Best Super Nintendo Improvement Patches, Part 5 - SNESdrunk

[@SNESdrunk]

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[@LucasFerreiraFalalukaz]

👏👏 About Ultimate MK3, I'm trying to improve it more and more, and with each update I try to fix some bug, as happened with the colors of the shadows.

[@0Fyrebrand0]

7:57 _"Whoa, I'm seein' double -- FOUR Haggars!"_ OMG, I use this joke every chance I get. One of my favourite Simpsons gags. People don't always get what the heck I'm talking about though 🤣

[@RappingNinja]

I *adore* the idea of doing improvement patches for lesser games to make them far more palatable. So much more useful than just adjusting already-awesome games. That Dennis the Menace patch is what we need MORE of!!! In love with this idea. Bring on the fixes for more of the licensed tripe!

[@sias.2569]

ROSE is probably the best fan patch out there for those who want a vanilla FF6 experience. I’m glad you covered it!

[@NateWolfKira]

With what I've researched, I agree. I chose the ROSE patch for my next go around on FF6. TWUE was a close second choice.

[@GrapPro]

I actually beat Shadowrun with the mouse on ZSNES. Instead of a controller I used the keyboard. It felt like the way the game was meant to be played.

[@MediumQuality]

That's impressive. I played a bit of Shadowrun through emulation back in the day, but it felt so sluggish and unwieldy. I'm excited about the patch.

[@CaptainTrevino]

I absolutely loved the Genesis version but couldn't stand the SNES one. I recognized it was a good game but just couldn't get over the controls.

[@ValkyrieTiara]

@@TheCheeseMovesSideways "How did I do that? I better do it again to see." (later) ".......how did I DO that?!"

[@adam1984pl]

I wish you could play Doom or Quake on Ps1 or N64 emulator with keyboard and mouse.

[@ChibiKami]

@@adam1984pl for Doom 64, seriously use the sourceports, there are two of them. for quake, I don't even know of any difference from the PC version there's a build of Project64 that's tooled to use the mouse for Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, maybe worth a look

[@Wolfburns]

I remember being so confused with Jurassic Park as a kid, thinking I just never found the save spot. It's great that a patch could be made to add in saves. I may have to finally revisit the game now.

[@mickael486]

is this just on a PC?

[@Wolfburns]

@@mickael486 In my opinion it is easier to play patch ROMs on a PC emulator. I have a SNES Mini that I choose to play patched ROMs on. People with an Everdrive can load the patched ROMs right onto original hardware and get the full experience.

[@mickael486]

@@Wolfburns damn. I also have a snes mini (and a nes mini, genesis mini and ps one mini) but none of them are modded. I think it would be an absolute hoot if I could (relatively easy) play these 30 year old games with some of these updates.

[@Wolfburns]

@@mickael486 Agreed. Getting an Everdrive for SNES is on my list of things I want. Maybe one day when I have $150 to spare or whatever they cost now lol

[@sboinkthelegday3892]

"In my opinion it is easier to play patch ROMs on a PC emulator." Well, that's just a fact so well done having a realistic opinion, but used to be "easy" is not on the priority list. The Jurassic Park improvements sound GREAT because they seem they would be compatible with specialized hardware like handhelds, instead of getting told to not do what you WANT and play how you WANT to. The ASM file actually opens the computing up to the USER, like they should be depending on computers already, and you can do things like actually saving and renaming the specific random builds you now have access to. And you can limit yourself to not use Save States, or growing up into a permanent toddler who can't handle the lack of them.

[@MixMasterLar]

Patches for great games are...great! Love 'em BUT that last entry is interesting to me because I think a lot of bad or middle-of-the-road games could be worth playing with balance tweaks and QoL improvements, and I love to see games get that second chance

[@BrianVarvaro]

I think like 95% of games on the NES have aged poorly to some degree. Even big games like Zelda or Mega Man have a lot of janky or obtuse that can make them hard to play today. Still, they have a good foundation, and with some re-balancing and quality of life improvements, they're a lot easier to deal with. Something like the original Ninja Turtles game would probably be better remembered if it were easier to play.

[@AltimaNEO]

@@BrianVarvaro Yeah, a lot of the frustration I had with games as a kid was mostly due to controls being janky, or dumb repetitive things like having to enter a menu over and over for common things.

[@chrismdb5686]

@@BrianVarvaro Very strong disagree here. I played thru the original Zelda as well as the first seven Mega Man titles this year and they're all still great games. Mind you I had never played any of them before and went in blind minus looking up boss weaknesses for the Mega Man titles (that level of trial and error is something I feel is unnecessary nowadays and more made for kids with unlimited time on their hands). It really comes down to what you're comfortable playing I guess. I don't have any problems with old games but most people who only like modern shooters or movie games could never get into older titles.

