Category Archives: Finished Games

TMNT Recolored & Revised (OpenBOR)

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This TMNT Beats of Rage mod from GaBoTiCo is both a recoloring of TMNT 2: The Arcade Game for the NES and a complete reimagining of the game with additional levels, moves, enemies, and more surprises! GaBoTiCo took a long time doing the recoloring and revised version to fulfill his dream and it shows from the high quality of this mod! The recoloring his the Turtles different shades of green, new moves and special attacks from later games like TMNT 3, Turtles in Time and even Tournament Fighters were added to the team’s move list to assist in the fight against the Foot Clan! Splinter, April and Casey Jones are playable characters once they are unlocked and you even have levels based on episodes of the 1987 cartoon and more! The Recoloring base game is that of the NES Arcade game, while Extended builds on the Arcade Game with a lot more!

From GaBoTiCo:
​This is and old school Beat’em up based on the Ninja Turtles. I’m not gonna lie, I borrowed some ideas from TMNT: Rescue Palooza. This project started as a remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Arcade Game for the NES but then I added more playable characters, new levels and cutscenes based on the 1987 Animated Series. I also added moves from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Project for the NES, TMNT4: Turtles in Time and some “hadoken-like” moves from the SNES version of TMNT: Tournament Fighters. I recolored ALL the sprites adding “some” shading and a black outline so that the visuals resemble the cartoon. I actually finished this game back in Dec 2020, way before I opened my account on Game Jolt.

You can download the game here.

Review is based on playing the Revised game.

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Happy New Year 2025 (in April 2025)

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Another year of streaming and gaming in the books! It was a year of ups and downs in streaming and life, and fighting off my ADHD to actually pull the trigger to start streaming that night. We finished a decent amount of titles and hacks, more than I expected during Kainetober too! Here’s our 2024 finished list:

GB/A:
Batman
Gargoyle’s Quest

NES:
Gunsmoke
Spartan X2/KungFu 2
Guerilla War
Jaws
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (hack)
Monster in my Pocket
Die hard (hack)

SNES:
SD The Great Battle
Super Ghouls n Ghosts (both loops)
TMNT Turtles in Time -easy

SEGA GENESIS/SEGA CD/SMS/GAME GEAR:
Batman
Task Force harrier EX
Mega Man Wily Wars (with hacks)
TMNT Hyperstone heist -easy

PSP/PS1:
Castlevania SOTN Alucard- 200.6%; Richter 186.8%

TG-16/PC-ENGINE:
Batman

DREAMCAST:
Zombie Revenge jp arcade mode

STEAM/OTHER/ARCADE/MOBILE/CONSOLE:
Beats of rage
mega man wily tower
streets of rage 2 zombies -beats of rage mod

HACKS:
jp castlevania 3 linear + partner swapping hack
donkey kong country 4 nes bootleg
rock man 2: basic master hack
legend of super mario nes
castlevania aria of sorrow persphone hack
castlemania (smb + cv hack)
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Happy New Year 2024 (Late July 2024)!!

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Another year of streaming and gaming in the books! Seeing how I forgot to do a New Years post for 2023 this completed game list and final thoughts will be for 2022 and 2023. Wow I finished a lot of Mega Man in the Derusting series too! I learned a lot, upgraded some of my streaming setup with sounds and videos and become more sure of myself. 2024 will be my new PC that’s not a potato too! So here’s the list for 2022-2023:

GB/A:
castlevania aria of sorrow julius mode (2022)
super mario land dx hack (2022)
super mario land 2 dx hack (2022)
kid dracula (2022)
Operation C (2022)
castlevania the adventure dx (2023)
double dragon advance (2023)
ninja gaiden shadow (2023)

NES:
mega man 5 (2022)
mega man 6 (2022)
a week of garfield famicom (2022)
booby kids famicom (2022)
contra (2022)
super c (2022)
castlevania 1 (2022)
Jackal (2023)
mega man 2 buster only normal/difficult (2023)
mega man 2 normal deathless (2023)
mega man 3 buster only (2023)
mickey mousecapade (2023)
no konami code contra (2023)
no konami code super c (2023)
karnov (2023)
Castlevania 2 re-translation hack knives only (2023)

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New Super Mario Land SNES v1.5 Homebrew & Review (Updated 6/5/2023)

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Note: I’ve recently learned that there have been updated versions of this homebrew released with graphical and control fixes, along with improved features closer to the Game Boy original Super Mario Land. Latest and last version of this is v1.5.

So I came across this little homebrew completely by accident, a SNES homebrew version of the Gameboy classic Super Mario Land. I had never played SML before or had a giant brick Gameboy save for playing emulators back in the day or borrowing a friend’s (I think that’s how I finished the og Link’s Awakening and Pokemon Red). Finding the rom, I fired it up on my phone emulator and had a blast with it! This project was originally a homebrew of SML as a Christmas gift for the anonymous programmer’s friends. Of course this being 2019 the rom got dumped online and can easily be flashed to a cart, or played on your favorite SNES emulator. I recommend Retroarch, Snes9x or Bsnes.

You can find more information about this amazing project and its history and videos at the below articles. More information can be found here:
RetroRGB Article
NintendoLife Article
Archive.org Download v1.5

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Mega Man Derusting: Mega Man X (SNES)

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So I have a long history with the Mega Man games growing up. I came up with the Mega Man Derusting series to do such a task. The goal is to play and finish the Mega Man classic series along with most of the X series and some other Mega Man titles. I still have some of my mega Man and X carts and discs and hadn’t really played them in years but I wanted to share my adventures on stream of relearning my way through the classic titles, and in some cases finish the later games to completion! 

