This is a list of NES/Famicom game hacks made (or assumed to be made) by Inventor, organised by original game name, from J-M.
Index • 0-B • C-D • E-I • J-M • N-R • S • T-Z
J.League Winning Goal[]
Campeào Copa América Peru 2004[]
The J.League teams are replaced with various countries, using both the flags and the colored jerseys of each represented region. Various menu and cutscene graphics are replaced with modified sprites from the cutscenes in Totally Rad. The in-game graphics are unaltered save for coloring differences. Despite the Portuguese title, all text is in English. An unused (?) Electronic Arts logo in the data is altered to read "BBG", suggesting this hack was Inventor-developed. This game appears on a 4-in-1 multicart bundled with the "Copa America 2004" edition of the New Port Machine famiclone and has shown up on other consoles like certain variants of the FC Pocket and the RetroStation NX-85.
Copa das Confederações 2005[]
A variant of the "2004" hack with different represented countries and a new title screen. Known to appear in a bundled 4-in-1 multicart for the "Copa das Confederações" edition of the New Port Machine, however the most recent appearance of this hack has been on a fanmade "Games 11-in-1" multicart. The hack itself is most certainly real, although the source of where the multicart creator got it is unknown.
Copa das Confedracos 2005[]
Alternate title version of the hack above.[1]
World Soccer 2006[]
Based on the "2004" hack rather than the 2005 one; features a further altered list of countries. This game is only known to appear on a Japanese "World-Fami-Cup" system (as its only included game).[2]
Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu (Jackie Chan)[]
Music cues are swapped around in these hacks, although sometimes the hacks try to play two music tracks at the same time.
Barve Boy - Kung Fu Pokechu[]
Title screen.
Barve Boy replaces Jackie Chan with a large Pikachu; another dress-wearing Pikachu and Mewtwo appear in the opening intro, respectively replacing Jackie Chan's fictional in-game sister and the original game's main antagonist. Inexplicably, the fish enemy is replaced with Donkey Kong Jr.; the ramen bowl enemy is replaced with Jerry from Tom & Jerry.
The game is based on another hack of Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu titled Super Bros. 10: Kung Fu Mari. A handful of Mario's sprites are retained, and some enemies are further modified from the altered sprites of Super Bros. 10.
Hulk[]
Title screen.
Hulk is almost identical to Barve Boy, though Pikachu has been changed to what is supposed to be The Incredible Hulk (with very limited resemblance), and the girl Pikachu's face has been altered to look like a human (albeit a different one from Jackie Chan's fictional sister from the original game).
Joe and Mac[]
Rosker Super 2002: Jake Saga[]
Title screen.
Based on another hack of Joe and Mac called Mario 16. The player characters are now Teletubbies; the music is corrupted. Most of the enemies are from Snow Bros., along with edited sprites of the bosses from Super C; a few enemies remain intact. The background graphics are also changed.
Joust[]
Soaring Warrior[]
Replaces the jousters with dinosaurs; the music is corrupted and has swapped cues. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
The Jungle Book[]
Woody Story[]
Title screen.
Mowgli now vaguely resembles Conte. The music cues are switched around, and the Virgin logo/level complete music has been corrupted. All cutscenes and boss fights are intact.
The character artwork replacing the Virgin logo is modified from the ninth puzzle in a VT01 variation of Puzzle, also known as Play Toy Puzzles or Zhili Pintu.
Juuouki (Altered Beast)[]
Super Man[]
Title screen.
No affiliation with the superhero. Uses the Super Mario Bros. 3 font on its title screen. One of the enemies is a modified sprite of Nick from Snow Bros.
The Asmik logo is bizarrely replaced with text reading "David", with a picture of a bearded man replacing Asmik-kun; some credits to Sega are replaced with "Stur". Music is intact.
Kabuki Quantum Fighter (Jigoku Gokuraku Maru)[]
Chain[]
The intro and cutscenes are removed. One of the enemies appears to be the lion from Circus Charlie. Music is intact.
Kage (Shadow of the Ninja/Blue Shadow)[]
Berserker[]
Title screen.
Appears in the Timemax set, though is known to have appeared on an 120-in-1 "Just Plug 'n Play" system prior to this. Health is infinite, and can only be lost by falling into pits. Some of the music is corrupted while other tracks remain intact. Cutscene graphics remains unchanged but the intro text has been poorly translated. Credits remain the same as in the original game. Hayate is replaced with Lode Runner and his character select mugshot is reused from Ultimate Speed while Kaede is replaced with Bomberman and her character select mugshot is replaced with an edited version of Casey Jones' VS. Screen mugshot from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters. Another handheld with the Timemax romset uses the original rom without the Timemax copyright.
