Top 5 BAD Nintendo NES Games Improved by Hacks

[@GregsGameRoom]

Thanks for watching. Know of any other hacks I should cover?

[@BPlayReview]

honestly, i know a bit of the games got improved such as Castlevania 2 but not a complete overhaul such as ghostbusters and all. maybe you can cover more if not, all the bad NES games that got improved by hack or other sort of method which would be great watch and a surprise to all.

[@jdaywork2693]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

[@QuintanaDS]

There's a hack for the Conan NES game which fixes the controls. The game becomes 100% better with it!

[@hatlock8531]

I know this is old, but the Zelda 2 redux patch by ShadowOne333 makes a flawed game almost perfect.

[@jamesborlan2850]

This is why game hackers deserve more respect They are not ruining the games they are improving them plus let’s be honest we all want to mess With the games ever since the game genie was released

[@GregsGameRoom]

Some are improving them for sure. Others... just like to do weird stuff

[@noir66146]

right ! if only the cartridges had that extra 500kb space so they didn't have to cut corners or abandon certain game features... and now in the time of 4billion polygons rendered on screen.... its such a shame the mainstream producers wont do professional scale revisits to such classics.

[@ckingch]

Double Dragon 3 wasn't so hard to me back in the day and I beat it regularly, but it used to wear my brothers out all day lol.

[@luvmenow33]

My cousin and I put alot of hours in trying to beat Ghostbusters for the Master System. That version was WAY WAY WAY better than the NES. Aside from the awful controls and not really completely understanding what to do, we loved and I'd love to try that HACK

[@luvmenow33]

After putting ALOT of hours into Back To The Future I can assure you those levels are real. They are also very difficult. That last stretch of roads from the PROM to the Time Machine & Lighting Bolt is just ridiculous

[@03bgood]

Prom doesn't occur in November, it was a "dance".

[@guybrush1701]

I have an NES Advantage and it's the ONLY way I can play that game. I've beaten it a few times too. Of course even then it's only with luck.

[@brandongordon4019]

You could do a video on games that are great but have some things that hold them back. The one that I've heard about and dabbled with was for the original Final Fantasy, filled with many many bug fixes, an new title screen, the ability to have longer names, etc. I think I also saw a similar hack for Zelda II. And I don't know if this would fit with the rest for a video like this but the original Super Mario Bros. simultaneous multiplayer hack where you both get to play at the same time. There's a lot of great stuff

[@javaly78]

It’s funny how the remaster of Ghostbusters rips the character pixels from the Japanese Ghostbusters two video game

[@figment1988]

New Ghostbusters 2 also appeared on the European NES

[@kaspartambur]

7:58 - oh my dear.... if you had been a preschool child with this game lying around.... You'd be surprised how with dedication - a 6 year old could finish the game. But yes - being small back then, I lacked the concept of "beginning needs to be introductive, death is bad" vs "Ok... died 200 time... what if I...." I'd argue - it was crazy fun and heart-pounding to reach further and further.

[@yannichingaz]

Had the Ghostbusters game for Sega Master System… should’ve gotten Rambo instead.

[@SegaDream131]

We had Rocky.... We had to buy new controllers....🙃

[@MoviemaniaNick]

Cool video Greg! Yes I was very disappointed with Ghostbusters and Back to the Future games as a kid. I played them and was like, this is it?! lol The new way looks a lot better.

[@IllegalPriest]

I used to be able to beat double dragon 3 without getting hit. If I remember right, you just do the triangle jump drop kick over and over. Very tedious.

[@bicentenialkid]

Thanks for another great video and I hope you are doing well. That was great showing a clip of James Rolfe. Have a great day buddy.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Bad games are his bread & butter

[@InfinityLearning3D]

12:56 Well... In case you don't realize this game is a huge open world map in 8 bits era, to be honest, it is pretty fast to read and load everything in 8:42 seconds.

[@grindhousefan80]

Great video! I'd love to see more remasters of classic titles

[@GregsGameRoom]

This is kind of like remaking a bad movie instead of a good one

[@petrick4275]

2:10 I like the sovjet emblem on top of the car!

[@GregsGameRoom]

I believe that’s supposed to be the GB logo

[@deathcold_longplaysua4846]

Back in my childhood days, i could beat Double Dragon 3 on NES without any problems. I had tactics than i knew, and i knew, how to play that game in general. Sure, it wasn't right from the start, and i had my time to learn how to beat it, back then, but still. And now, when i'm grown man, i don't even remember how to play half of the NES or Mega Drive games. Sure, i still can beat games like Contra and Super C on NES, or Batman by Sunsoft on Mega Drive, but still. Many of other games, i don't want to even touch, like Contra Hard Corps for example, simply because, i don't remember how i could beat them.

[@teknomax7883]

Wait wait wait, so you're telling me that Shinobi, you know, the hit from SEGA is on the NES!??

[@Jolt7800]

Great video! I agree Pitfall Harry should not look like Costello!

