Since one of the great things about Everdrive and other such devices is that you can play non-commercial games and other software/homebrew, I was wondering what machines had a good range of such software, be it game hacks/language translations, homebrew games/utilities/emulators, never released games, game prototypes, etc? The N64 doesn't have much in that way, sadly, and some of it's best (the Super Mario 64 hacked levels) won't even work on a real N64 due to the Mario 64 hack code being w and tested only on emulators and relying on something (memory page limits, or whatever) that the real N64 can't support, so trying to run these hacked levels on a real N64 causes them to crash, sadly. On the plus side, there are some great hacks for Perfect Dark and Goldeneye, and some new levels for F-Zero X. And also there are game trainers (cheats), though I don't know if these are available as hack files (I'd be surprised if they weren't) as so far I've only seen the pre-hacked (trained) roms, as part of the GoodN64 set. And there are at least three translated-to-English patches, for Animal Forest, Wonder Project J2: Josette of the Corlo Forest, and Sin and Punishment (though sadly S&P's translation is emulator only, as it's a straight bitmap graphic translation, rather than pure text. Maybe the other two translations are the same, I haven't checked those). And apparently The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Master Quest, which was a pre-order bonus release with the Gamecube only release of Zelda: Ocarina of time, has been dumped to a rom file and works with the Everdrive 64 and emulators. For more information see http://zeldawiki.org/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Ocarina_of_Time_Master_Quest There are also some betas (prototypes) and never-released games available, as far I can tell/been told, the known games available on line at the moment are: Tommy Thunder, O.D.T., Frogger 2, Dragon Sword, 40 Winks, Robotech, Sydney Games, Glover 2, Toon Panic, Mini Racers, Wildwaters (Extreme Kayak) Links: (I don't know this sites policy about linking to (ex) commercial roms, so I'll only post legal links, i.e. to sites that don't contain illegal rom downloads) http://www.goldeneyevault.com/ http://www.romhacking.net/ I know that the SNES has a fair few game hacks for classics like Super Mario World, Super Metroid, and (I think?) Zelda: A Link to the Past (though doesn't Super Mario World refuse to work on a real SNES, in an amazingly similar situation to SM64 on the N64?), and also some fan translations of Japanese only games, but I've not tried any so I can't confirm this. Probably the Megadrive is the same, and I think I remember hearing that both the Atari Jaguar and the Atari Lynx had homebrew games written for them, and I've heard that the Atari 2600 has an active homebrew scene too.
I have 3 Sonic 3 prototype ROMs for the Sega Genesis I found on Sonic Retro. The first one is the complete game of Sonic 3 and S&K games as one ROM. It has a few differences from the released games but they are small and hard to notice aside from the hidden monitors in the hidden palace zone.
