just getting stuck in an infinite loop. Then, out of curiosity, I used YY-CHR to replace all the sprite duplicates from your ROM dump with X tiles to see if something happened.

To my surprise, it did! Now Amazon was doing her stretching animation before the game froze again. Additionally, the hidden sound test (accesed by pressing Select + Start in the title) was also working.

Then, I replaced all graphics with the ones from Amazon's Running Diet, filled all empty CHR areas with X tiles, and now the game runs without any freezes. I also kept the armored Amazon sprites that were present in your ROM dump.

https://files.catbox.moe/wtjfrq.zip

Now the only thing left would be to get a proper dump of the game's CHR-ROM.

>>11799981
You've got no idea how long I've been waiting for this, even if it is just a PRG-ROM dump, thanks! The game uses a sound driver which music you can write with .mml files. I wrote a program that extracts music data from a ROM that uses that sound driver back into .mml, and afterwards into .nsf. Since ATR uses that sound driver, it also works on it as well, here's an example of one song in .mml/.nsf:

https://files.catbox.moe/n9glb1.zip

>>11800172
Damn straight!

Someone should make a romhack of the Zelda oracle games that incorporates all of the cross-game transfer item bullshit into the normal game organically.

>>11799981

Wow that's way better than I expected. Big thanks for that. Not sure if I'll be able to get the CHR-ROM but I can keep trying my luck with my dumper to see if it turns out some good results.

>>11797546
Can you handle 8MB?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDAu0W9lt0g

>>11794053
Yep, I've hit a serious roadblock. Now I can't even modify the stats I modified before on summoned monsters, and changing the LVL1 Ninja's other values had zero effect. Changing every other byte besides the name field should have had an effect, but nothing. I can pick which monster goes in slot 1 more or less, and set HP and AC to insane amounts, but I can't seem to find anything beyond that.
I'm abandoning ship now, no point in spending more time beating my head against a wall. Also getting tired of having to re-do the memory watches in Duckstation. The way it presents data also isn't the most helpful. Anyone have any recommendations for PS1 emulators for debugging/hacking? I'm not exactly holding out hope on something like FCEUX's code/data logger and debugging tools, but Duckstation is very bare-bones.

Does anyone know how often the Chinese make those Saturn Action Replay/Pseudo Saturn Kai carts? I went ahead and ordered a $30 Fenrir clone because at that price I'm willing to be a guinea pig, but I still need a ram/save cart, and every seller on Aliexpress is sold out of the GOOD PSK cart that has all 4 functions in one. You can still find the 3 in 1s and 2 in 1s that do RAM + Action Replay, and RAM + PSK, but the ones that have PSK + 1MB RAM + 4 MB RAM + 8MB Memory Card you can save directly to in some games are all sold out. I don't really want to order the action replay knockoff or 3 in 1s in case the counterfeit Fenrir doesn't work and I end up having to burn CDs.

Aliexpress is full of Saroo though, and I'm worried all the guys who were making 4 in 1s switched to making/selling Saroo. I don't want Saroo because the compatibility, especially for homebrew, is fucking terrible. I don't know if there are really a lot of Saturn guys here, but I figured it was worth a try because I really don't want to make a reddit account to ask those guys.

>https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8988/
>Yu-Gi-Oh romhack
>Get interested
>Check description
>it written by ChatGPT
God, why must I suffer.

Are there any good Kanto Pokemon romhacks nowadays that actually does something other than some enchantment hacks?
>inb4 >>>/vp/
Cmon man, this thread isn't like one of those schizos here, this place is better than this.

>>11800429
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDik58wfz2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABYJgS6SVuQ

>>11800429
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGoAJH2Yd4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDik58wfz2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABYJgS6SVuQ

>>11802119
Adventure Red
Rocket Edition

that's pretty much it

>>11793937 (OP)
>web-based

>>11797497
Don't bother, they crammed too many modern pokemon garbage into the hack, because they can't go without a day without it.

>>11797972
That's been coming out for decades though. Not new

>>11802082
What

>>11802119
>this place is better than this.
Doesn't mean you can bring your /vp/ autism to this already crapped up board.

