ROM Hacks for Retro Games #2 - Improvements, Translations and More! / MY LIFE IN GAMING
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Its been a couple of years since we last looked at some ROM hacks that we'd actually use. Let's see what new Improvements, Restorations, Colorizations, Fan Translations and more that have caught Coury's attention!
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00:48 - Intro
01:47 - Overview
02:52 - What I Missed
04:58 - FastROM
07:18 - Game Boy Colorizations
09:46 - General Improvements
16:46 - Translations
21:51 - Saturn Translations (Guest: John Linneman)
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Starting the countdown from the dead of romhacking in the angry hands of Nintendo....
Virtual pro wrestling 2 Freem edition N64 check that one out
You should cover Life Bottle Productions works on the Tales series, they have a unique approach and have some really cool Translation and Hd remaster projects
Sf2ww+ is a better hack than sf2 remaster
Nice video!
There's so many janky half-finished ROM hacks out there that this is a welcome look into high quality work. Thanks for that!
agreed
И хм'а мне как то так хочется в город в Питер ехать с друзьями на дачу с папой на улицу в другой комнате где это происходит с тобой я люблю твой город в котором моя семья моя мама моя подруга говорит о любви тебе в гости с папой по имени Валентина или ты знаешь как она прекрасна а она в душе и живёт рядом со своей любовью к нам в друзья щемится как я хочу чтобы я тебя всегда рядом и не знаю где она мне нравится как будто мне кажется она моя любовь как любовь а я не хочу с ней дружить с кем-то и не общаться как это может антипсихологичные в этом году не знаю почему ты меня не понимаешь и ты меня знаешь и знаешь как мне плохо с ним и без меня ты мне так плохо с ней и я знаю как это хорошо что ты меня не понимаешь как я могу так долго не быть рядом и когда я рядом и когда ты в самом сердце 😅😅и оттуда
Thank you guys once again for the kind words about Bulk Slash. You may be delighted to know we are nearing completion of our next project, Stellar Assault SS, also for the Saturn. This will also feature a fully voiced English translation and new peripheral support (for the Mission Stick). Please be excited. ;)
Mission stick owner here, most excited, amazing work 👏✊
Very excited, keep up the good work dudes
For Heartthrob Memorial translation on Super Famicom: I think it uses the Hires mode of the SNES which doubles the horizontal resolution, used by a few games, which is not emulated properly here.
The text is not supposed to be blurry, and is meant to use the double resolution in an attempt to fit more text on screen. Some japanese games actually do this to fit even more text on screen by default.
This is what I thought too.
I've played seiken densetsu 3 a number of times which uses his res text mode so I immediately knew this is probably what's going on here.
yeah that's exactly what's going on. I thought most emulators handled it fine so I'm confused on why that error was made here. another english patch off the top of my head that does this is Rudra no Hihou by aeon genesis
I assume that the footage was captured from the MiSTer FPGA core using the "Force 256px" video option. MiSTer has a quirk that it runs SNES games at a permanent 512x224 resolution to not trip up LCD screens when the resolution suddenly switches from 256x224, with all pixels doubled horizontally by default until the hi-res mode is engaged. There's an option to disable it if needed, and playing Tokimeki Memorial with it produces the same garbled font as seen in the video. There's also a missing drop shadow under the dialog box, which is affected by the core's Pseudo Transparency blending option.
- I found Race Drivin' SA-1 to be much easier. There was no way to run out of time.
- Wow that wide mode hack for the Genesis NHL game should be the defacto way to play. Without it, the game looks stretched, circles look like ovals.
SA-1 base or SA-1 origin?
Thank you for showcasing Mega Man World 5 DX ^_^
Thanks for updating the hack (and making it to begin with) you rock!
Stoked to see the Saturn section!! Well done John and thank you MLiG for highlighting the extremely dedicated Saturn scene.
Incredible! Thanks for shouting out the Quest French Vanilla hack.
The majority of the quality-of-life changes came out of working my Q64 randomizer project "MERROW", and I spun them off into a separate patch in the hopes it might help some folks give the game a shot, and it's been an incredibly silly but rewarding journey.
I get asked a lot why I'd make a randomizer/QoL patch for Quest, and I like to say that Quest is "~40% of a very good game". It really was just unfinished, and digging around in the hex has only confirmed that. Maybe with my fixes, it's a bit closer to 60-70%. Good enough, and full of cool ideas.
