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Renowned and veteran romhacker, Marc Robledo, also known as Marc Max, and his team recently released another colourization hack from the original Game Boy catalogue, this time, being Mole Mania the one to get the DX treatment courtesy of Marc.

Marc Robledo, who has previously worked on other high quality colourization projects, giving new life into original monochrome Game Boy titles, like Mega Man World 3 DX and Megaman World 4 DX,, Dr. Mario DX, and more, released a brand new colourization romhack today, and while it's not a particularly mainstream GB game, it's certainly gained a followed becoming a cult classic, a really fun puzzle game to go through, with the title in question being "Mole Mania" for the original Game Boy.

Mole Mania is a cult classic puzzle game for the original Game Boy.
Guide Muddy Mole through more than 200 screens full of puzzles to rescue his family from Jinbe the farmer.

Our remastered version, allows you to enjoy the game in full color for the first time ever in 30 years!

This new colourization brings together the incredible programming work by Marc Robledo himself, as well as sprite and graphics artistry work by kensuyjin33 who has worked with Marc in almost every colourization project. Their combined efforts shine on once again to bring forth this project to life, with carefully picked colours and attention to detail to make this the best version of Mole Mania to date.

As it's usual with romhacks, you need an original ROM of the game in order to apply the patch and convert the original monochrome GB ROM into "Mole Mania DX" for the Game Boy Color. Those interested in trying out this fan-made remastered colourization can do so by visiting Marc's website and providing your own ROM for Marc's online patcher to do its work and patch the ROM automatically with the DX romhack.

Mole Mania DX on Marc Max's website

 

[Robert Newbie]

More good news for the GB/GBC community. I've never played Mole Mania, but I think it's one of those games that has a solid following. Kudos to Marc Max and kensuyjin33.

 

[Amingo]

This is great and I will definetly play this. But what I'm really still waiting for is the DX version of For The Frog The Bell Tolls (Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru) which was a project of Toruzz years ago that apparently he now has abandoned.

 

[SDA]

To think this colorization project was being worked on for years. At last, it's out now!

 

[GengarsGhostlyGiggles]

damn I have a whole new respect for people like this after starting to try an translate shin megami tensei 2 for the psx.
The older systems are WAY WAY more of pain in the ass then even hacking 3ds stuff.

 

[QuestionEmulation]

Downloaded. Fantastic color selection. Hope to play this in the future. I'll try to keep Kensu W in mind in the future (Kensuyjin_33)

 

[UsernamesAreWeird]

Hmmm tasty

 

[benone]

Super well presented! great job!

 

[x65943]

the art is so cute, giving me zelda oracle vibes, def gonna try it out

 

[Robert Newbie]

This is great and I will definetly play this. But what I'm really still waiting for is the DX version of For The Frog The Bell Tolls (Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru) which was a project of Toruzz years ago that apparently he now has abandoned.

Oooh, I remember that one! That was an interesting game that never made it West.

One of the songs appears in Rockman Minus Infinity, so I've always had it in mind. Plus, people have said its engine is the basis for Link's Awakening (I think someone debunked that, but who knows.). It's a shame the project was never completed, but with so much interest in fan DX hacks, I wouldn't be surprised if someone new gives it a try.

EDIT: Ah, what could have been:

 

[ShadowOne333]

This is great and I will definetly play this. But what I'm really still waiting for is the DX version of For The Frog The Bell Tolls (Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru) which was a project of Toruzz years ago that apparently he now has abandoned.

He's still working on it.
His last update about the project was back in April, where he posted he just finished his level editor, I assume in preparation and helping out with the DX project:

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[Ligeia]

Great news ! And great time to finally try this obscure Nintendo game.

 

[hippy dave]

she mole on my mania 'til i dx

 

[SonyUSA]

Looks amazing! ... also looks like Link's Awakening???

 

[Amingo]

He's still working on it.
His last update about the project was back in April, where he posted he just finished his level editor, I assume in preparation and helping out with the DX project:

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I hope so. I've seen this post and the editor even shows a level from FTFTBT. But he had been so silent about the project for years that I lost all hope. He once hinted for a Release in late 2022 but since then 3 years have passed with close to no updates. I have to remind myself that these projects can take very long if they are done by just a single person. Fingers crossed

 

[ciaomao]

It looks fantastic. I hope he will finish the 2 player mode.

 

[Nincompoopdo]

This game was made by Shigeru Miyamoto, the game shows how good Nintendo is at making good games even if it's limited by the hardware.

 

[Citizen_404]

Mole Mania is FANTASTIC! Shame on you all who haven't tried it yet, get out there NOW...or I'm gonna come over to your house and fart in your general direction!

Ok, seriously, the game is awesome, you should be playing it, not wasting time reading this on the internet. GO PLAY IT! Now! RIGHT NOW!

 

[Memfis]

Big thanks for doing this. A dream comes true for me. I'm so happy to see this.

 

[CMDreamer]

Good for the old days.

I'm glad there's people that still think "old" games are awesome! They're awesome!

I want to play this one!