Karateka[]
Neighborhood Smash[]
Some of the music is corrupted while other tracks remain intact. The graphics remain unchanged. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Kick Master[]
Dream World[]
Title screen.
The cutscenes are removed; however, they are intact when the second quest starts after beating the game the first time. One of the enemies is replaced with Conte while the other ones use graphics from Warpman, Tom & Jerry, Snow Bros. and Super Mario Bros. Some of the music is corrupted, while other tracks remain intact.
Kinnikuman - Muscle Tag Match (M.U.S.C.L.E.)[]
Most of the hacks are based on the Japanese version of the game, though World Fighter is based on the U.S. version.
Boxing Match[]
Replaces the human wrestlers with animals.
Championship Wrestling[]
A variant of Boxing Match. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles. this hack uses the Joe & Mac font on the title screen.
World Fighter[]
All of the characters in World Fighter have highly detailed heads. The only hack based on the US version. The music is intact.
This game shows up on a uncommon 520-in-1 set (used in early handhelds and a single multicart)[3], although it has appeared on a fan-made "Super 12-in-1" multicart; leading to make some believe that its not a real Inventor hack.[4]
WF Law[]
Appears to change the boxing ring into a forest setting, though the wrestlers are only slightly altered. "WF" appears to be either a misspelling of "WWF" or an intentional faux-name to avoid trademark infringement.
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.
WWF War[]
Kunio-kun no Nekketsu Soccer League[]
Mad Foot Ball - The World Club of Soccer League[]
Title screen.
Based on the "Goal 3" title hack commonly found on multicarts. Players are replaced with Teletubbies, the intro text is blanked out, and most of the text in-game is messed up and makes no sense, likely as a result of poor translation. The music cues are swapped.
Lode Runner[]
All hacks are based on the Japanese version. The music is corrupted in most hacks except Golder.
Conte Enegy (1)[]
Based on another hack of Lode Runner called Turtles. The enemies in Conte Enegy are replaced with sprite edits of one of the enemies from Tom & Jerry, and the player character is changed to Conte. In some versions, Edit Mode is removed, but in others it is strangely renamed to "3 KK USER".
Conter Energy[]
A simple title screen hack of Conte Enegy.
Deflower[]
The player controls a teardrop-shaped character that collects flowers. Infamously, "deflower" is actually a literary term meaning to take a women's virginity; this is presumably coincidental given the game's context.
A VT03 conversion of this hack titled Plumber was also produced, which was seemingly developed by Cube Technology. The VT03 port has only been found as unused data on the "Game Sporz Ping Pong" system.
Golder[]
Appears to be a version of the Turtles hack that replaces the player with the Conte Enegy sprite, while leaving all other assets intact. The font is removed, and the title and score counter screens are zeroed out. Only known to appear on some NES-based "1.8" handheld consoles.
Spider[]
Jungle Trail[]
Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Magician[]
Magician shares its name with a UM6578 hack by the unknown JungleTac affiliate, seemingly by intention, but reuses the sprites from Jungle Trail.
Lunar Ball (Lunar Pool)[]
Billiard 2008[]
Music is heavily corrupted, and has become somewhat infamous for its dismal sounds; however, rare versions exist that completely overhaul the music instead of merely corrupting it. One version of Billiard 2008 simply renames it to Billiard. Despite the hack's name, it was not made in 2008, but instead in the early 2000s alongside Inventor's other hacks.
Planetary Pool[]
A variant of Billiard 2008. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Mach Rider[]
Speed Rider[]
Title screen.
Trump Tank[]
Title screen.
The motorcyclist is replaced with a tank; still refers to "Mach Rider" in the opening dialogue.
Ballistic Mayhem[]
Title screen.
Ballistic Mayhem removes the intermission screens making this game playable only on the A courses. The music in it is an odd mixture of F-1 Race and Mach Rider tracks; alongside a segment of the Astro Boy theme, which also appears in a JungleTac F-1 Race hack (Race One). All graphics are reused from Trump Tank. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles. This game uses the Joe & Mac font on the title screen.
Magic Carpet 1001[]
Some versions of these hacks are converted to mapper 0, in which their title screens are removed.
Harry Potter[]
Title screen.
Stars Harry Potter. The music is overhauled and fully rewritten from scratch, but it is also notoriously heavily corrupted as well. Hermione Granger appears in the ending.
Harry Tour[]
Title screen.
Another variant of Harry Potter with new graphics, though it still features the same heavily corrupted music.
