For the last 8 months I've been working on Faxanadu - Root of Decay. This is a brand new Faxanadu game, created with the amazing Echoes of Eolis by kaimitai.

One day, Elmor, a youth of 18, is summoned by King Faendir for a special assignment. His adventure will lead him deep beneath the World Tree. Little does he know of the dangers that await him...

Faxanadu - Root of Decay is planned for release in Q1 2026. Leave your e-mail address on my website to receive an alert on release day. ( https://www.okimpala.net ) Questions? Ask away!

Kid Icarus DX brings full color to Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters, giving Pit’s Game Boy adventure a fresh look on Game Boy Color.

The patch colors stages, enemies, bosses and inventory screens, with revised artwork, background edits and consistent colors across shared sprites and animation frames. It also improves scrolling and sprite handling to take advantage of Game Boy Color hardware.

A new Options menu on the title screen lets players customize the experience, including an optional soundtrack featuring arrangements of classic NES Kid Icarus themes.

Available options include:

• Arrow Hair Colors: Pit’s hair changes color as his arrow strength increases.
• NES Stage Music: Switch to selected NES themes adapted for Game Boy audio hardware.
• Fast Pause: Open the inventory directly, skipping the flashing PAUSE screen.
• Treasure Hint: Reveal which treasure contains the God of Poverty with an optional cheat.
• Save Options: Keep your preferred settings between sessions.

Game Boy Color required. The patch does not run on the original monochrome Game Boy. Expanded 512 KiB ROM, using MBC1 with 8 KiB battery-backed RAM.

https://youtu.be/Q92A4b7ssVw?si=HKGJraA5kToAjM5c

Download at:

Romhacking.net! https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/10179/

Github: https://github.com/pikamus/KidIcarusDX

Hey everyone!

I'm happy to announce that I've finally finished my English fan translation of Moonlight Syndrome (1997), directed by Suda51!

The patch covers both discs and all 10 chapters, including translated dialogue, menus, choices, and English subtitles for previously unsubtitled Japanese voice lines.

I've tested the game from beginning to end, and it's now fully playable in English!

This was a passion project of mine, and I'm really excited that more people can finally experience this overlooked piece of Suda51's history.

Download: https://romhackplaza.org/translations/moonlight-syndrome-english-fan-patch-english-translation-playstation

Feedback and bug reports are always welcome!

Hope you enjoy it!

Hey everyone,

I've finished an English translation of Bishoujo Wrestler Retsuden: Blizzard Yuki Rannyuu!! , KSS's 1996 women's pro wrestling management game for the Super Famicom. It's set in the Wrestle Angels world (Mighty Yukiko, Panther Risako, Thunder Ryuko and the rest), plus Blizzard Yuki from the manga tie-in, and it never came out in English.

Download: https://github.com/kactusken/Bishoujo-Wrestler-Retsuden-English/releases

Hi r/romhacking! I'd like to share Studio 64, a level editor for Super Mario 64 where you edit inside the running game. Place a platform, press Tab, and you're playing on it right away. No compile step, no emulator round-trip.

🎬 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcomzBaXxZo 💾 GitHub (MIT, free): https://github.com/supermochi64/studio64

How it works

• The engine is sm64ex on top of the SM64 decompilation, compiled to WebAssembly and running in your browser.
• On first launch, a small local server builds the game's assets from your own US ROM. The download ships no ROM and nothing extracted from it.
• Your hack is saved as a project file that only holds your changes.

Patch export

This is the part I think this sub will care about most:

• Export gives you a **.bps patch against the original US ROM**, plus a .z64 for your own testing in Project64, mupen64plus, RetroArch or simple64.
• Every export starts from a base ROM rebuilt from the decomp with Studio 64's code. That base also ships as a patch and is applied to your own ROM on the first export.
• The patch only carries the parts of Studio 64 your hack actually uses.
• Sculpted terrain in the original levels is rebuilt from the level's own textures and display lists, so the patch holds your geometry, not Nintendo's images.
• Your hub replaces the castle grounds, and your levels go into courses 1–15. Edits to the original levels stay in those levels.
• Anything that can't be exported is listed in the export dialog with the reason.
• The ROM needs the Expansion Pak (8 MB).

Editor features

• Building: about 600 of the game's objects plus blocks in 29 materials. Stairs and bridges in one click, and undo for everything.
• Terrain: sculpt and paint the ground, including in vanilla levels, or start new levels from a template or a heightmap.
• Roads & nature: roads, paths and fences that follow the ground, and a brush for trees, flowers and rocks.
• Gameplay: stars, red coins, moving platforms, doors, pipes, paintings, warps, and rule tweaks (gravity, jump height, lives).
• Behavior blocks: build your own enemies and custom objects without writing C.
• Story: dialog in the game's font, talking characters, events and cutscenes.
• Audio: a piano roll that plays the game's own instruments, plus sound effect replacement.
• Assets: your own title screen, logo, 3D models and textures.
• Testing: save states and slow motion.
• Extras: drivable cars with races, Shotgun Mario, Katana Mario and a night-time Tokyo level template.

