Gradius II: Gradius II - no upgrade loss

This hack saves the upgrades the player have collected after he dies. It aims to make the game less frustrating since some levels and bosses are really hard to beat without a minimum of boosts.

========Gradius II (with upgrades)========

(Bug report to [email protected])

===About Gradius II===
Gradius II is the Famicom port for Gradius II: Gofer no Yabou.
You take the control of a spaceship across 7 stages filled with aliens,
moais and floating brains. You can collect items to power up your ship
following a special choice system. However,
---you'll lose ALL of them when you die, no exceptions---.
This is extremely frustrating since there are some areas that can't be
actually beaten without a minimum of upgrades, such as the moai boss.
This is also a justified reason for giving up the game if you're not
skilled enough, leaving behind an really, really good shoot'em up.

===This hack===
This hack allows you to save all the upgrades (except for the options, you
must do something for yourself, right?) that you have collected through the
game. Even if you use a continue, the upgrades'll be right there. The game
was beaten twice (as a test), and the only known side effect is that, if you
finish the game with options and play again, the color of the options'll turn
into blue, and if you collect the fifth option (to change their movement),
some of them'll turn into the original orange. I don't know the reason, but
is a nice effect, isn't it?

===Patching===
Apply to a clean Gradius II japanese rom.

===Credits===
I guess it's just me this time ^^'.
And Konami for make this great port.

Filename: Gradius II (Japan).nes (No-Intro)
File MD5: 6DD42D8DA20A20AA0760745BC9207F3F
File SHA-1: B5A8E30D20A52D0F9BFB35DEF76B8733DFA705E9
File CRC32: D213AA0D
ROM MD5: 148F4D81C1B833FD16F8EA51152AD3A9
ROM SHA-1: 6A493CC7A3745F44E2EC4BA0FA71BFA89FF5CF37
ROM CRC32: 5ADBF660