Does anyone know if Super Contra 7 (also called Super Contra 8.) is a hack or an original? It looks like an original to me, but I've been coming across a lot of clones, or what really amount to extensive hacks of original games.
I think it is a hack ! I haven't played it but only had a look..... and from the first look I felt it is a hack of another game !
It looks like an original hack to me, as far as gameplay goes (it's way too unpolished for a real game). However, a lot of the graphics are stolen from other games. The first level, for example, is stolen from Mighty Final Fight:
(http://ximwix.net/storage/pirate1.png) (http://ximwix.net/storage/mightyfinal-19.png)
(lol at "otototel")
edit:
I just played through it. I'm sure some of their background graphics are stolen from other games, but I'm not sure which games. Most/all of the sprites are taken from Contra or Super C, with the exception of the boss graphics, which are so terrible that I'd believe they made them themselves. I laughed at the final boss, though, since he looks like an aborted version of Contra's level 3 boss:
(http://ximwix.net/storage/14.png) (http://ximwix.net/storage/Contra-09.gif)
Nice. I've been running into a lot of games like Super Contra 7, in that they mash up several games or they make original-looking clones of existing games. I just got a pirate with about 15 of these types of originals. I guess we'd call them originals.
Even with the stolen graphics, etc., Super C7 isn't all that bad for a few goes at it.
It's really fun when you play it with a buddy.
SC7 looks like some fami games combined togehter Lol but still cool :)