Video Game Modding

Here is the Wikipedia page about Ship of Harkinian and some information from the article

Ship of Harkinian is an unofficial open source port of the 1998 Nintendo 64 video game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch. It has also been ported to the Android operating system by a third party developer.

It was first released in March 2022 for Windows, four months after Ocarina of Time's source code was decompiled and released. Since then, Ship of Harkinian has received ports to Linux and macOS, and homebrew ports to Wii U and Nintendo Switch.

Updates to Ship of Harkinian have attracted media attention, as they often integrate options and features which aren't present in any official release of Ocarina of Time.

The title of the project is an allusion to the philosophical thought experiment Ship of Theseus, as well as the name of the King from The Legend of Zelda CD-i games, who was infamous for the internet memes spawned from the games.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Harkinian

Here are the respective GitHub pages:

• https://github.com/HarbourMasters/2ship2harkinian/ (last release as of 20/05/2025 was on 20/12/2024)

• https://github.com/HarbourMasters/Shipwright/ (last release as of 20/05/2025 was on 15/04/2025)

Here is Game Banana page if you are looking for mods:

• https://gamebanana.com/games/16121

Here are the respective PCGamingWiki pages

• https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Ocarina_of_Time_(Ship_of_Harkinian)

• https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Majora%27s_Mask_(2_Ship_2_Harkinian)

Here are some GamingOnLinux articles about the projects:

• GamingOnLinux | PC port of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Ship of Harkinian, gets a huge Randomizer upgrade - April 2025

• GamingOnLinux | Unofficial PC port of Zelda: Majora's Mask, 2 Ship 2 Harkinian has a big new release out - November 2024

• GamingOnLinux | Ship of Harkinian, a PC port of Ocarina of Time has a feature-filled upgrade - March 2023

Numerous other sources such Kutako, PCGamer, The Verge, Ars Technica, and GamesRadar also wrote articles about them primarily between 2022 and 2023.

Bonus:

If you are interested in this you might be interested in other PC ports of Nintendo 64 games like Star Fox 64, Perfect Dark, Doom 64, Dinosaur Planet, and Super Mario 64. It's worth noting many of these projects have Linux releases and run great on the Steam Deck or emulator handhelds (ex. RG35XXSP) using PortMaster.

Basically I'm looking for a deck mod that has additional joker slots. I've probably modded in over 100 new jokers and want to try some over powered combinations.

I'm thinking a deck mod would be ideal because I could still play vanilla decks, I still want some level of randomness and don't really want to pick and choose which jokers I get, and if this was done with spectral/tarot cards I would have to go through the process of finding them.

Here are some links I used to find the Balatro mods I use now by the way

• https://balatromods.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

• https://github.com/jie65535/awesome-balatro

• https://www.nexusmods.com/games/balatro

The Wiki is probably the best source I have come across because a majority of the time it lists exactly what the mod is adding. It does kind of take away a bit of the mystery but I feel like it's worth it if you want to know how well a mod is going to mesh with the game.

For those that don't know GameSpy was responsible for a lot of online multiplayer services from ~2000 to 2013 when they were shutdown.

Some games were updated to accommodate for this and fans created game-specific solutions for certain titles such as SWAT 4 and Crysis and more universal solutions like OpenSpy.

The PCGamingWiki page is great if you want to see if your favorite games from ten to twenty years ago still have working multiplayer.

I thought this was kind of neat. The GitHub page for DoomValley can be found here. It's worth noting that you'll need a Doom WAD and to make a tweak if you are playing on Linux.

There's also a Nexus mods page for it.

Bonus:

There is also a Doom reskin mod for Stardew Valley

A bit of a long wordy title but I wanted to word it in a way to foster open discussion. By mod recommendations I don't just mean mods themselves. It would be good to share resources as well. A lot of older mods have been archived together but plenty are still hosted on independent websites rather than hubs like Nexus mods or Mod the Sims.

I was looking at mods for the original Sims not too long ago and it seems like the scene has been pretty quiet for a while now with the exception of a few holdouts.

