At E3 2015 the world got its first real taste of how hilarious it can be to watch players struggle through tricky, brutally hard, and downright mean custom-made Mario levels.
All of us will get a chance to experience this pain for ourselves when Super Mario Maker drops on September 11. But a small community of hardcore Mario fans have been creating and struggling through merciless Mario challenges for nearly a decade, thanks to the Mario ROM hack scene.
Creating a ROM hack is not for the feint of the heart. ROM hacking involves painstakingly modifying a game’s data files, often via a hex editor. ROM hacks are typically used to accomplish any number of usually benign (but still legally questionable) things like translating a Japanese-only SNES or Genesis RPG into English, or changing a character or item’s stats.
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All of us will get a chance to experience this pain for ourselves when Super Mario Maker drops on September 11. But a small community of hardcore Mario fans have been creating and struggling through merciless Mario challenges for nearly a decade, thanks to the Mario ROM hack scene.
Creating a ROM hack is not for the feint of the heart. ROM hacking involves painstakingly modifying a game’s data files, often via a hex editor. ROM hacks are typically used to accomplish any number of usually benign (but still legally questionable) things like translating a Japanese-only SNES or Genesis RPG into English, or changing a character or item’s stats.
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