Best NES ROMhacks, Part 3 - SNESdrunk

[@SNESdrunk]

PART 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqS5ZZ6lj8yCj7s PART 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oF6ym3Vud7N6f5o

[@thenostalgiafactor5023]

Total length of video: 585 secs Total length of "SNES Drunk": 2.5 secs. .43% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".

[@jpdunphy1]

Go look for the video he did when he trolled everyone complaining about how long the the SNNNNNNNNNNNNESDRUNK intros are by making a video that's entirely that. Pure gold.

[@jeffx9149]

Important science facts.

[@BlitzerkidSix]

Best theme song ever.

[@BigOleWords]

I've been squinting at the thumbnail for a while now and I finally realized it's one of those magic eye posters. Once my eyes relaxed the background revealed itself to be...Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball. Sweet Easter Egg!

[@Xenaximus]

Always my favorite series. The romhack community is just amazing for helping put a new spin on old games.

[@MrVariant]

On a professional level, I like arcade archives, neogeo pocket color and s-tribute for quality of life. Tmnt cowabunga collection has a lot of value too.

[@Mindflayer_Inc]

I can't wait for companies to realize they could just pay these people to make ROM hacks of their old games so that the ROM hack people get paid and companies will make these games 100% more legal to own.

[@maverick_loneshark]

The Daytona USA "Let's Go Away" cover playing for the Mega Man IV rom hack segment really sets the mood for speed running.

[@raphaelfp]

So much awesome stuff that we don't have any idea it exists. Duck Tales + DW and Shadows of Gotham impressed me the most!

[@mattb6522]

Good selection of NES romhacks! 6:59 Was that an 8-bit rendition of the Daytona USA music using the Mega Man soundfont!? 😅

[@cestusfr]

Ninja Gaiden as deadpool is such a great idea!

[@ReaverPrime]

There was a fan remake of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest released recently. It plays similarly to Rondo and is a full on passion project that makes Simon's Quest actually coherent.

[@musashielmaldito6848]

Quiet you

[@theGVirtue]

Downloading right now, thanks for reminding!

[@mschmalfeldt]

I'm enjoying it but there are a few things that could be polished a bit more. I'm at the Frankenstein fight and it seems like a bunch of the bosses are damage sponges. The enemies have way too many i-frames after you hit them and the subwespons could ve a but more balanced. But all in all, it looks like a TON of work went into this, I just wished there was a bit less jank.

[@ReaverPrime]

@Matt Schmalfeldt It might be a bit jank, but its still 10x better than the original. Also, it's an indy fan project. You can't expect perfection without high dollar budget and equipment.

[@ReaverPrime]

@GZ Loves AI This remake is definitely not an NES game. Alot of the assets are ripped from Rondo and the portable Castlevania games, but there's also a bunch of custom work. It could never be confused for an NES game. Look into it. It's definitely top shelf.

[@TheFloodFourm]

I don’t think a lot of OG gamers realize just how helpful the smaller patches can be to bringing these titles to a modern audience. The actual game design of these games still holds up but save states aren’t nearly enough to make up for difficulty spikes and cryptic moments. I’ve also noticed that save states in general aren’t a fun way to alleviate the annoyance of lives. I wish Nintendo would start opting for these kind of tweaks to their roms instead of basically making the player invincible and letting them take a tour.

[@duffman18]

