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Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back Easy

Original game : Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Platform : NES

Author : chronix

Release date : 10 February 2019

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.0

Modifications : P

Downloads : 972

ROM Information

ROM CRC32: 0x240de736
ROM MD5: 0x9f8286fb3cb61583bfc92c82d848e5d9
Mapper name: MMC3

Hack description

Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back Easy (NES)

Changes:
* First level isn't slippery.
* Cold water doesn't kill Tauntaun instantly.
* Luke can be moved left or right while falling down.
* Some enemies and bosses have less power and less hitpoints.

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Contributions

ContributorType of contributionDescription
chronixHacking

Reviews

A decent improvement but one annoyanceMegaManModelT1012023-01-04Version 1.0

So while I haven't beaten it yet, but it does feel and play a bit better, there is one real issue with the hack and dunno if it can be fixed. While on the tauntaun it's not present, but any time Luke falls for long distances now, it either plays the high pitch sound or saber sound rapidly. And I've tried it on different emulators and still get the same result.

So while I do recommend this patch, the noise can now get very annoying due to the platforming involved and such, I'm not sure if the creator or anyone else can fix the sound bug that resulted from the movement in the air tweak, because it's hard to keep going in the long term for it.