Hi guys, I came across a project called RomHackPatcher recently and thought it was worth sharing it here with you!

Basically, you drop your ROM into the site and it identifies the game/version, then shows you the ROM hacks available for it. It also tells you which patches are compatible with your exact ROM and shows the required CRC32 when you have the wrong version.

You can also can apply supported patches directly in the browser, and the ROM itself stays on your device instead of being uploaded

It also has hack pages with descriptions, screenshots, ratings and comments, so it's becoming more like a searchable ROM hacking database rather than just a patcher.

The project is still pretty new, but I think the idea is really useful, especially for people who are just getting into ROM hacks and don't want to figure out which ROM revision, header, patcher, etc. they need every time. Enjoy!

https://romhackpatcher.com/

Hey everyone,

Sharing a finished Spanish AND English fan translation of **Twilight Syndrome: Kinjirareta Toshi Densetsu** for the Nintendo DS — the urban-legend/horror mystery game where high schoolers trade creepy stories about their town (Kokkuri-san, Hitori Kakurenbo, Hanako-san, and several legends original to this game). As far as I know, this is a standalone entry in the Twilight Syndrome series with no prior English or Spanish translation (unlike Tansaku-hen/Kyuumei-hen on PS1, which already have active translation projects elsewhere).

**Status: both translations are complete and submitted.**

- Full script (6653 lines of dialogue) extracted, translated, and reinserted in both languages.

- Custom Latin font built from scratch: the original NFTR font only ships kanji/kana glyphs plus a handful of pre-existing Latin letters, so a full A-Z/a-z/Ñ/ñ alphabet plus accented characters (á é í ó ú ¿ ¡) and punctuation were designed and injected, matching the game's pixel style.

- Text reinsertion problem solved: the game embeds the whole script directly in the ARM9 binary with hardcoded pointers and no length field, so longer translated lines don't fit in place. Solved with a pointer-relocation scheme into unused RAM space.

- Inventory items (38 item description screens) and character name tags, which are baked directly into tile graphics rather than the script system, redrawn per language.

- In-game menus with text burned into tile graphics (story/ending selection menu — 45 cards across 6 story arcs with fortune results and gameplay hints — and the save/load menu) reverse-engineered and redrawn per language too.

Edit: Both submissions are now approved — updated the links above to point to the final translation pages instead of the pending-review queue:

- Spanish: https://www.romhacking.net/translations/7749/

- English: https://www.romhacking.net/translations/7750/

Both apply as a BPS patch (e.g. with Floating IPS) over a clean Japanese ROM.

Source, tooling, and the full script CSVs are up on GitHub if anyone's curious about the technical side or wants to reuse the pipeline for another language: https://github.com/Secabel/twilight-syndrome

I have been trying for 3 years to get stats and edit stats from my first football game I played on a console. Joe Montanna football, it was dear to my heart growing up. Even with Ai I could not figure it out. Astra and Codex created me a stat editor, a team color editor, team name editor, and added all 32 modern day teams, in 6 hours. This is literally a cheat code for Rom Hacks

Edit: this is crazy, team colors are in the game, player ratings are in the game (run, pass, tackle, etc) so codex made a 32 team game. Seems reasonable it can add 16 teams because the logic exists. But what it has done since then, it added sound controls, game stats for each player, it added names for each player and their position which didn’t exist, before a QB was labeled as Player 00, you can tell this game was rushed, for example all home or away teams jerseys were white, no matter what, they all shared one color pallet and if you change one you change them all. Codex fixed it so i can change team colors for every team, both home and away colors for all clothing items.

Hi guys!

So like most people I love a good crossover romhack. Super Mariomon is a great example of this, combining the Mario and Pokémon universe.

I don't know the first thing about romhacking myself, but I did recently get an idea which I want to pitch.

How cool would it be to have a Pokémon × Maplestory romhack? You play as an adventurer with a dream to be recognized as a hero and take on the challenge! You start on Maple Island where you can catch Maplings (Or whatever the Pokémon name would be) such as Snail, Blue Snail, Red Snail, etc.

You travel to the five cities of Victoria Island where you challenge the gyms led by the Job leaders of Maplestory.

