StarTropics

Platform : Nintendo Entertainment System

Publisher : Nintendo

Release date : December 1990

Category : Action Adventure

Game description

StarTropics is an action-adventure game for the NES that plays something like a cross between The Legend of Zelda and Dragon Quest. Players control American teenager Mike Jones, whose uncle Dr. J has gone missing from his laboratory on C-Island. Mike sets out to find his uncle, taking his ship/submarine on a journey across a tropical island archipelago.

Designed especially for international NES players, StarTropics is notable for being one of the few first-party NES games to never be released in Japan. One of its more innovative features at the time was requiring players to interact with a physical note included in the game box to progress in the story.

5 Hacks

Title	Description	Author	Category	Version	Date
StarTropics (MMC3)	This patch converts StarTropics from MMC6 to MMC3. It is only useful for any emulators or flashcart...	tqhoang	Bug Fix	1.0	26 May 2020
StarTropics - Mapper Fix	This patch fixes the header to use MMC6, in order to play hacked ROMs in emulators such as Mesen. W...	TakuikaNinja	Bug Fix	1.0	05 January 2020
StarTropics - Refined Mike Sprite	This patch refines the sprites used for Mike, for example: [list] [li]His walking left/right sprit...	TakuikaNinja	Improvement	1.0	28 January 2018
StarTropics - No Movement Delay	This patch removes the 8 frame delay after changing directions and reduces it to 1 frame. You can st...	Trisma	Improvement	1.0	09 February 2017
StarTropics (Music Fix)	Two of the music tracks in StarTropics are slightly broken, the island map music, and one of the end...	rainwarrior	Bug Fix	1.0	19 November 2014

1 Translations

Title	Language	Description	Author	Category	Version	Date
StarTropics	Spanish	Spanish translation for Startropics on the NES, all text in the game including graphics has been tra...	jackic	Fully Playable	0.99	06 January 2019

1 Documents

Title	Description	Author	Category	Version	Date
Startropics Level Format Notes	This is a text file archiving some level format notes posted by Jiggleysaint and ETG in a thread on ...	Jigglysaint	Game Specific	1.0	8 Oct 2007

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