Kid Icarus: Angel Land Story

KID ICARUS: ANGEL LAND STORY

CONTENTS

Sacred Words. Password tool. (Graphical interface) v.0.1	Graphical utility for creating and decrypting passwords. Choose this over the command-line version. Works on Windows and Linux. Source code included
Sacred Words. Password tool. (command-line) v.0.2	Command-line utility for creating and decrypting passwords. Works on Windows and Linux. Source code included.
Kid Icarus (NES) Editor. v.0.2	Windows editor that lets you change levels, as well as for the first time, enemies position. It has a tile, macro and structure viewer. for more information, take a look at "Kid Icarus Reveiled". Still in development. I want to add items, mobile platforms and doors editing functions.

Sacred Words.
Password tool.
(Graphical interface)

v.0.1

Graphical utility for creating and decrypting passwords.
Choose this over the command-line version.

Works on Windows and Linux.
Source code included

Sacred Words.
Password tool.
(command-line)

v.0.2

Command-line utility for creating and decrypting passwords.

Works on Windows and Linux.
Source code included.

Kid Icarus (NES) Editor.

v.0.2

Windows editor that lets you change levels, as well as for the first time, enemies position. It has a tile, macro and structure viewer. for more information, take a look at "Kid Icarus Reveiled".

Still in development. I want to add items, mobile platforms and doors editing functions.

"Kid Icarus Reveiled" An introduction to ROM dissasembling. v.1.0	Document covering technical aspects of NES Kid Icarus game, and ROM, gropued after my work in ROM hacking and dissasembling. Very recomended :-)
"Kid Icarus Reveiled" (2) Text and VRAM. v.1.0	This time I'll spend time talking about how to mess around with game's texts, and also change tittle screen. At the same time, will explain all technical stuff needed to follow the article.
"Kid Icarus Reveiled" (3) Passwords. v.1.0	About the passwords mechanism used to allow the player to start from a certain point, instead of starting over again. This applies to the NES version, not Famicom's neither GameBoy Advance's, which use a "save game" mechanism. Wii version differs slightly from NES one.
	Notes

"Kid Icarus Reveiled"

An introduction to ROM dissasembling.

v.1.0

Document covering technical aspects of NES Kid Icarus game, and ROM, gropued after my work in ROM hacking and dissasembling. Very recomended :-)

"Kid Icarus Reveiled"
(2)

Text and VRAM.
v.1.0

This time I'll spend time talking about how to mess around with game's texts, and also change tittle screen.

At the same time, will explain all technical stuff needed to follow the article.

"Kid Icarus Reveiled"
(3)

Passwords.
v.1.0

About the passwords mechanism used to allow the player to start from a certain point, instead of starting over again.

This applies to the NES version, not Famicom's neither GameBoy Advance's, which use a "save game" mechanism. Wii version differs slightly from NES one.

Notes

"KID ICARUS: ANGEL LAND STORY" AND ME

Kid Icarus is near a passion for me. I played hundreds of times, and finished up the game many others, without cheating. I read the manual carefully, and had a very detailed view of the game. Its design, philosophy, how graphics were made, the music,... with the time, I started to get some Kid Icarus games from other countries, for the pleasure of it, and also, I bought a Famicom and Famicom Disk System from Japan, as well as the original floppy disk version of the game.

Paralel to the develpment of "Kid Icarus: Erico", I was very interested in kwoing how the orignal NES game internally worked.This way I started ROM hacking. I tried to get as much info as I could, dissasembling code, and working out how the graphics, levels, and the other stuff worked and was stored in the ROM. There's no malintention. As I like assembler language, as well as hardware topics, being the NES one of my favourites systems, I would be love to have the source code of the game. But I know that won't happend ever. So, I tried to ROM hack as much as possible. This task took so much hours, days, and weeks. For thouse who don't know about it, dissasembling a ROM, or getting a source code from a compiled program is a titatic task.

After lots of hours researching, I programed a game editor, and wrote a tech document, quite long, covering the game internals. Both of these are in development yet. But here they are. I also learnt how to play some songs with my guitar, but that's another story :-)

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