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xlom3000

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A lil something interesting
« on: August 29, 2009, 01:53:22 PM »
So I was on my favored private bt site the other day and found this interesting item.

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The ROM Hack Collection (20090825)

ALL credit for this wonderful collection goes to 'powerpuff' @ UG !!!

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This ROM Hack Collection will give you a set of 321 roms and was checked with ClrMamePro (datfile (20090825)) (included) to be sure that it contains no errors. All rom files are TorrentZipped as well.

Description:
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This little project is the effort of a big No-Intro supporter. The No-Intro project do a great work in the video game preservation. They offer accurate informations about ROM images in order to indentify the good dumps and exclude all the garbage (bad dumps, hacks, fakes, overdumps, underdumps, etc.).

No-Intro is perfect for real hardware video game preservation. However there are treasures in their garbage and the greatest works from the ROM Hacking scene deserve to be preserved too. So have been started projects which aim to offer these hacks the "No-Intro" treatment.

The ROM Hack Collection is one of them and tries to establish the most complete and accurate collection of hacks which are not translations. Are gathered only the best hacks which all deserve to be played.

The hacks have been well applied to the orginal games and are clearly identified. Each ROM in this collection was tested and is guaranteed to work.
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That's just the intro, here are the reallygood parts.











Just thought you guys might be interested in it, though I wonder if you had any intros that got removed in the process. I'm downloading them now to check'em out.
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Re: A lil something interesting
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2009, 02:28:34 PM »
Bah, they could have easily put together a collection of patches that included all of the original files from our distributions, plus an additional file that would give the no-intro name and CRC of the correct ROM to patch. If they pulled an intro from a ROM hack that was intended to be there (such as the splashscreen in Zeemis's FF6 hack), then they're actually doing a disservice. At least the presentation is nicer than, say, the GoodSets, which don't seem to have a standardized filename format or anything for hacks.

I don't have any problem with putting together a massive collection of hacks, that's what archive sites like RHDN essentially do already, but I do not like the fact that this is being distributed as a collection of ROMs. I wouldn't even care if they switched them over to another patch format than what they were distributed in originally.
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Re: A lil something interesting
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2009, 03:03:48 PM »
Yeah, I kinda figured you guys would have an issue with it. That's one of the reasons I put it up here. I'm about to load it up and check out if they've removed credits/splash screens now.

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They still seem to have splash screens. At least Zeemis's hack did. I think the intro's they removed were dumper intros. The ones usually accompanied by terrible chiptunes with wavey credits and such.

The odd thing is they specifically mention not gathering translation hacks, but I see a ton of them in the list.
« Last Edit: August 29, 2009, 03:11:13 PM by xlom3000 »
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Re: A lil something interesting
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2009, 05:48:09 PM »
i downloaded that myself awhile back(it seems to get updated every once in awhile to a newer torrent with more hacks) to see what was in it.  there's a different torrent(of the same variety - full roms) for translations, so that's probably why they mention that.  

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romcenter.com is an interesting place.  it's mentioned in the torrent page's body.  they made a rom manager?  it wonder if it's better than quickplay.
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Re: A lil something interesting
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2009, 11:13:18 AM »
If you try the ROM manager, let me know how it works, I don't feel like installing anything I don't have to on here. I know whatever I was using for their lists was a real pain to use; the interface was terrible and I couldn't figure out how to do much with it outside of renaming (and even then, it automatically zipped each ROM and put each into its own directory, which always irritated me).
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Re: A lil something interesting
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2009, 12:22:09 AM »
Interesting...

I wonder if they have all released versions of each of the hacks?  I'm missing a couple of versions of some of my hacks. 
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Re: A lil something interesting
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2009, 01:54:33 AM »
I kind of knew this project was in the works. I'm active at UG.

I wonder if my hack is in there ;)
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Re: A lil something interesting
« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2009, 06:15:10 AM »
the newest one of these is out today(both for hacks and translations) for anyone who's a member at ug.
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Re: A lil something interesting
« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2009, 02:36:44 PM »
I want to hang someone to even dare thinking about doing something similar to GoodSNES.
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Re: A lil something interesting
« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2009, 01:21:54 AM »
not that anyone cares, but there's a new romhack collection as of 10/4:

http://www.underground-gamer.com/details.php?id=41383

also, "the romhack collection project":

http://www.underground-gamer.com/forums.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=21310&page=p305085&UGfragment=305085#305085

never seen that before.
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