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Hack Showcase: Contra 2in1 Hack (NES) by Corpse Grinder

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Hack Showcases and RPG Hack Showcases are a series where I show off various game and rpg hacks along with fan remakes. I try to stick with hacks that improve gameplay or add quality of life features, completely or partially change the plot and characters, along with additional content, dialogue, graphical and sound improvements. Non-rpgs I try to give a full run to, or at least enough for a solid review. Rpgs I will stick with titles that have enough changes in the beginning to show off, and when I can, show parts later in the games where more differences appear. There may be spoilers in the reviews and videos. Some of these I may stream fully in the future or play on my own. Reviews are open to later revisions due to bug and content updates or me playing them and finding anything new I wish to bring up.

Contra 2in1 is a NES hack by Corpse Grinder which combines both NES Contra and Super C games into one 16 level adrenaline action packed game! Some enemies and bosses hit harder and the level progression switches from Contra to Super C’s levels and the hack uses Super C as a base (So use Super C’s Konami Code).

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Hack Showcase Christmas 2024: Die Hard Special Edition (NES) & Home Alone Improvement (NES)

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Hack Showcases and RPG Hack Showcases are a series where I show off various game and rpg hacks. I try to stick with hacks that improve gameplay or add quality of life features, completely or partially change the plot and characters, along with additional content, dialogue, graphical and sound improvements. Non-rpgs I try to give a full run to, or at least enough for a solid review. Rpgs I will stick with titles that have enough changes in the beginning to show off, and when I can, show parts later in the games where more differences appear. There may be spoilers in the reviews and videos. Some of these I may stream fully in the future or play on my own. Reviews are open to later revisions due to bug and content updates or me playing them and finding anything new I wish to bring up.

For Christmas 2024 I did a special Chef Kaine Christmas Special with the Die Hard Special Edition and Home Alone Improvement Hacks for the NES. Reviews will be for the hacks themselves on how they fix the games, and I’ll add my thoughts on both games as well.

Die Hard Special Edition by Magnus Nilsson aims to fix a number of cosmetic and gameplay elements to this underrated game along with lowering the difficulty a little bit.

  • Changes:
    Almost all graphics including sprites, UI and hundreds of background tiles
  • Text now have a new font and a couple of script edits
  • Time limit per lock is now 5 minutes instead of 4
  • Health powerups now gives 5 points instead of 1
  • Line of sight tweaked in a few areas

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Hack Showcase: Castlemania (SNES)

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Hack Showcases and RPG Hack Showcases are a series where I show off various game and rpg hacks. I try to stick with hacks that improve gameplay or add quality of life features, completely or partially change the plot and characters, along with additional content, dialogue, graphical and sound improvements. Non-rpgs I try to give a full run to, or at least enough for a solid review. Rpgs I will stick with titles that have enough changes in the beginning to show off, and when I can, show parts later in the games where more differences appear. There may be spoilers in the reviews and videos. Some of these I may stream fully in the future or play on my own. Reviews are open to later revisions due to bug and content updates or me playing them and finding anything new I wish to bring up.

Created by LetsTalkGames, this hack combines gameplay and other elements of the Super Mario series with Castlevania into one fun package. 6 levels of platforming among Mario and Castlevania element await with enemies, tight jumps, bosses inspired by Mario and more. The hack has 2 versions: the main one and an “EASY VERSION”. The main version doesn’t save progress after levels until you finish it, the easy version does save after levels.

For the purpose of this review and streaming my first gameplay, I did do EASY Mode in case I ran into difficulty and save me from major setbacks or pc issues (all of which happened, lol).

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Hack Showcase: Castlevania Aria of Sorrow Persephone Hack (GBA)

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Hack Showcases and RPG Hack Showcases are a series where I show off various game and rpg hacks. I try to stick with hacks that improve gameplay or add quality of life features, completely or partially change the plot and characters, along with additional content, dialogue, graphical and sound improvements. Non-rpgs I try to give a full run to, or at least enough for a solid review. Rpgs I will stick with titles that have enough changes in the beginning to show off, and when I can, show parts later in the games where more differences appear. There may be spoilers in the reviews and videos. Some of these I may stream fully in the future or play on my own. Reviews are open to later revisions due to bug and content updates or me playing them and finding anything new I wish to bring up.

