This hack is an addendum to the “Ninja Gaiden III - Restored” hack. MottZilla’s hack did a lot to revert the changes of the U.S. version of Ninja Gaiden III, but it left a few things intact and this patch aims to revert those as well.

MottZilla’s original hack fixes enemy damage, unlimited continues, and adds a new password system to match the Famicom release.

This patch focuses on a few additional changes, namely:

• The enemy spawn and item pickup locations, counts, and types have been changed to match the Famicom version.
• Ryu now respawns at the beginning of the stage he died on, to match the Famicom.
• Spikes and quicksand now do 3 bars of damage (more information on this in the readme.txt).

This hack can be used alone, but is intended to be used with MottZilla’s “Restored” hack. Doing so is about as close as you can get to playing the original Famicom version of the game as intended with the official English script.

Enjoy!

• Database match: Ninja Gaiden III - The Ancient Ship of Doom (USA)
• Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20180803-121122)
• File SHA-1: 3F2E6DAC76BA14EFC177B5653AB043E53A04D365
• File CRC32: BABD39FA
• ROM SHA-1: 503B64A28E0EAD2EE7312A46A4646B334A899846
• ROM CRC32: 902E3168