...and yeah, I didn't quite realize "French Vanilla" might not be a universal name for fancy-real-vanilla-bean vanilla. I was too proud of my goofy pun to do any research.
FWIW, I instantly understood, that's exactly what French vanilla means to me 🙂🍦
As a Japanese speaker, I wish there were more Japanese translation project for, like, Secret of Evermore or Conker's Bad Fur Day.
edit: And of course, original Shantae
@Marcos Moutta I bet less than 1% of Japanese gamer know these games even exist
I'd also like to see a Japanese translation project for the Startropics games too, even though those were Nintendo games specifically made for the western market.
I didn't know these games never had a Japanese release.
As a non-Japanese speaker, I wish there were more translations from Japanese.
P.S. 17:05 I had no idea that the Anglo press is deriding Japanese games since the 90s. Apparently it's a proud tradition, not specific to the current gaming journalists. Where I'm from the press always treated the Japanese culture with respect.
@@rijjhb9467 I'm not sure "deriding" was exactly the right term here.
There is a massive cultural difference between Japan and the US, particularly with regard to sexuality (even something that isn't explicit, just having to do with attraction and relationships), so I would bet that most Americans who were introduced to a game like this would find it baffling, and possibly a little scandalous, or just weird.
The shock of seeing something so "out of context" for a kid-friendly game console tends to lead to strong reactions. Whether that's laughing at the preposterousness of it, or considering it inappropriate. It's just an incompatibility with the way the two cultures view this sort of thing, and it goes both ways. (There is pleeeennnnnty of subtle -- and not-so-subtle -- contempt for Americans in Japan, too. That's what happens when firmly-held social norms collide with violations of such.)
What a coincidence: I literally just rewatched your first ROM Hack video yesterday! I'm so happy to see you return to this topic and hope that it becomes a regular series on the channel, even if we only get a new episode once a year or so.
Lil' manster translation for Fire Emblem Thracia 776 is not only an excellent translation but the optional patches smooth out the rougher parts of the game with stuff like ability to move around unit placement , weapon level exp and currently equipped weapon without having to inspect the unit's full stats.
There seriously needs to be more PC Engine translations. Would be nice if we finally get the Far East of Eden games in English!
I love the hacking scene; I'm checking out what's new at RHDN several times a week. Speaking of Metroid 2, I've played 3 different colorization hacks for it: DX, Color, and EJRTQ, and by far, the best one is EJRTQ. The colors are much more vivid, and you don't have nearly as much graphical glitching as in the other 2.
This colorization was beautiful and made the game so much more playable. One of the best ones I've played.
Rom hacks and translations always make me happy. It means people care so much that they sacrifice their time and energy to either bring a game to a new audience, or fix problems that make these games not only playable, but coherent and, dare I say , fun! And with everdrives and other flash carts, we're (mostly) not limited to using emulation anymore
Nice to see my boy Sega Lord X getting that plug.
its so funny to hear that thumpy SNES sound quality on Tokimeki Memorial. the heavy rock drums and slap bass really sell the mood of a highschool dating sim
For me, some of the more exciting translations to come out recently were the translation for Alpha Dream's early title, Tomato Adventure (the leaked Gimmick Land prototype also got translated), and Inazuma Eleven GO Galaxy. Both games I played through without being able to fully understand, but now have been able to replay while knowing what's happening.
Thank you for the shout-out! I have a few more ideas for Hi-Score SRAM hacks.
Hopefully you will see these sometime soon. ❤
Nice! Well done, Coury! I was literally just watching the first video again the other day, and was looking forward to the follow-up one day 🙂
Holy. Shit. I can't believe I have never thought about the fact that Links hair was pink in A Link to the Past. It just never ever crossed my mind and I've played through it several times since first getting it in the mid 90s. That was a genuine "Fucking hell! I never noticed that!" moment!
Also, it looks weird being brown. Pink is 100% better. And my favourite colour :)
THEY MENTIONED THE SAKURA WARS TRANSLATION! LESSGOOOOOOOOOOO!
Great to see you on a roll Coury, Keep it growing!
I am glad that I did my research and have most of these rom hacks that you talked about in this video. That transition from MK to Doom is AWESOME!
More of these videos, please! These are fantastic, and one of the greatest things to discover coming back to the retro console gaming scene.
