Little Red Hood/Xiao Hong Mao NES OVERHAUL

This is a graphics, music and gameplay redesign of the infamous Sachen/JoyVan game Little Red Hood for the NES. There are two versions of this hack, one that is mostly a bug fix and the other that is a complete overhaul and redraw of the entire game.

CHANGES:

Graphics:

1) Title Screen has been redrawn and recolored. Player and enemy sprites have been redrawn, to a slight extent in the Bug Fix and thoroughly in the Overhaul.
2) Glitched out and incorrect animation frames (such as the legs of the bear) have been corrected.
3) (Overhaul Only) Animation frames on many enemies have been reconfigured completely. Fixed that timer conflict which caused animation of player and enemies to "hiccup".
4) (Overhaul Only) Slingshot weapon has been reconfigured to actually shoot a projectile rather than shooting slingshots.
5) (Overhaul Only) Stage backgrounds and Bonus Rooms have been completely rebuilt from scratch, often with completely different tilesets unless the game needed them (like for collision when kicking trees to find fruit, etc.)
6) (Overhaul Only) All in-game text has been converted to ASCII standards. Doesn't matter, there was barely any of it, it was a pain in the ass to do, but I did it anyway. YOLO.

Music:
1) Game music has been re-arranged so it no longer goes off beat, which required changing the tempo from 3/4 to 2/4. So now it's more like a march than a waltz.
2) (Overhaul Only) Music and sound cues have been reconfigured so going into bonus rooms or into the shop is no longer silent. I reprogrammed the silencing subroutine to instead change the tempo of the game music to give it variety. Fast in the regular stage, slow in bonus rooms and shops.
3) Unfortunately the music on the title screen is... well not exactly ideal because of some initialization routines conflicting with the sound driver. At this point I can't find a 100% fix for it, but it's also not bad enough to just remove. Also, can't fix the way the music "skips" at the end of the game and just plays one note over and over, for the opposite reason (the game just shuts down all the game timers but that one note just hangs in the sound register), but ironically I also can't just turn off the sound altogether either because of the way it shuts everything else down.

Gameplay:
1) Changed the controls so now A=Jump and B=Kick. The non-intuitive collection of actions on each button can't be untangled, so basically all action button controls are simply reversed. Mostly it's fine but ideally I'd want to keep the A button to fly, but it's always going to be the opposite button as Jump for whatever reason the original programmers intended. So it's B. And A uses the slingshot, which is also not ideal but them's the breaks.
2) Fruit and item collection in each stage has been extremely nerfed. The subroutine that checks for it is kind of shaky tho, so if the game isn't coughing up the key yet, just keep kicking trees and grabbing fruit and it will, much sooner than in the normal game. There's also no requirement to buy oddball combinations of items to complete the stage, because that is stupid.
3) The invincibility potion now works on the bear and the wolf, because not having it work was stupid. So in Stages 2 and 9, just buy a potion, get the key behind the boss, complete the stage.
4) Added a little island in the middle of the river in Stage 3 because jumping on those turtles is a huge pain in the ass. You will still fall in the water even with it there until you get the hang of it, but it makes the jump much easier when you do.
5) The ending keeps going until you reset the game. If there was a way to extend it or to make it where pressing Start gets out of it I would do that but the game shuts down controller input during the ending. But the normal ending is way too short before the game completely resets.

I've also included a translated PDF of the manual, including one where the buttons correspond with the hack.

Included are patches for the Sachen and Joy Van version of the ROM. THIS IS NOT A GAME ROM. This is a graphics and code patch authored by me which must be applied to a game owned by the downloader. You can find this game in many archives of Sachen Dendy Famiclone games. Enjoy!