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RaikohZX Anyone tried it on SNES mini yet? I think it could pull off double speed. It can handle Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike at full speed with vsync on after all. Worth a try!
I just watched this video after watching a different video game related one, but as a Japanese viewer I really appreciate the way you do your best to pronounce Japanese names and titles correctly.
@Joe Blow It's even stranger when you live in Australia like me and hear people that have learned english as a second language but been taught to pronounce things with an American accent, in a country where that accent is jarring at the best of times
@@samcawley7608 Well, kinda makes sense. Who's the #1 exporter of English language entertainment in the world? Hollywood. We are simply exposed to American accents more than any other. I try to speak British whenever I speak English, but I'm pretty sure it's probably closer to a mish-mash between British and American. With the occasional Australian sprinkled in, and a Flemish accent layered on top. ;)
The best thing about Secret of Mana patches is that they work on top of one another. You can have the much appreciated scrolling patch with the character width patch, and so on. You can make the ultimate version and play it on the SNES Mini, instead of the og rom that's built in.
I played the retranslated version of Breath of Fire II a year ago. The new translation makes a huge difference and makes the game much more enjoyable. Anyone who hasn't played it, I recommend you give it a shot.
In that case the game will suffer if it gets put on the Switch Online Service since it will have the bad translation. Luckily I have it on my SNES Classic as well.
It really can't be overstated how awful the original localization was. Much of the game really is just one level above unintelligible gibberish. The better fonts and spacing also makes the menus soooooo much better. Once you've played the retranslation it really is impossible to go back to the original, which is a real shame whenever capcom rereleases it.
yes i love that it was fixed legit too, and can run on a real snes, and no special chip was used (although i do think using the SA-1 chip is legit too as long as it can run on a real snes, because it was a snes chip used from those days. but people should try to fix slowdown without a chip first. i bet the bad programming prevented Gradius 3 from being fixed without the SA-1, but i feel the snes could run it without the chip, if the team who made rendering ranger r2 or space megaforce did it). i consider super ghouls n ghost and Gradius 3 officially fixed (think of it as a DLC patch, becuase it can run on real hardware) amazing. i just wish developers would start making new snes games, and make a proper final fight, 2 players, 5 on screen enemies, no slowdown, etc. i don'y know why companies don't make games for these systems as popular as they still are
i think the guy who fixed Gradius 3 might be working on Contra 3 now. he's working on a cool mario game too i believe, that has tons of sprites on screen at once, and maxed out huge bullet bills, etc on screen with the SA-1 chip
@Apharmd Battler Final Fight 1 is what i'm talking about. FF2 kinda sucks imo and isn't worth saving. with the right creator/delevoper, it can be done. Turtles in Time can get 2 players, 4 foot soldiers, and 5 mousers all on screen at once, with no slowdown. Rendering Ranger R2 and Space megaforce as well does stuff that's well beyond 5 on screen enemies for FF1. the snes is capable(and these games even with the screwed up coding can be fixed with the SA-1 chip) super ghouls n ghosts was fixed without the help of a chip(so the snes was always capable)
@Apharmd Battler no, turtles in time doesn't have slowdown when you get 9 enemies on screen at once(some flicker), not even in 2 player mode. that's 11 fighting sprites at once, with no chip, and no slowdown. aside from that happening in the technodrome(and yes the mousers absolutely are supposed to come out there, and the game runs fine even if 5 come out with 4 foot soldiers, and 2 turtles), there's also the prehistoric turtlesaurus level where 4 foot soldiers and a few Dinos can be on screen at once(no slowdown), and star base has 4 foot soldiers and 4 robots at once, no slowdown. the game runs super smooth through all that. and you saying Rendering Ranger is no big deal, you're just a snes hater bad then, wtf. no sense in talking to you you'll dismiss everything. there's also pop'n twin bee, smash tv, sunset riders, super nova, firepower 2000. but you're just gonna dismiss these too, so don't bother. why are you even getting involved in this? like if you don't want any of this to happen, then go somewhere else where we're not talking about it. genesis fanboy i bet
There are SOOO many quality of life improvement hacks, honestly you romhackers who do this for little to no pay are seriously living legends, you guys are the best. -Contra III restores final boss on normal and cheat codes -Harvest Moon Intuitive Ranch Master; -Highscore saves in Tetris & Dr. Mario -Fire Emblem Binary -Breath of FIre II Rebalancing -Megaman 7 Refit & Restoration -Kirby Air Bullet Patch -Arcana - Seal of Rimsala (Rebalancing, FastRom) -Megaman X Air Dash -Zombies Ate My Neighbors Reverse Inventory Cycling
Improvement patches are awesome, so glad you made a video about them! I've been playing an improved Shin Megami Tensei patch for awhile now that reworked the names of spells, demons, and their races to that of the modern games. It even fixed major bugs like this one where you couldn't buy a gun at the very first shop near your house.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this! The links are so appreciated! I've been dying to play the Gradius III SA-1 patch, but was having trouble finding reliable info!
