Game modding general - Anime waifus in MY Skyrim? Yes please!

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Favorite romhack and romhacking sites?

Fantasyanime.com is good for reviews of romhacked games.

I like Maternalbound, Frue Lufia, Ogre Battle: Army Rebalancing, Secret of Mana Retranslated, and Shining Force Alternate.

Also, here's three of my favorite Skyrim SE mods I've downloaded in the last month or so:

Coins of Tamriel: Ever wonder why dragons, draugrs and dwemer automatons are carrying coins that wouldn't be minted until thousands of years into the future? This mod replaces the septims you find in dungeons with Dragon Cult, pre-Imperial Cyrodiilic/Ayelid, Akaviri, Dwemer, etc. coins. There's also an option that replaces gold septims with copper and silver ones and makes the gold ones ridiculously valuable like they'd be in real life, but it's pretty buggy and I don't use it.

Holidays: Brings the holidays from Daggerfall into Skyrim. Some just have free food and booze in taverns, some have half prices at blacksmiths, some spawn a bunch of weird mobs outside of the towns. Also, having everyone in Whiterun or Solitude or Riften gather in the town square is great for powerlevelling Alteration using Detect Life.

Honed Metal: Tired of having to level smithing to 100 to make daedric or dragonbone weapons and armor, or leveling enchanting to enchant stuff with game-breaking enchantments? Now you can just pay Eorlund Grey-Mane or Sergius Turranius a boatload of money to make things for you.
 
Romhacking.net lol

As for favorite hacks

Hyper Metroid - a grimdark hack of Super Metroid. I like it better than the original. Super Metroid hacks are their own thing, like Super Mario World hacks, of which I don't like very many.

Hack of Super Mario Advance 4 including e-reader levels. Super Mario Bros 3 is my favorite Mario game. Fight me IRL (at Nintendo)

Chrono Trigger has some notable ones. Go with Flames of Eternity for a decent fan sequel, and Chrono Trigger + for an expanded game. I can't get MSU1 to work with CT+, which is irritating.

Final Fantasy II (SNES) has a bunch. Final Fantasy IV Ultima is the one you should play.

Pokemon Thunder Yellow is where I go if I want to replay Gen I.

Final Fantasy VI has a buttload of them. Brave New World is a good experience over the base game. Relocalized is basically the GBA script + bugfixes, since the original FF6 was a buggy piece of shit. Return of the Dark Sorcerer is amazing and version 2.0.0 is in beta and NOT releasing on time. FF6 T-Edition is the version I would play if I could read more than some kana and had comprehension of those hard nihongo words.

There is a ROM hack out there of Zelda 64 called "Voyager of Time" which is pretty good but I can't find a site for it.

Sonic 1 Spindash is a well loved hack of the game that spawned all the autism. Sonic Classic Heroes is better since it's Sonic 1 + 2 combined and you can play as Knuckles through all of them, in case you can't get enough Knuckles, because the best game is obviously Knuckles & Knuckles & Knuckles & Knuckles (featuring Knuckles).

UnWorked Designs is a bunch of hacks for CD based games that basically stripped out the game modifications done by Vic Ireland and co and bugfixes Exile 2 to actually make it playable.

Rock and Roll Racing for the MEGA DRIVE has a great hack out there that I believe enables CD audio to be played from the MEGA CD, which is a feature of the combined hardware that IIRC was only used in the Mega Drive "flux" cartridge.

Finally, I like to combine the Maeson Mix hack for FF3 NES with this translation for a better experience overall.

I could be here all day typing up this post, so I'll end it there as it tickles my autism.

Special notice must be paid to MSU1 hacks. These are basically SNES games modded to have PCM soundtracks. IIRC the only two that have any "real" extra content are Super Road Blaster and Super Boss Gaiden, both homebrew.
Got any more?
 
Got any more?
Yeah, but I don't know what you'd be looking for.

A lot are useful just to get rid of pesky bugs.

A lot are game rebalancing mods, or even story mods, and the main focus of romhacking.net has always been translation patches for games filthy gaijin didn't get, and a lot of these are also sold by cartridge reproduction sites, but if you really just want the game buy it off aliexpress like everyone else, only in very rare cases does the original creator of the mod get any money from this.