REVIEW TIME: I loved this game as a teen and replaying it now, I still love it! Finishing it finally I’ve only finished X, X2, and I think X4. The gameplay is solid and the graphics are very pretty as per Capcom’s usual high quality. The music is incredible! The story of X fighting Sigma during the Maverick War (the 1st of many), and X seeking vengeance from Vile and later Sigma is classic. Besides the graphical and music improvements, X sports a number of new moves and features. One of them being the 8 bosses you fight being called Mavericks and their names being based upon different animals and plants and are humanoid in appearance, and of course Sigma replacing Dr. Wily as the final boss. X can still gain new weapons from defeating the 8 Mavericks just like in the classic series. Another change are the upgrades to X’s helmet, armor, boots and gun which are found hidden in capsules around the 8 levels. X now sports a dash move when you upgrade his boots, along with a wall jump move letting the player jump up walls and slide down them, along with doing dashes off walls themselves. Other upgrades found in stages include heart tanks which increase X’s life bar and 4 sub-tanks which replace energy tanks from the classic series. Unlike the classic series, you can fill these with energy until max, and use as needed, and keep refilling them with energy when your life bar is full. A password system like the classic series, saves your progress on fought Mavericks and other upgrades.

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Zelda 2: Adventure of Link (NES) Review

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Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link is the 2nd installment of the Zelda series, and known as the black sheep of the series. This is due to its change from the gameplay and view of the first game, and future Zelda titles. Instead of an overhead view, you have a side view when Link is in palaces, towns, and fighting enemies, the overworld being how you navigate from one area to another. As a direct sequel, Link must save Zelda who is under a sleeping spell and prevent himself from being killed.

This is for the original NES Zelda 2, not any of the later ports or remakes.

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Legend of Zelda 1 White Sword/Blue Ring Both Quests Run

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When I was a kid I was able to do a run of Zelda 1 in both quests only getting the White Sword and Blue Ring upgrades, instead of going for the Red Ring in Death Mountain and the Master Sword in the Graveyard. It was tough, but I managed to do it. Years later I remembered I used to do this and wanted to stream me preforming this feat for prosperity. I did a Zelda 1 1st Quest run and 2nd Quest run on stream and now I can share the full videos of the run and how I won for the record.

Both runs had their ups and downs. I had a few dumb deaths in the first half of the First Quest, and managed to not get a game over again until Death Mountain. Was nice with the First Quest that I can go get bombs early, 2 Heart Containers and the White Sword before i even start the dungeons! Can’t do really do that with the Second! The Second Quest I forgot how especially rough it could be even out of the gate. Hit some walls at the 2nd and 7th Dungeons, and of course Death Mountain in both Quests.

1ST QUEST:

2ND QUEST:

If anyone’s interested also, I made a victory video for fighting and beating Ganon in both quests:

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Mega Man Derusting: Mega Man 7 (SNES)

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So I have a long history with the Mega Man games growing up. I came up with the Mega Man Derusting series to do such a task. The goal is to play and finish the Mega Man classic series along with most of the X series and some other Mega Man titles. I still have some of my mega Man and X carts and discs and hadn’t really played them in years but I wanted to share my adventures on stream of relearning my way through the classic titles, and in some cases finish the later games to completion! 

THE REVIEW: Mega Man 7 was released for the 16bit systems in 1995. The series made a great conversion to 16-bit with great graphics and music! Even if the sprites seem a bit too big. The plot of this one continues from that of Wily finally going to jail at the end of MM6, where he had a backup plan (like every good mad scientist) of a new set of Robot masters to free him from jail after a certain amount of time. This was the first game to feature Auto’s shop and new abilities from Rush. I think one of my favorite parts is how deep the ending for this game is (and the cool scene of Wily’s Castle burning as Mega Man walks home).

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Mega Man Derusting: Mega Man 6 (NES)

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So I have a long history with the Mega Man games growing up. I came up with the Mega Man Derusting series to do such a task. The goal is to play and finish the Mega Man classic series along with most of the X series and some other Mega Man titles. I still have some of my Mega Man and X carts and discs and hadn’t really played them in years but I wanted to share my adventures on stream of relearning my way through the classic titles, and in some cases finish the later games to completion! 

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Mega Man Derusting: Mega Man 5 (NES)

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So I have a long history with the Mega Man games growing up. I came up with the Mega Man Derusting series to do such a task. The goal is to play and finish the Mega Man classic series along with most of the X series and some other Mega Man titles. I still have some of my Mega Man and X carts and discs and hadn’t really played them in years but I wanted to share my adventures on stream of relearning my way through the classic titles, and in some cases finish the later games to completion! 

THE REVIEW: This one was more fun than I thought it would be! It’s not very hard, but not easy either and Capcom seemed to find a great balance when it came to this. New additions to the game include the best birb Beat who attacks enemies for you once you get the 8 MEGAMANV plates in the 8 stages. The Robot Masters were pretty tough even with their weaknesses and same with the bosses in the castles. The stronger mega buster takes longer to charge and seems stronger or equivalent to the strength of most weapons. Fight through the Robot Masters to find out why Proto Man kidnapped Dr Light, and discover the truth!

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