I figured I would make this its own thread, seeing as its the only complete hack of LoZ:aLttP, turning it into a whole new game

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"Somebody hacked Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for Super Nintendo into a whole new game. You can find the IPS patch here: http://board.acmlm.org/thread.php?id=9904 You have to use LunarIPS (found here: http://fusoya.panicus.org/lips/index.html) to apply the IPS file to the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past rom, don't ask me where to find it, use your friend google. The hack is called "The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds" and you need an emulator to run it, such as ZSNES (http://zsnes.com/) or Snes9x (http://snes9x.com/downloads.php) Word of advice: This game is EXTREMELY FUCKING HARD, and you will most likely have to abuse savestates (a feature in most emulators). Once you get out of the Guard House and first dungeon, the hack is pretty damn fun, but like I said, hard as hell. Another note: The creators of this hack do not speak english natively. They plan to release a version 2.0 of this hack which will fix grammatical errors and tweak the difficulty so it is more even throughout the game. If you decide to try this game out, it might help to look at this thread http://board.acmlm.org/thread.php?id=9904 because it gives spoilers throughout as to how to get past certain parts."

I may be of help if you get stuck, I'm currently in the dark world, wondering where the hell to go

also, if you are curious about rom hacking, and would like to play some familiar games with a new twist, visit http://board.acmlm.org/forum.php?id=19 and http://www.romhacking.net/. they are both rom hacking communities where people release hacked versions of old games you probably havent played in a while.

1/23/2007 3:20:33 AM

I haven't played this hack, but I am familiar with LunarIPS. I had to get it to play this rather sweet (but also fairly difficult) hack of Super Metroid, aptly titled Super Metroid: Redesign. PM me if you're interested and I'll try to give you the URL to the download site for the hack.

EDIT: Just finished reading the first few pages of the thread for the LttP hack. It sounds like it's insanely difficult, especially at the very beginning. I admittedly sucked at LttP (even with save states I found myself getting my ass kicked quite a bit), so I can only imagine that the amount of frustration caused by this hack's difficulty alone will cause me to pound my computer into atomic powder.

[Edited on January 23, 2007 at 7:30 AM. Reason : blah]

1/23/2007 7:09:01 AM

Not gonna lie, this would have been awesome when I was in third grade. Now... eh.

1/23/2007 1:34:02 PM

This is awesome now.

You shut the hell up.

1/24/2007 6:10:42 PM

is there anyway i can do this and host the file for others to get?

1/24/2007 6:14:29 PM

got a heart in the village church and the latern in some cave or something

1/24/2007 6:42:07 PM

^ now you can use the lantern in the large cave in the village to get to the guardhouse

1/25/2007 12:01:09 AM

so, is this played on the CPU?

1/25/2007 9:58:37 AM

emulators are great

we were playing Excitebike the other day

1/25/2007 10:05:09 AM

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"so, is this played on the CPU?"

Fun fact: CPU doesn't mean what you think it does.

CPU stands for Central Processing Unit. Not computer. You're thinking PC. But this should run on anything that supports a SNES emulator including but not limited to: a PC, a modded Xbox, PS2, Gamecube, PSP, NDS, GBA, palm device, and probably most newer phones. I suppose in theory you could buy the hardware to burn SNES images and play the game on an original SNES console if you wanted. So yes, you will need a central processing unit of some kind in order to play this game, but no, you don't need to be sitting in front of a computer monitor.

1/25/2007 10:53:24 AM

bringing this back

i'm enjoying it so far

1/29/2007 10:18:43 PM