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Title: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: markyjoe1990 on December 14, 2011, 09:11:25 AM
Accidentally posted this on the wrong board. Sorry about that.

May I request people post all hacking tools, Castlevania game creation tools, fan games, and ROM hacks on this thread?

I'll keep this first post up to date and create a list of anything pertaining to the above so that people can access them quickly.

Thanks in advance.

NOTE: Please do not link to ROMs. Only patches for ROMs will be accepted.

Fan Games:
TitleAuthorStatusDescription
Symphony of the Night HACKED (http://sotnhacked.wordpress.com/)EscoDemo outInitially a hack of Symphony of the night, but has since been moved to Game Maker.
Vamprotector (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,3623.0.html)darkmanx_429Close to having a demoA game that plays like a mix between Contra and Castlevania.
Castlevania: The Demon Castle (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,2978.0.html)InccubusDemo OutAn "8-bit megamix" of all Castlevania I incarnations.
Castlevania: The Greatest Five (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,3795.0.html)Claimh SolaisBackburnerAn 8 bit castlevania RPG

ROM Hacks:
TitleAuthorStatusDescription
Simon's Quest REDACTION (http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Hacks/SimonsRedaction.html)The people at www.almightyguru.com (http://www.almightyguru.com)FinishedA Castlevania II hack that attempts to fix most of the game's flaws, such as the dialogue.

Game Creation Tools:
Game Maker 8.1 (http://www.yoyogames.com/make) - A general purpose game creation tool that can be used to make Castlevania games.
Intro to MMF2 (PDF File) (http://www.sendspace.com/file/7c4d0a) - A tutorial towards using Multimedia Fusion 2, which can be used to make Castlevania games.
The Games Factory 2 (http://www.clickteam.com/website/usa/the-games-factory-2.html) - Another general purpose game creaiton tool.

ROM Hacking Tools:
Stake (http://www.zophar.net/download_file/3017) - A Castlevania I editor that can change many things including levels and palettes. Made by Dan.
CursEd (http://www.zophar.net/utilities/neslevel/cursed.html) - A Castlevania II Editor that can change levels, graphics, text, etc. Made by never-obsolete.
reVamp (http://www.zophar.net/download_file/3020) - A Castlevania III Editor by Rouki that allows for editing levels and other things.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: darkmanx_429 on December 14, 2011, 11:11:05 AM
For people that are done with Game Maker..I guess my game would fit this thread as well...lol

Intro To MMF2 Full pdf:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7c4d0a (http://www.sendspace.com/file/7c4d0a)
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: markyjoe1990 on December 14, 2011, 01:36:08 PM
Your game?
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: TheouAegis on December 14, 2011, 01:43:12 PM
You can go to Zophar's Domain for a list of various rom hacking files and their download links. CV1 and CV2 have rom hack utilities listed there, and of course ReVamp is there too.

I also like FCEUX (emulator) because you can hack the ROM data itself while you play the game.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: markyjoe1990 on December 14, 2011, 01:44:13 PM
You can go to Zophar's Domain for a list of various rom hacking files and their download links. CV1 and CV2 have rom hack utilities listed there, and of course ReVamp is there too.

I also like FCEUX (emulator) because you can hack the ROM data itself while you play the game.

Yeah, I'm probably gonna link to a lot of programs there. I'm not in the mood to do it right now though.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: darkmanx_429 on December 14, 2011, 06:29:01 PM
Your game?
http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?topic=3623.0 (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?topic=3623.0)
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: markyjoe1990 on December 14, 2011, 07:12:20 PM
Slightly updated the list to include the suggestions given.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Inccubus on December 14, 2011, 10:41:18 PM
http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,2978.0.html (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,2978.0.html)

Here's my fangame.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 15, 2011, 08:54:29 AM
My game's thread is too old to link to. :(
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Inccubus on December 15, 2011, 01:07:19 PM
So make a new one Mr.Admin. 8)
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Omegasigma on December 15, 2011, 02:29:25 PM
The 3D game I was originally director of is on infinite pause, till some things can be worked out. >.>
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Corpsecrank on December 23, 2011, 09:35:13 AM
The game factory 2 might be worth mentioning. It goes right along with game maker and mmf2. That would actually be my choice having looked at all 3 of the options.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: markyjoe1990 on December 23, 2011, 09:40:00 AM
Got it. Updating the first post.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Mega Man Model T 101 on January 05, 2012, 01:34:19 PM
Hey guys, any suggestion on what program I should use? Since I tried using Game Maker and it didn't work properly, tried to reopen it, and I couldn't because a program was somehow still using it, and I couldn't really turn said program off for some reason, I had to restart.

