>"Purist" romhack
>changes the balance of the original game so much it's unrecognizable

>romhacks

>difficulty-increase or "remix" romhack
>intended for high-level speedrunners only
>filled with "jokes" for a streaming audience to emote at

>>11826740 (OP)
Name three ROM hacks

>>11826763
that's actually fine because most nintendo games are scaled difficulty for little children

i can't play final fantasy without something kicking my ass anymore

>A purist's enhancement of Pokémon Red, Green, and Blue based on the pokered disassembly.
>It makes the bulk of the 151 original pokemon all more obtainable and usable in the early game, with better movesets and more balanced stats.

The problem with romhacks is it's always fixes of games that are good and people played fine for years.

>>11826740 (OP)
They never said what it was purely of... purely bullshit.

>>11826783
yeah, but the fixes makes them better now that im going to play them, and that's all that matters

>>11826763
The restoration LttP romhack massively increases bomb and arrow max counts and allows peg boot turning

>>11826783
idk mane there's some Castlevania 2 hacks that make the game way better. I want to try some Zelda 2 hacks but haven't found one I actually like yet.

>>11826748
fpbp

>>11826781
How is this bad?

>>11826783
There is an extreme amount of ego involved with some of these "fix" and "improvement" patches. Like why do I care what some lone fag on the internet thinks is an improvement? Some are genuinely useful but things like adjusting balance and difficulty are cringe and make me think the creator is a salty loser who is mad the game killed him.

>>11827050
>Says it's a purist romhack
>Makes major changes to the game's balance and progression

>>11826781
>>11827130
>You don't get it, i ENJOY eating shit!
God forbid you don't need to get licktung by trading a slowbro 7 badges in.

>>11827164
I mean make your dream romhack if you want but don't call it purist

>>11827072
usually romhacks make the game way harder

are you going to start bitching about idtech mods next

>>11826763
Super Mario Bros 2 The Lost Levels
Pokemon Yellow
Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask.

>>11827168
It's purist because it doesn't aim to change the inner workings or plot of RBY.

>>11826740 (OP)
and thats a good thing
>t. ffvii new threat enjoyer

>game has unskippable dialog
>see romhack called "skippable dialog"
>changes: Allows you to skip dialog, rebalances certain enemies so they do less damage, rebalances player character so they receive less damage, changed music to placeholder tracks from Japanese prototype, made dialog gender neutral, increased player weapon range, decreased enemy weapon range, changed sprites to match shitty sprites from last years remake, and many others. View Readme for all changes.

>>11827219
no one does this

provide one real example

>>11827221
>no one does this
Prove that they don't.

>>11827228
yeah i'm going to look at every single romhack on the planet when you need to provide one (1 (I)) hack to prove your point

absence of evidence is not evidence

>>11827229
So you just make a baseless claim about my post and fail to back it up? Tsk tsk, not the way you should try to start a discussion. Do some more research next time, pal. :)

>>11827234
you nintendodlers are the worst, what are you going to start bitching about next. doom mods? starcraft UMS? i think i'm just gonna hide this thread

>>11827238
>romhacked anon
>changes: anon is now analy devastated
Kek

Why is this thread a thing when you can just play the original game?

>>11826783
there are a fair amount of romhacks that try to improve unpolished but kinda interesting games like quest 64. Tends to skew heavy nintendo stuff and rpgs though

>>11827193
kek

>>11826759
Geofront

>>11826740 (OP)
What is PureRGB, for a $350 Switch 2, Alex?
https://youtu.be/H548ZutSuNY

Stop posting 25 year old college dropout reaction faces please, thank you.

>>11826781
>better movesets and more balanced stats.
Dogwhistle for the Smogay agenda

>>11827193
For me? It's Kirby's Dream Land 2

>>11826748
>giving a fuck about "devs intentions"

the devs were incompetent dweebs rushing to deadlines, meddled with by executives, held back by shitty hardware and dev software, phoning it in and padding things out to combat the rental market, pandering to faggot reviewers, etc... most devs can't even beat their own game.

fuck the devs original intentions. They're not genius art gods or mozart or devenci, they're just desk jockeys phoning it in. The fans who actually played the game know better. cope

>>11827193
and majora is the only one of those that is a good romhack

>>11827217
Is that good? I've never tried it. RPG hard hacks tend to just be grinding

>>11827535
its great. its not overly difficult, I never had to grind. there is a seperate hard mode you can enable but the standard difficulty is good for me. just enough to make you sweat a bit during boss fights and think about your materia set ups. there is a lot of new and extra content as well as QOL stuff too and I thought they were all positive changes. for example you now spec stat growth for your characters leading them into different roles, you can choose your date at gold saucer, theres a bunch of new post game missions for ultimate weapons and limit breaks, you can change your party leader to tifa or cid. personally it totally replaces vanilla for me. Id reccomend 1.5 over 2.0 though, no clue why but he removed a bunch of content from 2.

>>11827534
>this much butthurt over one word and one symbol

>>11826740 (OP)
> goes out of his way to play garbage rom hacks created by retards using a hex editor
> even creates a 4chan thread about it

>>11827534
> lamer crying because nobody likes his sad rom hacks

>>11826740 (OP)
>Purist romhack
This is an oxymoron.

>>11826740 (OP)
>human fleck of shit needs "romhacks" to play game
have you considered kys?

>>11827534
human fleck of shit

vanilla final fantasy and pokemon are actually unplayable after youve tried (1) decent romhack of them.

It's quite amusing that any fan content for anything that isn't a beautiful fanart or some meme comic will always be seen as of little value but still be judged by much higher standards than the original thing, even if so much of the game's code was changed to the point where it barely ressembles what used to be there, people here and there will still call it a lazy product.
It has to change something big to justify its existence but also not change TOO MUCH so it doesn't feel like a completely different game, with the line separating both extremes being paper thin.
And even if those conditions were to be met, the hack will only be considered "acceptable" outside of youtube circlejerking.

>>11827423
The stuff that was changed such as useless moves or bad pokemon you would have never used in the original game if it wasn't changed. Why care?

>>11826781
>>11827425
You would have fun if you actually played it instead of making incorrect assumptions