I dunno about that, I've got it set up so that pressing the left analog stick saves the state and pressing the right analog stick loads the state, instead of having to go into menus every time. It's extremely intuitive and fluid when you do it like that, it doesn't interfere in the gameplay that way. On difficult games I end up save stating pretty much every few feet of distance, or on boss fights I'll save the state after every time I manage to damage them without getting hit myself, which is extremely useful in games like the castlevanias. I'm terrible at retro games. I was terrible at them back in the day in the 80s and 90s when I played them then, and I'm terrible at them now. So save states are a god send. Modern games don't really punish you if you die, generally, and so I get along with them a lot better. Games I owned back in the day just gave me frustration and nothing else. Like I had Strider for the mega drive, and never got past the 3rd level. But nowadays I've "beaten" the game and seen everything, because of save states. Even on actual hardware I use save states. Like I've got a gameboy pocket and an everdrive for it with every single game boy game loaded onto it (plus every homebrew original game from the website hh.gbdev.io/ which is a really fantastic resource, and it's fun playing these original new games on the actual hardware) and the everdrive cartridge has a physical save state button on it. So it works really well. The only problem is trying to see the screen of the gameboy... I honestly don't know how I managed to cope with that back in the day, you need so much light to be able to see the screen. Back then it just felt natural and normal. These days though, nah, it's too much. So I wanna get an original DMG gameboy with a bivert mod done on it, which seems to retain the original screen which I love (I love how the pixels sort of seem to float in mid air on them, and so I wanna retain the original screen instead of getting a modern LED screen installed) but it has a backlight built in to it so you can actually see it. I wouldn't have got any of this stuff if it weren't for save states. I have no desire to play these games like I used to back in the day, most of them I can't even get past the first level in, like Gradius for gameboy (albeit that was because I didn't know at the time that when you collect the things you can upgrade your ship's speed an weapons and add an "option", a little extra buddy that also shoots for you, makes the game much easier, I was only like 7 so I didn't know that's how Gradius games worked). Save states made all these games finally accessible to terrible gamers like me. It's a wonderful invention. And yeah if you assign save state and load state to buttons on the controller or the device (I use a GPD XD+ to emulate games, wonderful little thing, looks like a DS cos it folds closed, but is actually a kind of android tablet meaning you can choose whatever emulators you wanna use, and use Chrome of Firefox to simply download game roms straight to the device instead of having to put the sd card in a computer and transfer games over and then put it back in the device) then it makes the whole thing much much smoother and far far less intrusive. It becomes as natural as pressing the jump button. You don't even notice it after a while.

[@whosaidthat84]

The rewind feature on the Switch is Freakin amazing.

[@TheFloodFourm]

​@@duffman18 I'm not saying they aren't effective just not comfortable enough to make the game playable for most. There's a reason modern games still have checkpoints and even save points but nearly made lives extinct. And there's a reason people still want auto saves in games that offer the ability to save anywhere.

[@mrbransformer4184]

I love this channel. This and Game Sack are the best retro gaming channels

[@gramajomd]

Gonna try that channel

[@UltimateGamerCC]

@@gramajomd by all means, the humor on that show is kinda dry, but they are good for talking about games and even the specs of the consoles.

[@GazaAli]

Absolutely nice touch with that Kage stage 04 theme. God I played that game ad-nauseum, both as a child and an adult.

[@tarquinnff3]

What's even weirder about Bayou Billy is that it was actually easier in the Japanese version. For some reason (probably a relic of renting games) the developers made nearly every enemy take way more hits to defeat.

[@JodGss]

Loved the 8bit DAYTONAAAAA theme used in that megaman 4 romhack xD

[@jonbourgoin182]

Think of the most difficult NES games you played as a kid and realize you can do a search on KZbin and find someone out there who can cakewalk their way through it. I actually watched someone do this with Bayou Billy and it's insane how easy they make it look.

[@konjus]

i loved hearing "Lets Go Away" from Daytona USA in 8 bit on that megaman 4 hack; definitely not something I would have thought of till watching this video.

[@Froge0]

I'm surprised you've made three of these and Mother: 25th Anniversary Edition hasn't come up yet, it is definitely my favourite

[@rafaelfigfigueiredo2988]

Didnt he made a section for it literally in the last video of this series

[@rafaelfigfigueiredo2988]

Yeah he did. Have you missed it?

[@EternalKnicksOptimist]

Daytona USA theme song in Mega Man is amazing!

[@gwgux]

Love it when you cover these games! The community that works on them are truly dedicated to taking these games to different places!

[@owlyus]

That Daytona USA music for the Mega Man 4 hack is hilarious

[@joezep]

Very cool list, also that 8 bit daytona theme was a funny surprise to hear

[@mae2759]

Your romhack videos are great. Keep them coming!

[@hemangchauhan2864]

Daytona USA music for Rockman 4 Romhack is so nice!

[@fidel_soto]

Wow these are crazy good. I'm amazed at the amount of talented people romhacking and at the quality of their modifications.

[@saskatoonguy]

Oh snap, great 8-bit rendition of the Daytona USA theme in there.

[@vespertinnee]

man, people making romhacks really make me personally very happy. just knowing people out there with the proper knowledge keep giving outdated generation of consoles and games new life. i'm more of a 16bit guy myself but love that even the 8bit community is this strong. just great stuff!

[@burr1aj]

The music in the Rockman 4 hack is the theme from Daytona USA. DAYTONNNAAA LET'S GO AWAY!

