Maniac Mansion Uncensored

Hack description

Maniac Mansion for the Nintendo Entertainment System was heavily censored prior to its release. This hack seeks to replace as much censored content as possible from the original Commodore 64 version.

The following changes are included:

Graphics and Gameplay

- The skeleton is added to the dungeon and the dungeon layout is updated to match the original (never before seen in the NES version)
- The Kill Thrill arcade game is restored (never before seen in the NES version), with optional patch for Douglas Crockford's Muff Diver
- The pennant is added in Weird Ed's room (only seen in a previous hack)
- The surplus body parts are now in Cousin Ted's room (never before seen in the NES version)
- The poster and calendar are back in Cousin Ted's room (never before seen in the NES version), with optional graphics and text patch
- The Disco Sucks poster is restored in Green Tentacle's room
- The shower text, for a good time, is restored
- The statue in the hallway is restored
- Green Tentacle kills the player after hearing the tentacle mating call recording (never before seen in the NES version)

Text Changes

- Edna: Dungeon dialog (should have tied you to my bed etc.)
- Edna: Phone dialog (heavy breathing etc.)
- Ed: He hasn't eaten in 5 years
- Dr. Fred: getting your pretty brains sucked out.
- Dr. Fred: The meteor is going to be pissed!
- Dr. Fred: You're going to piss off the meteor.
- Dr. Fred: Don't be a smart ass!
- Green Tentacle: think I'll kill myself!
- Purple Tentacle: Kill him.
- Meteor: Dr. Fred, release the women, all the women.
- Meteor: Prepare to die!
- Player: Damn! broke it! (for Ed's piggy bank)
- Calendar text in Ted's room
- Brain diagram's chewy caramel center
- SCUMM System and NES SCUMM version in credits

(Note that some of the above may be slightly modified here since romhacking.net does not accept personal pronouns in the description.)

Other Fixes

- The glitched graphics in the room under the house are fixed
- The glitched coin box graphics in the arcade are fixed
- The glitched graphics for the developer under the house are fixed
- The leftover pennant object in Weird Ed's room is removed
- The leftover keypad object in the hallway is removed
- The interactivity for the radioactive slime in the basement is restored
- The fence mask is fixed in the starting screen so that the player is completely behind it
- The colors for the right-side gargoyle on the stairs are corrected
- The border color is fixed when selecting Michael on the character select screen
- The meteor's sprite graphics are fixed
- The Lucasfilm logo is centered vertically and the misplaced shine sprite is fixed
- I don't want my tape back text correctly assigned to Green Tentacle instead of player

This hack is built upon the Maniac Mansion Decoded hack and also includes the Maniac Maniac Mansion Mouse Hack.

Optional Patches

The following optional patches are available. Several are included by default.

- fridge.ips * - Rearranges the fridge to recolor the lettuce green and the batteries brown.
- lflu_rah.ips - Change the pennant text to read L.F.L.U. Rah! like the original.
- muff_diver.ips - Rename the censored arcade game to Muff Diver as suggested by Douglas Crockford.
- original_dungeon.ips - Remove the skeleton and layout changes in the dungeon.
- playmummy.ips - Use the censored text and graphics from the prototype for Ted's calendar.
- portraits.ips * - Improves the various portraits in the house, including Fred in Edna's room, Edna in Fred's room, Fred in Edna's attic, and the family portrait in the den.
- remove_mouse.ips - Remove the mouse driver.
- statue.ips * - Improves the graphics of the statue in the hallway.
- star_wars_poster.ips * - Add the Star Wars poster to the arcade room.
- title_screen.ips - Uses the title screen from the Japanese version, which is based on the C64 graphics.
- under_house_enhanced.ips * - Improves the post and valve graphics and fixes the background mask.

* Patch is applied by default. You can select the base patch to omit these additions.

Contact

Overlooked something? Want more optional patches? Glitches? PM gzip.

Patching

Use the online patcher at romhacking.net (or the patcher of your choice) to apply the bps patch to:

Contributor	Type of contribution	Description
gzip	Hacking	Hacking and graphics
HonkeyKong	Hacking	Mouse Hack

Reviews

Waited 36 years for this	El Duderino	2023-05-23	Version 2.2
I was a kid with a Nintendo Power subscription, and I can tell you that I spent a ridiculous amount of time in game trying to find the hallway statute and posters in Ted's room that were featured in Nintendo Power. I figured I needed to take an action to trigger these items. Lo and behold, the content was a victim of censorship and 8 year old me couldn't understand why the images in Nintendo Power weren't within my copy of the game. Here we are with this amazing hack that brings so much of that content back. I'm also very attached to the game as is. So I wanted to add the uncensored graphics but keep the spirit of the original as much as possible. In comes gzip with not only fulfilling my desire to bring this as close to the images I'd seen as possible, but also creating optional patches to make other changes, such as a revamped dungeon. Everything plays great and now you can add and remove content to your desires. Highly recommended.

This hack was needed to make the game what it should be.	Wolfie	2023-05-10	Version 2.0
I have always been interested in playing Maniac Mansion for the NES, but I was turned off by the clunky interface and the notorious history of censorship behind it. This hack allows me to use my mouse and also corrects the censorship that left me feeling this was a watered-down port. This hack is a long awaited hack and very necessary. Play it!

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