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I dunno. Because it's a fun idea?

If you reduce Cave Story's resolution with the DoConfig program, it seems to run faster. If it's already at the lowest resolution... I have no suggestions.

This would apply if Cave Story were written in assembly. However, it was written in C (or C++, I can't remember which), so it can be recompiled for whichever architecture you like. And, for reference, Cave Story has been ported to a PowerPC architecture in the past: Macintosh. Doubt it. You'd...

Do you see the old icon, or a generic icon?

Not sure if this is what he meant, but for a limited number of shots on screen... here's an idea. Suppose the max number of blocks onscreen is 6. Then, once you create a seventh block, the first disappears. When you create an eighth block, the second disappears, etc.

This is the problem with all these rules. They're so strict that they're starting to contradict each other.

The Mac version is also extremely similar, but it's not an emulation. And of course it's not completely remade. Why would they re-invent the wheel when they have access to the original source code? They just ported it to the Wii (changing all the system calls) and updated the engine a little.

2 and 4 are better, but if you could get access to a scanner that'd be better still. (I'm guessing you're photographing these; if I'm wrong, let me know.)

The mechanics would be identical if they had access to Pixel's source code, which is likely.

Well, it's impossible to make it unhackable anyway. You can make it harder to hack by applying optimization (and possibly obfustication, though I think that only applies to source code), but it'll still be possible.

Um. What flag is called when you enter the map?

...wait, what? There's room in the save file for exactly 8 teleporter slots, but the eighth needs to be left as all 0's in order to prevent the game from overflowing into other save data, if I recall correctly. That leaves 7 slots... Well, I don't really know how the RAM is laid out, but... if...

You can; it'll work just the same, losing a star whenever you take a hit, but you'll only see 3 stars up until you get down to 2. ...if I recall correctly.

Yeah, same dog different collar would suffice. The hardest part then would be to have all the dogs together in Jenka's house, but that'd be possible with green-screening, I think, if you're careful. As for music... that music JetHawk mentioned is the Cave Story music, just with different...

Of course they could.

I repeat...

Well, it depends in part on whether there is a time limit. If you're doing this for school, for example, you will probably need to do an abridged version. If you're doing it for fun, you could take two years and do the whole thing. EDIT: WhosTony, read up. You probably missed a post or two.

Hosting patches is a legal grey area, but it's usually not something people crack down on. That doesn't mean we're allowed to post them here though.

Well, in order for the polar star to be a pistol you'll need to change its shot graphics, because those are clearly energy shots...

Ah yes, I suppose underwater scenes might be doable with the green-screen especially since they're mostly walking along the bottom... you'd have to make sure to walk slowly as if trying to push through water...

Re: Sad In a pinch, a painted cardboard box would do for Balrog. You could attach strings to it and control it puppet-like. If you're small enough and can find a big enough box, you could have someone hiding under the box, but that's somewhat unlikely. Not many boxes are large enough to hide in.

Oh, my stars. Do you realize what an enormous undertaking this would be if you want to be at all true to the original story? To be honest, I think you wouldn't be able to do it effectively without special effects (how would you do the underwater scenes?), but I suppose even if all you have is a...

Fair enough.

Hacking and reverse-engineering it isn't illegal. Distributing hacked or reverse-engineered copies of it (eg the assembly code for it) is. [Using the reverse-engineered copy to create a clone, oddly, is perfectly legal.] I think I was stating my own opinion there, not my impression of what...

Easy. If someone does it, tell them not to. If they persist, warn them again. If they continue to ignore you then ban them. The ban, then, is for not heeding the warning rather than for the original offence. Sort of. I suppose there's some truth in the other part of your post, in that if they...