[@Wolfburns]

Thank always for these ROMHack highlights. I had seen that Rockman mod but didn't know what the acronym stood for so I am very appreciative that you explained. Your videos are great and I love shuffling your entire review playlist for background noise!!

[@atomiswave2]

MegaMan sliding in mid air looks sick bro

[@thecunninlynguist]

SNESHack...and wow Super Pitfall actually looks like a game with that hack.

[@mystbunnygaming1449]

There are some really great hacks for Zelda 1 and 2 that tone down the difficulty juuuuust enough for my liking.

[@chrusader5134]

Love the romhack series

[@GiuseppeAstrologo]

Hahaha that Daytona USA chiptune was sick :D

[@TheCubicleReview2]

Love the into track, Kage/blue shadow, one of the greatest NES games of all time.

[@jayjasespud]

Thank you! These videos are great, and I'm loving the inclusion of improvement hacks as well.

[@chess_poemschess]

he's back! hope you're feeling better!

[@Sauceton718]

I love how the megaman 4 hack had the Daytona theme song xD

[@terranceoliver8935]

That Daytona USA music on mega man sounds great

[@jaymethysell5111]

I've been waiting a long time for you to cover Shadows of Gotham. Glad to see it finally happen. I haven't played Battle for Olympus yet, but It looks like I need to use this patch; glad I waited. The Duck Tales + Darkwing Duck mod sounds interesting especially when I'm looking for more 2 player games. Also, I had never heard of Layla before; I'll have to check that one out.

[@NathanxLaMontagne]

I swear the song playing during the MegaMan rom was the Daytona USA theme.

[@AdanAbarca]

OMG the Zelda II soundtrack is so cool!

[@paladinlv1]

Great work as usual!

[@budderk1305]

these showcases are really great, commentary, algorithm, go!

[@chaosdromanah8620]

It's time to play Contra again

[@lhfirex]

Awesome list of hacks. I'm personally gonna be getting a lot out of the Zelda Ancient Dungeon one.

[@BaronLector]

A while back I released some "easy mode" ROMs which were just ROMs with Game Genie codes permanently loaded in. Games included MegaMan (inf.health), Double Dragon (inf.health) and Mario 3 (inf.P-wings).

[@PuntMirror]

No Zelda 2 Amida's Curse? It's a bar above all the other rom hacks for Zelda 2, the reviews on romhacking alone say it all.

[@meurigvii]

One of the best rom hacks I’ve found for Z1 is Hellwalker. Probably good enough for it’s own video. MetalMachine is a genius.

[@The16bithero]

I'm always happy whenever my drunken boy uploads, specially these type of lists

[@Codmaniac91]

I still play Darkwing Duck! I'll always love that game!

[@ZBR_ProXP]

Good stuff with the olive patch on Olympus!

[@SSJ4Lunchbox]

6:58 DAYTONAAAA!

[@aliceinmansonland448]

Cool! Layla is what I want to try, that game looks tight!

[@PrekiFromPoland]

The original game might be quite cryptic and difficult though. And the soundtrack violates one's ears, let me tell you.

[@donaldporr9682]

Putting games on easy mode through hack, I still love it

[@sourdface]

I hit like on these videos specifically because of the friendly outros.

[@Aeduo]

Haha that megaman Daytona USA theme.

[@Joker22593]

It's RockMan! Let's Go Away!

[@TVsMrNeil]

The Super Pitfall hack is so extensive that I'm not even sure what remains of the original game or why it necessitates being a "hack" in the first place. It literally feels like a completely different rom. For anyone curious, that's how extensively changed the game is.

[@owlyus]

They put Daytona music in that Mega Man hack just to troll the Super Marcato Bros

[@neonshadow5005]

Some of those look really cool.

[@themrnails]

Another GREAT video. Need a lot more of these! ;p Thank you.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

i have Deadpool and the Hardcore Edition too, absolutely insane hack to be sure.

[@michaeladams9807]

Please more videos like this 👍👍

[@Mindflayer_Inc]

Zelda 2 has been remade in like Game Maker with a lot of Quality-of-Life updates. I know it isn't really a ROM hack, but I saw Vinesauce run it and Zelda II Link is Adventuresome (by Hoverbat) looked amazing!

[@timmer919hep]

...was that an 8bit version of the DAYTONA USA song during Rockman4?!? DAYTONAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@dylansmith4058]

Well it's midnight here and I'm very drunk and need to go to bed, but new SNESDRUNK. I got 10 more minutes.

