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This gem of the past allows 3 monsters parties out of a total 312 different monsters.Some of the final bosses monsters might as well be from Dragon Ball Z. Regardless, the breeding mechanics provide players with the option to use almost anyone in their party. Unfortunately, the story drags through levels 1-20 before breeding is unlocked. From that point it does not take much effort before random dungeon keys offer better monsters and XP then the story.

This hack began with the accidental discovery of the DWM2 ROM MAP, https://dragon-warrior-monsters-2-modding.wikia.com/wiki/ROM_Map

After a couple months one of the greatest childhood GBC RPGs has been remade into an adult RPG challenge. The story keys now have a great variety of tough monsters to compete with the random keys. The XP reward of some peculiar monsters have been boosted to keep random keys interesting. Collect rare XP keys until you can unlock the MetalKing training grounds!

Dragon Quest and Pokemon fans should give it a try! Please let JonahStrix know of any issues or suggestions for improvement.

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SWAT Out-Of-Bounds Fix (SWAT: Special Weapons and Tactics)(NES)

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Rockman 3 EX: Blues no Kage (Mega Man 3)(NES)
Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 Ultimate (Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi’s Journey)(GB)

Improvement

Ikari Warriors Proofread (Ikari Warriors)(NES)
Ghosts ‘n Goblins Proofread (Ghosts ‘n Goblins)(NES)
NBA Jam TE - Double Z Mod (NBA Jam: Tournament Edition)(SNES)
Bubble Bobble Proofread (Bubble Bobble)(NES)
Rockman 2 Slide and Charge Shot (Mega Man 2)(NES)
Grandia Voices & Video cutscenes Undub NTSC US English (Grandia)(PSX)
Crystal Beans - turhope mods (Crystal Beans from Dungeon Explorer)(SNES)
Mega Man X3 PSOne PAL to NTSC (Mega Man X3)(PSX)

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Vine Man (Mega Man 2)(NES)

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The first few versions of this hack and patcher have been around for a couple of months now on the site. A very busy couple of months though. Thanks to the continued support the project has got, it has gone a long way since the first version, enough to guarantee some sort of re-release.

To people first hearing about this: this is an improvement/tweaks project for Mega Man X6! You’ll have to check the project’s page for all the details, as the list has grown quite big, but these are some of the highlights:

Parts are no longer permanently missable. Injured Reploids reappear after getting infected or killed as if you’ve never encountered them.
Parts/Souls/Ranks table has been edited to reduce grinding and having an available Parts slot right from the start
Fight against Nightmare Zero on Lvl. 4 has been made available without cheating, which unlocks Black Zero during normal play
X and Zero now share Heart Tanks, Life Up parts, Energy Up parts, Souls, and Rank.
Blade Armor customization. Stronger attacks. More controllable, less dangerous Mach Dash.
X and Shador Armor have access to the Air Dash.
Zero’s infamous Sentsuizan has been remapped and the execution method has been changed to Hold/Release, so you can cancel it anytime.
Bonus damage against Nightmare Snake (aka Donuts) and Nightmare Mother.
Nightmare Effects can be disabled
“Exit Stage” button always available
Disables Alia’s alerts and other dialogues
Reducing the list of Injured Reploids by removing the ones that don’t hold any items
Repurposed cheat codes. You can use them to unlock secret armors, as well as to start the game with Zero available.

Etc.!

And since improvement project can be very subjective, the meat of the project has been making all these options available separately through the Mega Man X6 Tweaks Patcher project, so you can customize your version of the hack however you see fit!

Also, in case anyone else wants to continue from here and use information from this project on their own hacking endeavors (like replicating these hacks on other, hmmm, newer releases of this game), there’s also a throughout documentation of every single modification and line of code written for this project, the Mega Man X6 Tweaks Spreadsheet

It’s been a very busy couple of months. It’ll definitely slow down now, but bug reports and suggestions are always welcome (a new bug will very likely pop up as soon as this is published). Thanks to everyone who’se been part of the project thread, either contributing, hunting for bugs, or simply showing your support!

Special thanks go to:

DarkSamus993, who very patiently helped kickstart this whole project back when acediez didn’t even know what ASM was. We’re all looking forward to the X5 Improvement Project!
injoon84, for his dedicated (daily, at times) bug hunting and reporting. Went through every single WIP release of the project so the main author could spend his time working on new options.
Z3R0X, for his various hack contributions to the project.
Lumiere, x6fan, Ghaleonh41, Zero Dozer, and all the others who have reported bugs and shown their support!

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Eskayelle has issued his Double Z Mod of the SNES classic, NBA Jam – Tournament Edition . A project two summers in the making, the hack started innocently with the discovery of Mattrizzle’s Player Portrait Replacement Tutorial and various correspondence regarding NBA Jam Hacks on the RHDN forums. Armed with this information, the initial game plan was to add Michael Jordan to the ROM, and perhaps himself and a few friends.

Learning more and more about ROM hacking, eskayelle expanded the hack to hex, text, and portrait editing (version 1), then tiles and sprites (version 2), moving into ASM hacking in his latest iteration (version 3).