I think you mentioned the Breath of Fire II patch before. I wanna thank you for that! I've played the game when it was released and was pretty annoyed by the translation (back then my english was solid at best). Last year I patched it due to your recommendation and played it on my SNES Mini. It's a really big improvement. So thanks for introducing me to the patch and thanks to the guy who did the new translation.
Maybe balance/difficulty patches are stretching yr definition of "improvement" but Chrono Trigger Level Zero is by far my favourite way to play CT. It's not a stupid grindy difficulty patch, it just disables levelling and rebalances the gameplay accordingly so that u only progress via equipment and techs. It mostly just makes the strategies that were already there more necessary. I'd definitely recommend it for anyone replaying Chrono Trigger but also maybe even for JRPG veterans playing it for the first time.
Is it bad that I love the BoF2 original translation? It just feels so genuine, even if it's clunky and weird as hell. It's like they're putting forward raw emotion without the need of more than the most basic of words. Probably nostalgia goggles speaking, but man I love it.
Very good video idea and I'd like to see a sequel to this in the future! One of my favorite balance patches is one for Secret of Evermore. It works along with the 2 player patch and you might argue it makes too many changes but considering how unbalanced the game originally was, I welcome it. Some things are shared XP with certain alchemy formulas so that you have incentive to use the new spell you get rather than just using the old one forever since you invested so much time into leveling it. Just a lot more balanced in general.
Here's an idea that I'm surprised nobody has done. A Super Mario RPG hack or patch that fixes the various mistranslated names. For some reason, the translators for the game used the Japanese names for certain enemies items & locations, as well as weird names that always bothered me as a kid. For example: Yoshi's Island is referred to its then Japanese of Yo'ster isle, Cheep Cheep is Goby, Koopa Shells use their Japanese names of Nokonoko shells, Kamek (red Magikoopa) is just a nameless Magikoopa, despite referencing the events of Yoshi's Island & Exor's mouth is inexplicably called "NeoSquid".
The name Yoster Island was already out of date, since the Yoshi's Island game, released a year before RPG, called it Yossy Island. Toadstool's name should also be changed to Peach, a retcon from Super Mario 64 (which came out the same year as RPG).
There's a rom hack that does this now created a few months ago. My previous comment got removed for using a link I think, but it's the same site as most of the hacks in the description.
Great video, for you next improvement patches video I would recommend: "Yoshi's Island - No Crying, Improved SFX and Red Coins" and "Mega Man X3 - Zero Project V4.0 (Base Mod)"
@@nfectedpsychosis why won't anyone feed the little troll? A little troll all alone, crying for attention. Heartless people. Oh, poor little troll! So tiny, weak and helpless. Poor you! Have some food: "But not everyone is as good in games as you are" Feel better about yourself and your life now? Hope so 😊
These kinds of videos are great! I love learning about fan efforts to improve old games, having been playing re-translated JRPGs for over a decade now.
it is amazing, i've been having a blast with it. a lot of just using gmae genie and getting as much on screen and seeing no slowdown, ever, not a once. so impressive now. hope to see many more legit slowdown fixes for other games. sparkster, castlevania 4, r-type, etc
Fantastic idea for a video! I love to find out about patches like these. That Gradius patch left me speechless for a moment! Not exactly an improvement, but I love the Ancient Cave patch of FFV for those times when I don't want to replay the whole game, but still have some fun with its great job system in a shorter playthrough.
ive played and beaten BoF 2 so many times. one day I will bust in that patch and replay it. excellent showing us these much needed things. Keep em coming if u run outta video ideas cuz this was fun to watch.
There's also an "air bullet patch" for Kirby's Dreamland 3 that keeps Kirby's horizontal momentum when they exhale. KDL3 is the only Kirby game where this happens so maybe it was a bug to begin with.
This is an awesome video. I'm always trying to find what patches or changes are out there for games to kind of make them their ultimate or definitive versions. I hope you do more of these and I hope you have a fantastic day as well.
When i was watching the Gradius slow down fix, i was like... holy shit they must have a no slow down StarFox patch. ..and then the ending.... I really enjoyed this video. Surely will look into it.
How is it possible that you make 8 minutes go by so fast!! By the end I was actually hoping for more. Couldn't believe it!! Good job dude!! Always keen to see your videos.
The Gradius III patch is unreal for sure. Haha, it's probably impossible but I would kill for a patch that would allow for a proper port Final Fight with Guy as a third optional character and two player simultaneous play. I know there is dozens of ways now to play arcade perfect FF but an SNES remake would sort of heal a sore spot on the SNES' legacy. This was an awesome video, thanks dude!!
Kevin Nunes *There's an unfinished patch for FFG that adds Cody and 2 player co-op. The team is busy doing a 3 player arcade version of FF called 30th Anniversary.*
I had most of these on my SNES Classic. Very fun to have games fixed, especially SG&G and Gradius III. Lots of good improvement patches on Genesis too. Color improvement patch for TMNT: Hyperstone Heist, voice improvement patch for SF2:SCE, Sonic 3 Complete, Contra: Hard Corps Life Bar hack.
You can actually do the Super FX overclock without Retroarch on the SNES mini. It's a function in Hackchi. You just add the command to the command line portion of the game before syncing it over!
