Posted October 05, 2022 by Rani Baker
It took AGES but I was finally able to create a version of STARGAZER HYDLIDE which worked with the Hydlide USA NES password system, which was my original desire for the game. There's just not a lot of online support for Famicom Hydlide Special passwords which made STARGAZER HYDLIDE feel kinda esoteric.
I mean even more esoteric than being a mashup of Hydlide and Hoshi Wo Miru Hito.
I also got much better at porting music into Hydlide in the meantime, which means that this version has some reasonably good (if I have to pat my own back) ports of the soundtrack of Hoshi Wo Miru Hito into Hydlide, which was another thing I wanted to do last year but didn't have the skills.
Anyway, I consider this now the definitive version of the hack, and I am also including a beefed up English version of the original 2007 DASTARD HYD-AINE SPECIAL hack which inspired this with a new title screen and more effectively ported Stargazer music.