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  • Joel plays Druggy Final Fight, a drug-themed ROM hack of Mighty Final Fight on the NES. This is the second time he's played it, this time for Hardcore Fridays. Said hack massively buffs Haggar into a total Game-Breaker. The entire playthrough is something to behold.
    • The Obligatory Swearing and homophobia. Belger is renamed "Mayor Faggot" for one.
    • The plot: Belger laces Haggar's food with PCP. Haggar answers a phone call and immediately believes that Cody was kidnapped... despite Cody being in the same room with him!
    • Haggar going on a rampage with the implication that he's actually killing innocent people as he storms across Metro City.
    • The Game-Breaker mods done to Haggar are surprisingly poorly implemented and suffer from a rollover bug. When Haggar levels up, his stats roll over and go back to this level 1 or 2 equivalent, meaning he actually gets weaker when he levels up and Joel has to get a Game Over and use a continue to get Haggar back up to Game-Breaker status.
    • The bosses try and fail to reason with Haggar.
    • Joel liberally using Haggar's flying butt stomp and Spinning Clothesline.
    • The graphical edits to include vulgarities. And the blinking GO! sign saying "Say No To Drug." (Just the one. Running joke.)
    • The final fight (pun intended) against Belger, as overseen by what Joel assumes to be Voltron, who appears to be wholly neutral about the whole thing.
    • The ending. Haggar finally comes down from his PCP high and is aghast at what he's done. It's implied that Haggar kills himself over this, and Guy and a completely indignant Cody leave him to it! Joel promptly serenades the late Mike Haggar with "Hulkster In Heaven."
    • The character select screen:
      ERECT PRAYER
      Cody: Do not be Cody. Be Haggar.
      Gay: Do not be Guy. Be Haggar.
      Haggar: Haggar is number one you idiot.
  • Religious Rom Hacking Extravaganza:
    • Mario with a distorted face (supposed to be Jesus)... who occasionally rides a skateboard.
    • GARGD
      • "THANK YDU GARGD. BUT DUR PRGNCESS GS GN ANDTHER CASTLE!"
        Joel: Okay. Why don't you shout more Polish at me, you fuck.
    • Joel makes "everyone" have smiley faces and decides to make Ken naked.
    • The various changes Joel makes to the text in 7 GRAND DAD. Due to technical limitations of the program he uses, he can only change the "PUSH START BUTTON!" text, but he has a lot of fun with it, and produces hilarious results like "PRAISE®JESUSUTTON!" and "FIST START BUTTON!"
  • The "Spooky Mario Hacks" livestream, which is anything but spooky. Joel either runs into badly done sprite swaps or Nintendo Hard levels (or, as Joel puts it, "Kaizo difficulty").
    • One ROM hack in particular named Super Spooky Bros. had, to Joel's increasing disappointment, literally zero changes done to it until reaching Peach, at which point this hilarious text edit appears:
      BOO!!!!!
      WATCH OUT .
      IM GONNA GET U .
      DUMBASSS
      BALLS
  • Joel utterly cracking up at the ending of Super Donkey Kong 64.
  • Joel tries out some speed hacks for NES games, such as The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. 3, the latter being utterly broken because Mario is going too fast. Cue Joel absolutely losing his shit when he somehow manages to die in a Toad House by glitching through the floor. Without even trying.
    Joel: YOU CAN DIE HERE?! YOU CAN FUCKING DIE HERE?!?
    • The second time had Joel playing Castlevania. You know it's going to be nuts when the Attract Mode player dies.
      Joel: If the demo fucks up, then I wonder how I will do, huh?
    • Joel's changes Simon Belmont's speed while the game is running, different speeds messing with the levels in different ways due to how the game loads said levels (at one point ending up with a huge glitchy block that can't be passed, forcing him to restart the game), sometimes disabling scrolling and causing Simon to Wrap Around the area he is in, and sometimes going so fast that poor Simon is trapped in doors (again forcing restarts) and getting killed instantly once reaching the ceiling due to the game thinking it's a Bottomless Pit. The kicker is when Joel reaches the boss and sets the speed to 60, when he somehow manages to glitch the game into opening a door that wasn't meant to be opened, trapping Simon in what looked like an infinite loop. After setting the speed to 99, the game finally allows Simon to leave the loop, and he ends up in a Minus World.
      Joel: I have gone so fast, I'm in like the secret room that nobody knew existed! What?