[@thefrankiepalmeri]

The fact Jurassic Park kept track of every single sprite in the game is crazy impressive.

[@TJDious]

And just crazy.

[@DQSpider]

I'm wondering how it ran at all

[@puxadinhodoluri]

I'm really wondering why.

[@joesshows6793]

Yeah why did they do that?

[@Gatorade69]

@@joesshows6793 because Ocean.

[@mrdumb-fq2ul]

I gotta give it to you SNESdrunk. These are some of the best kept secrets. Amazing seeing such dedicated talent for seemingly niche work.

[@timmer919hep]

the dennis the menace community FINALLY getting the patch we deserve

[@jessragan6714]

Don't forget that the Genesis has improvement patches, too! BillyTime did one of Wolverine: Adamantium Rage on the Genesis which almost makes it entertaining!

[@mattdhargett]

I really like hearing about difficulty balancing patches that make brutally difficult kids franchise games more approachable. Thanks for featuring the patch developers’ names and linking to their work in the description!

[@Mental_Health_Matters]

I love The Simpsons reference thrown in there for Final Fight :)

[@thecunninlynguist]

love these highlights...and god bless these fans that make these improvement patches.

[@Mythoriir]

Started off with Jurassic Park music. Love it

[@thomasnewfield9950]

Awesome video man, romhacks like these bring the SNES back to life over and over again!

[@CarletonTorpin]

This series of videos is consistently my favorite. So many new (old) worlds to (re)explore!

[@jmac79ers]

Crazy to think that alot of our old favorites can be improved upon or "fixed" with only a handful of kilobytes. The slowdown fixes are awesome, I finally picked up stunt race fx for snes, and although I remembered the poor framerate.....I didn't remember the HORRENDOUS framerate, lol

[@zetablade7018]

Yeah, its great to so see a lot of QoL improvements being added to old favorites, and especially to improve bad/mediocre games and take them from near unplayable to pretty decent.

[@sjake8308]

Yeah, the Super FX stuff has aged really poorly, much like all the other early 3D stuff (only more so). It was pretty impressive back in the early to mid '90s, though.

[@HobbySauce]

This is way more interesting material than the worst the SNES has to offer -- which seems to be what you've covered lately. Do more of this, it was awesome :)

[@Zeiru]

Seriously, even Dennis the Menace? If you hadn't showed me, I wouldn't believe it.

[@UitraSyko]

My favorite series on this channel

[@bobbymcgee2987]

that chrono trigger music is AMAZING!

[@wokeupinapanic]

That Simpsons reference was not lost on me, my friend!

[@The16bithero]

I'm really happy with that Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 patch, I was bummed out when I went from MK3 to Ultimate and a lot of things were taken out, and I still prefer ultimate because of the new characters and stuff, but with that new patch, oh boy I'm gonna have a field day with the game. A big thank you to the developers of the patch and my boy for letting us know of its existence!

[@BlastingBloo]

Improvement patches are a wonderful thing. Anyone that can turn a formerly bad game into a good one with a few tweaks and adjustments is a gaming saint. It worked for Castlevania 2 and it can work for many other games.

[@ZaGorudan]

Thanks, that Star Fox hack makes it feel like the game it was always meant to be.

[@monspubis]

how did you patch it? what did you use?

[@gjtrue]

Man, I LOVE the music of Jurassic Park on SNES. 🥰🥰

[@StephanieHua]

Killer Instinct MSU-1 Arcade! This patch shows the possibilities of MSU-1 Adds the arcade animations (title screen, VS, ending, and even character select)

[@motbus3]

i am a simple man. snes drunk post and i watch

[@elbitxo5945]

Please, a patch for Pocky and Rocky 1 and 2 to lock the shoot while walking pushing the R button. Those games are great, but that improvementwould make them much more approachable. I would also like a shoot em up only version of Rendering Ranger, or a well needed rebalanced version of Iron Commando (flawed game with great potential).

[@wiiseeyou]

2 patches I think you should check out is one for Zelda 2 that lets you respawn at the temple entrance when you game over. And another is a randomizer for Ultima 5 on snes.

