Cave Story - Rise of Ballos

Umm... no. I'd accidentally copied recoloured sprites from a 16 colour bitmap into a 256 colour one. I can't change the colours simply like that because I'd then shifted it up to a 24 bit image.
Recolouring 0,0,0 into 1,1,1 or something would result in the entire background to be visible.
Of course I'll fix the dialogue for the final! Who doesn't?

 

It's too late to make that decision now. I'll have to do it later.

Also 24 bit image is 16,777,216, which is equal to 256 ^ 3 all the possible colour combinations.
What do you mean by 32 bit bitmap?

Also 1,1,1 isn't a transparent colour for me, and I usually use 1,0,0 because OCD

 

Get graphics gale that will show you the difference between 24 and 32

 

Using #010101 may or may not be transparent depending on wether you use fullscreen or not.
That's what I noticed.

 

Really? Okay, I'll have to change all the previous 1,1,1 colour I used into 1,0,0 then

 

Really? Okay, I'll have to change all the previous 1,1,1 colour I used into 1,0,0 then

I think you are better off using #0A0A0A (or 10.10.10 if rgb), it's what I often use for non-transparent black. #010000 is still too dark to not be transparent.

 

Damn I'm so busy with so much schoolwork these days...
Currently I'm working on some asm code for my mod: Entities that automatically charge at the player, a flying critter that also shoots projectiles while moving, also maybe a small 2x2 pixel projectile to be spammed from a relatively accurate shooter.
I'd already done some code, these are free for you guys to use; I won't destroy you if you don't but please give credit if you use these.

Spoiler: Infinite Booster

Spoiler: <MIM command (Required for this code to work, credit Bombchu Link, he might destroy you if you don't)

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Optimises <END and uses the free space there

Spoiler: Rest of the code

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Uses some free space at 0x048BA10

Spoiler: Auto-gunner

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Replaces entity 349 'Statue'
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This is just a spawn command for shooting at the player.
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^Spawned projectile

Spoiler: Spiked Ball

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Replaces Gravekeeper; also made by BLink

Spoiler: Handy customisable forcefield

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Will stuff up the Snake weapon if it's not optimised, if you can't be bothered just redirect it to some free space coz I'm too lazy

Spoiler: Rainbow Critter!

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Sorry but this one probably won't work for you because it uses space in both the Polar Star (Bullet) and the Snake (Gun), and will take some time to redo for free space, or optimise the code above to allow for the excess code.

Other than asm coding, I've also tested some TSC and tileset capabilities, also edited some of my maps.
I haven't yet done much else, because I don't have that much time, but I'm still spending as much time as I can (which isn't that much) on my mods.

EDIT: Next update will feature new edits across multiple areas, including different coloured/tiers of shootable starblocks, a handy force field entity with on-the-map customisable damage, with an option to make it invisible as well. Much of the storyline has been fixed, as well as most loopholes with weapons. Added more weapons (Now there are 15 I think, I removed the Snake to make room for 3 new weapons), and weapon debugging mode, which can be accessed via the new game option. Redone some tilesets, optimised some more code etc.
Also made every weapon except the first two use ammo. (Pls don't hate me for this)
Added new tier of hearts, missiles and XP for 18, 6, and 64 respectively. Redid XP tiers to 1, 4, 16, and 64.
Added loads of weapon expansions to make up for the ammo of previously specified weapons.

 

NEW UPDATE! Redesigned the whole first part of the mod, added various assembly hacks in previous post, added new custom ASM boss, the Critter Machine. WARNING! Very RNG-based!
Redone some previous corrupted maps, also added in some unimplemented cutscenes. Link to new update in the OP.

EDIT: Also, here's the list of weapon thingies

Spoiler

Spoiler

If you get the Northern Star, you can't get the Blade, vice versa
If you get the Machine Gun, you can't get the Fireball, vice versa
If you get the Explosive, you can't get the Acid Bubbler, vice versa
Northern Star can be upgraded to Super Spur
Machine Gun & Blade upgrades are not implemented yet
Fireball can be upgraded to explode
Explosive and Fireball together can be traded in for Firework Explosive
Firework Explosive can be upgraded to Cluster Firework Explosive
Acid Bubbler upgrades not implemented yet
Missile Launcher ==> Super Missile Launcher ==> Ultra Missile Launcher (Not implemented yet)

 

First let me start off by saying whoooooooaaaaa that has to be the craziest collection of weapon edits I've ever seen I'm sure i've seen that spreading Polar Star before, was that you or someone else's hack?

On to the game proper:

Spoiler

-Trying to fire the Machine Gun crashes the game.
-Isn't it nice here standing under this water?
-Forcing (?) the player to have to wait for their ammo to recharge in order to shoot though a 4-strength block in order to proceed possibly isn't the greatest design choice, especially when the rest of the cave takes some learning and they might not have gotten that hidden lifeup.
-In fact scratch that, it seems impossible to get back without taking forced hits for invincibility abuse, considering several of these spikes seem impossible to avoid otherwise. I either want to know I'm doing this wrong/going the wrong way (I tried looking for another path) or I'm not trying anymore until at least that star block is changed.
-I don't mind the multi-hit damage from the spikes, but their hitboxes feel bigger than they should be, like I'm barely scraping them and then BOOM 20 health gone.

So yeah stopping for now.

 

First let me start off by saying whoooooooaaaaa that has to be the craziest collection of weapon edits I've ever seen I'm sure i've seen that spreading Polar Star before, was that you or someone else's hack?

