Zelda Sands of Time is Tremendous and Cynical

[@EvilBookMan]

My only gripe with this hack is that it feels like there was third ending and additional dungeon planned, but the main creator wisely decided to cut it short when faced with burnout. It's already a 15-25 hour hack, I'm very pleased with what i played and the FULLY CUSTOM FINAL BOSS was pretty phenomenal!

[@Sir_Adam]

Do you know if it will run well on original hardware?

[@EvilBookMan]

@@Sir_Adam apparently does mostly fine, it'll lag on big maps. Like Likes used to crash.

[@Sir_Adam]

@@EvilBookMan I just wondered with all the custom things made for it. I will have to give it a try, just dont want it to crash and lose my progress.

[@ethanbethan6151]

Here’s a rom hack suggestion. If you’re a fan of Thief or old school stealth games in general, I STRONGLY recommend you play The Black Parade. It retains that gorgeous gothic vibe and trippy level design of Thief, while also doing things technically that the original game couldn’t to make for some seriously surprising and distinct levels. Favorite fan mod of all time, every moment feels professionally polished and true to the original game

[@buddysnatcher]

seconding this

[@vianabdullah2837]

The Ocarina of Time art style really has an ethereal atmosphere and grit and none of the other Zelda games have really replicated. It's hard to describe but it evokes the feeling of being in a dangerous world where you need to survive, that especially translates well to ROM hacks like this.

[@edge-at2709]

Zelda in N64 its so esthetic, I really enjoyed the remakes on 3DS because it was like reliving my childhood. I'm from '96 with a father who owns a Nintendo 64 with Zelda, Castlevania, and Resident Evil 2.

[@Sir_Adam]

@@vianabdullah2837 The only other Zelda with a great atmosphere is Twilight Princess, specifically its dungeons. Maybe in 20 years we'll see Rom hacks for that game.

[@demdelthepoet8885]

Something about the old-school N64 graphics is so riveting

[@denizenbyday]

Ocarina of Time was also aesthetically inspired by Frank Frazetta’s art works. Especially his dark fantasy ones.

[@yogxoth1959]

@@denizenbyday Source? Would be cool if it was true

[@AndyLeverett]

Sup, Bane! I’ve got 5 for you: • Mario Vs Warioware - starts easy but becomes challenging fast. • Portal64 first slice demo if you have access to it. It is wild how spot on of a demake it is with n64. • Bullet Bill Simulator - me and my friends still can’t break 200 points. • Kumi-Daiko Beatoff - pretty fun game and extra fun multiplayer. Simple and people can jump right in. I haven’t exceeded 50 points. • Cooking Princess - a great homage to Overcooked. Ho ho ho and have a good December. I love your vids.

[@kdude2704]

You could say that Great Fairy has a real "potty mouth"

[@Zeikier]

The edgy writing loses a few points for me even if there's a stupid kind of charm to it, but goddamn the kinda things this hack does otherwise is impressive!

[@358Blackdayz]

Please please please play Zelda The Ultimate Trial, Truly one of the best zelda rom hacks, the music alone makes my bussy quiver...... heres some other suggestions as well! Rom hacks -Mario 64 royal legacy -Mario 64 throughout the ages -Legend of zelda time lost. Fan games -Project 06 -Super Mario Bros. Wonderland 1987. Don't have too many suggestions since I play most of my rom hacks on original hardware and I know you've covered a lot of the console compatible ones already.

[@Rihcterwilker]

Lack of any puzzle and no random generation of levels kind of ruins that romhack for me.

[@CaliberStone]

@@Rihcterwilker There are puzzles, though. There’s a whole underground section, there’s an underwater area in shiba’s fortress, even navigating the NPCs in order is a kind of puzzle progression

[@Rihcterwilker]

@CaliberStone there are triggers to activate the next event, not exactly puzzles in the sense of a zelda game.

[@CaliberStone]

@@Rihcterwilker Fair enough

[@tastethepainbow]

Here are my recommendations: SMW -JUMP and JUMP 1/2 -Super Mario CD SM64 -Eureka -Shining Stars 4 Super Mario Bros. 3 -Mario Adventure 3 Sonic the Hedgehog -Sonic Megamix -Metal Sonic Hyperdrive/Overdrive Mega Man -Mega Man Unlimited -MaGMML3

[@Dylan-yn4lh]

Brother if you are looking for new SMW hacks please try out Super Mario Bros. CD it's a demo but it's already one of the most beautiful hacks out there.

