city41 / lbmini

A ROM hack for The Last Blade that makes the hidden developer mini game easy to play.

Last Blade Hidden Mini Game Hack

Last Blade has a hidden mini game inside of it. But getting to it is pretty difficult and error prone.

This repo creates a patch that takes you straight to the mini game right when the game boots up (after the eyecatcher).

I made a video on the mini game and hack too.

How to use a MAME Lua script to see the mini game

If you don't want to bother with hacking the ROM, you can use MAME and a Lua script to see it. This script does the same thing as the hack.

Download miniGameHack.lua

Then launch MAME from the command line

mame -autoboot_script miniGameHack.lua lastblad

You might want to add some more flags to make MAME a bit nicer

mame -w -nofilter -nomouse -autoboot_script miniGameHack.lua lastblad

Now wait for the demo to start

• MVS: wait through the eyecatcher
• AES: press start during the eyecatcher, or just wait

Instead of the demo starting, the mini game will

How to play the mini game

• Button B: kick a life saver
• Button D: reset the level

Navigate Washizuka to the red life saver.