This is a list of NES/Famicom game hacks made (or assumed to be made) by Inventor, organised by original game name, from S-S.
Index • 0-B • C-D • E-I • J-M • N-R • S • T-Z
Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu Kanketsu Hen[]
Raider[]
Title screen.
The original game's dialogue is badly rewritten into English text. One of the characters is replaced with Mappy; Some of the music is modified.
SD Hero Soukessen - Taose! Aku no Gundan[]
Baresark[]
Title screen.
The characters appear to be replaced with strangely-modified sprites from other games, such as the Chef from Wanpaku Kokkun no Gourmet World (Japanese version of Panic Restaurant) with his chef hat removed. The title screen font is modeled after the logo for Blaster Master; the Banpresto copyright is intact in most versions. Most of the enemies remain intact while some are changed. The victory sprites for each character are intact. Some characters are replaced with either Willy DuWitt, Master Higgins, a enemy from Snow Bros or and Musashi Natsuki. Music is unchanged.
Seicross[]
Violent[]
Title screen.
The player character and enemies are now riding motorcycles instead of speed bikes and the music remains unmodified. The hack also seems to only feature a single player version without a standard version known.
Silkworm[]
X-War[]
Title screen.
Game starts on level 6 and then goes to level 1. The game crashes in one part of the ruin garden level. Some of the music is corrupted while other tracks remain intact. The Sammy logo is retained but the text inside of it is removed. Dated to of been released in 2001.
Sky Destroyer[]
Sky Invader[]
Title screen.
Sky Invader has the player control an American monoplane fighting the Japanese; the opposite of the original Sky Destroyer. The logo doesn't move like in the original game, making it so the plane/menu doesn't show up until around 3 seconds after. Clouds in the background are partially blanked out due to poor color editing. Music is changed.
Top Gun Mission[]
Top Gun Mission uses the logo from Top Gun, but otherwise has nothing to do with the film or its NES adaptions. This hack is only known to appear on an unbranded 15-in-1 plug & play distributed by The Shopping Channel.
Propeller[]
A variant of Sky Invader; features corrupted music and fixes the blanked out clouds. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Slalom[]
Slalom Moto[]
Title screen.
Fittingly enough considering the hack's name. this hack has been modified to have everyone driving motorcycles instead of using skis like in the original game. The "Moto" part of the logo was oddly edited onto the mountain graphics, resulting in it appearing on the mountains in-game. The music is unaltered.
Snow Brothers (Snow Bros. : Nick & Tom)[]
Enchanter Kue[]
Title screen.
Nick and Tom are changed to humanoid characters with white beards wearing Native American headdresses. The first enemy is replaced with the bug doctor from Inventor's Dr. Mario hacks. The player's color palette sometimes reverts back into the original color values of Nick and Tom. The bonus stages and ending are intact; music cues are swapped.
The artwork on the title screen (which also reflects the player character) is modified from the seventh puzzle in a VT01 variation of Puzzle, also known as Play Toy Puzzles or Zhili Pintu.
Magic Imp[]
Title screen.
A simple title screen hack of Enchanter Kue.
Soccer[]
Many of these are effectively the same hack, which replaces players with rabbits and the cheerleaders during the halftime show with cats. Some versions feature bear players instead. The teams available are also different, and consist almost entirely of men's national soccer teams in the AFC (with the United States and Japan being the only teams retained from the original NES game, albeit in different slots). For several hacks, the music is redone from scratch. Several of these hacks also feature a completely new soundtrack done with the same sound engine as Pandamar, while others have modified music based off of the original NES game's soundtrack, or even completely unmodified music.
A few of these hacks are credited to New Game Star. Most of the hacks feature an odd code shifting between the letters "D" and "Y"; some hacks did not accommodate for this, resulting in "Player" being misspelled as "Plader".
World Cup[]
Likely the first "bear version"; removes the in-game music, but retains the sound effects and halftime music. Music is changed.
World Cup 2000 (1)[]
Features human players with something resembling devil horns on their heads. Music is entirety unchanged.
