The Adventures of Bayou Billy is a action beat ‘em up game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

The game was originally released in Japan as Mad City. When brought over to US and Europe, many atrocious changes were made to the gameplay, making the game very hard and borderline unbeatable.

The problem with Bayou Billy is that when Konami released Mad City in the USA, they made the whole game ridiculously hard. It's a shame, because they ruined an otherwise great game.

This is what this level select hack fixes. It essentially gives the game a password save which makes this play more like Konami's spiritual sequel to the game, the Lone Ranger. The difficulty becomes just right and the game is finally fun to play.

Patch features:

* Select any stage to start on. Simply press left or right at the title screen to select any stage and then start Game A or B as normal.

* Select any round to start on. Simply press right at the title screen after the final stage is selected. Yes, Bayou Billy has multiple rounds, like Castlevania, but unlike Castlevania, unfortunately, not much changes for the 2nd and 3rd rounds.

* Cut scenes that normally are shown before a stage are shown when that stage is chosen as the starting stage.

* Infinite continues. Although it doesn't really matter with the ability to select any stage.

* The ability to use the practice round bonuses, extra-health (the meatball), extra lives, or extra bullets, on any stage.

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