The Earthbound Halloween Hack And Other Famous RPG ROM Hacks

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This week on Axe of the Blood God, Nadia and Kat talk all about ROMs. (To clarify, they have a discussion about modified game files. Rom the Space Knight does not enter into the picture.) Hacked ROMs have played, and continue to play, a major role in RPG accessibility and expression. Hacked ROMs are what gave us valuable fan translations of RPGs that were otherwise untouchable in the West, including Final Fantasy V, Bahamut Lagoon, and Mother 3. Hacked ROMs let us re-balance our favorite RPGs and fix nasty bugs. Hacked ROMs are also the basis of sprawling fan-made RPGs, much to game publishers' chagrin. It's a meaty topic that travels from the '90s all the way up to present day. A special thanks to $50 Patron Drew Waranis for both this great idea and their generous support! Also in this episode: Nadia has officially PS5, Yakuza is turn-based forever, and Final Fantasy 7 Remake is taking us to Fort Condor so we can play war games with Big Bird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	You know, Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blug-od and independent RPG podcast.
0:49.9	I'm your host, Kat Bailey.
0:51.3	Join me as always.
0:52.3	It's my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
0:55.2	Hello, Kat. I am officially PS5-ish person. I have a thing. What is PS5-ish? What is the
1:02.6	ish part of the conversation? Well, it is a digital-only sort of console, so that has some
1:08.6	controversy surrounding it, but I'm right now quite happy with my purchase.
1:13.0	And I will maybe regret it years from now.
1:14.8	But right now, I regret nothing.
1:16.6	What do you think of it?
1:17.3	What are you playing on it?
1:19.2	So far, I've only gotten Final Fantasy 14 running on it.
1:22.2	I'm doing the beta there where they have the PS5 version going.
1:26.4	And the way it's so much faster is just crazy.
1:30.9	Plus, it's funny because I basically went from a regular HD display to a 4K display.
1:37.0	And all my windows were little tiny things like floating in the middle of the screen.
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