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Anybody know of any worthwhile n64 rom hacks? Mostly interested in hacks for sm64, oot, and mario kart.

Recently saw a vid of The Missing Stars, but i didnt want to pirate any software to play it. So i bought myself a device to rip my own roms from the games i already own. Got a retrode to rip and a retro blaster programmer to put the rom hack onto its own cart.

Missings Stars and Zeldas Birthday are the only decent ones ive seen so far

Discuss
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Ocarina of Time has a randomizer doesn't it? You could try that out.
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I remember trying so hard to use a hack for Wrestlemania 2000 to put the WCW/nWo Revenge guys in the game and it just never worked for me.
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There is a new oot hack called nimpize adventure that is a huge change compared to base oot it just came out recently but it looks really good

Look up Kaze Emanuar on YouTube. He does a lot of cool Super Mario 64 hacks.
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MC_BatCommander posted...

Ocarina of Time has a randomizer doesn't it? You could try that out.

Yeah it's a very good randomizer.

Jshipp24 posted...

There is a new oot hack called nimpize adventure that is a huge change compared to base oot it just came out recently but it looks really good

Been playing this, it's ok. There are a few design choices that seem to confuse "difficult" and "annoying"

For example, you're stuck on 3 hearts and one fairy until you beat the first dungeon. There's a room with Gerudo (the ones that actually fight you) and lava floors that you have to navigate without dying. Unless you do perfect backflips, you're forced to take a quarter heart damage every time you touch lava. To make matters worse, the first look at the room will lead you to believe that you must kill all the Gerudo to open a barred door (thankfully, the designer was not quite that sadistic)

Another thing is how several of the puzzles are designed to make you run across a room a few times to pad it out (hit an eye switch to spawn some platforms at the other end of the room, navigate them to reach a floor switch that opens a door back at the other end)

And I have yet to find a fast travel mechanism, and the path from spawn to pretty much anywhere is a long, boring slog (think Zelda 2). For example, to reach Kakariko from spawn you have to go through Zora's Domain, Lost Woods, Goron City, and Death Mountain Trail (there is no hub connecting the two)

Combine those with the fact you'll find several dungeons you can make progress in before hitting a wall (thus prompting you to leave and come back with item X), and the game becomes quite tedious

In a way, it's like if Zelda were classic Metroid, complete with scouring the world trying to find your next item and hitting lots of dead ends until you do

Personally, I don't much like that. I may change my mind as I play more, but at least the first few hours of the game are a bit grosser than they needed to be (I would say definitely not a casual Zelda fan hack)
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Superlinkbro posted...

Look up Kaze Emanuar on YouTube. He does a lot of cool Super Mario 64 hacks.

came in to say this so insted I'll 2nd this suggestion
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Caution999 posted...

I remember trying so hard to use a hack for Wrestlemania 2000 to put the WCW/nWo Revenge guys in the game and it just never worked for me.

Not 100% sure why that happened, but perhaps you had the wrong version of the game. Had this issue w certain pokemon rom hacks...had to specifically order a used v1.0 of firered(which was a huge pain to find) just to be able to play em

ArchiePeck posted...

MC_BatCommander posted...

Ocarina of Time has a randomizer doesn't it? You could try that out.

Yeah it's a very good randomizer.

Ill def check it out! Ive never tried a randomizer in any game before, so its about time i got my feet wet

Alkaloid posted...

Jshipp24 posted...

There is a new oot hack called nimpize adventure that is a huge change compared to base oot it just came out recently but it looks really good

Been playing this, it's ok. There are a few design choices that seem to confuse "difficult" and "annoying"

For example, you're stuck on 3 hearts and one fairy until you beat the first dungeon. There's a room with Gerudo (the ones that actually fight you) and lava floors that you have to navigate without dying. Unless you do perfect backflips, you're forced to take a quarter heart damage every time you touch lava. To make matters worse, the first look at the room will lead you to believe that you must kill all the Gerudo to open a barred door (thankfully, the designer was not quite that sadistic)

Another thing is how several of the puzzles are designed to make you run across a room a few times to pad it out (hit an eye switch to spawn some platforms at the other end of the room, navigate them to reach a floor switch that opens a door back at the other end)

And I have yet to find a fast travel mechanism, and the path from spawn to pretty much anywhere is a long, boring slog (think Zelda 2). For example, to reach Kakariko from spawn you have to go through Zora's Domain, Lost Woods, Goron City, and Death Mountain Trail (there is no hub connecting the two)

Combine those with the fact you'll find several dungeons you can make progress in before hitting a wall (thus prompting you to leave and come back with item X), and the game becomes quite tedious

In a way, it's like if Zelda were classic Metroid, complete with scouring the world trying to find your next item and hitting lots of dead ends until you do

Personally, I don't much like that. I may change my mind as I play more, but at least the first few hours of the game are a bit grosser than they needed to be (I would say definitely not a casual Zelda fan hack)

Sounds interesting. I know oot like the back of my hand, so itll be kinda fun for me not knowing where anything is

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Superlinkbro posted...

Look up Kaze Emanuar on YouTube. He does a lot of cool Super Mario 64 hacks.

came in to say this so insted I'll 2nd this suggestion

Will do!

Thanks for all the suggestions, guys!
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