romhack

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Etymology

From ROM (“read-only memory”) +‎ hack.

Noun

romhack (plural romhacks)

  1. (video games) A modified version of a video game, created by editing its ROM data.
    • 2020 October 13, Alex Custodio, quoting PompomRenaldo, Who Are You?: Nintendo's Game Boy Advance Platform, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 194:
      It's an important game, and if you're into the progression of romhacks, it's cool to see the kinds of things that [The Last Promise] did, and how it improved over time.

Verb

romhack (third-person singular simple present romhacks, present participle romhacking, simple past and past participle romhacked)

  1. (video games) To modify a video game by editing its ROM data.
    • 2017 April 11, Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo, Crowdsourcing and Online Collaborative Translations: Expanding the limits of Translation Studies, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 29:
      When romhacking focuses exclusively on the linguistic aspects of the game, it can be referred to as “translation hacking” (O'Hagan 2009:94) in order to differentiate these earlier precursors from the widespread romhacking practices.

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