More Hacks and Homebrews + Rubber Feet Challenge! - Game Sack 

Damn, the rubber feet on the Model 1 SEGA CD are no joke. That shit ain't goin' NOWHERE.

I can't tell you how many systems I've lost to insufficient rubber footing. Without proper sticking power, consoles will just leap off your shelf and crash onto the floor.

Man, I just plain _LOVE_ hacks and homebrews. Simply the best way of keeping classic consoles alive. And thanks to emulation, it opens these platforms up more since anyone who doesn't, say, own an NES or Genesis could download an emulator and get a few ROMs, (how is up to them), and maybe that might encourage them to track down the real deal! As for the Link to the Past MSU patch, my only gripe is that the opening cutscene has Link mentioned by name! The reason this bothers me is LttP was the first game where your name was used in place of Link's. The instruction manual even went out of its way to use the pronoun "you" in reference to Link to drive home the fact that YOU _ARE_ LINK! Other than that, the FMV was pretty cool, and did feel like something that might've happened had the SNES Play Station actually happened and not the CD-i. The FM patch for the SMS version of Sonic the Hedgehog was pretty impressive too! I'd love to see more FM hacks! It actually reminded me of when I used to cover video game music, and Sonic the Hedgehog was one of my first covers using FamiTracker for NES sound. But that's a different topic. ;3

Homebrew software is a game or app made by independent group of people for a console without any publishers or permissions from the company that developed the said console. Indie game is just any game made by independent group of people - some indie games are even being published or funded by the first party (like "Ori and The Blind Forest"), and the main criteria of being "independent" is a total creative control on the side of developers, without any interference from executives. Every homebrew game is technically an indie game, but not every indie game is a homebrew game. Here's my take on it c:

I hope you dudes do another bluray release. I'm going to save this episode for the morning

I've recently become intrigued by ROM hacks, translation patches, and quality of life improvements for retro games. I like the extra level of polish

Amazing episode guys, and thanks to show some of my stuff i'm happy you liked.

Mario 3 Mix is SO GREAT! Would also recommend checking out the homebrew port of Leisure Suit Larry for NES (that even comes with a mail-in for a NES port of Atari's E.T.) and the hack Rockman 4 Minus Infinity. Tons of great hacks and homebrews out there.

The coolest retro homebrew scene is the Colecovision. Opcode Games has released the previously cancelled Super Game Module which makes the Colecovision as powerful as the MSX computer. Companies such as Team Pixelboy and Collecotorvision have already released dozens of games that support the module. A real treasure trove for anyone who enjoys classic 8 bit gaming.

Wait! that is totally Todd Haberkorn playing Link. Cool the makers of that hack got a pro VA to do his voice.

Joe's off his meds again.

The bit where Joe screams FORTY MEGA POWER made me spit my beer all over my TV. Thanks guys!

Another Great Episode Guys. We all appreciate the hard work you put into these videos.

It is so great to have our Game Sack videos back.

These are the kind of guys I would love to hang out with, have a beer and just talk about games for hours lol

This is by far my favorite episode. There are some nifty conversions in the pipeline like Megaman 2 and Gradius for the Master System. There is also a port of Gradius 2 for the Megadrive being worked on. These are great times to be a gamer! On another note, thanks for giving Pyron a shout out, he's been working hard on these games and it's nice to see he's getting recognition.

Loved the rubber foot challenge, I like how intense Joe was while Dave's first two picks weren't all that good. Very funny stuff.

There's really great Sega Genesis hack for Mortal Kombat 3 called Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 Trilogy. It combines all of the characters from previous titles into one game. It also replaces all of the sound effects with the arcade and updates the animations to make them more fluid.

Joe's "Macho Man" voice is good and all, but his Cuhraaaaayzy Taxi ala' Wolfman Jack is spot on.

You know it's a good day when a new gamesack comes out.

Joe does a decent Macho Man. Cuppa coffee...

[Coury] Wow, all of the Sydney Hunter games look amazing. I'm definitely going to check them out when they're released. Also, DAMN when the first stage music from Mushihimesama music kicks in over the ending credits. Love music cues that just get you hyped up like that.

that's pretty cool to know how nerdy people can get about these things. I hope they never stop developing for these consoles.

There are so many different sonic hacks that they could cover that it almost warrants another episode all about them!

Game sack!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Missed this channel so very much. Thanks for coming back.

My favorite Game Sack episode to date! I run the homebrew Genesis VGM-ROM Project, where we convert games into music carts. It turns Nomads into beat-boxes. Best game cartridge? Sega ST-V.

"Aww man, it's one in the morning, I should really get to b-" "Oh, nevermind."

