There's a 2 player Romhack out there for Ducktales 2 for the NES that makes the 2nd player Darkwing Duck. Fantastic hack, was great to the play game co-OP, highly recommend
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There is also a romhack called ducktales 2 deluxe, from 2013, unfortunately every text is in russian, which makes the game even harder. I once had a japanese duck tales 2 on a famiclone, it was basically the same situation, we had to figure out everything on our own and it was still a great game that way.
I wasn't expecting a Jackal 2 romhack. I particularly like the apparent nighttime setting with the land cast in a darker shade, only reverting back to the normal color to emphasize explosions. Sure it's just a simple color palette trick, but it's a great effect here and really sets the mood for the game.
Mario 3Mix is great. So is the Castlevania II Translation plus map. I made a patch, not released, that fixes the title screen for Castlevania II to restore the original copyright instead of leading to a website.
Good call on Minus Infinity. It's one of my favorite Mega Man games, period. Would also recommend Rockman (2) No Constancy, and the Rockman EX series by AYCNN which is surprisingly clever and challenging.
Nice to see Extra Mario Bros. get some love! It's probably the most technically impressive thing anyone has ever done with the original Super Mario Bros. To this day that last Bowser battle blows me away.
It's nice to get some of my work mentioned here, I appreciate that. It's cool that people are still into rom hacks, and have come along way since the days of Super Naked Wheelchair Mario Bros in the early 2000s.
You named the Light Warriors after your dogs and lover! So cute! That Final Fantasy hack looks amazing! Thanks for the tip! (actually, all of these look great, thanks for letting us know about them!!)
@@madspunky oh? If you know pinkpuff as well as I know pinkpuff, and you kept the time tower in the game, then they're a 1/64th chance on appearing in some region, probably the last one, of the time tower :p But then, you might also go with a reference to the namesake, and have them as a rare boss in a low-encounter treasure room somewhere in the final dungeon instead . . . Hmmmm . . .
MY All-Time Favorite on this list is "SUPER MARIO BROS. 3MIX!" For some reason, playing "Extra Mario Bros." seems like it'd be even more fun during the WINTER Season!
Obviously the only correct way to play them is to acquire the original cartridge, use a cartridge dumper to extract a ROM, apply the IPS to the dumped ROM, then create a reproduction cartridge using the patched ROM and play it on original hardware. Or just download a ROM from the Internet, patch it, and play it on an emulator. One of the two.
@@Dimensiom I've always wondered why ROM hacks almost always exclusively require you to patch it yourself. I haven't really looked into how to do that - I tried for a little it when Super Mario 64 Land came out, but my dumbass couldn't figure it out. I'm guessing it's because posting a fully-patched version is essentially the same as hosting a copyrighted ROM?
Great picks, especially Castlevania Holy Relics, Re-translation+Map (believe it or not, this is better than Redacted), and Metroid Rogue Dawn. These hacks are all so good, they are mainstays IMO. Mother 25th Anniversary is excellent, too.
I liked that Duck Tails game growing up... that and of course Mario 3 are what really got me into gaming... Mega Man helped a lot, my fav was X on the SNES but those early NES days rocked! Ahhhh the great memories of an early gamer, before that term was even known! Was incredible to have my mommy want to play those games as much as I did growing up 😂
Surprised you didn't mention some of the Tecmo Super Bowl rom hacks. They allowed for 4-3 defenses instead of all 3-4. Many allowed you to change your playbook in game, there is halftime stat tracking, updated rosters and teams obviously, and a juice mode to make it tough right out the gate for a greater challenge.
I've played nearly every single Metroid 1 hack (most of them are quite bad). Here's what I recommend beyond Rogue Dawn: - Metroid X (1999) -- It's the first hack of Metroid, but it's rather solidly designed and polished for something of its vintage. - Metroid Deluxe (2002) -- The second best early Metroid hack. The author recently released an updated version with a pause map, so you might prefer this one. - Metroid Incursion (2014) - This hack was made by the guy who would go on to make Rogue Dawn. It has a weird modern-ish city theme. It's not as ambitious, but still rather polished. A couple others I recommend with some caveats are Metroid Genocide (the early game is a bit slow), Over the Moon (Tourian is no fun), Mission 187 (some advanced tech is required IIRC). I would also recommend Samus vs. Karid-X (which is a contest hack that you can beat in 20 to 30 minutes), but it would be unethical for me to recommend my own hack so I won't. You can find all of these hacks at metroidconstruction.com
There's two ROM hacks called "Dragoon X Omega" and "Dragoon X Omega Ii". They're hacks of Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy and they are total conversions. The engine is the same but the maps and layouts and enemies all have q sci fi setting. They're both very cool.
Good video. I'm playing the castlevania 2 redaction remap translated one. I don't need the clues anymore, but the save, and the map is helping me train for a speed run. I really like the translated text though. I"m pretty excited about jackle 2. I'd forgotten about that game. I really enjoyed it. Now i gotta google commando romhacks! lol also for people who don't know, it's easy to patch these games. just google ips patcher. after that just run the exe and know where your files are. Don't forget to virus scan everything just out of habit.