I'm not too sure how hard it would be to create mods for either game.

I imagine outfit overrides for The Sims will be relatively common because of The Sims Creator and I have seen plenty of object reimplentations in The Sims with them being hacked for additional functionality or reskinned but I feel like I haven't seen a lot of mods adding brand new content or functionality.

I haven't gotten around to trying to mod The Sims 2.

The mod in the attached photo is "Starfleet Career for The Sims 1" by Corylea. I think it was posted in 2021. Seemed fitting for Lemmy.

I am thinking of playing Breath of the Wild on my PC with Cemu and was wondering if any mods or tweaks were worth trying.

I'm mostly looking at quality of life stuff.

I know Game Banana has a lot.

I've seen several YouTube videos talking about the Dreamcast recently so I thought I would compile a small list of videos/reviews covering these projects, links to them, and some other resources for homebrew/source ports on the Dreamcast.

Can you think of any others worth mentioning?

General

• Dreamcast-talk's homebrew and emulation page

• Emulators on Dreamcast | Emulation Wiki

• The Dreamcast Junkyard

• 25 years later, and the Dreamcast is still thinking... by MattKC Bytes | 7 minutes 15 seconds long

  ^ touches on GTA 3, Doom64, and the Minecraft recreation by A Flock of Messe

Grand Theft Auto 3

• dca3-game GitLab page

• DCA3 website

• GTA3 on the Sega Dreamcast is incredible by Modern Vintage Gamer | 13 minutes and 15 seconds long

Doom 64

• doom64-dc GitHub page

Minecraft-like

• A Flock of Messe Twitter page

• Minecraft Demakes Are Coming For The Dreamcast & GameCube by Retro Dodo

• Playing "Minecraft" on the Sega Dreamcast! by Micheal MJD | 10 minutes and 7 seconds long

• ClassiCube website

Super Mario 64

• sm64-port GitHub page

• Mario 64 on DREAMCAST? Crazy cool (conversation piece)! by the The Moronic Company | 6 minutes and 49 seconds long

• Fan Ports Super Mario 64 onto Sega Dreamcast

Postal

• Review: Postal - The Dreamcast Junkyard

• Postal gets a fan port to SEGA Dreamcast by Mega Visions

• POSTAL is coming to Dreamcast on June 2nd 2022 by Wave Game Studios

  ^ Sells the port in digital/physical copies

Whenever I see impressive ROM hacks running on original hardware I think about how they would have been received if they were released during the console's generation. Talking about Sonic being in the original Super Smash Bros or being able to play Super Mario 64 with split screen would normally be pretty close to saying your dad works for Nintendo but if you could back it up with an actual copy of the game which would you choose to make yourself a schoolyard legend?

I feel like there are a lot of games out there that feel like they would have a solid foundation for mods but don't receive attention because they weren't popular, they are older titles and maybe a newer entry in the series has been released, or the game is too challenging to mod for example.

I'd choose Starfield. I have been putting off playing it because I was hoping mods would fix some of the issues I've heard mention in reviews or add some interesting must-have content but so far it seems like all the game has received is an endless stream of small quality of life mods.

I've installed a few Christmas related mods in the past to add things like decorations, outfits, and snow but I've never done anything for things like summer, Easter, and Valentine's Day.

I play a fair amount of ROM hacks for them though. I think it's the installation and uninstallation process that turns me off of mods for them. The ROM hacks also typically don't take very long to complete.

I'm playing Toads Christmas Quest this weekend.

For me it was Fallout 3. I played exclusively on console growing up but after seeing a video on YouTube about custom player homes I felt like I needed to give it a try.

Fallout 3 did allow the player to theme their house but if you really wanted to fully decorate it to have a lived in/cluttered look you had to drop items out of your inventory and make them kind of awkwardly hover in front of you. If you wanted to rotate them you'd have to carefully push it against something like a shelf until it was oriented how you liked it and hope you don't knock anything else over while placing it. Having things kind of welded in position or pre-placed was a big time saver.

The photo attached is from the Underground Hideout mod. It was one of the first mods I installed.