Ninja Gaiden: Ninja Gaiden - Death Counter is a fan-made hack for the Nintendo Entertainment System that transforms the game's life counter into a death counter. Players start with zero deaths, with the counter increasing by one for each death, up to 99. The mod focuses on enhancing the user interface to help track deaths while encouraging skillful play, along with various gameplay adjustments.
This hack repurposes the life counter in Ninja Gaiden 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. It also makes a few necessary design changes to make the game a bit more palatable.
[Main Changes]
- Repurposes the lives counter as a death counter.
- Death counter starts at 0.
- Dying increases the counter.
- Added a little skull icon to the UI to indicate deaths instead of lives.
- At 100 deaths the counter loops back to 99 to prevent a Game Over caused by an overflow.
[Additional Changes]
- Dying during the final boss rush sends Ryu back to 6-3 instead of 6-1.
- Birds do minimum damage to Ryu (1) instead of "final boss" damage (3).
[Name]
"Ninja Gaiden - Death Counter.ips" v1.0
[Author]
Binarynova
[Date]
March 18, 2022
[Description]
This hack repurposes the life counter in Ninja Gaiden 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. It also makes a few necessary design changes to make the game a bit more palatable.
[Installation]
Use your favorite IPS patcher to apply this patch to the US version of the game.
[Main Changes]
- Repurposes the lives counter as a death counter.
- Death counter starts at 0.
- Dying increases the counter.
- Added a little skull icon to the UI to indicate deaths instead of lives.
- At 100 deaths the counter loops back to 99 to prevent a Game Over caused by an overflow.
[Additional Changes]
- Dying during the final boss rush sends Ryu back to 6-3 instead of 6-1.
- Birds do minimum damage to Ryu (1) instead of "final boss" damage (3).
Database match: Ninja Gaiden (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210216-231042)
File SHA-1: CA513F841D75EFEB33BB8099FB02BEEB39F6BB9C
File CRC32: 11F953F6
ROM SHA-1: 15F245161179AB1959B7DC20E82ADD024D23AA3D
ROM CRC32: 7C4A72D8
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