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Everything about ROM hacking
Editing technique for video games
ROM hacking is the process of modifying a ROM image or ROM file to change or alter the contents contained within, usually of a video game to alter the game's graphics, dialogue, levels, gameplay, or other elements. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ROM hackingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Highway to hell or paradise city? Exploring the role of growth hacking in learning from innovation failureInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Hacking the XboxThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Hacking smart machines with smarter ones: How to extract meaningful data from machine learning classifiersCited 295 times
- Go sideways: Homebrew (video games)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Super NES CD-ROMA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Hacking smart machines with smarter ones: How to extract meaningful data from machine learning classifiers
Growth hacking: Insights on data-driven decision-making from three firms
Civic hacking as data activism and advocacy: A history from publicity to open government data
Beyond the Blackbox: Repurposing ROM Hacking for Feminist Hacking/Making Practices
Prompt-Hacking: The New p-Hacking?
🆕 Influential since 2022
Highway to hell or paradise city? Exploring the role of growth hacking in learning from innovation failure
Do Preregistration and Preanalysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias? Evidence from 15,992 Test Statistics and Suggestions for Improvement
Hacking the Marketing Education System: Using Macromarketing and the Circular Economy to Make a Better World
From Self-Tracking to Sleep-Hacking
📚 Books worth reading
Hacking the XboxAndrew "Bunnie" Huang · 2003
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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