Created by Caminopreacher as a spoof hack of Aria of Sorrow, this hack presents Persephone (the ninja maids) as the playable hero, in a plot building off of the bad ending of Aria of Sorrow. She finds herself with her willpower along with familiar faces in Castlevania Olrox and Carmilla and others, and has to explore the castle to find answers. Plays just like Aria of Sorrow but with Persephone’s melee attacks (like Soma using Knuckles) you’ll be changing up how you play fast. Soul collecting is still a thing but all the Souls don’t correspond with the enemies you get them from normally! Souls needed to trigger the Good Ending have also been changed! Players will have a blast with this for a different story, some great laughs and gameplay experience.

Seeing how this was a longplay over multiple streams, there’s 2 gameplay videos for this, combined from their respective streams.

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Hack Showcase: Legend of Super Mario: Save the Mushroom Kingdom (NES)

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Hack Showcases and RPG Hack Showcases are a series where I show off various game and rpg hacks. I try to stick with hacks that improve gameplay or add quality of life features, completely or partially change the plot and characters, along with additional content, dialogue, graphical and sound improvements. Non-rpgs I try to give a full run to, or at least enough for a solid review. Rpgs I will stick with titles that have enough changes in the beginning to show off, and when I can, show parts later in the games where more differences appear. There may be spoilers in the reviews and videos. Some of these I may stream fully in the future or play on my own. Reviews are open to later revisions due to bug and content updates or me playing them and finding anything new I wish to bring up.

Created by NesDraug (who also did Beatles Adventures in Pepperland), this combines Mario with Legend of Zelda into one really fun adventure! Travel the Mushroom Kingdom to save Peach from Bowser in an adventure game style like Zelda! Find weapons and gear, travel dungeons to find the Star Pieces, fight the Koopa Kids and more! All items from Zelda have a counterpart that’s useful in this hack. What’s also great is the hack comes with a map and manual, and box art to make your own physical copy!

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Hack Showcase: Who Framed Roger Rabbit Reframed (NES)

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Hack Showcases and RPG Hack Showcases are a series where I show off various game and rpg hacks. I try to stick with hacks that improve gameplay or add quality of life features, completely or partially change the plot and characters, along with additional content, dialogue, graphical and sound improvements. Non-rpgs I try to give a full run to, or at least enough for a solid review. Rpgs I will stick with titles that have enough changes in the beginning to show off, and when I can, show parts later in the games where more differences appear. There may be spoilers in the reviews and videos. Some of these I may stream fully in the future or play on my own. Reviews are open to later revisions due to bug and content updates or me playing them and finding anything new I wish to bring up.

Created by , this hack aims to fix a number of the game mechanics and issues plaguing Who Framed Roger Rabbit for the NES. The rng of the game still makes this a different run each time you play, but now the game mechanics are much more manageable including:

– Revised punching mechanism. Allows to hold the B button to increase the power meter. No more needs to tap.
– Buff damage done with the punch.
– Buff damage done with throwable items. (makes items usable)
– Birds no longer drop bombs in the close-up view
– Animals no longer collide with the player in the close-up view (except the reds ones protecting items)
– Bats in no longer collide with player in caves
– Decreased speed of the red animals protecting items
– No more timer when selecting a punchline to release Roger from the weasels
– Infinite continues

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Hack Showcase: Mega Man: Sequel Wars: Episode Red (Genesis)

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Hack Showcases and RPG Hack Showcases are a series where I show off various game and rpg hacks. I try to stick with hacks that improve gameplay or add quality of life features, completely or partially change the plot and characters, along with additional content, dialogue, graphical and sound improvements. Non-rpgs I try to give a full run to, or at least enough for a solid review. Rpgs I will stick with titles that have enough changes in the beginning to show off, and when I can, show parts later in the games where more differences appear. There may be spoilers in the reviews and videos. Some of these I may stream fully in the future or play on my own. Reviews are open to later revisions due to bug and content updates or me playing them and finding anything new I wish to bring up.

Created by Woodfrog, Mega Man: Sequel Wars is a fanmade sequel to Wily Wars for the Sega Genesis. As of 9/26/2024 only Episode Red: Mega Man 4 has been released. When Mega Man 5, Mega Man 6 and other content are released (either as separate roms or one large one) I’ll update this review.

