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Badhacks.net is back

02/09/25


Badhacks.net is back on it's original domain. I'll be removing the archive that existed here, and linking to that version instead. I fixed some problems that I noticed as well. It'll be hosted at it's original domain probably forever unless Trump kills more free speech stuff.

Baddesthacks.net is the modern iteration of the site if you're looking for modern hacks of this genre or want to upload whatever crap you've made. You already know that if you're reading this, but whatever. The old one is an archive, and won't be updated beyond possibly adding the pages that were WIP when the site died and bugfixes. If you find something wrong, like a dead link or a broken download, e-mail me.



Life is cyclical

02/04/25


The Nintendo Entertainment System is one of those machines that I’m just kind of obsessed with. I don’t really know why. Frankly, it’s a subject that has been discussed by everyone to death. What else is there even to say about this thing? I recently got a Twin Famicom, and have been messing around with it a bit. It’s been a while since I last had interest in the famicom and several things have happened since then. There’s a new drive emulator for the Famicom Disk System called the FDSkey which I’ll probably build. Along with that, DupliFDS , which allows you to copy disks using an English interface. Even though I can read Japanese well enough to use DISK HACKER, I don’t particularly enjoy using it. It always felt very sketchy.

Family BASIC was another one that I messed around with. in 2018, it seemed like people weren’t interested in archiving the software that existed for it. Now, in 2025, everyone and their mother is out there archiving stuff. It really warms my heart. I’ll need to remember to download and store everything physically so it doesn’t end up lost again later down the line. I don’t trust Archive.orgs ability to keep itself alive. Maybe I can host them all here too. I know that Family BASIC is garbage as far as BASIC interpretors go. I don’t care though, it’s fun to use. I’ve had it longer than I ever had my Apple IIe, which is weird to think about.

In November, the phone (yeah, I write on my phone, what of it?) I wrote my DK Oldies report on died. Samsung Updated without my permission and made it so the phone wouldn't charge. I'm not even going to try to recover it.

I don’t think anyone needs me to explain why DK Oldies sucks. I knew that from the begining, so I didn’t even write that much about them. I wanted to frame it as some massive expose about how they’re scammers, only for it to devolve into unrelated rants about the various games I see on the site. Basically, the idea was to fuck with anyone who worked there. I wrote it imagining a legal team combing over the absurd ranting looking for anything libelous. Which of course, wouldn’t be there. It was pages, and pages long, and was presented to look at a casual glance like something more than it actually was. I’m not rewriting it because I don’t think I can properly recreate it. The whole thing worked because it happened naturally.

I wrote an article about the Coleco Gemini. If you’re interested in learning about how badly this thing sucks, you can read it here.

I’m not planning on uploading any ROM Hacks this time, but you’re free to send me any you create. I’ll host them here. I’m not that concerned about content. I won’t host anything Hateful, illegal, or Trump related. Those are the only rules. The first one and the last one could probably just be combined into one rule, but whatever.



tetris and some other things

10/04/24


My work life has made it difficult to work on this while also maintaining my personal life. That's what I get for insisting on working in an industry that is infamous for being terrible to it's employees. Anywho, I've added a couple of ROM hacks to the site.

  • Tetris Zero -- This is a personal favorite of mine that I play fairly consistently. it's a modification of the NES version of Tetris that enables multiplayer and SRAM score saving. Give it a go.
  • Tetris Nato Edition -- Tetris as it rightfully should be. A game designed half in protest of the Russia - Ukraine War and half because it's funny to antagonize Russian populists.
  • Rush -- Someone took Pac-Man and turned it into this nonsense. I love it.

that's it for now. I'm working on an article about DKoldies so look forward to that. I've been collecting video games for nearly 25 years at this point so it's been interesting digging into these people and what they've been up to.



ROM HACKS AND MORE ADDED

09/15/24


For starters, several new ROM hacks have been added

  • Star Luster - Improvement, originally a hack I made solely for myself. It makes Star Luster look less janky.
  • The Simpsons: Return of the Space Mutants which is an unofficial sequel to Bart Vs. the Space Mutants. This is one of the first ROM hacks I ever played.
  • Satanic Duck Hunt is horrible vandalism at it's absolute most unhinged
  • Poo Poo Land is exactly what it sounds like and is one of hundreds of hacks made by author Jackass. Yes, hundreds.
  • Snoopy Magic Show DX colorizes a Game Boy game that absolutely nobody played but you should. It's cute arcade fun.
  • Kirby's Pinball Land DX is a colorized version of the game that started the "pinball spinoff" genre
  • Final Fantasy Adventure DX adds much needed color to the most melodramatic video game in human history. Find me another game where two completely unrelated character have tragic deaths within 10 minutes of the game starting.
  • Dr. Mario DX turns Game Boy Dr. Mario into something worthy of your time.

The badhacks.net Mirror has been updated. The front page had some formatting and text changes to make some things a little bit clearer. I also fixed some problems with links and a few other unspecifiable things. Special thanks to Golden Gun for alerting me to something especially vital that had slipped my mind.

I've also written a review of Crystal Clear. ROM Hacks of Pokemon games never really crossed my mind as something worth playing. This hack has changed my mind on that to a degree I can't even begin to express. If you're looking for a ROM hack with hundreds upon hundreds of hours worth of gameplay, look no further. I won't be hosting it here because it's clear the creator is still working on it. Go get it from from his website.

Finally, I've made the site slightly easier to navigate. There's no reason for the badhacks.net mirror to have it's own tab on the top. It's been moved to the features section.





09/07/24

The Badhacks.net Mirror is now open. Seeing as how this site doesn't even exist yet at the time of this writing, I'm not even sure what that means. It's a full blown, functional archive of badhacks as it was before it went down, leading to the creation of multiple revival sites. one of which still exists to this day.

Needless to say, I do not condone, endorse, encourage, or any other synonym for "advocate" anything found on this mirror. It exists as an archive. Much like the former owner, I believe this stuff has a right to exist, and that some of it is genuinely incredible.