Thirty years ago, Donkey Kong Country blew our minds with its computer-generated graphics — and kicked our butts with its challenging platforming, mine-cart stages, and barrel-cannon sequences. Now it can kick them all over again with three new hacks that increase the difficulty. Challenge Edition — Removes the DK Barrels
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What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse… Oh, Wait!
This patch was over three years in the making, but a translation patch for the Famicom Disk System game, “Dracula II: Noroi no Fuuin” (Dracula II: The Cursed Seal”) has been released. Thus, this concludes the re-translation efforts of the NES/FDS game series that would become Castlevania. You play the
Jarvas Redux 1.0 Released
After over four months of solid effort (spread out over 16 months), Mentil has released the Jarvas Redux hack, for the notorious Famicom kusoge ‘Mirai Shinwa Jarvas’. Patches are available for both the original Japanese ROM, as well as ones already patched by Stardust Crusaders’ 1.00 English patch. An action-RPG
A New Complete Megaman 1 Romhack Is Out!
A new megaman 1 romhack is out, with everything changed to various degress, including a whole new cast of bosses, enemies, patterns, weapons and themes to dive in. For deeper help, a document with information about the weapons and utilities is included. Have fun!
Lyn’s Bizarre Adventure Is Now Available On RomHack Plaza
Follow Lyn as she embarks on a completely revamped Fire Emblem – The Binding Blade experience, through the vast continent of Elibe! This is a new hack for Fire Emblem including new characters, classes, weapons, graphics (both battle animations as well as map animations), music tracks, and new dialogue. More:
F-Zero Vintage Velocity Series Wraps Up
The F-Zero: Vintage Velocity Project is now complete. Begun earlier this year by the team that did BS F-Zero Deluxe on the SNES, Vintage Velocity is the first and, to this day, only complete set of romhacks for the GBA F-Zero games. So what does this romhack duology get you?
Famidash 1.0 Has Been Released!
You’ve seen Geometry Dash on Mobile. You’ve seen Geometry Dash on Steam. Now, experience Geometry Dash for your NES! A team of dedicated fans have faithfully recreated the Geometry Dash engine in beautiful 6502 to give you the greatest homebrew that has ever hit the NES! 12 original RobTop levels
NES Lemmings Improvement V1.4 Arrives at RomHack Plaza
One of the worst versions of Lemmings has its biggest improvement hack submitted to RomHack Plaza. Featuring all the same improvements as its prior versions featured elsewhere, the latest version features the classic “Let’s go!” speech sample from the original Amiga version, with no increase in ROM size. More details
Ko-Fi Account and New Forum!
Just a quick news item to tell you a couple of things. First of all, the forum engine has changed. A lot of complaints had been made about Flarum, so we’ve switched to a classic PhpBB forum. A new PhpBB theme is available and normally, if you’re not new to
Many New Things on The Plaza !
A few new features have been added to the Plaza. Here’s a quick news update. First of all, a genre field has been added for games. It is mandatory for romhacks and translations. When you update your publications, this field must be added. It will be used to filter according
A Completly Redesigned Megaman 1 Hack Is Out, As Well As Version 1.3
Megaman 1 – The New Lands Remastered 1.3 version is released, with the focus of simplify some things about version 1.2 and polish some things around the whole game that was needed. A complete overhaul of the original game, where everything have receive a massive change in every aspect, including
A Fast Paced Megaman 1 Hack Is Released, As Well As Version 1.2
Megaman 1 – Speed Bomber’s version 1.2 is released, with the purpose to polish the game overall and make it simpler and more fun. A hack where everything is fast paced all the way through and everything is changed in one way or another. A new gamestyle for Megaman fans
A New and Complete Sonic 1 Hack Is Out!
A new Sonic 1 hack is released, where everything have been edited in some way or another. Explore new zones with changed themes, musics (one per zone), aesthetics, level designs, boss fights and collect the chaos emeralds through non-rotating special stages to get an optional boost powerup to use through
Tool Release: Varible Width Font (VWF) Calculator
Why do you need this? Usually, the first though to see how a text looks in a game window, is about inserting said text. However, what if you could do the same without doing the inserting every time. Well, look no more, this is the tool you want. Open sourced
SMBArena.com Opens!
We would like to officially welcome the new smbarena.com to life! Created by StudsX and Eden GT, this site is now THE de-facto encyclopedia and repository solely for Super Mario Bros. romhacks! You can get there by our affiliate link on the right side of the page now, or head
NUDE Romhacks Now Open (MUST OPT-IN!)
Romhack Plaza has taken the bold move today to open up NUDE hacks, which may feature nudity. Users MUST opt-in in their profile in order to access any of these when they are available. If you do not opt-in, you won’t be able to access them at all. At the
Lemmings – Colour Palette & Level Title Fix V1.3
UPDATE: ROM Hack is now updated to v1.3 with more colour palette fixes mainly for the Special Levels. See Plaza Page of this hack for more info. I am happily please to announce the release the hack of the Psygnosis Game, Lemmings for the Sega MegaDrive/Genesis. This ROM hack not
Bye Bye RHDO, Welcome to RomHack Plaza !
Change has arrived. As announced in the previous news, RHDO has changed its name to RomHack Plaza to give it a new lease of life! To go with it, the new theme is now available. Imperfections may be present, but will be improved as we go along. What’s more, the
RHDO Changes Ownership
Further to the previous news, notably linked to the “drama with RHDN”. Spike, former owner of the site, has decided to leave the site and transfer ownership of the platform to someone else. I, Benjamin, have taken over the project to give it a new lease of life. As a
SMB-CV Moves to RHDO
I know many, like myself, really enjoy the history and nostalgia surrounding these old machines and I sure do appreciate the websites that have fostered the retro-hacking community. For me personally, it has re-sparked my aging interest in programming. I’ve seen so many hacks at this point that show incredible
