it takes time and work to create a polished rom hack. it takes all of a minute to hack super mario bros. and change mario’s name to “QUEER”. look, i just did it. consequently, there are far more hacks that denude a game’s characters or out them as homos than there are that do the clever things i like to post about on this site. i suppose it’s the difference between scrawling a dong on a wall and subverting the agenda of an advertisement.
bad hacks is a repository for bad hacks. it is a gallery of digital graffiti, a retrospective on the vulgarization of pop culture videogames, a glorious trainwrecks for terrible game edits. games that were once private intellectual property are now becoming shared cultural texts, and available for vandalism. consequently: metal queer.
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HEY I DIDN’T DO THAT NAKED SAMUS PATCH
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mine didn’t have the cool venus symbol on the title
One of my online friends (komera) once made a hack of Metroid for the NES, and she made all the enemies into sperm, and made Samus pregnant. She lost it in a hard drive crash though, and it doesn’t appear to be anywhere online at all (although her Dragon Mario hacks for mario 1 and 2, which are less interesting, are still online) so I never got to see it! It would have been a perfect fit for bad hacks.
if you had done that naked samus patch, i would have told you that samus’s green pubic hair made me smile.
and I would say that I forgot to color the nipples properly
‘queer’
lololololololo
“the adventures of queer lolo”? change princess lala’s color to blue! you’ve just designed a new hack.
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