Cool NES Romhack

Cool NES romhack. Master Higgins has cool glasses and wears his hat backwards. Gameplay otherwise unchanged. Honeygirl got an update as well.

All of the other sprites looked too good to change.

Anyway, most hacks look absolutely horrible. I wanted to make something that people could actually play--mod to the classic that I'd actually play. I'm pretty happy with the results!

All the sprites are changed, no loose pixels or weird/strange/cheap graphics.

Download Cool Advent Isle

Development time: 4 hours. Check out the screenshot:

Proto Man 2

This is a Mega Man 2 romhack. I was not happy with the other Proto Man 2 romhack, although I did use it as a base. From there, everything was changed, from the graphics, to the title screen, to the palette, to the story, etc. The quality is very high, and I think fans will appriciate the little touches like the intro and an accurate palette and perfect sprites for Proto Man. Because Mega Man and Proto Man (in MM9, MM3, MM10, etc. are different shapes, romhackers of MM2 have to be a little creative with the sprites. These are the MM3 sprites which I developed for Proto Man 3, but fixed up a little bit. I used Tile Layer Pro, Nesticle, Hexposure, and Thingy to hack up this bad boy.

Mega Man 2 is much easier to hack than Mega Man 3. One only has to alter Mega Man's sprite once. However, editing the text was a major challenge, but I learned a lot about NES Text editing and I am 100% certain that I can now change any text in any NES rom. Anyway, if you don't like Mega Man 2 with a mullet, I hope you're a fan of Proto Man 2.

Features:

-Play as Proto Man in Mega Man 2
-New Title Screen
-New READY Message
-Changed palettes
-No awkward sprites/pixels!
-NEW INTRO STORY!!!

Download Proto Man 2!

Proto Man 3

I wanted to play as Proto Man in Mega Man 3 but a good romhack didn't exist so I made one myself. Before Proto Man 3, the best Proto MM3 hack was Pixelboy's "Break Man." However, I always though Proto looked funny in that version. More importantly, "Break Man" was FUCKING PINK! Proto Man, obviously, should be red and grey, which is how I rendered him here.

I've been painstakingly meticulous with this romhack, every one of Proto's pixels is in the proper place, a rarity in these things. Usually one or two frames of animation are off, which really makes the entire effort worthless except as a minor curiosity. There are no awkward frames of animation, Proto Man runs, jumps, and shoots like a pro, and I think this version looks good enough to burn on to a real NES cart (if anyone is ever so inclined).

Hacking Mega Man 3 presents many more challenges than either MM1 or MM2. Graphics must be changed in (some cases) 8 separate locations in order to properly display in-game. The palettes, likewise, exist in multiple places. Several utilities were used: Tile Layer Pro (for graphics), MM3TextEdit (very easily allows for editing of the text), MegaManFLE (a MM3-5 editor), and Hexposure (good old fashion HEX editing). This was a lot of fun, and very useful as an exercise, and I'm very pleased with the finished product and hopefully the quality here will show. Enjoy!

Download Proto Man 3 (Mega Man 3 Hack)

New Version of Proto Man 3

Only a few hours and I'm already releasing a new version!

If you downloaded Proto Man 3 before this post you should re-downloaded it now!

This is just a notice because the file name did not change, so you should delete the old version and grab the good one.

Original Mega Man Helmetless Hack

I already did Mega Man 2, so why not 1? MM1 is actually slightly harder to hack, but I think the sprite looks even better in this version than in the MM2 hack. I also changed the title screen in this one to reflect the fact that it is the Helmetless version.

Download the Mega Man 1 Helmetless rom.

Mega Man 2 Helmetless Rom

Who needs a goddamn helmet to fuck Wily's shit up? Mega Man's hair is longer than his 9/10 sprites, because I thought it looked cooler. This is a great improvement over the previous version. Certain awkward frames of animation have been corrected, and Mega Man flows very smoothly. I also edited the title screen to say Mega Man II: Helmetless, and the dates to 2010-2011. Download the Mega Man 2 Helmetless Rom. I used Tile Layer Pro, a great utility for NES graphics hacking.

This project started a few year ago when I hacked Mega Man 2 so that I could play as Helmetless Mega Man. I intended to hex edit the rom to make Mega Man take double damage, but decided that was unnecessary. I posted some preliminary videos on youtube, to mixed responses. I'll admit that the sprite looked awkward back then, and was even glitched on one frame of animation, but now this mod works 100% perfectly.

Enjoy! I'll do some more videos of the new version...