difficulty: translations and hacks

Retro game translations and hacks tagged “difficulty”.

14 entries

Improvement SNES / Super Famicom

Zombies Ate My Neighbors: Rebalanced

Zombies Ate My Neighbors

A start-to-finish rebalance of Zombies Ate My Neighbors that refills the neighbor count as you play on, tames enemy spawns and reworks ammunition, without touc…

RetchE v1.0

Hack SNES / Super Famicom

Spekkio Lufia

Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals

A harder take on Lufia II by Artemis, built on the author's Frue Lufia bug-fix hack, that rebalances the game and its bosses for a tougher challenge.

Artemis v8.2

Improvement SNES / Super Famicom

Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts: Enhanced Arthur

Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts

A companion to GoodLuckTrying's Artoria Edition that keeps Arthur as the hero but adds the same hidden options menu, fixes and optional gameplay tweaks.

GoodLuckTrying v1.1

Hack SNES / Super Famicom

Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts: Knight/Maiden Artoria Edition

Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts

GoodLuckTrying's full sprite conversion that swaps Arthur for Artoria, in Knight and Maiden versions, and adds a hidden options menu with optional gameplay twe…

GoodLuckTrying v3.4

Improvement Game Boy Advance

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap - Definitive Edition

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

A quality-of-life hack for The Minish Cap by zeldafangirl with a quick item wheel, selectable difficulty, bigger wallets and far less grinding for shells and f…

zeldafangirl v1.4

Improvement NES / Famicom

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Definitive

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

A fairness patch for the infamous NES Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: bombs, recoil and chained hits are toned down so the game punishes you less for things you could…

RetchE v1.0

Hack Master System

Alex Kidd in Shadow World

Alex Kidd in Miracle World

A complete fan-made Alex Kidd adventure by Victor Maciel built on Alex Kidd in Miracle World, with a new story, levels, enemies and graphics, plus a tougher Ex…

Victor Maciel vDeluxe 1.1 / Extreme 1.0

Hack SNES / Super Famicom

The 7th Saga: Sevenfold Balance

Elnard

A full rebalance of The 7th Saga that gives each of the seven apprentices a clear role that works solo, cuts down grinding and hidden unfairness, and keeps the…

RetchE v1.0

Hack NES / Famicom

Mega Man: The New Lands Remastered

Mega Man

A ground-up remake of Timaeus' own Mega Man 1 hack The New Lands, with new stages, weapons, bosses, enemy behaviors and music.

Timaeus v1.3

Hack Nintendo DS

Contravania - Ecclesia Edition+

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia

Turns Order of Ecclesia into a Contra crossover: the Albus mode is replaced by five playable Contra heroes armed with machine guns, with retuned enemies and bo…

ncoZ v1.2.0

Hack Mega Drive / Genesis

Shining Force II Maeson

Shining Force II

A broad rebalance of Shining Force II that reworks classes, equipment, magic and enemy behaviour so that more of the cast and more strategies are worth using.

Maeson v1.3a

Hack SNES / Super Famicom

ActRaiser 2: Godly Master

ActRaiser 2

A rebalance of the notoriously tough ActRaiser 2 by Lufia that softens instant deaths, improves air control and magic, and opens up more choice in stage order…

Lufia v1.0

Translation Game Boy Advance

Pokémon Altair and Sirius English translation

Pokémon Altair and Sirius

Dr. Akimbo's English patch for the notoriously hard Japanese Emerald hacks that started the Vega series.

Dr. Akimbo English

Translation Nintendo DS

7th Dragon English translation

7th Dragon

Cavespeak's complete English patch for Sega's DS dragon-hunting RPG, with an optional version that tones down the encounter rate.

Cavespeak v1.01 English