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  • Whirlwind Meta-Family of Mods

    Families of Three or More Mods

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    Families of self-randomizing or other mods compatible with various franchises on early Nintendo consoles.

    These families of mods are unofficial and unaffiliated with the respective developers/publishers.

    The meta-family is named after the Whirlwind family of mods, which is in turn named after the Whirlwind mod of Final Fantasy V.

    Click on each thumbnail to see the corresponding mod.

    For a list view of all mods, click here.

    Individual by Genre

    Individual mods are not listed on this page; click here for those mods.

    1. Dragon Quest Mainline

    Aflame Family.

    2. Final Fantasy Mainline

    Whirlwind Family.

    3. Ys Mainline

    Wanderlust Family.

    4. Mega Man Universe

    Vaporized family of leveling mods.

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  • Willow: Uprooted Released

    Formerly “Item Randomizer”

    For the Aflame family of mods, click here. For clymax’s projects, click here. You can also follow him on YouTube.

    The Uprooted mod of Willow has been released courtesy of clymax.

    The mod is unofficial and unaffiliated with Capcom.

    Like all of clymax’s rando mods, it’s a self-randomizer, so just simply reset the game to play a new randomization.

    A release build for Romhack Plaza is being considered, or you can get early access to the dev build on Game Jolt.

    Development Build: Features

    Items shuffled. Auto seeding supported. This virtually guarantees you a different seed each run.

    Rando state not compatible with passwords.

    Gained experience boosted to 30x.

    An included save file must be used to properly run the game.

    Manual seeding now supported. This allows races.

    Only the first five characters are taken as your seed.

    This replaces password entry in the game. Passwords are no longer supported.

    Unlike auto seeding, manual seeding currently spawns you at the location of the earliest password in vanilla. This location is a few screens away from the location of starting a new game,

    You now start with the spells Ocarina, Fleet, and Specter.

    You can also warp to all destinations.

    This lets you play in an open world.

    You now start with the Long Sword in your inventory.

    You can also cast Ocarina even with zero MP.

    You now start with the Nockmaar Key and Dust of Broken Heart.

    So, what do you think? How do you think Willow holds up today? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.

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  • Whirlwind Family of Families—Recap

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    Individual by Genre

    Individual mods are not listed on this page; click here for those mods.

    Family

    Families of self-randomizing mods compatible with various franchises on early Nintendo consoles.

    These families of mods are unofficial and unaffiliated with the respective developers/publishers.

    Click on each thumbnail to see the corresponding family of mods.

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  • Ban of Popular Brazilian YouTuber Buraco, Top-1500 Ranked Player on Retro Achievements

    Clovergate Prologue, Part Four

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    This incident highlights the same lack of transparency that Moderator BahamutVoid would soon raise in leaving his farewell letter not long after Administrator televandalist’s own resignation letter dropped.

    Global Points Ranking Leaderboard

    Publicly Protesting Against a Known Exploit Seven Months Earlier Presumably Led to Recent Ban from Global Leaderboards with No Communication or Explanation Despite Player Inquiry

    You can follow Buraco on YouTube or RA; for the player rankings, click here.

    September 21, 2025

    The ban took the form of what is referred to as an “Untracked” player status on Retro Achievements.

    Auto-translated captions in English are available via the video settings.

    It is recommended to start at the 20m 20s mark of the video.

    YouTuber Noise de Gole: Is Retro Achievements punishing whistleblowers?

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    YouTuber Luis Link: Only RetroAchievements content creators will be BANNED?

    Follow Luis Link on: RA | Twitch | Kick | IG | Twitter

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