A New Blood Hack For An Old Game

Per Hackaday, a retro gaming enthusiast named Raphaël Boichot has reverse-engineered Sengoku 2, a nineteen ninety-three Neo Geo fighting game, to restore blood effects that were censored in the original release. Rather than flip a switch or tweak a configuration, he tackled the challenge through heavy-duty ROM hacking—swapping palettes and carefully editing tilesets to make the censored graphics authentically gory again. The project offers a fascinating look at reverse-engineering techniques on an obscure retro platform.

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