espire8 Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 (edited) This is a hack of another hack by Omegamatrix (Dig Dug with infinite lives) which somehow I decided to check if upgrading the sprite graphics was possible, and it works! I spent the whole afternoon redrawing the sprites. This was never possible in the original source code as discussed in this older thread. Finally - more accurate and now playable! I'd remove the infinite lives but I'm afraid to mess with this hack any further. Edit-- Just been informed this particular rom has the cheat turned off, so this is even better than I thought. Though the attached bin file name say *infinite lives* it's only by name. I'm not gonna change out the attachment since there are already quite a number of downloads; --just know this version does gives you 5 lives to start and a bonus life at 10,000 pts. Enjoy! Dig_Dug__arcade_gfx_infinite_lives__NTSC.bin Edited June 5, 2009 by espire8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 Actually the infinite lives is disabled in your rom. I took a look at what I had posted, and had to submit a new attachment. I didn't set the switch to infinite lives inside the assembly when I made the NTSC rom. Anyhow it's all good now, and your rom is also non-inifinite lives, by my mistake. Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
espire8 Posted June 5, 2009 Author Share Posted June 5, 2009 Ha! I didn't know until I tried to play an actual game tonight after all my hacking. It's a very happy accident nonetheless. This is how the game should play anyway. Thanks for posting the bin without which I could never have done this hack. I plan to look at changing the the Lt. purple color of dig dug character into white and tidy up some of the vegetables. I thought of changing pooka to red but it may look too dark. I hope everyone likes it as it is now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 (edited) Thanks for posting the bin without which I could never have done this hack. I think you meant disassembly, as the bin I original posted was just plain old Dig Dug. I had a go at your hack and I was really impressed by the dragon gfx. Those look really good now. Edited June 5, 2009 by Omegamatrix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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