>>11799107
Still waiting on this one
I envy your Portuguese language.

Does anyone happen to know what music plays in Gemini Man's stage's revisit in Rockman 3 Eternal? https://youtu.be/UUEPWjphjlY?feature=shared&t=1905 31:45

must have accidentally loaded a state when trying to open menu to close the rom and lost 6 hours of FF6 progress. Hope theres invincibility, 1hko and no encounter cheats because screw doing that zone with atmos weapon again. Barely survived with 7 and 9hp. Seething

>>11803197
You could've just hit your rewind bind

>>11802817
Can you read?

any good virtual boy homebrew?

>>11803928
Staring at the sun gives similar results as playing the virtual boy.

I’m going to make a level editor for a game. I hope people make lots of levels for me to play.

I have that Switch 2 Gamecube controller I was wanting to use with dolphin, but it appears jewtendo DRM'd their fucking controller now. I have about two weeks left to return it and was wondering what the realistic turn around time might be for someone making it work for PC? I know darthcloud is doing something, but his updates on github are random.

>>11802061
>the compatibility, especially for homebrew, is fucking terrible.
works on my machine

usb loader gx on the wii keeps deleting my saves or not updating my saves.
I've been playing doubutsu no mori e+ for a few days but every time the day rolls over my last save is ignored. If I save and turn the console off it loads just fine, but if I were to play the game five times on day 2 and then fire the game up on day 3, it would pick up from my fourth play session's save made when the game starts and so resetti shows up. That very last save is always ignored or lost somehow.
I'm not really sure what to do. USB loader uses emulated gc memory cards as the default but is there a way to transfer my save to my real memory card where I might have better luck? Or can dolphin use this save format?

>>11803957
>see someone made a fully featured level editor for Kirby's Adventure 11 years ago
>Oh boy, surely this will lead to lots of romhacks of KA, like how Lunar Magic kicked of SMW hacking
>to date, there have been 4
>one is just every level in the first world stitched together
>another is every level in the game stitched together
>the third is four SMB series levels
>the last is the only one that tries to be a complete and unique hack, and it re-uses some levels from other Kirby games
11 years, two novelties, one copy+paste of four levels from SMB games, and one attempt at an actual new hack. Good luck.

>>11804613
be the change you want to see in the world, make your own levels faggot. someone already did all the hard work for you 11 years ago.

>>11804663
Maybe you should read the post I was replying to instead of just having a spergout? Or understand why I was saying "Good luck." at the end of my post?

>>11803887
Okay but what

>>11799519
This but Rouge Corp demake by wayforward (who later return GBA)

>>11803928
Hyper Fighting (HSF port)

Anyone here ever made an umihara kawase hack?

>>11804997
Anon, real man don’t play that games.

>>11804997
Yes, because real men play that game.
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6355/

>>11802801
That's a damn shame

>>11805216
How do I make one?

Test

>>11801734
I've also been into Gamesharking/patching PS1 games lately. Best setup I've seen so far is Bizhawk, the official(?) emulator of TASvideos: https://tasvideos.org/Bizhawk. It can run a big variety of retro systems, and very powerful once you get used to it

>>11804870
What, what?

>>11804705
Stop making excuses and get to work.

>>11804997
I wanted to make a music hack for the 30th anniversary that replaced a song with the Rambo theme since I thought it would be fitting, but never got around to it due to interest in other projects. It’s doable, though.

>>11805350
If you just want to make new levels, there is an editor called Riverback. I haven’t used it, but I did find it with a quick search online.

>>11805432
>that RAM watch
Oh fuck yes, this is more like it. Duckstation is great for emulating and all, but this is what I need for trying to figure out what the hell is going on in RAM. Thank you anon.

