My Brill Game Site is dedicated to storing interesting information related to computers, gaming and hacking ROMS, savestates and save files.
It was last updated on 09/02/2021.
What's been happening?
Updates continue to be sparse on the site, I know. Most of my hobbies are non-ROM hacking related at the moment. I've been dabbling in quite a few things since the last update, including getting back into 40K, more electronics and online gaming (mostly Diablo 3, MtG Arena, Among Us and a handful of mixed Steam games).
I'm sure I'll get back to the ROM hacking eventually, I always do! But in the meantime if anything interesting comes from my other hobbies I'll post it up.
Updates:
| 09/02/2021 | - | Just a small update to the "What's been happening" blurb. |
| 29/06/2020 | - | Updated Toejam and Earl Disassembly page with a status update and Showcase videos. |
| - | Added the Toejam and Earl Land Where You Fell From video. | |
| 23/08/2019 | - | Applied consistent formatting across all the hacking pages. |
| 15/07/2019 | - | Added the new Showcase section. An area dedicated to showing off videos of ROM hacks and other interesting discoveries. Only 1 video for now, the Toejam and Earl Lava Hack but I'm sure it'll grow! |
| 01/07/2019 | - | Status update added to Toejam and Earl Disassembly page. |
| 20/05/2019 | - | Link to full source code added to Toejam and Earl Disassembly page. |
| 11/04/2019 | - | Bit more tidying and an update on the Toejam and Earl Disassembly page. |
| 19/03/2019 | - | Huge clean up on the site, removing lots of clutter on the server that you couldn't see. |
| - | Fixed all the broken links caused by the recent updates. | |
| - | Removed the Unity section from Videos. The 1 project that lived there is now available in Projects. | |
| - | Updated the embedded YouTube videos to use the latest style of embedding (i.e. not Flash based). | |
| 13/02/2019 | - | Updated the PHP and Joomla! versions the site is using. |
| 16/07/2018 | - | Re-wrote the Toejam and Earl Disassembly page in light of recent work. |
| 09/02/2016 | - | More data added to the Toejam and Earl Disassembly. |
| - | Slight formatting adjustments to the ROM and RAM tables. | |
| - | ROM 5.32% disassembled - RAM 1.00% disassembled. | |
| 26/01/2016 | - | Added the ROM and RAM Memory Map Visualisation to the Toejam and Earl Disassembly page. Click the % deciphered links on the page to see them. |
| 01/01/2016 | - | More data added to the Toejam and Earl Disassembly and further adjustments to the page layout including revising the Savestate section to be the RAM section. |
| - | ROM 4.62% disassembled - RAM 1.00% disassembled. | |
| 27/12/2015 | - | Large revamp to the Toejam and Earl hacking page in preparation for working on create a complete ROM Map of it. |
| 09/11/2015 | - | Tidied up the Birdhouse Internet Camera project and moved it into the abandoned section. |
| 08/11/2015 | - | Added more information for Magic the Gathering: Shandalar. |
| 07/11/2015 | - | Added a new, completed project. Pi TV. |
| 28/10/2015 | - | Updated the lists and the spreadsheet on the 1001 Video Games project to make them match the actual order of the book and moved the project back into 'Completed'. |
| 20/10/2015 | - | Minor tweaks to a few project pages. Moved the 1001 Video Games project back into 'Ongoing'. |
| 22/09/2015 | - | Changed the background to use a CSS based background image. It's now centered properly which you'll notice on massive monitors! Not the most exciting update for you but I was quite excited to finally get this sorted. |
| 14/09/2015 | - | Updated the 1001 Video Games List to contain both editions of the list. |
| 13/09/2015 | - | Added more parts to the Simple Game in Unity Companion series. |
| 29/07/2015 | - | Finished migrating all the content from the blog and officially removed the link from the menu. |
| - | RIP C,Z and G. | |
| 29/07/2015 | - | Added the details of the Arduino Master System Player project. |
| 12/07/2015 | - | Added the details of the Java Games on Facebook project. |
| 04/07/2015 | - | Added the details of the Inside Megadrive Carts project. |
| 26/06/2015 | - | Added the details of the Arduino ROM Dumper project. |
| 24/06/2015 | - | Added the details of the Birdhouse Internet Camera project. |
| 21/06/2015 | - | Adjusted the layout of the Projects section to match the rest of the site. |
| 16/06/2015 | - | Some more adjustments to the layout of the Rom Hacking and Let's Play sections. |
| 13/06/2015 | - | Added the brand new Unity category to the videos section along with its first article. |
| - | Renamed the 'Tutorials' section to 'Rom Hacking' in the videos section. | |
| 06/05/2015 | - | Added a new, completed project. 1001 Video Games. |
| 20/03/2015 | - | Added ability to view the background image by hiding the main contents, just click the new MBGS logo in the top left corner of the site. |
| 16/03/2015 | - | Added 4 new background images: Aladdin, Dune, Robocop Vs Terminator and Shining Force 2. |
| - | Credits added to the links section. | |
| 05/03/2015 | - | Updated to the latest version of Joomla, PHP and Disqus. Site maintenance, yawn. |
