A Link to the Past Randomizer
Link to the Past Randomizer is a romhack of Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past. It’s a lot of fun and I encourage people to check it out. You load in the correct ROM into the randomizer, and it generates a randomized romhack to your specifications.
All the chests and special items in the game are randomized in such a way that the game is always complete-able. Everything. You can find the golden sword immediately and then struggle to find the bow and arrow.
I do suggest watching a vod or race of a playthrough just so you get a sense of where a lot of the early chests are, because it can be a little daunting to explore the overworld looking for random chests at first. (There’s also a bunch of helpful trackers help you find everything, which are definitely recommended).
Link to the Past really has a ton of locks and keys everywhere. To deal with the dark world, you need to have the Magic Mirror and Moon Pearl (if you get trapped you can always save/quit to warp back to your house). You need the three pendants to unlock what would normally be the Master Sword. You need the Master Sword and translation book to use the emblem stones. You need money to buy from King Zora.
The game totally changes how you can navigate everything. It basically turns the game into a Zelda Roguelike such as Cadence of Hyrule, except the game still slowly unravels like a Zelda game. Just in the wrong order.
There’s a shortcode for every rom, so you can share around what the roms are (without sharing the rom directly). So you can race with your friends! Or help each other out and let you know where you find things. I had a lot of fun doing this.
Once you get bored with relatively normal randomizations, you can go crazy. You can randomize the entrances so everything links to random locations. Keys in dungeons will be found in other dungeons. If that doesn’t do it for you, there’s Super Metroid Randomizer, and then SMZ3 which combines Zelda and Metroid Randomizer for a truly insane experience.
Here's a link to where you can pick it up:
https://alttpr.com/en
