Advanced Busterhawk GleyLancer is a 1992 horizontal shooter originally developed by NCS Corporation, published in Japan by Masaya and in South Korea by Samsung for the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis. It was re-released in 2019 by Japanese publisher Columbus Circle.

The story of this game is very fitting for this patch that was made in 2024. The plot begins In 2025 with Lucia Cabrock, daughter of Earth Federation Navy admiral Ken, who disappeared while fighting in a war between humans and an unknown alien race that possess the ability to teleport, joined by her friend Teim on a journey to save her father by stealing a starfighter. Controlling the titular fighter ship, the player must fight waves of enemies and bosses, while avoiding collision with their projectiles and other obstacles. The Gleylancer ship is equipped with two satellite options, whose positions and formations are determined by the player.

Gleylancer was produced by Toshiro Tsuchida, who left Masaya in 1993 to found G-Craft, a company known for creating the Front Mission and Arc The Lad franchises. Legendary music composer Noriyuki Iwadare, best known for his work on the Langrisser, Lunar, and Grandia franchises, was involved in the soundtrack as one of four composers under the music production company Cube. The game garnered mixed reception from critics upon release, most of which reviewed it as an import title. The original Mega Drive version was re-released through download services for other platforms. A port was also released in 2021 for Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5 and XBOX Series X and S. The Nintendo Switch port received generally favourable responses from reviewers.

This is a very special ROM hack/patch to the game ”Advanced Busterhawk Gleylancer” it is a mix of two already existing patches made to the game by two different authors glued together to make one complete patch.

The first patch is the famous English patch by Jon Najar, (M.I.J.E.T) who went to a great amount of effort to rewrite the entire script of the game’s text to have it translated into English. He also changed the timing of the title music track so it plays out properly with the new translated script.

The second patch is a magnificent patch by God Mode who re-programmed the game so you can be invincible and have as many lives as you want and some other cool things.

I (Adrian) patched the two patches on top of each other into the original Japanese ROM to get the best of both hacks. I did it this way because God Mode’s original invincible hack was made to the Japanese ROM only which has Japanese text and unless you can read Japanese, you have no clue what’s going on in the story?

FEATURES:

• Dual-language – English text in PAL and NTSC-U Japanese text in NTSC-J.
• Invincibility.
• Infinite lives.
• Mania mode is now freely available in the options. No need to beat game first.
• Maintains Special Helper Shots after dying.
• Main weapon is 10 times stronger.
• Stage Selection – On the screen that appears “Stage 1 Start” scroll right or left to choose the desired stage.
• Amount of extra lives – Pause the game and scroll up and the amount of lives will be increased.
• Re-programmed looped title screen music to fit with the new text.
• Checksum fixed.
• Updated ROM header with new date and both author’s names in it.
• Works on real hardware 100% via an EverDrive flash cart.

INSTRUCTIONS: 

Inside the ZIP file you’ll find the IPS patch, it is in Lunar IPS format and simply needs to be patched to the original Japanese retail ROM of Gleylancer.

NOTES:

1. This is a Dual language hack so if your playing this on a Japanese Mega Drive you still get the original Japanese script for the story. If playing on a PAL Mega Drive or NTSC Genesis, the script is in English.

2. You’re fully invincible once you start playing so you cannot get hurt and quite frankly you don’t even need to shoot anything except the boss to progress if you choose to.

3. You can choose to start on any stage and have infinite lives.

4. Music is optimised for PAL systems as it uses the Cube Driver by Dougen Shibuya.

5. If you think it’s a pointless hack with no challenge then do yourself a favour and stick to the original. Complaining about it changes nothing as this patch only serves as an optional choice.

6. This was originally two patches made separately that have been patched on top of each other into the final original retail ROM to get a super hack with twice as many new features.

Enjoy!

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