I think the biggest issue with a lot of rom hacks/custom campaigns etc is that they are, obviously, made by people who really love the game, and have played it so much, and mastered its mechanics and know all its quirks, and they want something new. And so what they think is a "reasonable challenge" is typically far more difficult than what an average player would consider reasonable. A player who played the game, liked it, and then wants to play a mod will more often than not be in for a rough time, unless the modder aware of that difficulty gap and willing to accommodate it.
I know you've already done SNES Rom Hacks videos, But I'd love to see you review Legend of the Double Dragons and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Rescue Palooza...
It isn't a rom hack but I wonder if you have played Simon's Quest Rebitten? Ed Findlay completely redid Simon's Quest so there are now boss battles in the mansions where you get Dracula's parts and at the end, the castle is actually parts of Dracula's castle from the original Castlevania and Castlevania III. It is free to download and it is AWESOME. I loved the original Simon's Quest but this game is by far more superior. I actually enjoy it more than Castlevania IV. You need to check it out. Love your videos. Cheers!
Duck Tales 2 in general was just a better game than the first, but it's fairly rare and kinda expensive, and I bet if I were to look at release dates it'd be one of those post SNES launch games on the NES so it became rare.
Super Contra 7. New bosses and/or patterns changed. New levels. Is a hack, so as you said, don't expect too much, but is worth it at least. I will try Jackal 2, I like difficult games.
You should try out the Rom-Hack Mega Man 4 Voyage. It's much better than the last two Mega Man ones you looked at. Voyage feels like an official game, albiet an all new game.
Aside from the Megaman ones he mentioned i can recommend "Rockmam no constancy" and "Rockman 3 winternight" they are good (winternight changes megaman speed making this one very funny and kinda intense action)
@@Dj.D25 ohh yeah, i recognized a background from MMX2 (quickman stage) and MMZ2 (heatman), do you know more? xD I really want to know the one in Airman stage ;-;
The Guru's patch doesn't really "fix" translation, it chooses to prioritize gameplay and quality of life over preserving the original text and theme. Notice the theater theme is greatly downplayed, everyone is helpful, and that actually loses a lot of the context of the story. Bisqwit's patch is meant to actually retranslate the mod into several languages, including Finnish which is his native language, with some other interesting quality of life changes. But also note that the Guru did his patch first, way back in the day, while Bisqwit is still working on his, and offers several ways to patch the game into boards Castlevania 2 wasn't actually made for.
I highly recommend these NES romhacks that were not mentioned in this video: -Batman & Robin: Shadows of Gotham - Shadow of the Ninja reskin 2 player co-op -Battle of Olympus - Quality of Life patch -Deadpool - total conversion of Ninja Gaiden -Earthbound Beginnings - several patches to convert Mother 1 into a proper release -Mega Man Remastered - Makes Mega Man play and look more like later Mega Man games -New Ghostbusters II - a 2 player co-op patch and color fix for an actually good Ghostbusters game -TMNT - Return to New York - rebalance of TMNT, makes you actually want to play all 4 turtles -Zelda 2 easy mode - Various QoL patches, mainly Link starts at beginning of dungeon after death And then there are the hundreds of great English translation patches of games that were never released in NA. This is a short list of my favorites: -Adventure Island IV -Bio Miracle Baby Upa -Almost all Ganbare Goemon games -Almost all of the Sanrio (Hello Kitty) games especially Keroppi's Splash Bomb -Joy Mech Fight -Konami Wai Wai World 1 and 2 -Hot Blooded Fighting Legend (Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu) - 4 player battling in Kunio-Kun series -Downtown Special, Kunio-Kun's Historical Period Drama (essentially it's River City Ransom 2)
Thanks for the recommendations. I'm interested to know what what improvements were made to Battle of Olympus as I really enjoy that game. On the same topic, do you know of any good hacks for Zelda 2: Adventure of Link? I bet someone talented could make something really great with the framework of that game.
@@acidwizard6528 It depends on what you want. There are a lot of Zelda II hacks. There are some good hacks like Redux that definitely improve the game, but make it even harder than it already is. I went with the easy mode hacks because I wanted to experience the story, and I have about a 1000 other hacks I want to try so I don't want to spend time getting guud.
Some great picks here. I do think Super Pitfall 30th Anniversary Edition deserves a shoutout for basically being a complete remake of the original game, while still being on the same system. It's insane.
