ROM Hack - Ninja Gaiden III - Restored

Ninja Gaiden III - Restored

Original game : Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom

Platform : NES

Author : MottZilla

Release date : 01 March 2012

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.0

Modifications : P

Downloads : 10725

ROM Information

Country: USA
MD5 Checksum: 417ad83cf8f735cf5d2550fbb4602dc5
File Size: 163.25 KB
Ninja Gaiden 3 - The Ancient Ship Of Doom (U) [!].nes

Hack description

The US version of Ninja Gaiden 3 is inferior to the Japanese
version in 3 ways. Unless you really want a challenge I suppose. Greatly increased damage from
all hazards, limit of 5 continues, and no password system. My previous patch
addressed the first two problems,
fixed the damage and you never run out of continues. This patch finally tackles
the final piece, passwords.

The US version had all password program code removed. So I started from scratch
and devised my own password
program code. It works well, and the passwords match the Japanese version's
passwords. This finally is the
definite version of NG3 to play. The original US release and Ninja Gaiden
Trilogy release all have drawbacks
to the Japanese version, and this patch is on par with the Japanese version, or
better since it is in English.

Contributions

Contributor	Type of contribution	Description
MottZilla	Hacking

Reviews

A hack that transform the difficulty from Hard to Normal Mode	Cupshadow	2021-02-07	Version 1.0
Seeing how the developer release the USA version next month after the original release in Japan. I can see how they made it much harder. If you have a problem with the damage and other item placement in this game, Then this hack will fix the damage on this game. However, Spike damage still deal 6 damage instead 3 damage. Another thing that they change is the limited continue which only has 5 chance to continue. Although there's a cheat to fix it that grant you 99 continues. While the checkpoint and other aspects is not restored, It's not a big issue since having the checkpoint could make the game a bit easy.

Need to make control point improvements like the Japanese version	edwinmusic	2019-07-18	Version 1.0
There is still a difference with the Japanese version, this patch does not restore the control points, in the area 1-1C and 1-2A after dying, it returns to the area 1-1A, same in all the levels, it returns to the beginning of each level after dying. They should do it!

Screw the original NTSC-U/C Release, this is the way to play Ninja GaideN III.	Apocalypse612	2019-05-07	Version 1.0
This is THE way to play Ninja Gaiden III. Excellent work, MottZilla. The Japanese made this game so difficult for America is because of the rental business that was outlawed in Japan. They did this so people would do re-rentals, and thus make them more money. But, unfortunatly with a LOT of NES games, this practice made them WAY TOO DIFFICULT. This is one of those intances. This patch makes the game much more like the original Japanese version, but in English! It's a lot more enjoyable, too, but the Act 7 gauntlet is still relentless so be prepared to memorize patterns and create strategies!

Better, but enemy and item placement not restored - making it still too hard.	DrDimension	2016-08-27	Version 1.0
Makes the US game playable, finally, but still not as fun as the Japanese version due to still too high difficulty.

Thank you.	Zero-ELEC	2013-04-14	-
Seriously, thank you so much for this. It's so great to finally play Ninja Gaiden III the way it was originally intended.

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