[@Robson_C_Tomas]

Nesrocks also did an Adventure Island hack. Look at your website. Good video!

[@GregsGameRoom]

His hacks are great

[@ElephantMariotheRHDNhater3293]

Super pitfall just needed some love and care put into its design

[@ronalpert1415]

The original game certainly hasn't aged well, at all - but when it was new (early days of NES) it was actually a fair amount of fun. Compared to a lot of the early linear NES games (run left to right), this game felt pretty cool in that you had this big level to explore, in any direction that you wanted to go. Of course it soon got eclipsed by plenty of other games that expanded upon that concept (Metroid, Blast Master for example) but before those games came out, this one was kinda fun - glitchiness and all.

[@luvmenow33]

I tell you, as a kid, I must have had the patience of a Saint to play Back to the Future enough to actually finish it, See that unbelievably disappointing ending, and never touch it again. As far as improvements, I don't really think there's much to be done. It's just a stupid , boring, game. All I can think to do is to add unlimited continues. Also when you die on one of the 4 special stages, you have to play the last street level again before getting another chance. That's gotta go too. Can really think of anything else.

[@orlandoturbo6431]

I like to see Turbografx 16 rom hack games like Keith Courage with extra levels and different enemies and bosses and with parallax scrolling.I also like to see Takin'it to the Hoop with faster speed and different characters and make it like NBA Jam.

[@leglockcontrol]

I acknowledge that DD3 for Nes is though, but as a kid I find the way to play it through cheesy techs involving moving up and down, luring enemies withing your hitbox range. I really like the game as it is minus the weapon system (which I use only for bosses). I don´t mind if a hack could balance Yagyu Ranzou, since other than being fast, is pretty much useless.

[@PKMNwww411_MkII]

Double Dragon 3 was the first ever video game to use the godawful and often despised pay-to-win model. Mind you, this was before the internet. To buy moves, weapons, characters, and more, pop in more quarters into the machine. What was Technos thinking?

[@igotmorepolo4184]

For someone spending so much time with Nintendo games how come you suck at the challenge. Double dragon 3 is possible to beat as is and is worth the challenge it took. You have to walk up and down and use the double jump kick frequently, every single time they get around you spam that kick. You play lazily.

[@andremalerba5281]

I had no idea the NES had a port of Shinobi! TBH the best way to fix the game's graphics should be just playing the Master System version

[@dethslayer9258]

The lava shark pit from AVGN was in his own game, Part 1 in the Fantasy Level I believe.. Lmao when I seen it for the 1st time.

[@hitmanmonaghan6633]

Shadow of the Bat is pretty good. It’s Shadow of the Ninja with Batman and Robin.

[@specterkev]

In pitfall, I used to think the character was Mario when I was a kid

[@a98176]

I loved Back to the Future. It took me years to get to the guitar solo... it's incredibly difficult, but it didn't suck...that bad...my childhood sucked...dam#

[@mangmerciless9606]

If you're craving some double dragon fun, you should play double dragon neon.

[@GregsGameRoom]

I have it on Xbox 360. Wasn’t able to beat it though

[@drakonolus7922]

Maybe inside at the Pitfal game ( the original Nes version ) wanted to put Mario instead of another guy. You know; that studio reach to Nintendo and ask them if they can launch an a Pitfal game. It looked nice, but Nintendo wanted that the original character looked a little bit like a Mario instead of somoene else cooler instead. Nintendo always wants to put the MARIO character everywhere, elsewhere. Even inside on a Third Party future gamrs. It's nuts syndrome it's sickness.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Activision probably just wanted the character to look like Mario on their own

[@luvmenow33]

Boy! That Super Pitfall Hack looks amazing! If he made it look that nice, & was somehow able to take away some of the cheap deaths and impossible moon logic parts of the game, he might actually make that dumpster fire fun to play. That would really be something! I REALLY love the ROM HACKING Community for keeping these old systems alive! Just in the last two months I've downloaded 4 ROM HACKS for one of my absolute favorite RPG's on the NES DESTINY OF AN EMPEROR. I've beaten the first 3 and they were outstanding! Parts of it were so well done as far as changing the story and the World Map that it felt like I was playing a completely different game! Actually THREE different games since DOAE is based on the three kingdoms Era in China and the original game follows the story of Shu & Liu Bei. But with so many characters and stories to work with they've made a ton of ROMS from that one game.

[@matthewlane518]

The mummies and the last boss in DD3 are crazy tuff, I've made it to the end but never beat it

[@Lumimind]

For Ghostbuster, they took the sprites from the Gameboy version (really good game btw)

[@GregsGameRoom]

Looks like they came from The "New Ghostbusters 2" game released for NES in Europe & Japan. (The GB game is similar.)

[@Djerique]

They also call this the SMS edition. Sega Master System?

[@loganjorgensen]

New Ghostusters is pretty, wish there was some tweaks to make it fun though. You can't fix BTTF with a mere hack, you have to start from scratch because it's diseased gameplay. ^_^ 10:24 You sound like a 2600 expert. 9_9 Some nice color palette changes in Shinobi, very Capcom like rather than Tengen's shades of vomit lol. I think the Super Pitfall hack is the best one, more in line with what you expected Harry's comeback game to be like then, like actual effort went into it.

