Tag Archives: ROM hacks

Christmas dinner may need to make room for a few grudge matches this year. Super Mario Kart Deluxe is targeting December 25, 2026, bringing a huge fan-made expansion to the SNES racer that started it all. For anyone who spent afternoons trading shells, missing shortcuts, and demanding one more race, this is a very tempting reason to pick up the controller again. The date appears in the new teaser shared by ScouBsmk… Read more

Is It Illegal to Play Emulated Nintendo Games? If you've ever wanted to relive classic games like Super Mario Bros., Super Metroid, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, or Zelda: Ocarina of Time using an emulator, you're definitely not alone. Emulation has become one of the most popular ways to revisit older games, especially as original hardware becomes more expensive, harder to maintain, and increasingly inconvenient to connect to… Read more

The dark halls of Dracula’s castle have opened once again but this time on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Thanks to the hard work of developer Rumbleminze the original Castlevania has been fully ported to SNES hardware offering a native 16 bit experience that combines classic gameplay with modern enhancements. https://bsky.app/profile/rumbleminze.bsky.social/post/3lufxzd6dbs2a First released as Akumajō Dracula for the Famicom Disk System in September 1986 and later brought to the NES in 1987… Read more

ROM hacks often provide a fresh take on classic titles, breathing new life into beloved games. The Deadpool NES ROM Hack is a prime example, taking the foundation of the iconic Ninja Gaiden and transforming it into a unique experience centered around Marvel's popular anti-hero, Deadpool. Developer and Background Developed by Techmoon, this unauthorized ROM hack was released in 2019. It uses the original Ninja Gaiden as a base, modifying graphics, mechanics,… Read more

Super Junkoid: A Hauntingly Beautiful Metroid Masterpiece. Watch the video above or read the review below.  But first, we had a brief interview with the ROM hack creator, P. Yoshi, where she was kind enough to answer some questions for us! Q: (Retro Replay) Can you tell us how you first discovered ROM hacking and what inspired you to start creating hacks of your own?A: (P. Yoshi) I like Metroid so I… Read more

The All New Punch-Out!! for the NES by RatedJpG. Retro Review: All New Punch-Out!! – A Fresh Knockout on the NES Imagine stepping back into the ring of a beloved NES classic, but this time, the faces staring back are both familiar and entirely new. "All New Punch-Out!!", a ROM hack of the iconic "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!", is a love letter to the franchise, taking players on a nostalgic uppercut through a roster… Read more

Hello Retro Gaming fans, Ryan Mcquinn here! This is the initial release of our Streets of Rage 2 ROM Editor! Accompanying the Screen Replacer are Text Editors which allow editing and replacing the various text throughout the ROM. There's Also a Checksum fixer to eliminate the need for an external tool. In the next release I will have implemented a way to not only replace the music, but also convert Midi's! **For… Read more