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Garfield - A Week of Garfield Upgrade

Original game : A Week of Garfield

Platform : NES

Author : Pangent Technologies

Release date : 14 May 2022

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 4.1

Modifications : G, T, P, O

Downloads : 1212

ROM Information

Database match: Garfield no Isshukan (Japan) (En)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210216-231042)
File SHA-1: 8EC3C42E0B788EB7F3E1B1D0E6B3495A6A92A05D
File CRC32: 9D9A3F5E
ROM SHA-1: 2BA415420302708466C78FB1826D03BD0EF43BAC
ROM CRC32: B4FF91E7

Hack description

A week of adventure with the world's favorite comic strip cat!

A Week Of Garfield is somewhat infamous as a poor-quality licensed NES game. It is not quite as bad as its reputation, but it's very flawed and unforgiving.

This hack greatly improves the character graphics for Garfield, and alters other character and item graphics, including Jon and Odie, along with other improvements and corrections.

This hack features:

* Overhauled graphics, especially Garfield, Jon, Odie and the UI.
* Start with full health.
* Level select. Press Select at the title screen to skip stages, then press Start.
* Visible jump kick, with two pixels more range.
* More animation for Odie and four-legged Garfield.
* New graphics for title screen and cutscenes with Jon Arbuckle.
* New font in the style of "Search for Pooky" for the Game Boy Advance.
* All text converted to ASCII format. (Not sure if that is a thing anyone actually cares about.)
* Graphical bugs fixed, like how the lasagna powerup is rendered.
* Palette bugs fixed, like the incorrect palette of the Mice on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Screenshots

Contributions

ContributorType of contributionDescription
Rani BakerHackingHack programming and concept graphics
pangenttechGraphicsGraphics

Reviews

Finally makes this game fun!kaine232022-04-13Version 2.0

I streamed the vanilla game before and finishing it was painful. This hack was really fun! Even with the Retro Arch codes this game is more playable than the original. Love the font choices and the new UI and animations. Wish there was some indication when doing the stage select and if some of the enemy scripts were better. I really recommend this!