8 pieces of fruit will restore health, and you can hold a couple potions. The player can earn heart containers, but every hit takes away a full heart. The timer is gone, but Adventure Island 4 still demands significant skill. There are 6 bosses, 7 'areas', and tons of secrets and fruit to be found. You have over 15 items and powerups plus 5 Dinosaurs you can use. Without getting into the history too much, Adventure Island 4 was also the last Famicom game to be released in Japan, and a worthy end to a great console.Īdventure Island 4 delivers what you'd expect: and Island of Adventure. Adventure Island has always had areas similar to Wonder Boy. Minor graphics changes for some items, namely the 'flask with red liquid in it' changed to the consistent full HP restoration item from I, II, III - Milk.Īnyways, the game is playable even if the game is not translated.Adventure Island: Wonder Boy 4, or something like that. Some enemies have palettes reassigned as well. Fruits now have their own palette away from the player's sprite palette, though it shares with the dinos' palette, but at least you can see grapes in purple, red, blue or green. Included is an extra patch where the sprite palettes are changed, making the game more colorful. The 'Island' was painstakingly chiseled and the 'IV' is retained. The title screen was designed like the previous NES release had, with 'Hudson's Adventure' graphic text inserted. The animal verbal tics are in the JP version, like the penguin's -pen to HONK! Rabbit's say PYON in JP, but what noise rabbits make? And what does the fox say? (or was it a coyote.) Unlike the previous translation made by Demiforce, this hack translates more accurately what the characters say, especially the game masters - as they tell you what the items do instead of coaxing them to play a game with them on and on. He can't use the old translation as it does not accurately translated the game.

Zynk tackled this project because he has a related hack in the works. Takahashi Meijin no Bouken Jima IV or more popularly known as Adventure Island IV is now COMPLETELY translated in English!

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