Inventor/Hacks (C-D)

This is a list of NES/Famicom game hacks made (or assumed to be made) by Inventor, organised by original game name, from C-D.

Index • 0-B • C-D • E-I • J-M • N-R • S • T-Z

Captain America and the Avengers[]

Ares[]

Game crashes after first boss fight, and any mention of the Avengers in dialogue is intact. The first part of the intro dialogue is changed, but the rest of it is unchanged. Hawkeye is replaced with Master Higgins from the Adventure Island series, Captain America himself is replaced with Musashi Natsuki from Musashi no Ken: Tadaima Shugyou Chu. The music in this hack is intact but cues are switched.

Chack'n Pop[]

All of the hacks have corrupted music.

Bomb[]

Some of the Chack'n sprites are corrupted, displaying garbled graphics on the lefthand side of him.

Bomber[]

Bomb Drop[]

A variant of Bomb. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.

Challenger[]

Ladangel[]

Some character enemy graphics appear to be heavily modified from Lode Runner, Bomberman, and Mappy sprites. The music is corrupted.

Championship Lode Runner[]

Conte Enegy (2)[]

Conte Enegy (2) is a VT01-exclusive (?) hack, reusing the graphics of the identically-titled hack of the original Lode Runner.

Tactful Mokey[]

Tactful Mokey stars the monkey from Circus Charlie and has badly hacked music. On consoles with the Timemax set, the music is unchanged.

Monkey Tactics[]

A basic title screen hack of Tactful Mokey; originally only appeared on the Pro Tech XL.

Arctic Hunt[]

Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.

Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 (Chip to Dale no Daisakusen 2)[]

Elf Legend[]

Chip and Dale are replaced with Po from Teletubbies and Charmander from Pokémon respectively, and are renamed "John" and "Pika". Dialogue is poorly rewritten in a manner that has infamously made it unintentionally humorous.

Mario is mentioned by name in the intro, but does not actually appear in-game. The music cues are swapped around.

Choujikuu Yousai - Macross[]

In most hacks the music is usually either corrupted or completely changed.

Aether Kavass[]

Aether Kavass replaces Lynn Minmay banging the gong in the intro screen with a generic male character. Mentions of Valkyrie are changed to read "Ares", presumably due to his ties with mythology.

Ghost Plane[]

Removes the intro screen.

Enemy Assault[]

Removes the intro screen. All graphics are reused from Aether Kavass. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.

Pacific Air War[]

Pacific Air War replaces the in-game theme with the level complete tune, leading to it not having any background music for the rest of the game. Only known to exist in the post-2022 Timemax game set.

Space Mission[]

A basic title screen hack of Aether Kavass; originally only appeared on the Pro Tech XL.

Thunder Bird[]

Thunder Bird is a rather advanced hack. It removes the opening intro with the gong; however, it still plays the intro in full behind its title screen, resulting in the game not starting until ~10 seconds after the Start button is pressed. The mothership and its entrance is blanked out, with the ship automatically moving to the hole's area and disappearing. The end-of-level boss graphics are also blanked out, making the boss very difficult to complete.

Searcher[]

A title variant of Thunder Bird. Seemingly attempts to fix the issue with the intro playing behind the title screen, but pressing the input too early will still result in the ~10 second wait time for the game to start.

Circus Charlie[]

Conqueror[]

Conqueror replaces Circus Charlie himself with an edited sprite of Hosuke from Mitsume ga Tooru as a baby. All background graphics (among other assets) are changed to be aquatic themed; including changing the lion to a dolphin and the fire pots to gators. The monkeys on the tightrope are changed to enemies from Warpman.

The original version of the hack features unaltered audio; a later revision (possibly Waixing-affiliated) completely overhauls the music.

Super Elf[]

Super Elf starts on level 7 (harder version of level 2), and crashes after beating stage 05 results red screen, probably due to programming error. All graphics are reused from Conqueror. Some versions have corrupted music while others do not.

City Connection[]

All hacks are based on the Japanese version.

Goodhand[]

The player-controlled Clarice Car is replaced with a generic character riding a motorcycle in Goodhand. Cats are replaced with Mappy. It has unmodified music. Most iterations erroneously use the same tile for painted and unpainted portions of the road, making it effectively unplayable; however, the player can still technically complete a level by popping three balloons. At least one (rare) variation fixes the paint tile issue; the "fixed" version also attempts to clean up garbage tiles on the level complete screen. Mapper 0 conversion.