Helpful to learn about these fixes, makes the snes library a bit more complex to find the right one to download. Thanks for the info! Also was stoked with secret of evermore about the dog, sad it wasnt multiplayer as well.
"bsnes" emulator is a real improvement for SNES games. It let you overclock the CPU so all the games run smoother, but without causing the ingame's animation to speed up unintentionally. It have feature to enhance MODE 7 and display the graphic in HD too. F-Zero and Mario Kart looks amazing in it. This emulator make me want to go back and play a bunch of games because of the improved experience. It still have some bugs at the moment though.
Great video! Would have helped to see a side by side comparison of the original and then with the hack so we could see the differences. I didnt even know these hacks existed. Unbelievable!
A couple of things: 1. Floating IPS is both a better BPS and IPS patcher, and that means you only need to fiddle around with one app for the majority of hacks out there (UPS and XDelta are ever more rare these days with the SNES). 2. It's very important to look at whether the patch requires a header or not. I suggest using TUSH for adding/removing headers if it's needed to apply a patch, it's as one-click as it gets for that utility. 3. Bsnes-mercury is completely obseleted by Bsnes HD, which is a further updated version of Bsnes that's also faster and with HD Mode 7 options. Also the SNES9x core can overclock SuperFX if your comptuer is too slow.
@@acmnin2146 Perhaps, but the header ordeal is mostly for older patches anyway. Almost everything is non-headered nowadays, and usually if a patch is old enough to require one you can just add it to a copy of what you already have.
the Gradius 3 (SA-1 fix), and Super Ghouls n Ghosts restoration are amazing, because the people who did it made sure they could run on a real snes. so they are legitimately fixed authentic snes games now(basically they got a DLC patch). it's so awesome they're off the slowdown plagued list now! anything the snes can't really run i'm not interested in
Thanks for posting this video. I have been wanting my wife to play Secret of Evermore with me, and the two player patch was something I always wanted. Its great!
Another great video. Excellent way to know about improvements on snes games. No doubt I will play this version Secret of Mana with the scrolling fix. Thanks!
This is a pretty cool video. I'd heard of a couple of the re-translation patches and that's about it, so nice to find some other applications of romhacks that improve games.
Jeez, all I ever wanted was a version of SGnG without slowdown. I've heard "Capcom Generation: Dai 2 Shuu Makai to Kishi" has a version without slowdown, but that's on the Playstation. It's nice to get a patch for the original!
For any fellow 7th Saga fans, the 7th Saga redux patch is a massive improvement - correcting the game breaking bug of stunted stat growth in the Western localization, and also doing some sensible balance tweaking. Highly recommended.
There is also a cool Hardmode rom for Seiken Densetsu3, it makes enemys tougher but also makes the agi and luck stat work. In addition the equipment is more important and gives bonuses. I must say the tough mod destroys your party when unprepared, levelling is more important tough.
You know. I found these videos today.. And honestly. Im impressed. I never really knew this was a thing. I knew you could patch games with the translations of a game. Since you cant always find the translated rom online.. well. Back when i was big on these games. .. Probably should. I still need to perfect my rom collection. But this... This is something that actualy is making me interested again in these games. Because if this can be done for some of them. Like Star Fox. That game especialy. Slow down was a big flaw of that game. As if doesnt feel.. Good to play a game that is less than 30 fps. 60 fps, sure, but for older games. 30 is the minimum atm for me. So will have to look things up. Thanks for this.
That Star Fox trick works on the ZSNES emulator too, without having to tweak any settings. It's always ran at max speed for me on my laptop...and it's awesome too, the game is so much more fun and playable.
Something hilarious I wanted to bring up, is that when Super Ghouls and Ghosts got ported to the PS2 in a Capcom Collection, they patched out all the slow down. Same with the MegaMan X collection.
The secret of evermore one was pretty interesting because it wasn't ever intended to be multiplayer so its quite asymmetric The dog tends to be quite physically durable but can't cast magic but also the players need to coordinate their sniffing to find reagents The dog can also leave the screen entirely which opens up some interesting gameplay possibilities
I watched a streamer play BoF2 with the re-translation patch you featured and it was pretty nice. BoF2 was my first rpg so my rose tinted goggles tell me its not as nice but I know that isn't true. The charm of the original will always be wonderful for me but now I gotta play it with the patch.
If you ever do a sequel to this video, please talk about Stunt race FX. That game is a tragedy in the fact that nobody really got to play what the developers had in mind. It benefits from overclocking more than any other game in my opinion. A decent frame rate is what that game always deserved.
Just a heads up for the Scrolling Fix on Secret of Mana has a game breaking bug where if you bring up your menu while one of your characters if off the screen it makes your menu enter cycle loop that you can't get out of. I had 5 breaks during the first 10 hours and lost an entire dungeon's progress twice. So I ended up removing it as awesome as it is to make the flow of the game feel better, if you need to heal on the fly and open your menu with out thinking when a character hasn't come down to your screen, you are done.
