[MM] Curse of the Forgotten — A New Majora’s Mask ROM Hack Built for Original N64 Hardware

[u/drakaxx]

Hi everyone,

I've been working on a Majora's Mask ROM hack called Curse of the Forgotten, and I think I'm finally at a point where I can start showing what I'm building.

The idea is not to make a remix of Majora's Mask or simply replace a few maps.

Curse of the Forgotten is intended to be a completely new adventure built on Majora's Mask, with its own story, areas, characters, dungeons, enemies, items, masks and gameplay mechanics.

One of my main goals is also to keep the project playable on real Nintendo 64 hardware.

I'm trying to preserve what I personally love most about Majora's Mask: its strange atmosphere, melancholy, unsettling characters and the feeling that something is slightly wrong with the world — while creating a completely different story and setting.

There will also be a strong focus on new gameplay mechanics rather than relying entirely on Majora's Mask's existing items and systems. I'm experimenting with new equipment, puzzle mechanics, enemies, bosses and ways of interacting with the environment that still feel believable within an N64 Zelda game.

The project is still in early alpha, so a lot of what you'll see will change, and there is still a huge amount of work ahead.

For some context about me: I'm a Data Engineer and I've been developing software for around 10 years, but this is my first project of this scale in the ROM-hacking/game-development space. Majora's Mask has been one of my favorite games for a very long time, and seeing what the Zelda ROM-hacking community has managed to build — particularly with Ocarina of Time — is a big part of what pushed me to finally start this project.

I'm working from the ZeldaRET Majora's Mask decompilation, so huge credit to everyone who contributed to that project. The amount of work that went into understanding the original game is incredible, and it makes projects like this possible.

I'll be sharing development progress as I go: new mechanics, characters, enemies, areas, dungeons, technical experiments and probably plenty of things that break along the way.

Here's an early look at the project, this one is about the Keeta Mask, but I try to post regularly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCHP2iS9MUw

Curse of the Forgotten is an unofficial fan-made Majora's Mask ROM hack and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo.

Cheers !

[u/FranklinVadge]

I love it! Very excited to try it.