These hacks usually change most/all of the graphics, and may modify the music slightly. Later hacks fully replaced the music with brand-new tracks. Inventor is only explicitly credited in a small number of these, so the extent of its involvement is unknown. Some more notes about the listing:
- Any games with extensive amounts of Japanese text have been translated into (mostly broken) English.
- Sometimes the music cues are swapped around, other times they are completely corrupted, possibly to either intentionally hide copyright (badly), or as a side effect of hacking the game.
- Many games feature a specific, generic character who resembles a cute-ified Ninja Turtle. For consistency, it will be referred to as "Conte" in the listing (after the game "Conte Enegy").
- There are many "alternate" versions of preexisting Inventor hacks that only modify the music and colors; these have not been documented here.
- Most, if not all "Advanced" hacks change the graphics, remove all sound effects, and/or replace all music tracks with a single new track.
Original Game | Hack Name(s) | Notes |
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10-Yard Fight | American Football Super Bowl |
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1942 | Aether Tiger Air Tiger World War II |
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Adventure Island | Clonk | Based on another hack of Adventure Island called Sonic; Inventor may have made that one as well (unconfirmed), Master Higgins/Sonic is replaced with a sprite edit of Hosuke from Mitsume ga Tooru. |
Adventure Island II | Super Boy World | Based on another hack of Adventure Island II called Super Bros. 9. |
Adventure Island III | Super Boy: The Wind of Island | Stars the player character from Frog Prince, a Super Mario Bros hack. |
Antarctic Adventure | Slalom | |
Arkanoid | Scoring | Mapper 0 conversion. |
Astro Robo Sasa | Astro Robo Toto | The character is Milon from Milon's Secret Castle and the cow is replaced with Conte. |
Balloon Fight | Air Umbrella Fishwar Zero Gravity |
In Air Umbrella and Zero Gravity, the player controls Meowky from Mappy with his ears cut off.
Fishwar is an advanced hack, and is credited to Nature Color Game. |
Baltron | unknown hack | Ship graphic is changed, title screen is intact. |
Baseball | Baseball | The players are replaced with Meowkies from Mappy. |
Batman | Hellfire | Batman is replaced with Conte. |
Battle City | City A 2000 Future Copter Future Tank Sea War 2000 |
Hacks all feature altered levels. May be based on the Tank 1990 hack. |
Binary Land | Mars Man | |
Bird Week | Bird Brain unknown hack |
The unknown hack is copyrighted 2007 and only changes the game's colors. In Bird Brain, the background is stolen from Bucky O'Hare. |
Blaster Master | Fairy 2001 | |
Bomberman | Golgotha Golgotha (2) TNT |
In Golgotha, Bomberman is replaced with Lode Runner. |
Bubble Bobble Part 2 | Dotey Cat | Bub and Bob are replaced with Doraemons. |
Brush Roller | Monster Dash | Characters and enemies are taken from Clu Clu Land. |
Bucky O'Hare | Space Soldier | The game features one-hit deaths; this is a result of the Konami anti-piracy code being set off, which occurs if the copyrights on the title screen are removed. |
Bump 'n' Jump | Bumpity Bop | Game starts on level 3. |
BurgerTime | Burger Build | Game starts on level 2. |
B-Wings | Ultimate Choice | Weapons are renamed to fighter plane names. |
Captain America and the Avengers | Ares | |
Chack'n Pop | Bomb Bomb Drop |
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Challenger | Ladangel | |
Championship Lode Runner | Arctic Hunt Conte Enegy (2) Tactful Mokey |
Conte Enegy 2 uses the same graphics as the first game
Tactful Mokey stars the monkey from Circus Charlie |
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 | Elf Legend | Chip and Dale are replaced with Charmander from Pokemon and Po from Teletubbies. Pikachu and Mario also appear. Dialogue is poorly translated in a rather hilarious way. |
Choujikuu Yousai - Macross | Aether Kavass Enemy Assault Ghost Plane Thunder Bird |
Both Enemy Assault and Ghost Plane remove the intro screen. Thunder Bird is a rather advanced hack. |
Circus Charlie | Conqueror Super Elf |
Super Elf starts on level 7 (harder version of level 2). |
City Connection | City Chase Goodhand Street Frenzy |