Other good ones because I spent a ridiculous amount of time loading the NES Classic with these: -Simultaneous 2-player Super Mario Bros. -Power Peach Sis (SMB /w floating Peach/Daisy!) -SMB3 Definitive Edition -Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return to New York -Ultima: Exodus Remastered -Goonies 2 Revised -Metroid mOTHER -The Superman hacks of Sunman -RC Pro Am Mario Kart -Ducktales 2 2-player -POW 2-player -Box Art Bomberman + 2-player -Dragoon X Omega 1 & 2 -The improvement patches for unlicensed games like Pokemon Yellow, Aladdin, FF7, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (and I guess also the existence of these games in general?) -Pac-Man CE Demake technically -so many good ones for the Final Fantasies, from patches that allow you to run, to one that adds a dynamic combat system to FF1, to total rebalancing efforts -many small patches that tweak movement/control to feel more natural (Castlevanias, Turrican, Double Dragon, Startropics, Batman, etc.) The NES is rom hack central
Hack gun.dec, make it more difficult especially the driving stages but don't change anything otherwise. It's already one of the best famicom games, imagine if difficulty is corrected
Whoa, Metroid Rogue Dawn looks like a completely different fangame rather than a hack, especially on the NES. If you gave me that game I would've assumed it was a Super Metroid hack. Plus the idea of a Space Pirate origin story is beyond cool.
thank you for repping my favorite **MEGA MAN** game. Yes, Rockman 4 MI is better than any of Capcom's efforts, and a TRUE celebration of the franchise. while pushing the NES to it's breaking point.
Some romhacks really are masterpiece, I also love the "Easy editions", or even some other hack such as Deadpool - A ninja Gaiden Hack, The Terminator from Sunsoft (hack from Journey to Silius, and many more. I'll take a look to Castlevania hacked games you mentioned in your videos, they look quite nice, thanks a lot, I always enjoy your videos !
Rockman 4 Minus Infinity is probably the best Nes rom hack I've seen so far, doing things I didn't think were possible. Such as using enemies, bosses and obstacles from Megaman 1-8, bosses with completely new attack patterns, and many more surprises.
I do not do romhacks often but I may have to look into Holy Relics. I am somewhat surprised that you did not touch on Final Fantasy Restored. It is not an overhaul like Ultra Champion Edition but is a very well-made restoration patch that fixes a lot of the original game's bugs (TMPR actually works); most importantly, it allows character names to have more than four letters.
Just when i wanted to concentrate on work...Drunk releases a video of improved versions of some of my favourite childhood games (I never owned a SNES so NES was life ^^)
Great work on this video, Snesdrunk. A few friendly suggestions if you do another video: Rockman 2: No Constancy, Rockman 2 Dash (does Mega Man 2 in the style of Mega Man 1), Tetris Music Randomizer (Tengen version, switches music each level), Mega Man Hyperion 3 (polished reimagining of Mega Man 3), Zelda 2 Winter Solstice (a little hard but still worth it using save states...the atmosphere is top notch and it feels like a new Zelda 2 game), and ...probably a million others but I guess everyone is suggesting some so I'll keep it simple.
@@brux357 Mega Man 4 Voyage [brand new MM4 game, EXCELLENT!) Mega Man 2 - The Revenge of the Eight Robot Masters (Graphics/Music/Level) Mega Man 2 - Wily's Conquest Hyper Edition Turbo (high speed platforming) Mega Man 2 Exile (G/M/L) Mega Man 2 Neo (L) ....Any Mega Man hack with "Ridley" in the title... Mega Man 3 Ultimate (slight mod, QoL additions) Mega Man 5 Second Strike (L, boss A.I.) Mega Man 6: Next Loop (L)R.B.I. Baseball 1986 (every team from that year) Rockman 2: Deus Ex Machina (total overhaul) ...Any of the MM/Rockman "endless" ones... Rockman 3 Alpha (L,G) Rockman 2 MIN (L,G) Rockman 2 Advanced (L,G) Rockman 2 CLAW (L,G,M) Rockman 2 Basic Master (L,G,M) Rockman 4 Advanced (L) Rockman 2K (great early hack of Rockman 1) Rockman Exhaust (L,G,M) Starlight Mario (total overhaul) Super Mario Bros with SMB3 graphics Super Mario Bros. 2 Christmas Edition Super Mario Bros. 3: Forgotten Realms I & II Super Mario Bros. 3: Forgotten Worlds (SMB1 hack) Super Pitfall 30th Anniversary (makes this game playable) Super Mario Bros. Tower RE (total overhaul) Super Mario Bros. Special (remake of Hudson version of SMB) Tecmo Convergence (32-team TSB rom with the single best team in every franchise) Super Mario Unlimited (overhaul) The Legend of Zelda: Outlands Castlevania: Overflow Darkness Dragon Warrior 1/2 (double EXP/G hack) Ninja Gaiden 3 Restoration (makes it like Japanese original version)
Holy Relics is a great Castlevania hack. You do mention it but I am just giving an additional endorsement. It's really good, not too hard but still tough and as a plus it uses music from all sorts of Castlevania games.
Castlevania - Chorus of Mysteries is a great hack. Holy Relics too. Blood Moon is pretty good. I’d say CoM is actually harder. BM might have slightly different whip machines but once you master it you’ll find the game easier. You get a lot more power ups. Micah less penalty for hearts when dying and you keep your weapon after death too, if men worry serves.
I also recommend "Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3" for NES by vasyanchichek (search on youtube). It's a romhack for a bootleg Mortal Kombat 3 for Famicom (which in turn was a romhack for Shin Samurai Spirits 2: Haohmaru Jigokuhen) . The amount of work invested into this hack is amazing - it's a complete game. I wish we had that UMK3 on NES in 90s..
