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APRIL 17 2017

BEST HOMEBREWN NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM GAMES
KEEPIN' THE SYSTEM ALIVE


Welcome to a sub-section to the Nintendo Entertainment System Homebrew page. This page lists what NESWORLD considers the best homebrew out there, both the downloadable ones as well a list of our picks for great homebrew released on Cartridge, divided into seperate groups.

If you know of a homebrew you belive deserves to be listed here, then please do send an email to let me know.

DOWNLOADABLE GAMES
31 IN 1 REAL GAME!
By Mojon Twins
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Mojon Twins' take on a "magnificent chinese multicart". It's hilarious and a must try even though some games may suck :-) "We would like to share with you all our own Multicart. 31 real games! Lots of laughs! Facepalms! Controllers flying accross the room! Mysterious secrets! Fake names! Repeat games with different sprites! Everything in 3 megabits full of love and kisses."
ALTER EGO
By Shiru, Kulor, Denis
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Originally a ZX Spectrum game by Denis Grachev, ported to the NES by Shiru. A fun little puzzle game well worth trying.
ASSIMILATE
By Nessylum Games
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Pretty awesome action game, also available on actual cartridge.
BABEL BLOX
By Sly Dog Studios
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In the land of Shinar, the people are building a tower to elevate themselves to the level of God. Take on the role of God, and scramble the language of the people and scatter them on the earth! Use twitch-style skills to recognize different languages and stop blocks from being added to the construction of the tower. Choose from a variety of languages to use, and get the people separated!
BEAT'EN & EAT'EM V1.0
By FG Software
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Erhmmm... Well this is odd :-)
BIG CITY SLIDING BLASTER
By NovaSquirrel
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BLADE BUSTER
By HLC! Project
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Holy smokes, what a gem that could easily have been a commercial release back in the day, so well made and probably the best homebrew of its kind ever. Must try!
BLURRED LINES 2048
By Ray Dempsey
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BOMB SWEEPER V0.5
By Snowbro
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Kent Hansen of SnowBro Software fame's clone of an old Game & Watch game from 1987 called Bomb Sweeper. You are John Solver, fearless bomb squad person, who has to save the city from Jack, a demented criminal who is trying to blow it all up with his bombs. Each level is a maze and you have to move around walls to be able to reach a bomb, but it's not as easy as it seems as not just any wall can be moved (obviously). If you don't make it to the bomb in time, it will explode and you're toasted (and loose a life). The game includes no less than 99 levels, so get gaming!
BOOTèE
By The Mojon Twins
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BOX BOY
By Neal Tew
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Arrange the colored boxes in the correct order! Complete ten color sets to advance to the next level! Finish all 6 levels to win the game!
BRONY BLASTER (FINAL PROTOTYPE)
By FG Software
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A Final prototype of Brony Blaster for release on NESWORLD, even with the site logo included. Thank you very much :-)
CYO
By nemesys
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Cyo is a simple minimal NES shooting game which is entirely designed and coded by nemesys.
CHASE
By Shiru
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A sample game that's actually quite playable
CHERIL THE GODDESS
By Mojon Twins
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NESdev Compo 2016
CHERIL THE GODDESS (ALTERNATE JUMP)
By Mojon Twins
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NESdev Compo 2016
CHERIL THE WRITER
By The Mojon Twins
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Cheril heads to Pepinoni to spends her hollidays. She plans to star writing her own novel, now that everybody seems to be releasing books. She has a date with Amador, her editor, who is going to supply with people who will write contents for the book so Cheril just has to copy & paste. Sadly, when Cheril arrives at Pepinoni, she discovers the mess: everything is full of Zombies ONCE AGAIN. Time to clean up the streets… ONCE AGAIN.
CLIK!
By Sly Dog Studios
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D-PAD HERO II
By dpadhero.com
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The sequel to the button smashing hit Dpad Hero, pretty fun take on Guitar Hero, played on a NES console using a joypad.
D-PAD HERO V1.1
By dpadhero
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A funny NES version of Guitar Hero, only on the NES you're using the joypad (obviously).... A funny idea that actually had a sequel.