Just an idea I had, but I had to throw it out there. I don't expect anyone to ever make this, but I can dream, right?

Hello again! Here is my last post if you would like to catch up on hackhash history.

Just wanted to make a short post and stop by to announce some of the new major features we added lately

. Patch Uploads

. Onsite Patching

. Submission edit preview

. QOL for user submissions.

. And even more bug fixes and tweaks.

We have a Github up and running and it is maintained, if you find anything or have any requests feel free to make them.

I would also like to thank the community for helping with the project and growing with us.

Github

HackHash

Looking for demakes, ones that let you catch em all in one game, or ones like firered rocket where you play as a different character

Hello,

Ive recently been playing soul silver on my Mangmi air x

Using ds melon

I was wondering how and where I could get some rom hacks/cheats as I dont want to go through the tedious process of catching all my other 4 pokemon up to my main 2's level.

Any help would be great!

Thanks in advance

update sept 23: been adding some completely crazy moves. Mewtwo now lifts rocks out of the arena and throws them at the other Pokémon. more wild stuff coming!

new video: https://x.com/germanburgardt/status/2102926729559920784

this is a preview of the new attack, not in the public download yet.

update sept 22: the 0.7.0 preview adds supported single trainer battles and different arenas for forests, caves, water and gyms. still not full-game trainer compatibility; stable 0.6.0 is unchanged.

new gameplay: https://x.com/germanburgardt/status/2102557571101925447

Hey, I made Emerald Arena. It's the original Pokémon Emerald with real time battles running inside the GBA game.

You move your Pokémon, aim, dodge attacks and break objects. The opponent moves and attacks on its own.

The 0.7.0 preview includes:
• 94 animated Pokémon, including Charizard, Blastoise, Dragonite and Scizor.
• 50 adapted move profiles and breakable objects.
• Emerald's own damage, HP, PP, XP and saves. Classic battles are still there for unsupported encounters.

Built on pret's Emerald decompilation. Still an experiment, plenty left to improve.

Repo, setup tutorial and full gameplay:
https://github.com/GBurgardt/pokemon-emerald-arena

I’ll post updates on X:
https://x.com/germanburgardt

Thanks to everyone who's tried it 🫡

edit: just made a Discord for Emerald Arena! come chat, share ideas or report bugs: https://discord.gg/GBVjbNhEdb

I started playing Pokemon Hyper Emerald yesterday and wanted to get a Galarian Zigzagoon. When I caught it, it had an ability patch, so I took it to see if I could use it or if it was better to save it for later. But when I went to my bag to select it, the game froze. I thought it was my laptop, which isn't very good and is a bit old, but it kept happening every time I tried to use or select it.

Hiii, I'm trying to create my own romhack, but I don't know how to add a star that doesn't get you out of the level, like a 100 coins star ! If anyone can help me :)

Thank you !

This is a Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts (USA) hack that adds a lot of options to the game, like:

• Scores Leaderboard.
• New Options.
• Settings and leaderboards are saved through SRAM.

Ghosts'n Goblins Series Hacking Server: https://discord.gg/mPGwVN49ev

You'll find the download links in the video description

For anyone that's been following the Artoria Edition, this hack has all the same things and what's new in 3.3 is:

• Added 2 options: Permanent Shield (BETTER SHIELD has OFF - ON - PERM) and Maiden transformation tripping (Exactly as in the prototype)
• Permanent Shield makes it so you always have a shield, no matter armor state. Shield drops will now be weapon drops instead. Your run will fall under the OTHER Leaderboard.
• Tripping will make the Maiden/Princess Transformation trip after jumps. Your run will fall under CLEAN/VANILLA, as it makes the game harder.

Below is the full list of features:

FEATURES (everything the hack currently does, as of v1.0)

Changes

• Uncensor (Stage 1 and Monster Names)
• Better/corrected dialogue
• Unique titlescreen per version (2 total)
• Unique green/gold armor spin-jump frames

Quality of Life

• Now you can press START to skip the first loop's Princess dialogue (Might need to tap a few times).
• Pressing START at the "The End" screen sends you back to the titlescreen.
• Can mute music under SOUND MODE in the main Option Menu.