    • It gets more bizarre when the cross item turns the room blood red and the head of a fishman comes up like a secret treasure, completely shocking Joel. Eventually Joel manages to figure out how to exit the Minus World (going up invisible stairs and falling down a pit in the next area), which deposits Simon in Stage 2 (albeit with the Stage 1 tileset, with Ghouls instead of Knights and glitched blocks)
      Joel: Now this is how you play Castlevania, okay?
  • Pokémon Red Randomizer:
    • There's something oddly amusing about how his first attempts with it go: the first one he tries only randomizes the starter Pokémon, so he searches for a way to randomize the encounters. After finding another mod, he goes to pick his starter. All three of them were set to "Pokémon" with index numbers that did not exist in the first generation, resulting in Glitch Pokémon that end up crashing the game shortly after he so much as checks what they are. In short, he went straight from a mod that randomized too little to a mod that randomized too much.
    • After trying again, the first two starter options work, but the last one is another glitch. After picking one of the working ones, his rival goes over to select the glitched Pokéball/"0xF4".
      Joel: Oh— don't pick that one! Don't pick that one holy shit! Dude! Aw man! You're gonna ruin the fucking planet! Oak, dude, don't touch that one!
    • Joel approaching the first trainer of the game in Viridian Forest. It's a Gambler packing a Moltres that knows Double Kick, which tears through Joel's Rhyhorn like it's made of wet tissue paper.
  • Pokémon ROM Hacks part 1. Joel plays various other ROM Hacks, these being Pokémon Quartz, Pokémon Topaz and Pokémon My Ass versions (no, really). Quartz is a ROM hack of Ruby, Topaz is a ROM hack where the player is a new Team Rocket recruit, and My Ass is a satirical ROM hack of Pokémon FireRed. Quartz has its fair share of funny moments, given that it's badly translated from Spanish and My Ass version has some crude humour, leading to amusing reactions from Joel.
    • In Quartz, while picking his in-game character, Joel jokes about whether he wants to be the "cock or a vagina". He goes with the male protagonist, and it turns out that one of the name choices for him is "Koc".
    • Joel gives strange accents to the characters and uses these accents when pronouncing some of the Pokémon and town names, but the game then points out that the creator (Baro) is Spanish and finds translation to English difficult.
      Joel: [bursts out laughing] Oh, I feel like a dick now!
    • A PC in Baro's lab "doesn't use Windows because of VIRUS."
    • While trying to figure out his catchphrase in Quartz, Joel thought that Mufasa is the one who killed Simba. Anyone familiar with The Lion King would find something wrong with that sentence.
    • Joel's reactions to some of the... interesting designs in both Quartz and Topaz are priceless; this includes the starters from the former, who are all strange-looking eggs, and the Fire-type starter from the latter, who is quite literally a dog.
    • The title screen for My Ass replaces the image of Charizard with a crudely drawn butt.
    • Joel's reaction when Professor Oak states that Pokémon are sometimes used for food or as slaves.
    • In Pokémon My Ass, the game is only different when Red is selected, as stated by the game, where he is shirtless for some reason. Most NPCs don't seem to react to the fact that a ten-year-old is walking around shirtless.
    • The dialogue options for My Ass allow the protagonist to hit a youngster for no reason. The protagonist also hits the rival by himself after he says that he'll tell Daisy not to lend Red a map.
    • The way to Route 2 is blocked by an old man receiving a blowjob.
    • Brock receives an interesting redesign.
  • Joel's playthrough of a Game Mod of Super Mario 64, titled "Super Ultra Kaizo Memeio Road 128 Stars Extreme Edition Revenge Deluxe Release" (AKA "Wheelchair Mario"). Hilarity Ensues, naturally.
  • Pokemon Yellow Google Translate Edition brings us highlights like Gary being referred to as Oak's nephews, "Welcome to the Boston world," "Technology wins," Daisy disappearing after Joel checks the town map, and "The pizza is long!"
  • The Pokémon Crystal romhack a fan made called Joel's Bizarre Pokeventure is full of laughs, but there are several moments that really stick out.
  • Kaizo Mario 3, a game that broke Joel so thoroughly that he had an impromptu jam session in the middle of his playthrough and played Mortal Kombat II afterwards because he found beating its cheating AI cathartic after trying to play the ROM hack.
  • While playing Super Mario Medley (a ROM hack that compiles levels from Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, and VS. Super Mario Bros.), Joel decides to do a bit making fun of overly-patriotic Americans— at which point he spots a wasp in his room (dubbed an "American hornet") and promptly freaks the fuck out. He then spends roughly 20 minutes hiding from the wasp in his bathroom and threatening it with a guitar before eventually finding a Raid bottle and chasing it out his window. While his battle with the wasp isn't caught on-camera (since his webcam wasn't on), the audio alone is hysterical for the sheer hamminess with which Joel narrates the event, as well as with some of his descriptions about it (among other things claiming that he backflipped out of his chair the moment he saw the wasp).