>>11803197
>undo load state
There, fixed it for you

>>11804575
Just use Nintendont, retard

>>11804705
The only one sperging out here is you

There's a new H0D recolor and this one aims to kept the color spectrum of the original but without looking washed out, mind you some tile palettes are still broken, unlike Joanata Guitar's hack

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/9026/

Thanks for beta testing!
https://x.com/falco_girgis/status/1934829364522217882

Oh wow there’s a new umihara hack as of December 2024

>>11804575
Wii U Homebrew

>>11793937 (OP)
So Maria is now playable in PS1 SotN but this faggot has only put the link INSIDE his Discord server. Does anyone have a mirror? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ3BMi2C9kc

>>11807718
>Discord
cancer

>>11807718
Because it's not ready yet. It's going to be publicly released on github when it is.

>>11807718
You got ADHD or something? He said it's not even finished yet, he's playing a preview build that's still full of bugs, and when it's done it'll be a fully public release. Is that what you want? A buggy piece of shit because you can't wait a little while for it to be completed?

>>11807753
lol someone posted the thread in his server

>>11807770
I could, if you really, really want me to. I WAS going to grab the hack for Anon. It's the sole reason I have an account, for bullshit like this, but instead of blindly taking the word of someone from 4chan like a complete Maria Retard I looked at the video first and less than five minutes in he explains that it's not finished, and that it's going to get a public release. Information he conveniently left out in favor of:
>unga bunga DISCORD BAD
So I'm not going to bother. Have some patience.

>>11805467
Huh?

>>11807789
Go back faggot

>>11807753
>releasing beta builds on github bad
>releasing beta builds on discord GOOD

>>11807718
>Speedtranny

>>11806258
Details, anon

>>11806060
>he's still trying
You get bored of pretending to know ASM?

>>11806059
Usb loader gx uses nintendont retard.

>>11804575
buy a flippydrive and play on gamecube

>>11801734
>Anyone have any recommendations for PS1 emulators for debugging/hacking?
I know your pain, Duckstation's debugger is one of the worst out there. PCSX-Redux at least somewhat works, that's all that I can say about it. No, there isn't anything better for the PS1 out there.
https://pcsx-redux.consoledev.net/

This is like, 50% not retro, but between a modded Xbox One or a modded PS3, what's a better choice for retro gaming (up to gen 4, i.e. SNES/Genesis games)? I'm leaning toward the Xbone simply because I already own a PS2, and the PS3's library does not interest me, while I don't own an Xbox/Xbox 360 anymore, and their libraries do interest me. I know the Wii would also be a good choice, but I want something with a blu-ray player so I can watch my boomer movies.
Is there any reason not to get an Xbox One to use as an affordable emu box?

>>11810932
>Unrealistic
she play Nintendo Switch while working in office

>>11810932
Dude, what the fuck does this have anything to do with homebrew or romhacking
How do you retards keep ending up in this general

>>11811140
Emulation on older consoles is a product of homebrew, baka

>>11807789
>i COULD just upload the wip patches like a normal person
>but instead i'll lock it behind this bloated chat platform and you need to join my server and add to my member list so i can pretend to have friends and you need to be a member for one week before you get access to the channel i put the hack in and if i decide i don't like you then you can't be here anymore and hmm you know what maybe i just won't make the patch public at all now wouldn't that be fun i wonder
go back

>>11811304
From what I understand, it's not even on his channel to begin with.

>>11807919
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8821/

>>11793937 (OP)
Should smbarena.com be added to the active communities list?
It's a site dedicated exclusively to SMB1 NES ROMhacks. The site also has over 3600+ entries since it has a big archive of ancient SMB1 hacks.

Also, in other news:
Uh... I think neoromhacking.net is dead, and I'm not talking about the forums. Its domain has been down for a couple of days now.

>>11811862
Sick, thank you!

>>11810932
>This is like, 50% retro
It's retro as long as you're discussing modern ga(y)mes on those platforms, so don't worry anon. Emulation of retro games is always retro.

>>11810932
might as well get a series s, they’re dirt cheap used and have a wildly better cpu for emulation.

>>11810932
>>11812256
missed the blu ray player bit. I just have a dedicated player. I find the Xboxes have really unreliable blu ray applications, my series x refuses to even display 4K discs and sometimes randomly blacks out even on standard ones. they haven’t updated the program since the mid-xb1 days, just get a $40 Sony player on Amazon or something

>>11810932
The wii is the cheapest and easiest to turn into an emu box by using the "letterbomb" exploit so I suggest you go that route. Forget about BluRay.