[@osurpless]

Even though I thought I knew most things about Zelda II, just found out yesterday that the only reason the game allowed respawns at the Great Palace is due to the fact that it is on Side A of the Disk on the original FDS release. Whereas everything else besides the title screen is on Side B, so requiring the player to flip the disk each time they got there after the Valley of Death would be even more tedious, so a reprieve was programmed in. And when porting to cart for America, there was no need to make a change that would make a hard game even harder… Someone claimed that the game was rereleased on cart in 92 in Japan as well, but can’t seem to find any info confirming that?

[@wg6184]

Absolutely loves these types of videos!!! Thanks again for starting the day off great! Bill Chicago

[@JusticeAvenger13]

love it when u do this series! the romhacking community is a gift to all gamers

[@JanjoZone]

Thanks for making these! The MK and JP ones got me the most interested.

[@pliniomsann]

keep bringing those patches videos. They are the best!

[@RonDangerSolo]

I think these are my favorite videos you make. Great work!

[@EmperorJim]

Love that Simpsons reference at 8:00!

[@makaiev]

Wow the starfox patch seems incredible... Also the Dennis the mennage patch makes me wonder if a bad game can be patched a good one... AVGN would would cry tears of joy XD

[@macb3741]

Good ol'Dennis the mennis, a game that nobody played unless your parents gave it to you as a present.

[@8StringFuryGaming]

Those SA-1 patches from Vitor Vilela are awesome.

[@SMSBJM1981]

I like to watch these videos early in the day so that there is more of the rest of my day that will be good.

[@marcianoacuerda]

This series is awesome. Giving more reasons to replay certain games!!

[@dreamcastfan]

It’s great to see the Final Fight 2 patch getting some notice, I really love it, it’s amazing seeing so many enemies on-screen at once. I *think* maybe it’s using SA-1 as I can’t use save states on my SD2SNES but however it’s being done, it’s really impressive. I hope maybe the uncensored Japanese version will get a patch too and also that Final Fight 1 might get the same treatment.

[@NoSpamForYou]

Hopefully they will patch Batman Returns next. That game looks great but has the same limitations as Final Fight on SNES. If they could make it 2 player as well that would be amazing.

[@LilReikoGold]

I like using the umk3 snes patch because the person from brazil, added so much stuff on there including the graveyard stage that was cut off on both the snes and the genesis

[@chronoxiong]

I played UMK3 to death on the SNES when I was young. To see that people can fix these old games is so shocking. Yet so cool.

[@wiedo]

Love that Dennis the Menace patch. Some bad games still have some redeeming qualities and fixing the stupidness of these games make them shine a little more. They make bad games mediocre, and sometimes a mediocre game is good enough (another good example is a daikatana fan patch for PC)

[@mage1439]

Yeah. It's just a shame some games, even if they have a few good qualities, are just so fundamentally flawed they can't be fixed (looking at you, Friday the 13th).

[@medleysa]

These are my favorite videos of yours.

[@stationary-plane-dweller]

I get so excited to see you upload man it's like a1992 all over again when I opened up that super Nintendo for the first time on Christmas morning!

[@vilecrow]

I really appreciate videos like this. It gives me a chance see what is available out there, because I'm too dumb to find specific things myself 😆

[@EatingCtrlV]

Omg yes, Shadow Run Mouse support!!!

[@Wyldfyre.84]

The Dennis the Menace patch got me thinking... is there a Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball Pro Edition romhack out there somewhere?

[@LethalBubbles]

stuff like dennis the menace really stand to gain the most improvement with reverse engineering and patches

[@StarRightStarTight]

Jurassic park with a white jungle palette looks amazing!

[@uberdan08]

What a great surprise to wake up to!

[@elsiebartlett6808]

Thanks for sharing these, always cool to hear about how people still care enough about retro games to improve or riff on them in different ways.

[@fab250]

I was just rewatching this series yesterday , awesome

[@jaredcheeda]

MegaMan X Hard Type is a rom hack with lots of changes, including level redesigns. If you want all the enemy rebalances and quality of life improvements without the level redesign, there is MegaMan X Soft Type.

[@HypocritesExposd]

What kind of quality of life improvements?

[@jaredcheeda]

@@HypocritesExposd Dash acquired after intro stage so you aren't forced to pick the ice stage first, infinite lives, can exit level before beating it/game over, death counter instead of lives, Enemy stat rebalance (mostly buffs, some nerfs where needed), Hadouken capsule only requires 1 visit, and doesn't require all bosses be beat first. Lots of other minor stuff. It's my favorite ROM hack. Very polished.

[@HypocritesExposd]

@@jaredcheeda whoa. Going to download that, sounds great!

[@wokeupinapanic]

MMX is one of my all time favorite games, so I’m def gonna have to try this out! Thanks!!

