Why am I still developing SNES hacks in 2025?

[SUPERJ11BIT]

In a world where everything moves fast, where new consoles drop every year and graphics seem to matter more than ideas, I keep going back to the Super Nintendo.

Maybe it’s nostalgia, maybe it’s stubbornness… or maybe some things never stop belonging to the present.
The SNES isn’t “outdated”: it’s history, it’s a creative language, it’s a different way of making games.
Working on hacks today means taking something old and making it breathe again with modern ideas and real passion.

In an era where everything is instant, I choose something that takes time.
In an era where everything is pre?made, I choose to build.
In an era where everything is digital and forgettable, I choose a piece of memory that refuses to die.

And I’m curious to see how many of you feel the same.
Who’s still connected to that era? Who still plays retro? Who understands this “madness”?

 

[DCurrent]

I understand that back in the day, graphics were ten times the buzzword they are now. Graphics, graphics, graphics, and misrepresentation of what bits are relative to hardware. Nintendo even took out a two page ad in EGM and made it look as much like a legitimate unpaid news article as possible and basically lied through their teeth concerning technical capabilities of the SNES (claiming it had sprite scaling still sticks out).

Meanwhile Sega is spouting BS about "Blast Processing", while everyone and their dog are shoveling out the same tired platforming games with whatever license they can find to slap on the box

Gaming was never some utopian fount of creativity. It is and always has been a business. We remember the best because the best is worth remembering. For every Gen X reminiscing about 3rd and 4th gen, there are 10 millennials who view the PS1 and PS2 as the golden age, and Alphas that will think the same of Xbox one, PS3 and PS4.

Work on the SNES is indeed cool and it's very interesting hardware to stidy. Old school coders are a different breed, but come on friend, be realistic about the creativity aspect. Nostalgia is indeed a powerful drug.

DC

 

[kimono]

Of course, nostalgia touches most of us: after all, these games left us with excellent sensations and most certainly good memories shared between several players.
Maybe I'm wrong, but we wouldn't be on Openbor yet if these 2D games hadn't left such a lasting impression and provided us with excellent ideas developed digitally.
It's really something special to be able to pay tribute, so many years later, to the games we enjoyed so much.

The SNES is not obsolete: I am still captivated by these great concepts that already existed 30 years ago, like acquiring new powers to unlock new areas, as in Demon's Crest:

The kind of video game artwork that deserves to be more widely known.

 

[Smart Kitty]

Indeed true. Classic systems has some curious stuff behind and some smart devs made some awesome tricks to make super games under limited consoles, that's a very great theme to me despite of some old games does not looks as good as you remember but they're still in our hearts, being the case of being especial because was your first game, the game you played the most with your beloved ones or because is one of your saga collection of all time. I don't mind getting called an old woman that stayed in the past. I prefer retro games instead of have to sell a lung to buy an actual game bugged and unplayable with lots of DLCs that are game cut content and despite all of that need to be all the time online to work lul

 

[Bloodbane]

I still like games designed with retro design not only because I grew up playing them but because I love their design philosophy.
There have been so many horror games recently and clearly they are not as fun as retro games. Even worse, their design philosophy is the opposite of retro games.
There are other genres of course such as roguelikes and roguelites but the randomness element doesn't always sit well with me.