This hack fixes the two annoying, trial&error issues with the original game. In this game there are two types of “heart frames”, other contains magic shots but they both look identical, now the one with magic shots is green.
And secondly, now water currents are visible.
There are three patches, since all regions has different rom addresses, and also USA/EUR and JPN has different puzzles.
Version 1.5 uses alternative and better way to edit "castle" levels blocks tiles (USA version of the patch), so it should work better with hacks, adds patch for PAL version, and adds source code.
Adventures of lolo 2 QoL Improvements
Hack made by JP32
Version 1.5 [09.06.2023]
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This hack does following:
-Heart frames that contains magic shots are in a different color(green)
-Water currents are now animated and has their own graphics tiles
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There are three patches, one for each region!
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Special thanks to Bbitmaster for the Neptune('s source code), so that I didn't have to hunt for some rom addresses myself.
"Water stream" graphics are ripped(edited to fit 8x8, original used three tiles each) from "New ghostbusters 2" nes, also made by HAL too.
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Version 1.5:
-USA version of the patch now edits castle levels tiles instead of level data directly, so it should work on hack too(completely untested).
-Included "source code"
-Included PAL version too
Version 1.0:
-Initial release
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Patch to following:
USA version:
Adventures of Lolo 2 (USA).nes (NO-intro)
CRC32 862AB1E5
MD5 0F8EAC497ADC07858685B8E84E59A56B
SHA-1 47D217722BC2375163EBB4B0821DD6EB3ACB38FF
Japanese version:
Adventures of Lolo (Japan).nes (NO-intro)
CRC32 D9C4CBF7
MD5 72A5692523AD5AB51CF2272A06D669D0
SHA-1 355E2A11E6E585DAB55635766C43BC4C0E5D6968
EUR version:
Adventures of Lolo 2 (Europe).nes (NO-intro)
CRC32 1A878E22
MD5 3C8A015FCED9256B211F342C724A3E20
SHA-1 64E9C3663E7B9372A18F09855B9719D86E5FCF0D
In case you are wondering, yes the Japanese version is just "lolo", the USA/EUR lolo 1 had no Japanse version,
and then they made the sequel, which is "lolo 2" in USA/EUR, and then they decided to bring that to Japan too,
and just called that just "lolo" and made brand new levels for it, interestingly you can see the JPN levels in
the USA box's for some reason, and the JPN version has the "2" title screen graphics inside the rom still.
And the USA/EUR lolo 3 is "lolo 2" in Japan, confused yet?
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USA version:
Adventures of Lolo 2 (USA).nes (NO-intro)
CRC32 862AB1E5
MD5 0F8EAC497ADC07858685B8E84E59A56B
SHA-1 47D217722BC2375163EBB4B0821DD6EB3ACB38FF
Japanese version:
Adventures of Lolo (Japan).nes (NO-intro)
CRC32 D9C4CBF7
MD5 72A5692523AD5AB51CF2272A06D669D0
SHA-1 355E2A11E6E585DAB55635766C43BC4C0E5D6968
EUR version:
Adventures of Lolo 2 (Europe).nes (NO-intro)
CRC32 1A878E22
MD5 3C8A015FCED9256B211F342C724A3E20
SHA-1 64E9C3663E7B9372A18F09855B9719D86E5FCF0D