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Wonder Boy - Death Counter

Original game : Wonder Boy

Platform : SMS

Author : Sata

Release date : 08 February 2023

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.0

Modifications : P, O

Downloads : 178

ROM Information

Database match: Wonder Boy (USA, Europe, Brazil) (Rev 1)
Database: No-Intro: Master System (v. 20210216-223458)
File/ROM SHA-1: 63149F20BF69CD2F24D0E58841FCFCDACE972F49
File/ROM CRC32: 73705C02

Hack description

This hack repurposes the life counter in Wonder Boy into a death counter. You begin the game with zero deaths, and each time you die the counter increases by 1 (up to 99). This effectively gives you infinite lives but more than just a simple cheat code, it also modifies the in-game UI to help players keep track of deaths and encourage trying to have as few deaths as possible.

[Changes]

- Repurposes the lives counter as a death counter.
- Death counter starts at 0.
- Dying increases the counter.
- Getting extra lives (either from points or the hidden 1up) has no effect.
- At 256 deaths the counter loops back to 99 to prevent a Game Over caused by an overflow.

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