Super Ghouls'n Ghosts: Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts - Girl sprite hack PLUS

This hack is my addendum/continuation of the https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5128/ work by poody.

Like the sprite hack, with this patch, you play the game as the girl character (i.e. if you play the unpatched game, the magician will sometimes turn you into the girl). However, this patch builds upon the sprite hack with a few additions. Unlike the sprite hack in which collecting armor upgrades just changes the girl character's dress colour, in this version, she will actually wear armour (after the upgrade). Thus, the game now has 3 different outfits instead of two outfits (which may also make further sprite hacking easier).

There are still some minor graphic glitches, but this patch is quite playable and fun. Once the offset and format for game text is available, the next version should have updated text that better fits the game's new heroine.


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Thank you for downloading my ROM hack for Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts!

This hack is based off of the original sprite hack work by poody.

In the original sprite hack, Arthur is playable as a maiden. The sprites
used in that ROM hack are based on those in the original game - from when
Arthur is turned into a lady by the magician. What I have done is further
modify the sprites in the game so that there is more of a difference when
the main character (currently nameless - "Arthurina?") upgrades or loses
her armor.

In the original sprite hack, her dress simply changes colour when she
upgrades her armor, and when she loses her armor, she simply wears almost
the same white dress as the princess. Because I felt it would be more
fun if she were a little tougher, I have made some upgrades:

Instead of just changing her dress colour when she picks up armor,
I have taken advantage of the game's different rom offsets for the
basic armor and upgraded armor sprites. Thus, she will now upgrade to
wearing armor once she picks up an armor upgrade. Additionally, since
I use the same palette as the sprite hack version, her armor will be
kind of purple/grey for the first upgrade (looks really cool), and pink
with the second upgrade.

Furthermore, in the original sprite hack, when she loses her armor, she
will just change into a white dress similar to what the princess in the
game wears. Instead of this, when she loses her armor, she will be
running around in her boxers, just the same as in the original game.

This is version 1.0, and I plan to potentially make some more changes
once I figure out how to decompress some of the UI sprites and how to
change the game text to reflect the main character now being female.
Currently, there are some sprite minor sprite glitches, mostly with the
armor, but I plan to fix these over time.

The SHA-1 & MD5 hashes for the version I patched are:
MD5: 19b2d7a555ecef4c453a819e67e61574
SHA-1: f12280b13eea88ca03d700b75cf3c13a0e13f3bc

And after patching, the hashes should become:
MD5: 52ae9ce90f39400ebc3e374035ee1774
SHA-1: 1fe79b90a1f27ff3d0880ce2f6322fc0a0908a16


Hope you enjoy!

Database match: Super Ghouls'n Ghosts (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Super Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20180813-062835)
File/ROM SHA-1: F12280B13EEA88CA03D700B75CF3C13A0E13F3BC
File/ROM CRC32: 6AABA901