FEATURES

–Faithful recreations of the original games, with extensive research done to make everything accounted for.

–Smooth controls that avoid all of the shortcomings of the original Wily Wars and its control issues.

–Refined 16-bit graphics that use the Mega Drive’s superior visual capabilities to their fullest, with detailed environments and elaborate parallax backgrounds.

–Original soundtrack featuring both remakes of the original tunes and all-new compositions. Comes in both Classic (original Wily Wars style) and Modern (Regular) flavors.

–New characters to play – including Proto Man who can deflect bullets with his shield, and Roll who uses her broom to mop up enemies in close range.

–More gameplay options including the ability to use any weapon from 4-6!

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Hack Showcase: Law & Order: Mushroom Kingdom Unit – Pilot Episode (SNES)

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Hack Showcases and RPG Hack Showcases are a series where I show off various game and rpg hacks. I try to stick with hacks that improve gameplay or add quality of life features, completely or partially change the plot and characters, along with additional content, dialogue, graphical and sound improvements. Non-rpgs I try to give a full run to, or at least enough for a solid review. Rpgs I will stick with titles that have enough changes in the beginning to show off, and when I can, show parts later in the games where more differences appear. There may be spoilers in the reviews and videos. Some of these I may stream fully in the future or play on my own. Reviews are open to later revisions due to bug and content updates or me playing them and finding anything new I wish to bring up.

Created by ChaseNScooter , Daizo Dee Von , EvilGuy0613 , Jamie originally as part of the 2023 Questionable Level Design Contest on smwcentral, this hack marries Law & Order: SVU with the characters of Mario World! Music based on that from the show, other tracks from games, great pixel work, bonus games and more are in this short, but fun hack! You control Elliot Mario as he tries to solve the case of who killed Sebastian “Tails” Prower!

As stated by ChaseNScooter, this is the pilot of an upcoming series of hacks. When more are released I’ll review them and add to this and make this a full review for the Mushroom Kingdom Unit series.

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Hack Showcase: Rock Man 2: Basic Master (NES)

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Hack Showcases and RPG Hack Showcases are a series where I show off various game and rpg hacks. I try to stick with hacks that improve gameplay or add quality of life features, completely or partially change the plot and characters, along with additional content, dialogue, graphical and sound improvements. Non-rpgs I try to give a full run to, or at least enough for a solid review. Rpgs I will stick with titles that have enough changes in the beginning to show off, and when I can, show parts later in the games where more differences appear. There may be spoilers in the reviews and videos. Some of these I may stream fully in the future or play on my own. Reviews are open to later revisions due to bug and content updates or me playing them and finding anything new I wish to bring up.

Rock Man 2: Basic Master 1.2 by Tatsu changes everything for Rock Man 2: enemies, Robot masters, weapons and a lot more! Some quality of life features from later MM games were incorporated and new Items that you start the game with!

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Hack Showcase: Mario Kart64 Hacks

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Hack Showcases and RPG Hack Showcases are a series where I show off various game and rpg hacks. I try to stick with hacks that improve gameplay or add quality of life features, completely or partially change the plot and characters, along with additional content, dialogue, graphical and sound improvements. Non-rpgs I try to give a full run to, or at least enough for a solid review. Rpgs I will stick with titles that have enough changes in the beginning to show off, and when I can, show parts later in the games where more differences appear. There may be spoilers in the reviews and videos. Some of these I may stream fully in the future or play on my own. Reviews are open to later revisions due to bug and content updates or me playing them and finding anything new I wish to bring up.

For a thrill I decided to try a bunch of Mario Kart64 hacks I found on cdromance. Mario Kart64 is my favorite of the series and used to play it for hours when I was younger. I should really get into the later Kart games and even the og SNES one. Worth noting some of the replaced kart racers don’t have new sound samples or voices, mainly Yoshi and DK, due to internal programing. The following will be some mini-reviews and thoughts on all 4.
So we have:
Amagami Kart by Tsukasa plays games
Dragonball Kart by immavegeta
Simpsons Kart by smashedbrothers
Slasher Kart by smashedbrothers

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