Comments on Nathan's great article go here!

I watched the YouTube videos for all of the robot levels of No Constancy, it was a great watch. Really, I just wanted to hear the music But some of the levels are just sadistic. Mega Man 9, eat your heart out.

great indepth article thats well written almost makes me want to play roms

Thanks! If you don't have a PowerPak (and aren't lucky enough to find one in stock) then both of these games are DEFINITELY worth playing on an emulator. You won't regret it.

By all means, I think SERIOUS NES gamers should all get a PowerPak for things like this, but No Constancy is good enough that I would even suggest paying to have it repro'd if that's the only chance you'll get to enjoy the game.

Mega Man is the reason I started collecting, I'm definitely going to give these 2 a try. It will be fun to see what Sivak was doing years before he was one of the big guns on the NES homebrew scene too. Great article!

Yeah, I definitely have to try them too. No Constancy looks awesome. Great review my friend!

Thanks! Both of these games are hard as hell, but all of the old MM2 passwords work if you get stuck. Also, don't be ashamed of using the full energy tanks password if that's what it takes for you to enjoy the games (though for the articles I went balls-to-the-wall and played them like they were meant to be played).

Oh...and QuickMan stage in No Constancy...I should have said something about it in the article...but you'll be (unpleasantly) surprised by not 2, but THREE quick beam sections! YAY!

I've done 3 complete hacks:  Bass 2, and Challenging Lolo 1 & 2. 

I guess before all this, I had Bass 1 which was only a sprite hack of MM1.  I think that file is long gone though.  It was just MM as Bass.  No other changes, so nothing fancy.
I had another one called "Bomb Man".  Again, a sprite hack of MM1 with Bomb Man as your guy.  You could fight the actual Bomb Man whose name changed to "Clone".

Oh yeah, I have an actual cart of Constancy (normal difficulty).  Bunny made me a special order.  I don't have Bass 2 on cart though. 

Yeah, I got to skim the article a bit.  I'll look more at it later when I have time.  Working day yet again.

There is a Bass 1 out there, but it's not credited to you. It's a 2002 release, and looks like it has full level hacks and "new" bosses.

I'll give it a try sometime, but I don't like MM1 nearly as much as MM2, so I wouldn't have the patience for a hack that wasn't top notch for that game.


Have you tried No Constancy (hard difficulty)? It is damn near impossible.


By the way...I've tried out Challenging Lolo, and you don't pull any punches.