Most iterations of Goodhand and Street Frenzy erroneously use the same tile for painting over the road, making it almost unplayable; at least one (rare) variation fixes this. Mapper 0 conversion. |
Clu Clu Land | Fish Fight Ku Ku Land Lido |
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Code Name Viper | ExtremityTask | Has only been found as partially overwritten graphic data. The main character has been changed into a girl and her cutscene portrait resembles Cammy from the Street Fighter series. |
Contra Force | X-Plan | Based on another hack of Contra Force called Super Contra 6. Characters are all Contes and the music is heavily corrupted. |
Devil World | Underworld | Underworld starts on level 2. |
Dig Dug | Crypt Car Dik Duk Down Deep |
Down Deep steals its intro music from Galaga. |
Donkey Kong |
What's Up |
What's Up starts on level 2. |
Donkey Kong Jr. | Rescue Kuck Rescue |
Based on another hack of Donkey Kong Jr. called Turtles II. Junior is now Conte. |
Donkey Kong 3 | Bandits Bug Frogland |
Bug is a rather advanced hack. |
Donkey Kong Jr. Math | Calcu Chaos | Same graphics as Rescue Kuck. |
Door Door | Knok Knok | |
Double Dragon III | Boxing Circles Overlord | In the intro cutscene, Billy's face is replaced with Casey Jones' mask from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The dialogue is translated in a humorous way. |
Dough Boy | Gear Master | |
Downtown - Nekketsu Koushinkyoku - Soreyuke Daiundoukai | Boy Sport | Intro is removed. |
Dr. Mario | Anti SARS Make Well |
Most of the music is new, except for Chill which is the same as the original. |
Duck Hunt | Anti-Terror Action Autumn Hunt Hunt Invader Shoot Copter Shoot Out Shoot UFO Shoot UFO 1 Snowfield Shoot Space 2050 Super Shoot Surprise |
Anti-Terror Action replaces ducks with Osama Bin Laden heads. Shoot Copter and Shoot UFO 1 are only the Clay Pigeons mode. A couple of variations separate the title screen from the menu. |
Excitebike | Biky Bike Extreme Racer Risker Tip Moto |
Tip Moto changes the controls 90 degrees (up/down are moved by left/right). |
Exerion | Exfrome Fly By Overlord Space War |
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F-1 Hero (Michael Andretti World GP) | Dream Rapid | The grand prix mode has been removed and the course can't be changed, effectively meaning the game only has 1 track. |
F-1 Race | Bicycle Race Boat Race Jet Sprinter UFO Race |
Bicycle Race completely alters the physics. It also greatly reduces the top speed, making it difficult to complete a lap in time. |
Family Computer Othello | Chess Thinker |
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Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge | Ultimate Speed | |
Field Combat | Saucer Wars | |
Fire Dragon | Dragon Shunting |
Shunting replaces the titular dragon with a train and is credited to Power Joy Ltd. |
Formation-Z | Convert Soldier | |
Front Line | Hassle | |
Galaga | Battle Top Shot |
Ship has a smaller movement window than normal (cannot reach left corner), making it very difficult to play. |
Galaxian | Hexapod Warship |
Warship is based on another hack of Galaxian called Night Arrow; Inventor may have made that one as well (unconfirmed). |
Geimos | X-Terk 2 | Credited to Winners. |
Golf | Championship Golf Golfer |
Championship Golf starts on hole 3. |
Gomoku Narabe | Gobang Right Move |
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Gradius | Firmanent | |
Guevara (Guerilla War) | Bolide | The game is based on the Japanese version, but the cutscene text is translated to English. the SNK copyright is intact |
Gun-Nac | Space War Space War III Star Wars |
Level select is unlocked by default. Space War III removes the intro cutscene. |
Hogan's Alley | Bestiarian Debar Bomb Dinosaur'Bale Forest Guard Rnpid Gunnery Shooter Shooter (2) |
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Hokuto no Ken | Conte | Seemingly the first game to star Conte. Mapper 0 conversion. |
Ice Climber | Climbing Club Mars Climber |
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Ice Hockey | Winter Cup | Credited to Winners. |
Ikki | UU Weapon | |
Isolated Warrior | Order II | |
Jackie Chan | Barve Boy - Kung Fu Pokechu
Hulk |
Replaces Jackie Chan with a large Pikachu. A girl Pikachu and Mewtwo appear in the opening intro. Likely based on Super Bros. 10: Kung Fu Mario.
