I became interested in this subject after coming across Paolo's SynthMania site and noticing some sounds used in Super Street Fighter II among his U-220 demos.Īnyway, one soundtrack I'm particularly interested in that of Gradius III (the original arcade version), which was released by Konami in late 1989. Now enjoy your ROM file with Snes9x or get it inside your SNES Mini and play the new Gradius III experience.Recently I've been doing some research on he sources of samples used in various old game soundtracks (back when they were synthesized at runtime via what was essentially an integrated sampler). You’re done! This part was a classic slowdown scene right here, going on smooth as silk now: Gradius III first stage with no more slowdown on the big dragon scene It will first ask you for the patch.bps file, then for the Gradius 3.smc ROM file and finally for a place to save your newly patched file. Next, download the beat utility from this link, run it and click on the Apply Patch button. Now you need to download the patch from Vitor’s repository (the patch.bps file), here. If it says the ROM is headered, just click OK and then click on the Remove Header button. It’s very easy, actually, if you already have a ROM copy of the game available (you’ll have to find that yourself, though).įirst you have to go to this link and download the TUSH utility to make sure the game is not headered (don’t worry too much about what this means).
Gradius III original vs SA-1 enhanced version How to play this version of the game? Here’s a useful comparison of the original version vs the hacked fixed version of Gradius III: This is the same chip that Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars uses, for example. Well, Vitor Vilela, a friendly hacker from Brazil, has managed to patch the game in order to make use of the Super Accelerator 1 (SA1) chip and stop these slowdowns from happening, given that this chip is about four times faster than the normal SNES CPU (10.74 MHz vs 3.58 MHz). But there’s no denying that this was not the original design meant by its developers, because it’s caused by hardware limitations and not intentional CPU throttling, and it would be nice to see how different the game would have been without these issues. It has never really been a problem for most fans, I personally find them great because they make the game a lot easier. Gradius III for SNES is an awesome game, but its critics always had the same thing to say about it: it has some serious slowdown issues. Gradius III for SNES can now be played without slowdowns
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