Kane99 Posted February 20, 2023 Posted February 20, 2023 I recently played a randomizer for Ocarina of Time on the N64 through emulation on PC. I guess there's a community out there that updates retro games and randomizes all the drops and hidden items, completely changing the game. The randomizer I played even allows for people to play online together, even getting up to 50+ players in one game. Had anyone here played a randomizer of a classic retro game? I don't know the whole process of how to set it all up, but you need the ROM for the game and have to do a bunch of other steps I have already forgotten. I'm curious to know what other retro games are being brought back to life in similar ways. Have you guys ever played a retro game that was randomized from its original release? Would you? It sort of adds new life to older games, so I'm honestly all for it.
Ravenfreak Posted February 24, 2023 Posted February 24, 2023 I like playing randomized roms of the Generation 1 Pokemon games. There's the Universal Pokemon Randomizer program that will work on Pokemon games from Generation 1 all the way up to Generation 5. You can randomize your starter Pokemon, music, what Pokemon you'll encounter, trainer classes, and trainer party Pokemon. There is also a Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit) randomizer, but it's limited to what it can randomize. You can't randomize the level layouts too much, otherwise you'll encounter collision issues.
Empire Posted February 27, 2023 Posted February 27, 2023 I have not looked and even touched REtro games in terms what you mention but GTA I have, not the new but the old series
Kane99 Posted February 27, 2023 Author Posted February 27, 2023 On 2/24/2023 at 5:55 PM, Ravenfreak said: I like playing randomized roms of the Generation 1 Pokemon games. There's the Universal Pokemon Randomizer program that will work on Pokemon games from Generation 1 all the way up to Generation 5. You can randomize your starter Pokemon, music, what Pokemon you'll encounter, trainer classes, and trainer party Pokemon. There is also a Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit) randomizer, but it's limited to what it can randomize. You can't randomize the level layouts too much, otherwise you'll encounter collision issues. Nice. I want to look into other games and see what options are out there for those. Like even further back like NES, SNES games. I doubt it's possible for those games, but I am wondering now if there is a scene on the internet that adds multiplayer and other mods to retro games from the 3D era (PS1,N64,Dreamcast,PS2,Xbox,etc) 8 hours ago, Empire said: I have not looked and even touched REtro games in terms what you mention but GTA I have, not the new but the old series What did you do with the original games? I didn't play much of the original games, not until they went 3D with GTA III. But I suppose if you have the ROM/ISO and the technical knowhow to mod, it could be easy to patch changes.
Empire Posted March 2, 2023 Posted March 2, 2023 On 2/27/2023 at 8:15 PM, Kane99 said: What did you do with the original games? I didn't play much of the original games, not until they went 3D with GTA III. But I suppose if you have the ROM/ISO and the technical knowhow to mod, it could be easy to patch changes. I still got the dics, just collecting dust and boxed away 😜 I do download dig.. nowdays Remaster edtion of GTA I have not got, I do not see myself playing it again anytime soon.
killamch89 Posted March 14, 2023 Posted March 14, 2023 I mean, depending on the emulator, you can just put in codes to change things in a game to something like more Legendary Pokemon for instance or the types available for instance. (using Pokémon as an example).
Shortie Posted April 16, 2023 Posted April 16, 2023 I can't say I have ever played retro game that was released as an emulator and had things changed to give it a new lease of life. I would be all for it though as I feel the older retro games were the best games and having them brought back to life but changed a little to give them a new lease of life would be amazing.
