Wonder Boy - Death Counter - Mod - Hacks

Version	Date	By	IPS download	Size
1.0	27 Mar 2023	Sata	WonderBoy-SMS-DeathCounter-Mod-1.0.zip	1KB

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Competition Entry

This was a competition entry in 2023

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. This was inspired by similar hacks of the games Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden on the NES.

[Changes]

Repurposes the life 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.

ROM Information:

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

All Versions

file name	size (bytes)
total 1 file	1.3K
WonderBoy-SMS-DeathCounter-Mod-1.0.zip	1.3K

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