The BIG List of Video Game Randomizers - Changelog

🔙 The BIG List of Video Game Randomizers

2024-03-10

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2024-01-21

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2023-12-02

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2023-11-12

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2023-10-15

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2023-09-19

I created a new official Discord Community server for the list. Check it out!

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2023-09-04

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2023-07-25

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2023-06-24

Added Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (The Master Chief Collection) (Enemy Randomizer).

2023-06-19

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2023-05-10

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2023-04-11

2023-04-08

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2023-03-27

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2023-03-09

2023-03-06

After further feedback, I decided to include randomizers for old versions of Steam games after all, as the downgrading process, while not official, can be performed in a variety of ways that does not necessarily require technical expertise. Randomizers requiring a game downgrade will be noted accordingly when known.

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2023-01-30

I recently learned of an undocumented Steam feature that allows downloading old versions of games on their platform. While this is great in theory, the steps to do so are technical or require unofficial tools. Either way, this undocumented feature could break at any moment, as it apparently did in the past. As such, I am quite hesitant to include randomizers requiring such downloads on the list, and decided to continue excluding them for the time being, on the grounds that this is most likely not a feature intended for the general public.

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2023-01-02

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2022-11-20

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2022-11-07

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2022-10-31

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2022-09-25

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2022-09-09

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2022-08-18

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2022-08-17

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2022-07-25

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2022-07-17

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2022-06-22

2022-06-21

2022-06-20

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2022-06-13

I have added the randomizer name, or the primary creators' names if the former is too generic, for every single randomizer in the list instead of only a subset. Let me know if any correction is required.

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2022-05-29

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2022-05-23

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2022-05-18

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2022-05-07

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2022-05-01

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2022-03-30

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2022-02-26

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2022-02-07

I decided to partially reverse back my decision from December 2020 about official randomizers. Specifically, randomizers made by creators of the original game are now allowed for inclusion if they are not included with it.

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2022-01-22

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2021-12-29

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2021-12-18

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2021-11-29

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2021-10-30

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2021-10-15

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2021-10-03

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2021-09-22

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2021-09-12

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2021-09-02

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2021-08-23

This update comes with a major change to the definition of what counts as a randomizer. More precisely, a randomizer may not force its user to apply any major change that is not designed to accomodate the randomization of the original game data.

This change is to prevent the list from being bloated with a limitless supply of randomizer variants and total conversion mods, an issue which was growing at an exponential rate. This was especially problematic for classic id Software games due to their extensive modding heritage, allowing for easy remixes and extensions of other related mods.

While this means that some fan favorites like Complex DooM are being delisted, this also has the advantage of keeping the list focused on what matters the most for me and the portion of randomizers' fans that I try to cater to: fresh, vanilla-like experiences of our favorite games.

Note that the main games affected with this change so far are The Ultimate Doom, Doom II, Heretic, Quake and Quake II. I have made a public backup of all the delisted entries, for those curious.

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2021-08-03

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2021-07-25

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2021-06-16

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2021-06-13

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2021-06-03

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2021-05-17

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2021-05-07

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2021-04-27

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2021-04-22

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2021-03-25

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2021-03-15

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2021-03-12

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2021-02-03

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2021-01-31

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2021-01-20

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2021-01-06

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2020-12-26

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2020-12-15

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2020-12-11

This update comes with a few major changes as to what constitutes a valid entry in the list.

First, from now on, I will consider all official randomizers as being out of scope, reverting the change I did a year ago on this regard. I came to the conclusion that while there is value for including a list of games that had randomization features added post-release or that are exclusive to specific versions only, I realized that this was almost impossible to track for games that receive or received frequent updates, and I was getting more and more uncomfortable with the idea of a community-driven project on my website effectively being used as free advertisement by game publishers. As such, they have been removed. This includes Yoku's Island Express despite the randomizer feature being hidden in a Steam beta branch, and Lizard despite the randomizer being a separate tool as it is from the same author as the main game and advertised on the game's website.