[@vacantseaofplanets]

MMX 3 ZERO PROJECT is a must play

[@AugustDrake]

Jurassic Park Save. That's a game changer. Thanks for that alone!!

[@SnackCannon]

Thanks for the video. Not feeling well today

[@OzymandiasWasRight]

This is my favourite series on the channel , always find something worth adding to my 351P.

[@kylekostamo1880]

Anyone ever notice that the character portrait from shadow run kinda looks like the doom marine/B.J Blaskowicz?

[@Bada4ever]

I wish there was a rom hack for Lord of the Rings SNES. Make your party members revivable with herbs and/or at an inn, make the caves more interesting, and your attack sped up, etc.

[@miamesa8652]

Hey there, Drunk, just discovered your channel not too long ago, and I love your content. While I know you're mostly focusing on retro games, I'd love to see you talk about modern games that try to capture the feel of retro games, things like "retro shooters" for example. An example of a great game like this would be CrossCode, it's an action RPG mixed with fun and creative puzzles and a great story, and is very often compared to the Mana series, I highly recommend you try it out, I'm sure you'll have a blast! And perhaps, even make a review on it! Either way, Keep doing great stuff!

[@MrShadow2x]

I keep hoping someone will do an improvement patch for Lagoon. It wouldn't even take much of anything to make that game a little more bearable. I'd do it if I knew how.

[@nunoarcade]

No super mario patch, must be a record lol. Great video as always!

[@sjake8308]

There are so many of those things that it could be a series of its own.

[@badtrinket]

one minor modification patch that i think is ESSENTIAL is the run mod for Earthbound. its something simple but it just makes the whole experience of that game even more enjoyable great content!

[@leongiron]

Too many good chrono trigger patches to choose from 😵‍💫

[@Luis-nj4id]

the ff5 one was more of romhack than an improvement patch, in any case this awesome videos as always.

[@DUDEBroHey]

These are my favorite. I love the podcast

[@Evi01]

In the little speedrun community of Jurassic Park the randomzer was seen as a refreshing way to play the game, nice to see JP here on the channel again

[@senseicorey9979]

There he is!

[@WillCooper1]

You should revisit Live a Live English patched since this getting lots of attention because of the remake.

[@dpmengelt]

I like this series.

[@fiskburk2908]

My guy snes drunk really loves the gradius improv patch

[@ther0n1nnamed47]

Shadowrun NEEDED mouse controls... also needed a remaster

[@algunoscuenticos]

I still wish there was someone working to hack the super Star Wars games to make Super versions of SW Episodes 1 to 3. :)

[@benjamindeh873]

Love your videos. Thanks for cool snes stuff like this!

[@thenostalgiafactor5023]

Total length of video: 600 secs. Total length of "SNES Drunk": 3 secs. .5% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".

[@mattb6522]

Very nice! I always appreciate these types of QoL patches. I might have to especially try that Star Fox one. I do like the original game, but it would be fun to play a faster version of it!

[@wokeupinapanic]

I’ve been waiting on a Star Fox patch ever since you first showed off that Gradius slowdown patch from your first improvement video! Game might actually be playable for me now lol. I didn’t get into SF until SF64, so going back to the SNES version has always been a nightmare for me. Now I might actually find some real enjoyment in revisiting it! Does the same patch exist for Star Fox 2? I assume it suffers from the exact same slowdown, and would be unplayable without a patch for me as well… 🤷🏻‍♂️ I’ve ALWAYS dreamt of being able to apply modern hardware into older games to eliminate their hardware limited issues! Things like sprites blinking in and out on games like TMNT on the NES or the slowdown from MMX1 or even when the music drops during battles in Secret of Mana! I have absolutely ZERO technical skill and can barely get emu’s running, otherwise I’d prob get into modifying those old games/hardware with my requested QoL patches 😅

[@davidedavidification]

You Will love starfox! And the music Also xd

[@wokeupinapanic]

@@davidedavidification I’m honestly really looking forward to it! Unfortunately, I’m moving at the end of the month so everything I own is being packed lol. Only thing I have available rn is my RPi2B+ running RetroArch hooked up in my guest bedroom, but that’s getting boxed up shortly too lol. Plus, it’s not like I have the time because packing and cleaning 👎 Too many games are being left unplayed because I have to be a stupid adult now 😂😭

[@davidedavidification]

@@wokeupinapanic man I feel you.. but I can give you an advice..play portable...time is less growing up...i have a Nintendo switch and a powkiddy handheld..perfect for playing my favorite classics.... it' s not the same thing I know..but at least u get to spend some time with your games....

