Absolute legend, it's sad that he is gone. SNES is still my favorite platform (I love iso-morphic view points).

Just a few months ago I setup a retopie and did a play through of one of my favorite games, Trials of Mana, with a rom patch (http://ngplus.net/index.php?/files/file/28-seiken-densetsu-3...).

I feel the rom hacking community is still going strong and some of you guys might find it interesting. An intro to rom hacking: https://datacrystal.romhacking.net/wiki/Introduction_to_Hack...

If you want to bootstrap a s/nes collection to play/hack on in memoriam (this may or may not work):

  1. Update the no-intro rom set. This guy usually post an yearly update: https://archive.org/details/no-intro_romsets

  2. Update the no-intro love pack dats (PC-XML): https://datomatic.no-intro.org/index.php?page=download&s=64&op=daily

  3. [Update and Apply patches](https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/)

  4. Pull https://github.com/andrebrait/1g1r-romset-generator

  5. Run build.sh to build 1g1r sets

  #!/bin/bash

  cd 1g1r-romset-generator 
  git pull
  cd ../

  # Select what systems you want for you base 1g1r romsets 
  zips=(
      "Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System (20210122-114559) [headered]"
      "Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System (20210122-114559) [headered_iNES2.0_NRS(2020-09-27)]"
      "Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System (20210122-114559) [unheadered]"
      "Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Combined) (20201230-192658)"

)

  dats=(
      "Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System (Parent-Clone) (20210822-055431).dat"
      "Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System (Parent-Clone) (20210822-055431).dat"
      "Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System (Parent-Clone) (20210822-055431).dat"
      "Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Combined) (Parent-Clone) (Parent-Clone) (20210119-061911).dat"

)

  NOINTRODIR="no-intro_romsets/no-intro romsets/"
  OUTPUTDIR="roms-output/"

  mkdir -p $OUTPUTDIR
  for i in "${!zips[@]}"; do
      mkdir -p "$NOINTRODIR${zips[i]}"
      unzip -qq -n -d "$NOINTRODIR${zips[i]}" "$NOINTRODIR${zips[i]}.zip" 
      python3 1g1r-romset-generator/generate.py \
      --no-all \
      --regions=USA,JP,EUR --languages=EN --all-regions \
      --input-dir="$NOINTRODIR${zips[i]}" --output-dir="$OUTPUTDIR${zips[i]}" \
      --threads=16 \
      --dat="./No-Intro Love Pack (PC XML) (2021-08-22)/${dats[i]}"
  done