The fan translation for the Super Famicom Front Mission was recently retooled to fix some bugs from the original translation as well as a much better font
Cool to see the dedication fans have for these older games, great stuff 👋
The Saturn community is doing incredible work, I have so much respect and appreciation for the people who work tirelessly to provide amazing experiences for English-speaking Saturn fans. It's never been more exciting to own and play Sega's most misunderstood and underappreciated console.
shoutouts to the TetrisGYM rom hack for Nintendo Tetris on NES which is the go to version of Tetris you'd play if you're practicing to be one of the best Classic Tetris players
Neat! Love seeing what the romhacking community comes up with. Their passion and dedication to these games are unparalleled!
MY MAN'S PART OF THE TIM ROGERS ARMY?
LOVE TO SEE IT.
I’d really like to see the doom 32x hack turned into a 32X CD hack - there is so much potential for a custom soundtrack. And you wouldn’t even need a ROM cart since you could just burn it to CD! It would also be nice to finally have one 32X CD title that’s actually a game. I wonder why nobody’s done this yet.
Tune at the beginning immediately took me to the Video Game History Hour
Mighty good stuff! I was not aware of that Twin Snakes soundrack mod, that's pretty awesome! The fact that they left it out in the first place completly bummed me out back when I got it. I felt gutted.
Thank you for share these works from our friends in the community that's make our lives and games better and more enjoyable to play. Keep going with the excellent work.
We eating fam
real
And drinking that French Vanilla from quest 64 too ;)
@@adventureoflinkmk2 I loved that game
@the last of its kind so did I.. I wanna try that merrow edition
Absolutely loooove this kind of compilations !!
Good Episode and my friend John Linneman is always a welcome addition :)
This is a series now. Love it.
Excellent video.
A big miss was the 2023 Tactics Ogre Saturn translation. Truly a treasure and the best way to play the game - even over the HD versions on modern consoles with their weird level cap alterations to the gameplay. Or perhaps the HD version being so new - thats why it wasnt featured?
I should give this a play! Wasn't aware of it until rn
What makes it better over the PSP and HD versions?
@@siveon298 Saturn version looks way better than the HD versions - doesnt use that horrific smudge filter. The Saturn version doesnt have the level cap nonsense of the HD ones. Saturn has voiced Japanese scenes with the script of the PSP version - which is lightyears ahead of the PS1 version's script.
I Freeking LOVE these fan translation games!!
I've been looking for translated roms on and off for a couple decades now. In fact I,ve got so many I've been thinking of putting them in their own folders within the folders of roms for the systems their meant for, just so I can keepo track of them.
I'm glad when videos like this are compiled to showcase these newer more advanced hacks. We now have much more comprehensive documentation about these classic systems as well as advanced tools to aid in the process besides the simple graphics hacks of yesteryear. I'm still amazed at some of the newer SNES emulators that have high resolution Mode 7 hacks that make games like Pilotwings and F-Zero seem brand new games all over again. Really, it's almost like we're living through a retro hacking boom of sorts where there's been vast advancements in a relatively short amount of time and can't wait to see what's around the corner in the up-coming years. 😇
love these .. funny you mention re-revenge ,, I had *just* seen that on RHDN .. good timing!
Always love these types of videos.
Awesome video, Corey! : D
Oooh, a shoutout to SegaLord X! I love when one of my favourite channels mentions another one of my favourite channels =D
Great video. Awesome selection of games and hacks.
The Fan Translation of Ace Attorney Investigation 2. Just brilliant.
I’m glad to have seen so many improvements for some of the mega man games and the translation of Policenauts. Doom 32X resurrection was spectacular to play on my tower of power as well
A Japan-exclusive Saturn RPG that needs more love is Wachenröder. I mean, come on, a game where the art and designs are a collab between Yoshitoshi ABe and Range Murata?! Yes please!
Isn’t a translation currently in the works for that? There is a video up about it!
@@oneeyedking202 It wouldn't be the first attempt as I recall. Though I was mostly referring to how underappreciated it is. 😌
that bomberman hack speaks to me too, i love the ost!
Great video series !
Love the show love the content with some of the rather odd subject matter that you gentlemen cover I feel like you may be two best friends I've never met. Please please keep up the great work 🤘🤘
Wow, I didn't know you and your channel has pleasantly surprised me.
Congratulations for such an excellent job and for having such interesting content.
I will follow you closely! Greetings from Spain!
