The NES Ninja Gaiden Trilogy Gets Natively Ported To SNES

No sprite flicker?!? Looks like you kids are gonna have to LEARN that one jump in Act 6-2

@John_Deacon you remembered right, these new homebrew ports are different from NGT, the Trilogy release on SNES has green blood, censored dialogue, altered physics and worse music
so basically they gave it the Super Mario All-Stars treatment

hmm, does this new port of NG3 use the limited continues and 3x damage multiplier for enemies from the US version that they put in to discourage the rental market, or the original difficulty from the JP version? ideally there would be a setting in the options menu

The Snes Ninja gaiden Trilogy always confused the heck outta me. They were released on Snes so why the heck did they still look like barely touched up Nes games? Also the sound was worse and effects like lightning flashing in NG 2 were gone. Not like Mario all Stars where it was more like full on remakes with Snes graphics.

Never understood what happened there. 😕

I own the Ninja Gaiden Trilogy on SNES. I wonder if this is really any better.

@John_Deacon The NES games are in fact the definitive editions. The music in the SNES versions seemed off, but most importantly the NES games are uncensored. The blood in the SNES games changed the blood color from red to green.

A bit of a shame that he didn't use the Japanese version of Ninja Gaiden 3, since the western release was so busted with its limited continues, increased damage, and cruel item placement.

Still, this version of the Trilogy blows away the official one from Tecmo. That version had ear piercing audio, missing effects like parallax scrolling, horrendous button mapping with no option to fix it, etc. etc.

In addition to having worse music, the officially released Ninja Gaiden Trilogy on SNES is also missing music.

@PZT It has limited continues, so I assume the rest of the changes made to the US version are there intact. I agree there should be an option to play the Japanese version, which is really good and a favorite of mine. I didn't see any such options in this release.

This one's a great effort and definitely worth playing. Would be so cool if some talented SNES artist went in and added some 16-bit colour to it now as well. Then it would be everything that was beloved about the originals with some more of the 16-bit colours too.

@slider1983 Most of the NES parallax is missing in the original SNES ports, which is honestly just shameful. So this new port fixes that right out the gate. And it's clear there's a lot more than that too, with the MSU-1 audio just being one very cool additional option.

@RetroGames So, there's no parallax in the SNES ports?

@slider1983 Yeah, from what I recall most of it is missing. It's there in these new ports, but not in the old ports, as I recall.

Gimme a sec. I'll do a quick YouTube search just to confirm....

Edit: So, it doesn't look like it was missing the parallax in every stage, but it was this stage where I noticed it was missing before:

https://youtu.be/Tf3HKJjRP68?t=322 (SNES)

https://youtu.be/kZSZ61mgjk0?t=306 (NES)

Edit 2: Here's another example too:

https://youtu.be/Tf3HKJjRP68?t=591 (SNES)

https://youtu.be/kZSZ61mgjk0?t=614 (NES)

@RetroGames Thanks.

Anyway to get this working on a handheld, tried compressing it to a zip then running SNES9X on Odin, but didn't work

So Infidelity did what Tecmo already did, but hopefully better?

Though perhaps the one thing Tecmo did improve was to add a password feature to all games. (whereas only the Japanese version of III originally had that)
Still though, that button mapping is a big WHY?! (A jump, B attack, and ninja skill is still Up+B despite the SNES has four more buttons!)

@KingMike Yeah, on SNES every NES port should at least have a YB option imo. So, in this case there should be an option to attack with Y and jump with B. And, yeah, the special could also have an option to be on another face button or a shoulder button or whatever. Maybe it's a major hassle to change buttons when porting these games across or something. But, man, if it's possible, I would definitely want it added personally.