Second, I will now consider randomizers that worked on old versions of games, but not with the latest according to user comments, to be out of scope if said old versions can no longer be easily acquired or played by the general public. I considered using the "OBSOLETE" tag for historical purposes, but since they unfortunately are unplayable, I see no reason to clutter the list with them. Note that as I previously did, I will provide instructions on how to acquire older builds from official sources whenever appropriate.

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2020-12-09 #2

2020-12-09

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2020-11-16

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2020-10-27

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2020-10-05

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2020-09-27

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2020-09-17

Added Medabots: Metabee / Medabots: Rokusho randomizer.

2020-09-16

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2020-09-10

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2020-09-04

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2020-09-01

Note that I recently lowered the standard for list inclusion so that randomizers don't absolutely have to be designed to prevent unwinnable states, as long as such occurances are extremely unlikely or have reasonable workarounds. If this starts to cause too many problems, I might revert this decision in the future.

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2020-08-25

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2020-08-13

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2020-08-03

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2020-07-24

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2020-07-21

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2020-07-09

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2020-06-18

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2020-06-14

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2020-06-01

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2020-05-10

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2020-05-06

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2020-04-11

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2020-03-20

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2020-03-06

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2020-02-21

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2020-02-08

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2020-01-11

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2020-01-02

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2019-12-26

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2019-12-07

Added additional information about the Resident Evil Outbreak randomizers and related fan servers.

2019-12-06

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2019-11-30 #2

Added Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light randomizer.

2019-11-30

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2019-11-15

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2019-11-10

After a long consideration, I decided to include randomizers that are included in official games under certain conditions. Specifically, such randomizers must not be part of the core experience, nor present in the original release. Note that I might tweak this rule in the future if it turns out to be too restrictive or too lax.

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2019-10-12

Clarified that the Resident Evil 3: Nemesis randomizer is also a trainer.

2019-10-10

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2019-10-05

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2019-09-26

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2019-09-07

I previously forgot to put the Subnautica randomizer in the main list in addition to the new sub-list. This has been fixed.

2019-09-05

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2019-08-24

Added Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem randomizer.

2019-08-13

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2019-08-08

Updated link of the JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future randomizer to latest version.

2019-08-07

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2019-07-20

Added Terranigma randomizer.

2019-07-14

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2019-07-13

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2019-07-10

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Note: While the X2 Galaxy Editor website is down as I'm writing this, it was working last week according to Google's cache, so I'm assuming it is a temporary problem. I'll update the link in the future to backed up copy from the Internet Archive if it appears otherwise in the future.

2019-07-02

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2019-06-29

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2019-06-21

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2019-06-10

Added Kid Icarus randomizer.

2019-06-02

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2019-05-27

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2019-05-26

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2019-05-20

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2019-05-17

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2019-05-10

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2019-05-05

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2019-05-04 #2

2019-05-04

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2019-04-19

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2019-04-15

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2019-04-05

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2019-03-23

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2019-03-11

Added Silent Hill 2 / Silent Hill 3 randomizer.

2019-03-09

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2019-03-03

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2019-02-24

2019-02-19

Added Axiom Verge randomizer.

2019-02-16

2019-02-15

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2019-02-09

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2019-02-06

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2019-02-03

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2019-02-01

Added Wario Land 3 randomizer.

2019-01-17

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2019-01-12

Fixed entry for the Nestroid Randomizer for Metroid.

2019-01-11

2019-01-10

2018-12-28

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2018-12-26

Merged Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness entries to a new link that combines both.

2018-12-23

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2018-12-14

Updated link to the Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones self-randomizer to one that supports HTTPS.

2018-12-10

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2018-12-02

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2018-12-01

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2018-11-27

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2018-11-07

2018-11-04

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2018-10-20

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2018-10-04

2018-09-28

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2018-09-16

Clarified that the Majora's Mask loading zones randomizer requires a cheat engine.

