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[Hacks competition 2023] Wonder Boy - Death Counter by Sata
Post Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2023 8:40 am
https://www.smspower.org/Hacks/WonderBoy-SMS-DeathCounter-Mod





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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
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Post Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2023 5:31 pm
A fairly simple hack, but it works well. A good companion for people with limited time to play!
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 10:28 am
I really liked this. It might not be as impressive as a complete KiddEd hack, but it’s very useful.

I think it could be cool if the extra life substracted 1 from the death counter. But this is cool anyway.
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