This hack repurposes the life counter in Wonder Boy into a death counter. You begin the game with zero deaths, and each time you die the counter increases by 1 (up to 99). This effectively gives you infinite lives but more than just a simple cheat code, it also modifies the in-game UI to help players keep track of deaths and encourage trying to have as few deaths as possible.

[Changes]

• Repurposes the lives counter as a death counter.
• Death counter starts at 0.
• Dying increases the counter.
• Getting extra lives (either from points or the hidden 1up) has no effect.
• At 256 deaths the counter loops back to 99 to prevent a Game Over caused by an overflow.

• Database match: Wonder Boy (USA, Europe, Brazil) (Rev 1)
• Database: No-Intro: Master System (v. 20210216-223458)
• File/ROM SHA-1: 63149F20BF69CD2F24D0E58841FCFCDACE972F49
• File/ROM CRC32: 73705C02