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I recently stumbled upon https://www.hackdex.app/ https://www.hackdex.app/ which is a lovely website dedicated to Pokémon ROM hacks. It's a really vibrant scen
by teroshan 2mo ago
I recently stumbled upon https://www.hackdex.app/ https://www.hackdex.app/ which is a lovely website dedicated to Pokémon ROM hacks.
It's a really vibrant scene, with a lot of different hacks that go all the way to fully-fledged games, but because it's so rich it can be a pain to find what is available and what the latest version of a given ROM hack is.
This website has a neat feature where you upload any base Pokémon ROM file, and it filters all available ROM hacks that are compatible with it via a neat UI. And of course it offers you a one-click download (well, in-local-storage-patch) to the given ROM hack.
Source code: https://github.com/Hackdex-App/hackdex-website https://github.com/Hackdex-App/hackdex-website
- saghm 2mo agoQuick clarification: I'm pretty sure there's no uploading at all; it uses local storage for the filtering too, which is important because uploading a ROM tends to be risky legally
- teroshan 2mo agoAbsolutely, I should have made it more explicit, thanks for clarifying it. That's what makes this possible and legally compliant.
- saghm 2mo agoI was pretty sure you understood based on how you described it! This stuff is very easy for people less technical to get confused about though (which is not at all their fault!), and from what I've seen in the subreddit where I found out about Hackdex, it seems like there was a lot of confusion about it early on, so I figure it's better to be on the safe side.