I'm loving this Game Sack/ Classic Game Room tennis match

18:55 Indie: mid-size production, official, (usually) original material or licensed, commercial Homebrew: small production, unofficial, usually (but not necessarily) makes use of other commercial material (like existing game engines, sprites, music, levels, design etc.), underground, no licenses (sometimes illegal), free, not advertised I would draw the line here: If you can purchase it from a company/market - it's an Indie. If the plan exists to sell it in the future - it's an Indie. If it is kickstarted - it's an Indie. Homebrews may turn into indies, but not vice versa.

Glad to see you guys back to weekly episodes!

Great episode - love the 'improvement' sound and palette hacks that are available, improvement hacks in general (when wise) are great to play through. A lot of really good old games still had 80s design choices / programming cut corners that can be updated.

Mark is a comical genius, and his challenge was definitely original.

The Jaguar's cart design is my favorite, with 32X as a runner up. Honorable mention goes to the Interton Video 2000 which had a cool black Sega like cart design but in 1975!

Thanks for making my sunnday.... I am at work, lol and watching Game Sack when there's nothing to do at work makes things so much better!

these things really need more recognition they are great

So, a more arcade accurate Altered Beast happened, and it was during our lifetime...Feels good man!

Glad to have my Super Metroid MSU-1 hack featured in the video :D Regarding the volume issue, with the newest 0.1.7 firmware released yesterday, you can now boost the volume in the settings, I recommend setting it to +3.5 dbFS or +6 dbFS.

Joe seemed to have a mild stroke getting excited about rubber feet

My buddies are back!! Awesome episode guys. Now I have some games I need to look up..again..because of you all...again! Hells yeah!

I think Battle Kid is my favorite homebrew on the NES. It's just so, so well done. Excellent music, great sprite work, super challenging. Everything about that game is golden. Highly recommend you try it out if you haven't yet.

Yay more gamesack. Still very happy you guys are back! Really love some of the subtle hacks with recolouring and sound replacement.

You gave us a very compelling question... Honestly I don't mind the inclusion of "indie" games in the homes brew list. The indie games you showed throughout this list looked to of the lesser known kind and I really appreciate that.

IMHO, Having a commercial presence (whatever that means these days) might be what differentiates most between "Homebrew" and "Indie". Glad you had nice things to say about the bleep bloops from Justice Beaver. That means a lot to me coming from you guys.

Homebrew design and indie design kinda go hand-in-hand; "homebrew" originates from making new alcohol from one's residence than a corporate environment, which was especially popular during the Prohibition-Era, so do most self-focused indie developers like Locomalito. I think most (including myself) separate the two terms by considering indie designers as making a new game from scratch that's not intended to be on an actual game console that inspired the game's design, while homebrewers typically design games from scratch or hack source codes with intention to play on actual old consoles or emulators based on them. Solid episode!

So glad that you're back, now I don't have to watch reruns in an endless loop till I pass out. Anyways guys another great episode.

While the TurboGrafx system really doesn't get much credit or attention as the other classic systems, seeing a rather interesting mode 7 style hack for the system while retaining both the look and most importantly, the speed of F-Zero on the SNES to see in action is just mind blowing! I hope to see more.clever hardware tricks from the little system that I never regretted once buying when it was first released.

"if you like asteroids" who the heck doesn't enjoy asteroids!?! Flippin timeless!

If you ask me then Homebrew is software released for a games console or handheld through inofficial channels with or without approval by the original console manufacturer, for example if you use unlicensed repro-cartridges, modified official carts or a rom file to distribute the game. If the developers contacted the console manufacturer and they allow you to release it through the official retail channels like any other game for the system (for example on disk, an official cartridge or their digital storefronts like the eShop), then it's Indie.

I love the SSH Final Fantasy music in the background, great episode guys !

Linkuei is pronounced "Linn Kway". Someone isn't too versed on their Mortal Kombat lore :P

Playing a system without a rubber just does not feel right.

Too many amusing and good moments to quote just one. You guys are great!

I love the little things, like putting the Famicom into the Nes just to be stupid. Never change GameSack. You guys are the best fucking thing to happen to RU-vid. Finally Sundays kick ass again

Those sounds hacks are my favorite, gotta love the Link to the Past soundtrack, i'd replay the game with these songs.

What a great episode! I love it when you look at more obscure stuff, like that indie TG-16 title. Wow!

Brilliant episode!!! Love these hack videos. Rather timely, as there is one that I played recently called Sonic The Next Level. Graphical effects all OVER the place, and what it does with the Mega Drive sound-chip is mind-blowing. I'd be keen for more episodes on this topic. So good to have you guys back :)

Is it me or is Dave looking more and more rested and youthful each new episode? Whatever you're doing, keep it up! Looking good.And Joe, you look like the uncle who absolutely hates kids but no matter what you do, they absolutely love you unconditionally.

I love these longer episodes. Great video keep up the great work guys!

I look forward to seeing Mark's response and Mark looks forward to having that day off.

"The game reminds me of Montezuma's Revenge with a bit of Castlevania." You literally just described La-Mulana in one sentence.

