Googie wants to make a Zelda 1 hack...

After playing some Conker's High Rule Tail, I decided I wanna make a zelda hack, so I used the Zelda Randomizer to randomize the dungeons, since I dunno how the dungeons in this game works. I used Pacnsacdave's hack as a base. There's things I wanna edit, like fighting a boss before you get the Triforce, I don't like the idea of getting it without fighting a boss. Here's the things I plan to edit...

1. Change the whole over world.
2. Edit the dungeon enemies around in a way that you fight a boss before getting the Triforce, and getting the heart container afterwards.

How hard is this game to hack?

Will I be able to use the Dungeon editors available to fix some dungeons around to my liking, even after using the randomizer?  

The juices are working to edit the over world to the way I want. Here's a peek of the level one dungeon...   



If somma you Zelda experts wanna give this a shot, snag the hack here. I would really appreciate any type of advice in making this hack a good hack.

I have not much advice to give you since I haven't hacked this game ever!

But I'm guessing if you use the randomizer to randomize your dungeons and you later edit them manually, there should be no problem. Just a wild guess!

I could try expending this section a bit so that the tools and information on this game is easily located. Right now its spread out across the web!

Good luck with your Zelda 1 project Googie!

I would recommend the following editors:

ZeldaTech for the overworld.
http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/187/

DungeonMaster for dungeons.
http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/605/

Both programs are pretty easy to use and I had no issues at all making a "nearly"
complete romhack with 7 dungeons and new overworld.
(Except the really small windows without the option to increase the size)

There is also a "overworld combo" editor somewhere, but I can't find it right now (Comboficator)

Not sure if these editors work with the DX hack though.

Thanks, I got them. It works with the DX hack I plan to use. My thing is to fight a boss, get the heart container and the triforce. Hopefully everything will work out fine, I don't want to hack to die! XD

I'm having a problem with Zelda Tech, I have no idea how to move things around. I'm learning how to change stuff in the over world, like for example, where you got the wooden sword I want to move that somewhere else.

That might require a hex edit. I had to use one in order to remove the potion as an option from the caves where the old man offers a heart container.