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 compared to other Inventor titles.
World Cup 2000 (2)[]
Another rabbit version based off World Cup. The players' heads are slightly redrawn compared to the "World Cup" version. The title screen music is also different and arguably, better.
World Cup 2002 (1)[]
Almost identical to World Cup 2000 (2), but the music is unhacked from the original Soccer game.
World Cup 2002 (2)[]
A somewhat poor title hack of the "World Cup" version.
Fifa 2002[]
A title hack of the "World Cup" version.
Football[]
Uses human players with hats; features badly modified music and no sound effects. Oddly, the scoreboard is removed. Possibly on accident.
Soccer (1)[]
A variant on "Football" with the same sprites and music, but it retains the scoreboard. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Soccer (2)[]
A title screen hack of "Football", though compared to the above variant, the scoreboard is still missing. Originally only appeared on the Pro Tech XL.
Soccer (3)[]
Similar to the "rabbit versions", but the player sprites are unaltered from the original game.
SonSon[]
Soldier[]
Title screen.
In Soldier, SonSon and TonTon are replaced with soldiers. The game itself is very loosely themed around soldiers. It has modified music.
Tunny[]
Title screen.
Tunny has a poorly-colored Donkey Kong in its intro. SonSon and TonTon are replaced with helicopters; two of the enemies are taken from Bubble Bobble Part 2. On the attract screen, the players' names are changed to John and Rose (possibly referencing the film "Titanic"), but this reverts back to SonSon and TonTon in-game. Music is slightly changed.
Space Invaders[]
Village Protector[]
Title screen.
Shields are redrawn to look more like houses, to go along with the Village Protector title. Your ship is now a bow, which you use to shoot a spinning orbs. Bonus ship is unchanged. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Spartan X (Kung Fu)[]
Warrior Tales[]
Title screen.
Thomas is replaced with a man in a green robe. the background music is replaced with the game over music. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Spartan X 2[]
Waddy Boy[]
Title screen.
Only known to appear on an CoolBoy 400-in-1 multicart (with only 200 games) as one the few obscure/rare Inventor hacks featured on the cart such as Super Man. One of the enemies has it's sprites taken from The Jungle Book. The intro, cutscenes and intermissions were all removed. The music is intact. The copyright on the title screen is credited to "RE" and is dated in 2002.
Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six[]
Super Chap[]
Title Screen
Based on the mapper hack which removes 128K of data, leading to the cutscenes being completely blank. Spider-Man is replaced with a modified Hosuke from Mitsume ga Tooru with 2 eyes and wearing a hat. The first boss is replaced with Mappy; the green cat enemy is seemingly a heavily-edited sprite of Meowky. The game's music is intact.
The copyright screen is skipped, but still flashes for a split-second with its information unaltered. All references to Spider-Man's name in dialogue are intact; the version in the Timemax set reportedly corrects this.
Spy Hunter[]
Need For Speed[]
Not to be confused with the video game franchise of the same name. Music is muted upon starting the game, though appears to begin playing after the player's car crashes. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Spy vs Spy[]
Wild Wild[]
Title screen.
The Spies are replaced with Honey from Bomberman. Music is Intact. Unconfirmed whether this is a genuine Inventor hack or a fan-made imitation.
Sqoon[]
Seascape[]
Some music cues are switched and some palettes are changed. In-game music is still intact. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Star Force[]
Galax Ranger[]
Galax Ranger features a war plane instead of a spacecraft. Oddly, the menu is altered so that the "A" button starts the game (as opposed to the "Start" button). This game is only known to appear on a Cheer-Tech 44-in-1 game set (with 76/128/5000-in-1 DIP switch variants).
Mars[]
Background is mostly removed, leaving nothing but a starscape.
Salangane[]
Almost identical to Mars visually, but the background color is blue instead of black. "Salangane" is a term referring to swifts (a type of bird) who produce edible nests; possibly suggesting a heavy mistranslation of a military plane named after a bird. The title logo is modified and downscaled from Berserker, a hack of Kage.
