Whenever I see impressive ROM hacks running on original hardware I think about how they would have been received if they were released during the console’s generation. Talking about Sonic being in the original Super Smash Bros or being able to play Super Mario 64 with split screen would normally be pretty close to saying your dad works for Nintendo but if you could back it up with an actual copy of the game which would you choose to make yourself a schoolyard legend?

  • Atomic
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    5 days ago

    I were the schoolyard legend.

    I knew basic English at the age of 7 and advanced english at 12. so I was the only kid that could actually translate what they said in various games

    I also knew how to duplicate pokemon in 1st and 2nd gen for Gameboy.

    That’s all it took. What is now easily obtainable information was a black hole of forbidden knowledge back then.

    • mindbleach
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      4 days ago

      Ahhh, the lost era of poring through GameFAQs textfiles, where every visual cue had to be described in prose or approximated in ASCII art.

      There’s games I did not beat until a playthrough showed up on Youtube. “Oh, there! Why did LinkGoku117 call that stump a kettle?”