DOUBLE ACTION BLASTER GUYS
By NovaSquirrel
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DRIAR
By Adolfsson & Eriksson
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Take control of Driar and collect all the stars on each level to progress. You can walk around the screen (if you exit the screen on the right side you will reappear on the left side) - remember this and use this to your advantage. There are 38 levels in total
DúSHLáN
By Peter McQuillan
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It's that game with the blocks, but not being Tetris.
GEMINIM V0.990
By Sivak
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Are you the better one at snatching gems? This is not the final version of the game, but still very playable. The final game was a "commercial homebrew" sold on an actual cartridge.
GEMVENTURE (BETA)
By Tom Livak
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Beta of a game, yet very playable. The game was later released on Cartridge. Here's how the readme file describes the game... GemVenture is puzzle game where you fight against a series of monsters. If you've played PuzzleQuest, you'll feel right at home. You attempt to match colored gems in the playfield, which will give you mana to cast spells, and can heal yourself or hurt your opponent. Your opponent then take a turn matching gems, and you continue back and forth until only one is left standing. GemVenture features 6 character classes, 18 different spells, and 20 monsters, each with their own special characteristics!
HOT SEAT HARRY
By Memblers
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The year is 7250 AD, and the judicial systems of the world have crumbled. Civil and Criminal cases are now settled in an arena-style trial to the death. The Plaintiff and the Defendant are strapped into modified Electric Chairs and forced to use their legs to push the "Hydro-Electric Foot Pedals", which, therefore, in turn, causes an electric current to course through his/her/it's opponent's body. There is no settlement. There is no plea-bargain. Electric Justice for All!!! That's how the story of Strangulation Games' first release goes, a game which sure would've been a killer if it had been released back in the NES games and published by Active Enterprises or Color Dreams. Your objective of the game basicly is to hit your joypad A button over and over until it comes loose and drop off. Every time you win the color on the screen changes, very fun indeed!!
INDVISIBLE
By Kasumi
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Join Ajna as she battles through forgotten temples in search of her tapir, Roti! This is an actual NES ROM demaking the Indivisible Prototype by Lab Zero Games. This is a fan game. It is not sponsored by 505 Games or Lab Zero Games. To find news about the game this is based on, visit: http://www.indivisiblegame.com/
JAMMIN HONEY (DEC 21 BUILD)
By Doug Fraker
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What an awesome title tune and an awesome little game :-)
JET PACO - SPACE AGENT!
By Mojo Twins
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Taking control of Paco Rebollez, you're tasked with finding and gathering energonia crystals, a rare and unusual material used to energise spacecrafts. To help with his journey, Paco is equipped with a state of the art jet pack which allows our homebrew hero to glide around the many rooms of an abandonded ship containing gems galore.
K.Y.F.F.
By Sly Dog Studios
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Just play this F#!@ING game! :-)
LAN MASTER
By Shiru
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Another quality game from Shiru, free to play..
LAWN MOWER
By Shiru
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An arcade game, you control a lawn mower and cut lawns. Yet another awesome release by Shiru.
LUNAR LIMIT
By Pubby
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An early 80s arcade shooter for the NES. Play it on an emulator or NES hardware! Lunar Limit puts you in control of a miniature version of planet earth, "Mini Earth", and your faithful satellite, "The Moon Cannon", in an all-out-war against evil Atari invaders.
MAD WIZARD - A CANDELABRA CHRONICLE, THE
By Sly Dog Studios
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The evil summoner Amondus from The Order of the Talon has taken over Prim, Hekl's once happy homeland. And nothing drives a wizard more crazy than having their territory trampled on! Can you help Hekl defeat the enemies that Amondus has populated throughout the landscape? To do so, you will need to master the art of levitation, find magic spells that will assist you in reaching new areas, and upgrade your weapons. All of these will be necessary in order to give Hekl the power he needs to restore peace to Prim. Do you have what it takes? If you dare, venture into this, the first installment of the Candelabra series!
MICRO KNIGHT - REVENGE OF THE FOUR SKULLS (1.0.0)
By
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MICRO KNIGHT 4 (1.02)
By SDM
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V1.0 vs 0.99 - Some levels have been designed to be easier. Full Game.