| 06/02/2015 | - | Replaced all the video images with actual images from the videos. |
| - | Added The Cutting Room Floor to the links section. | |
| 18/01/2015 | - | Added more hidden pages to The Big Hide. |
| 10/12/2014 | - | Added a new, ongoing project. The Big Hide |
| 24/03/2014 | - | Reformatted the projects section. |
| - | Added a new, ongoing project. Birdhouse Internet Camera | |
| 15/08/2013 | - | Added the first few details of the zombie game I am working on in the projects section. |
| 01/05/2013 | - | Added some more projects that I want to work on but can't find the time to. |
| 19/01/2013 | - | Added a new, completed project. Minecraft Wallpaper RSS. |
| - | Added a new Jungle Strike background courtesy of Will Mallia. | |
| - | Added a new Ecco background courtesy of Marianne . | |
| 10/01/2013 | - | Added Disqus comments. You can now let me know what you think and ask questions easily! |
| 09/01/2013 | - | Rearranged the video section to make it better fit having comments added |
| 31/12/2012 | - | Continued porting / moving / upgrading the site to Joomla! Almost done replicating the old site! |
| - | Finished moving to Joomla! | |
| - | Small update on the state of the Constructor Fence Fixer project. | |
| 30/12/2012 | - | Continued porting / moving / upgrading the site to Joomla! |
| 29/12/2012 | - | Started porting / moving / upgrading the site to Joomla! |
| 01/08/2012 | - | Added a settings file for default directories to the Shandalar Deck Injector and a menu to support it. |
| 07/05/2012 | - | Added some features and fixed some bugs in the Shandalar Deck Injector. |
| 09/12/2011 | - | Added a new Toejam and Earl background courtesy of DarkFox. |
| - | Added random background rendering to the site so each time you visit you'll get a random background! | |
| - | Added a contributers section to the links page and added InsaneSonikkuFan to it who contributed the Sonic that has been there since the layout change, sorry it took so long! | |
| 05/12/2011 | - | Added the Constructor Fence Fixer project. |
| 03/12/2011 | - | Added information to the T.E.S.S.E project. |
| - | Added ROM file names to game pages so it is easier to get the same version as the data is for. | |
| - | Added gamehacking.org to the links section. | |
| - | Changed some more images to PNG. | |
| - | Done a little bit of house keeping here and there. | |
| 30/11/2011 | - | Added information to the Shandalar Deck Injector project. |
| - | Renamed the 'Play Through' section to the 'Let's Play' section so it is more in keeping with the standard. | |
| - | Started changing images to PNG format rather than BMP. | |
| 22/11/2011 | - | Added a Tutorial on making changes to a game, the first tutorial where we actual do some hacking! |
| 27/07/2011 | - | Added information for Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine savestate hacking. |
| 25/07/2011 | - | Added more information for Fatal Labyrinth savestate hacking. |
| 20/07/2011 | - | Updated site to new layout, isn't it awesome! |
| 17/07/2011 | - | Added new version of the the Shandalar Deck Injector. |
| - | Added more information for Magic the Gathering: Shandalar. | |
| 24/03/2011 | - | Added the source code to the Shandalar Deck Injector. |
| 21/01/2011 | - | Sorted the html code on the videos pages so that the videos now display in Firefox. |
| 23/11/2010 | - | Added information for Lemmings. |
| 14/11/2010 | - | Uploaded the newest version of the Shandalar Deck Injector. |
| - | Added a Tutorial on binary and hexadecimal numbers. | |
| - | Added a screenshot to the Shandalar Deck Injector. | |
| 16/10/2010 | - | The site's not dead and neither am I! |
| - | Changed the layout of the navigation menu a little. | |
| 07/04/2010 | - | Added Deck Injector for Magic the Gathering: Shandalar. |
| 02/04/2010 | - | Made the website into php instead of html, welcome to the future! |
| 08/03/2010 | - | Added information for Magic the Gathering: Shandalar. |
| - | Added Let's Play of Hunt for Bowser. | |
| - | Started changing Playstation 2 section to "Other" section. | |
| 03/01/2010 | - | Added more information for Theme Park. |
| 02/01/2010 | - | Added information for Theme Park. |
| 07/10/2009 | - | Added Let's Play of Super Mario World Continues. |
| 21/06/2009 | - | Added information to Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. |
| - | Added a Tutorial on decimal numbers. | |
| 20/06/2009 | - | Added information to Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. |
| 25/04/2009 | - | Length column added to all offset tables. |
| - | Note added to Toejam and Earl. | |
| 29/03/2009 | - | Video section made XHTML Strict compliant.(Thanks to Drew McLellan's article.) |
| - | Notes section layout changed. | |
| - | Tutorials and Play Through section given their own images. | |
| 28/03/2009 | - | Update section added. |
| 17/02/2009 | - | The site moves to its own domain and given less of an 'Angelfire look and feel'. Video section is added |
| 05/01/2008 | - | The site was founded, originally on Angelfire. |