Homebrews, Hacks & Demos - Game Sack

Episode 94 - Sometimes fans take it upon themselves to make some cool stuff for our favorite game consoles.
Check out Game Sack at:
www.gamesack.net
Special thanks to:
Sacred Line Genesis / Sasha Darko
sashadarko.com/genesis.html
Watermelon
www.magicalgamefactory.com
TMEE CO.
www.tmeeco.eu/
Project MD
projectmd.mdscene.net/
Super Road Blaster (dforce3000)
www.dforce3000.de/?uid=44
Rusted Logic
rustedlogic.net/
Chris Covell
www.chrismcovell.com/
Frozen Utopia
www.frozenutopia.com/
Aetherbyte
www.aetherbyte.com/
Kellog's Frosted Flakes
www.kelloggs.com/en_US/kellogg...
Tomaitheous
pcedev.wordpress.com/
The Mojon Twins
www.mojontwins.com/
Sivak Games
No website, but there's this: sivak.nintendoage.com/
Titan Overdrive
www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=6...
Sonic Mega Mix
info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_...
Sonic Classic Heroes
info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Clas...
M.I.J.E.T.
mijet.eludevisibility.org/
Shining Force Central
www.shiningforcecentral.com/
DeJap
dejap.eludevisibility.org/so.php
Aeon Genesis
agtp.romhack.net/
...and many others who have no real homepage.

[@borcklaser9234]

6:33 Super Mario Odyssey huh? Rusted Logic predicted the future i guess.

[@theboone3848]

Lol yeah I was thinking that too.

[@sunky3994]

Yeah

[@subtledemisefox]

I came here looking for a comment about that lol

[@BladeBlur]

I literally did a double take when he said that

[@Hmbs271]

Was gonna post the same thing!

[@alienparadox]

Thx for mentioning our Genesis demo "Overdrive" ! :D

[@GameSack]

It's amazing, thanks for making it! :)

[@DaveRyR]

And now we've got an official Super Mario Odyssey.

[@AlphaOmegaSin]

Always impressed when teams not only translate games that never got released over here but even do the voiced dialogue going the extra mile. Thing is it makes me wonder if the bigger companies see that gamers are going through this much effort and that there is a demand for it hell why not make it official and pay them for their hard work perhaps? In a perfect world....

[@ebiljebus]

At least it seems like Sega is doing that with Christian Whitehead. Now if only they would bring on the team that did Streets of Rage Remake...

[@SVL0RM00N]

Fun fact. I recently found out, if you run the Titan Overdrive demo on an emulator, it says "Your Emulator Sucks"

[@akumajobelmont]

The music on the title screen of Super Mario Odyssey is a remix of Chronologie 4 by Jean Michel Jarre... I know because it's one of my favorite pieces of music in history :)

[@kingoftherain]

Just mentioned it myself. Sorry I missed your comment.

[@Shinobi6407]

To think, the new Mario game for the Switch will be called Super Mario Odyssey.

[@Thatonelittlenoob]

Gabriel Hunt Hi im from the future (2017) and the switch game is called super mario Odyssey

[@BlakeIvory]

Kinda makes you wonder...

[@DamianYerrick]

Oh yeah, and Cat Mario from Syobon Action appeared in Super Mario 3D World

[@MaxOakland]

This aged like wine

[@joey4track]

I like in the end how Joe made his character all buff and manly and then he made dave look all pathetic and fugly

[@WHATISUTUBE]

>each day lasts three minutes just like in real life I woke the neighbors up

[@KKAkuoku]

I'm honestly loving the music that plays over the Mode 7 demo/SNES test footage.

[@JPMulvanetti]

Oh Mummy is the first game I ever played back in 1985 on the Spectrum. Fond memories of my dad plugging the whole thing together and showing me how to play it.

[@sakusakusakuranyo]

It was a nice surprise seeing Bad Apple in this video! I sure wasn't expecting anything Touhou related on a show about console games.

[@MoluskToeCheese]

I hope you guys dont stop doing these for a long time.

