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Excellent improvements to version 1.1! The easy mode and its $ 10,000 give great gameplay to the game! A great final job giving professionalism to this job!

I have been very excited to play this hack and was a bit put off my the initial stages of the game. It made sense to start with no money, after all you spent the last of the petty cash.

What I found is that after you obtain the ghost vacuum at the shop, take your ghost icon on the main map and drive over the ghosts heading towards the zuul building. Then on your way to your next location, drive a tad slower than your normally would. (I personally drive 88mph.)

When you see a ghost on the road, get close and hold the A button. Do that three more times and you get 1600 per trip. Same thing applies for gas barrels. Should help keep the money rolling in to afford an unlicensed nuclear accelerator or two.

The main highlights of the hack are Its shiny new graphics with some inspiration from New Ghostbusters II, The excellent new voice clip when starting the game, Mr. Stay Puft coming out to wreck buildings like the Sega Master System version, better driving mechanics, and a cheat mode to start the game of with a loan.

My only criticism with this hack would have to be the missed opportunity to improve the variety of music offered aside from the Ghostbusters' theme. No other version improves on this front either, but so muting the game works too.

All in All, this is what the NES version of the game could and should have looked like, what it should have played like and should have sounded like.

If this hack replaced all the other copies of NES Ghostbusters, I would be a happy camper.

Bet James Rolfe would sleep better at night too.

So I owned the NES game growing up and beat it twice and vividly remember the both times, huge accomplishments. The first time it was my brother and I switching back and fourth, great memories, and the second time it was solo. I always thought the game was really hard and I think I only passed it because it was one of the few NES games we owned. The graphics were also lacking and the climb to Zuul was brutal and had to be done with a NES Max controller.

Really I can only judge this remake off of the drive to the shop, gas station, and base as I can't get enough money for the beam before the game ends. You start off with no money, in the un-hacked version you start off with $10,000, enough to buy the capture beam($3000) so you can start busting ghosts(the main part of the game) right away. To earn money in the remake you need to get a Ghost Vacuum, which is free and suck up ghosts on the road for $400 a pop. The basic beam in the remake is also $3000, so that is like 8 ghosts. The drive the Headquarters has no ghosts, or I have never gotten any on 4 tries of the game, as the drive to the shop. So, the only way to find Ghosts to make money is drive to the Gas Station, and most the time there is one ghost on the way and sometimes none. However, you can't just keep driving to the Gas Station over and over again because the second time you drive there it is instant, like you're already there. So you need to drive the the gas station, get one ghost on the way, then drive to the shop, no ghosts on the way, and then just leave, then drive back to the gas station for one ghost and repeat that until you got 8 ghosts to get enough money to buy the basic beam. By this time the State Puff Marshmallow Man has destroyed nearly all the buildings which doesn't matter because it is game over anyway.

The funnest part of the un-hacked game(besides beating it) was busting ghosts. The un-hacked version you get a beam with one drive, to the shop, and then you can start the meat and potatoes of the game. This one takes FOREVER to get to that point and by that time the game is over anyway.

Maybe I'm missing something, like there is an Olive Garden to give blowjobs in the bathroom for money but I can't find it. I really thought I downloaded a broken IPS patch here and went directly to NESrocks.net to get the patch there but it is the same.

It has to be easier that what I'm making it out to be because I watched a few reviews on youtube and they have footage of every part of the game. I really hope someone makes a new review of this remake calling me an idiot and explains what I'm doing wrong because I want to love this hack because I have such fond memories of the original and a face-lift sounds great. In fact if I find out what I'm doing wrong I'll come back and put a EDIT at that top, probably praising the game, but leave this intact.

With all they hype this is getting on youtube, like I said, I can't be playing it correctly. Unless there are some game genie codes they used to get the beams right away so they could make their review video faster I'm playing this game wrong. I honestly think I'm one of a handful of people that has passed the un-hacked game, or at least judging from peoples thoughts on the game. It was difficult but not Deadly Towers difficult. . .