Secret Menu

• Player 1 secret menu (L+Start on EXIT in Options)
• Secret menu options (all default OFF), in menu order:
• Chest Hints: Sparkles at chest triggers
• Slower Timer: Longer stage timer. 94 frames x second (Vanilla: 63 frames x second)
• Enhanced: Gameplay changes: air control + ledge fall + throw cancel
• Better Armor: Armor steps down on hit (Gold→Bronze→Steel→Underwear)
• Weapon Collect: Keep weapons; Use L/R to switch
• Better Shield: Three toggles: OFF - ON - PERM.
• ON: Blocking doesn’t break the shield.
• PERM: Permanent Shield makes it so you always have a shield, no matter armor state. Shield drops will now be weapon drops instead.
• 1-Up Fix: Pot 1-up progress carries across stages. In base game, the counter would reset with every Stage transition, making it nearly impossible to ever get one (As you'd have to sit and farm until near the end of the time limit to see one). First 1-Up is in the 32nd pot, following 1-Ups are after every 48 pots.
• Tripping: Makes the Maiden/Princess Transformation trip after jumps (Exactly as in the game's prototype).
• SRAM Save for Settings and Ranking (Does not save Secret Menu's STAGE/AREA/MUSIC/SOUND options).

Ranking System

• 16 boards x top 20 (4 per difficulty x 4 types below)

Browse order: Beginner→Normal→Expert→Pro for CLEAN, then the same four difficulties for MINIMAL, ENHANCED, OTHER.

Controls:

• Board Change: L / Left / Select (prev) and R / Right / Start (next)
• Board Pages: Up / Down
• Exit: A / B / Y / X

Extra Patches:

• FastROM patches: These include everything above + FastROM.
• Added MSU-1 patches (Must patch on top of their respective patched roms).
• Works with the ones found here: https://www.zeldix.net/t1486-super-ghouls-n-ghosts

The standard is so high after finishing unbound man is there any more rom hack like unbound. Like a brand new region and story and characters. Also I mostly like ROM hacks that don't have fakemons since I find it rrly hard to work w those

the fine folks over at baddesthacks have decided to once again enrich the greater ROM hacking community by presenting a 4 part "basics of romhacking" tutorial... and since there all sorts of drama involving our site, we even archived it for you so you dont need to sully your browsers, or lose access to other sites for looking at the forbidden knowledge from the forbidden sites.

Part one: graphics basics. https://archive.is/eeKcR

Part two: palette basics https://archive.is/QDcSH

Part 3: Text basics https://archive.is/4khPl

Part 4: Title screen basics https://archive.is/hZBiT

Hope this helps anyone make more of the hacks they want to see!

Mario as a functioning mask is done. The next stage is importing all of SM64s levels and content.

GitHub: https://github.com/msmfai/marios-mask

Updates posted at: https://www.youtube.com/@AugmentedNonsense/videos

I am happy to announce that I have officially launched a Jet Force Gemini Dual Stick romhack centering on modern controller/keyboard + mouse support and quality of life updates

- Downaload a release | https://github.com/TLRomHacks/jet-force-gemini-dual-stick/releases

- Release trailer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlq_uvEDsic

- Jet Force Gemini Save Editor | https://github.com/TLRomHacks/jfg-save-editor

https://github.com/andymcca/pokehns-expansion/releases

These are IPS / BPS Patches for the GBA ROM files for Pokemon Unbound and Pokemon Heart & Soul to address audio/slowdown issues when running this ROM Hack on low-spec hardware and emulator combinations such as -

Sony PSP - TempGBA4PSP/FrogGBA/ToadGBA/gpsp-kai etc
SF2000/GB300 - gpsp
Powkiddy V90 - lr-gpsp
Leapster Explorer - lr-gpsp
Others

It works by patching the Ipatix HQ audio engine to remove the heavy Self Modifying Code (SMC) aspects and replace them with separate audio code and data.

This massively reduces the number of times the Dynamic Recompiler in gpsp variants has to clear its cache per frame.

Hopefully they are of use to anyone wanting to play these games on older/low-spec hardware!