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Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos has been graphically enhanced! This graphics pack ports the graphics from Ninja Gaiden Trilogy for use with the NES version of the game and its 8-bit audio. It also goes several steps further than that. Graphical effects removed from Trilogy are kept intact (or “restored”), including lightning in Stage 3-1, ice glow in Stage 5-2, and fades in cutscenes. Various graphical anomalies and errors in Trilogy have also been fixed.
This pack is designed for use with the U.S. release of the game. It also requires Mesen v0.9.5 or later. As with other NES graphics packs, this pack needs to be extracted to Mesen’s “HdPacks” folder. All the files - .png files and hires.txt - need to be included in a subfolder in that directory with the same name as the game ROM being loaded. Make sure that “Use HDNES HD packs” is enabled in video options.
Enjoy!
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Visual SAK: Visual Swiss Army Knife
A new tool developed that will be more like the real Swiss Army Knife - a toolbox in one package, easy to use, does few things but do them with precision! The toolbox will is focusing on ripping of visuals from different ROM - Sprites, Graphics, Palettes, Tiles, … but not casual ripping rather - finding, documenting, exporting and importing.
Main Features:
- Mapping of graphics
- Naming of graphic objects
- Saving all findings as a document/project for easy reuse
- Multiple BPP format
- Multiple compression formats
- Exporting of graphic objects in PNG
- easy to manipulate attributes to find out desired graphic (Width, Height, Offset)
- customizable palette for displaying a graphic with the correct colors
Highlights:
- Many, many BPP formats and constantly increasing. 1/2/3/4/8 BPP in the specific for SNES interwoven bit-planes format. Mode 7 specific format. Even normal bitmap format that every contemporary PC uses. GBA formats. The list may increase on request from users.
- Different compression methods. Currently implemented are Final Fantasy V/VI and Chrono Trigger compression methods for SNES. Popular GBA LZ77 with tag 10 (aka LZ77-10)
- Flexible palette manipulation. Options to read it from ROM address, from ZSNES save-state file, manipulating individual entries, fast access to predefined monochrome palettes.
- Maximum precision in interpolating ROM’s colors to contemporary hardware. For example many tools even editors (like YY-CHR) loose precision in color mapping. For example pure White 31,31,31 is usually mapped to 248, 248, 248. This tool will map it to 255,255,255.
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ROM Hacks News
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The following Hacks have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
Addendum
- Shadow Dragon - Updated Gaiden Requirements Removal Patch (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon)(NDS)
Complete
- The Legend of Zelda - Link’s Shadow (The Legend of Zelda)(NES)
- Rockman 2: Plus! (Mega Man 2)(NES)
- Rockman 2: Another (Mega Man 2)(NES)
Improvement
- Star Fox 2 - 52MHz Overclockable (Star Fox 2)(SNES)
- The Legend of Zelda - Majora’s Mask - Masked Quest (The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask)(N64)
- Prologue in Hard Modes (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon)(NDS)
- Dragon Warrior DX (Dragon Warrior)(NES)
- Dragon Warrior 2 DX (Dragon Warrior II)(NES)
- Dragon Warrior 3 DX (Dragon Warrior III)(NES)
- Wonder Boy (Adventure Island)(NES)
- Dragon Ball Raging Blast PS3 Anime Music (Dragon Ball: Raging Blast)(PS3)
- Dragon Ball Raging Blast X360 Anime Music (Dragon Ball: Raging Blast)(XB360)
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Translations News
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The following Translations have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
English
- Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom (Fully Playable)(GEN)
- Asuka 120% Limited: Burning Fest. (Addendum)(SAT)
Portuguese
- Ghouls ‘n Ghosts (Fully Playable)(GEN)
Spanish
- 1942 (Fully Playable)(NES)
- 1943: The Battle of Midway (Fully Playable)(NES)
- Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge (Fully Playable)(GB)
- Mega Man II (Fully Playable)(GB)
- Mega Man III (Fully Playable)(GB)
- Mega Man (Fully Playable)(GG)
- Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker (Fully Playable)(SMS)
- Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker (Fully Playable)(GEN)
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Utilities News - RHDN Project Page
CadEditor is the level editor for many classic console games, such as Chip & Dale, Darkwing Duck, Duck Tales 1-2, Little Mermaid, Tiny Toon Adventures, Jungle Book, Flintstones, Little Nemo, Megaman 4-6, Contra Hard Corps.
Now there are 1172 configs for levels from 118 different games (and the list grows with each update).
It also used as the level viewer to find secrets and easter eggs in this games.
CadEditor using the system of plug-ins allowing users to add new games by themselves. It also supports user scripts to automatize work with CadEditor.
In bundle with CadEditor comes plugin for exporting map and TSA allowing to export those in both binary and image forms for use in homebrew projects.
