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HeroQuest - No Music Edition

By famiclone

HeroQuest - No Music Edition gameplay screenshots.

About this project

The music is fantastic and legendary, but for long sessions it could be a bit repetitive. This patches the late PAL prototype of HeroQuest to disable the music. Patches are included for both NTSC or PAL SFX timing. There are no other known differences between PAL and NTSC besides Music and SFX. See the readme for more details.

Original game requirements

Name: Hero Quest (Europe) (Proto).nes
Size: 131088 bytes (128 KiB)
CRC32: 3A0B6DD2
CRC64: 8E03C84A42C3A37E
SHA256: 8125AE4746633E1DDACDE7DDFED5B310EBE917BBB490A0A6C8BFF927E4BF708F
SHA1: 0D166C13FDF4B50E316FDC1AAA0CD4B67FCBC599
BLAKE2sp: 48F6228303C431BE104C621383472F67FEDE99D4AF42E16D2D949340A112EF85

Creator credits

famiclone: Hacking

RELEASE 1.0

Readme & instructions

8582readme.txt

4/24/2024 No Music Edition Patch this version: Name: Hero Quest (Europe) (Proto).nes Size: 131088 bytes (128 KiB) CRC32: 3A0B6DD2 CRC64: 8E03C84A42C3A37E SHA256: 8125AE4746633E1DDACDE7DDFED5B310EBE917BBB490A0A6C8BFF927E4BF708F SHA1: 0D166C13FDF4B50E316FDC1AAA0CD4B67FCBC599 BLAKE2sp: 48F6228303C431BE104C621383472F67FEDE99D4AF42E16D2D949340A112EF85 Do not use "Hero Quest (USA) (Proto).nes" as it is an early (and more unfinished) prototype that is already NTSC. The later PAL prototype is much more complete, which is the version targeted. IPS files will either patch the game to not use music with the PAL or NTSC timing.

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4/24/2024
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 / /_/ / _ \ '__/ _ \ //  / / | | |/ _ \/ __| __|
/ __  /  __/ | | (_) / \_/ /| |_| |  __/\__ \ |_ 
\/ /_/ \___|_|  \___/\___,_\ \__,_|\___||___/\__|
                 No Music Edition

Patch this version:

Name: Hero Quest (Europe) (Proto).nes
Size: 131088 bytes (128 KiB)
CRC32: 3A0B6DD2
CRC64: 8E03C84A42C3A37E
SHA256: 8125AE4746633E1DDACDE7DDFED5B310EBE917BBB490A0A6C8BFF927E4BF708F
SHA1: 0D166C13FDF4B50E316FDC1AAA0CD4B67FCBC599
BLAKE2sp: 48F6228303C431BE104C621383472F67FEDE99D4AF42E16D2D949340A112EF85

Do not use "Hero Quest (USA) (Proto).nes" as it is an early (and more unfinished) prototype that is already NTSC. The later PAL prototype is much more complete, which is the version targeted.

IPS files will either patch the game to not use music with the PAL or NTSC timing. NTSC SFX is timed appropriately for 60hz. 

After patching the NTSC version, remove "(Europe)" from the file name so emulators won't think it's still PAL (FCEUX). Otherwise, if you're using the PAL version, it works as intended.

Download 8582readme.txt ↓

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