Category: romhacks

  • Epic Clash Between Spriter and Repro-Cart Seller on FFIV Mod’s Discord Server

    Spritework Offered for Sale Without Permission, Allegedly

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    December 2, 2025

    Spriter: Am I seeing this right? Are you selling bootleg carts and including optional patches? First, get my name off of it, now. Second, many of those optional patches are my work, or include parts of my work, and, no, you are not allowed to sell them under any circumstance, in any form.

    Spriter: [Seller] does not have the rights to sell or distribute the Final Fantasy IV ROM. [Seller] does not have permission to sell any of my work included in FFIV [Modification]’s optional patches. If you buy a reproduction cart from [Seller], you are purchasing an illegal product and stolen non-commercial fanart. I condemn the inclusion of my work and the use of my online handle on this eBay page.

    Seller: I see, will remove

    Also, be sure to send some cease and desist to this seller as well: [link redacted]

    and this one: [link redacted]

    there may be a few others

    Spriter: Your eBay page still contains original art of mine, in addition to edited work. [3 artwork names redacted], most of the fonts.

    Seller: [4 links redacted]

    These all have them too

    Spriter: I don’t speak for the main FFIV [Modification] project, I don’t speak for Square Enix. I don’t condone the sale of reproduction carts in general, and I don’t care to discuss creative, wrong interpretations of copyright law and enforcement. My concern is I do not want art that I created and especially not my name associated with your illegal bootlegs.

    Moderator: this sounds like an excellent conversation to have in dms

    Modification-Team Member A: Please leave it to the DMs guys.

    If there’s something that involves someone else, please also DM them and handle it in private.

    [Editor’s note: messages were deleted by Moderator]

    Moderator: I am deleting the recent messages and WILL ban/kick if necessary. I, as a moderator, made a direct specific request to keep it to dms

    if the dms themselves weren’t civil, there was no reason to bring it back into the public channels of this discord

    [Editor’s note: Following this exchange, the Spriter was noted as no longer being in the Discord. It was not immediately clear whether the Spriter was booted from the Discord or left of his own accord.]

    Modification-Team Member B: I was asked to remove some patches from the archive today in regards to a community member selling some physical copies of [Modification]. Any major combination of the existing patches in the archive are available in [Seller’s] storefront, so I was asked by a contributor to remove their content as they are not interested in this arrangement. If you also would like your patches removed from the public archive and the web patchers for any reason, now or in the future, let me know

    What do you think? Do you side with the spriter or seller in this case? What’s your take on repro carts of mods in general? Comment below, or check us out on Discord.

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  • FFX-2 English Translation Released by Gledson999 of Retro Jogos

    Final Fantasy X-2 International + Last Mission (PS2)

    You can follow Gledson999’s work on YouTube or the web.

    News Announcement: https://www.romhacking.net/news/3287/

    Project Thread: https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=40628.0

    The following announcement was made by romhacker Gledson999 of Retro Jogos [Brazilian for “Retro Games”].

    After many years, Final Fantasy X-2 International + Last Mission has received a fully English version for PS2.

    This game features many exclusive features, such as new dresspheres, a new garment grid, new monsters, a new secret game mode called Last Mission, an extra menu that allows you to capture monsters, train them, learn their stories, and use them in battles (fully playable), an exclusive tournament with powerful monsters, and new missions.

    This project was created by Gledson999 using tools he developed himself, but it also included image tools by Gdkchan and kernel text tools by Nameless.

    kr_ps2 also contributed, making several important fixes for the game’s smooth operation. He was also responsible for discovering and correcting the hardware lock-up issue and the RAM limitation in the game.

    Other coverage from around the web:

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  • Final Fantasy V: Whirlwind Fiesta

    Live Race between NeoKakarot and Madness

    NeoKakarot is a fanatic of JRPGs, anime, and DOTA with an especially soft spot for games by Nihon Falcom. You can follow Neo’s work via YouTube or Patreon.