2018-09-10

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2018-09-02

2018-09-01

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2018-08-25 #2

Reverted changes from earlier today related to The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Turns out that I goofed and did not realize that the new version by Alex Trush is still a work-in-progress and not playable yet. Oops.

2018-08-25

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2018-08-22

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2018-08-06

Updated links of the new Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars randomizer and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past item randomizer to HTTPS.

2018-08-05

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2018-08-02

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2018-07-30

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2018-07-23

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2018-07-22

2018-07-07

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2018-06-30

Updated link to the The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past items/entrances randomizer.

2018-06-29

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2018-06-25

Updated the Mega Man Battle Network 3 randomizer with a new version that also supports Blue Version, and put the original randomizer as deprecated.

2018-06-23

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2018-06-21

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2018-06-17

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2018-06-16

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2018-06-08

2018-06-01

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2018-05-22

About the "Corruptors", "Restrictions" and "Bingo" stuff, I have come to the following conclusions:

For these reasons, I no longer feel that awareness of these tools justifies their inclusion on a randomizer list. Therefore, I have decided to remove these categories and their content altogether. As a side-effect, this will also allow me to dedicate more time to the main list. Here is a backup in case others want to pick them up and continue from where I left off. I will consider linking to such successor lists if they become a reality.

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2018-05-05

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2018-05-04

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2018-04-07

Added AM2R (fangame) randomizer.

2018-04-05 #2

Added Fire Emblem section with a new self-randomizing Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones hack.

2018-04-05

Added instructions on where to find the Final Fantasy VI (extensive conservative changes for competitive play) randomizer executable from CodePlex's archive.

2018-04-03

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2018-03-18

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2018-03-04

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2018-02-25 #2

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2018-02-25

Added note that the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door item shuffler now also randomizes enemy loadouts in the Pit of 100 Trials.

2018-02-18

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2018-02-03

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2018-01-22

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2018-01-21

Alright, well even the abridged list is now too long to fit in a single ROMHacking.net post despite its minimalist design (last iteration was 14746 characters out of 15000). I might be able to tweak it, but I'm going to have the same problem in an iteration or two anyway. Besides, it was starting to be a pain to continuously update 2 similar lists but with with some elements missing between them, and written in different markup languages (BBCodes vs Markdown).

For these reasons, I decided to remove the abridged list from ROMHacking.net. From now on, the BIG list of randomizers will be available exclusively on my blog.

This was not an easy choice, but I believe it is the best thing to do for its continued development. I never expected my list to grow to its current scale nor become a common reference, and it's all thanks to you! I will continue to follow the original ROMHacking.net thread and post updates of any changes there, just like before.

Note that I'll keep the old list in strikethrough on the original post for a while during the transition period just in case.

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2017-12-31

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2017-11-19

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2017-10-24

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Note: As of this writing, the Symphony of the Night one is still unfinished.

2017-10-15

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2017-09-25

Added a bunch of randomizers for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, big thanks to Zephiles for sharing them!

The list is now too long to fit on the original ROMHacking.net post!! I kept only the non-passive & non-deprecated randomizers on it. The full list is now on my blog.

Added bingo boards (blog only).

Added non-game-specific corruptors (blog only).

2017-09-22

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2017-08-18

Fixed typo.

2017-07-29

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2017-06-30

Added an entrance variant to the popular A Link To The Past item randomizer.

Minor labeling changes to remove some confusion.

2017-06-28

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2017-06-24

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2017-03-31

I've added a second Final Fantasy IV roguelike by abyssonym it to the list, and I'll keep the old one there too until I can figure out if it needs to be moved to the deprecated section or not.

I've also added a new Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow item randomizer, also by abyssonym!

