The Legend of Zelda: 18 Hours Past2023

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.

Super Mariomon is a passionate community-driven project that blends the iconic charm of Super Mario with the strategic gameplay of Pokémon. Experience familiar faces like Mario, Luigi, Bowser, and more, now as unique and collectible Mariomon. Battle your way through reimagined regions, challenge familiar foes, and become the ultimate Mariomon Master

This is a complete hack of Super Mario World. Don't expect any new graphics here; this game is all about the level design. All the levels and worlds are new, and some of the worlds have themes not present in the original game, such as a water world and an ice world.

Released in 2022 on PlayStation, by Mauk 696.

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.

Super Mario Star Road is a rom hack of Super Mario 64 and can be considered a sequel to that very game. It contains over 120 stars, more than 30 new areas, nearly 50 new tunes, and many other new features.

For the past seven years, SMW Central has held a vanilla level design contest every spring. “Vanilla level design” refers to using only Lunar Magic to create your level - that is, no custom blocks, no custom sprites, and no custom code of any sort. They eventually began allowing people to use custom music, but this is not factored into their score. Once they finished designing their level, they would submit an IPS file, it would get judged + ranked, and that would be the end of it. This year, however, S.N.N. decided to assign resources (secondary exits, Map16 slots, etc) to users with the intention of putting all of their levels into a ROM and essentially creating a full hack out of it. The hack features 82 submitted entries and 4 switch palaces, which makes a grand total of 86 levels for you to beat. All of the levels are open from the start - you can play them in any order you’d like. To help you keep track of your progress, the game autosaves on the world map and beating a level will give you an “M” in the top right corner of the overworld. As a disclaimer, the levels are organized on the overworld by theme, and not by ranking. This means that the quality of the levels might fluctuate dramatically from one to the next (e.g. having a 70th place entry directly before a 12th place entry). The bottom 8 and top 8 each have their own world, however, so it’s easy to distinguish them from the rest.

A rom hack with just 1 level made for SMW Central's Chocolate Level Design 2010 contest.