Well, wondering which program I could use that's quick to understand and able to produce good results.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Claimh Solais on January 05, 2012, 05:08:04 PM
Link to my 8bit RPG "Castlevania: The Greatest Five". However, it's put on an indefinite hold since I lost all my tilesets. I'm also gonna resprite the main cast and give it a plot revamp (no pun intended).

http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,3795.0.html (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,3795.0.html)
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: markyjoe1990 on January 05, 2012, 05:20:54 PM
Understood. Updating first post.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Esco on January 05, 2012, 07:10:31 PM
.............. this thread has been up 3 weeks now and this is ALL you guys can come up with for it!!!!???

Dang.... that brings a tear to my eye my peoples.  :'( :'( :'( :'( :-\
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: markyjoe1990 on January 05, 2012, 07:17:44 PM
It's exactly as I suspected honestly... I knew Castlevania didn't have many fan games, much less finished/good ones, but I was hoping that making a directory for the fan games and game making tools would help encourage more castlevania games to be made.

I wonder what it is that's holding people back from making a castlevania fan game/hack?

Methinks one of the reasons is because none of the later, more flexible castlevanias have been extensively hacked besides Symphony of the Night, so people have to deal with the archaic NES castlevanias.

As for fan games, I think the biggest issue is that to make a fan game, people need custom graphics, which requires talented artists. Additionally, they need a programmer, a story writer, composer, and other people. To get these all together requires organization and combined commitment.

Making a castlevania fan game/hack seems a lot harder to do than making a good Fire Emblem fan game/hack, which has become very easy and user friendly.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Esco on January 05, 2012, 07:28:57 PM
It's exactly as I suspected honestly... I knew Castlevania didn't have many fan games, much less finished/good ones, but I was hoping that making a directory for the fan games and game making tools would help encourage more castlevania games to be made.

My comment was actually geared towards the fact that there is quite a bit out there that people have yet to link to or put up.  :)

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I wonder what it is that's holding people back from making a castlevania fan game/hack?

............... laziness, lack of dedication, and a "someone else will do it for me" mentality.  :'(

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Methinks one of the reasons is because none of the later, more flexible castlevanias have been extensively hacked besides Symphony of the Night, so people have to deal with the archaic NES castlevanias.

That again is due to my response to point # 2; if a nobody amateur like me can learn this stuff anyone can.

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As for fan games, I think the biggest issue is that to make a fan game, people need custom graphics, which requires talented artists. Additionally, they need a programmer, a story writer, composer, and other people. To get these all together requires organization and combined commitment.

There are plenty of graphics out there just from the Castlevania series itself to make MANY descent fan games/hacks. Same goes for music; story is not that important and never has been to Castlevania or to making a fan game or hack.

As for programming, with something like GM all you need is basics; same for hacking MOST things.

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Making a castlevania fan game/hack seems a lot harder to do than making a good Fire Emblem fan game/hack, which has become very easy and user friendly.

BWA HA HA HAAAA! You think hacking an RPG and making a GOOD hack for it, is harder than doing it for a simple platforming game? Sorry son, but that is soooooooo not true.  :)

As for the Metroid-vania types, that is a different story; they would be harder IMHO. But they are still VERY doable.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: markyjoe1990 on January 05, 2012, 07:35:54 PM
BWA HA HA HAAAA! You think hacking an RPG and making a GOOD hack for it, is harder than doing it for a simple platforming game? Sorry son, but that is soooooooo not true.  :)
I think you misread my post. I said making a castlevania hack/fan game seems more difficult than making a hack/fan game for Fire Emblem. Not the other way around.

My comment was actually geared towards the fact that there is quite a bit out there that people have yet to link to or put up.  :)
I probably should have looked into that before I made my assumption. My apologies.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Esco on January 06, 2012, 01:00:39 PM
I think you misread my post. I said making a castlevania hack/fan game seems more difficult than making a hack/fan game for Fire Emblem. Not the other way around.

Actually, that means that you misread my post; because I said the opposite of what you said above when it comes to the classic platforming versions of Castlevania (the one before SOTN and ones like adventure rebirth and the snes ones you mentioned).