By the way, there are two The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past randomizers floating around now. I've added the new one by Veetorp to the main list, and moved the old one by Dessyreqt to the deprecated section, because the latter has been seemingly abandoned and has been used as a base for the new one. It has many new features and bugfixes, so I highly recommend you check it out!

I also found a convenient HUD for that last randomizer that I've added alongside it that should be convenient for Twitch streamers. There's also a version for the Super Metroid item randomizer that I've also added.

2017-02-04

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I actually found two recent Metroid randomizers made within a month of each other. I'm putting snarfblam's in the main list and Netsrotti's in the deprecated list, as it seems the only advantage of the latter over the former is an option to have duplicate upgrades.

Also, to complement the Hitman passive randomizers, I also found a bunch of nice passive randomizers hosted by Trysdyn (including a Four Job Fiesta generator available all year long) for the following games:

2017-01-26

After investigation, I updated the the link for the Final Fantasy V Ancient Cave to point to ROMHacking.net instead of an archive.org snapshot for convenience.

I also updated the link to the Gensokyo no Nazo randomizer - it now has a proper webpage and many new features!

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Yes, this means that all main international Pokémon games released so far has randomizers. Pretty cool!

And with that, the list now contains more than 100 unique games, and that's only counting official games! I never expected there would be so many when I started. Wow!

2017-01-23

Updated the link to the Final Fantasy randomizer following the 1.0 release.

I also added a playable work-in-progress Final Fantasy IV roguelike randomizer.

2017-01-11

Added a Pokémon Crystal randomizer that randomly fuses Pokémon with matching evolution stage.

2017-01-10

Added two Hitman randomizers to the list. Although they do not actually alter the games, they generate a random set of additional requirements for each mission. I decided to include them despite the lack of in-game enforcement because they still affect gameplay.

2017-01-03

The Guardian Legends randomizer is no longer behind a registration wall! The author kindly uploaded the latest version on RHDN after I asked him for a public link. The list has been updated accordingly.

2017-01-01

Added Pokémon TCG card randomizer to the list!

2016-12-26

Added a Secret of Mana randomizer to the list!

Also added the Doom weapons mod that I had completely forgotten to include back when I added all the Doom mods.

2016-11-20

I was let known of a Paper Mario randomizer, but I've seen a few reports that it's not working. I tentatively added it to the list with a note.

2016-11-13

Added Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories to the list!

2016-11-06

New randomizers added

2016-10-30

Merged missing entries from Kaltenborn's list

Also, I realized that the Metroid Prime 2: Echoes randomizer was merged with the Metroid Prime randomizer, so I merged the entries as well.

2016-10-23

Added a new Super Mario Bros. 3 randomizer, and moved the old one as deprecated.

2016-10-20

Clarified supported versions for the Mega Man Battle Network games, and renamed the Dragon Quest and Fire Emblem games to their official modern titles.

2016-10-19

More awesome randomizers

More corruptor randomizers

More depredated randomizers

2016-10-06

Added Mother 3.

2016-10-02 #2

Added Reelism mod for Doom II.

2016-10-02

First, I added a brand new id Software section, which includes a bunch of new randomizers in it (including a No Man's Sky parody) and updated information about OBLIGE. The games are:

Second, I also added a new randomizer for Gensokyo no Nazo.

And finally, I added a Deprecated section with old Doom, Fire Emblem and Pokémon randomizers that weren't on the list before. I also moved Catastrophe's Dragon Quest and Sanqui's Pokémon Red randomizers in that section, since I believe almost all of their features are included in the other ones.

2016-09-27

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2016-09-24

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2016-09-22

Restored Endless hacks for Mega Man 2-3-4-5 that had been deleted by mistake.

2016-09-19

Added The Guardian Legend.

2016-09-18 #2

Merged missing entries from the GameRandomizers Wikia

2016-09-18

Added Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.

2016-09-12

Added two Mega Man randomizers.

2016-08-28

Added Super Mario World.

2016-08-27

Initial list published on the ROMHacking.net forums.