[@shreksnow1918]

There’s this really cool Star Fox fan game you’ll probably want to check out called Star Fox Event Horizon. It’s basically a reimaging of the 64 continuity using content from the other reboots. It’s really impressive what the guy was able to make. There’s a crazy amount of content. The creator UndyingNephalim/IceCreamMan got Krystal’s original voice actress to do work for his mod (mod for Freespace Open. This open source game, so it’s 100% free). It’s a lot of fun. Unfortunately, due to engine limitations you can’t really have on foot missions, so Adventures/Assault won’t feel right (he’s also cramming a bunch of stuff from Dinosaur Planet into the Adventures arc, which simply doesn’t work). There’s tank missions, but they’re super janky. A lot of the characters have UGLY faces (they’re well animated/expressive, but they don’t look right). The guy might also be a pedoman. Back in the day me made this cringe RPG Maker Zelda fan game called Time’s Menagerie. It’s a sequel to his Fallen Sage fan game. In it he made nude loli drawings of his kiddy waifu Saria (there weren’t any “details”, but that doesn’t make it any less disturbing. She was a clone who didn’t have any memories and looked YOUNG, so mentally and physically she was a child), he has sus stuff with underaged characters, and there’s this one part where this poor Zora woman has been gone for a few decades and was used by this octopus man against her will to breed an army of Zora Octoroc hybrids. In this Zelda rts he made later on he shipped an ambiguously aged Saria with a much older man, and when he was confronted about it in a livestream he gave the Ken Penders excuse that “it’s a backwards medieval world, and that kind of thing happened then”. Except unlike Ken Penders who left it at that before moving onto another dumpster fire this guy will go ON AND ON about how much better medieval society was from what we have now, and how we should go back to the good old days🤣. In his Gerudo Wars comic with art that looks like Ken Penders attempt at a Zelda manga on the official fan wiki for his Zelda setting it talks about how the Kokiri are “an immortal race of forever children”, and said that Saria (one of the previous mentioned children) is “heavily pregnant”. Insert my boy PPP screaming WOAH BUDDY then going on a righteous rant about sickos🤣🤮

[@Ashtasticle94]

I'm glad to see the Abyss level finally being worked into a romhack. I saw it a while back and loved it

[@gubbothehuggo2771]

There was a time when the Zelda franchise had some genuine TEETH. The N64 fan communities will never let us forget it. Sadly, I think Nintendo has become so commercially mainstream, they couldn't return to that authenticity if they wanted to.

[@Smartieboi]

When the hell has nintendo not been commercially mainstream lol real old man yells at cloud post

[@yesfredfredburger8008]

@@Smartieboi we’re talking about a time back when all video games were less than mainstream

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

Back when video games were still "The nerd thing". Everything has been so scrubbed through by committee that it's hard to find the subtle horror or the edge that games like OOT used to have. Sometimes, games get Infuriatingly close, but seem to back out at the last second Before they can do anything interesting with it.

[@Sir_Adam]

We probably will never see another Twilight Princess.

[@gubbothehuggo2771]

@@BlitzkriegOmega This is the experience in every pokemon game. 😭

[@D0NU75]

oh man, this is gonna be lit, Mupen64 be eating good tonight

[@syeo501]

Have you played Zelda Ultimate Trial? I was working on it and I'd love to hear your thoughts on it! :)

[@kurenian]

IMHO Pokemon Reborn and Run and Bun are peak Pokemon fan games for different reasons.

[@gubbothehuggo2771]

Now begins once more the advent tradition here in the domain of the Bane.

[@MikeTButler]

You should check out Fighters History Dynasties

[@gamecubeking]

it may be out of season but I've been enjoying the Hallow's Haunt remake hack for Pikmin 2.

[@joshua9832]

Super Metroid Subversion is an extremely high quality rom hack. In fact, it might even be better than the original game in a lot of ways. Super high recommendation.

[@lyssandrefinge4721]

The armored redead comes from Twilight Princess ! I called the mummies as a child. They terrified me. But their scream was not so terrifiyng compared to the OOT ones

[@bensweeney5878]

I want an OOT hack that allows you to have a shotgun in the shield slot; holding shield and pressing the roll button would instead fire a shotgun blast that blocks any and all attacks in it's path but requires ammo and to be reloaded after every shot. also the shotgun doesn't actually block without firing.

