Sweet! I’m not the only one that’s done game mod as proposal tool!

Her favorite series is Legend of Zelda, and Link to the Past is up towards the top of both of our favorites of the series. I combined a bunch of QoL romhacks for it (CD quality music, bug fixes, day/night cycle, some pallette changes to be more accurate to promo art, quick item swap, etc). Even had to do some minor editing to patches so they didn’t overwrite each other wrong.

Overtop, I did a Link and Zelda swap, so the intro has Zelda rescuing Link. Then a comprehensive run through all the text in-game to swap Link and Zelda (and correct pronouns), and put my name over Link. So now the intro is her rescuing me from the dungeon.

Then the intro ending dialogue dump when you rescue “the princess” was edited to ask her on a date, to a place we tried to go on our first valentine’s day together but turned out to be entirely booked out for the day. Got a do over on that, fancy dinner, then on the way back to her apartment diverted us to the park where we met “to play pokemon go” (an addiction of hers at the time).

She was so into Pokemon that she almost tripped over me kneeling down with the ring.