The player may earn more continues by clearing the Bonus Stages quickly.Įarning points comes mainly from toppling enemies (generally awards 100 points) and Yellow Jewels. Ristar also has a very basic life/continue system: once the player loses all of their lives, they'll be taken to a continue screen where they can choose to keep going with the game or give up. The player may replenish health by collecting items. There are situations where they'll lose all their health, but these are rare. Every time Ristar is hit, the player will lose one star. The game has a simple health system: the player starts with 4 or 2 stars (depending on the difficulty selected), the max number of stars is 4. His grabbing ability is just as effective underwater as it is on dry land. He can also swim underwater with ease in all eight cardinal directions, and can use his arms to swim faster with or. In levels with water, Ristar has the ability to explore underwater without needing to breathe. While performing a Meteor Strike, Ristar can change his direction mid-flight on Normal difficulty, but cannot on harder difficulties. A very important aspect of this ability is to ride Star Handles to perform a Meteor Strike, which is used to move from one location to another without having to walk as well as take out enemies. Ristar's arms can also be used for many other purposes, such as climbing walls, swinging across poles and even finding bonuses (health points, 1UPs, etc.) by stretching them into tiny breaches in walls (the player may also find them by headbutting certain sections of certain walls). This is the only way to eliminate enemies as jumping on them will not work. To kill enemies, the player must grab them with Ristar's arms with, and after releasing Ristar will headbutt the enemy. Ristar's main ability, and the core mechanic of the game, are his stretchy arms. Ristar's father is never mentioned, and instead the plea for help is answered by the Star Goddess, Oruto, who creates Ristar to fight Greedy and restore happiness to the Valdi system.Īt first glance, Ristar has basic platforming skills as he can jump about his own height with or (by default), and cannot look up or down. In the Japanese version of the game, the story is different.
Ristar rom hacks free#
To free the population and liberate his father, Ristar must fight Greedy's minions throughout every planet, restore the leaders and eventually fight Greedy himself. It is answered by Ristar The Shooting Star, a tiny humanoid yellow star with long, elastic arms. Greedy forced the leaders of each of the seven planets the system is composed of to work for him, enslaved the people and kidnapped Ristar's father. In Ristar, we follow the story of a far away solar system, Valdi, that was corrupted by an evil tyrant called Greedy.
Ristar rom hacks code#
Inject, fixsum, nop and putstring were written by me (nextvolume), they will respectively inject a code snippet, fix the ROM checksum, insert NOP instructions in the ROM and insert a string in the ROM do whatever you want with them, but give credit. The assembler you will need to use is z80asm ( )
Ristar rom hacks windows#
The Makefile assumes you are on a Unix-like operating system if you are on Windows you can try using MSYS or Cygwin. The ROM image must be placed in this directory and named `ristar_orig.sms' the patched ROM after running `make' will be named `ristar.sms'.