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Translations News
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The following Translations have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
English
- Cleopatra no Mahou (Fully Playable)(FDS)
- Stinger (Fully Playable)(NES)
- Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (Fully Playable)(GEN)
- Last Bible III (Fully Playable)(SNES)
German
- DoReMi Fantasy: Milon no DokiDoki Daibouken (Addendum)(SNES)
Spanish
- Mega Man Battle Network (Fully Playable)(GBA)
- Mickey Mouscapade (Fully Playable)(NES)
- RoboCop Versus The Terminator (Fully Playable)(GG)
- Robocop Versus The Terminator (Fully Playable)(SMS)
- Sagaia (Fully Playable)(SMS)
- Sagaia (Fully Playable)(GB)
- Sagaia (Fully Playable)(GEN)
- Rolling Thunder 2 (Fully Playable)(GEN)
- Rolling Thunder 3 (Fully Playable)(GEN)
- Thunder Fox (Fully Playable)(GEN)
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Last Bible III for the SNES has finally been translated from Japanese into American English and the patch is now available for download.
The Last Bible series of games began on the Game Boy as a spinoff of the Megami Tensei franchise. Instead of the usual near-future apocalypse setting, Last Bible’s setting is closer to light medieval fantasy. Combat is turn-based, and retains the Megaten standard of being able to persuade enemies to join your team, as well as fusing them together to create stronger beasts.
The English translation project started in April 2017 at the request of Tom, the same person who translated the Game Boy Color version of Last Bible II. DDSTranslation did all of the hacking, and FlashPV was in charge of the graphics work and font.
Now after a year of coding, translating, and testing, the final result can be enjoyed by all Megaten and JRPG fans. (Despite what you may have heard online, and despite the seemingly childish cover art, this game is not intended for children.)
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The Dark Kingdom has been resurrected! In the name of the moon, go beat everyone up.
The Genesis/Mega Drive version of the 1993 Sailor Moon beat-’em-up has been translated into English, featuring a translation by Eien Ni Hen and hacking by Supper. As one of the five Sailor Senshi of love and justice, players punch, kick, and suplex (hey, it’s a beat-’em-up) through hordes of youma to reach the enemy’s stronghold and protect the earth.
Though nominally a port of the SNES game, this version came out later and is actually considerably enhanced over the original, with expanded stages, heavily tweaked gameplay, new music, and an actual plot. It’s well worth a look for both Sailor Moon and beat-’em-up fans.
This project was originally kicked off without a translator, so major thanks to Filler for agreeing to pick it up and ultimately arranging for Eien Ni Hen to handle things.
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3 years since their last release, DvD Translations has released two translations on the same day:
- The Cursed Treasure of Cleopatra for the FDS
- Burnin’ TwinBee - The Rescue of Dr. Cinnamon! for the NES
The first is historically significant as it is the last RPG Square made before Final Fantasy. Although associated and credited with projects in the past, this is NintendoComplete’s first major translation with hacking by DvD and translation assistance by aishsha. The game supports 3 separate fonts which are user selectable at any time in the game by simply pressing Up or Down while holding down the Select button. Up independently cycles the menu fonts while Down cycles the body text fonts. If you get tired of looking at one font, you can always pick a different one!
The latter is the second game in the TwinBee shooter series. It was released in the US as Stinger, but Konami removed the simultaneous 3rd player support as there was no multi-tap available at the time for the NES. This translation restores that support by hacking the game to support the NES Satellite/4 Score along with a complete English title screen and explosion sprites, and the two missing screens of dialog which Konami removed. All hacking was done by DvD with a translation by aishsha.
More information on both games can be found at https://dvdtranslations.eludevisibility.org.
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ROM Hacks News
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The following Hacks have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
Complete
- SMB3: The Rainbow Realms (Super Mario Bros. 3)(NES)
- Super Mario Land X (Super Mario Land)(GB)
- Fire Emblem Resonance (Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones)(GBA)
- New Mario Bros. (Super Mario Bros.)(NES)
- Another Mario World (Super Mario World)(SNES)
- Another Mario World 2: Luigi’s Mission (Super Mario World)(SNES)
- Super Samuroy Adventures (Super Mario World)(SNES)
Improvement
- EarthBound: Enhanced (EarthBound)(SNES)
- Out Run Arcade Colors (OutRun)(GEN)
- Megaman 3: Speed patches (Mega Man 3)(NES)
- Pokemon Silver: Time Changer (Pokémon: Silver Version)(GB)
- 10 Lives Code for Probotector/Operation C Colorized Version (Konami GB Collection Vol. 1)(GB)
- Yoshi’s Island - No Crying, Improved SFX and Red Coins (Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island)(SNES)
- Pokemon Crystal: Time Changer (Pokémon: Crystal Version)(GB)
- Super One Up (Super Mario Bros.)(NES)
- Self Randomising ROM (Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones)(GBA)
- Gradius AC 2000 (Gradius)(NES)
- DoraeBomb (Bomberman)(NES)
- Icy in Miracle World (Alex Kidd in Miracle World)(SMS)
Spoof
- 1493 - The Year After (1943: The Battle of Midway)(NES)
