Startropics

Remember StarTropics? No? Well, it was a much beloved Nintendo game from the glory days of the NES. Playing something like a tropical spin on The Legend of Zelda, it followed the adventure of a kid named Mike Jones as he scoured an island in search of his lost archaeologist uncle. It was a very charming adventure, but it's since been lost to the annals of time; Nintendo gave up on the franchise after Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II sold poorly due to being one of the last games on the NES, when most players had moved on to the SNES.

Interestingly enough, avid gamer Brad Smith noticed a problem with a couple of music tracks as he was playing the game on an emulator. After digging through the files, he realized that one of them had too large of a file size and the other had an additional zero entered into a line of code. For those of you playing through StarTropics on an emulator, a patch from Smith can be downloaded here that will fix these issues so you can hear the tracks in-game as they were originally intended. It's all very fascinating stuff and Smith explains the process quite well in his video:

This makes one wonder if Nintendo will ever do another StarTropics. After Kid Icarus: Uprising, you can never be too sure as to what Nintendo is planning.

Did you ever notice this flaw? Would you like to see another StarTropics from Nintendo someday? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

[source youtube.com]