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how to start playing hacks?

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first of all, I'm really not sure this is the right forum. If it isn't, I'm sorry, but I thought it was the most suitable for the question.

I always loved to see SMW hacks online, I love playing games like IWBTG, and even tried to play Kaizo 1. my emulator was bad, though, and, differently from IWBTG which I started on pc, I played SMW on the Gameboy advanced (the little flip gray one), and the controls there are much nicer.

basically, I wanted to ask how should I start- what controls should I choose/should i buy a controller/is there a way to connect the Gameboy to the pc, which emulator should I use, and basically a starter guide on how to start playing romhacks, because on here I only found guides on how to hack SMW.
I personally use Bizhawk, which is a multi-system emulator. Most people would suggest bsnes or snes9x (bizhawk basically uses both of these), so I recommend you get one of those. You don't have to buy a controller, I guess that would just be your prefrence. Any hack that you download (I prefer you download from a trusted site like this one or romhacking.net) will be either in .ips or .bps format. To use either of them, you will need a patcher like flips, a clean Super mario world rom (it must be in .smc format), and any super mario world hack in .ips or .bps format. You can then use the patcher to patch the file to the rom and play it in an emulator.

You can also look at this tutorial for further details.
Originally posted by amitos9876
first of all, I'm really not sure this is the right forum. If it isn't, I'm sorry, but I thought it was the most suitable for the question.

I always loved to see SMW hacks online, I love playing games like IWBTG, and even tried to play Kaizo 1. my emulator was bad, though, and, differently from IWBTG which I started on pc, I played SMW on the Gameboy advanced (the little flip gray one), and the controls there are much nicer.

basically, I wanted to ask how should I start- what controls should I choose/should i buy a controller/is there a way to connect the Gameboy to the pc, which emulator should I use, and basically a starter guide on how to start playing romhacks, because on here I only found guides on how to hack SMW.



For the Emulator I would recommend snes9x or zSnes.

For a controller
you can use pretty much every controller that gets detected by your computer or just use your keyboard (which is surprisingly satisfying to use imo...). I personally use a 8bitdo controller myself but its really up to you.

To play a Hack just download the one you like and patch a clean US SMW rom using something like this. (just open the file you get from the downloaded Rom hack archive with the IPS program and then select the clean ROM)
Originally posted by NightmareDash


Don't use zsnes. It's old and it causes problems.
some one please close this
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Originally posted by iamweegee
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