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ROM hacking (short for Read-only memory hacking) is the process of modifying a ROM image or ROM file to alter the contents contained within, usually of a video game to alter the game's graphics, dialogue, levels, gameplay, and/or other elements.
Hacks can often take humorous forms, as is the case with a hack of the NES version of Mario Bros., titled Afro Mario Brothers, which features the famous brothers wearing Afro haircuts. The Metroid Redesign mod is a hack of Super Metroid that revamps the game and adds new objectives. A large scene has developed to translate games into other ...
Super Metroid [a] [b] is a 1994 action-adventure game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the third installment in the Metroid series, following the events of the Game Boy game Metroid II: Return of Samus (1991).
Super Mario 64: Super Mario 64 Port: Active GPL: Super Mario World: smw: Active MIT License [130] Super Metroid: sm: Active MIT License [131] Syndicate: FreeSynd: Inactive ? GPL: System Shock: Shockolate: Active GPL [132] TSSHP (The System Shock Hack Project) Inactive ? BSD: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl: OpenXRay (in fact not a reimpl ...
Metroidvania [a] is a sub-genre of action-adventure games and/or platformers focused on guided non-linearity and utility-gated exploration and progression. The term is a partial blend of the names of the video game series Metroid and Castlevania, based on the template from Metroid (1986), Castlevania II (1987), Super Metroid (1994), and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997).
The creation of ROM hacks for Super Mario games began in 1987 with the release of the Tonkachi editor for the Japan-exclusive Famicom Disk System.While the device did not achieve commercial success, it included on one of its floppy disks a ROM hack called Tonkachi Mario, which can be considered a precursor to similar projects.
Sakamoto created characters for Metroid (under the alias 'Shikamoto'), and was a game designer on Kid Icarus. [3] [4] [5] He also directed Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, Metroid: Zero Mission, Metroid: Other M, and was the producer for Metroid: Samus Returns and Metroid Dread.
This category is for video games in the Metroid series. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. P. ... Super Metroid; Z. Metroid: Zero Mission