I’ve been working a lot on my new game. Nothing to show yet though, so in the meantime here’s the manual for the japanese version of Super Pitfall scanned for your delight. I believe the US release got a pretty close translation, but who knows, there may be some differences.
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)!
This just arrived in the mail, what perfect timing. And it is in great condition. Famicom cartridges have a great charm to them.
Well, now I have the first and latest versions of Super Pitfall!
Only 5 days for the release of the hack!
How far has this hack come in the last 5 months… It went from “maybe the game would be good if all items were visible, but I don’t really know how” to this. I wanna thank everyone for their invaluable feedback and support. Disch, snarfblam, jonk, Da_GPer, protomank, M-Tee, dougeff… and countless others, really. The community rocks. But I wanna thank specially macbee for the daily talks about romhacking. It was actually most of the time about my hack though, and I thought that’d be annoying, so I’m sorry about the times I talked too much! I was just very happy to be learning more about the NES everyday, and to have someone so experienced to talk to about it meant a huge deal.
Also, thanks to FCandChill for the help with the new songs and for breaking the initial barrier figuring out the sound format. It completely changed the face of the hack.
After I release the hack I’m going to move on to my PC game (wish me luck!). I plan to develop it for about 6 months, and I’m one to honor a schedule, so expect it to be released and I hope people are interested in it once it’s done. I don’t know exactly what it’ll be, but I will use my original assets from this hack, at least initially, so that gives an idea of what kind of direction I’m going to take.
FCandChill composed this creepy track for the Dark World. Check it out!
Here is a completely new song composed by FCandChill! It is going to be played on the warp areas. So catchy!
Again, with the work of rockman_x_2002 and FCandChill another song was improved, the balloon theme! Check it out on the video.
Thanks to the efforts of rockman_x_2002 for converting the atari theme into NES format, and of FCandChill for adapting it to Super Pitfall and helping me figure out the music format in the game, the music is now present in all of its glory on the hack. Here is a video!
The songs in Pitfall II for the atari 2600 use a special sound chip made of 100% awesome. Here’s a gameplay video to exemplify. So what better song to replace the main theme in Super Pitfall NES? hint: there isn’t a better song. So, yes, a music replacement is underway for the hack. But wait, not only that, a completely new song made by FCandChill is also going to be added! Thank you!
Check out this amazing Pitfall II poster for the atari 2600 game. It just breathes adventure! It even has a list of actors in this action game as if it was an action movie poster. The funny bit is that it features cave rat “as himself”. Wow. I’ve always been a fan of cave rat. I gotta play this.
This is for our brazilian fans: my good friend Guilherme makes a great Tcheco impression and recorded this video. It’s like I’m seeing double here. Spoiler: It’s in portuguese.
Essa é para os fãs brazucas: meu grande amigo Guilherme faz uma ótima imitação de Tcheco e gravou este vídeo. Parece que estou vendo dobrado!
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.
A few comments:
I got some hama beads and did some plastic pixel art. These are some famous characters, old and new. We have NES, Arcade and PC. Can you name them all?
I’ve managed to improve the animations for some of the dark world enemies. Originally they already had 4 frames of animations prepared, but it was really unoptimized.
I’m hard at work doing the Dark Lair graphics for my hack. There are still many free tiles for me to use, so expect some graphical additions still. I never knew making NES style graphics was this much fun. Check out the preview!
Hello guys and gals, it is the beginning of a new era for me. With the upcoming release of my Super Pitfall hack I’ve decided to create this blog and use it to keep you up to date with my projects.
As you may already know if you followed the thread over at romhacking.net, September 5th 2016 marks the 30th birthday of the original japanese release date of Super Pitfall! I plan to release the hack the day before so you can (hopefully) celebrate the game’s anniversary by playing it. Please do!