[@twotonedearly]

There are a lot of Super Mario World hacks I can think of right now Super Demo World - this hack was pretty big and more of what Lunar Magic is capable of VIP series - a series of Japanese Super Mario World hacks that featured a lot of custom bosses and game mechanics (and stars Boon instead of Mario) Brutal Mario aka Super Kitiku Mario - another Japanese Super Mario World hack this time by Carol which adds RPG style boss fights and tons of custom bosses and stuff in this incredible hack. and there are Super Metroid hacks out there too. Super Metroid Redesigned - a huge hack of Super Metroid that adds elements of Metroid Prime into the game (limited bombs, enemies being vulnerable to a specific type of beam, needing to locate certain chozo statues to open the way to Tourian) Super Metroid Zero Mission - another huge hack that takes elements from Metroid Zero Mission and adds them to Super Metroid there are also translation hacks for Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V, and Final Fantasy VI

[@VestiYouTube]

Cold outside, worm tea and a blanked while watching this. Best thing ever.

[@tetrisdave]

Mmmmm. Worm tea is the best. I love earthworm tea it's so yummy.... LoL.. Thanks for watching!

[@colonelsandwich641]

6:33 dang, Rusted Logic's got some good foresight. He could see almost five years into the future!

[@Azzysdesignworks]

Hack to cover later would be Mother 3, which is now fully translated. Also, a bit offbeat, but an unfinished copy of Faceball for the Virtual Boy was found, and now finished and released.

[@assadi89]

Germany: Monday new Simpsons episodes, Thursday new Naruto Episodes and Sunday is Game Sack day =) Looking forward to it like a child to his Saturday morning cartoons

[@EmperorEva0001]

My favorite hack / translation of a game was Policenauts. It only translates the text for the ps1 version, not the audio. But reading chris sawyer, the head programer for the hack, write about the hell they had to go through just to cram in all the english characters to replace the kanji but still synch to all the events, and the pain of making sure it can play on the ps1 natively, It's surprising they didn't quit halfway through. Plus it's just an awesome game.

[@sl840]

Huh, that Timmy game looks a lot like some of the stuff from "I wanna be the guy"

[@teotest3255]

I realize it's been 5 years since you guys made this video but i watched it today and wanted to say thanks for bringing the 'bad apple' video to my attention. Loved it right away, so, thanks guys!

[@thecombinearecoming]

the music in the mario homebrew around 7:00 is the petalburg theme from paper mario the thousand year door, that's why it sounds authentic.

[@SonicAlpha]

God, I haven't seen "Oh Mummy" since the 80s. It was one of the games that came bundled with my Amstrad CPC 464! It didn't look as good as the version shown here though, lol.

[@marlonmontelhiggins8570]

13:39 Game Under. Just brilliant. XD

[@startedtech]

I'm like 4 years late, but Super Mario Odyssey at 6:38? Fantastic!

[@controlpadblues]

Yeah man, me too - just kinda going through these guys' videos now, and I definitely got a kick out of seeing the Super Mario Odyssey hack.

[@viewtifuljoe99]

Game Sack has the best music in each episode

[@neilyringworm]

Great stuff as always guys. Top notch editing too. Love your show,having a game sack marathon here in Scotland on this rainy day

[@RichardCraig]

OMG, I know that MOD file in that 32X game... it's Guitar Slinger! I remember making a little song of my own with the samples in it! Joe, if you like MOD files, you should look at my channel... I write all of my music in IT format.

[@keddragonwolf]

Oh Mummy! was originally an Amstrad 464 release, back in 1984. I used to own an amstrad 464+ at one point and I also had this game. This genisis/Megadrive remake is pretty impressive and stays true to the original, even the music is the same.

[@gEEEEEERa]

AWESOME EPISODE! For some weird reason I couldn't watch any of Game Sack's episodes, but now that I can it's gonna be early christmas for me :D

[@LipnoxVR]

I am so pumped to see this. IDK how gamesack doesn't get over a million views per video but I love the longer videos you guys rock.

[@RoseDillinger90]

There was a Super Mario Odessy years ago... Mind blown

[@Lavagemstomacal]

At 8:43 The game starts to play The rolling stones - as tears go by

[@Locut0s]

Just wanted to let you guys know I've seen every single one of your vids now. Big fan. Keep up the great work :)

[@tetrisdave]

Thank You!!

