

“Just romhack the two games together, and when you go through certain doors you switch games.” “Now we’re talking,” Backmark wrote, according to a Discord log he passed along. The speedrunning communities for both games share a lot of members, and at one point during a Discord chat, someone suggested that they make a crossover game, where you’d find Link to the Past items in Super Metroid and vice versa.
#SUPER METROID RANDOMIZER NO MORPH BALL SOFTWARE#
This ‘Link to the Past + Super Metroid Crossover Randomizer’ was created by Thomas “Total” Backmark, 35, a software developer in Sweden, who told me in a recent interview that it all started as a joke. You can get the ROM hack, which launched today and requires you to upload your own ROMs of Zelda and Metroid, right here. In order to make progress, you’ll need to know what all of those words mean, which means you’ll need fairly comprehensive knowledge of both games. You might find Samus’s Morph Ball in Zelda‘s Misery Mire, while the Power Gloves could be stuck in a tunnel deep inside of Lower Norfair. This, the spicier version, swaps the locations of every item in both Link to the Past and Super Metroid. This crossover hack is an extension of the Link to the Past Randomizer, which swaps the locations of every item in Hyrule, spicing up the game by forcing you to play everything out of order. What might have once seemed like outlandish fanfiction is now a very real ROM hack that you can download and play, combining Zelda and Metroid into a single game.

Whoops, you’ve just walked into Super Metroid. Suddenly you’re on Zebes, fighting aliens as a suited bounty hunter. Instead, the screen goes black for a few seconds. Imagine: You’re playing Link to the Past, the seminal Super Nintendo action-adventure game, and you walk into a fortune-teller’s house, where you’d expect to find a soothsayer taking rupees in exchange for hints.