  • His streaming of an Undertale-themed Super Mario Bros. ROM hack starts with a placeholder image of him as Kenshiro, which he then decides to replace with a better image... and accidentally brings up fanart of him kissing Undyne... which he then hastily removes claiming it wasn't the pic he wanted. You're not fooling anyone, Joel. See it here...
    Joel: Wait... no, that not the picture I wanted — DAMMIT, GET OUTTA HERE! (breaks down laughing)
    • Staying with that same hack, while playing around in it, he pastes the spr_mysteryman_0 sprite on screen and jokes that he unlocked W. D. Gaster, who is basically the game's biggest tribute to the concept of the Dummied Out trope. Afterward when back on the title screen (bear in mind the two player option is blanked out) he decides to see what the hack did with Luigi (since it sprite edited Mario into Papyrus.) Only to then find out that in this hack, Luigi...is Gaster. How very meta. And the ending text isn't changed to accommodate him!
  • This definitely crosses over into awesome territory, but the fact that Joel does the speedrun glitch in a romhack of A Link to the Past in one go, laughing as he completes the glitch and lamenting that he had to do it on a shitty Samus romhack.
  • To kick off 2016, he made an Undertale mod of Hard Time.
    • When playing as Mettaton, he misspells it as Metaton first. Later, when he realizes his mistake, he "fixes" the name...to Metatton.
    • The fact that the prison is populated almost entirely by Temmies. hOI!
    • Alphys as his lawyer.
    • Everything around the 16 minute mark, including, but not limited to: Toriel calling and threatening Frisk with blowing up the place, Madjick taking a cigarette back from Frisk after demanding it back and throwing it away for no discernible reason, and the whole place promptly exploding.
    • After a particularly brutal fight, the game inadvertently turns Frisk into a Deadpan Snarker:
      Frisk: (in court) I never intended to hurt Warden Diaz! It was an argument that got out of hand...note 
      Joel: Frisk, you snarky asshole.
    • Another fight involving Frisk has them trapping a Whimsalot on top of a toilet, locking it in an endless loop of trying to stand back up, despite having its legs cut off and promptly falling down until it dies from its injuries.
    • The fact that both Frisk and Mettaton are killed by Alphys and Jerry, respectively.
  • A skeleton in a fantasy world that practices Hokuto Shinken, wields a machine gun and a lightsaber and rides a giant chicken? Must be Joel playing Skyrim with a bunch of crazy mods.
    Joel: It is a weird day.
    • The first thing Joel does when he creates his skeleton character is fiddle with the customizations (which have absolutely no effect on a person with no face, skin, or gender for that matter).
      Joel: Sex... <fiddles with the Sex slider> se-sexy skeletons?
    • When Joel dies to a dog, because the skeleton character doesn't ragdoll on death, he dies standing still while the dog sits down underneath his standing re-dead corpse, which makes it look like the dog is giving him a blowjob. Then the subsequent loading screen tooltip gives this gem:
      "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany."
      — Obi-Wan Kenobi
    • Joel tries out the mount mod by spawning some ridiculous creatures to use as mounts... one of which is a horse-sized chicken.
      Joel: Video games... have been mastered. There is no need for more video games in the world... When you see a big bone, riding a giant cock, with an AK-47... You KNOW... there's no point anymore.
      • The sight of a 10x upscaled chicken mount frantically running while covering the same distance as a regular chicken mount is a sight to behold. Then the Chocobo theme is added to it.
      Joel: Now that is a big cock. Big old... swiggity swoody, I'm comin' for the booty.
    • Joel kills a dragon mount with his AK-47, which causes the now-ragdolled dragon to suddenly spaz out and eventually float away into the air in hilarious ways.
      Joel: I gotta say... when your parents tell you that... things are impossible, like becoming a ballerina in the sky... FUCK 'EM. Become a dragon and... FUCK 'EM. Just go!
    • The way Joel gives emphasis to the message "Human Heart Added":
      FUCKING METAL
  • Joel decides to play Kerbal Space Program... with mods attached. Hilarity Ensues.
    • When Joel figures out how to operate weapons in the game, one of the first things he does is shoot down the flagpole.
    • Joel uses his mods to equip a corvette with tank cannons (which later gets replaced by dual Howitzers, then a rocket launcher), an American flag on the hood, and a bottle of Jack Daniel's as an ornament.
      • At one point, Joel aims the twin Howitzers to the ground and fires them. The shockwave knocks the Howitzers off.
