Golden Axe III Color Hack

Original game : Golden Axe III

Platform : GEN

Author : Dolsilwa

Release date : 11 February 2023

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.1

Modifications : G

Downloads : 2635

ROM Information

Database match: Golden Axe III (Japan) (En)
Database: No-Intro: Genesis (v. 20210226-213851)
File/ROM SHA-1: CD9ECC1DF4E01D69AF9BEBCF45BBD944F1B17F9F
File/ROM CRC32: C7862EA3

Hack description

Golden Axe 3 (Japan) Dolsilwa color hack

Golden Axe 3 is all in all quite a fun game but stages could
look better. This simple color hack makes stages a bit more colorful.

Just use this patch with any .ips patcher and ROM file with CRC32: C7862EA3

I highly recommend to use this patch with "Golden Axe III Redux" hack by BillyTime! Games - it's compatible and it makes gameplay way better.

1.1 changes:
-even more tweaks (to almost all stages).

1.0 changes:
-all stages tweaked or completely recolored.

Hope you'll like it.

Dol.

Contributions

Contributor	Type of contribution	Description
Dolsilwa	Graphics

Reviews

Progress.	Electric_Lizard	2023-03-06	Version 1.1
At first I though this was just "differently terrible" from the original graphics, but in the later levels it truly does look quite a bit better. That first level still looks awful. Not worse than the original. Just not that much better. About the only thing I can think of that might help would be to make the first level at night to change the contrast and detail of the tiles, similar to the technique used in the NES version of Contra.

Still an uglier game than II	auxy	2021-04-28	Version 1.0
... but at least it won't hurt your eyes anymore. Definitely improves the look of the game beyond a doubt, but unfortunately it does nothing about the awkward, stilted gameplay, haha.

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