I'll post some more up, but not too much

Remember when I posted about MSU1 patches? The patches that give SNES game PCM sound? The ones that aren't Super Road Blaster or Super Boss Gaiden that actually add content are the BS (Broadcast Satellite) Legend of Zelda games, which was a version of the original Zeruda no Densetsu remade for the Super Famicom and only broadcast one week at a time in Japan. (I suppose if you were in the footprint of the satellite you could have picked it up anywhere, but to my knowledge only nihonjin played them at the time)

What's really interesting about this is that because someone recorded a gameplay video onto his VCR at the time, there are fandubs for the BS Legend of Zelda games based upon this, which are translations of the original narration. (You can play MSU1 games on real hardware if you have an Everdrive model flash cartridge. You can buy clones of these off ali; I typically use my Wii and an SNES controller, or a DualShock4 on my tablet on the go)

More information here

Going on with information about Final Fantasy games, there is a retranslation of Final Fantasy 7, a very nice hack + translation of a Chinese original pirate port of FF7 to the NES; a hack of FF8 that re-enables PocketStation content; and here's a hack of FF9 that makes Excalibur II less frustrating to get.

There are also ROM hacks out there that just patch the game in order for it to run on other systems; for instance, the SG 1000 and the ColecoVision are similar enough in architecture for software from these to be run on the MSX, with hacking. This is an example on romhacking.net; this is an example of a company that essentially ports games from the MSX to the Coleco, sometimes requiring their own proprietary hardware to make it boot - at which point IMO you may as well just import an MSX from Japan or whatever and play it that way.

A point must be made for certain "full color" versions of Game Boy games. I think this is pretty interesting and I point out this one, which is a full color version of Super Mario Land 2. ONLY for Game Boy Color; it won't boot on a DMG, but at that point, you should just play the vanilla version! Here is what I believe to be a colorization of Kid Icarus; here is a full color mod for Pokemon Red.

Another point must also be brought up: due to the similarities in hardware between the Game Gear and Master System (GG pretty much just has an expanded color palette) there are hacks of GG games to make them able to be played on a Master System/SEGA Mega Drive. Here is a list of them; there were also a LOT done BITD by game companies who published for SEGA, since the Master System was a big seller in Europe and Brasil. If you're emulating, stay away from all of them, but if you're using a flashcart/game copier on your Mega Drive, go right ahead. The Everdrive and MEGA SD don't require a Power Base Converter to play Master System games; I don't know about game copiers.

Also there are a lot of crappy hacks out there that do nothing but just turn all the player characters into giant penises. baddesthacks.net is what you want if you want these. They do have the credit for posting a translation patch for Shin Megami Tensei If because Gideon Zhi never got off his ass to bother to do it, instead "reserving" it for more than a decade.
 
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Yeah, but I don't know what you'd be looking for.

A lot are useful just to get rid of pesky bugs.

A lot are game rebalancing mods, or even story mods, and the main focus of romhacking.net has always been translation patches for games filthy gaijin didn't get, and a lot of these are also sold by cartridge reproduction sites, but if you really just want the game buy it off aliexpress like everyone else, only in very rare cases does the original creator of the mod get any money from this.

I'll post some more up, but not too much

Remember when I posted about MSU1 patches? The patches that give SNES game PCM sound? The ones that aren't Super Road Blaster or Super Boss Gaiden that actually add content are the BS (Broadcast Satellite) Legend of Zelda games, which was a version of the original Zeruda no Densetsu remade for the Super Famicom and only broadcast one week at a time in Japan. (I suppose if you were in the footprint of the satellite you could have picked it up anywhere, but to my knowledge only nihonjin played them at the time)

What's really interesting about this is that because someone recorded a gameplay video onto his VCR at the time, there are fandubs for the BS Legend of Zelda games based upon this, which are translations of the original narration. (You can play MSU1 games on real hardware if you have an Everdrive model flash cartridge. You can buy clones of these off ali; I typically use my Wii and an SNES controller, or a DualShock4 on my tablet on the go)

More information here

Going on with information about Final Fantasy games, there is a retranslation of Final Fantasy 7, a very nice hack + translation of a Chinese original pirate port of FF7 to the NES; a hack of FF8 that re-enables PocketStation content; and here's a hack of FF9 that makes Excalibur II less frustrating to get.

There are also ROM hacks out there that just patch the game in order for it to run on other systems; for instance, the SG 1000 and the ColecoVision are similar enough in architecture for software from these to be run on the MSX, with hacking. This is an example on romhacking.net; this is an example of a company that essentially ports games from the MSX to the Coleco, sometimes requiring their own proprietary hardware to make it boot - at which point IMO you may as well just import an MSX from Japan or whatever and play it that way.