Hulk is the exact same as Barve Boy, only this time, Pikachu has been changed to what is supposed to be The Incredible Hulk. |
James Bond Jr. | Caesar Captain | Any mention of James Bond Jr's name is intact. |
Joust | Flying Bomber Soaring Warrior |
Character in Flying Bomber appears to be a mixture between a Mario 1 Cheep-Cheep and Malon from Binary Land. |
Joe and Mac | Risker Super 2002: Jake Saga | Based on another hack of Joe and Mac called Mario 16, the player characters are now Teletubbies. |
The Jungle Book | Woody Story | Mowgli now vaguely resembles Conte. |
Juuouki (Altered Beast) | Super Man | No affiliation with the superhero. Uses the Mario 3 font on its title screen. |
Kabuki Quantum Fighter | Chain | The intro and cutscenes are removed. |
Kage (Shadow of the Ninja/Blue Shadow) | Berserker | |
Karateka | Neighborhood Smash | |
Kick Master | Dream World | |
Kinnikuman - Muscle Tag Match | Boxing Match Championship Wrestling WF Law WWF War |
Boxing Match and Championship Wrestling replace the human wrestlers into animals. |
Kunio-kun no Nekketsu Soccer League | Mad Foot Ball - The World Club of Soccer League | Players are replaced with Teletubbies, Intro text is blanked out, most of the text in game is messed up and makes no sense. |
Lode Runner | Conte Enegy Deflower Jungle Trail Spider |
Conte Enegy is based on another hack of Lode Runner called Turtles. |
LotLot | Maze Ball | |
Lunar Ball | Billiard 2008 Planetary Pool |
Music is notoriously heavily corrupted in most versions |
Mach Rider | Ballistic Mayhem Trump Tank |
Ballistic Mayhem removes the intermission screens. |
Magic Carpet 1001 | Harry Potter Harry Tour Little Hag Witch Run |
Harry Potter and Harry Tour obviously star Harry Potter and the music is heavily corrupted, both Little Hag and Witch Run replace Harry with a generic witch and uncorrupts the music.
Some versions are converted to mapper 0 (not all). |
Magic Jewelry | Abacus Card Coin Coin Tetris Jewelry |
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Magmax | Hovercraft | |
Mappy | Bounce Break Out |
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Mario Bros. | Jump and Journey Roge Brer Roge Brer (2) Rouge Rouge Brothers |
The enemies in Rouge and Rogue Brothers are Meowkies from Mappy. Jump and Journey changes Mario's name to Tom. |
Mighty Bomb Jack | unknown hack unknown hack (2) |
The 1st hack still says Mighty Bomb Jack on title screen; graphics are completely altered otherwise. The 2nd hack has a blank title screen, and another unique graphic set. |
Mighty Final Fight | Street War | Based on the Japanese version, The intro sequence is skipped automatically, Cody has been changed to somewhat resemble Terry Bogard from the Fatal Fury/King of Fighters series, the character select screen is translated but is unchanged beyond that. |
Millipede | Surface Fire Swirl |
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Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu | Super Fighters | Playable characters are replaced with Pikachu lookalikes and the game is translated into English (albeit poorly). |
Ninja Hattori-kun | Defiance Pocky Tinytoon |
Pocky stars Bubby from Rainbow Islands. |
Ninja-kun - Majou no Bouken | Combata Warrior Chase |
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Nuts & Milk | Penguin Snack Attack |
Penguin is based on another hack of Nuts & Milk called Milk Nuts II. Penguin uses characters from Binary Land, while Snack Attack features enemies from Warpman. Snack Attack starts on level 27, but reverts to level 2 afterwards. |
Obake no Q Tarou (Chubby Cherub) | Penguin | Only changes the colors, and blacks out the logo. |
Othello (Bit Corp.) | Genius Chess Logic |
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Pac-Man | Egg It Jungle Maze Maze Tussle |
Egg It changes the graphics so that you have to fill the maze rather than empty it. |
Palamedes II - Star Twinkles | Star Twinkles II | Mapper 0 conversion. |
Panic Restaurant | Harry Wrestle | Chef is replaced with Harry Potter. |
Pinball | Bounce Ball Flip Out Hoodle Lucky Ball Luck Ball (VT03) |
Table layout is changed somewhat. Luck Ball is the only known VT03 Inventor hack. |
Pooyan | Archery Bitha |
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Popeye | Dada Let Loose |
Olive Oyl is replaced with a Binary Land penguin. |
Popeye no Eigo Asobi | Bear ♥ Penguin | Same graphics as Dada. Credited to Winners. |
Porter | Porter Shift |
The Shift logo uses the Super Star Force font. |
Pyramid | Benthal World | |
Race America | Racing Car | Some graphics are stolen from Snow Bros. and possibly a Saint Seiya game. The cursor is removed from the opponent select screen. |
Rad Racer | Coast Speed Downhill Racer Mad Trip: Los Angeles to Y.N. Rallye Skiing Super Hang-On 1997 |
Among Inventor's earliest hacks. |
Raid on Bungeling Bay | Bomb Helicoptor G-3 Cobra of Sky Helicoptor Harry |