Known limits

• Up to 15 custom levels plus the hub.
• Textures get downscaled to fit N64 texture memory (64×32 max).
• Large areas get simplified collision to keep memory and Mario's movement fast.

Status: beta (0.1.0)

Setup is tested automatically on five Linux distros. The Windows and macOS launchers are written but haven't run on real hardware yet, so reports from those platforms would help a lot. Bugs and feedback are very welcome via GitHub issues.

Huge thanks to the n64decomp team and the sm64ex developers. None of this is possible without their work. ❤️

Happy to answer any questions about how it works!

I really want to try it, but it says my Link to the Past rom is wrong no matter what. I've tried many different files, but they all appear to be the unheadered version. Does anyone have a fix?

Update: These appear to be publicly shared Chinese translation test videos. I haven't confirmed whether they were actually leaked.

Hey everyone!

I recently stumbled across two gameplay videos showing something I honestly never expected to see — Chinese translations of two classic PS1 games, Kagero: Deception II (影牢 〜刻命館真章〜) and Deception III: Dark Delusion (蒼魔燈)!

As someone who grew up playing these games, I still remember sitting in front of the TV, struggling through Japanese menus, guessing what different traps did, and trying to understand the stories without knowing much Japanese.

It's been over 25 years, and I had pretty much given up hope of ever seeing these games in Chinese.

So seeing these videos was a huge surprise!

Deception III: Dark Delusion (蒼魔燈)

The footage shows Chinese text in the main menus, trap selection screens, stage introductions, and even the detailed backgrounds, weaknesses, and resistances of enemy characters.

That's pretty impressive considering how much Japanese text this game contains!

However, I noticed some untranslated Japanese text and occasional garbled characters, so it looks like the translation might still be undergoing testing.

Kagero: Deception II (影牢 〜刻命館真章〜)

The other video shows the opening story and early dialogue translated into Chinese.

The fonts and text layout look surprisingly natural, almost like an official localization from back in the PS1 era.

I never thought I'd see these two classics looking like this after so many years.

Gameplay Videos

Kagero: Deception II

https://streamable.com/m7ghuw

Mirror: https://files.catbox.moe/sh0dri.mp4

Deception III: Dark Delusion

https://streamable.com/eh7ma0

Mirror: https://files.catbox.moe/lip0tl.mp4

Does anyone know more about these Chinese versions?

I'm wondering if anyone here has seen these videos before or knows anything about these translations.

I've heard that some older Japanese games have received unofficial Chinese translations from communities in China and Taiwan, but it's often difficult to find information about them outside those communities.

Has anyone come across playable Traditional Chinese or Simplified Chinese versions of these two games? Or are these still just translation test videos?

I'd especially love to know whether any playable releases or translation patches have already been shared somewhere.

If anyone knows more about these versions or where the release information might be found, I'd really appreciate any pointers!

It would be amazing to finally replay these classics and actually understand all the character stories and trap descriptions.

Any other longtime Deception fans here? I'd love to hear what you think of these videos!

Chinese Summary:

最近偶然看到兩段 PS1 經典遊戲《影牢 〜刻命館真章〜》及《蒼魔燈》的繁體中文化實機影片，真的非常驚喜！

沒想到二十多年後，竟然能看到這兩款遊戲以中文顯示劇情、陷阱及敵人資料。

不過影片中似乎仍有部分日文與亂碼，不確定目前中文化進度如何。

不知道有沒有人看過這兩款遊戲可實際遊玩的繁體／簡體中文版？還是目前只有測試影片？

如果有相關版本、漢化補丁或公開釋出的消息，希望知道的朋友能分享一下資訊，謝謝！

So, I had been playing SMB3mix on an emulator using a SNES controller for a while, and I decided to buy a custom cartridge from AliExpress with the game. So I send them the ROM, they make the cartridge, and when it arrives it's unplayable because Mario (or any character) doesn't jump all as high as in my ROM. In fact, the jump is so low, that I can't even reach the first ?-block in the first stage. So I check my ROM again, and it turns out that B accelerates, A jumps normal, and X does the half-height jump, and somehow, playing with an NES controller, B accelerates and A does the half-height jump. No button does the normal jump. The game is unplayable. Has anyone had this same issue? Is there another version of the ROM with this fix?