A point must be made for certain "full color" versions of Game Boy games. I think this is pretty interesting and I point out this one, which is a full color version of Super Mario Land 2. ONLY for Game Boy Color; it won't boot on a DMG, but at that point, you should just play the vanilla version! Here is what I believe to be a colorization of Kid Icarus; here is a full color mod for Pokemon Red.

Another point must also be brought up: due to the similarities in hardware between the Game Gear and Master System (GG pretty much just has an expanded color palette) there are hacks of GG games to make them able to be played on a Master System/SEGA Mega Drive. Here is a list of them; there were also a LOT done BITD by game companies who published for SEGA, since the Master System was a big seller in Europe and Brasil. If you're emulating, stay away from all of them, but if you're using a flashcart/game copier on your Mega Drive, go right ahead. The Everdrive and MEGA SD don't require a Power Base Converter to play Master System games; I don't know about game copiers.

Also there are a lot of crappy hacks out there that do nothing but just turn all the player characters into giant penises. baddesthacks.net is what you want if you want these. They do have the credit for posting a translation patch for Shin Megami Tensei If because Gideon Zhi never got off his ass to bother to do it, instead "reserving" it for more than a decade.
Got anything for these games?

All Castlevanias
FFXII
Super Mario RPG
Anything tactical RPG
SaGa games, especially the PS2 ones
Mega Man X
The Mega Man with Tomahawk Man (7?)
Super Mario World 1 and 2

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Tenchu games.
 
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Got anything for these games?

All Castlevanias
FFXII
Super Mario RPG
Anything tactical RPG
SaGa games, especially the PS2 ones
Mega Man X
The Mega Man with Tomahawk Man (7?)
Super Mario World 1 and 2
Leaving (most) translations alone...

This is my favorite Castlevania 1 hack. It makes it more difficult; you only gain additions to the health bar as you defeat bosses.

This is a retranslation + addition hack for Castlevania II. Recommended. I like this one too.

Other Castle is a good mod for Super Castlevania IV, and you can use it with MSU1 hacks as well.

This is a hack of Circle of the Moon that increases card drops, therefore making the game more fun. Continuing with the GBA titles, this is a bugfix of Aria of Sorrow.. that was released within a month of the North American release. This is one where you get to play as Alucard, and this is one where you get to play as one of the Demon Lord Doracura's meidos.

This is a hack of Dawn of Sorrow that lets you play without needing the touch screen. Ideal for emulators.

This is pretty much the only mod I know of FF12 International I know of, and it's just a translation; get the PC version at this point, unless you have a modded PS2.

I've never been much into the Mega Man games.Rockman 4 Minus Infinity is considered to be the best hack out there. Same for the SaGa games. I don't like most if any SMW 1 or 2 hacks. I've also never played much of SMRPG, but you can look around if you want. Bob-omb Mafia is considered to be the best hack anyway.

I've also never been much into tactical games I guess, except for Final Fantasy Tactics. Tactics 1.3 is the best, but only for the hardcore. What's that? You prefer the PSP version because you don't like GAME BREAKING BUGS and a shitty translation? Fuck you, get this. You still want to play the PSP version, pleb? Get this. Then this if you want to play a modded game. The first just gets rid of the slowdown whenever characters in your party cast a magic spell; the other is a bunch of gameplay tweaks.
 
I remember when I was in college, filling up CD-Rs of Morrowind mods in the computer lab from TheLys and Planet Elder Scrolls when nobody was looking. Here's three of my favorites:

1. Abandoned Flat: Still my favorite house mod in any Elder Scrolls game.
2. Less Generic NPCs: Gives NPCs actual personalities and quirks. Also adds a bunch of minor quests, and a few major ones to House Redoran aligned players.
3. Delayed Dark Brotherhood Attacks: Why would King Helseth do the Black Sacrament on some rando who just stepped off the boat in Seyda Neen? This mod makes it so you have to be named Nerevarine by at least one Ashlands tribe and Hortator by one Great House for the Dark Brotherhood assassins to start showing up.
Considering Morrowind mods, I maybas well list a few:

Westly's master headpack: adds in new heads and hairs. Loved using it to get a nice head and hair combo for a young adventurer.

