Mizar is upping the ante! Hardcore Jet Force Gemini is a mod where the game is made much more difficult and punishing. Unless you are a true Jet Force Veteran this may not be recommended for you! Your skills will be put to the test. Do you have what it takes to be a part of the Hardcore Jet Force?
The main thing I'm wanting is like how fast can you go and not be careless.
Below is some general information about the ROM Hack. Make sure to look over them otherwise you may end up wasting time on something that doesn't work how you think it might.
If Jet Force Gemini is anything it's very cinematic! In the Japanese version, which was released last, the developers added an Quailty of Life feature to skip the ship landing cutscenes on the different levels.
I took this even a step further by making all cutscenes in the game skippable by pressing the A or Start button while the cutscene is playing. Unfortunately this means that technically you won't have a several minute break before and after Mizar 1 if you skip them there but hey that's up to you!
The 2 Player Setting has been changed to control whether a timer should be displayed.
If enabled a timer will display in the bottom right corner of the screen during gameplay.
This mod is only meant for the single player story so the multiplayer in the game has be disabled. In it's place on the title screen is an option to play the game credits.
Copying of save files is disabled. This is to prevent trying to get around the punishment for death in this mod.
You must be able to play through the whole game without ever dying! Upon dying two things will happen:
Some objects are removed from the game. These include the following:
Drones still drop their guns to collect ammo from. These add significantly less than normal however.
The Gemini Holders have been modified to not increase your maximum health. They do however still refill your health. This means you have a total of 18 possible health refills throughout a full game playthrough. Choose when you refill wisely!
As you may have already thought... If there are no ammo crates in the game how do I refill ammo? Well you have to buy it from the Diamond Geezer of course! Make sure to stock up on some Mizar Tokens so when you come across one you can make a purchase. Oh and if you thought you might use the health refill from him forget about it. He's out of stock on gems and can't help you out!
Since I decided to be nice there are added Diamond Geezers before each boss (except Mizar 1 in the Pyramid). This is just to avoid extra backtracking to refill before a boss fight. Then again if you don't have Tokens you might have to backtrack anyway!
All Weapon Capacity Crates are still in the game as normal. However all of the increase amounts have been halved (and rounded down to the nearest integer if necessary)! Make sure to plan out your collection of these on the characters you want to have them.
These locks now require more shots to open them. They are also no longer permanently unlocked! Everytime you need to go through one of these doors you will need to have enough ammo to unlock it again.
Having a second player use Floyd to shoot infinite bullets is disabled. You cannot start a file with him anymore nor can he be activated during gameplay with a second controller!
Looks like you are going to have to do this one all on your own!
If you already thought powering this thing up was hard... Boy are you going to be upset because now it's ever harder!
Under normal circumstances with good play the generator can be powered in 4 sets of gems. I didn't test thoroughly but when I play tested this it took me 10 sets of gems! Good luck!
Ready to get started? Select to open the patcher. The ROM Patcher will open and automatically begin fetching the patch file. Then open the ROM and apply the patch.