ROM Hack - Mega Man - No Score

Mega Man - No Score

Original game : Mega Man

Platform : NES

Author : AVIX64

Release date : 08 January 2022

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.0

Modifications : O

Downloads : 488

ROM Information

Database match: Mega Man (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210216-231042)
File SHA-1: 2F88381557339A14C20428455F6991C1EB902C99
File CRC32: 5DED683E
ROM SHA-1: 6047E52929DFE8ED4708D325766CCB8D3D583C7D
ROM CRC32: 6EE4BB0A

Hack description

This is a patch of Mega Man that gets rid of the score system to make it more in-line with future entries.

Changes:
-Score balls aren't dropped from enemies.
-The score is not displayed on the top of the screen.
-Clear points aren't added up nor displayed when selecting a boss.
-The number of score balls collected isn't counted after defeating a boss; you go straight to the select screen.

An additional patch is included which also disables the select button, which in turn fixes the bug that allows players to get a lot of hits on bosses from one shot.

Huge thank you goes to bisqwit for his Mega Man 1 disassembly.

Contributions

Contributor	Type of contribution	Description
AVIX64	Original Hacking

Reviews

Somewhat works as intended, but there's problems	Compassman	2022-01-10	Version 1.0
The hack works as intended for the most part, skipping having to wait for the score to tally at the end of the stage feels very good and all, but there were issues I ran into the moment I started trying to play the game. For starters, of all the emulators I've tried so far, it only works on FCEUX. High/Cycle-accurate emulators like PuNES and Mesen/Mesen-X will reset during the stage start sequence, and this behavior I can confirm occurs on real hardware too (via EverDrive-N8 Pro). The score is also printed on the Game Over screen, which suggests that score wasn't technically removed from the game engine, only masked. There's another bug that occurs during the ending after Dr. Wily is defeated, there's bugged tiles assigned to the health bar which lets it display during the whole credits sequence. If this hack works for you on FCEUX, that's fine. But I can't recommend the hack due to the issues mentioned above.

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