RHR BaseROM Version 4 is out!🎙️
On behalf of the Romhack Races Team, I would like to share news of the update to our base ROM.
We came to recognize that the RHR baserom has not only been a resource for making levels for the weekly race event—do come check those out sometime or sign up to make a level—but also something creators relied on to get up and going when making their kaizo hacks submitted here to the site. With that in mind and based on feedback from players and makers, we made significant updates for version 4.
What's New
There's a lot jam-packed into this update but here are some highlights, because there's a lot:
- All of the tools you need for adding custom resources to your hacks—Lunar Magic, Flips, PIXI, GPS, UberASM and AddMusicK—are bundled with the baserom, and we will do our best to ensure that the baserom is updated periodically with the latest versions of each.
- The baserom is structured so that you can easily manage and insert all of your custom graphics, patches and songs from one folder, as well as backup, export, and restore from Lunar Magic via command line scripts.
- Out-of-the-box, the baserom has a few common custom blocks, global line-guides, on-off blocks and custom coin colors for indicating in setups.
- It retains many of the quality of life patches, and glitch and bug fixes from version 3 that are commonly expected for high-level kaizo play.
- Some big new additions are the UberASM Retry by Kevin and Status Bar Toggle system by dtothefourth.
- All of the patches, tools, and resources used in the baserom are now properly credited and linked to their respective homes here on SMWC or externally.
- The entire baserom is now rebuildable from scratch so you can exclude elements that you don't wish to use if you use this resource to build your own hack(s).
- New and improved demo level for new creators of the race levels.
A more detailed list of changes, additions, and updates can be found in a text file the ZIP, if you download the baserom. We hope this resource will well serve both new and experienced creators alike!
Download RHR BaseROM Version 4 →
While I did lead a great deal of the development of this resource, I very much want to thank the volunteers from the community who helped get this resource ready for everyone: Doctor No, Darkanine, SJandCharlieTheCat, binavik, mason, and katun24. They gave us their time and effort to help make this baserom something that the entire community can benefit from not just folks in Romhack Races's.