The Wing of Madoola
Game: The Wing of Madoola (NES / Famicom, 1986)
OpenMadoola: a free-software (GPL v2 or later) reimplementation of The Wing of Madoola (Sunsoft, 1986), with bug fixes and optional enhancements, made for people who own the game on cartridge or on Steam. It isn’t a standalone game: it reads all graphics and level data from a ROM image and refuses to start without one. The “game type” setting offers “Original,” which imitates the NES game with the important bug fixes, and “Plus” (the default), with fixes for minor bugs and tweaks the author thinks improve the game. There are SDL2 and SDL3 versions. The latest release, 1.26 (January 11, 2026), is a 64-bit Windows zip; on Linux you install it from Flathub, and on macOS you have to build it, since the author doesn’t want to pay for Apple’s signing certificate. That release’s notes fix magic initialization and the title animation speed in arcade mode, among other details.
You needYour own ROM image of The Wing of Madoola, as madoola.nes, or the sharedassets0.assets file from Steam’s “SUNSOFT is Back! Retro Game Selection” collection. Plus font.bin, 2c04.pal, and nes.pal and the demo and mml folders from the repository (the Windows release already includes them). Windows, Linux (Flatpak), or macOS (built from source).
- How it gets to PC
- Fan reimplementation
- Original studio
- Sunsoft
- Year
- 1986
- Author
- nfroggy
- Stars
- 25
- Last activity
- 2026-10-04 · 1 month ago
- Latest version
- v1.26 · 2026-01-11
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Language
- C
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