Music has been remixed – or added – and the game has been given a visual polish to bring it closer in line with the more recent Wii U version of New Super Mario Bros. The game’s storyline is really different from the original, unhacked version too – being much closer in spirit to Super Mario Galaxy, with Mario helping Rosalina to collect star pieces that are dotted around the game’s huge open world. It’s a fully featured, fully scripted game with cutscenes, eight objectives to complete over the game’s non-linear world and fortresses to overcome with multiple routes to completion.
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Mega Man Star Force DX (2021)Īnother hack of New Super Mario Bros (which is hardly ‘New’ these days, the series now being an astonishing fifteen years old), Super Mario: Endless Earth is a seriously impressive ROM hack that gives players a huge 2D open world to explore, instead of the usual smaller-sized, discrete levels that they’re used to. It also allows monsters to use equipment that more logically fits their personalities and abilities, along with a few other, smaller changes to the core experience.ĭragon Quest V was already a critical and commercial success that is very highly rated even today, so there may be some players who are of the ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ mindset – but what this hack smartly does is to focus on one aspect of the game that many players would have liked to see more of – and then turns it up to eleven.ĭefinitely one of the oldest hacks to have made it to the best Nintendo DS ROM Hacks list at nearly ten years old, it’s nonetheless still a great example of how ROM hacks can alter already-great games in ways that don’t have to be entirely transformative, but just in offering something a little different the game can have a new lease of life. This hack emphasises the monster training elements of Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride (which ranked very highly on our Best DS RPGs list) though fairly subtle in many ways, it makes the game a lot more enjoyable for players who want to make it easier to recruit and train more monsters in their party,reducing the need to grind for their favourite characters. Absolutely one of the Best Nintendo DS ROM Hacks – and we thank you for your time and efforts, modders! If nothing else, this ROM hack goes to show just how useful the modding community can be in preserving game experiences for everyone, not just the players who happened to be around in a certain time and place.
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Its a real shame – and incredibly disappointing – that Nintendo themselves didn’t allow players to update their versions of the game to include these items once the online store access was removed, but thankfully modders stepped in and this ROM hack has saved the day for players who weren’t fortunate enough to have had that access back in the day.
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This had the effect of rendering some weapons and even a character class next to useless, but this mod restores the game to its full glory. This ROM hack of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon allows players to use the items that could only be accessed via the game’s online shops – which were closed down by Nintendo back in 2014. Though the title of this mod is incredibly literal and tells you exactly what it does, allow me to expand on exactly why this is a big deal.