Originally posted by Metal Knuckles

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OMG thatteh uLTImate hack ever!! nEon swifl olz!1!

Heers pica of mmy hax rofl PWNS!1!
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Originally posted by SoNotNormal

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I think theres a SNES Zelda editor out there somewhere.

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Originally posted by Metal Knuckles

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Not may people have the patience required to hack Zelda games. It's not just editing level layouts and graphics, you've got to worry about events and object placement and whatnot. Pity, really. Also, on a side note, I think I have to re-download the ROM. Zcompress won't recognize it.

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Originally posted by richyawyingtmv

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Like many noobs, I expected everything to basically hack itself and be easy. Then I realised just how much work it was Obviously now, I know I would have to put a shitload of effort in...which is good.

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Originally posted by Dude Man and Euclid at TEK Hacks

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Dungeons are a rigerous part of the hacking process. In order to make yours appealing and usually working well, here's some tips that you should consider:
> Make a theme or something special about most of you dungeons. An example of a good theme would be an old castle, a torture chamber, etc.
> Choose a basic blockset for enemies, objects, and walls. These three sets will help express the theme of your dungeon. Make sure though that every room has the same blocksets or you will run into glitches. The safest way to use different blocksets in different rooms is if they are separated by staircases (Meaning you have to go up or down stairs to reach the next room).
> If you plan on using warps then you should keep the same blockset throught the whole dungeon because when you use a warp point the blockset is not reloaded.
> Try to make your palletes look match the blocksets, especially with enemies.
> Try to mix up the bosses in the game. Don't be afraid to put Mothula as the first boss. Although it would be smart to leave bosses like TriNexx for later since they need the rods to be defeated.
> Bosses health and attack power can be changed with Euclid�s Hyrule Addons Editor, take advantage of that. There are many other ways to make a boss harder or easier. The best way to find out is to play the original, fight the boss and record what made them easy or hard. So to make them harder we can cover the corners and maybe put blocks in the middle to keep people from hiding.
> Try to avoid putting warps on BG2, sometimes after going through them, the enemies will dissapear.
> When inserting doors, make the special doors (Bombable, Locked, Unopenable') first. Otherwise they are bound to not work.
> **DO NOT TOUCH THE ROOM ZELDA IS IN!** There is no point is messing with this room, it's hardcoded and could glitch up the rest of the game if changed too much.
> The intro is hardcoded, it'll be easy to change the room which it loads, but do keep in mind that the dead king is a sprite and will always stay in that same spot. Same goes with the room Zelda's is. You don't have to put Zelda in that room, you can always "obsolete" that room.
> The rom has bunchs of rooms where they *have* to use the same room header (Can be changed, will take long but not possible to have one header for each room.), try to find them out, group them into one dungeon (So you don't have to worry about them later on).
> There's certain rooms where going right/left, doesn't mean you're going to the room to the right/left. I have no idea what happens but it always tend to happen when you have a move left or right in a room which you have to first jump down after entering the dungeon (A good exemple of this is the Hyrule Palace).
> There are blocksets where Ice is actually Water, so beware.
> The special doors (Bombable, Locked, Unopenable�), have a limit, I believe it's 8 in total, the rest have to be opened.
> One more note on putting "down" doors, sometimes they turn out to be dungeon exits which crashs the game, 00 - Open is always safe though.
> Some people are usually annoyed when their BG2 refuses to save. Click the room headers (More button up the top) then press ok and save again. It should save now.
> The Kill boss again tag only works on the last level, but there's a way around it through asm.
> Only Room 0 can be the last level, don't try to mimic it, you'll just move up one room instead.
> More related to the overworld but, don't try to mimic the Water Palace in the Dark World, you can even get rid of those water thingy, they tend to be annoying at hacking.

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Originally posted by Koitenshin

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Dodongo's Gold was never actually canceled?
I was always under the impression that it was. Nice screens by the way. And I still have your demo of Dodongo's Gold floating around on disc somewhere. But if you do decide to stop this hack I will be waiting nearby with a flaming pitchfork.

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Originally posted by Rom Manic

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If this gets done, it opens a doorway into editing Nintendo 64 graphics, not only modifying textures, but adding new polygons directly and other 3D objects.

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Originally posted by Dragonsbrethren

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Did you know, back in the day, they referred to "modding" computer games as "hacking" computer games? They did, do a search for some old Wolfenstein 3D hacks, you'll find them.

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Originally posted by asdf

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I agree that "ROM Hack/ing/er" is a term that has been established....

So why don't we rename this forum to The Forum Dedicated to the Act of Using Various Different Tools in Order to Change Illegal Copies of Video Games So That Certain Aspects of the Game Such as Levels and Text is Different From What It Originally Was or something?

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