Gradius III (SNES) slowdown elemination patch & mod

[GhostSeed]

Impressive stuff. I think the bubble stage is a better example of patched vs original.

Github patch download works on everdrives or you can make your own cart.

 

[Hattori Hanzo]

Great, thanks. Gonna play it on my SD2SNES.

 

[oliverclaude]

Impressive, indeed!

BTW: I always liked the Viewpoint port on the Genny, but slowdown is strong with that one, so it could use one of those, too. Oh, man... and Steel Empire.

 

[LoneSage]

But without the slowdown, how can anyone hope to beat Gradius III?

 

[Kid Panda]

But without the slowdown, how can anyone hope to beat Gradius III?

If I ever get my hands on one I'm going to try and beat it on arcade mode.

 

[daskrabs]

I'll vouch for the awesomeness of this patch. Try it on your SD2SNES, you won't be disappointed. Kudos to the developer.

 

[Hattori Hanzo]

Indeed the patch is awesome. (^_^) You probably won't return to the original Gradius III after you tried it.

 

[ginoscope]

I'll vouch for the awesomeness of this patch. Try it on your SD2SNES, you won't be disappointed. Kudos to the developer.

Agreed I played through the bubble stage on the sd2snes and it ran nice and fast. I even had the full set of options which usually really slows the game down.

 

[Tron]

I like to try it on my SD2SNES,but i never understood how you add a hack to a rom.I watched a video on yt for it and i was left confused.

 

[Hattori Hanzo]

Just use

beat_v01

to patch your rom. Start the exe > click "Apply patch" & select your patch (use the correct region) > select your rom (unzipped) > select name & save location for the patched rom

Edit:

The patched rom should be a

.sfc

file when you used the Japanese rom.

 

[sirhcman]

This is pretty amazing. Has anyone ever done something to fix Contra Force on the NES?

 

[ggallegos1]

This is pretty amazing. Has anyone ever done something to fix Contra Force on the NES?

I'm sure it's theoretically possible, but keep in mind there's a lot more copies of Gradius III than Contra Force out there

 

[Gentlegamer]

I tried the patch on the SD2SNES... the second stage (bubbles) is impossible for me now.

 

[GhostSeed]

I'm too lazy to make a new thread but there's a patch for Axelay now.
https://github.com/VitorVilela7/fastrom

 

[Jeneki]

I don't recall Axelay being particularly heavy on slowdown, but it has been a while. Checking some videos quick I don't really see much.

Is there a similar patch for Super R-Type? Now that game gets nuts with the slowdown.

 

[CORY]

Is there a similar patch for Super R-Type? Now that game gets nuts with the slowdown.

Yep. Google is your friend.

 

[Jeneki]

Gradius III won an award. Yay!
Source: EGM Buyer's Guide 1992, page 66.

 

[MetalSlugVet]

Impressive, indeed!

BTW: I always liked the Viewpoint port on the Genny, but slowdown is strong with that one, so it could use one of those, too. Oh, man... and Steel Empire.

I also liked viewpoint on genesis, hopefully someone does take the time to give that one the treatment it deserves. The last level of steel empire is downright gorgeous and I play through that one often.. I do hate on the second level when you have to fly backwards though!

I will give this mod a try, the gradius series is one I really enjoy and it will be nice to play a better version of the third game on snes.