Maniac Mansion for the Nintendo Entertainment System was heavily censored prior to its release. This hack seeks to replace as much censored content as possible from the original Commodore 64 version.
The following changes are included:
Graphics and Gameplay
- The skeleton is added to the dungeon and the dungeon layout is updated to match the original (never before seen in the NES version)
- The Kill Thrill arcade game is restored (never before seen in the NES version), with optional patch for Douglas Crockford's Muff Diver
- The pennant is added in Weird Ed's room (only seen in a previous hack)
- The surplus body parts are now in Cousin Ted's room (never before seen in the NES version)
- The poster and calendar are back in Cousin Ted's room (never before seen in the NES version), with optional graphics and text patch
- The Disco Sucks poster is restored in Green Tentacle's room
- The shower text, for a good time, is restored
- The statue in the hallway is restored
- Green Tentacle kills the player after hearing the tentacle mating call recording (never before seen in the NES version)
Text Changes
- Edna: Dungeon dialog (should have tied you to my bed etc.)
- Edna: Phone dialog (heavy breathing etc.)
- Ed: He hasn't eaten in 5 years
- Dr. Fred: getting your pretty brains sucked out.
- Dr. Fred: The meteor is going to be pissed!
- Dr. Fred: You're going to piss off the meteor.
- Dr. Fred: Don't be a smart ass!
- Green Tentacle: think I'll kill myself!
- Purple Tentacle: Kill him.
- Meteor: Dr. Fred, release the women, all the women.
- Meteor: Prepare to die!
- Player: Damn! broke it! (for Ed's piggy bank)
- Calendar text in Ted's room
- Brain diagram's chewy caramel center
- SCUMM System and NES SCUMM version in credits
(Note that some of the above may be slightly modified here since romhacking.net does not accept personal pronouns in the description.)
Other Fixes
- The glitched graphics in the room under the house are fixed
- The glitched coin box graphics in the arcade are fixed
- The glitched graphics for the developer under the house are fixed
- The leftover pennant object in Weird Ed's room is removed
- The leftover keypad object in the hallway is removed
- The interactivity for the radioactive slime in the basement is restored
- The fence mask is fixed in the starting screen so that the player is completely behind it
- The colors for the right-side gargoyle on the stairs are corrected
- The border color is fixed when selecting Michael on the character select screen
- The meteor's sprite graphics are fixed
- The Lucasfilm logo is centered vertically and the misplaced shine sprite is fixed
- I don't want my tape back text correctly assigned to Green Tentacle instead of player
This hack is built upon the
/hacks/7776/ hack and also includes the Maniac
/hacks/7718/.
Optional Patches
The following optional patches are available. Several are included by default.
- fridge.ips * - Rearranges the fridge to recolor the lettuce green and the batteries brown.
- lflu_rah.ips - Change the pennant text to read L.F.L.U. Rah! like the original.
- muff_diver.ips - Rename the censored arcade game to Muff Diver as suggested by Douglas Crockford.
- original_dungeon.ips - Remove the skeleton and layout changes in the dungeon.
- playmummy.ips - Use the censored text and graphics from the prototype for Ted's calendar.
- portraits.ips * - Improves the various portraits in the house, including Fred in Edna's room, Edna in Fred's room, Fred in Edna's attic, and the family portrait in the den.
- remove_mouse.ips - Remove the mouse driver.
- statue.ips * - Improves the graphics of the statue in the hallway.
- star_wars_poster.ips * - Add the Star Wars poster to the arcade room.
- title_screen.ips - Uses the title screen from the Japanese version, which is based on the C64 graphics.
- under_house_enhanced.ips * - Improves the post and valve graphics and fixes the background mask.
* Patch is applied by default. You can select the base patch to omit these additions.
Contact
Overlooked something? Want more optional patches? Glitches?
/forum/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=81057.
Patching
Use the online patcher at romhacking.net (or the patcher of your choice) to apply the bps patch to:
2.6
Add optional patches for fridge, statue, portraits, under house, and title
Include fixes from Maniac Mansion Decoded: Lucasfilm logo and sprites, meteor sprite
Include a base patch which is clean, and a default patch which includes the optional patches above
2.5
Update mouse driver: right-click skips cutscenes, no more cursor wrapping.
Include fixes from Maniac Mansion Decoded: developer puddle graphics, radioactive slime interactivity.
2.4
Fix interaction with Star Wars poster so that it's readable.
2.3
Update mouse driver and include fixes from Maniac Mansion Decoded.
2.2
Add optional patches for Star Wars poster, original dungeon, and mouse driver removal.
Rearrange calendar graphics and optional patch so that the uncensored version is default.
2.1
Include optional patches.
2.0
Initial release.
Database match: Maniac Mansion (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210216-231042)
File SHA-1: 7317D1F1096B57F6AB8F3001BCDD35665C291B1A
File CRC32: 68309D06