[@shaky6669]

Great video! I remember being Dissappointed with Ghostbusters as a kid. Looks much better. Super Pitfall looks alot more playable. The game looked cool, just the playability was awful. Wasted weekend rental back in the day. 😆

[@GregsGameRoom]

I rented Super Pitfall back in the day. Love the 2600 Pitfall II, so I was sure this would be so much better. Nope. I doubt David Crane had anything to do with this quickie cash-grab.

[@mirabilis]

Castlevania II has a great romhack by Bisqwit.

[@aoccza7]

Hey dude!! Friday the 13th is a great game, it has some minnor flaws but once you understand the game is REAL FUN!!

[@mattpurvis927]

The bee attack is the best.

[@gwegz]

OMG! I need this hack of Double Dragon III! Where can i find it?

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

Cool vid, subbed...

[@CaspisSinclair27]

Shinobi's graphics might not be much better than the Atari 7800, but saying the 2600 is pretty ridiculous.

[@Antari-kun]

A good Super Pitfall game??? I`m dreaming?

[@Eso96]

poderia fazer parte 2?

[@PinHeadzBlackson]

Super Pitfall seem like a Genesis game

[@xTerrySunderlandx]

about double dragon 3, marion get rivived after double dragon 2 "nes" , so it makes sense it's on the 3rd one. she is dead on the arcade version (and nope, it's not hard at all)

[@franksmith613]

Can someone make a much better version of ET for Atari 2600 and Superman 64?

[@ChristheShrinerdawg]

I remember playing Ghostbusters 2 on NES and had a blast playing it! Of course, this was 1990/1991.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Didn't see any good hacks for GB2

[@NOLADEEJ]

Game hacks are so fun!! All of these are cool except the BTTF, which looks like I'd still hate the game just as much, lol

[@GregsGameRoom]

Yeah, BTTF was a stretch, but I had a hard time finding anything else that wasn’t a drastic gameplay change from the original.

[@franksmith613]

@@GregsGameRoom I think it's possible to turn the second nes game BTTF Part II & III into a really good game. They just have to make changes to the horrible level design and make it a more enjoyable platformer.

[@a98176]

Wait...was Wrath of the Black Manta a rip off of Shinobi?

[@derekdash2179]

Where can we find these hacks?

[@GregsGameRoom]

See my latest video

[@jaredhammonds8255]

I didn't think Double Dragon III was all that bad. Double Dragon II was awful with the controls that changed based on which direction you were facing. There's an improvement patch for that as well and makes it playable but it's still just ok. I don't remember music in Pitfall for tye Atari 2600 except for when you swing on a vine.

[@TheTrueBro]

DD3 is far from being bad. Very difficult , yes, but game controls, sounds and looks very good, and it also forces you to approach enemies more strategically instead of just pummeling them (making the spin kick more useful)

[@gjergjaurelius9798]

Someone needs to do a hack for contra force. There is a good game it just needs to be fixed! Btw try the mighty final fight hack. COOPERATIVE GAME NOW!

[@retrogamestudios6688]

So much for fire sharks

[@derekdash2179]

Is Billy still “Bimmy”?

[@SegaDream131]

I'M BIMMMMEEEEEE!!!....

[@josegarcia8041]

Links to download???

[@madhighgamer1386]

links to the patches that is

[@Launchpad05]

Why would you want the 'Shinobi' hack when you can just buy the original arcade game on The Switch?

[@brutallyhonest123]

Because roms are free

[@Vespyr_]

Ghostbusters is a graphical improvement but it's still the same shitty game. What did they fix? I mean it's just a superficial hack. Not a good start to this list.

[@GregsGameRoom]

There were a few other differences like giving $$ at the start that made it better too

[@SegaDream131]

Looks great to me, makes me almost want to try it....

[@comicsdude3166]

Great.

[@PedroPlanas777]

God loves you.

[@bicentenialkid]

By the way, I played those games and found them to interesting for sure. 😂

[@retrogamestudios6688]

Cv2

[@michaeladams9807]

👍👍

[@kotjr9074]

Привет из Украины)

[@funsimpledrawings8233]

Original Double Dragon 3 is not hard game! I it very easy with a little practice

[@itzmikeomg2755]

Any hacker that puts their name into a game rom gets discarded as soon as i see it. I have no desire to display their names on my tv for the next 20 years. They do great work, don't get me wrong, but i will not use a hack if they gotta have their ego visible.

[@aweirdredtoad3637]

It really has nothing to do with ego, it's just to let players know who made the rom hack. It's very natural for anyone to do that, thinking of it like someone improving an old drawing and put their name on that to show the original person didn't do the updated work.

[@JWG.LLC_The_Artist]

Have you seen the new friday the 13 game for gameboy? You can play it on and download it from itch io