Tag Archives: rom hacking

Editroid 3.7

Posted by snarfblam on September 21, 2014 1 comment

Version 3.7 of Editroid is available. You can get it at Romhacking.net’s page for Editroid. Version 3.7 adds support for multiple ASM files to manage more complex ASM hacks.

Mountain Challenge by Trax

Posted by snarfblam on December 22, 2013 0 comments

From Trax, the author of the Contra hack Revenge of the Red Falcon, comes an early Christmas present: a nifty Contra hack titled Mountain Challenge. It’s short, but sweet. It’s a one-level hack where you race to the top of the mountain as fast as possible. The difficulty is dialed back a couple of notches compared to Revenge of the Red Falcon, but you’ll have plenty of chances to die running full speed ahead, trying to top your best time.

ROM Hasher 1.0

Posted by snarfblam on October 22, 2013 1 comment

ROM Hasher calculates hashes and looks ROMs up in a ROM database to help identify and verify ROM images. This tool is geared toward romhacking.net for the purpose of generating ROM hashes to include with hack/translation submissions and for verifying ROMs before applying patches.

ASM Hack: Elevator to Same Level

Posted by snarfblam on June 13, 2013 0 comments

Here is a nice, small hack that allows you to add an elevator to Metroid that, rather than bringing the player to a different level, brings the player to a different part of the same level. This hack is very unlikely to work with any other hack that involves ASM since it uses the memory […]

Editroid 3.5

Posted by snarfblam on June 11, 2013 1 comment

Time to release a new version of my Metroid editor. This version allows you to add ASM to each screen that will run when the screen loads. It includes a built-in assembler so you can do everything right in Editroid.

Editroid: Enemy Slots

Posted by snarfblam on December 8, 2012 0 comments

This is just a quick explanation of a quirk in enemy placement in Metroid. The game engine is capable of showing up to six enemies at a time. Each enemy is stored in an “enemy slot” in memory. The unusual thing about the enemy slots is is that rather than having the game load enemies […]