Some romhacks don't even need to do much to im0rove the game 10 times over. Sometimes it's just a case of fixing a bug. For example, I just received in the post the EPROM to burn a new PRG for my Faxanadu game for the NES. All I'm doing is fixing the pendant bug, but it will make the game feel completely different to play once its done.
Other things I get asked by some friends is translations, especially for older games. I live in Spain, and most games get a translation now, but I have a friend who is Zelda mad and wanted to play the original, but couldn't enjoy it back in the day as it was only in English amd Japanese, so I put a romhack in spanish on an emulator for her on her PC, and she loved it!! Imagine having to wait 3 decades to finally enjoy a game sold at the local stores at the time.
Nice Sega Lord X shoutout, I love his channel.
okay this is the first I'm hearing of an english translation of Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius! I *have* to check that out it's my favorite installment in the series! a metric ton of other great ROMhacks to be sure, though. I did play a little bit of Saturn Policenauts I really need to return to that one at some point.
Great video as always.
Well now it's time to get every one of these up and running 👍😆
Pink haired Link is a better balance in terms of both color and value contrast. Also, I love Wily 1 music as much as the next guy but Bubble Man's theme is my favorite. Thanks for the great vid!
4:50 "Because nintendo doesn't think they could do any better." The main developer of the translation, tomato, has said that nintendo could use his translation for free.
Awesome video, something I just discovered today was Wiiu has a patch for Super Mario 64 DS to add analogue joystick+ camera controls and it is amazing.
*screams from the back*
ENGLISH FAN TRANSLATIONS OF CLOCK TOWER, AND THE CLOCK TOWER DELUXE ROM HACK
Great video. I patiently await the SNES rom hack for Actraiser that will remove the 'HA!' sfx every time you swing your sword.
love these types of hacks. I think fan maintained decompilations are going to be the future of game preservation, and I expect they will implement a lot the same tweaks and upgrades. cant wait to see what else the community is capable of!
13:20 absolute banger of a childhood game for me! I need to check this hack out!
This was a fantastic collection of ROM hacks. I didn’t know a lot of these existed and I will certainly be checking them out! What I would have liked to have seen, though, was difficulty hacks. An example is Pokémon Emerald Kaizo (although that’s a bit of an extreme example). Something that takes the base game and makes it way more challenging for die-hard players who want something new.
I dunno if you can count it as a retro game yet, but New Super Mario Bros. DS has a mod for something that I've always wanted to see since I've seen the E3 2005 trailers for that game: Co-op across the entire game.
New Super Mario Bros. DS Co-Op lets you play every single level from the singleplayer story mode with 2 players now. And this works nowadays both through flashcarts and emulation (MelonDS).
Awesome video, I have the same taste in ROM hacks. Most videos on TH-cam are about hacks making games more difficult, adding content or just being generally ridiculous, but I'm much more interested in hacks making the experience more interesting and/or fixing/restoring stuff. I want to play Phantasy Star at some point and that looks really interesting !
I'll also throw in the Final Fantasy Restored hack for FFI, which fixes a lot of bugs, adds some qol features and restores content that was cut in the US version. Makes FFI a much smoother experience while being totally faithful to the original.
If Tokimeki Memorial was being recorded on SNES9X turning off Blend Hi-Res images will fix the text and make it sharp and crisp.
Positively shocked if Corey is recording from SNES9X but it does seem to be a hi-res related issue.
12:25 Paid DLC would actually be an improvement, since it's actually "A brand new full price game which is just last years game with minor changes, unless you're on the Switch, then it's no changes at all apart from roster updates".
And to this day, people wonder what unspeakable horrors Try was watching unfold before turning away at the start of this video.
Absolutely delightful, love John's part for the Saturn stuff!!!!!
One of my favorite translation hacks (which is still in development) is of the Japanese Pokémon-like RPG _Keitai Denjuu Telefang_ , which was notoriously bootlegged as "Pokémon Diamond and Jade", but now has a much more accurate fan-translation. They even gave it a more localized name: "Telefang: Mobile Monsters".
Maybe it's not exactly a hack, but it would be cool to mention that Cave Story has a pretty great Genesis port!
Happy to see you return to ROM hacks. I don't feel like they get enough attention like Mega Man V DX.
Also checky with that allusion to pre-patched ROMs.