I used to use these patches all the time back in the EARLY 2000's to get like Seiken Densetsu Secret of Mana 3 to play on my Emulators and such. MP patches are great when you have friends to play with lol
Great video! Your last point, the Starfox over lock, can be achieved on the SNES mini by editing a command line in hakchi for the same result as your video :D
I just had to watch this cos Cybernator was in the titles! I lived that game and really made me feel thankful for being bought a snes and not a megadrive when I was a pup 🤣
love it when I end up with a list of new games to try from one of your videos.. the romhack recommendations are appreciated! I've used the superFX turbo function on MiSTer's SNES core, and it does work very well. speeds up the game a bit but thats okay because starfox is actually really easy once you learn the levels. Vitor was just talking about his interest in romhacks for the super-fx games to help speed them up without the need of emulator hacks, also. I believe his next release is Contra III for sa-1 though, so keep an eye out for that too =)
I completely forgot that Secret of Evermore wasn’t 2 player. I could swear my brother and I played it together, but I guess I only watched him back then. I played through it again last year and must say it’s a fun story and I wish they would make a (better) sequel.
I always wanted there to be a screen-scrolling patch for Aladdin and Mega Turrican on Genesis. I love both games, but sometimes it feels like you have to be right at the edge to scroll .
Two ROM hacks I want: Contra 3 but it skips the birds eye view stages A Chrono Trigger hack that puts the party into winter clothes while they’re in the future.
Good idea, though I'd apply it to Antiquity as well, since that time period is in an ice age. Tales of Eternia did that, had the cast put on winter clothing before climbing a mountain.
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Damn, that overclocked Star Fox would genuinely make it a real challenging adrenaline rush.
Scrolled down just to say basically that
Certainly looks incredible and presumably it can be applied other Super Fx games too,the few that exist anyways.
i think star fox looks fine how it is. i dunno, something about the graphics to me still looks awesome. still very playable and still a great game
Would be even greater if the resolution could be increased.
RaikohZX Anyone tried it on SNES mini yet? I think it could pull off double speed. It can handle Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike at full speed with vsync on after all. Worth a try!
I just watched this video after watching a different video game related one, but as a Japanese viewer I really appreciate the way you do your best to pronounce Japanese names and titles correctly.
@Joe Blow It's even stranger when you live in Australia like me and hear people that have learned english as a second language but been taught to pronounce things with an American accent, in a country where that accent is jarring at the best of times
@@samcawley7608 Well, kinda makes sense. Who's the #1 exporter of English language entertainment in the world? Hollywood. We are simply exposed to American accents more than any other.
I try to speak British whenever I speak English, but I'm pretty sure it's probably closer to a mish-mash between British and American. With the occasional Australian sprinkled in, and a Flemish accent layered on top. ;)
He also pronounced the brazilian name correctly
@@diegocrusius Ei, vc sabe dizer se esses jogos modificados são possíveis de ter em cartucho?
tenho everdrive e rodo essas roms no meu mega drive sem problemas. Me procure se precisar de mais ajuda
improvement and QoL patches are the BEST
The best thing about Secret of Mana patches is that they work on top of one another. You can have the much appreciated scrolling patch with the character width patch, and so on. You can make the ultimate version and play it on the SNES Mini, instead of the og rom that's built in.
I just can't be bothered with multiple patches. I'd like to download one ROM with everything pre-patched.
destroyermaker
get ready to get viruses
@@-roejogan- I love viruses.
destroyermaker it's not hard to patch it yourself. You could have it done in minutes.
If a game needs so many patches, it cannot be the masterpiece many people believe it to be, right?
After pulling a 12 hour nightshift while sick it's nice to watch a new Snes drunk video before bed.
Too true. It's a real nice surprise!
12 hours? Oof. Is it at least possible for you to get a nap in there at some point?
Literally same
Except I'm watching after I slept
I played the retranslated version of Breath of Fire II a year ago. The new translation makes a huge difference and makes the game much more enjoyable. Anyone who hasn't played it, I recommend you give it a shot.
Guess I will have to dust off my old emu and rom to check it out. BoF 1 and 2 were long time favs of mine.
In that case the game will suffer if it gets put on the Switch Online Service since it will have the bad translation. Luckily I have it on my SNES Classic as well.
I always loved the old translation of Breath of Fire 2... so it would be interesting to see if this patch makes it better.
I really want to play it, but I don't really understand how to apply the patch lol
It really can't be overstated how awful the original localization was. Much of the game really is just one level above unintelligible gibberish.
The better fonts and spacing also makes the menus soooooo much better.
Once you've played the retranslation it really is impossible to go back to the original, which is a real shame whenever capcom rereleases it.
