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Game Hack Gauntlet 2 Hack? Is it possible? If so how difficult?

Apr 9, 2016 at 9:21:35 PM
TubaJoe123 (0)

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Hey everyone. So I'm a huuge fan of the Gauntlet games, as I'm sure some of you are. I especially love Gauntlet 1 and 2 on the NES. Gauntlet 2 is incredible fun with 4 people, but its lack of any music always leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The intro theme is a mediocre 15 second long loop. The voice in the game is amazing, but aside from that all of the sound is either nonexistent or kinda garbage. 

I don't have any experience with 6502, only a few higher level languages. However, I am going to college to work on music tech and music performance. My question is, how difficult would it be for someone to hack Gauntlet 2 and throw those few KBs of music from Gauntlet 1 in? Is it even doable, or is all the storage taken up by the voice? What would it take to do? 

I always thought it was that Mindscape cheaped out on the music, because they have a reputation of doing that. I never really thought it could be due to a storage limitation.