Thanks for your analysis. I have played most of these. Like you said it's really hard to choose which ones to play with the number of hacks out there. That's why I really value these videos.
Not a rom hack. but translation...but I'd recommend Adventure Island 4 for the NES...it never came to the US, and it's an early look at the Metroidvania genre, and expanded on what CB 2 did but with a hudson twist.
Awesome video brother! I have been subbed for years and am a huge fan of hacks for retro games from my childhood; The metroid and FF ones sound especially cool to me I will be checking them out for sure. It's funny, I have heard of and/or played through most popular romhacks for SNES, Genesis, and N64, but I really have never even heard of all the NES romhacks you mentioned and never really gave much thought to NES hacks in general. Thanks so much for bringing these to my attention!
@@shocknawe I think they shouldve just axed the ice flower or removed the ice ball ability from penguin mario. It was a better realized version of the blue shell, i didn't think it was really uninspired. Also it made mario swim much faster.
Really? It was an overpowered mess, and was, in my opinion, pretty lazy. It was just a mix of the ice flower and the shell from New Super Mario Bros. It also suffers from only being in New Super Mario Bros Wii, the worst game in the NSMB series.
Great vid! Though for Castlevania hacks I would’ve stripped Blood Moon since it’s a little unpolished compared to the almighty “Overflow Darkness”, which imo has better level design than even the original game and 2 new unique bosses.
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There's a 2 player Romhack out there for Ducktales 2 for the NES that makes the 2nd player Darkwing Duck. Fantastic hack, was great to the play game co-OP, highly recommend
There is also a romhack called ducktales 2 deluxe, from 2013, unfortunately every text is in russian, which makes the game even harder. I once had a japanese duck tales 2 on a famiclone, it was basically the same situation, we had to figure out everything on our own and it was still a great game that way.
This sounds promising. Will look for it and try it definitely! (Battletoads & Double Dragon won't be happy)
@ I can translate it for you(i mean on paper, not modifying rom)
That sounds really cool!
And a two player P.O.W as well.
I wasn't expecting a Jackal 2 romhack. I particularly like the apparent nighttime setting with the land cast in a darker shade, only reverting back to the normal color to emphasize explosions. Sure it's just a simple color palette trick, but it's a great effect here and really sets the mood for the game.
Mario 3Mix is great. So is the Castlevania II Translation plus map. I made a patch, not released, that fixes the title screen for Castlevania II to restore the original copyright instead of leading to a website.
Finally!!! Someone who finally mentions how well-deserving it is that Super Mario Bros. 3Mix is on this list!!!! Yay!!! 😃
The Castlevania II and Metroid hacks have definitely caught my eye. Thanks for featuring them.
Glad to see people suggest you Deadpool, its a romhack we spent years doing.
i screamed in delight at the final fantasy one! thank you man! been looking for something to breath some new life into that!
Good call on Minus Infinity. It's one of my favorite Mega Man games, period. Would also recommend Rockman (2) No Constancy, and the Rockman EX series by AYCNN which is surprisingly clever and challenging.
Nice to see Extra Mario Bros. get some love! It's probably the most technically impressive thing anyone has ever done with the original Super Mario Bros. To this day that last Bowser battle blows me away.
AWESOME! The rom-hack saga is one of my favourite things of this channel....
Can confirm that Rogue Dawn is the pinnacle of Metroid hacking
The graphics look damn impressive. The uneven terrain, the water effects... Doesn't even look like an NES game.
Some of my faves Rockman 4 minus infinity (Rockman 4), Some Usual Day (Super Mario bros 3), Mario Game (Super Mario World)
It's nice to get some of my work mentioned here, I appreciate that. It's cool that people are still into rom hacks, and have come along way since the days of Super Naked Wheelchair Mario Bros in the early 2000s.
Rockman 4: Minus Infinity is the greatest rom hack I've ever played in my life
You named the Light Warriors after your dogs and lover! So cute!
That Final Fantasy hack looks amazing! Thanks for the tip! (actually, all of these look great, thanks for letting us know about them!!)
Sneaky guy, actin like you didn't make the damn hack. Nice job btw. Fun hack, very well made.
@@no_nameyouknow hah, I wasn't expecting to fool anyone! Glad to hear you liked the game!
Oh hey man! I'm a fan of Pinkpuff and immediately recognized FF-1's influence on FFUltra :)
I'll have to give FFUCE a chance sometime soon!
@@MurderWho cool! Glad you enjoyed PinkPuff version... Good luck finding them as a boss in mine!
@@madspunky oh? If you know pinkpuff as well as I know pinkpuff, and you kept the time tower in the game, then they're a 1/64th chance on appearing in some region, probably the last one, of the time tower :p
But then, you might also go with a reference to the namesake, and have them as a rare boss in a low-encounter treasure room somewhere in the final dungeon instead . . .
Hmmmm . . .
MY All-Time Favorite on this list is "SUPER MARIO BROS. 3MIX!" For some reason, playing "Extra Mario Bros." seems like it'd be even more fun during the WINTER Season!
