Here’s a hack that I’ve made that adds an options mode to TMNT II on the NES. I’ve tried to make it as polished as possible. The idea is to “replace” the original game, since the original mode is intact on it in normal mode. There’s now an easy mode and a hard mode. What easy mode does is cut all damage in half, except when it was already the minimum of “1”. And hard mode doubles all damage. Quite a challenge!!
This has been fully tested on fceux and on a front loader with an everdrive N8.
download link at the bottom of the page
After over 2 years in the making, it’s finally here! A complete revision of the Famicom/NES game developed by Workss/Bits Laboratory in Japan in mid 1986. Only 33 years ago.
I recently bought myself a super treat. The first console I’ve ever played, the “Magnavox Odyssey2”, widely known in Brazil simply as the “Odyssey”. I hadn’t played it in decades! The emulator that exists is a little weird to use if you are not very familiar with the system, not to mention that you don’t have the manuals which are very important to the experience. So it was amazing to play it all again. It brought back so many memories. It’s even A/V modded so the image is amazing on my CRT tvs.
As I’m making my PC game Super Hiking League, sometimes I need a break. Recently, it’s been in the form of translating some of its elements into a NES homebrew program. I can’t call it a game yet, as there’s very little going on gameplay-wise.
Still, it was quite an achievement for myself to get something not only being displayed on screen, but with interactivity resembling a videogame! So I decided to share this as an out-of-the-box, 100% portable, working project that compiles a NES ROM with graphics, screen transitions, music and interactivity. It is for Windows only, and since it uses the graphics from Super Hiking League, it is for educational purposes only, unless stated otherwise. Look in the license.txt file for more info on this.
By running the batch file, it generates a NES Mapper 3 ROM with 2 16k PRG banks and 8 8k CHR banks, with vertical mirroring. You can edit these settings on the nes.cfg and header.asm files in the system folder, provided you know what you are doing. Included in the zip are the ca65.exe and ld65.exe programs required by the batch file. So hopefully, absolutely no configuration is required. Just unzip the folder and run the batch!
I feel like not many working projects such as this are available out there, so here it is! The code is all in assembly language. Use any text editor for the files. The main file is “main.asm” in the src folder. Disclaimer: the code comes from an unexperienced NES developer who’s just really happy that it works, so you may use it to try things out, but do not take it as an example of good coding practices, as I’m pretty sure it’s far from that!
Download Adventure Island Abridged
The hack is in IPS patch format, you need the US ROM of the game and a patcher program. Full instructions at the end of the page.
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I took on a side project last week: to revisit the Adventure Island game on the NES, and see what could be done to make it more enjoyable today.
Happy birthday, Super Pitfall!
On this day, 30 years ago, the game was released for japanese players. Now, a new version can be played and maybe some people will discover what made this game so special, despite its many flaws.
So, what are you waiting for? Go play it and I hope you enjoy it!
Também disponível em português (incluso no zip)!
Here we have several unused graphics from the original NES Super Pitfall. They were taken from different portions of the ROM and assembled into this single image. The image is pretty much complete in terms of unused graphics. Please note that due to how NES graphics work, the original colors were lost. These colors were chosen then for contrast.
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