There was no random slowdown in Gradius III, it was the entire game
Yes there WAS random slowdown in gracious 3. It was NOT the entire game
@@firestriker3580 *SCANNING FOR SENSE OF HUMOR* ... *NONE DETECTED*
This is also valid for starfox lol the original game is unplayable
@@hil449 strongly disagree there. star fox is a classic, and still really fun
@@hil449 Maybe If You're playing keeping in mind the polygonal Playstation games lol. For it's time star Fox was really good and fun
That Super Ghouls N Ghosts fix is a dream come true for me. I'm definitely going to have to check that out.
yes i love that it was fixed legit too, and can run on a real snes, and no special chip was used (although i do think using the SA-1 chip is legit too as long as it can run on a real snes, because it was a snes chip used from those days. but people should try to fix slowdown without a chip first. i bet the bad programming prevented Gradius 3 from being fixed without the SA-1, but i feel the snes could run it without the chip, if the team who made rendering ranger r2 or space megaforce did it). i consider super ghouls n ghost and Gradius 3 officially fixed (think of it as a DLC patch, becuase it can run on real hardware) amazing. i just wish developers would start making new snes games, and make a proper final fight, 2 players, 5 on screen enemies, no slowdown, etc. i don'y know why companies don't make games for these systems as popular as they still are
i think the guy who fixed Gradius 3 might be working on Contra 3 now. he's working on a cool mario game too i believe, that has tons of sprites on screen at once, and maxed out huge bullet bills, etc on screen with the SA-1 chip
@Apharmd Battler Final Fight 1 is what i'm talking about. FF2 kinda sucks imo and isn't worth saving. with the right creator/delevoper, it can be done. Turtles in Time can get 2 players, 4 foot soldiers, and 5 mousers all on screen at once, with no slowdown. Rendering Ranger R2 and Space megaforce as well does stuff that's well beyond 5 on screen enemies for FF1. the snes is capable(and these games even with the screwed up coding can be fixed with the SA-1 chip) super ghouls n ghosts was fixed without the help of a chip(so the snes was always capable)
@Apharmd Battler no, turtles in time doesn't have slowdown when you get 9 enemies on screen at once(some flicker), not even in 2 player mode. that's 11 fighting sprites at once, with no chip, and no slowdown. aside from that happening in the technodrome(and yes the mousers absolutely are supposed to come out there, and the game runs fine even if 5 come out with 4 foot soldiers, and 2 turtles), there's also the prehistoric turtlesaurus level where 4 foot soldiers and a few Dinos can be on screen at once(no slowdown), and star base has 4 foot soldiers and 4 robots at once, no slowdown. the game runs super smooth through all that. and you saying Rendering Ranger is no big deal, you're just a snes hater bad then, wtf. no sense in talking to you you'll dismiss everything. there's also pop'n twin bee, smash tv, sunset riders, super nova, firepower 2000. but you're just gonna dismiss these too, so don't bother. why are you even getting involved in this? like if you don't want any of this to happen, then go somewhere else where we're not talking about it. genesis fanboy i bet
@Apharmd Battler yea, pretty much all
pce shooters are more impressive than RR R2, yea sure there buddy. we're not talking anymore
There are SOOO many quality of life improvement hacks, honestly you romhackers who do this for little to no pay are seriously living legends, you guys are the best.
-Contra III restores final boss on normal and cheat codes
-Harvest Moon Intuitive Ranch Master;
-Highscore saves in Tetris & Dr. Mario
-Fire Emblem Binary
-Breath of FIre II Rebalancing
-Megaman 7 Refit & Restoration
-Kirby Air Bullet Patch
-Arcana - Seal of Rimsala (Rebalancing, FastRom)
-Megaman X Air Dash
-Zombies Ate My Neighbors Reverse Inventory Cycling
Improvement patches are awesome, so glad you made a video about them! I've been playing an improved Shin Megami Tensei patch for awhile now that reworked the names of spells, demons, and their races to that of the modern games. It even fixed major bugs like this one where you couldn't buy a gun at the very first shop near your house.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this! The links are so appreciated! I've been dying to play the Gradius III SA-1 patch, but was having trouble finding reliable info!
I think you mentioned the Breath of Fire II patch before. I wanna thank you for that! I've played the game when it was released and was pretty annoyed by the translation (back then my english was solid at best). Last year I patched it due to your recommendation and played it on my SNES Mini. It's a really big improvement. So thanks for introducing me to the patch and thanks to the guy who did the new translation.
That Star Fox patch looks almost wrong with how smooth it is lol
Maybe balance/difficulty patches are stretching yr definition of "improvement" but Chrono Trigger Level Zero is by far my favourite way to play CT. It's not a stupid grindy difficulty patch, it just disables levelling and rebalances the gameplay accordingly so that u only progress via equipment and techs. It mostly just makes the strategies that were already there more necessary. I'd definitely recommend it for anyone replaying Chrono Trigger but also maybe even for JRPG veterans playing it for the first time.
Too bad I just replayed CT a month ago. :(
Any links to gameplay? Nothing shows up on TH-cam.
I know it's the internet and all, but watching something familiar while I'm away on business was real nice. Thanks.
Wow, never knew this stuff existed! Seeing these old games run with these improvements is pretty mind blowing, thank you for sharing!
Is it bad that I love the BoF2 original translation? It just feels so genuine, even if it's clunky and weird as hell. It's like they're putting forward raw emotion without the need of more than the most basic of words.
Probably nostalgia goggles speaking, but man I love it.
Nope. Not weird at all... it's one of my personal favorites even though it gets silly grindy in places, the storyline is among the best.
@@trave5779 Yeah. It's really meandering in the middle, but the start and ending are so dang strong.
