R-TYPE / MAGIC DRAGON (EX HACK V.1.0) (UNL) - NES LONGPLAY - NO DEATH / NO MISS RUN (FULL GAMEPLAY)
R-TYPE / MAGIC DRAGON EX HACK V.1.0 (Unlicensed) (ファミコン - Famicom) - NES LONGPLAY - NO DEATH / NO MISS RUN (FULL GAMEPLAY)
R-TYPE / MAGIC DRAGON (EX HACK V.1.0) (Unl) - NES LONGPLAY - NO DEATH / NO MISS RUN (FULL GAMEPLAY).
R-Type is a game that set the standards for side scrolling shooters. It had a unique force weapon that could attach and detach from your ship, serve as a second blaster on the screen, and could also be used as a shield to protect your ship from oncoming attacks. It also had intense alien boss battles where your ship would take on an enemies the size of the screen. This awesome game had ports made for several different consoles, but somehow never made its way over to the NES. What we got instead is a Japanese clone called Magic Dragon. Although Magic Dragon is a blatant ripoff of R-Type, the graphics were horrible in comparison. The ship was an ugly yellow, and the enemies were nothing more than genetic robots. This hack changes all of that, and turns Magic Dragon into the game it was trying to copy, R-Type. The R-9 ship was added back in place of the awful yellow one. All graphics, enemies, and bosses were changed as well.
Country: Japan
Rom File: Magic Dragon (Unl).nes
CRC32: 1BCC435E
MD5: 04958513FCDEC0352A731F31E5F796AD
SHA-1: 01CF26DED7B48D713CB1A8A05A4456593AFD4CC1
Some codes:
Full Power Gun Shot 001A:08
Infinite Lives 0015:02
Invincible 0400:00
Magic Dragon is a shooter, and some have pointed out that it the label illustration is similar to Konami's Gradius. It plays much like Gradius or Salamander, where you're a little craft that flies rightward and shoots at whatever enters the screen. That's the whole game, as is typical of that type of shooter.