You've done a few of these rom hack vids, and I love them, so you should do more
Aren't you gonna tell me to play these "any way I can"
with rom hacks, this kind of goes without saying
@@justsomebody-1665 Of course. I just like when he says the thing.
Obviously the only correct way to play them is to acquire the original cartridge, use a cartridge dumper to extract a ROM, apply the IPS to the dumped ROM, then create a reproduction cartridge using the patched ROM and play it on original hardware.
Or just download a ROM from the Internet, patch it, and play it on an emulator. One of the two.
@@Dimensiom I've always wondered why ROM hacks almost always exclusively require you to patch it yourself. I haven't really looked into how to do that - I tried for a little it when Super Mario 64 Land came out, but my dumbass couldn't figure it out.
I'm guessing it's because posting a fully-patched version is essentially the same as hosting a copyrighted ROM?
@@MrFox-tc6tc fair enough!
Gotta also recommend 3mix and MA. 3mix is an amazing hack...it's like the SoRRemake of Mario games. and MA is a great original-esque adventure
Knowing theres ROM hacks for Gimmick of all games makes me so dang happy
Great picks, especially Castlevania Holy Relics, Re-translation+Map (believe it or not, this is better than Redacted), and Metroid Rogue Dawn. These hacks are all so good, they are mainstays IMO. Mother 25th Anniversary is excellent, too.
Good recs. Love the content - keep up the good work. :)
I liked that Duck Tails game growing up... that and of course Mario 3 are what really got me into gaming... Mega Man helped a lot, my fav was X on the SNES but those early NES days rocked! Ahhhh the great memories of an early gamer, before that term was even known! Was incredible to have my mommy want to play those games as much as I did growing up 😂
Thanks for the recommendations, SNESdrunk!
Great list! Mario 3 mix is my personal favorite hack.
You read my mind 😁
I was looking into nes games and seeing again you old snes hack games 🇧🇷
Waiting for part 2, and I hope it will include The legend of Zelda rom hacks
This selection of games has Clyde's seal of quality!
Surprised you didn't mention some of the Tecmo Super Bowl rom hacks. They allowed for 4-3 defenses instead of all 3-4. Many allowed you to change your playbook in game, there is halftime stat tracking, updated rosters and teams obviously, and a juice mode to make it tough right out the gate for a greater challenge.
Have to save some stuff for part 2, although I did not know that TSB had a college football hack, that looks kick ass
I've played nearly every single Metroid 1 hack (most of them are quite bad). Here's what I recommend beyond Rogue Dawn:
- Metroid X (1999) -- It's the first hack of Metroid, but it's rather solidly designed and polished for something of its vintage.
- Metroid Deluxe (2002) -- The second best early Metroid hack. The author recently released an updated version with a pause map, so you might prefer this one.
- Metroid Incursion (2014) - This hack was made by the guy who would go on to make Rogue Dawn. It has a weird modern-ish city theme. It's not as ambitious, but still rather polished.
A couple others I recommend with some caveats are Metroid Genocide (the early game is a bit slow), Over the Moon (Tourian is no fun), Mission 187 (some advanced tech is required IIRC).
I would also recommend Samus vs. Karid-X (which is a contest hack that you can beat in 20 to 30 minutes), but it would be unethical for me to recommend my own hack so I won't.
You can find all of these hacks at metroidconstruction.com
Ahh that music at the beginning from Super Mario Land 2 makes me hopeful that it is coming soon!
Ducktales with darkwing duck and super mario bros. co-op are also great hacks.
There's two ROM hacks called "Dragoon X Omega" and "Dragoon X Omega Ii". They're hacks of Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy and they are total conversions. The engine is the same but the maps and layouts and enemies all have q sci fi setting. They're both very cool.
Love the Tecmo Superbowl rom hacks
Good video. I'm playing the castlevania 2 redaction remap translated one. I don't need the clues anymore, but the save, and the map is helping me train for a speed run. I really like the translated text though. I"m pretty excited about jackle 2. I'd forgotten about that game. I really enjoyed it. Now i gotta google commando romhacks! lol also for people who don't know, it's easy to patch these games. just google ips patcher. after that just run the exe and know where your files are. Don't forget to virus scan everything just out of habit.
You probably get this a lot but damn is your voice ever soothing hahaha (In a good way). It has such a calming relaxing effect.
lol at 3:47! Yoshinoman looks like Peter Griffin lol.
Another great video. Keep it up!
Great selection! Thank you.
I think the biggest issue with a lot of rom hacks/custom campaigns etc is that they are, obviously, made by people who really love the game, and have played it so much, and mastered its mechanics and know all its quirks, and they want something new. And so what they think is a "reasonable challenge" is typically far more difficult than what an average player would consider reasonable. A player who played the game, liked it, and then wants to play a mod will more often than not be in for a rough time, unless the modder aware of that difficulty gap and willing to accommodate it.
I know you've already done SNES Rom Hacks videos, But I'd love to see you review Legend of the Double Dragons and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Rescue Palooza...
The Penguin costume isn't a fan made power-up. It's from New Super Mario Bros Wii.