Westly's Vanilla heads: not thebactual name but it improved the vanilla heads withoutbaltering them. Basically better heads that fit a vanilla look without looking outdated.

There was a similar mod delaying Dark Brotherhood attacks but it relied on beating the main quest which to me was better than getting attacked just because you fulfilled one part of a prophecy.

Edit: Here's the links to the mods I used in my Morrowind runs since the early or middle 2010's.
Westly's Master Headpack X: http://mw.modhistory.com/download--12454
Westly's Pluginless Head and Hair replacer: http://download.fliggerty.com/download-127-874
Dark Brotherhood Attacks Fixed: http://mw.modhistory.com/download-56-13509
As I said, I like these mods simply for the first having a good selection of heads and hairs, the second for being close to vanilla while making it look better, and the last for delaying DB attacks UNTIL the main quest of Morrowind is over since I can see a guy killing a god as a much worse threat than a guy that managed to lead a great house or become a famous adventurer.
 
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Leaving (most) translations alone...

This is my favorite Castlevania 1 hack. It makes it more difficult; you only gain additions to the health bar as you defeat bosses.

This is a retranslation + addition hack for Castlevania II. Recommended. I like this one too.

Other Castle is a good mod for Super Castlevania IV, and you can use it with MSU1 hacks as well.

This is a hack of Circle of the Moon that increases card drops, therefore making the game more fun. Continuing with the GBA titles, this is a bugfix of Aria of Sorrow.. that was released within a month of the North American release. This is one where you get to play as Alucard, and this is one where you get to play as one of the Demon Lord Doracura's meidos.

This is a hack of Dawn of Sorrow that lets you play without needing the touch screen. Ideal for emulators.

This is pretty much the only mod I know of FF12 International I know of, and it's just a translation; get the PC version at this point, unless you have a modded PS2.

I've never been much into the Mega Man games.Rockman 4 Minus Infinity is considered to be the best hack out there. Same for the SaGa games. I don't like most if any SMW 1 or 2 hacks. I've also never played much of SMRPG, but you can look around if you want. Bob-omb Mafia is considered to be the best hack anyway.

I've also never been much into tactical games I guess, except for Final Fantasy Tactics. Tactics 1.3 is the best, but only for the hardcore. What's that? You prefer the PSP version because you don't like GAME BREAKING BUGS and a shitty translation? Fuck you, get this. You still want to play the PSP version, pleb? Get this. Then this if you want to play a modded game. The first just gets rid of the slowdown whenever characters in your party cast a magic spell; the other is a bunch of gameplay tweaks.
Got anything for Suikoden 1, Zelda games, or Kirby games?
 
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Special Novelty Perk that gives you a wide variety of special abilities and qualities. See the long description for more information. The goal is to raise awareness of autism!

With the autistic savant perk you are granted enhanced reflexes and heightened senses. You can now reload, draw and fire you're weapon freakishly fast. You also have telekinetic energy that radiates from you giving all attacks an extra push for crazy knock-back effects. Due to the high metabolic nature of autism you will be immune to poison. You're skin shimmers with a gel that no flame can penetrate. You can even throw things really far and fast!

The only downside is that people will think you are creepy or strange because of how you act.

The reason I made this mod was to help raise the awareness of autism. I have high functioning autism myself and this mod is very personal to me and only recently have I decided to share it with the community.

 
Cross-posting from the Spider-Man A&H Thread
It's a single 15 KB file.
Instructions:

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It's a mod that people have been shitting their pants over because it replaced the pride flags with the American flag. Nexus Mods removed it since god forbid people don't want pride flags in their games.

Other Non-Newtopian mods can be found here for Spider-Man, Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, A Hat in Time, Baldurs Gate and Baldurs Gate: Siege of Dragonspear, World of Warcraft, and Elden Ring.
Don't forget to add a local archive.

