Nice shot! Looks similar to the Riverside (CA) area.

That looks like a blast, but I’d make sure the weather reports were favorable first…

Definitely this. It seems MVs with a leveling system either aren’t popular, or are too hard to balance. Plus there’s the giant inventory of weapons and gear that would probably be too time-consuming to create for most game devs.

Lol, I wish they’d stop interfering. We desperately need more types of housing and infrastructure. Even tiny homes are better than what a lot of people have to deal with.

Not sure, but it might be military housing or small homes for the previously unhoused. I’ve never seen suburbs look quite this scant and homogenous.

Nice shot! These were great if you were a kid without candy money… sometimes you’d hit the jackpot checking the coin return.

Hopefully any new site keeps the high standards romhacking dot net upheld; it’s way too easy to make a hack that unintentionally breaks other things in a game.

Regarding Discord, its un-openness to the 'net at large is definitely a prominent issue. But another problem (based on my limited experience) is that its people just aren’t very friendly. It’s like a large portion of them are annoyed at having to interact with other people. I don’t know why that is or even if it’s true, but that’s the feeling I got from it.

This is a real bummer. The hacks will say up, but no new uploads. At least there’ll be people who still make rom hacks, though. (I hope they don’t all operate on Discord.)

Not my favorite emulator, but it does have the best hacking/debugging tools I’ve seen.

Thanks a lot for the recommendations! Lots of interesting things here, and I’ll be diving in very soon.

Mohamed Shawky goes by ‘chusss’ on YouTube. here’s one I like: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h-x0x41dsfM

Yeah, I’ve heard of Nightwish. Not my favorite, but last time I went looking I was trying to find pieces closer to Epica’s Omega album… and not even Epica’s older work was what I was looking for…

I do like symphonic metal, and that’s a great song… it gave me goosebumps. I’ll be sure to check out more of Blind Guardian’s work. Any other suggestions are welcome! Maybe stuff similar to Epica’s Omega album, and instrumental pieces similar to Essence of Datum, Mohamed Shawky, Rivers of Nihil, & Naxatras, if you’ve got the time :D

The Ys series OSTs, especially the PSP titles. Nice mix of metal and violin.

Hollow Night. The City of Tears track in particular.

Any covers made by Orchestral Fantasy on YouTube. He focuses mainly on classic 16-bit titles and pretty much nails each one.