Rom hacks that made completely new GOOD games!!

Like the famous FF7 chinese Rom, it seems the best RPG original rom hacks stem from the FF1 system.

Dragon Omega X 2 .

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/nes/...creenshot2.gif

Definitely the best ORIGINAL game of the bunch since the casual gamer wouldnt even know it was the FF engine , due to you being in control of one huge rouge character sprite, not 4 anime sprites. (the orignal Dragon Omega used the Dragon Quest 1 engine, got far, but the game was all grind , ugh)



Final Fantasy World of Chaos.

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/nes/...creenshot1.png

an epic tribute to the 16 and 8 bit Squaresoft days. Entirely new story that takes place immediately after the events of FF1 . Really cool, only downside is the game requires you to import save data from Final Fantasy ++ (a fantastic "remake" itself), if not you will never be able to beat one enemy. So if you have the time to at least play his remake of FF1 to level up to level 10-15 , you can import your characters then and jump right into the true original sequel.


it seems the full scale hacks are only being done on NES so far. These two I can't stress enough how good they are. Feel free to add great recommendations like these to the list!

There a bazillion of these for Sonic, some of them are really good. Sonic Megamix is probably the most prominent. There's the Sega Genesis version and a work-in-progress Sega CD version.

http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_Megamix

Here's a video with some other nice recommendations:

^but im talking about new sprites not just rearranged stages and stuff. But I will check that out now

Streets of Rage Remake was decent, not amazing but decent.

Super Mario World: Return to Dinosaur Island was pretty good too.

Sonic 2 heroes.....Nuff said.

If they ever come out with that Pyronauts game. The intention is to turn Castlevania 2 into a sci-fi metroidvania, with projectile weapons.

Extra Mario Bros. rearranges the original SMB into a metroidvania as well.

Sometimes the graphics remain the same, but the stage layout and gameplay mechanics are changed, like what you'll often see in that Sonic video. Total conversions don't need the graphics changed to be a completely different game.

Pyronauts sounds absolutely amazing. I was looking for a full-scale Castlevania 2 hack. It seems like a perfect base for it especially with the graphics capabilities and possibilities for level design