Spider-Man

Replaces colorful flags with american flags
https://files.catbox.moe/wuzfsk.zip
https://mega.nz/file/ca8AyAib#LF34yLcFt0NDB1W6X4JQxeDsnZj_Qc30DgbvvJrGTys
https://web.archive.org/web/20220815140346/https://files.gamebanana.com/mods/nnny.zip
https://bun.filedit.ch/KIZTEofqwQIeUIzypAi.zip
https://qu.ax/NxZp.zip

SpiderManPCTool-51-v1-0-0-1660516141.zip
https://files.catbox.moe/ivuu0x.zip

How To Use "Spider-Man PC Modding Tool" - Create Your Mod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h1NmvPmwQg

Skyrim

No same sex marriage - ESL Version-61398-1-0-1641498606.7z
https://files.catbox.moe/pon5dw.7z

No Same Sex Marriage for Interesting NPCs - ESL Version-61555-1-0-1641671812.7z
Requires Interesting NPCS.
https://files.catbox.moe/m6lwc8.7z

Straight Hrodulf - ESL Version-61387-1-0-1641492239.7z
Requires Dragonborn DLC.
https://files.catbox.moe/ud95jw.7z

Cyberpunk 2077

Removes colorful flags from car you get as quest reward
https://www.cyberpunk2077mod.com/remove-or-change-claires-flag/
https://www.cyberpunk2077mod.com/remove-the-decal-from-claires-truck/

A Hat in Time

Flag-B-Gone!
This replaces the "controversial" trans flag texture with nothing.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2803501267
https://www.moddb.com/mods/flag-b-gone
https://files.catbox.moe/x29oba.zip

Baldurs Gate: Siege of Dragonspear

mod for Siege of Dragonspear that removes Minsc's GG line and gets rid of Mizhena's background
https://www.moddb.com/games/baldurs-gate-enhanced-edition/downloads/siege-of-dragonspear-corrections
In case first link goes down: https://files.catbox.moe/eetn52.zip

Baldur's Gate

Convenient Enhanced Edition NPCs
A mod for BG:EE, BG2:EE and EET (Enhanced Edition Trilogy) that allows you to tweak the new Beamdog NPCs.
https://argent77.github.io/A7-NoEENPCs/index.html

World of Warcraft

Wrath Classic Gender Icons
https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info26380-WrathClassicGenderIcons.html
Backup: https://files.catbox.moe/9xtkz1.zip

Elden Ring

Sex Replaces Body Type
https://www.moddb.com/mods/sex-replaces-body-type/downloads
 
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Cross-posting from the Spider-Man A&H Thread

It's a mod that people have been shitting their pants over because it replaced the pride flags with the American flag. Nexus Mods removed it since god forbid people don't want pride flags in their games.

Other Non-Newtopian mods can be found here for Spider-Man, Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, A Hat in Time, Baldurs Gate and Baldurs Gate: Siege of Dragonspear, World of Warcraft, and Elden Ring.
Actual local archive.
The YouTube video has already been taken down.
Click the link on the quote to go to a post with a copy of all the other mods.
 
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A new mod for Fallout 4 was recently released called "Grounded Commonwealth." To quote the summary:
This mod overhauls dozens of NPCs and alters thousands of records so that the experience now aligns more with what you would expect from a caricatured America that never moved on from its 1950s Atomic Age culture. No more sassy girl boss raiders. No more diverse demographics. No more modern political posturing. Dozens of main characters have been reworked and revoiced, and the dialogue of several quests has been adjusted.
You can find some old vs new comparisons on this Youtube channel.

Naturally, modding sites responded by taking it down whenever its posted.
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It was up on AFKMods for a few hours before it was taken down.
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As of writing, it's up on ModDB, but who knows how long that will last.
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Edit: Eight hours and it's still up, and a certain name cropped up to "review" it.
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Had the idea for lolcow themed special infected for L4D2 after seeing the Chris Chan boomer reskin on the Steam workshop. Unfortunately I have never modded anything and don't know where to start, but I thought it would be worth getting ideas for the infected and their niches so when this plan comes to fruition is can be done well. Thus far I have Cyraxx for the Jockey and Nick Rekeita as the Witch, Anisa as the Spitter could be funny since she's a disgusting slag. The Chris boomer mod works well enough as it is but I need somebody for the Hunter, Tank, Smoker, and Charger.
 
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Pu-pu-pu-pu Power.

POOOOOOOOWWWWWWWEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR
 
A new mod for Fallout 4 was recently released called "Grounded Commonwealth." To quote the summary:
Isn't this the mod American Krogan was making or something? Sadly, funny as it is, it doesn't make Fallout 4 worth playing.

I have recently been toying with the idea of making a mod for Half Life Black Mesa called Brown Shift where you play as the facility's one and only janny. Sadly I already know I won't have time to make much of it, though I still want to try. Anybody have any tips for getting into modding Source games?
 
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