Rom hacks on cartridges are so cool imo. This Xmas i got a copy of the og star ocean for snes fan translated (1st snes game I've ever bought). Considering the original cartridge has additional chips, the game runs pretty smoothly (apart from voice clips. They stutter a bit. But I dno if that's more of a pal conversion issue)
Fastrom kinda kills the dramatic slowdown effect of the Contra 3 bomb
New My life is such a welcome event
The NHL '94 hacks happen every year. Another similar one is the Tecmo Super Bowl yearly updates that normally you can order on cartridge as well.
we did it fam, we're sponsored
I finally got around to playing a fan translation of Spider-Man Lethal Foes for the SNES, great game!!!
another great hack i played recently is digital devil story 2 on the nes. and honestly i've become really fond of this entry because of it
A big one you missed is the English translation for Rockman Forte.
As a chronic Pokemon ROM hack player, my suggestion for a casual play is Pokemon Gold/Silver ‘97 Reforged. It translates and finished the story of the beta Pokemon Gen 2 games that were shown at a convention 3 years before release, and had ~50 cut Pokemon in it. Feels like an alternate universe Gold and Silver: nostalgic and fresh at the same time.
As for translations and enhancements: Fire Emblem 6, the prequel to our Fire Emblem GBA game is a ton of fun and the GBA version of Final Fantasy 6 has music and palette restoration hacks to try and make a definitive version.
There’s also a sweet hack of the NES Super Mario World bootleg that fixes the controls and makes it able to be completed. It’s actually an impressive game once fixed.
Wow, a lot games to play. Kudos to the modders 🎉🎉🎉
Understandable, have a nice day.
Shoutout to CDRomance, awesome. CD Romance are my go to place for pre patched ROM/ISO
Gorgeous video, I'm going to have to look for quite a few of them on that quality romhacking site that I discovered a few months back only, while browsing for a few wonderful Prince of Persia hacks released both on the Snes and Genesis. Too bad there is not hack (yet) for the Snes Doom release that, while impressive technically speaking, was still quite sub-par even for a downgrade (no sound propagation, horrendously low resolution, missing levels, etc). I am sure that the Snes hardware + the additionnal SuperFX feature can do the trick in adressing at least some of the shortcomings ! If the 32x can do it that well, I'm sure Nintendo's venerable machine can hold its own in a more "complete" way if I may. After all its raw specs don't seem to make it unfeasible if coded the right way with more time and no schedule milestones, or budgetary constraints as the original dev had to deal with, no to mention SDKs that are now as plenty , diverse and powerful as can be.
Random thing I just find really funny: There's a Chrono Trigger hack called "Unslightly Pixel." It fixes a stray pixel. That's it, that's all it does. Lol.
[Try4ce] This is actually super hilarious to me because I made a Chrono Trigger map my desktop background a few months ago and I noticed that pixel and have been wondering why the heck it was there and if the graphic rip was accurate or not.
Great video!
Metal Gear 2 English translation and MSX turbo fix is awesome.
Kiddykip's GBA Doom patches are AMAZING (both of them). Red blood, better sound and textures, improved framerate... Now I can't go back to the originals.
I highly recommend Fred's "Twin-Stick-Controls Hack" for Pocky and Rocky.
It allows you to play the game like a standard twin-stick shooter.
You can either use the face buttons to fire... similar to Super Smash TV on the SNES, or you can map them to an analog stick.
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A minor-changes-hack I'd recommend, is Zimgief's Balanced Bosses Hack for Sparkster on the SNES.
It makes the absurdly difficult Boxing-Robots boss fight less of a nightmare.
Can’t believe you didn’t mention NFL Blitz 2023 or the great WWF No Mercy rom hacks!!!
I'm glad the JP saturn library is getting attention.
The saturn library is quite good... if you know japanese.
Everywhere outside of japan got shafted though.
Shout out to the English translation of Front Mission 5 for the PS2. Unfortunately the cutscenes aren't subtitled, so we're missing out on a lot of important story elements, but at least the game is playable and the in game story is understandable.
Another great video from my favorite channel you guys rock!
I'd like to suggest the Metroid 2: EJRTQ Colorization hack. The "Metroid 2 DX" shown in the video is rather old and supposedly can be buggy on legit hardware, but I've had no problem with EJRTQ. Add the addendum Canon Samus patch to fix the color palette on Samus in the ending and it's all finished up. What's great is how the coloring still retains that isolated, sparse atmosphere of the original.
Thank you 🙏🏻👌🏻
12:22 Brazilian hacking scene is very present in this aspect. Recently some groups started to hack International SuperStar Soccer to whole new levels.