[@bluestrife28]

I had you guys come up in my suggestion feed a lot so I started watching and then just kept clicking. Suddenly I lost track and couldn't remember the page name and didn't wanna search through 10,000 faves , so I kept looking around through the game channels. Finally got back on. Big fan. 😄✌️

[@moviemetalhead]

You binge watching? Such an awesome channel.

[@bluestrife28]

+moviemetalhead totally. I binge every day off. 😄👍

[@moviemetalhead]

+bluestrife28 Me too bro. I'm almost done with my second marathon of every episode.

[@imawesome11xx]

Bubblemans theme took a hit. The bass drum sounds like it was removed. I may have not heard it because I'm watching it from my phone but it sounds really good.

[@peristrojka]

Darn! I've missed Beggar Prince and Brave Battle Saga for the Genesis. Still again a fabulous Gamesack episode, guys!!

[@yaosio]

Super Mario Odyssey came out 4 years before it was announced for the Switch. Wild!

[@kapowretrogaming]

I had Oh Mummy originally on the Amstrad CPC 464. Wow.. that's a blast from my childhood! Cheers fellas. :)

[@Oerg866]

Great video. Thanks for the mentions!!

[@ndiolo]

For once I break the silence to thank you for this nice vid. You've made a lovely job here and you pushed me to check for these demos. Well done guys, keep posting!

[@petsematarykeeper]

I like how that one game says GAME UNDER instead of over. Awesome episode you guys, keep 'em comin'

[@MerolaC]

This need a follow-up. Amazing episode guys! Thanks for it.

[@asilver50]

Great episode as always guys. I really appreciate the time you take to make these videos. I love how they tend to run 20 to 30 minutes.

[@ImmacHn]

Touhou in my GameSack? life 1 step closer to complete!

[@MarcosMoraesTI]

Thats a great show, its give me that 90´s game shows. Btw, as usual, great choice ! The ArtAlive at the end was hilarious ! Cheers from Brazil !

[@wessmith5788]

I wish yall made videos more often (once a week)! This is one of my favorite channels!!

[@TheGameChasers]

Yes I love watching hacks!!!!!

[@GameSack]

Us too that's why we watch Game Chasers OOOOOOOOOOH!!!!

[@TheGameChasers]

HEY you cant reuse my joke. I realize mine was more subtle but still.....

[@TheArringtastic41]

Game Sack Where's Vagrant Fighter FX, Hong Kong Project -NKTF? It's a homebrew fighting game! Come on Game Sack

[@GameSack]

arringtastic41 I just double-checked and they are not in this video.

[@TheArringtastic41]

Game Sack Shoot.

[@StevenImpson]

Absolutely love that choice of Persona 4 music at the start! Super interesting episode too.

[@DennisForstner]

Reproduction carts are an option as well. They usually come with cool boxes, manuals, and even posters

[@NightParadox]

the music on that super mario odyssey level is just petal meadows from paper mario 2

[@CMKenneth]

the star ocean DeJap is one of the best games I've ever played. great fight mechanics, fast combat, in depth itemization and character development and after getting it to the "end" the world opens up and there's a TON of things to do, lots of extra bosses, dungeons and character progression. great game world also, up to par with games like FF9 and FF6 (im talking about "world building" here) another great translation is the Tales of Phantasia one. combat is even faster and fun, too bad the game is kinda short.

[@Dorelaxen]

Sacred Line is actually a physical cart now. I picked it and Pier Solar up recently, and couldn't be happier with both of them. The Sacred Line cart came with some cool stuff with it, too, including an art insert so you can put it in an actual Genesis case and have a cover. It also had a little cardboard stand in the package, so you could display it I guess. Personally, I love the game. Really cool to be able to play something like that on my Genny.

[@SmaMan]

I just got an NES Powerpak to play a lot of these, good to see there's a few more out there. I'd definitely recommend the "Final Fantasy VII" hack on NES. It started as an unlicensed pirate, then hackers translated it and made it a whole lot more playable.

[@slitheryjuggler94]

You guys really should check out the SMT I & II translations that Aeon Genesis did, they're really good RPGs.

