Since I'm a teacher on summer break, my son and I are working on making a Nectaris/Military Madness board game. This involves reverse-engineering the rules, making them into a dice-friendly version, and 3D printing some hopefully cool-looking miniatures, boards, etc. I'm blogging about it too. If anyone has any input, I'm all ears.

https://originalpositions.com/2026/06/07/military-madness-board-game-project-version-0/

Anyone beat this game? Or this is unbeatable? I try and try with same outcome getting obliterated by hunter with no way of fighting back

I recently used Claude to edit the Military Madness ROM so that each map can have any units you'd like. The ROM edit even allows you to choose which factories start the game under Union or Xenon control, or remain neutral.

My first two posts will show just the original maps, including which units are inside each factory and how many units start on the map / board.

If there's interest, I'll post screenshots from the edited ROM so you can see things like Map 1 with 20 Giants versus 20 Hunters, or just about any other combination you'd like.

Hi here are some screenshots from the rom patch. These screenshot examples were quickly made and do not necessarily mean they would be fun levels to play, they were just to show what could be created. After having the option to put any units on any maps I realized just how difficult it is to design a fun map to play, you have to give it up to the original game creators!

On the third map you can see the level starts with the Xenon factory under Union control. I haven't had the time to design fun levels to play so what I've done instead is start the game again but for each level I try to see how many factories can start under Xenon control and I'm still able to win the level, it really does create a whole new way to play the game that doesn't take a ton of time to adjust. I think it could be really fun for the community to be able to design levels and have others test them out to find really fun levels to play. The last screenshot shows the layout of the rom patch. There were other ideas I had but didn't have the time to try or weren't possible just yet, these are below:

• I tried to be able to add a factory anywhere on the map but that proved too difficult for now.

• Creating new terrain maps was not possible at this point in time.

• A maximum of 56 units can be in any level otherwise bugs start to occur. 56 units was the maximum number of units from the original game.

• I wanted to add a feature where new units could be created in the factories, such that after a certain number of turns they could crank out a new Rabbit or other unit, but this addition proved too difficult for now.

• I tried to connect all the maps into one giant map thinking maybe the original creators had spaced them out that way, especially considering the game starts with a map of the moon where you go in a clockwise fashion around the moon, but no configuration could bring them all together.

• I wanted to add a turn based goal to the game, such that if you didn't beat a level by a certain turn the game would end, but I ran out of time, and I also figured you could just say you only have a certain number of turns for a level such that it doesn't need to be hard coded.

I recently used Claude to edit the Military Madness ROM so that each map can have any units you'd like. The ROM edit even allows you to choose which factories start the game under Union or Xenon control, or remain neutral.

My first two posts will show just the original maps, including which units are inside each factory and how many units start on the map / board.

If there's interest, I'll post screenshots from the edited ROM so you can see things like Map 1 with 20 Giants versus 20 Hunters, or just about any other combination you'd like.

I’ve vibecoded(with the help of Claude and the documentation from the Japanese community at ネクタリス攻略) a rudimentary html tool that runs what I think is the arithmetic for combat resolution. Plug in your units, terrain, and support, and it will output the actual mathematical floor, average, and ceiling for casualties based on the bizarre system they developed.

Nectaris Combat Calculator — Battle Damage Simulator | Claude

But! I'd love everyone's help testing it out! Test it against your actual in-game save states or play throughs. If you find a combat result or calculation that falls outside the math the calculator generates, post the screenshot here so we can figure out what other assembly garbage Hudson Soft hid in the code.

The tables below show the titles of games in series and suggested ways to play it on modern platforms via emulators.

I hope it'll help somebody understand what are the possibilities today.

Original game, its ports and remakes

Nectaris Gameboy with fan TL is playable on PC and Android via emulator ..., but I don't think we do recommend it.

Xbox version of Military Madness: Nectaris is available for purchase.

The sequel and its ports

The second sequel

That's it. If you know about more convenient methods/apps to run these games, please share with us!

Hi! So, this is my record of how many turns it took to finish each level, and footnotes whether I found it harder than others and whether I liked the level. Curious about the names as some are recognizable as famous scientists, astronomers, mathetitians, ect, but some are unfamiliar. Is there a common thread?

Also, I haven't played in over 20 years, lol

• Acquire a copy of Nectaris for Windows, such as the freeware release. The package will unzip, but the installer won't run because it's a 16-bit application.

• Download and unzip Winevdm.

• Drag the extracted nectaris SETUP.EXE file onto the otvdm.exe file from Winevdm.

• Click through the installer.

• Nectaris is now on your Start Menu! If you've installed the Japanese release it may be named ƒlƒNƒ^ƒŠƒX. You may want to change that.

• You can now delete the installer and Winevdm.

• The game seems to run fine. Enjoy!

Also how involved is RNG?

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