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1943 - Rapidfire

Original game : 1943: The Battle of Midway

Platform : NES

Author : baochan120

Release date : 14 May 2018

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.0

Modifications : P

Downloads : 1120

ROM Information

Name: 1943 - The Battle of Midway (U) [!].nes
CRC32: d131bf15
MD5: deeaf9d51fc3f13f11f8e1a65553061a
SHA-1: 443d235fbdd0e0b3adb1dcf18c6caa7eceec8bee
SHA-256: 2fd596ac4563b910a4d0a36d4a3658910fcfa822afd4f78bd62f73552e17ea00

Hack description

Adds a moderate rapid-fire capability to the basic weapon and shotgun special weapon ("cheerios"). It is intentionally slightly less effective than the 3-way weapon's rapidfire (one less bullet fired per button press), but much easier on the thumb than one bullet per press, and still allows charging of the laser while the gun is firing (which a rapidfire controller would not). This should make the game significantly easier.

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Contributions

ContributorType of contributionDescription
baochan120Hacking

Reviews

Not bad but not perfectPOWCo-op2019-01-24Version 1.0

I recommend the patch because it's an autofire. But is it perfect? After just three or four seconds of pressing down the button, I still fire a beam. That means I'll be forced to use a beam when I don't want to. So I have to stop pressing every couple seconds, which can get annoying. The patch encounters this difficulty because 1943 has three attacks and NES has two buttons. One is fire which charges up a beam when you hold it, and the second is a full screen attack. There could be a solution somewhere that I'm not seeing.