42 Balloons: The Balloon Fight Collection (A.K.A. 42-in-1 Balloon Fight)

This is a collection of multiple Balloon Fight hacks combined into one. There are hacks that may appear familiar, some more obscure than others, and there are some hacks that are appearing for the first time, all in this collection.

This collection came about from a childhood fascination in old NES multicarts, and preserving the projects inspired by Balloon Fight.

Some of the more obscure hacks in this multicart include: Fish War, Iwata Edition, Balloon Fight X2, Shadows Edition, Zero Gravity, and the newly discovered, Killer Kitty.

In addition, for the first time ever, courtesy of mishra’s 4 Players Hack, the level hacks, Cosmic Balloon Assault and Board Fight, can now be played with up to 4 players!

A full list of included hacks is available in the readme, along with the authors involved. Please check out and support their original Balloon Fight hack releases, as well as their other projects!

This hack uses the BPS patching format. Please download the beat utility by byuu and refer to the readme file for appropriate patching instructions. Patches are included for both the Japanese and American versions.

This hack uses the MMC5 mapper, so please use a compatible emulator. At the time of its initial release, it works well in FCEUX 2.2.3 and Mesen 0.9.9. It has not been tested on real hardware.

For any inquiries, please refer to the readme for contact information, or reach out in this thread on the Romhacking.net message board. Thank you.