[@gnawingonfoot]

I loved this episode! Aside from a game translations and dopey graphics hacks, I never ventured much into the world of homebrews, hacks, and demos. I'm pretty blown away by what I've seen here, though, and it seems that I've missed out on a lot. Thank-you Joe and Dave for constantly managing to bring something new and exciting to every episode!

[@fireaza]

I made my own Seiken Densetsu 3 repro by swapping the MASKROM on a Super Famicom copy of the game. Now I have a complete boxed copy of the game that plays in English!

[@GameSack]

That's awesome!

[@Serros13]

Wow! What an excellent idea for an episode! You guys are the best!

[@mftvgcinema]

Great episode! Love the demos, really shows what those systems can do.

[@SpaceshipMansions]

I love those sketches you guys do at the end of the videos

[@skochin]

I know it is kinda too late to post a comment here since this video was uploaded in 2013, but FYI the title screen music in Mario Odyssey is Jean Michel Jarre from the album Chronologie. Sure it does not sound like Mario, they just wanted to show off CD quality audio :) JMJ music was widely used in different Demo Scene competitions in Europe/Scandinavia. Peace.

[@sourmilkandcereal]

Project M is a really cool hack of Super Smash Bros. Brawl making the game more balanced overall

[@suchin8524]

Just for info guys, I know its an old vid, but I've been meaning to post. Oh Mummy @ 1.26 isn't actually a homebrew,hack or demo. It was a full retail release and one of the pack-in games that came originally in a 10 game bundle with the Amstrad CPC464 here in the UK (along with Sultan's Maze, Harrier attack, Bridge-it etc) and was developed by Alan Sugar's Amsoft software division. They were basically the in-house Amstrad software production team. They also developed all of the "Roland" series of games which was more or less Amstrad's mascot. Also, did you know that a lot of these games were excellently optimized and some were whittled down eventually to as small as 9kb total size while still retaining full features, impressive for the time. Anyway, nerdy stuff over. Your videos are still the best on the net, keep up the excellent work!

[@HipsterBlackMetalOfficial]

That Mario Odyssey game has some clear as fuck audio

[@fzeroman]

Surprised you didnt mention the repro and translation of starfox 2,I know it was never "officially released" but its very playable.

[@GameEnding]

You guys should have looked at the fan sequel to Crono Trigger, called Crimson Echos/Flames of Eternity. The game is 100% done to, which is impressive for a Rom hack attempting to make a completely new game.

[@meckatz]

I am watching your guys' vids back to back for the umpteenth time...love your show!

[@MikeKobela]

Wait a sec! I know that music at 6:50! It's Chronologie Part 4 by french electronic musician Jean Michel Jarre! And the stage music is I think Calypso, also from Jean Michel Jarre! Hope I'm not the only one who noticed it! :D

[@snowontheweb]

Forget having a morning wood.. It's Game Sack time baby!!!!!!

[@DLJones098]

You guys got yourselves another subscriber. This is my first time watching one you guys videos and I love the topic and the delivery. Gotta check out more of you guys stuff.

[@MRabbitFrog]

Amazing episode. Looking forward to more of this type.

[@RobertSilvermyst]

Pokemon Light Platinum. This game has a MUCH deeper story and is in general much more engaging and deep than your typical main series Pokemon game.

[@316whatupz]

Have I just been Rick Roll'd...Sega Genesis style?? Awesome episode.

[@SVL0RM00N]

FFFFFFFFFF-WHAAAAAAA? BAD APPLE ON THE GENESIS? I MUST HAVE THIS!!!!!!!! (I'm a HUGE Touhou fan) Also, another hack that I own on reproduction cart is a finished version of the unfinished english translation of Earthbound for NES.

[@ravelinoadityaa.k.amasamun7721]

Me Too

[@gurriato]

21:30 The work of a visionary, a game ahead of its time if I've ever seen one.

[@josh87saa]

great episode guys...I think you should definitely do a part 2. And yeah, going more into depth with the shining force 3 hacks would be great too...keep up the good work!!

[@ShoreyJr]

European home consoles only had one button, so up would have been jump on them too for Rick Dangerous.

