Quote Originally Posted by Siru Kai
that was not my main question, I REALLY WANT QUESTIONS 1 and 2 ANSWERED!
Patience, grasshopper.


ROM hacks are hard to get because websites that host them tend to get shut down. However, there IS a website that hosts many ROM hacks, but I hesitate to advertise it because if it gets terribly popular it will most likely get shut down. The hacks on these pages are listed alphabetically, so if someone does a FFIV hack called, say "Ultra Dragon Fantasy IV (FFIV hack)" it will be under U. Your best bet is to skim through all the titles for the ones that jump out.

As far as fan made games, these are far less reliable than ROMs. The reason being that they get started and then they get abandoned about a month later when the lone programmer loses interest. There was a Final Fighting Fantasy RPG being cooked up, but the page hosting the info got taken down. Try googling it. You can also browse Gaming World, but most of the games on there never get finished. Such is the tendency of the game creation community (MUGEN and the Zelda program all suffered similar fates, with only the most unimaginative projects being completed).