Little Hag[]
A revision of Harry Potter/Harry Tour which replaces Harry with a generic witch and uncorrupts the overhauled music of the aforementioned hacks. In the last stage of the game, the witch's color palette changes to a reddish color. The ending is completely unchanged.
Witch Run[]
A variant of Little Hag. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Magic Jewelry (Hwang Shinwei)[]
Coin Tetris[]
The playing pieces are changed to various types of currency. The Statue of Liberty is replaced with a strange illustration of a man giving a thumbs up. A rare version of Coin Tetris (possibly Waixing-affiliated) completely overhauls the in-game music; one of the music tracks in this version is a rendition of "Practice Makes Perfect" from Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures.
Jewelry[]
Reuses the playing pieces from Coin Tetris, but features a redrawn city background without the man giving a thumbs up.
Card[]
Changes the playing pieces to diamonds, hearts, clubs, and spades; the Statue of Liberty is replaced with a fairy. The fairy is modified from the fifth puzzle in a VT01 variation of Puzzle, also known as Play Toy Puzzles or Zhili Pintu. Music on levels 4 to 6 is corrupted; Level 7 plays no music at all.
Abacus[]
A variant of Card; the music is slightly pitched up. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Change Face Block[]
Only known to exist in the post-2022 Timemax game set.
Smiley Face Block[]
Change Face Block features particularly bad music, playing literally one note across the entire song; the music stops playing entirely after a few levels. Only known to exist in the post-2022 Timemax game set.
Magmax[]
Hovercraft[]
Title screen.
The music in this hack is corrupted. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Mappy[]
Bounce[]
Title screen.
Mappy is replaced with Ninja-kun from the Ninja JaJaMaru series, and two of the items is replaced with the Fire Flower from Super Mario Bros. and the piece of cheese from Tom & Jerry. The music is corrupted. Many VT02-based consoles erroneously use the VT01 conversion of Bounce.
Break Out[]
Title screen.
Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles. For unknown reasons, Break Out crashes at random intervals on the Vs. Maxx Maxxplay; it does not crash on the N-Joypad. The music is also corrupted.
Mario Bros.[]
Roge Brer (1)[]
Title screen.
The first version of Roge Brer rather poorly modifies Mario's sprites; while he is fully redrawn, he is still wearing overalls and a (now backwards) red hat. Mario's "turning" sprite and his face in the extra lives icon is intact. It also does not alter the Shellcreepers.
The bottom two pipes are strangely glitched; they can even be hit and "broken", causing them to disappear. This glitch is carried over into all subsequent hacks. It also has corrupted music, which is retained for all subsequent hacks except Jump and Journey.
Roge Brer (2)[]
An uncommon "second" version of Roge Brer replaces Mario with a heavily modified Milon from Milon's Secret Castle. The Shellcreepers are replaced with something resembling Pac-Man ghosts with hair. Another version of "Roge Brer (2)" found on the Dynavision "101-in-1 Games" multicart renames Mario to Jorge.
Rouge Brothers[]
Title screen.
Another variant of Roge Brer, this time retaining its original lightly-modified Mario sprite, but replacing the Shellcreepers with Meowkies from Mappy.
Rouge[]
Title screen.
A simple title hack of Rouge Brothers.
Jump and Journey[]
Title screen.
Jump and Journey replaces Mario with a man resembling a soldier, and changes his name to Tom. It has swapped music cues unlike the other hacks. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Metal Max[]
Ji Jia Zhan Shi III[]
Title screen.
Title screen hack of the Chinese-translated Metal Max. Music is unaltered. Notably, this hack explicitly credits Inventor.
Mighty Bomb Jack[]
unknown hack[]
Title screen.
Still says Mighty Bomb Jack on the title screen; Graphics are completely altered otherwise, with the player controlling an angel. Music is intact.
Mighty Final Fight[]
Street War[]
Title screen.
Based on the Japanese version. The intro sequence is skipped automatically, Cody has been changed to somewhat resemble Terry Bogard from SNK’s Fatal Fury/The King of Fighters series, Guy wears a ninja mask, Haggar's portrait resembles Hulk Hogan (although his in-game sprite lacks facial hair), and all of the music is bizarrely off-tune. The character select screen is entirely in English, and is bizarrely rewritten in a rather humorous manner (particularly, Haggar is described as being "Muscovite, lv 3"), but the rest of the game is left untranslated. The ending and credits are completely intact.
Massacre[]
Title screen.
A title screen hack of Street War.
Millipede[]
Surface Fire[]
Title screen.
Based on the Japanese version of the game and has different title screen music.
Swirl[]
Title screen.
A title screen hack of Surface Fire. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.