Very good video idea and I'd like to see a sequel to this in the future! One of my favorite balance patches is one for Secret of Evermore. It works along with the 2 player patch and you might argue it makes too many changes but considering how unbalanced the game originally was, I welcome it. Some things are shared XP with certain alchemy formulas so that you have incentive to use the new spell you get rather than just using the old one forever since you invested so much time into leveling it. Just a lot more balanced in general.
Here's an idea that I'm surprised nobody has done. A Super Mario RPG hack or patch that fixes the various mistranslated names. For some reason, the translators for the game used the Japanese names for certain enemies items & locations, as well as weird names that always bothered me as a kid.
For example: Yoshi's Island is referred to its then Japanese of Yo'ster isle, Cheep Cheep is Goby, Koopa Shells use their Japanese names of Nokonoko shells, Kamek (red Magikoopa) is just a nameless Magikoopa, despite referencing the events of Yoshi's Island & Exor's mouth is inexplicably called "NeoSquid".
The name Yoster Island was already out of date, since the Yoshi's Island game, released a year before RPG, called it Yossy Island.
Toadstool's name should also be changed to Peach, a retcon from Super Mario 64 (which came out the same year as RPG).
There's a rom hack that does this now created a few months ago. My previous comment got removed for using a link I think, but it's the same site as most of the hacks in the description.
Great video, for you next improvement patches video I would recommend: "Yoshi's Island - No Crying, Improved SFX and Red Coins" and "Mega Man X3 - Zero Project V4.0 (Base Mod)"
Omg i can finaly play Yoshi's Island, i just couldnt handle the crying. Thanx for the tip😃
I'm worried if I play Yoshi's Island through the stereo the neighbours would call the police thinking there's a starving child abandoned in my house..
Worried about Mario crying? Don’t get hit, scrubs
@@nfectedpsychosis why won't anyone feed the little troll? A little troll all alone, crying for attention. Heartless people.
Oh, poor little troll! So tiny, weak and helpless. Poor you!
Have some food:
"But not everyone is as good in games as you are"
Feel better about yourself and your life now? Hope so 😊
@@edmilsoneletrica You sounds like a bigger idiot than the "troll" is.
I'm always amazed that you keep finding new and interesting content on the SNES
These kinds of videos are great! I love learning about fan efforts to improve old games, having been playing re-translated JRPGs for over a decade now.
Thank you for linking these patches in the description, its annoying how many people don't actually do that.
It's annoying how people are too inept to do a simple search on Google to find these patches.
The Gradius III footage made me speechless! I want the SA-1 chip applied to ALL the SNES games!!!
wow, that Gradius III hack is amazing! and very much needed
it is amazing, i've been having a blast with it. a lot of just using gmae genie and getting as much on screen and seeing no slowdown, ever, not a once. so impressive now. hope to see many more legit slowdown fixes for other games. sparkster, castlevania 4, r-type, etc
Fantastic idea for a video! I love to find out about patches like these. That Gradius patch left me speechless for a moment!
Not exactly an improvement, but I love the Ancient Cave patch of FFV for those times when I don't want to replay the whole game, but still have some fun with its great job system in a shorter playthrough.
ive played and beaten BoF 2 so many times. one day I will bust in that patch and replay it. excellent showing us these much needed things. Keep em coming if u run outta video ideas cuz this was fun to watch.
There's also an "air bullet patch" for Kirby's Dreamland 3 that keeps Kirby's horizontal momentum when they exhale. KDL3 is the only Kirby game where this happens so maybe it was a bug to begin with.
You wouldn't happen to know where I could find this, could you?
Massive thank-you for this, couldn't find it on romhacking or google
This is an awesome video. I'm always trying to find what patches or changes are out there for games to kind of make them their ultimate or definitive versions.
I hope you do more of these and I hope you have a fantastic day as well.
When i was watching the Gradius slow down fix, i was like... holy shit they must have a no slow down StarFox patch. ..and then the ending....
I really enjoyed this video. Surely will look into it.
How is it possible that you make 8 minutes go by so fast!!
By the end I was actually hoping for more. Couldn't believe it!! Good job dude!!
Always keen to see your videos.
The Gradius III patch is unreal for sure.
Haha, it's probably impossible but I would kill for a patch that would allow for a proper port Final Fight with Guy as a third optional character and two player simultaneous play. I know there is dozens of ways now to play arcade perfect FF but an SNES remake would sort of heal a sore spot on the SNES' legacy.
This was an awesome video, thanks dude!!
Kevin Nunes *There's an unfinished patch for FFG that adds Cody and 2 player co-op. The team is busy doing a 3 player arcade version of FF called 30th Anniversary.*
For the SNES? WOW that's amazing!!! :O
The Cybernator improvement is awesome.
In the US version, all "anime" vignettes/portraits were completely disposed of...
I didn't even realize they were supposed to be there, it was pretty confusing and I ended up largely not paying attention to the text when I played.
I had most of these on my SNES Classic. Very fun to have games fixed, especially SG&G and Gradius III. Lots of good improvement patches on Genesis too. Color improvement patch for TMNT: Hyperstone Heist, voice improvement patch for SF2:SCE, Sonic 3 Complete, Contra: Hard Corps Life Bar hack.