      • With the rocket launcher, he manages to demolish the hangar.
      • Joel tries to kill one of the Kerbals with his weapons. It doesn't work.
      • Whenever Joel tries to drive his weaponized Corvette, he frequently flips it over, causing the weapons to explode.
    • Joel builds a cheeseburger on wheels with rocket launchers attached. It speaks for itself.
    • Joel tries to build a mecha named "FREEDOM FUCKER Mk. 1." It goes well.
      • The first time he tests FREEDOM FUCKER out, it immediately falls over and explodes.
        Joel: I'm okay. I'm okay. (piloting capsule starts spinning away) I'll just breakdance outta here.
      • When Joel attaches a bomb to FREEDOM FUCKER's back, the first thing he does with it is detonate it. Let's just say the results exceeded his expectations.
      • Joel later attaches booster rockets to FREEDOM FUCKER and launches it. Cue the mecha somersaulting and crash-landing... while the bomb is armed.
      • During his second flight, he drops the bomb while it's still above him.
      • Eventually, Joel arranges FREEDOM FUCKER's rockets to optimize its balance. The only problem is how he positioned the front rocket. At one point, he considers giving it a gun.
      • Joel's first two attempts at flying the new and improved FREEDOM FUCKER don't go too well, but the second attempt is absolutely phenomenal. FREEDOM FUCKER immediately tilts over before it can even get off the ground. Joel evacuates and is sent flying by FREEDOM FUCKER's explosion before a booster rocket flies into a tank and blows it up. Then Joel decides to plant the American flag right in front of the wreckage.
      • During FREEDOM FUCKER's first real flight with the cocket, it ends up facing the sky, prompting Joel to try shooting down God. Then FREEDOM FUCKER runs out of fuel, entreating us to the sight of a phallic robot falling to Earth with its special something facing the ground.
      • FREEDOM FUCKER's second real flight is even more amazing: the moment Joel drops the bomb, it flies off behind him. Meanwhile, FREEDOM FUCKER angles down towards the ground and crash-lands before it can turn around. Then Joel notices the Corvette by the launchpad, with Jeb still in it.
      • After the success of FREEDOM FUCKER's second flight, Joel replaces the regular bomb with THE TSAR BOMBA.Explanation  When he first tries out his new equipment, he deploys it mid-launch. FREEDOM FUCKER explodes, and the cockpit ends up floating in mid-air as FREEDOM FUCKER's engines fly off. While Joel wonders why nothing's happened yet, the bomb explodes, creating a mushroom cloud that can be seen from space.
        Joel: You guys wanna go for milkshakes?
        Joel: That was a pretty good bomb; let's do fifteen.
      • During his second attempt with the Tsar FREEDOM FUCKER, it immediately dives into the ground and explodes. The punchline comes in when the pilot shows up, completely unfazed.
      • On the third flight, FREEDOM FUCKER crashes, the Tsar Bomba duds (as Joel forgot to arm it), and one rocket keeps flying forward, loops up, and lands at the launchpad, stuck upside-down in the ground and still firing its engine.
        Joel: Is this podracing?
        Joel: Now this is cockracing.
    • After Joel concludes that FREEDOM FUCKER is too problematic to send into space, he makes a simple rocket... with the Tsar Bomba attached to the front on a two-girder beam.
      • The very fact that Joel's initial goal with the rocket was to nuke the moon.
      • When Joel first tries out the rocket, it immediately explodes because of all the fuel tanks he slapped onto it.
      • During his first successful flight with the rocket, Joel attempts to drop the Tsar Bomba above Earth so he can see the explosion from space. It instead flies off, almost colliding with the rocket, before Joel decouples the booster rockets and isolates the capsule. Then the Tsar Bomba explodes from overheating. All accompanied by a catchy Cold War song from the '50s entitled Atom Bomb Baby.
      • During Joel's second flight, he isolates the capsule, then realizes that he's still got the Tsar Bomba attached to him. He then evacuates and hopes to watch it crash-land, only for it to dud.
      • His third flight is easily the biggest highlight of the stream: after isolating the capsule, he tries to kamikaze the Earth, before realizing that he can just drop the bomb right there.Explanation  The two-girder beam then bends, throwing Joel into the bomb and setting it off, all to the tune of a "Nuclear" remix.
      • "Nuking people is the hardest thing ever, apparently."
      • When Joel launches the Tsar Bomba from a closer range, it utterly decimates the entire Space Center... but leaves one Kerbal alive.
        Joel: He's a fucking mutant now.