Since then, the Double Z Mod has become a quintessential “Roaring ‘90s” hack, with several secret characters from the era inserted, including:

Hulk Hogan
“The Heartbreak Kid” Shawn Michaels
David Hasselhoff
Arnold Schwarzenegger
O.J. Simpson
Bo Jackson – with Tecmo Bowl-esque speed!

Correspondingly, the team order has been updated to follow the season and playoff standings for the 1992-93 NBA season, with Chicago updated for the 1996 72-10 Chicago Bulls roster and Detroit stacked with the Motor City Bad Boys. Additionally, the Rookies team has been replaced by the 1992 Team USA squad, the Dream Team, from players, to logo, to team name, to uniform palette!

Meanwhile some bugs present in the original game have been resolved:

The Grand Champions attract mode screen will now display certain players who have beaten all 27 teams, depending on their wins tally.
The injury stats will reset at tip-off of every game, ensuring that the same teams/same lineups will not experience a carry-over of injury tallies from game 1 to game 2.

With a readme that provides detailed steps regarding the process for updating the original ROM, and a fair amount of credit to some great hackers and utility developers, the game has gone from a personal hack just for fun to a proof in concept and potential tutorial document for other would-be NBA Jam TE hackers. Writes eskayelle, “Writing the readme in this manner helped me track progress and revert the ROM back to certain versions when a bug or a bad crash was encountered. It could be a good tool for anyone out there who’d like to hack the game… maybe it’ll encourage a group to consider an annual team/roster update, akin to what’s currently being done for Tecmo Bowl. I’d love to help some folks get something like that off the ground, or just share some of the other data I’ve been accumulating about the game. It’d be great to share that info with folks new to hacking or some veterans – perhaps they could help teach me a few things about sound pointers and BRR replacements.”

If you’re up for a good game of Jam or want to peruse the other features changed, please head over to http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4097/. Constructive criticism is more than welcome, and – if you’d like to provide some mentoring on hacking ASM, sounds, etc. – or if you’d like more information on the hack or the original ROM to assist in your own efforts, please feel free to PM eskayelle directly or sound off in the forums.

BOOMSHAKALAKA!

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Everybody Gets a Chocobo (Final Fantasy III)(SNES)

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Mario Oasis (Super Mario Bros. 3)(NES)
Over the Moon (Metroid)(NES)
Blaster Basterd (Blaster Master)(NES)
Super Mario Bros: Death Moon (Super Mario Bros.)(NES)
Virtual Boy Mario (Super Mario Bros.)(NES)
Castlevania: Aotsuki no Partita (Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow)(NDS)

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Metroid II: Return of Samus VirtualBoy (Metroid II: Return of Samus)(GB)
Crystalis Proofread (Crystalis)(NES)
Wendy 2: Lost Krion (The Krion Conquest)(NES)
Castlevania - Order of Ecclesia - Shanoa Remade (Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia)(NDS)
Super Mario Advance 2 Luigi (Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World)(SNES)
Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge - Sprite Improvement (Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge)(GB)
Shadow’s GP Rain (Final Fantasy III)(SNES)
Mega Man X3 - Zero Project V4.0 (Base Mod) (Mega Man X3)(SNES)
Strider Proofread (Strider)(NES)
Rambo - First Blood Part 2 (P.O.W.: Prisoners of War)(NES)
Megaman 1 - Speed Patches (Mega Man)(NES)
Megaman 2 - Speed Patches (Mega Man 2)(NES)

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This V4.0 is a complete and entirely new rewrite of the original Zero Project, thus separating itself from the original version and being more of a ‘base’ for any other future mods intended. While the general idea of Zero being fully playable is still the same, many other alterations have been added to distinguish itself from the original game and it’s previous version.

The new version started back again in late 2017 to fix up many of the original issues and went even further to include many features that were intended from the beginning and then some. A few of the new features included are a new save/load game system, the Frog Armor being properly usable on land, the Black Armor actually doing something for Zero and New Game+!

This project is technically finished, but it may receive more updates or add-ons in the future. For now, with a ton of input from the community, hopefully this ‘completes’ Mega Man X3 much more than before!

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Well since it’s the 30th anniversary of “Blaster Master”, here’s something real special for all the hardcore gamers and NEStalgic fans out there. Now this is the first ever P1 rom hack or attempt at programming, so she’s a lil rough, but still its cool to pay homage to one of the best games of the 80s. Always found it funny how the box said “authentic arcade edition”. So what if Blaster master played like an actual arcade game? The side-scrolling levels were reduced into one room with access to all the boss levels that must be played in sequence that makes the classic title play more Megaman than Metroidvania. To retain the spirit of SunSoft difficulty of the game with the elimination of continues, it must be played with 3 lives aka one quarter. All that action is now tuned up for a boss rush catering to speed run freaks. In addition there are a few suicide traps one of which is a nod to the original Japanese version meta fight! There are few other surprises and Easter eggs you’ll enjoy. So without further adieu… Behold, a new twist to one of the greatest games of a generation; Blaster Basterd, authentic arcade edition!

Very Thanks, Player 1