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Road Fighter | Air Ship Boat Race Jet Boat On the Road Panzer Fly Car Power Boat |
Level designs are different. Game ends on course 3. Power Boat is a rather advanced hack. |
RoadBlasters | Bionic Tank | |
Route-16 Turbo | Bumingr-16 - Top Gear Drive | |
Saint Seiya - Kanketsu Hen | Raider | Game is badly translated into English. One of the characters is replaced with Mappy. |
Rolling Thunder | Emprise | |
S.C.A.T. | FU-3 Firebolt | |
SD Hero Soukessen - Taose! Aku no Gundan | Baresark | Title screen font is stolen from Blaster Master. Banpresto copyright is intact. |
Seicross | Violent | |
Silkworm | X-War | Game starts on level 6 and then goes to level 1. |
Sky Destroyer | Propeller Sky Invader Top Gun Mission |
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Slalom | Slalom Moto | |
Snow Bros. | Enchanter Kue | |
Soccer | Fifa 2002 Football Soccer World Cup World Cup 2000 World Cup 2000 (2) World Cup 2002 |
Most of these are effectively the same hack, which replaces players with rabbits. |
SonSon | Monster Soldier Tunny |
Monster replaces SonSon with Nana from Ice Climber. Tunny has a poorly-colored Donkey Kong in its intro. Monster is credited to Winners. |
Space Invaders | Beat Balloon Village Protector |
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Spartan X/Kung Fu | Warrior Tales | |
Spartan X 2 | Waddy Boy | |
Spy Hunter | Need For Speed | |
Spy vs Spy | Wild Wild | The spies are replaced with generic cowboys. |
Spider-Man and the Return of the Sinister Six | Super Chap | 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. One of the enemies is replaced with Mappy. |
Sqoon | Seascape | |
Star Force | Bolt Action Galax Ranger Mars Salangame |
Background is mostly removed in Mars and Salangame, leaving nothing but a starscape. Bolt Action is a rather advanced hack. |
Star Gate | Atomic Blast Depths of Space Levin Action Star |
Star removes the in-game HUD. Atomic Blast and Star are credited to Power Joy Ltd. |
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 Super Contra 6, Chun Li's portrait is taken from a Saint Seiya game. |
Super Arabian | Crazy Gold Digger Smart Acel |
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Super Contra (Super C) | Behind Enemy Lines Super Fighter |
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. |
Super Dyna'mix Badminton | World Champion Badminton | |
Super Mario Bros. | Frog Prince Impossible Panda Mushroom Pandamar Pka Chu Pocket Maero Super Boy Super Shrek Bros. |
Pka Chu and Pocket Maero star Pikachu, while Super Shrek Bros. features Shrek.
Every single hack, with the exception of Super Shrek Bros, are advanced hacks. Most versions have the level select unlocked by default. Impossible Panda is possibly based off of a fanmade Kaizo hack. |
Super Spy Hunter (Battle Formula) | Inclement Trip | Game starts on level 2. |
Taito Chase H.Q. | Rush Hour | |
Tag Team Pro-Wrestling | Tag Team Smackdown Max Team W.W.F.L |
Max Team W.W.F.L is credited to Winners. |
Tennis | Tennis Tennis (2) Winbolton Champ-2000 |
Tennis (2) features sprites of the Adventure Island protagonist Master Higgins. |
Tetris (BPS) | Puzz Up | There are Bird Week birds in the sky. Mapper 0 conversion. |
Tetris (Tengen) | Falling Bricks | The pieces are different, making it play more like a standard Brick Game system. |
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Storm1 | Indiana Jones is replaced with Buster Bunny, using his sprites from Inventor's own Tinytoon (Ninja Hattori-kun hack). Copyright screen and all mentions of Indiana Jones' name are intact. |
Tiny Toon Adventures | Happy Angel Legend | Characters resemble the four Teletubbies and the enemies are recoloured. |
Tom & Jerry | Bruce & Leo | Jerry is renamed Numen. |
Transformers: Convoy no Nazo | Moonglade | |
TwinBee | Galigon Van-1 |
Mapper 0 conversion. |
Urban Champion | Spar Sparing |
Changes the human fighters to resemble goblins and replaces the city street setting with a forest setting. |
Volguard II | Earth Guard | |
Wacky Races | Harry Story
Soldier Boy |
In Harry Story, Muttley is replaced with Harry Potter. Levels are swapped around. Level select screen has level names replaced with "Push start" text. Cutscenes are skipped automatically. |
Warpman | Aether | |
Wild Gunman | Anon Gunman Cow Boy Fast Gunman Gunfignt Pop Sharp Shooter |
Sharp Shooter replaces cowboys with Osama Bin Laden. |
The World of Card Games | Squeezer | Uses graphics from Binary Land. |
Wrecking Crew | Destroy I | Some versions rename Mario to Roger. |
Xevious | Air Alert Airway |
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Xiao Ma Li | Small Lucky | |
Yie Ar Kung-Fu | Feat | |
Zhong Guo Xiang Qi (Micro Genius) | Chinese Chese | Replaces people with animals. |
Zippy Race | Fun Racer In and Out Racer Obstacle Race X-Racing |
Some graphics are removed on X-Racing, making levels 2 and 4 much more difficult. |