This hack adds a ton of cut content back into the game, allows access to previously unexplorable areas, fixes some bugs and offers some options to remove the linearity from the game. Full list of changes in the readme. In addition 1999 is fully explorable and offers tons of stuff to do. As well as more Easter eggs and quality of life improvements. More stuff carries over like names money, fair prizes and cats.
Role-playing (RPG) / Adventure / Action / Fantasy
Have you always tried to play through Zelda II and finding out it was either excruciatingly difficulty, unbalanced, too tough or perhaps found that it just has so many quirks that doesn’t make the game enjoyable? This hack tries to address that by rebalancing the game, making some QoL changes and also some visual flare into the game, without compromising the original game’s design.
Platform / Role-playing (RPG) / Action / Fantasy
Released in 2022 on Nintendo DS.
Role-playing (RPG) / Action / Fantasy
This is a colorization hack of Pokemon Red, done entirely using ASM. It takes full advantage of Gameboy Color hardware, which is much more capable than the Super Gameboy. The overworld is fully and properly colorized, and with colorized attack sprites, even battles are more colorful! In addition to color, Pokemon and Trainer sprites have been imported from Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal, and so has the battle HUD. If you don’t want this, the “vanilla” patch does not touch these.
Role-playing (RPG) / Adventure / Indie / Action / Fantasy
Pokémon Unbound is a fan-made ROM hack of Pokémon FireRed that offers an enriched and modernized Pokémon experience. Set in the Borrius region—a land with a tumultuous history marked by a past war with the Kalos region—the game follows your journey to prevent the resurgence of a sealed dark force that once threatened the land.
Role-playing (RPG) / Adventure / Action / Fantasy
Zelda: Sands of Time is a ROM hack of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (64). It features new worlds, power ups, enemies, story, quality of life improvements and more.
Role-playing (RPG) / Adventure / Action / Fantasy
A complete The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past hack. Everything is brand new. Dungeons, overworlds, etc. It even has new music! This hack does a fantastic job of letting you re-live the old classic while adding a new degree of difficulty that challenges even the elite!
Role-playing (RPG) / Action / Fantasy
Pokémon Jade is a bootleg/pirate game which is a mod of Keitai Denjuu Telefang Speed Version. Its counterpart is Pokémon Diamond (the bootleg, not the official game by Nintendo).
Role-playing (RPG) / Turn-based strategy (TBS) / Adventure / Action / Fantasy
Pokémon Prism is a super customized Pokémon Crystal mod that takes place in a previously unexplored region. It contains new mechanics unseen in its inspired franchise, while refining existing gameplay. Boasting an expansive landscape to adventure in filled with unique challenges, fresh areas to explore, and new ways to play, Pokémon Prism is an entirely new experience that gamers of all ages are sure to enjoy! Pokémon Prism was planned to be released on December 25, 2016. It was cancelled several days prior to release, on December 21, following a cease and desist by Nintendo in which all the developer's ROM hacks were pulled offline, but later leaked onto the Internet.