      • Joel decides to forgo the booster rocket on his last attempt. When he releases the Tsar Bomba, it knocks off the capsule. Right after he crashes, the bomb explodes.
        Joel: Bad decisions.
  • Joel revisits Façade (2005) by corrupting it, with disturbing results. Trip and Grace have their bodies morph into spheres with their heads on top, like the melons they so loathe; Trip's hand continuously extends from his sphere-body rather suggestively of something; and Grace often speaks Trip's lines instead of her own, to name a few things. To drive the point home:
    Joel: What the fuck have I done to this game, man?! (picks up Magic 8-Ball pentagram) Can you tell me what I did wrong?
    Magic 8-Ball Pentagram: NO
    Joel: (drops it) Aaugh!
  • Joel's playing of several Doom wads.
    • "Let's play this one, it's called "seancon". "SEAN CONNERY GETS A WRENCH STUCK IN HIS ANAL HOLE: THE MOVIE: THE GAME".
      • Jesus saying: "I want your sweet, sweet fluids." mainly due to Joel's delivery.
    • The "Extreme Weapons" pack, which includes a toothbrush as a weapon and a shotgun that loads very slowly.
    • This dialogue in another mod:
      Police Guard: Where is your ticket, sir?
      Marine: Uhhh, it's in my other space marine suit!
    • In an map, shouts of: "Moderfucker!" are playing from the enemies.
    • This face.
    • The Ultimitu of reversals, especially the 'derp' faces.
    • During the "Ghoul Forest" wad, Joel initially assumes you're supposed to hang around the campfire you start next to, as wandering too far away reduces your vision to zero. Then the campfire goes out.
      Joel: Oh, it goes out! Okay, I'm ready for you man! I'm fuckin' ready, I am a fighter! I have the sharpness of a cobra, baby! I... I can't see shit.
  • Joel's Doom level contest has just started, but has already shown the awesome talent of the Vinesauce community...as well as some laughs.
    • Two words: Vinesauce Rap. Joel jokingly declares the wad it's in the winner after hearing a few verses of it, and later loses it at the deadpan namedropping of Rev, when the rest of the team got more bombastic lyrics devoted to them.
    • Another submission contains the "Hall of Chumps"note . Highlights include a portrait of DIO (which Joel calls "Goku"), a Sans portrait labeled with "Ness" in reference to Game Theory's infamous "Sans is Ness" video, and JonTron labeled "PewDiePie" (which Joel calls "Markiplier").
  • Joel played Revenant Bus, a Doom mod that is inspired by Desert Bus, in which you must make several hours-long trips in a bus, while killing Revenants that spawn at the back of the bus once every 7 seconds with only punches.
    • The save option is named [SAVING IS CHEATING]. Additionally, the message "Saving is against the rules, dickweed!" appears on-screen upon starting the first level.
    • The level complete theme is a MIDI of "We like to Party! (The Vengabus)".
    • At one point, Joel uses cheats to explore each level (as actually playing them in full would take many hours in real life), and on the 7th map, "Busslayer" is hitchhiking in the desert at night, when a bus full of Revenants drives past while screaming "SUCKERS!!!"
    • Joel tries to cheat in weapons, and instead, the message "YOUR CHEATING WAYS HAVE BECOME YOUR UNDOING!" appears on-screen, while Willy Wonka repeatedly shouts "You lose! Good day, sir!" and Joel loses it completely.
  • Joel's Binding of Isaac mods stream features a joke mod that he installed which changes Monstro to the infamous "Big Chungus" meme. The fight against the boss is borderline unplayable thanks to an unintuitive hitbox and difficult-to-avoid attacks thanks to the boss's size. The terrible boss fight almost turns into a Running Gag because Joel keeps forgetting to uninstall the mod, and he expresses dread every time it comes up.
  • The entirety of Midi Mario Hell, where pressing the controller plays a sound (initially a MIDI instrument, though later Joel manages to get it to work with other audio files as well). Special mentions goes to when Joel plays a round of Super Mario Bros. 2 with his Toad impression playing every time he moves Toad, then figures out how to play Depeche Mode's "I Just Can't Get Enough" with button inputs, and then when he sets the sound to Loud Nigra while playing a bootleg game called Duck Maze, as the bird starts screaming and Joel finds it absolutely hilarious.
    • The way how the duck screams after a quick Beat when it breaks the egg is also hilarious.
  • Joel's playthrough of Shotgun Mario 64 is full of this, but the cake goes to his showdown with King Bob-Omb, where he shoots him off of the mountain, only for him to jump back in. This goes on for a while, with Joel yelling "You must fight with honor!" each time he jumps back onto the mountain

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