I think you're missing the beauty of hacks like this. I don't find the idea of playing the games all that interesting...but damned if I'm not blown away by how awesome the guys who built them are.
I am really beginning to question the intelligence of gaming companies. There is a real opportunity to open old games' development platforms and have open contests for people to make hacks like this. Take the best ones, put them into a collection, and let the creators share in the profits. Everyone wins, especially fans of the games.
To be fair to the gaming companies, I can understand why they don't want to open their platforms. The infamous Video Game Crash of 1983 has been blamed, in part, on the fact that console-makers such as Atari, desperate to get a large portfolio of games in the market, held very low standards for what games they would allow to be made for their system, leading to outright terrible games like E. T. and worse, outright offensive titles like Custer's Revenge. The desire not to repeat this mistake is much of why Nintendo held tight control over its franchise and, in the US, deleted the edgy, religious and sexual elements from games like Final Fantasy 4/6.
Although, I'm inclined to agree with you. If Magic: the Gathering had gone open source at some point, there would still be people over 15 who play it. However, they'd also have to change their business model.
Oh, I don't know about that, you could have a film which depicted some of the parts of his life which weren't shown in the first one.
Like, say, how he met his first wife. Or most of his business dealings. Or his twenty-second birthday party. Or any number of the interesting incidents which would no doubt have occurred in his life. Charles Foster Kane was a fascinating character who lived a full life, surely he didn't spend his whole time crying over his sled, did he?
The scary part is that I'm actually starting to think this might be a good idea for a movie.
Linking to illegal derivative works probably violates the rules of that forum but fortunately linking isn't a crime. The below links may be patches and not the ROM itself. The ROM itself can be found on your local torrent site, probably in a pack that includes every SNES or NES ROM!
Super sweet stuff! At first it was minor modifications, and now the huges ones. I guess the next step is to make a new NES or SNES game from scratch? I envision a state-of-the-art high-level language compiler and customized development environment...
already beat the second reality 1 and 2 but I guess I'm not getting any homework done until I finish Super Metroid Redesign and Parallel worlds. damn you hacker news.
Anyone know how to copy FF6's Terra and bring her into the IRL module? Thanks to Sex and the City, the quality of females in this module is seriously lacking.
Of course, my dogs' names are Link and Zora (there was a Zelda, but don't ask) so maybe I'm a purist.