Bolt Action[]
Bolt Action is a rather advanced hack.
Srace Wars[]
Title screen
A title screen hack of Mars; originally only appeared on the Pro Tech XL. "Srace" is presumably a typo of "Space".
Star Gate (Defender II)[]
All hacks are based on the Japanese version.
Atomic Blast, Star, and Starattack are credited to Power Joy Ltd. The games are hacked to use both CHR banks (similar to Defender II's coding), whereas the original Star Gate only uses one bank. Despite seemingly having a development connection to Inventor, they rarely, if ever, appear within Inventor's game set.
Star[]
Star blanks out the in-game HUD and score counter; it appears these functions were effectively broken from the conversion to using both CHR banks. There are two different variants, featuring various graphical differences; most noticeably, one version replaces the ship with a dragon, while the other replaces it with a flying green man.
All known revisions sloppily replace the menu select screen with text reading "START". The two-player and "Game B" modes can still be accessed by pushing Select.
Atomic Blast[]
Built off of Star, though all graphics and music are heavily altered in comparison. The score counter is made visible, though it does not function correctly; only updating the score when a life is lost. The menu select text is unaltered.
Starattack[]
Almost identical to Atomic Blast, but the music is unhacked from the original Star Gate. Judging from the CHR data, this hack was produced after Atomic Blast was.
Levin Action[]
A separate hack from the versions listed above. Only uses one CHR bank in coding; the in-game HUD and score counter are intact and function correctly.
Depths of Space[]
A variant of Levin Action; features swapped music cues. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Street Fighter 2010 (Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight)[]
Final Duel[]
Based on the Japanese version. The intro cutscene is removed. Music is intact. Ken/Kevin Striker is replaced with one of the characters from Milon's Secret Castle.
Street Fighter II Pro[]
Defier[]
Based on the "12 Peoples" variant commonly found on multicarts. Zangief is featured on the title screen but isn't actually in the game, Ken's portrait and title screen graphic is taken from Double Dragon, Chun-Li's portrait is taken from a Saint Seiya game and Ryu's portrait is a edited Satoru Nakajima from Nakajima Satoru: F-1 Hero. One of the levels is a heavily edited version of the Pirate Ship stage from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters and the Train level is shared with Bollywood 2003, another Street Fighter II Pro hack.
Super Arabian[]
Crazy Gold Digger[]
Crazy Gold Digger features a Kirby-like character with slightly longer arms and white hair. One variant features altered music while another version does not.
Lively Boy[]
Lively Boy replaces the player character with a standard boy and the music is unaltered.
Super Contra (Super C)[]
Super Fighter (1)[]
A simple title screen hack. Only known to exist on the Mitashi Game-In Smarty Ver 1.0. Level select is on by default.
Super Fighter (2)[]
Title screen.
In Super Fighter, the level select is unlocked by default. Some versions also have a weapon select menu, this is likely a result of being based off of a multicart. Music tracks are swapped around.
Behind Enemy Lines[]
Seems to not be a variation of Super Fighter, but instead a separate hack and isn't changed as much. When you die, your player character turns into a skeleton when they drop to the floor. Music is intact. Some versions of the hack seem to be somewhat glitched.
Super Dyna'mix Badminton[]
World Champion Badminton[]
the music cues are swapped around. Originally appeared only on Advance Bright Limited consoles.
Super Mario Bros.[]
All of these hacks, with the exception of Super Shrek Bros., are advanced hacks that completely replace all of the in-game music. Whereas the original NES/Famicom version of Super Mario Bros. does not have title screen music, most of the hacks listed have title music. The in-game music heard in Inventor's SMB hacks is often (but not always) comprised of renditions of various existing pieces, sometimes using either Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" as title screen music, or "Hello! Ma Baby" as in-game music. Most versions have the level select unlocked by default.