>>11811140
>Dude, what the fuck does this have anything to do with homebrew or romhacking
Well on the wii in order to even run an emulator you need to install something called the "homebrew channel" so...

>>11810932
>>11812484
>Xbox One
>PS3
>Wii
This general is for the discussion of development on retro consoles. Please kill yourselves immediately.

>>11812260
>missed the blu ray player bit. I just have a dedicated player. I find the Xboxes have really unreliable blu ray applications, my series x refuses to even display 4K discs and sometimes randomly blacks out even on standard ones. they haven’t updated the program since the mid-xb1 days, just get a $40 Sony player on Amazon or something
It's over. I have a dedicated Blu-Ray player but I was hoping to downsize a little. Oh well. Thanks for the heads up.

>>11807794
>Go in deeper

>>11813049
Pardon?

>>11812484
>Wii

Nigga you're overselling it, Wii it's underpowered as hell and 90% of the standalone apps are not optimized

>>11813652
BFC

>>11813662
The wii is alright. I use mine for emulators and shit every so often.

I'm currently playing through Doom for the Saturn with the fix patch v0.2.1.

It's amazing how well it plays. It's not as "pretty" as the PSX version (no colored lighting, looks very drab), but the improved framerate and all restored features/effects are a great sign of things to come. Hopefully, this gets restored completely to match — or maybe even surpass — the PSX version of Doom.

How does one learn how to make romhacks?
I wanna do a sprite restoration in a Gameboy game (got censored in the western release). Hypothetically it should be relatively easy, but idk where to start.

>>11814794
try opening the rom in a program like yychr

>>11814690
How 64doom Homebrew?

>desertrainreads
>genny

>>11811862
this is actually pretty good

>>11816256
Field 02 is diabolical

>>11814794
>How does one learn how to make romhacks?
www.romhacking.net/start is a good start. It links to guides for various different skills one might need for ROM hacking. Its pretty old, though. Some of the specifics are out of date. but all the core concepts haven't changed.

>I wanna do a sprite restoration in a Gameboy game
If you want specific help, you should say what game it is. If the graphics are uncompressed, it may be as easy as copy and pasting graphics in a tile viewer like YY-CHR. If they're compressed or the graphics changes require tilemap editing, you'll have to do some reverse engineering to make any headway. Compression algorithms usually don't change between versions, so it is possible that even if the graphics are compressed, you can get away without having to identify or recreate the compression algorithm by copying the compressed data from one version and pasting it into the other and adjusting the pointers accordingly.

>>11810932
A heads up that even though Retroarch and the like are available on Xbone, you have to pay MS $19 to get access to Xbox Dev Mode. You also have to switch back to Retail Mode each time you want to play Xbox/Xbox 360/Xbox One games, and the backwards compatibility for the original Xbox on Xbone is EXTREMELY limited. The Xbox library might interest you, but that doesn't mean much when you have to play Chicken Little instead of Jet Set Radio Future.

Which Xbox games do interest you, btw?

My goal is to make a level editor for my favorite retro game and convince the world to make romhacks of it for me and just play those for the rest of my life.

>>11816398
>My goal is to make a level editor for my favorite retro game
What is it?

>>11806170

>>11816858
Looks pretty good on a CRT

>>11816398
Just be aware that a level editor alone isn't going to get people to make hacks of a game. There needs to exist people that are big enough fans of the game that they're willing to dedicate their time to making levels.

>>11806170
What do (you) think of it?

Last bump before autosage kicks in.

>>11821551
nope. try again.

>>11797546
>Rondo port
For which console?

>>11801595
Nice!
That video uses the same technique as the Doom Wolfstein port for the SNES?

>>11801595
What is that screenshot from?

>>11821652
One of Project Dream's SNES incarnations. It would eventually become Banjo-Kazooie on N64.

>>11821647
Genesis

>>11821560
What is the criteria for autosage, anyway?

>>11824064
2 weeks. It's a /vr/ specific rule added after an autist kept deleting their own posts to bring threads under quota and bump them again, leaving conversations absolutely mangled