    Writes Neo fresh off the heels of his 300-sub special (playlist here):

    Today is a special event stream! It will be a Final Fantasy V 4 Job Fiesta race with ‪@Madness302-s5i‬​ but with a twist! The version of Final Fantasy V we will be racing on is the Whirlwind Rom Hack created by ‪@cIymax‬​! The first person to defeat Exdeath wins!

    Can underdog Madness prevail against the reigning Fiesta Roles Leader in Neo?

    Mark your calendars for an epic race later today!

    Badge Awarded:

    Whirlwind Racer

    Crossposts on Social Media:

    Final Fantasy V: Whirlwind (SFC)
    byu/cIymax inFinalFantasyMods

    Related Post:

    Final Fantasy V: Whirlwind Fiesta

    For more mods or events like this, check us out on Discord.

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  • Liberation Mod of Super Metroid Enters Closed Beta

    Respinner Debuts on Zebes

    For clymax’s projects, click here. You can also follow him on YouTube or Twitter.

    The Liberation mod of Super Metroid on Super Nintendo is now in closed beta courtesy of clymax.

    This mod is unofficial and is unaffiliated with Nintendo.

    A respinner refers to an internal randomizer, as opposed to an external one, which we refer to as a repatcher.

    With a respinner, simply reset the game to play a new randomization. Some respinners even let you play a vanilla game with enhanced QoL.

    [Editor’s note: this section was added on January 4, 2026.]

    Release Build: Features

    The release build can be found exclusively on our affiliate, Romhack Plaza, here.

    The opening cutscene is skipped. So is the intro sequence at Ceres Station.

    Red doors can now be opened with your beam shots.

    Same goes for yellow doors and green doors.

    Gray doors have not been made openable, due to instability issues on certain maps.

    You can now enter Tourian without having defeated any of the bosses.

    Development Build: Features

    Redeem early access to the dev build through participating in our community.

    Examples of participation include our Rando-Speedrun Pilot here, or any “Whirlwind Fiesta”-adjacent event we hold that includes this mod.

    Planet Zebes is preactivated.

    Missile Expansions give you twenty missiles instead of five missiles.

    Simple Baby Skip now possible, but the camera remains locked, and Samus wraps around the screen before finding the room exit.

    Mother Brain’s third phase is now skipped. So are any related cutscenes.

    Speed blocks are not yet breakable by the normal beam. Many other types of blocks are, however.

    Your jump height while submerged is no longer reduced.

    Demonstrating the open world in the dev build.

    Blue gates and green gates may be openable from both sides using beam shots.

    Demonstrating Plasma Beam plus Spazer Beam. For a far superior version of this feature, check out Spazer Plasma Mix here.

    Exclusive Interview with Spazer Plasma Mix‘s Author

    November 16, 2025

    clymax: I made a poor man’s version of your Plasma Spazer Mix. Took me a few hours yesterday.

    JAM: Why a poor man’s version?

    clymax: Because i had an idea recently and wanted to see if i could get it to work. This approach, basically. Damage boost is 2x.

    JAM: Oh, I see.

    clymax: I made two hack routines for it. One for normal (Plasma Spazer etc.) shot and one for charged (Plasma Spazer etc.) shot.

    JAM: For the actual damage or for multipliers for the each enemy?

    clymax: These two routines are 20 bytes each. They work by preventing the spacetime beam crash by making the vanilla game engine only see Plasma as ON if both Plasma and Spazer are ON.

    Actually, i have a third hack routine that handles the multiplier. That one is 16 bytes long. The hack multiplier changes the damage dealt, by doing the damage twice.

    JAM: That’s an interesting solution.

    Demonstrating random drops. Currently, duplicates can be rolled.

    Item locations are the same as in vanilla. Items at these locations are not randomized.

    All one-time collectible upgrades are in the pool of rando drops. Energy Tanks, Reserve Tanks, Missiles, Super Missiles, and Power Bombs are not.

    Incorporates the Kraid Hyper Beam crash fix in support of the new Plasma-Spazer beam combo.

    A new beam has been added to the pool of random items in a new update.

    Mod showcase stream

    So, what do you think? Which 2D entry is your favorite in the Metroid series? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.

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    Mod Showcase: Spazer Plasma Mix for Super Metroid

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