[@pablofmc]

australia?

[@dylansmith4058]

@@pablofmc Thats some fine deductive work there.

[@mrnobody2683]

3:53 Word of the nerd was heard Thank you

[@magnusnilsson9792]

Batman & Robin, did I do that? -Nah, wasn't me.

Super Pitfall comes as a free game with one of the Nes Clones available in Brazil back in the time. So lots of Brazilian Kids was "forced" to play Super Pitfall.

[@carn9507]

Not sure how I didn't know about that Shadow of Gotham seeing as I play Batman and Shadow of the Ninja quite a bit. :O And yeah that Super Pitfall 30th is great.

[@LuxisAlukard]

I really enjoy these video, and thats the reason why (combined with my OCD) I must say it's not on your "Lists" list. And yes, I already made a few of these comments =) Cheers!

[@NineToFiveGamerUC0079]

my man

[@Xanatos21]

Holy smokes, Red Falcon War is hard as fuck! Still a fun DLC-like hack of Contra, though!

[@jeffx9149]

Ganon broke my glasses.

[@lunarstain7545]

WHY IS MEGAMAN PLAYING THE DAYTONA THEME!?

[@PrekiFromPoland]

Many Megaman romhacks include music from other games. Most people know "Over Heat" from NES Gradius II not from this game, but from some Megaman romhack.

[@zednotzee]

Best NES ROMhacks Part 3 And Knuckles!

[@dalemuir1105]

We just gonna ignore that 8-bit Daytona tune in Megaman?

[@AugustDrake]

Layla, didn't know about that one.

[@markula_4040]

You called Bayou Billy a rare misstep by Konami due to it's difficulty but that is only the US version and that was intentional to keep kids from being able to beat it just renting and not buying it. The Japanese version (called Mad City) has a much fairer difficulty. There was no need to make it unfair because during the 80's and even now I think, game rentals are illegal in Japan.

[@thecunninlynguist]

U Can Beat Video Games had a pretty solid guide/walk through on their channel not too long ago...or be like me and save scum though it.

[@JordanVickers21]

daytoooonaaa!!!!!

[@ibraibraibraibraibra]

Nice

[@sonnyjessup9854]

So how does someone get into making rom hacks for themselves? It’s something I’ve always wanted to try. Is there a particular software that works better?

[@mo_musashi_284]

Check out Robocop: Texas edition , it replaces the palette with the arcade version.

[@joesshows6793]

3:49 how is contra not slowing down with all that going on???

[@snackerfork]

Confused by your description of Layla... I set it up to play with my partner but it doesn't seem to have multiplayer support, and I couldn't find anything about 2 player online either

[@retroman--]

Super Pitfall 30th Anniversary Edition is my favorite rom hack for any game on any system. It took a decent but unplayable, ugly game and made it very beatable, and far better looking. So many improvements.

[@landon11]

I still want to see some improvement patches for the cd-i Zelda games

[@nimaiiikun]

Has scrooge ever met darkwing duck in the old series?

[@JoJoRodriguez-WRX]

LoL vs SNK and Knuckles still laughing

[@shinkiro403]

Excuse me dude, what's the first song in the background while you speak (and from what game is it)?

[@Sneakers8b]

Do they make a patch for any battle toad game where I can actually get past level two and see what the rest of a battle toads game looks like? Run on sentence on purpose

[@soviut303]

How many of these hacks work on original hardware? the SRAM save feature on Olympus wouldn't work, for example. I'm also wondering if the performance boosts/reduced flicker are emulator only.

[@kingtron1]

You see a lot of comments whining about the SNES drunk intro, while I'm wondering why he doesn't drop the S when covering NES content. I mean SEGA and Steam games get their own intro, so why not the NES?

[@jasonz7788]

Awesome thanks

[@jojojotaru1167]

Can you talk about the best games that are similar to Metal Slug?

[@henrydupuis5648]

Maybe you guys need the youtubers named U Can Beat Video Games ultimate strategy guide to Bayou Billy yo yeehaw!

[@deanedwards2676]

SNES Drunk ... the Best

[@masterrserch3971]

Yeah but is the 30 lives code still doable for the Contra hack?!?

[@D3MON_KOR3]

These hacks would satisfy the avgn lol especially pitfall

[@elieeee6]

Hey for your next nes rom hack vid try mega man cx it's a hack mm2 and it changes everything even new "robot masters" (ps use save states especially on cheat man)