I always thought that homebrews are games that are made for past generation consoles by indie developers and publishers, while indie games are games made for current gen consoles and the PC by indie developers and publishers

Good to know you two are still making your videos. They help feed my classic game nerd nostalgia.

Nice to have you back guys.

There was an interesting re-imagining of Castlevania for the ZX Spectrum 8 bit computer. You guys should definitely check it out!

I love detailed looks like this.... Great stuff!!!

Wonderful episode as always! I appreciate you guys taking the time to make these

great episode!! They are getting better and better since the return!!! Keep them coming guys

Nice to see the SNES MSU-1 hacks, the ones that are available are really cool and more games need this done for them.

This was totally worth the wait, you guys have outdone yourselves bigtime. Thank you!

Glad to see Game Sack back!

This episode was really fun to watch!

There are so many exceptional home brews out there but Castlevania Spectral Interlude on the ZX Spectrum is one that springs to mind as an absolutely amazing technical feat. It's basically a brand new game in the style of CV2, built from the ground up for the Spectrum, and it's utterly amazing! Please do yourselves a favour and check it out!

Great episode. Game Sack always delivers.

lol man I'm on a marathon I been watching this all day long xD

The "new" Game Sack is as awesome as ever, you did a great job again!

Love Game Sack. You guys knew someone would ask for symphony of the night. Well, I'm pretty sure I remember you guys covered it before, so it's all good.

that final fight recolor looks great

I'm happy to see Mario 3Mix featured on this episode. Despite it's obvious problems (mostly slowdown and the Mario Galaxy gravity gimmick not working all the time during that part of the game), it was one of the few ROMHacks/homebrew games I've really enjoyed and felt like it could've been an actual Nintendo product rather than something done by a handful of people not directly related to Nintendo.

always enjoy new game sack episodes, and always enjoy the skits at the end you guys are very informative funny and entertaining, thanks.

On the subject of Indie vs Homebrew, I'd say that an Indie game is one released for a console that is still in production at the time, while a homebrew would be a game released for an otherwise dead system.

Been having a bit of a depressing day and thank you for helping it be a little brighter.

20:56 Woah those reflections are impressive for SNES!

I kept waiting for you to break out and scream, "STEP INTO A SLIM JIM!!!!" lol (great episode as always)

Tiny rubbers and ease of sliding in and out. Y'all know how Joe keeps the ladies happy.

OMG that ending LOL. Thanks guys for still making amazing videos.

Very cool of you guys to show my two NES games and the SNES game I am currently working on - awesome, thank you. Meteor Swarm is pretty much gold release now, just waiting on the box art, label and instructions to be finished off. More NES and Colecovision releases to follow later in the year (once I finish the SNES game :)). Love your review style.

How I've missed my Sunday morning Sack. ♡

You could easily dedicate multiple episodes to the Sonic hacking community. The number of Sonic hacks out there is staggering.

glad you guys are back at it again as a 30 year old gamer I see you guys as the 1st real gen. of gamers . keep up the good work and look forward to seeing more

That Justice Beaver game looks pretty damn good.

Guys i have to say that break did refresh the show quite a bit. You come with new passion, ideas and lines in this video and i like it. Do breaks as much as you need to keep the quallity high and improve. Cheers

Best Cartridge Design? Ooh, that's a tough one... The first thing that comes to my mind is the HuCard / Turbo Chip for obvious reasons: They're small, thin and they come in CD-style jewel-cases which I highly approve! But I also really like the Game Boy Advance cartridges because they're not only small, but they have a nice grip and sliding them in and out of the GBA feels great! And unlike HuCards, the contacts of GBA carts aren't fully exposed, but well, GBA games came on cardboard boxes that get damaged pretty easily and other than said boxes you don't really have a place to keep them when you're not playing them... Well, NDS boxes have a place to put a GBA game so that's nice, you can print your own GBA game cover with the DS's box's proportions and put that in there instead and store your GBA games that way so that's something... But well if you gotta do some extra work just to store your GBA games I'm gonna have to go with the HuCards just because of the CD Jewel Cases they come in... They're both great though! Honourable mentions: SNES, Game Boy/Colour, Sega Genesis and Neo Geo AES

Oh, the Mega Man X3 hack by Justin 3000 is unbelievable. A more well known hack but it's awesome to play the whole game as Zero with all upgrades that mmx3 has to offer. One of the best out there.

You guys totally need to make a shirt that says "And now it's up to YOU" on it. I swear Joe says it every episode haha

Feel's like ive been waiting forever for you guys!!! DONT LEAVE ME EVER!!!!!!!

It's a homebrew if it's a free unlicensed game for a console.

Stoked you guys are back!

So glad u guys r back, cannot understand why u guys don't have a million plus subs :)

The first thing I notice is Brave New World in the background, from Namco X Capcom. Love that theme.

Just ordered a copy of Mario 3 mix and Castlevania chorus, thanks for the heads up very very cool seeming, can't wait! and they seem pretty widely available too.