Most hacks are based off of a pirated version of Super Mario Bros. known simply as "2", and Mario/Luigi's name in the top right corner is changed to read "SCORE" in virtually all hacks (including Super Shrek Bros.).
All hacks significantly alter the sprites of the mushroom retainers. In most hacks, Princess Toadstool is intact, but is strangely colored. In most hacks, all of the enemies are completely changed; though the Hammer Bros are unchanged in Pandamar (save for being miscolored). Most hacks significantly alter Bowser's sprite, but it remains largely (but not entirely) unchanged in Frog Prince.
There have been reported versions of Pandamar, Pka Chu/Pocket Maero and Frog Prince that keep the music intact, along with versions featuring Mario with the music and sound effects from Pandamar, but it is unconfirmed currently if these were intentionally created versions, or merely a result of the PRG and CHR ROM being mismatched between the hack and the original game on a multicart.
Pandamar[]
Title screen.
A hack replacing Mario with a panda. Various versions with different music exist; one plays "Hello! Ma Baby" and another plays Jingle Bells. Both songs are featured on the same rom. Jingle Bells seemingly only plays when something in the code is triggered.
Impossible Panda[]
Title screen.
Impossible Panda is based off of a non-Inventor Super Mario Bros. hack of unknown origin called Super Mario Bros. Frustration, but uses the graphics, music and sound effects from Pandamar.
Frog Prince[]
Title screen.
The title theme in most versions of Frog Prince is The game over music. The small form player sprite resembles Keroppi from Sanrio, whereas the super form player sprite is replaced with a human boy who wears sunglasses. Certain versions play "In the Mood" and other versions play "Hello! Ma Baby".
Pocket Maero[]
Title screen.
Contrary to the name, the hack stars Pikachu, who is shown as an anthropomorphic Poké Ball with feet in his small sprite (similar in design to Voltorb). Uses the same title screen theme as Pandamar but features a different level theme.
Pika Man[]
Title screen. (Starmie version)
A variant of Pocket Maero. One version stars Starmie instead of Pikachu. Unconfirmed whether this is a genuine Inventor hack or a fan-made imitation.
Pka Chu[]
Title screen.
Another variant of Pocket Maero starring Pikachu.
Super Boy[]
Title screen.
Super Boy has no connection to (and should not be confused with) Zemina's Super Boy series. The title theme is the same music heard in the Anti SARS hack of Dr. Mario.
Super Kid[]
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Title screen.
Super Kid features the graphics from Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels, the TNT hack of Bomberman and the aforementioned Super Boy hack, in addition to the diamonds from Wacky Races. The music and sound effects are taken from Pandamar, while Princess Toadstool has been replaced with an anime girl. It is uncertain whether this is a genuine Inventor hack or a fanmade imitation.
Mushroom[]
Title screen.
A hack replacing Mario with a mushroom and featuring "In the Mood".
Telebaby[]
Title screen.
In Telebaby, Mario's mushroom-powered sprite is replaced with Dipsy from Teletubbies; all other graphics, including Mario's "small" form, as well as the music, are reused from the Mushroom hack.
Teletubb[]
Another variant of Telebaby.
Game Mars of JJ[]
Gameplay.
Game Mars of JJ is a Pandamar-based hack created for the W1 Mini Retro Chick by Jncota. "JJ" is a chicken character wearing sunglasses, and he both replaces Mario and is the shape of the physical console itself. Uses "In the Mood" on its title screen. The "Mars" part of the game's name comes from the name of Jncota's boss, Mr. Mars Yang.
Super Shrek Bros.[]
Title screen.
Super Shrek Bros. features Shrek and is based off of the PAL version, causing it to play at a faster speed than normal. It is also the only hack that does not alter the music in any way, shape or form. Strangely, Shrek's small sprite resembles Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc.. Princess Toadstool's sprite is also altered, unlike the other hacks.
Super Spy Hunter (Battle Formula)[]
Inclement Trip[]
Game starts on level 2 in the Manley 50 Games Plug'n Play. On other consoles that include this hack, it starts on level 1. Music is intact.