romhack

plural romhacks · alternative ROM hack · alternative rom hack

1. video gamesA modified version of a video game, created by editing its ROM data.

   It's an important game, and if you're into the progression of romhacks, it's cool to see the kinds of things that [The Last Promise] did, and how it improved over time.

   2020 October 13, Alex Custodio, quoting PompomRenaldo, Who Are You?: Nintendo's Game Boy Advance Platform, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 194

present singular third person romhacks · participle present romhacking · participle past romhacked · past romhacked · alternative ROM hack · alternative rom hack

1. video gamesTo modify a video game by editing its ROM data.

   When romhacking focuses exclusively on the linguistic aspects of the game, it can be referred to as “translation hacking” (O'Hagan 2009:94) in order to differentiate these earlier precursors from the widespread romhacking practices.

   2017 April 11, Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo, Crowdsourcing and Online Collaborative Translations: Expanding the limits of Translation Studies, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 29