You can actually do the Super FX overclock without Retroarch on the SNES mini. It's a function in Hackchi. You just add the command to the command line portion of the game before syncing it over!
Helpful to learn about these fixes, makes the snes library a bit more complex to find the right one to download. Thanks for the info! Also was stoked with secret of evermore about the dog, sad it wasnt multiplayer as well.
"bsnes" emulator is a real improvement for SNES games. It let you overclock the CPU so all the games run smoother, but without causing the ingame's animation to speed up unintentionally. It have feature to enhance MODE 7 and display the graphic in HD too. F-Zero and Mario Kart looks amazing in it. This emulator make me want to go back and play a bunch of games because of the improved experience. It still have some bugs at the moment though.
I helped with the BoF2 translation grammar. It's exciting to see it featured so thank you for bringing attention to it!
Great video! Would have helped to see a side by side comparison of the original and then with the hack so we could see the differences. I didnt even know these hacks existed. Unbelievable!
A couple of things: 1. Floating IPS is both a better BPS and IPS patcher, and that means you only need to fiddle around with one app for the majority of hacks out there (UPS and XDelta are ever more rare these days with the SNES).
2. It's very important to look at whether the patch requires a header or not. I suggest using TUSH for adding/removing headers if it's needed to apply a patch, it's as one-click as it gets for that utility.
3. Bsnes-mercury is completely obseleted by Bsnes HD, which is a further updated version of Bsnes that's also faster and with HD Mode 7 options. Also the SNES9x core can overclock SuperFX if your comptuer is too slow.
Just find a good source for Roms and you don’t have to worry about adding or removing headers. Just get the type you need.
@@acmnin2146 Perhaps, but the header ordeal is mostly for older patches anyway. Almost everything is non-headered nowadays, and usually if a patch is old enough to require one you can just add it to a copy of what you already have.
the Gradius 3 (SA-1 fix), and Super Ghouls n Ghosts restoration are amazing, because the people who did it made sure they could run on a real snes. so they are legitimately fixed authentic snes games now(basically they got a DLC patch). it's so awesome they're off the slowdown plagued list now! anything the snes can't really run i'm not interested in
"they got a DLC patch" That's a good way of putting it
Man !!, Thanks for These Vidz ^_^
I'm currently using UniPatcher on Android, Works Well :)
Great video. I knew about a couple of these, but not the others. Hope to see more improvement videos. Sifting through Romhacking can be a choir.
Saved the best track for the end. Good man.
Thanks for posting this video. I have been wanting my wife to play Secret of Evermore with me, and the two player patch was something I always wanted. Its great!
You really improved my performance.
Another great video. Excellent way to know about improvements on snes games. No doubt I will play this version Secret of Mana with the scrolling fix. Thanks!
This is a pretty cool video. I'd heard of a couple of the re-translation patches and that's about it, so nice to find some other applications of romhacks that improve games.
Oh man, it's like you know exactly what I want to see.
What a badass video drunk! Your stuff just keeps getting better!
Those ups patches really deliver.
That star fox mod... makes that game look beautiful. Honestly blew my mind
Just came back to say, I love these series. Please make more
Ni siquiera sabia sobre la existencia de estos parches, muchas gracias bro
I've always loved the terrific ALTTP DX / ALTTP reDuX set of improvement patches myself
Jeez, all I ever wanted was a version of SGnG without slowdown. I've heard "Capcom Generation: Dai 2 Shuu Makai to Kishi" has a version without slowdown, but that's on the Playstation. It's nice to get a patch for the original!
For any fellow 7th Saga fans, the 7th Saga redux patch is a massive improvement - correcting the game breaking bug of stunted stat growth in the Western localization, and also doing some sensible balance tweaking. Highly recommended.
This really makes me want to get a flash cart. Those shmups and starfox running at breakneck speeds looks amazing
Love this video. I'd also love to see more of these types and not just retranslations.
Thanks for another great video!
Total length of video: 480 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 2.5 secs.
.52% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk."
Glad I'm not the only one who enjoys calculating stupid statistics like this one. ;)
There is also a cool Hardmode rom for Seiken Densetsu3, it makes enemys tougher but also makes the agi and luck stat work. In addition the equipment is more important and gives bonuses. I must say the tough mod destroys your party when unprepared, levelling is more important tough.
Both US and Japanese are NTSC - so when you say removed for the NTSC version that’s a little confusing.
They aren’t
It isn’t confusing
Yes they are - NTSC was used in both Japan and North America. They are NTSC-J and NTSC-U.
@@GameUKShow Maybe he is reffering to the European PAL Counterpart
one of your best videos imo. Also I didnt touch much of 16 bit rpgs and oh god they look awesome
I hope you have a great rest of your day, too
When your arwing lost it's wing at the end... I felt that
You know. I found these videos today.. And honestly. Im impressed. I never really knew this was a thing. I knew you could patch games with the translations of a game. Since you cant always find the translated rom online.. well. Back when i was big on these games. .. Probably should. I still need to perfect my rom collection. But this... This is something that actualy is making me interested again in these games. Because if this can be done for some of them. Like Star Fox. That game especialy. Slow down was a big flaw of that game. As if doesnt feel.. Good to play a game that is less than 30 fps. 60 fps, sure, but for older games. 30 is the minimum atm for me. So will have to look things up. Thanks for this.
