Mad Max NES Overhaul Project
Rani Baker's unfinished overhaul of Mindscape's Mad Max for the NES: a fix for the broken final password, corrected music and movie-accurate artwork.
What it is
Mindscape's 1990 Mad Max for the NES has a poor reputation, and Rani Baker set out to make it as good as it could be. The overhaul was planned in several stages, but it stopped after the first patches because the author passed away, so it remains unfinished.
What's done
- The final password now gives you enough crossbow bolts to beat the last boss, which the original made impossible
- The music is back in the key and time signature of the original sheet music, which had been changed in the conversion to the sound engine
- The digitized artwork has been rescanned to look closer to the film
- All in-game text was converted to ASCII, with the graphics rearranged to make further editing easier
Redrawing the overworld, caves, demolition derby and final fight, and resampling the digitized sounds, were planned but never released.
Playing it
The itch.io page (pay what you want) offers two IPS patches, a password and music fix and a movie graphics patch, to apply to your own copy of the NES game.