I'll bookmark this video...
Rom hacks makes games playable again yo!😎
It isn't a rom hack but I wonder if you have played Simon's Quest Rebitten? Ed Findlay completely redid Simon's Quest so there are now boss battles in the mansions where you get Dracula's parts and at the end, the castle is actually parts of Dracula's castle from the original Castlevania and Castlevania III. It is free to download and it is AWESOME. I loved the original Simon's Quest but this game is by far more superior. I actually enjoy it more than Castlevania IV. You need to check it out. Love your videos. Cheers!
I think it qualifies more as a fan game than a rom hack, but Mega Man Unlimited is really cool. Also, someone remade Mega Man 7 and 8 in 8-bit style.
Duck Tales 2 in general was just a better game than the first, but it's fairly rare and kinda expensive, and I bet if I were to look at release dates it'd be one of those post SNES launch games on the NES so it became rare.
Awesome video !!!Thank you!!!!
The mario penguin suit is from new super mario bros wii (2009)
way to bring out the nerds snesdrunk,
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Super Contra 7. New bosses and/or patterns changed. New levels. Is a hack, so as you said, don't expect too much, but is worth it at least. I will try Jackal 2, I like difficult games.
GREAT VIDEO BRO
Nice to end on Ducktales. Did anyone else watch the new Darkwing Duck this week?
You should try out the Rom-Hack Mega Man 4 Voyage. It's much better than the last two Mega Man ones you looked at. Voyage feels like an official game, albiet an all new game.
All solid hacks! A+ video
gimmick! a super underrated NES game
Any chance you'll review the Romance of the Three Kingdoms games for SNES?
Aside from the Megaman ones he mentioned i can recommend "Rockmam no constancy" and "Rockman 3 winternight" they are good (winternight changes megaman speed making this one very funny and kinda intense action)
Rockman No Constancy is good, but very difficult. I do like how many of the backgrounds are taken from other games though.
@@Dj.D25 ohh yeah, i recognized a background from MMX2 (quickman stage) and MMZ2 (heatman), do you know more? xD
I really want to know the one in Airman stage ;-;
@@BrickmanZero Bubble Mans stage graphics are from Donkey Kong Land.
@@Dj.D25 Ohhh nice, i didn't noticed it, probably because i played more times the snes ones x)
The Guru's patch doesn't really "fix" translation, it chooses to prioritize gameplay and quality of life over preserving the original text and theme. Notice the theater theme is greatly downplayed, everyone is helpful, and that actually loses a lot of the context of the story. Bisqwit's patch is meant to actually retranslate the mod into several languages, including Finnish which is his native language, with some other interesting quality of life changes. But also note that the Guru did his patch first, way back in the day, while Bisqwit is still working on his, and offers several ways to patch the game into boards Castlevania 2 wasn't actually made for.
Thanks man; it is useful ^^
Good review, say the spoilers because I don’t have time to play them :)
At 3:40 did someone told you to not speak loud or ot was too late and you didn't wanna wake up ur significant other? Lol jk love ur videos my man!
Snes drunk you should review some neo geo games
And Super pitfall 30th aniversary?
While you are talking, the music is a bit too loud. At least during the first Romhack :)
Wish someone would make rom hacks for Metal Storm.
Castelvania Red Wizard... Very hard hack
I highly recommend these NES romhacks that were not mentioned in this video:
-Batman & Robin: Shadows of Gotham - Shadow of the Ninja reskin 2 player co-op
-Battle of Olympus - Quality of Life patch
-Deadpool - total conversion of Ninja Gaiden
-Earthbound Beginnings - several patches to convert Mother 1 into a proper release
-Mega Man Remastered - Makes Mega Man play and look more like later Mega Man games
-New Ghostbusters II - a 2 player co-op patch and color fix for an actually good Ghostbusters game
-TMNT - Return to New York - rebalance of TMNT, makes you actually want to play all 4 turtles
-Zelda 2 easy mode - Various QoL patches, mainly Link starts at beginning of dungeon after death
And then there are the hundreds of great English translation patches of games that were never released in NA. This is a short list of my favorites:
-Adventure Island IV
-Bio Miracle Baby Upa
-Almost all Ganbare Goemon games
-Almost all of the Sanrio (Hello Kitty) games especially Keroppi's Splash Bomb
-Joy Mech Fight
-Konami Wai Wai World 1 and 2
-Hot Blooded Fighting Legend (Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu) - 4 player battling in Kunio-Kun series
-Downtown Special, Kunio-Kun's Historical Period Drama (essentially it's River City Ransom 2)
Earthbound Beginnings is so good
Thanks for the recommendations. I'm interested to know what what improvements were made to Battle of Olympus as I really enjoy that game. On the same topic, do you know of any good hacks for Zelda 2: Adventure of Link? I bet someone talented could make something really great with the framework of that game.
@@acidwizard6528 It depends on what you want. There are a lot of Zelda II hacks. There are some good hacks like Redux that definitely improve the game, but make it even harder than it already is. I went with the easy mode hacks because I wanted to experience the story, and I have about a 1000 other hacks I want to try so I don't want to spend time getting guud.
