Hacks Woth Playing

[lamprey]

I posted a topic over at MameWorld, but didn't get much of a response (not sure I will here either), so just trying my luck here..

I've checked out a few hacks using Mame and HBMame; Mostly (ms)pac-man or dkong related. And I'll probably work my way through the hbmame.lst to see what hacks there are and try them out for fun.

I thought the Donkey Kong 2 (dkongx) and Pauline editions where kind of cool, but haven't really seen much else. Granted, I haven't gone through them all.

So, just curious if anyone else would care to list any the hacks they like or consider worth checking out?

 

[Le Chuck]

I still haven't gotten the Pauline hack to work.  I've followed the directions a few time but I am clearly missing the boat somewhere. 

[yotsuya]

I still haven't gotten the Pauline hack to work.  I've followed the directions a few time but I am clearly missing the boat somewhere.

I do a combined wheel in AtomicFE that loads MAME and HBMAME to get Pauline and a bunch of the Pac Hacks. It's a real PITA to get Pauline working in MAME if you want to keep DK.

[JDFan]

I still haven't gotten the Pauline hack to work.  I've followed the directions a few time but I am clearly missing the boat somewhere.

I do a combined wheel in AtomicFE that loads MAME and HBMAME to get Pauline and a bunch of the Pac Hacks. It's a real PITA to get Pauline working in MAME if you want to keep DK.

I set mine up so that Pauline is US set 1 (along with the artwork etc.) and then copied the original set 1 files into the other sets zip files(US set 2 Japan versions and Foundry)  so US set 2 is original DK - US set 1 is Pauline and other sets still work properly using original files rather than Pauline.

[yotsuya]

I still haven't gotten the Pauline hack to work.  I've followed the directions a few time but I am clearly missing the boat somewhere.

I do a combined wheel in AtomicFE that loads MAME and HBMAME to get Pauline and a bunch of the Pac Hacks. It's a real PITA to get Pauline working in MAME if you want to keep DK.

I set mine up so that Pauline is US set 1 (along with the artwork etc.) and then copied the original set 1 files into the other sets zip files(US set 2 Japan versions and Foundry)  so US set 2 is original DK - US set 1 is Pauline and other sets still work properly using original files rather than Pauline.

Yeah, I was tired of messing with all that. HBMAME/Pauline.zip for the win! 

[Vigo]

To the OP's question, I haven't touched arcade game rom hacks, but I hear there is a following for fighter games to allow play with hidden characters and unplayable bosses. If I liked fighters more and didn't suck at them, I would probably try them out.

I personally like a few of the console rom hacks, and those are no effort to add to a rom list and run. You have to wade through the heaps of worthless hacks to find the select few that are worth playing.

[pbj]

The Simpsons hack of Tapper is cool for a few minutes.

Konkey Dong is pretty fun but very few people get it.

[lamprey]

Forgot about the Simpson's Tapper, I do like that.

I was messing with HBMame and Mame the last couple of days, so certain details are a bit fuzzy right now. However, I think DK Pauline works just fine in baseline-Mame now.

I discovered a hack a while back that I had forgot about: Strider Amazon de-censor. I'll see if I can get it working this weekend. Here is a link to the topic on KLOV:
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=326312

 

[lamprey]

I think DK Pauline works just fine in baseline-Mame now.

I was mistaken. It'll work, If you name it "dkong" but not under the normal name "dkongpne". Otherwise you need to use a different emulator,like HBMame.

[Malenko]

do you include Street Fighter II : Rainbow Edition one of your hacks? What about Mortal Kombat II Tournament Edition ?