However, I did then state that the metroidvania-esque versions MIGHT be more difficult to hack/edit than fire emblem. So in truth it really depends on which of the 2 versions of the Castlevania games you are referring to.  8)
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: markyjoe1990 on January 06, 2012, 04:02:42 PM
I'm confused... nevermind.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Claimh Solais on January 06, 2012, 09:19:53 PM
I think you should probably post the status of each fan project in their descriptions. Stuff like for Esco's Symphony remake, you could put "STATUS: Demo Out", for Inccubus's project, put "STATUS: In Development" and for mine probably put "STATUS: Backburner" or something. That way we don't have people walking into a thread hoping for something only to find out it's still in development with no playable phase.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: markyjoe1990 on January 06, 2012, 09:28:51 PM
Sounds good to me. I'll get to work on that.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Charlotte-nyo:3 on January 07, 2012, 12:49:07 AM
It's exactly as I suspected honestly... I knew Castlevania didn't have many fan games, much less finished/good ones, but I was hoping that making a directory for the fan games and game making tools would help encourage more castlevania games to be made.

I wonder what it is that's holding people back from making a castlevania fan game/hack?

Methinks one of the reasons is because none of the later, more flexible castlevanias have been extensively hacked besides Symphony of the Night, so people have to deal with the archaic NES castlevanias.

Generally what will probably cause more hacks is when the SotN editor is released, (if it is). I tentatively look at what happened when the Super Metroid editor got good and the explosion of hacks produced for that game. Sadly I don't think there's been an update on the SotN editor's progress in quite awhile though. While SotN may have been "extensively hacked" (actually I'm not sure I'd consider that true, look at Super Metroid or Super Mario World for games I'd call "extensively hacked") it still isn't simple enough to do so that someone without much technical knowledge can plop themselves down and make significant changes without reading a lot of material. And even then it'd be very difficult to make a proper level design hack without an editor that makes the process smoother. With the drought in proper CV Castleroids since OoE, about all one can hope for is the SotN editor, but I still don't hold out much hope for that at this time sadly. Harmony of Despair could've been a boon if they had thought to add a level editor and let people run through custom designed levels as well, but sadly that was only a very remote possibility.

On fan games though, I seriously doubt anything can give a shot in the arm to the making of fan games, as they will always be tons of work, which only few will be able to commit to and even fewer will be able to finish. Hacks are basically the same way, but the work load is more manageable, especially if the editor is good.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: omen on February 01, 2012, 10:14:58 PM
hey, i'm new to game creation, i'm looking to make an original game from scratch and i'm wondering what the best program is to use for a non-programmer. i've read in this forum that one person prefers game factory 2 above the others. i am a novice at spriting but i have massive amounts of time on my hands...
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Inccubus on February 02, 2012, 12:11:23 AM
I like GameMaker, but I am a programmer. Never used any of the others much.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: TheouAegis on February 02, 2012, 07:23:57 AM
I am NOT a programmer and I like Game Maker. ... ... because it makes me feel like a programmer. And Inccubus is ripping off some of my ideas, so don't listen to him.  :P There are some decent Games Factory games out there, I think, but it's very possible Game Maker has the better support base (being Game Maker Community, the official forum for Game Maker, and all the blogs you can find using Google).  I know nothing about Games Factory, but it sounds like it might be less logic-oriented than GM. I swear, a lot of the problems I see on GMC are people not using good logic in their programming. That's not to say Inccubus and I are innocent of that, as reading through my thread in this forum will show, but I've spent a lot of time on GMC just trying to explain to someone why

if A & B
then C

is not the same as

if A
then if B
then C
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Inccubus on February 02, 2012, 09:22:56 AM
<----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------pirate

Me? Rip something off? Why whatever do you mean?  ;D
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: omen on February 04, 2012, 10:32:35 PM
anyone point me to a good tutorial for making a vania game? muchas gracias i advance.
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Aridale on February 05, 2012, 10:07:21 AM
there is no tutorial for makin a CV game. You need to find a program you like (try as many as you can) and THEN do basic simple game tutorials. Then make those more advanced on your own with no help. Then move on to other game types like Platform. Do tutorials. Improve and advance on those tutorials on your own with no tutorial. Learn by doing and by makin mistakes and fixin em and learnin better ways to do things.

Thats how youll be able to make any kinda game on your own CV related or not.

That said. Im a programmer 9-5 mon-fri so that makes me lean a lil more toward a pure programming option like gamemaker. But if you lookin to stay as far away from programmin as possible then Id suggest you try out Construct2 from scirra.com. It also has the added benefit of bein fully html5 based. You can literally upload your project to dropbox and play it from any device with a web browser
Title: Re: CV Series Fan Game/Rom Hack and Game Creation/Hacking tools Directory Thread
Post by: Corpsecrank on February 07, 2012, 09:54:48 AM
If you feel like getting dirty there is also flixel which is flash based but capable.