Atari 2600 Hacks - Macross Zentran Attack

Original Game: Defender  Hacked By: GodMedia Type of Hack: Year Created: 2004 Download ROM:

Description

A Defender hack based on the old anime series MACROSS. Exceptionally well done.

What's New

Changed player ship into a Valkryie/Veritech in Gerwalk/Guardian mode. Changed player ship exhaust to match style of Valkyrie/Veritech exhaust. Changed player explosion from starpoints to semi-circular clouds to resemble the explosions in the anime. Changed player shots from two-line solid shots to one-line pulses to resemble the machine gun style shots in the anime. Changed landers, mutants, spikeballs, and swarmers into Zentraedi battlepods and Zentraedi officers battlepods. Changed mine laying craft into Zentran (Zentraedi male) soldiers in powersuits. Changed icons of bombs to resemble the missiles fired by the Valkyrie/Veritech. Changed the copyright notice to (c)2004 Big West (Big West being the copyright holder on all things MACROSS worldwide). Changed various colors to better approximate the anime colors of the player and enemies.

Before and After Screenshots

Original Game Hack

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