Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts: Knight/Maiden Artoria Edition

What it is

This hack replaces Arthur in Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts with Artoria, redrawn from scratch in two flavors: a Knight and a Maiden. The conversion reaches every corner of the game: the map marker, the life icon, the gold armor's magic flashes, the dolls and 1-ups, the ending cutscenes and a new "The End" picture for each version. Each flavor comes with two choices for the near-death sprite, and there are builds for both the American and Japanese releases.

Fixes and extras

• Stage 1 and monster names uncensored, and the dialogue corrected
• START skips the first-loop princess scene and returns to the title from the ending
• music can be muted from the Options menu

Secret menu

A hidden Player 1 menu (L + Start on EXIT in Options) holds optional switches, all off by default: hints at treasure chest triggers, a slower timer, an "Enhanced" mode with air control, ledge drops and throw cancelling, armor that degrades one step at a time, keeping collected weapons, a sturdier or permanent shield, a fix for the pot 1-up counter, and prototype-style tripping for the Maiden form. Settings and a 16-board top-20 leaderboard (separating clean runs from assisted ones) are saved to SRAM.

Playing it

The patches are applied to your own copy of the game, following the instructions on the hack's page; FastROM and MSU-1 variants are included. Hack by GoodLuckTrying.