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Balloon Fight - 4 players hack

Original game : Balloon Fight

Platform : NES

Author : mishra

Release date : 31 January 2020

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.1

Modifications : P

Downloads : 2416

ROM Information

Database match: Balloon Fight (Japan)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20180803-121122)
File SHA-1: BE2C30D69B1EBA76EAF1CC259DFA41F0F29B0FB2
File CRC32: A0DABE0A
ROM SHA-1: 0F85A4D325B97D7977177B9C7808F0558239766E
ROM CRC32: 2B462010

Hack description

A hack of Balloon Fight for 3 and 4 players.
Compatible with both four-score and 4-player adapter. Also adds some features.

Changes in version 1.1.:
1)Fixed some bugs in collision handling and in displaying points after the bonus.
2)In "balloon trip" mode, after a players crashes, the music turns on again.
3)The "game over" screen displays which player scored the most points
4)Added "cheat menu" with following options:
- The number of lives from 0 to 15
- On/off extra enemies
- On/off the armor of extra enemies (3 hits to pop the balloon)
- Off/on rebound from the top of the screen (to not allow players to sit out on the top of the screen)

Screenshots

Contributions

ContributorType of contributionDescription
mishraHacking

Reviews

Very Nice!BreadFang2022-12-12Version 1.1

This is a very nice hack. Me and my mates like Balloon Fight a lot and we play it when we meet up so a 4 player version is exactly what we need :D

One minor thing I need to mention is on real hardware (I flashed this on a cart to play on a real NES) there's a visual bug in the Balloon Trip mode where the score strip on the top of the screen scrolls with the level when it shouldn't. But however it's worth noting that we're playing this on a PAL NES, so this could purely be a PAL problem. Which is understandable given this was likely coded for NTSC?

Anyway that bug hardly matters and the rest is brilliant.

Awesome hackPersephone2021-11-02Version 1.1

Playing with 2 players are awesome, and even more with 4 players !!!

You can watch my video gameplay (one year ago) here :

https://www.facebook.com/dinar.persephone/posts/2105331169603911

I was playing it alone though, so it would be tricky to control 4 characters at once :D

Simply awesome!Smart892019-12-07Version 1.0

The game with 2 players is fun but with 4 players is really enjoyable! Keep it up! I would nice see more games support til 4 players! Thank you! I hope that cosmic balloon fight and board fight will support 4 players too