[@KazeN64]

spooky murder house!!! its fun

[@mattrodgers157]

That’s a good one

[@gubbothehuggo2771]

Kaze coming in with the sauce

[@xanadude5973]

It would be ridiculously sick if you could find a way to spotlight a Zelda Classic quest. A lot of fresh, new Zelda-likes are waiting to be discovered, and the program has gone a long way from what it was in 1998. If you want a quest that encapsulates the modern magic of Zelda Classic, One Screen Gollab is a huge collaboration project with over 20+ contributors that was made one screen at a time, always exchanging hands to a different contributor. Tons of dungeons, 8 playable characters with unique abilities, and overall polish and cohesiveness that can't be denied; it may just be the best 2D Zelda fan game I've ever played for the simple fact you can throw eggs as Yoshi. There are tons of other bangers from this year as well, like Spell of Mudora and Nostalrul Plus, and there are many demos for some insane projects coming up like Crucible Crest. Without a doubt a quiet yet thriving community, thought I may be biased lmao

[@nuclearcommando9729]

The dungeon you were showing at 5:13 is the reason why I first discovered this game however long ago. If I could ever figure out how these games working I would love to play them. Especially this one, I want to discover that dungeon with my own eyes.

[@EnigmaticGentleman]

Just download the patch (you can get it from the youtube trailer), look up "rompatcherjs", merge the file with an OoT ROM, and load that in an emulator. It really is so much easier than it used to be.

[@alvaro4996]

You mean that you don't know how to play hackroms?

[@nuclearcommando9729]

@@alvaro4996 I've tried to get a couple SM64 ones to work in the past but couldn't make it happen. I've since gotten new computers and haven't gotten the new software to do it yet, nor find the locations to download anything or what all exactly I need.

[@LakesBerg]

Always look forward to the Christmas marathon!!!

[@littlelum9773]

I got some suggestions! ROM hacks: Ancient Shroomba Super Larry 64 DS (demo comes out sometime this December) Some obscure Mario 64 mod made by Kaze Mario Fan Games: The Purple Coin Wario Destroys a Glass of Milk

[@littlelum9773]

Oh, and The Koopa who Stole Christmas (KZbin won't let me edit my comment)

[@Cute___E]

ngl, the great fairy just casually dropping "retard" and bringing up IQ definitely knocks this down a peg for me - that's pretty poor writing, both in that IQ is a concept entirely unique to our own society - not one that would exist in Hyrule - and also that it's just needlessly edgy.

[@GibbyGibson87]

you may have already covered it, but sm64 adventure is a worthwhile mod. Its a mario 64 mod that ports the levels from sonic adventure. Its not just a direct port though and seems to do a lot of work to make it a really solid experience. It's also just really funny looking.

[@simmat6419]

Nice! My first new review i get to see as a subscriber!

[@coltonowens2742]

Check out Time Lost by Stoneebadluck if you haven't. Its a lot like Master of Time in spirit, but slightly more polished. Still has some serious jank though.

[@WhoIsSirChasm]

I could have sworn you did a video on Wario Land 4: Parallel Worlds, but nothing's coming up on the search engine. If you didn't, there's both that and Wario Land 3: The Master Quest that might be worth taking a look at. I just love the fat garlic man so much.

[@lyssandrefinge4721]

It's been since my childhood that i dream to see Twilight Princess wii moding skyrocket like OOT did

[@Sir_Adam]

@@lyssandrefinge4721 Thats my hope too, but I don't know if the enthusiasm is there for TP

[@lyssandrefinge4721]

@Sir_Adam if i was millionaire i would even pay people to make mods xD I love this game so much ! It made the little boy in wheelchair i was feeling like a hero ! But now the game is too easy for me ! I want to struggle again like in the good old times

[@banditoftheeast7488]

I don't have any romhacks to recommend, but I just want to say that you are one of my favorite channels about videogames.

[@EEBE64]

Didn't know if you were doing a Christmas marathon or not since you didn't make a video about it. Glad you are though, and I'm looking forward to each video. As for recommendations, I've got some. Pokemon Reloaded: A pokemon game with real time combat instead of turn based. Be warned though, this one's pretty hard. Paper Mario Tower of trials: Similar to Black pit, but with more rouge-like elements, and in TTYD instead of 64. Make a good Mega Man level 3: A big mega man fan game with loads of fan made levels, and other content as well.

[@Sir_Adam]

Would this hack work on original hardware? I want to find out before going through the trouble of trying just for it to crash.

[@lyssandrefinge4721]

5:32 THAT CUTSCENE IN TWILIGHT PRINCESS

[@Guruc13]

I don't have anything to suggest yet, I'm still waiting on "Shotgun Kirby 64" and the Banjo Kazooie HATRED mod.

[@aleckermit]

I got Shadow Man vibes from some of the footage, another N64 game with incredible atmosphere.

[@Urastinker]

I'd recommend pokemon prism if you haven't covered it already, it's a great pokemon rom hack of crystal with original ideas, tons of original minigames, a mining and crafting system, some great music, character customization, play as your own pokemon, I just can't put the game down, it does alot of things you won't see in pokemon rom hacks nowadays

[@kyle_wa]

You a G for covering this

[@KindaTired909]

I dunno if you’ve checked out Sonic: After the Sequel before but I recommend it, even if only because of its music. Especially Cyan City Zone.

