Hey guys, I'm not as active here as I used to be (last submitted TAS was 9 years ago). But I lurk and there's always something new to see here. This is one of my favorite boards.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure some of you are already aware, but I've been making a Super Pitfall hack for the past 5 months and it's going to be out in 2 weeks, on the day the game celebrates its 30th anniversary (from the japanese release date).
I have completely remade everything that I thought was bad about the game, within my limitations. Nonetheless, I kept learning as I went with it (man I learned a lot about asm and nes debugging), so what started with a simple idea to hack it and make all items visible turned into a complete remake. I kept the basic gameplay and level layout intact, but everything else I changed (hopefully popular opinion will agree to call the changes improvements!).
What's new:
- All new graphics
- Improved performance
- Game Design improvements
- New songs
- New hud
- A lot less bugs and overall polish (too many small changes to count)
So head over to
the thread and see the changes. I recommend going from the last page and back.
I hope the hack motivates people to play the game. It's a strange case of a really badly executed, otherwise good game and a lot of people like it despite its flaws (including me), so I saw that as an opportunity to fix it.
I have also made a website for my projects:
http://nesrocks.com
When the hack is finished I'll update this post with a link to download the patch.
