Multiplayer ROM Hacks

NickyP

NickyP

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If there's two things I love, it's emulation and local co-op. ROM hacking has become much more innovative than simple level editors in recent years, and some hackers have added multiplayer modes to games that were originally a single player experience.

Since I love those kinds of hacks the most, I figured I'd make this thread as a resource for them. Hopefully you'll enjoy these as much as I have, and if you have found others then please share!

NOTE: These are links to patches, not actual ROMs. I'm not sure what Chrono Crash's policy is for this sort of thing, so try to avoid linking directly to ROMs unless DC says otherwise.

Sonic Classic Heroes - up to 3 players, for the entirety of Sonic 1 and 2!
https://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Classic_Heroes

DuckTales 2 Two Players
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2141/

Seiken Densetsu 3 Three Player Hack
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/179/

Secret of Evermore Two Player Edition
http://fusoya.eludevisibility.org/soe/

Super Mario 64 Multiplayer - player 2 controls Luigi!
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=8725

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 4 Player Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQfBO9Or0YQ
(NOTE: This link is a youtube video, because this ROM hack is kind of hard to find by conventional means.)

Super Mario World 2 Player Co-op - simultaneous 2 player, a la New Super Mario Bros
http://bin.smwcentral.net/u/4297/2_player.zip

Final Fantasy 3 (NES) Two Player - player 1 controls the top two characters, player 2 controls the bottom two.
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1797/

Like I said, if you can find any other ones, please share. :)
 
NickyP said:
If there's two things I love, it's emulation and local co-op. ROM hacking has become much more innovative than simple level editors in recent years, and some hackers have added multiplayer modes to games that were originally a single player experience.

Since I love those kinds of hacks the most, I figured I'd make this thread as a resource for them. Hopefully you'll enjoy these as much as I have, and if you have found others then please share!

NOTE: These are links to patches, not actual ROMs. I'm not sure what Chrono Crash's policy is for this sort of thing, so try to avoid linking directly to ROMs unless DC says otherwise.

Sonic Classic Heroes - up to 3 players, for the entirety of Sonic 1 and 2!
https://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Classic_Heroes

DuckTales 2 Two Players
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2141/

Seiken Densetsu 3 Three Player Hack
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/179/

Secret of Evermore Two Player Edition
http://fusoya.eludevisibility.org/soe/

Super Mario 64 Multiplayer - player 2 controls Luigi!
http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=8725

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 4 Player Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQfBO9Or0YQ
(NOTE: This link is a youtube video, because this ROM hack is kind of hard to find by conventional means.)

Super Mario World 2 Player Co-op - simultaneous 2 player, a la New Super Mario Bros
http://bin.smwcentral.net/u/4297/2_player.zip

Final Fantasy 3 (NES) Two Player - player 1 controls the top two characters, player 2 controls the bottom two.
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1797/

Like I said, if you can find any other ones, please share. :)
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amazing i had no idea things like this can be done.
 
Interesting news!

I really wonder about Seiken Densetsu 3 cause the original game is in Japanese. Will the 3 player patch work with translated rom?
 
Bloodbane said:
I really wonder about Seiken Densetsu 3 cause the original game is in Japanese. Will the 3 player patch work with translated rom?
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I believe it does. I know I've played it with my brothers, and I only have the translated ROM.
 
Cool, sonic by three, I will try this one first. The Seiken Densetsu 3 says it only worls with a "rom with header". What  "rom with header" is??someone can tell me ...
 
Whoa whoa whoa! I didn't know these types of hacks existed! This is amazing!

And it seems they've been around for years. I had no idea. Thanks for sharing!

 
Nice Topic!

My dream in my childhood was to play Mario and other games in same time with my friends. Now this is possible.

Theres another Hack ROM with this function?
 
Just to clarify - as Nick said, linking to patches, emulators, and such is OK, but not the ROMs. That's highly illegal and could get us shut down in a heartbeat.

Very cool topic BTW.

DC
 
Just registered to add more games to the list :P

For the NES

Bomberman Co-op
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3335/

Tetris Zero
http://acmlm.kafuka.org/board/thread.php?id=7573

Battle City 4 players
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2142/

Mighty Final Fight for 2 players
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1277/

Battletoads 4 players
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3441/

Super dodgeball (4 players bean ball)
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/71/

For the N64

Banjo Kazooie 2 player split screen
https://banjosbackpack.com/forums/showthread.php?8188-Banjo-Tooie-Co-op-Mode-Hack

Jet Force Gemini 2 player split screen
http://www.emulation64.fr/?page=download&id=230

If anyone knows more of this please share too!

 
in a random purchase, I just bought a NES four score recently  :D - It might actually be useful now.... I just need 3 more people in the same room who like playing NES....lol

Unfortunately not all of these work on actual hardware, using the Everdrive N8 and/or Powerpak.
 
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