That Star Fox trick works on the ZSNES emulator too, without having to tweak any settings. It's always ran at max speed for me on my laptop...and it's awesome too, the game is so much more fun and playable.
I was super excited about the Secret of Evermore multiplayer hack. I played it several times with friends.
So much good! Thanks for putting this one together :)
More romhacking stuff videos please. I liked this!
Something hilarious I wanted to bring up, is that when Super Ghouls and Ghosts got ported to the PS2 in a Capcom Collection, they patched out all the slow down.
Same with the MegaMan X collection.
this is my favourite list so far, i hope you make a part 2
Hey brother thanks for all the videos, past, present, and future. I love your morning uploads it helps give a great start to the day.
The secret of evermore one was pretty interesting because it wasn't ever intended to be multiplayer so its quite asymmetric
The dog tends to be quite physically durable but can't cast magic but also the players need to coordinate their sniffing to find reagents
The dog can also leave the screen entirely which opens up some interesting gameplay possibilities
Hey 2 year old post of mine. I was about to post basically the same thing again good thing I thought to check
I watched a streamer play BoF2 with the re-translation patch you featured and it was pretty nice. BoF2 was my first rpg so my rose tinted goggles tell me its not as nice but I know that isn't true. The charm of the original will always be wonderful for me but now I gotta play it with the patch.
This is a fantastic video. Thanks I'm currently patching all these roms now and can't wait to play them again!
oh God just hearing that secret of mana music is just mad memories of better times
I’m glad you brought up the BoF2 hack translation. It’s so good. I’m still not a big fan of BoF2 but it definitely is a great fix.
If you ever do a sequel to this video, please talk about Stunt race FX. That game is a tragedy in the fact that nobody really got to play what the developers had in mind. It benefits from overclocking more than any other game in my opinion. A decent frame rate is what that game always deserved.
Just a heads up for the Scrolling Fix on Secret of Mana has a game breaking bug where if you bring up your menu while one of your characters if off the screen it makes your menu enter cycle loop that you can't get out of. I had 5 breaks during the first 10 hours and lost an entire dungeon's progress twice. So I ended up removing it as awesome as it is to make the flow of the game feel better, if you need to heal on the fly and open your menu with out thinking when a character hasn't come down to your screen, you are done.
Always quality work ty
gameshows and board games already. Worth picking up from time to time for the nostalgia alone
I used to use these patches all the time back in the EARLY 2000's to get like Seiken Densetsu Secret of Mana 3 to play on my Emulators and such. MP patches are great when you have friends to play with lol
I would also like to add that you can actually add multiple patches to a single game as long as they don't interfere with each other.
Great video! Your last point, the Starfox over lock, can be achieved on the SNES mini by editing a command line in hakchi for the same result as your video :D
Been grinding Gradius 3 with this mod i can only give you one tip
Don't ever die else you matters well reset
7:37 wow starfox actually looks playable with this
He may be drunk...but the dude knows his stuff! Highly appreciated and inebriated
I just had to watch this cos Cybernator was in the titles! I lived that game and really made me feel thankful for being bought a snes and not a megadrive when I was a pup 🤣
Great video, as always. Of course, now I want to see overclocked Doom SNES.
love it when I end up with a list of new games to try from one of your videos.. the romhack recommendations are appreciated!
I've used the superFX turbo function on MiSTer's SNES core, and it does work very well. speeds up the game a bit but thats okay because starfox is actually really easy once you learn the levels. Vitor was just talking about his interest in romhacks for the super-fx games to help speed them up without the need of emulator hacks, also. I believe his next release is Contra III for sa-1 though, so keep an eye out for that too =)
as expected, Contra III SA-1 is now released (youtube) watch?v=fTkKE1NURrY
I completely forgot that Secret of Evermore wasn’t 2 player. I could swear my brother and I played it together, but I guess I only watched him back then.
I played through it again last year and must say it’s a fun story and I wish they would make a (better) sequel.
I always wanted there to be a screen-scrolling patch for Aladdin and Mega Turrican on Genesis. I love both games, but sometimes it feels like you have to be right at the edge to scroll .
Yeah both of them have that issue, the worst case I've personally seen it, is in E-Swat, just ridiculous.
@@retrosoul8770 I'll have to check that one out just to see.
Another great video! I would love an entire video based on good relocalization patches.
Demon's Crest would be great with a SA-1 style patch.
Two ROM hacks I want:
Contra 3 but it skips the birds eye view stages
A Chrono Trigger hack that puts the party into winter clothes while they’re in the future.
Good idea, though I'd apply it to Antiquity as well, since that time period is in an ice age. Tales of Eternia did that, had the cast put on winter clothing before climbing a mountain.
The great battle series all 5 games have been English translated so you can cover those on part 2
Amazing!
That intro was therapeutic.
I honestly searched for a vid on this yesterday and only found a color hack for super street fighter, thanks for the vid