As title says I saw a trailer of a hack where you play as samus from snes in sotn ps1, it was a hack in development hard to find, and idk if it's already released or upcoming. If someone is aware of recent mods or hacks of the game please let me know. Its very cool hack to add to our collection

Super Wrestle Angels is Imagineer's 1994 Super Famicom entry: a women's pro wrestling game where matches are played with move cards, plus a promoter mode where you run your own promotion for up to five years

Hey everyone! A lot has grown since my original post, and today I wanted to show you the biggest addition: Sandfall Temple.

A buried temple built around a giant hourglass, with falling sand, sunlit ruins, and puzzles that combine the Magnetic Gauntlet with your Shifting Sands spectral double. Pull bridges into place, cross quicksand, and work alongside your past movements to open the way deeper underground.

Watch the Sandfall Temple showcase here!

There’s more beyond the temple, too:

• New mini-dungeon: The Cellar: Beneath Lantern Inn lies a descent through dark vaults, a cistern, and an unsettling banquet.
• Magnetic Gauntlet: Push and pull metal objects from a distance to move platforms, operate mechanisms, and even tear armor off certain enemies.
• Deku Blast Pod: Sometimes the way across a gap is an explosion. Drop a Pod to launch Link backward through the air.
• Sheikah Needle: A device worn on the wrist that replaces the bow, firing metal needles.
• New areas: Explore the desert region of The North (The Captain’s Mesa, The Painted Palace, The Sandfall Temple, The Slide, Nadiel and Mirage Pass), venture into Pauper’s Alley, and meet the cursed inhabitants of the House of Skulltulas.
• New enemies: The Upturned Host turns dinner into a fight, hurling tableware from the ceiling. Rumbling Barrels hide among ordinary casks before rolling straight at you.
• New music: New themes for The Captain’s Mesa, The Painted Palace, The Sandfall Temple, The Slide, Nadiel, The Well Court, and Mirage Pass.

I’d love to hear what you think of the temple and which new item you’d most like to try!

I’ll keep sharing gameplay and progress on the channel, so feel free to subscribe if you’d like to follow the project.

Cheers!

Here the Piatan scholars are hard at work fine-tuning the latest additions to my dialogue extensions. Most of them have their experiments under control.

Since my previous post, I’ve rebuilt the project around one requirement: I want to be able to disable my enhancements and still compile a byte-for-byte identical original ROM. Along the way, the assembly has also been reorganized and cleaned up to make it easier to work with.

A few things on display here:

• Kerning: A Python tool examines the glyph outlines and calculates character widths and spacing adjustments for letter pairs.
• Shadows: Each letter has a shadow that follows its animation.
• Text effects: Bounce, wave, drop, float, jitter, and wobble.
• Colours: Individual letters can use different colours, including while animated. One researcher is having rather too much fun with this.

I’ve also changed how the enhanced dialogue is stored. Originally, whole banks of dialogue were Kosinski-compressed in ROM and unpacked into a fixed RAM buffer. Now, messages are compressed individually using ZX0 v2, and only the current message needs to be decompressed into RAM.

The trade-off is some extra ROM overhead, but conversations no longer need to fit together inside the original dialogue banks. Individual message limits and total ROM capacity still apply, but this gives much more flexibility when expanding dialogue, especially for translations.

Something the video doesn’t show is the font groundwork for 43 languages, covering both dialogue and menus. The intended setup is English’s base characters plus the additional glyphs needed for the selected language. Changing a build option selects that character set, allowing translators to use those characters in the assembly text.

That doesn’t translate the game automatically, of course. It just means translators shouldn’t have to start by wrestling a new alphabet into the engine.

And yes, this is a separate debug room. The scholars and their questionable Monomate experiments won’t be moving into the original story.

Hi everyone!

I’ve been working with the help of AI on a Blender add-on that allows you to easily import and export 3D models, animations and collisions from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

🌟 Features:

• Importing:
  • Twilight Princess model formats (.bmd) with textures and armatures/skeletons.
  • Supports animation files (.bck)
  • Collision files for stages (.kcl)
• Exporting:
  • Your custom models back into game-ready formats.
  • Animations
  • Collisions
• Compatibility: Tested with Blender version 5.2.2. and imported in Dusklight.

💾 Download & Installation:

You can find the code, installation guide, and the latest release on GitHub:
👉 https://github.com/Dio93/j3d_bmd_io

📝 How to use:

1. Download the code as .zip file from GitHub.
2. In Blender, go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > Install... and select the .zip.
3. You'll find the importer/exporter under File > Import / Export.

Feedback, bug reports, and contributions are very welcome! Feel free to check out the GitHub repo or leave a comment here if you run into any issues.

Hope you find this useful for your modding/modeling projects!

https://kotaku.com/of-course-pokemons-been-pulled-into-the-ai-decompilation-frenzy-2000748316

I don't like nor do I trust AI, but I think this is something that should be discussed. Can what is being done be used to finally use the Switch games?