Street Frenzy[]

A variant of Goodhand; the erroneous paint tile is still present, and oddly, appears to be worsened (with the background trees effecting the road color). It changes music cues and has a new title screen using the Joe & Mac font. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.

Road Battle[]

Road Battle has its title screen edited off of the title screen to Back to the Future Part II & III, which depicts the DeLorean. It has a fully overhauled title theme; however, the title theme is extremely corrupted by default and does not play correctly unless the D-pad is held down in any direction.

City Chase[]

City Chase is a simple title screen hack, but is otherwise unchanged from City Connection. City Chase starts to get glitch after level 1 and is based on a cut-down version of the game.

Clu Clu Land[]

Lido[]

Lido has Bubbles replaced with a whale. The music remains unchanged.

Fish Fight[]

A variant of Lido; features swapped music cues. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.

Ku Ku Land[]

A basic title screen hack of the original game.

Loc Loc Land[]

Minor hack which changes some color values and removes the spikes on the Sea Urchins/Unira. Some versions reportedly crash after beating level 1. Only known to exist in the post-2022 Timemax game set.

Code Name: Viper (Ningen Heiki: Dead Fox)[]

ExtremityTask[]

Based on the Japanese version. Most dialogue has been extensively rewritten. Mr. Smith has been replaced with a woman called MiSa whose cutscene portrait resembles Cammy from the Street Fighter series and player sprites are reused from Emprise. All of the enemies are robots and girls in swimsuits, one of the enemies in later levels is a Mewtwo look-alike. This hack has only been found on a bootleg PocketNES-based Game Boy Advance cartridge with a Mulan cover, and as partially overwritten graphic data on the "Arcade Action II" 101-in-1 ROM. Music is intact.

Contra Force[]

X-Plan: Yong Doushi (X-Plan: Brave Warrior)[]

Based on another hack of Contra Force called Super Contra 6 (with plain text on the title screen still using this name). All of the characters are replaced with Conte and the music is heavily corrupted.

Devil World[]

Underworld[]

Underworld starts on level 2. The music is corrupted. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.

Diamond (Nice Code Software)[]

Diamond[]

Title screen and music are intact. Changes the color scheme, bricks, border, and turns the diamond into a flower.

Dig Dug[]

Crypt Car[]

Crypt Car replaces Dig Dug with a tank and has a modified rendition of the game start tune. The Timemax version adds vibration and leaves the music unmodified.

Down Deep[]

Down Deep replaces Dig Dug with a tiny hedgehog. Bizarrely, several sprites lack any animated frames (most notably the rocks, which makes them harder to avoid). The hack changes the intro and end-of-level theme to the opening theme to Galaga. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.

Dik Duk[]

A basic title screen hack of the original game.

Donkey Kong[]

What's Up[]

What's Up starts on level 2 (75 m), and replaces Jumpman/Mario with the same edited Tom & Jerry enemy seen in Conte Enegy and Rescue Kuck. Donkey Kong himself is replaced with a squirrel who inexplicably has four arms; Lady/Pauline's sprite is intact. the music cues are swapped around. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.

Donkey[]

Only known to exist in the post-2022 Timemax game set.

Donkey Kong Jr.[]

Rescue Kuck[]

Based on another hack of Donkey Kong Jr. called Turtles II. Junior is now Conte, Mario is replaced with a sprite edit of the same enemy from Tom & Jerry that was used in Conte Enegy, and Donkey Kong is replaced with Numen from Bruce & Leo, a Tom & Jerry hack. All of the characters' ending sprites are unaltered. the game has a corrupted rendition of the title screen and ending tune.

Rescue[]

A variant of Rescue Kuck; features further corrupted music and swapped cues. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.

Donkey JA[]

A basic title screen hack of the original game. Only known to exist in the post-2022 Timemax game set.

Donkey Kong 3[]

Bandits[]

Bandits replaces Stanley the Bugman with a cannon. Donkey Kong is changed to have a skull-like head with a cape; his body is largely unaltered save for removing his chest detail. It has corrupted renditions of the title screen and game start tunes, the stolen pot music, and the death music. Many VT02-based consoles erroneously use the VT01 conversion of Bandits.

Bug[]

Bug is a rather advanced hack. Replaces Stanley the Bugman with a frog, and Donkey Kong with a sunglasses-wearing ant. The music is completely overhauled.

Frogland[]

Also replaces Stanley the Bugman with a frog, but is less advanced than Bug. Some of the music cues are swapped around. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.

