
Heathcliff (Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom)

No one should terrify their neighborhood. But Heathcliff just won't be outdone playing pranks on everyone!

Heathcliff, the world's second-favorite orange comic strip cat, stars in his own Nintendo game! Join Heathcliff as he travels through six ham-filled worlds to save his cat girlfriend Sonja from the local bully and bulldog. He'll be helped by Iggy Nutmeg, and hindered by his rivals Cleo and Riff Raff (of the Catillac Cats), as well as the Animal Control Man, and the mysterious Garbage Ape. He'll find pirates, ghosts, robots, star warriors, wild animals and many strange creatures!

You should realize, he can win it with you!

Heathcliff is a comic strip created by George Gately in 1973, and currently drawn by his nephew, Peter Gallagher. Heathcliff also starred in several animated series in the 1980s, where the normally-silent character was voiced by Mel Blanc. These included DiC's Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats (aka Cats and Company, or Les Entrechats), and Ruby-Spears' Heathcliff and Dingbat, and Heathcliff and Marmaduke. Heathcliff also had his own Marvel comic book in the 1980s, and a line of children's books. In Italy he is known as Isidoro, with merchandise including several handheld LCD games.

This is a hack of Konami's Tiny Toon Adventures. Heathcliff replaces the playable cat character, Furrball. Furrball was not the lead character of the game, so some Tiny Toons elements are still technically present, including the map screen and the characters of Buster Bunny, Plucky Duck, Dizzy Devil and Shirley the Loon. But just select Heathcliff, grab a star balloon (which changes your character), and you're good to go.

Most enemies have been reworked in Heathcliff style, and the title screen and cutscenes replaced by Pangent Technologies, with technical help from Proveaux on the title screen especially.

This is an IPS patch for the US version of Tiny Toon Adventures (NES) by Konami. Use Lunar IPS or a similar program to patch your .NES ROM file. Many emulators will also run the patch itself, if you rename both files to the same name.

CHEATS:

Press Select to toggle between playable characters.

In many emulators you can write 3 to 2b and get the cat as the player at all times. This allows you to fight the star warrior as the cat, but affects the colors of elements which used Buster Bunny's palette.

In many emulators you can write 10 to 4c to skip to the ending cutscene.

Writing C to 4C will skip to end-of-level scene. E will skip to Iggy.

Music can be disabled or enabled in a hex editor by changing, at address 0182C5, C4 to C5, and back again.



Thanks to Proveaux for additional hacking.

Thanks to bogaabogaa for the character switch hack, and for making the bosses more difficult. (See file bosses.asm)

Thanks to Danger X for the stage select hack.



Also available from Pangent Technologies: Dr. Garfield NES, A Week of Garfield Minus Garfield NES, Penguin Land NES, Super Spice World X (Windows), Spice Girls Tiger Electronics handheld, Heathcliff vs the Garbage Ape (Windows)

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