The fan community has always been active when it comes to making ROM hacks. That means making changes in the original game files to alter dialogues, graphics, levels, gameplay mechanics, or to ...

Difficulty is a type of ROM hacks for Pokémon, with some fan projects upping the challenge of the normal games into absurd ...

If you were a kid anywhere in the last 30 years, it was nearly impossible to avoid at least some exposure to the Pokemon franchise. Whether that’s through games like Red and Blue to Scarlet and Violet ...

Pokémon ROM hacks are breathing new life into classic regions and mechanics, offering everything from darker storylines to open-world exploration and full Pokédex completion. Fans are reimagining ...

September 13th 1993, colloquially known as Mortal Monday, became a dividing line in the battle for 16-bit supremacy. The mega popular arcade game Mortal Kombat was ported to Super Nintendo and Sega ...

The Sega Genesis & Mega Drive Classics Hub has been released on Steam, and now anyone who owns a classic Sega game on the platform can utilize Steam Workshop to upload and play ROM hacks. The hub ...

Seeing ROM hacks for Mario games, or indeed any Nintendo classic is hardly unusual. For those unaware of the term, this is essentially where existing assets from a game are taken and ‘jumbled up’ to ...

Callum is a seasoned gaming managing editor for a number of publications and a gamer who will always try to shine a spotlight on indie games before giving AAA titles the time of day. He loves nothing ...

Last Sunday, the popular ROM hacking resource website Romhacking.net rejected one fan’s Pokémon Crystal hack. While rejected hacks aren’t unusual, what was unusual was the reasoning. This fan hacked ...

A recently released ROM hack of the original Sonic the Hedgehog for Sega Genesis injects a little modern day Sonic into the 1991 game, and the results are both a little painful and pretty hilarious.

At E3 2015 the world got its first real taste of how hilarious it can be to watch players struggle through tricky, brutally hard, and downright mean custom-made Mario levels. All of us will get a ...