A short time ago I had to go
to a family reunion. I brought
my laptop and NES ROMS and ROM
hacking programs with me. I
was messing around with Tile
Layer Pro, and I remembered
that there's 'garbage' data at
the top of the ROM when
viewing tiles, which
represents other things like
sounds and level data. So I
decided to swap gr
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A short time ago I had to go
to a family reunion. I brought
my laptop and NES ROMS and ROM
hacking programs with me. I
was messing around with Tile
Layer Pro, and I remembered
that there's 'garbage' data at
the top of the ROM when
viewing tiles, which
represents other things like
sounds and level data. So I
decided to swap graphic tiles
back and forth to make things
look messed up. I also edited
the tiles directly above the
graphic data, which happened
to be the music and sound
data. Yes, I know what you're
thinking. I'm supposed to use
a hex editor to do that. Well,
scribbling on the tiles that
represent the audio data is
more fun. :D Additionally, I
changed the header from
Vertical mirroring to
Horizontal mirroring, so that
the scrolling looks
crazy.Nothing is changed
gameplay-wise, but it's still
kinda funny to listen to the
crappy music. Here are the
results I got for the music:-
Overworld - This one got
pretty messed up. Random notes
everywhere, and it seems that
each instrument channel is
going at a different tempo!-
Underground - Not all that
messed up, and it doesn't have
a lot of messed-up potential
anyways. But the good news is
that a certain part of the
song has a messed up tempo.-
Underwater - Somewhat messed
up, but what's really silly
about this one is that the
music restarts half-way into
the song.- Castle - Didn't
turn out too messed up. Must
be the note pattern.-
Bonus/Star - Pretty messed up.
The drums seem off-beat with
the other instruments, due to
the slower tempo.- Death - I
liked how this one turned out.
Heh heh.- Game Over - Somewhat
messed up, but not as much as
I would have liked.- Flagpole
Finish - This one got really
messed up. I mean, I somehow
even got it to do a Portamento
Down on the last note in the
song, even though the original
song didn't have any
Portamentos from what I
remember.- 'Your princess...'
- I like this one too. It kind
of goes along with what I did
to Toad. Hee hee.- 'Your quest
is over' - I really need to
work on this one some more.
It's hardly messed up at all.
Boo.Maybe I'll try out one of
those Corruptors. Then I'll
see if I can uncover more
glitchy stuff, and this time,
through the gameplay. Yay!

Category Gadgets & Games

Tags SMB, Super, Mario, Bros, Brothers, NES, Nintendo, glitch, glitchy, hack, music