MINESHAFT
By Nioreh
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Simple but quite addictive game... Great!
MULTIDUDE
By Retrosouls
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A very fine puzzle game powered by Shiru's NESlib.
NES VIRUS CLEANER
By Sly Dog Studios
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NESNAKE 2 V1.2
By Matrixz
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A nice update to the NESnake game.. Great sound and better graphics oh and the worm looks like a worm now. Please note that there's multiple downloads included, for NTSC and PAL modes.
NESNAKE 2 V1.3 (NTSC)
By Matrixz
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PITFALL: THE UNOFFICIAL ADVENTURE - VERSION 0.83
By Neverware
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Has NTSC check... Pretty amazing release
PROTO DERE .NES
By AppSir Games
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RISE OF AMONDUS, THE
By Sly Dog Studios
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Amondus has big plans for the land of Prim and its inhabitants. In order to carry out his nefarious plot, he must force the local goblin population to serve him and work against his biggest threat, Hekl! Take control of Amondus, his familiar Charwit, and the leader of the gargoyles, General Rant. Capture goblins to build an army worthy of a tyrant, and force them to steal all of Hekl's spells and mystical abilities! Before this can be accomplished, you must face the champions of the Primwoods, including its grand protector, The Elderwood! Are you wicked enough to carry out these heinous atrocities? Can you be villainous and enslave a population of relatively peaceful goblins? Only you can answer these questions in The Rise of Amondus, an exciting and action-packed prequel to The Mad Wizard, and the second installment of The Candelabra Epic!
SATURN SMASH
By Antoine Fantys / FG Software
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SGT. HELMET - TRAINING DAY
By Mojon Twins
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Awesome quality game free to play, again from the Mojon Twins.
SOKOBAN
By Johannes Holmberg
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A very early NES homebrew release, but that doesn't make it less playable. It's Sokoban, it puzzling and addictive....
SOLAR WARS V1.5
By Chris M. Cowell
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First ever NES homebrew of really great quality, this one blew me away back in the day... And actually still does.
STING
By Smkdan
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Plays like Solar Jetman, Awesome! :-) The title of actually pretty cool too as it's short for... Somewhat Thrust Inspried NES Game
STREEMERZ V0.2
By TheFox
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"Try climbing to the top of this one by throwing streamers and climbing them. On your way up you better watch out for the various pie throwing clowns, burning candles and bouncing balls, because if they get you, you'll die a little each time." These were the orders given to you, Operative JOE when you were ordered to infiltrate the evil MASTER Y's floating fortress to destroy the TIGER ARMY's top secret weapon.
SUDOKU - NESWORLD EDITION
By Al Bailey
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Released in 2007 by Al Bailey. First complete NES game published in years. Al even went ahead and created a limited set of gold and grey Sudoku carts which were available for purchase on several expos in the US and Canada. Lately it has been available at www.retrousb.com for the low price os US$20. This also makes Sudoku the first massproduced NES game in years. Well done!
SUPER FLOOFY SHEEPIE
By Refresh Games
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SUPER HOMEBREW WAR
By Bite the Chili Productions
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SUPER PAINTER V1.0
By Retrosouls
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SUPER PAKPAK
By AOH Games
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Spacewar!/Thrust/Gravity force style game for Nintendo Entertainment System and Famicom. Requires at least 2 players.
TIGER JENNY V0.1
By Ludosity
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UTACO
By Miguel
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Very well made game, but requries the Famicom microphone to play, and it's in Japanese... Still awesome though!
WHAT REMAINS V1.0
By Iodine Dynamics
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YUN
By Mojon Twins
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ZOMBIE CALAVERA PROLOGUE
By Mojon Twins
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ZOOMING SECRETARY V1.02
By Shiru & PinWizz
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From Shiru's notes about the game... Game concept with a secretary and phones was proposed by me as the very first random idea for this smaller project, and we decided to stick with it. Unlike all my previous NES game projects, this one turned out to be an original, not a clone or remake or upgrade of existing game
CARTRIDGE RELEASES (NON-DOWNLOADABLE FULL VERSIONS)