[@Mr.Autism2]

Oh good christmas marathon

[@YaSheNePrydumav]

Try out "super Mario 64: decades later" its a cool reimagination ks original sm64

[@edrigus1503]

He already posted a vid talking about it 7 months ago

[@YaSheNePrydumav]

@edrigus1503 ok thx, haven't seen it

[@shroomzscythe8684]

chat im losing it i forgot that the christmas fangame marathons existed i am so joyus also play the halloween romhacks from hylian modding, the best one has gotta be "Spooky Murder House"

[@brionis2686]

Sonic triple trouble 16 bit if you're into sonic.

[@manusgraham1159]

Was wondering if you'd accept any Half-Life mods, some great ones that feel on the same level of the expansions for me include the likes of Echoes, Field Intensity, Escape (the 2.0 release is on Steam) and Delta for Half-Life 1, and for Half-Life 2, Entropy Zero 2 is a must play, the best fan-game/mod in my opinion. For Doom mods I want to recommend Godless Night, essentially it turns the game into a Metroidvania, and it works amazingly well in my opinion, and anything under the Doomer Board Project should also be great, some of the best ones I think are DBP 37 Auger Zenith, DBP 59 Zeppelin Armada and DBP68 Outposts of the Wasteland. Love the channel, discovered it this year and it's one of my favourites, thanks for the great videos

[@Litronom]

It's christmas every! Hohohoho

[@espelhodasconstelacoes]

Bro this is gonna be so good, I love your hack ROM videos so much! God bless ya and Jesus loves ya!

[@dtims3262]

i recommend Pokemon Fire Red: Rocket Edition. big story focus but still has some cool gameplay twists like stealing pokemon and a bounty system along with qol stuff from later games

[@RamChop451]

System of a down being in the game was weird enough but also having the Hard R being tossed around in dialogue. Pretty cringe.

[@thehighschooldropout8218]

roms like this are exactly why i bought a gaming PC.

[@Magic_Ice]

I highly recommend the Pokémon Legacy series by Smith Plays Pokémon! It’s a series that takes the first 3 generations of Pokémon and enhances them while still remaining as faithful to the original game as possible. It’s amazing how so many minor changes brings out the best in these old games and I highly recommend you play them even if you don’t like the original games as it fixes almost all of the issues I have with them while still being the original games at their core. Pokémon Emerald Legacy is releasing on the 12th so if you want to be topical and review something new there you go!

[@EnigmaticGentleman]

Bane's only covered Pokemon once so I would not count on it (IIRC he said that it doesn't need it compared to the vast majority of romhack and fangame spaces)

[@pwnomega4562]

There's even physical carts of these hacks. Do you need a modded console to play those?

[@wweirdguy]

There's plenty of mods for Halo on the steam workshop for the master chief collection

[@positiveapproachcounseling1388]

Castlevania Levar’s Chronicles 1 and 2

[@aidan0]

earned my sub!!! fire video

[@MaximumRK]

Try out the Majora’s Mask recompilation or Waluigi’s Taco Stand 64 or Pokemon Sour Crystal.

[@RazorBladezX]

Fire Emblem Cerulean Crescent as my request,It has been pretty fun so far !

[@Ryu_D]

Thank you for the video.

[@The_Sofa_King]

You got to do Zelda the crystal clocks.

[@ThommyofThenn]

What makes you say this? I don't follow Zelda games so I'm genuinely unsure

[@supersomethings2276]

It's disappointing to see the r slur in here

[@CaliberStone]

I think the author has said they don’t really speak English, so I’d hope it’s a translation issue rather than malice, but yeah…

[@xCrimsonxTidex]

What even dumber, is the insertion of the ‘MAGA’ slogan as “Make Gerudo Mighty Again.” It just take you out of the experience and makes the writer look incredibly childish. Obviously the dev isn’t a native English speaker, nor does he even have any remote understanding or grasp of American politics.

[@jacobbaker5442]

No one cares

[@roninlviaquez]

@@jacobbaker5442only ‘muhrican bitches care

[@Cletus99]

Oh also Super Duper Metroid

[@nasceredickinson2319]

Whats H Doom it sounds like fun for the whole family.

[@Pissant950]

This is my least favorite hack of oot

[@Zarkator]

Sonic Riders DX

[@ventexovakon2178]

Perhaps even.. shallow and pedantic.

[@MariettaTrent]

You talk about Santa and Christmas but sit there and call people MF? Grandmas don't appreciate that

[@thomasparkes5707]

just another hack with cringe-inducing writing

[@unluckyfives]

Hell yeah.

[@Sanker1]

that's cool