But what about the disgusting pron hax that us awful garbage people crave?
@@Matrxmonky What about it? It's there if you want it. And there is plenty of it.
Please make more videos about romhacks, it's very interesting to watch.
Some great picks here. I do think Super Pitfall 30th Anniversary Edition deserves a shoutout for basically being a complete remake of the original game, while still being on the same system. It's insane.
Yeah! I always loved the original. This new romrack is a masterpiece.
Intro still is not long enough, plz make longer! 🙆♀️
I only come here for the intros.
Other good ones because I spent a ridiculous amount of time loading the NES Classic with these:
-Simultaneous 2-player Super Mario Bros.
-Power Peach Sis (SMB /w floating Peach/Daisy!)
-SMB3 Definitive Edition
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return to New York
-Ultima: Exodus Remastered
-Goonies 2 Revised
-Metroid mOTHER
-The Superman hacks of Sunman
-RC Pro Am Mario Kart
-Ducktales 2 2-player
-POW 2-player
-Box Art Bomberman + 2-player
-Dragoon X Omega 1 & 2
-The improvement patches for unlicensed games like Pokemon Yellow, Aladdin, FF7, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (and I guess also the existence of these games in general?)
-Pac-Man CE Demake technically
-so many good ones for the Final Fantasies, from patches that allow you to run, to one that adds a dynamic combat system to FF1, to total rebalancing efforts
-many small patches that tweak movement/control to feel more natural (Castlevanias, Turrican, Double Dragon, Startropics, Batman, etc.)
The NES is rom hack central
Thanks for the kind words! Also the "Mario Adventure" hack was what inspired me to do such in-depth technical hack of my own.
Nice! That's so cool to hear
Hack gun.dec, make it more difficult especially the driving stages but don't change anything otherwise. It's already one of the best famicom games, imagine if difficulty is corrected
Hello, fellow gentlemen of culture.
Whoa, Metroid Rogue Dawn looks like a completely different fangame rather than a hack, especially on the NES. If you gave me that game I would've assumed it was a Super Metroid hack.
Plus the idea of a Space Pirate origin story is beyond cool.
Penguin Mario? This from after New Super Mario Bros?
Also that Metroid prequel one looks really cool.
Metroid Rogue Dawn is really, really good.
Def from New Super Mario.
thank you for repping my favorite **MEGA MAN** game.
Yes, Rockman 4 MI is better than any of Capcom's efforts, and a TRUE celebration of the franchise. while pushing the NES to it's breaking point.
I disagree but we all have our opinions and I can respect yours.
I should try it out sometime. I’ve never played a romhack or fangame for mega man. My favourite was Mega Man 8.
Check out Mega Man: Rock and Roll if you like fan games. Really well done, made in Godot.
@@NoeLPZC Someone made a Mega Man Man fan game in Godot? As a Godot dev myself that's really cool!
Agreed, and ome of the best capsule bossfights yet. Not too hard, but not too easy, the right song, it's all super fun
Some romhacks really are masterpiece, I also love the "Easy editions", or even some other hack such as Deadpool - A ninja Gaiden Hack, The Terminator from Sunsoft (hack from Journey to Silius, and many more. I'll take a look to Castlevania hacked games you mentioned in your videos, they look quite nice, thanks a lot, I always enjoy your videos !
Thanks for just letting us enjoy the DuckTales soundtrack a little bit longer ❤️
Dear SNES Drunk: Yes! More episodes just like this, please! Saves us from having to go through garbage ROMs
Rockman 4 Minus Infinity is probably the best Nes rom hack I've seen so far, doing things I didn't think were possible. Such as using enemies, bosses and obstacles from Megaman 1-8, bosses with completely new attack patterns, and many more surprises.
I do not do romhacks often but I may have to look into Holy Relics.
I am somewhat surprised that you did not touch on Final Fantasy Restored. It is not an overhaul like Ultra Champion Edition but is a very well-made restoration patch that fixes a lot of the original game's bugs (TMPR actually works); most importantly, it allows character names to have more than four letters.
Just when i wanted to concentrate on work...Drunk releases a video of improved versions of some of my favourite childhood games
(I never owned a SNES so NES was life ^^)
Great work on this video, Snesdrunk. A few friendly suggestions if you do another video: Rockman 2: No Constancy, Rockman 2 Dash (does Mega Man 2 in the style of Mega Man 1), Tetris Music Randomizer (Tengen version, switches music each level), Mega Man Hyperion 3 (polished reimagining of Mega Man 3), Zelda 2 Winter Solstice (a little hard but still worth it using save states...the atmosphere is top notch and it feels like a new Zelda 2 game), and ...probably a million others but I guess everyone is suggesting some so I'll keep it simple.
🙋🏻♂️ I would like more please. Keep going I’d love to check some of these out!
@@brux357
Mega Man 4 Voyage [brand new MM4 game, EXCELLENT!)
