MERRY CHRISTMAS

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This is an archive of 2020 and 2021's original Christmas pastebin + a few anon additions posted in the original threads (that weren't already in the 2021 or 2022 collections) converted completely to Markdown. Here you will find what I had previously put on it but with easier navication, a select handful of sections sorted in alphabetical order, several duplicate and several dead or outdated links culled or replaced (some updated ones are in the 2022 version). Although it came back eventually on its own on pastelink and the 2020 one is still fine, hopefully this will prevent future 404 issues.

While I did delete several dead links, still do be wary of possible ones and click certain ones at your own discretion.

OPENING

Didn't get much this year? Craving even more? Just want to play something with your buddies without spending a penny or downloading something? Just looking for a mod or game that's Christmas themed? Got gifted GTA Definitive Trilogy? Then I got the perfect thing, something for everyone.
Below is a compilation of links to many resources to freeware games, browser games, mods for existing games, etc. Think of it like a holiday catalog of sorts.
No signing up for shady sites, no malware, no bullshit like having to join Discords. Every bit of that minimized as much as possible to create a free for all feast of gaming whether you're looking for some new level packs for your favorite game, some browser games to play with your friends, or just simply bringing something new to the table.
I apologize in advance for any overlapping, outdated or dead content, as the compilation began shortly after Christmas 2020 using last year's list as a base and there's a whole bunch to sift through along with some colossal resources
Special thanks to anons who contributed last year as well as any anons who attempted to carry on after the christmas day thread died super shortly in and added some of their own links to another version, special thanks to the many, many generals for providing links in their OPs. I have tried to credit them as much as I could and I apologize if I forget. And special thanks to goodsites.tech for some of the websites I have linked.

DISCLAIMER 1: Everything is linked directly to their sources. As a result there are no pre-patched rom hacks in this list except for Sonic. All games are also from the devs themselves or are from a reliable mirror.

DISCLAIMER 2: While I have tried testing a good number of things, I have not tested every single thing so I cannot guarantee its quality or safety, but I have visited every single one of these webpages and deemed them safe. For downloads I have not tested but want to be safe about, I have put an "untested" warning on them so grab those at your own risk but they should be safe anyway.

  1. MERRY CHRISTMAS
  2. OPENING
  3. COLLECTIONS
    1. General Collections:
    2. Individual Dev Collections:
    3. Japanese Games (translated and untranslated):
    4. Peculiar, Oddly Specific Collections:
  4. FLASH STUFF
  5. STANDALONE DOWNLOADABLE GAMES
    1. General Games:
    2. Free Steam games:
  6. MUGEN (I don't know where else to put this):
  7. BROWSER GAMES
    1. Collections:
    2. Standalone Games:
    3. Play with friends or randos this very instant:
  8. GAMES CURATED BY TYPE
    1. Fun at the arcade:
    2. Platformers:
    3. Rhythm games:
    4. Shmup:
    5. Puzzle:
    6. Metroidvania (check Metroid section for Metroid):
    7. FPS:
    8. MMOs:
    9. RPGs:
    10. Strategy (real time and turn-based) and Simulation games:
    11. I want to obsess over numbers (Incremental Games):
    12. Dungeons and Roguelikes:
    13. Card games, Board Games, traditional puzzle games, etc.:
    14. Christmas and Winter themed games:
    15. Holiday Thrills and Chills (Horror and Halloween Themed Stuff):
    16. Relaxing Games:
    17. I Wanna Be the Game (challenging games and troll games):
    18. Weird Games:
    19. Spess (Space Games)
    20. WTF I CAN ACCESS ANOTHER GAME WITHIN A GAME I ALREADY OWN?:
  9. MODS
    1. Mod Collections:
    2. Big Enhancement Mods/New Campaigns/Total Conversion:
    3. Mods for console games:
    4. Valve Game Mods:
    5. Other mods:
  10. ROMHACKS AND HOMEBREW
    1. General collections:
    2. N64 Romhacks and mods:
    3. NES Romhacks:
    4. SNES Romhacks:
    5. GB/GBA Romhacks:
    6. Genesis/Mega Drive Romhacks:
    7. Randomizers:
    8. Hacks for other platforms:
    9. Homebrew:
    10. English Translations Sorted By Platform:
  11. STUFF FOR SPECIFIC FRANCHISES
    1. Mario (Mario 64 is just below this one):
      1. Section 1 - Fan games:
      2. Section 2 - Romhacks of the 2D Games:
      3. Section 3 - The other 3D Mario games:
      4. Section 4 - Mario Party:
      5. Section 5 - Mario Kart:
      6. Section 6 - Super Mario RPG/Paper Mario:
      7. Section 7 - Wario, Yoshi, and other characters:
      8. Section 8 - Misc:
    2. Super Mario 64 Romhacks:
    3. Zelda:
    4. Donkey Kong:
    5. Pokemon
    6. Metroid:
    7. Super Smash Bros:
    8. Pikmin (All 2 unless stated otherwise, each video should include a download in the description):
    9. Sonic:
    10. Mega Man:
    11. Other Capcom titles (Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Monster Hunter):
    12. Castlevania:
    13. Minecraft:
    14. The Elder Scrolls:
    15. Final Fantasy:
    16. Grand Theft Auto/Bully/Max Payne (putting "GTA" here for people who ctrl+f it):
    17. LEGO + Bionicle:
    18. Touhou fan games:
  12. BOOMER SHOOTERS
    1. General, non-specific things or things that I don't have enough for to give its own section:
    2. DOOM WADs:
    3. Heretic and Hexen:
    4. Duke Nukem + Other 3D Realms/Apogee Software titles:
    5. Blood:
    6. Quake:
    7. Unreal:
    8. Wolfenstein:
  13. BONUS CONTENT
    1. Christmas Media Grab Bag:
    2. Some mobile stuff:
    3. Niche game stuff:
    4. Various other bonus gaming-related stuff:
    5. Productivity:
    6. Wakaliwood Classics (plus at least one new one):
    7. Music:
    8. The completely random section:

COLLECTIONS

General Collections:

Apologies for any overlapping content, I'm just dumping every collection I can find

Individual Dev Collections:

Japanese Games (translated and untranslated):

Peculiar, Oddly Specific Collections:

FLASH STUFF

STANDALONE DOWNLOADABLE GAMES

General Games:

Free Steam games:

MUGEN (I don't know where else to put this):

BROWSER GAMES

Collections:

Standalone Games:

Play with friends or randos this very instant:

GAMES CURATED BY TYPE

Fun at the arcade:

Platformers:

Rhythm games:

Shmup:

Puzzle:

Metroidvania (check Metroid section for Metroid):

FPS:

(Boomer shooters such as Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, etc. are all in their own special section)

MMOs:

RPGs:

(Check out other sections for Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, etc.)

Strategy (real time and turn-based) and Simulation games:

I want to obsess over numbers (Incremental Games):

Dungeons and Roguelikes:

Card games, Board Games, traditional puzzle games, etc.:

Christmas and Winter themed games:

Holiday Thrills and Chills (Horror and Halloween Themed Stuff):

Relaxing Games:

I Wanna Be the Game (challenging games and troll games):

Weird Games:

Spess (Space Games)

WTF I CAN ACCESS ANOTHER GAME WITHIN A GAME I ALREADY OWN?:

Obligatory mention of the ones basically everyone knows:
Rayman 2 2D prototype being accessible within the released Rayman 2
F-Zero AX levels being accessible in F-Zero GX
Maniac Mansion in Day of the Tentacle, etc.)
The Star Wars arcade trilogy in Rogue Squadron 3

MODS

Mod Collections:

Big Enhancement Mods/New Campaigns/Total Conversion:

Mods for console games:

Valve Game Mods:

Other mods:

ROMHACKS AND HOMEBREW

General collections:

N64 Romhacks and mods:

NES Romhacks:

SNES Romhacks:

GB/GBA Romhacks:

Genesis/Mega Drive Romhacks:

Randomizers:

Hacks for other platforms:

Homebrew:

English Translations Sorted By Platform:

General stuff:

PS1:

PS2:

DS:

NES/Famicom/Famicom Disk System:

SNES/SFC:

Other Nintendo Systems:

Other General Systems:

(If I screwed up and ended up linking a Spanish translation by accident, there should be an English translation by clicking the game's name above the title screen screenshot. Likewise if you're looking for Spanish translations, you should be able to find them the same way)

STUFF FOR SPECIFIC FRANCHISES

Mario (Mario 64 is just below this one):

Section 1 - Fan games:

Section 2 - Romhacks of the 2D Games:

Section 3 - The other 3D Mario games:

Section 4 - Mario Party:

Section 5 - Mario Kart:

Section 6 - Super Mario RPG/Paper Mario:

Section 7 - Wario, Yoshi, and other characters:

Section 8 - Misc:

YQT-TD9-L4G - Mario Frustration Forever recreation for Mario Maker 2

Super Mario 64 Romhacks:

Section 1 - The Essentials:

Section 2 - Individual Hacks:

Section 3 - Character Hacks:

Section 4 - Meme Hacks:

Section 5 - Kaizo Stuff/Challenge Hacks:

Section 6 - PC Port:

Section 7 - Beta/Iceberg Hacks:

Section 8 - Misc:

BONUS - Christmas Hacks:

Zelda:

Section 1 - Fan Games:

Section 2 - Randomizers:

Section 3 - Ocarina of Time

Sub-Section - Ocarina of Time Challenge romhacks

Section 4 - A Link to the Past romhacks

Section 5 - Romhacks of other games

BONUS - Majora's Mask Stuff that's not exactly rom hacks

Donkey Kong:

Section 1 - Donkey Kong Country

Section 2 - Everything else

Section 3 - The TV show + Other Media

Pokemon

Section 1: Fan Games

Section 2 - Romhack Collections

Section 3 - Enhancement hacks

Section 4 - Difficulty Hacks

Section 5 - Other Stuff

Metroid:

Section 1 - Fan Games:

Section 2 - Collections + Non-Super Romhacks

Section 3 - Super Metroid Romhacks:

BONUS:

Super Smash Bros:

Section 1 - General stuff and Fan Games:

Section 2 - Brawl mods:

Section 3 - Project M:

Section 4 - Super Smash Bros 64:

Pikmin (All 2 unless stated otherwise, each video should include a download in the description):

Sonic:

Section 1 - Fan Games:

Section 2 - PC ports:

Section 3 - Sonic Robo Blast 2

Sub-Section: SRB2 Kart

Section 4 - Romhacks

Section 5 - Mods

Section 6 - Sonic Adventure DX Definitive Mods

Section 7 - Sonic Adventure 2 Definitive mods

Section 8 - Sonic R Definitive Mods

Section 9 - Misc

Banjo Kazooie

Mega Man:

Section 1 - Fan Games:

Section 2 - Romhacks:

Section 3 - Battle Network/Star Force:

Other Capcom titles (Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Monster Hunter):

Castlevania:

Section 1 - Fan Games:

Section 2 - Randomizers and romhacks:

(check out the DOOM WAD section for a cool Castlevania DOOM mod)

Minecraft:

open source Minecraft launcher with forge integration, instance management, etc.

The Elder Scrolls:

Final Fantasy:

Grand Theft Auto/Bully/Max Payne (putting "GTA" here for people who ctrl+f it):

LEGO + Bionicle:

Touhou fan games:

BOOMER SHOOTERS

There's so much boomer shooter stuff it was easier to just make its own dedicated spot on the list

General, non-specific things or things that I don't have enough for to give its own section:

DOOM WADs:

Section 1 - The Essentials:

Section 2 - WAD collections:

NOTE: The old packs are not guaranteed to work on modern source ports and are here for history purposes

Section 3 - General, specific WADs:

Section 4 - WADs based on other video games:

Heretic and Hexen:

Duke Nukem + Other 3D Realms/Apogee Software titles:

Section 1 - Duke Nukem:

Section 2 - Duke Nukem 3D mods:

STANDALONE MODS THAT DO NOT REQUIRE THE GAME (FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS)

Section 3 - Other defunct 3D Realms Games:

Blood:

Quake:

Unreal:

Wolfenstein:

BONUS CONTENT

Christmas Media Grab Bag:

Some mobile stuff:

Niche game stuff:

Productivity:

Wakaliwood Classics (plus at least one new one):

Music:

The completely random section:

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