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Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy? by aquova on Sunday August 05, 2018 @07:42PM (#17694186)
Randomizers are a really cool and growing community. That Zelda randomizer is probably the most famous one, but programs exist for a significant number of old classics. Not only are they fun to play, but development of them combines both romhacking with modern sensibilities which is really neat.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy? by nyolfen on Sunday August 05, 2018 @10:37PM (#17694788)
could you give a few examples of some interesting ones?
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Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy? by myrmi on Monday August 06, 2018 @08:12AM (#17696936)
This isn't really my scene, but the Link to the Past // Super Metroid randomiser[1], where you keep switching between the two games, potentially discovering items from one in the other, is something that is impressive that it's even technically possible.

[1] https://kotaku.com/inside-the-wild-new-mash-up-of-link-to-th...

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Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy? by aquova on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @09:21PM (#17712455)
Some of the more well known ones are Final Fantasy, A Link to the Past, and Pokemon.

Here is a comprehensive list of games that currently have randomizers written for them.

Full disclosure, I've written two of the Kirby randomizers ;)

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