04-12-2009, 02:14 PM
There are LOTS of really excellent hacked ROMs out there, as well as just patches for existing ROMs that tweak/fix game issues. Example: Final Fantasy 3/6. There are a lot of issues with the way the game does things. For example, Seizure damage on Undeads is supposed to be reversed. Gau's rages should be alphabetized. Evade should actually do something, instead of physical AND magical defense depending on the MBlock stat. And so on. There are patches to fix all that.
There are also patches that contain player-made enemies, usually incorporating recolored sprites from other enemies in the game, but featuring dynamic attack algorithms for maximum challenge to serious players, reacting as much to the player's actions as following a flowchart. Kinda complicated stuff, but the people who can do it WELL kinda blow my mind a bit. Must be tricky to reverse-engineer a games coding style to be able to manipulate it so fluently.
There are also patches that contain player-made enemies, usually incorporating recolored sprites from other enemies in the game, but featuring dynamic attack algorithms for maximum challenge to serious players, reacting as much to the player's actions as following a flowchart. Kinda complicated stuff, but the people who can do it WELL kinda blow my mind a bit. Must be tricky to reverse-engineer a games coding style to be able to manipulate it so fluently.
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