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| Description |  
This hack repurposes the life counter in Ninja Gaiden into a death counter. You begin the game with zero deaths, and each time you die the counter increases by 1 (up to 99). This effectively gives you infinite lives but more than just a simple cheat code, it also modifies the in-game UI to help players keep track of deaths and encourage trying to have as few deaths as possible. It also makes a few necessary design changes to make the game a bit more palatable.
 
 [Main Changes]
 - Repurposes the lives counter as a death counter.
 - Death counter starts at 0.
 - Dying increases the counter.
 - Added a little skull icon to the UI to indicate deaths instead of lives.
 - At 100 deaths the counter loops back to 99 to prevent a Game Over caused by an overflow.
 
 [Additional Changes]
 - Dying during the final boss rush sends Ryu back to 6-3 instead of 6-1.
 - Birds do minimum damage to Ryu (1) instead of "final boss" damage (3). |  
 
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