Description:
Rocket: Robot on Wheels is a cool game, but there's a few awful-horrible-no-good sound effects that become really repetitive and grating over time. This lil' patch does the following:
- Removes Rocket's "Whoo-hoo!" vocalization during double-jumps.
- Removes the awful "swish" sound when adjusting the camera.
- Slightly reduces the volume of the "Get Health" sound effect (It was WAAAY too loud in the original release).
If you really REALLY hate Rocket's vocalizations (same lol), there's also an alternative patch included called "Rocket REALLY Shuts the Hell Up" that removes every single one of Rocket's vocalizations, making the little freak completely mute forever. This approach might be a little heavy-handed, though - It feels a weird to play a platformer with no jump sound. But you get used to it. This is my preferred way to play.
Rocket is a great game, and now it can be enjoyed without those little audio microaggressions. Have a good time!
PS: This patch is currently only for the US version of the game. Sorry about that. Maybe one day.
Changelog:
- v420.69 - Initial release
- v420.69a - Bugfix to "Rocket REALLY Shuts the Hell Up": Rocket no longer vocalizes when hurt (he has no mouth, so he mustn't scream).
- v420.69rhdn - Identical to v420.69a, but the readme and patch filenames are sanitized for romhacking.net's "no naughty words" policy. Edits are surrounded by asterisks. The word "Hell" remains, though - there's like a hundred "Hell Mode " hacks on Romhacking.net, after all!
- v420.69rhd2 - Identical to v420.69a, but the readme and filenames are sanitized for romhacking.net's "no naughty words" policy. Edits are a lot less stupid now. I was bitter about it before, so I initially made the edits really dumb and corny. but I'm over it now - a pint of Ben and Jerry's calmed me down.
ROM / ISO Information:
- Database match: Rocket - Robot on Wheels (USA)
- Database: No-Intro: Nintendo 64 (v. 20210220-053642)
- File/ROM SHA-1: 622D71A44DA0B81EA68092CAC9198C66154A4F4A
- File/ROM CRC32: E0399F23
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