Matthew Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 People always complain that Double Dragon is too difficult, they can't get past the first 2 screens. This is a shame because they never get to fight with a barrel or knife. So,I have hacked Double Dragon to make it more playable. 1)Enemies are easier to defeat, this ramps up the further along you get. 2)Changed the first stage so that you are battling women.(they are easy, just fly kick them) 3)Increased Player one's life to 5 bars of health (instead of 2) 4)Two player games have 3 bars of health each (instead of 2) 5)Changed "TECHNOS JAPAN" to "HACKED BY MB" This is my first attempt at hacking an Atari 2600 game. Matts Double Dragon (PAL) a.bin 3 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/228849-double-dragon-hack/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 A couple of things I noticed when hacking this game. The health value for the enemies on level one is used to initialise other things in the game (4). So you can't change it easily without screwing up the game. This is why I opted to change the character type for the first level instead (women are easier to defeat). For the following levels I just needed to edit a table(indexed by level value) to reduce the enemies health. When I say "health", I mean the amount of times you need to knock down the enemy. I can change the character type for any level, except the seconds. Looks like this is re-used by something else. Another interesting point, notice that there is only one enemy on screen when there is a weapon in play (stick,knife or barrel). Originally I wanted to give the player a stick at the start of the game, but I quickly realised that this would be impossible due to the way things are drawn. Atari programs are interesting, you can see were the programmer tried to save space (rom/ram), it is this re-use of variable that can make hacking a pain/fun. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/228849-double-dragon-hack/#findComment-3055223 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Two words: Elbow Smash. Get the timing right for that and you're undefeatable. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/228849-double-dragon-hack/#findComment-3055261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 18, 2014 Author Share Posted August 18, 2014 Two words: Elbow Smash. Get the timing right for that and you're undefeatable. Yep, beat this game when I was a kid using nothing more than perfectly timed elbows. But not everyone has my profound abilities, hence the hack. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/228849-double-dragon-hack/#findComment-3055849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FujiSkunk Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Hey, any plans on releasing an NTSC hack? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/228849-double-dragon-hack/#findComment-3089891 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Climber Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Yeah, elbows worked in the arcade version also. When I was short on money, I would elbow smash my way through Double Dragon to kill time and get a few watchers/etc.. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/228849-double-dragon-hack/#findComment-3089905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCheeseLover Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Could I use this sensational hack to do a batman hack im doing? I'm technically hacking a hack. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/228849-double-dragon-hack/#findComment-3666517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDude9000 Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 (edited) On 8/17/2014 at 11:28 PM, Matthew said: Yep, beat this game when I was a kid using nothing more than perfectly timed elbows. But not everyone has my profound abilities, hence the hack. No offense but your hack stinks my guy, I tried it and it still has the same problems as normal Double Dragon except you changed the lives to 5 while making the characters women in the first level. Still a game that requires you to spam lock enemies and in the last level the enemies still require 12-15 elbows hit each. If you want to play a double dragon hack just play the one KevinMos3 , it's better even though the sprites are the only thing that's better. The game still sucks in the end. So unless you're a hardcore beat em up fan, don't play the game. Enemies are NOT easier to defeat. Edited July 21 by TheDude9000 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/228849-double-dragon-hack/#findComment-5503704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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