Mega Man 2 - The Revenge of the Eight Robot Masters (Graphics/Music/Level)
Mega Man 2 - Wily's Conquest Hyper Edition Turbo (high speed platforming)
Mega Man 2 Exile (G/M/L)
Mega Man 2 Neo (L)
....Any Mega Man hack with "Ridley" in the title...
Mega Man 3 Ultimate (slight mod, QoL additions)
Mega Man 5 Second Strike (L, boss A.I.)
Mega Man 6: Next Loop (L)R.B.I. Baseball 1986 (every team from that year)
Rockman 2: Deus Ex Machina (total overhaul)
...Any of the MM/Rockman "endless" ones...
Rockman 3 Alpha (L,G)
Rockman 2 MIN (L,G)
Rockman 2 Advanced (L,G)
Rockman 2 CLAW (L,G,M)
Rockman 2 Basic Master (L,G,M)
Rockman 4 Advanced (L)
Rockman 2K (great early hack of Rockman 1)
Rockman Exhaust (L,G,M)
Starlight Mario (total overhaul)
Super Mario Bros with SMB3 graphics
Super Mario Bros. 2 Christmas Edition
Super Mario Bros. 3: Forgotten Realms I & II
Super Mario Bros. 3: Forgotten Worlds (SMB1 hack)
Super Pitfall 30th Anniversary (makes this game playable)
Super Mario Bros. Tower RE (total overhaul)
Super Mario Bros. Special (remake of Hudson version of SMB)
Tecmo Convergence (32-team TSB rom with the single best team in every franchise)
Super Mario Unlimited (overhaul)
The Legend of Zelda: Outlands
Castlevania: Overflow Darkness
Dragon Warrior 1/2 (double EXP/G hack)
Ninja Gaiden 3 Restoration (makes it like Japanese original version)
Holy Relics is a great Castlevania hack. You do mention it but I am just giving an additional endorsement. It's really good, not too hard but still tough and as a plus it uses music from all sorts of Castlevania games.
Castlevania - Chorus of Mysteries is a great hack. Holy Relics too. Blood Moon is pretty good. I’d say CoM is actually harder. BM might have slightly different whip machines but once you master it you’ll find the game easier. You get a lot more power ups. Micah less penalty for hearts when dying and you keep your weapon after death too, if men worry serves.
I also recommend "Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3" for NES by vasyanchichek (search on youtube). It's a romhack for a bootleg Mortal Kombat 3 for Famicom (which in turn was a romhack for Shin Samurai Spirits 2: Haohmaru Jigokuhen) . The amount of work invested into this hack is amazing - it's a complete game. I wish we had that UMK3 on NES in 90s..
Mario Adventure was the first romhack I got into, really fuelled the fire in my belly for romhacks!
Thanks for your analysis. I have played most of these. Like you said it's really hard to choose which ones to play with the number of hacks out there. That's why I really value these videos.
Not a rom hack. but translation...but I'd recommend Adventure Island 4 for the NES...it never came to the US, and it's an early look at the Metroidvania genre, and expanded on what CB 2 did but with a hudson twist.
Your Japanese is really getting so much better, your pronunciation is getting much more fluent.
Awesome video brother! I have been subbed for years and am a huge fan of hacks for retro games from my childhood; The metroid and FF ones sound especially cool to me I will be checking them out for sure.
It's funny, I have heard of and/or played through most popular romhacks for SNES, Genesis, and N64, but I really have never even heard of all the NES romhacks you mentioned and never really gave much thought to NES hacks in general. Thanks so much for bringing these to my attention!
This is great!!! Thanks SNES drunk. I will be looking into these.
THANK YOU! I've recently returned to emulation after buying a mibox 3 and romhacks are a great way to experience old games ❤️.
That Metroid hack looks amazing! I can barely believe it uses NES architecture; I thought it was like a PC game.
Lol i see snes drunk hasnt played the New Super Mario Bros games, penguin mario was definitely one of the best powerups in the game.
I mean, It was pretty uninspired though, don't you think? It was just the new-at-the-time ice flower (which was in the game) + a sliding ability.
He said in a previous video he stopped following consoles after n64 i believe.
@@shocknawe I think they shouldve just axed the ice flower or removed the ice ball ability from penguin mario. It was a better realized version of the blue shell, i didn't think it was really uninspired. Also it made mario swim much faster.
@@louisdellalucca8969 yeah i figured since he said recently that he just got a 3DS
Really? It was an overpowered mess, and was, in my opinion, pretty lazy. It was just a mix of the ice flower and the shell from New Super Mario Bros. It also suffers from only being in New Super Mario Bros Wii, the worst game in the NSMB series.
Don't forget the excellent Deadpool hack of Ninja Gaiden. Super tough, but this one is almost more like a brand new game rather than a reskinning.
This is a great video. Some very interesting hacks, thanks.
Great vid! Though for Castlevania hacks I would’ve stripped Blood Moon since it’s a little unpolished compared to the almighty “Overflow Darkness”, which imo has better level design than even the original game and 2 new unique bosses.
I love Overflow Darkness, brilliant game!
It's cool that there's good Ducktales 2 hacks out there. I enjoyed that game a lot as a kid!