[@GoondocksCastle]

Final Fantasy V doesn't have a hard enough difficulty curve. Ancient Cave: Hold my beer.

[@joshuaturner1072]

Good to see Jurassic Park getting some love. Great game!

[@Kibogu]

What're you doin in my improvement patch? GET OUTTA HERE!!

[@matthewrileymcleanwilkinson]

Always appreciate your well balanced cynicism to your genuine optimism. I hope you have a great rest of your day too. I'm gonna go buy some beer and water balloons with a sling shot to shoot at cars... I mean, people, I mean, in my church parking lot. Don't worry, my kid and I will pick up the mess. Life lessons. Someone's gotta patch things up.

[@julesgamergourmand]

The best console Nintendo forever in my heart.

[@Shinobi33]

I love people going back to work on the SNES. Too many people just concentrate on the Sega Genesis because it's easier to work on. So the dedicated people who work on the SNES and put this stuff out really are the best at their craft.

[@sjake8308]

I think you may be conflating new games with ROM hacks, as are far more ROM hacks available for SNES games than there are for Megadrive games.

[@MatSpeedle]

Man I hope we get a mouse support patch on Sim City one day, that's been on my wish list forever!

[@istrasci]

+100 points for using Legs' "seein' double" line from The Simpsons.

[@MrVariant]

Chrono Trigger forces you to use certain characters for their elements (or Ayla when you're in Dalton's jail and her fields let you fight without equipment). Lavos is a tedious equipment based boss (you just lose if you still use Marle's permanent haste instead of haste helms) where you need to one shot the left bit of the third form to stand a chance (Ayla and Frog's slurp kiss heals and removes status effects if they can act, and). Hack just seems to be a hard mode honestly. Also ff5 ancient cave charm is from having jobs be random, so even bad ones like berserker, mystic knight, or blue mage (without a beastmaster or prep) can be useful based on your equipment.

[@XAzzuroX]

Cool vid thank you. Any news if they made improvement patches for Empire Strikes Back for the NES? Or any Starwars related game pertaining to retro systems.

[@AltimaNEO]

I notice these starfox patches always increase the games speed in order to achieve a smoother frame rate. My hope would be that someone can figure out how to increase the frame rate while keeping the game running at it's intended speed. Same for Stunt Race FX.

[@nettack]

As impressive as the Super FX was, I doubt it can be done. Acceleration is one thing. Interpolation as in creating something out of nothing is a whole different level. We're talking a few small years after Michael Jackson's "Black or White" morphing effects on high end hardware were groundbreaking.

[@Thornbloom]

I'd like a patch that adds the rocket blaster that the manual said was in the game and the game disagreed.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

I had abandoned my GBA FF6 playthrough about 70% way through (real world obligations) I'm thinking I should start a new playthrough with FF6 ROSE.

[@FallicIdol]

Love this series

[@MrVideo112411]

Yoshifanatic... Nice name for a Jurassic Park modder

[@kingdavid644]

Great series! Thank you!

[@danieldowney7621]

Jurassic Park was one of the dozen or so cartridges I owned as a kid. I loved it, but the lack of saving was annoying. I remember leaving the SNES on for about 12 days or so as a kid to get through it.

[@jesfest]

I'll be honest, I much rather see games like the last one shown getting patches than games that are already a ton of fun to play. That way, we just get more overall fun games on the SNES rather than give great games a red carpet treatment

[@DaveVoyles]

These are my favorite episodes

[@lestat6466]

Even with the sprite flicker (or overlapping or whatever the hell is happening), the 5 enemies on screen thing is impressive in Final Fight. Are you running it on OG hardware though? Cause I couldn't imagine it running that well since even with 3 on screen it tends to slow down, and occasionally flicker, especially in 2 player mode. Are you using an emulator? Or is there a chip upgrade thing like for Gradius going on? Curious to see what it would look like on OG hardware if you're indeed using an emulator.

[@maxwelseven]

It runs exactly the same on the OG SNES with no extra upgrade hardware. For some reason, Final Fight 2 has an excellent VRAM sprite engine, allowing for more characters on screen while using fewer hardware sprites than Final Fight 1 and 3 (yes, the sprite engine in FF3 is a downgrade of FF2... and it shows). The game still has some flickering, but there's nothing you can do about it as this is the limit of 34 sprite tiles per scanline that the hardware has. However you can disable the overlapping routine, just use this game genie that I made: 4864-3D0F

[@RolandoMarreroPR]

I’ll take flickering anytime to have 5 enemies!