Donkey Kong Jr. Math[]

Calcu Chaos[]

Uses the same graphics as Rescue Kuck. Unconfirmed whether this is a genuine Inventor hack or a fan-made imitation.

Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones (Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone)[]

Boxing Circles Overlord[]

Based on the Japanese version. In the intro cutscene and character select screen, Jimmy Lee's face is replaced with Casey Jones's mask from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The dialogue is poorly translated in a humorous way. A level skip cheat is activated by default. The ending is replaced with a rather generic "The End" screen, and it features 3 skulls instead of the sacred stones.

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Boy Sport[]

Intro is removed. The second in-game menu is skipped. The Referee is replaced with the player character from Frog Prince. Almost any trace of Japanese text is blanked out, with a few lines being properly translated into English. Ending is intact, but the text is removed.

Dr. Mario[]

Doctor[]

Appears to be the first produced hack. Dr. Mario himself is replaced with what appears to be an anthropomorphic ant doctor, and the virus sprites are also replaced, but everything else is left intact. Unlike the other Dr. Mario hacks, the music is unchanged from the original game.

Computer Hospital[]

Uses the same character graphics as Doctor, and additionally changes the background graphics to a computer theme. Most of the music is also replaced and is completely new, except for Chill which is the same as the original.

Anti SARS[]

A simple title screen hack of Computer Hospital. Retains the computer theme, despite the new name.

Make Well[]

Another title screen hack of Computer Hospital / Anti SARS. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.

Anti COVID-19[]

A further hack of Computer Hospital / ANTI SARS, obviously produced long after the other versions; it replaces the computer with human lungs.

Duck Hunt[]

Some of the hacks have corrupted music, while others have fully overhauled music. Sound effects and other tunes remain intact in some of these. Many hacks remove the dog's infamous mocking laughter entirely.

Anti-Terror Action[]

Anti-Terror Action replaces ducks with Osama bin Laden heads, and the dog with a soldier character. Features new music. A Russian-translated version exists, but the makers of the Russian translation are currently unknown.

Autumn Hunt[]

The ducks' heads are made considerably smaller, and the dog is changed to have a dalmatian-like fur pattern.

This hack is only known to appear on an unbranded 15-in-1 plug & play distributed by The Shopping Channel. As with most games on this console, it is considerably more primitive in terms of hacking than other Inventor titles. Ironically, the 15-in-1 console in question reportedly did not ship with a lightgun.

Hunt[]

Features new music. The hack has a prehistoric theme; the dog is replaced with a bearded caveman, while the ducks and clay pigeons are replaced with pterosaurs. Clay Shooting is peculiarly labeled as "Rudaway" on the title screen.

Invader[]

Separates the title screen from the menu. Has a space theme, with the hack set from the first-person perspective of a spaceship pilot, and the ducks replaced with alien spaceships. The dog is fully removed and replaced with text. Features new music.

Shoot Copter[]

Only the Clay Pigeons mode. A cutdown title screen hack of Super Shoot.

Shoot Out[]

The 1 Duck and 2 Ducks modes are labeled as "1 Pixpe" and "2 Pixpes" in this hack, oddly enough.

Shoot UFO[]

The ducks are alien spaceships invading Earth in this hack, and the Clay Shooting mode involves shooting down alien spaceships while in outer space. Features new music.

Shoot UFO 1[]

Only the Clay Pigeons mode from Shoot UFO. Features new music.

Snowfield Shoot[]

Has a winter theme. The dog is replaced with a pink humanoid creature, the ducks are replaced with blimps, and the clay pigeons are replaced with snowballs. Music is corrupted, though some versions have more extensively corrupted music than others.

Space 2050[]

Replaces the dog with the player character from Combata, the Inventor hack of Ninja-kun. Music is corrupted. Some versions feature slightly different music.

Super Hunt[]

The Duck Hunt dog remains intact in Super Hunt. It is unknown if the music is altered or not.

Super Shoot[]

It is unknown if the music is overhauled or corrupted in this hack.

Surprise[]

Surprise features enemies from Totally Rad. Clay Shooting is labeled as "Stoot". It is unknown if the music is overhauled or corrupted in this hack.

Dynamite Bowl[]

Bowling[]

A very glitchy hack seen on some Wii clones, which changes the aiming controls to work automatically; this results in the game running at roughly 33% of its normal speed, with further options running even slower. Other than the title screen, all graphics are retained from the original.