[@ShoreyJr]

I meant computers, sorry, my bad.

[@AintNobodyAtAll]

Very cool epsoide, guys! A companion episode showcasing the various Everdrives, PowerPaks, and other Flash Carts and repro hardware would be very cool to see. I know you don't do hardware reviews all that often, but it'd be nice to see.

[@hamtaro126]

Good ol' MSU1! MSU1 is not too common, but I like to someday finish my SMW MSU1 hack...

[@SpeedyDePalma]

Nice to see a fully translated version of rondo of blood now if someone could do the same for the japanese saturn version of SotN.

[@sdragon21]

Dang it Joe and Dave, where in the world is my Fan Translation Episode?!?! But in all seriousness, this is an awesome episode.

[@Yagoshi300]

I Wish there could be a Homebrew Made "The King Of Fighters 94" Port on Super Nintendo

[@chegorilla1468]

My personal favorite was a translation of Front Mission for the Super Nintendo. It's definitely worth checking out.

[@Thorston_the_Just]

Very happy to hear about that Ys V full translation!

[@88DreadGT]

Wow, so many RPG games I wished were translated years ago. Langrisser 2 and all the missing Ys and Final Fantasy games. Nice ep, have a great Christmas!

[@JonRP]

that game with the reflecting shooting looks cool

[@MrWolfTickets]

19:02- could the Genesis chip in a LITTLE to help the frame rate?

[@FlamerXMagofire01]

17:27 ... BAD Apple!!! ... TOUHOU! =D I'm happy now =D ... Uh... for those who don't know (probably many) "BAD Apple!!! (feat. Nomico)" is a fanmade video for a fanmade vocal arrangement of a song from the videogame Touhou 4: Lotus Land Story ... And, they ported the video to a format that can be used in actual consoles (like there's a NES "version"), so it's technically not a demo, becouse I don't think it's supposed to be the intro to a game, just the PV... so... yeah =3

[@lazeroussdomain5862]

I know exactly what this is. I'm an avid Touhou player and this made my day too.

[@souio]

Saw this video this morning. Skipped work and have been searching for 8 hours on eBay to try to find the GameSack homebrew game. I haven't found anything yet, but being an optimist I'll find it eventually!

[@souio]

A game I'm working on playing now is Front Mission: Gun Hazard (which i'm surprised i haven't seen here yet) which is now a translated Run and Gun Action-RPG for the SNES. I was a bit skeptical as to how they could stretch out a Run'nGun to 20 hours, but there is a lot of customization, leveling, story and pretty clever level design. They even have optional Blow Crap Up levels where you can go through a pretty flat level and do just that gaining XP and Money and de-stress yourself!

[@ChloeJohnson]

You don't understand how much I love bad apple!

[@hhog9303]

So you guys know, "Tongueman's Logic" appears to be pretty much the same game as what's known as "Picross" on other Nintendo systems (Mario Picross, Picross DS, etc). Another homebrew version of this game was on the Game Boy Color, called "Drymouth" - which enhances the gameplay with selectable characters (which are basically your difficulty setting) and usable items to help reveal more of the puzzle.

[@GameSack]

Thanks for the info!

[@yandman26]

You guys listened and in a couple weeks , I am impressed excellent episode.

[@Reshyrah]

Glass Breaker was hilarious, I laughed so hard first time I saw that Grandma with the shotgun. Pretty harsh just for breaking a couple of windows, lol :D

[@toddoroi4947]

18:31, Guitar slinger... damn that's a godly piece of Amiga music

[@jedibbq]

i wonder how much MEGA POWER the Gamesack homebrew has..

[@lordmatro]

Great episode guys! I would like to see you make an episode of homebrew, hack and demo for the great sega white lady, the Dreamcast. You would be astonished to see how many hack and homebrew exist for this platform, if you don't already know about this of course.

[@pdraggy]

What you say about Bad Apple is exactly how I felt hearing actual voice files on the NGPC's Faselei! Nothin but Nerd Pride!

[@kmickCSX]

Bad Apple is from Touhou Project. That video is REALLY good quality for the console.

[@Ionic0]

wow great music in this episode, thank you!