On to the game proper:

Spoiler

-Trying to fire the Machine Gun crashes the game.
-Isn't it nice here standing under this water?
-Forcing (?) the player to have to wait for their ammo to recharge in order to shoot though a 4-strength block in order to proceed possibly isn't the greatest design choice, especially when the rest of the cave takes some learning and they might not have gotten that hidden lifeup.
-In fact scratch that, it seems impossible to get back without taking forced hits for invincibility abuse, considering several of these spikes seem impossible to avoid otherwise. I either want to know I'm doing this wrong/going the wrong way (I tried looking for another path) or I'm not trying anymore until at least that star block is changed.
-I don't mind the multi-hit damage from the spikes, but their hitboxes feel bigger than they should be, like I'm barely scraping them and then BOOM 20 health gone.

So yeah stopping for now.

Yeah, I think that the PS hack was Noxid's; I credited him... Also that was the only weapon I borrowed, I coded the rest myself. I would've done the exact same hack myself; it's just that I found that he'd already done it, so I decided not to.
You can stand on the edge of spikes without taking damage.
I intended for the player to have to farm the Energy Capsules/Bats for EXP; There is even an (un) save point provided where the first life capsule used to be.
Yeah, some of the weapons are buggy.
The hitboxes of the spikes are actually SMALLER than the original ones!

^Are you talking about this place? If so, that's the correct path. The (un) save point is also clearly labelled in the above image.
Also, do you mean the weapons are good, or bad? I don't know what you mean by craziest.
The Level 3 Northern Star can break Tier 4 Starblocks in 5 shots, I think. Below Level 3... Well... It'll take more than that. I've nerfed the Starblocks anyway.

EDIT: Fixed the Machine Gun issue.
EDIT2: Here's the new boss I recently implemented, if you want to take a look at it. Sorry about the video quality and my bad Cave Story skills

Spoiler

Also, here is a summary of the boss.
Maximum Health = 3000
Starting Health = 3000
Will regain 1 health per 7 frames when idle.
At maximum health, will summon 1 Critter per 64 frames.
Critter spawn rate will increase up to double the lower the boss health is.
Will fire Critter projectiles at the player, 1 every 7 frames.

Spoiler: Critter Spawn Chance

256/1024 Red Critter, 7HP, 13 Damage
256/1024 Blue Critter, 32HP, 6~12 Damage, Flying
256/1024 Pink Critter, 31HP, 8~18 Damage, Projectiles, Flying
192/1024 Green Critter, 16HP, 16~24 Damage
32/1024 Yellow Critter, 127HP, 127 Damage
26/1024 Black Critter, 256HP, 32 Damage
6/1024 Rainbow Critter, 1023 HP, 4095 Damage, Heals 1HP per 25 Frames when damaged.

Will play a warning sound whenever a stronger Critter appears; if too many Rainbow Critters spawn, you're dead!
Sound for Yellow/Black Critter is Core pulling sound effect
Sound for Rainbow Critter is Core charging up energy blasts

 

I meant the weapons were cool, I'm looking forward to getting to use them in the game proper

I intended for the player to have to farm the Energy Capsules/Bats for EXP; There is even an (un) save point provided where the first life capsule used to be.

I didn't bother to play through the whole opening scene again so I missed that. And that's all very well and good, but there's zero experience between the getting the weapon and going down to the 4-strength block for the first time, let alone the next times after that. It literally does nothing but force you to wait and is only going to bore players to death before they even get out of the first cave, never mind that leveling up fully isn't even necessary. Anyway I'll keep going for now.

Spoiler

-I think Booster was supposed to change into Quote here but he didn't
-It's possible to get both the Blade and the Northern Star by declining the Star the first time then checking the chest again. Also it doesn't animate as opened.
-Wow this mod really likes its unseeable paths huh
-Most of the second part of the Sand Zone is fairly easy, which again makes it a pain to go through it only to miss at the jumping section, die in one hit in the cramped boss fight room or mess up the block climbing section which is very easy to do with these weapons (thank god I didn't... also that life capsule stuck in the crack before the fight looks awfully like a trap as well.) The simplest remedy is probably a save before the boss or the jumping section, but if it's the latter maybe make it less easy to slide out of that pillar before the first jump.
-That life capsule/exp caspule are in no way worth it I do like that you made the Fire Whirr's projectile destroyable though.
-If you can't get the Fireball after the Machine Gun you may want to give an option to grab it from the chest instead of just auto-giving it.
-So far the Blade has been a no-brainer to pick over the Northern Star (I kept both), it's better for both damage and coverage. Even with the Star's fancy spreading it still tends to let enemies and projectiles through, which isn't worth the unreliability in these already difficult areas. You could probably afford to double its damage at each level and the Blade would still be slightly better.

Got up to the Labyrinth, I'll stop there for tonight

 

Like what DoubleThink said, these weapons are insane! When I saw the exploding fireball thing which I don't know the name of, I was sold. These weapons seem insane, when I saw that rainbow critters have 1/3 of the boss's health, I honestly thought the boss would be hard, being able to spawn THOSE, but I think the weapons balance it out. I'm probably going to install this when I get the time.

 

I meant the weapons were cool, I'm looking forward to getting to use them in the game proper

I didn't bother to play through the whole opening scene again so I missed that. And that's all very well and good, but there's zero experience between the getting the weapon and going down to the 4-strength block for the first time, let alone the next times after that. It literally does nothing but force you to wait and is only going to bore players to death before they even get out of the first cave, never mind that leveling up fully isn't even necessary. Anyway I'll keep going for now.

Spoiler

-I think Booster was supposed to change into Quote here but he didn't
-It's possible to get both the Blade and the Northern Star by declining the Star the first time then checking the chest again. Also it doesn't animate as opened.
-Wow this mod really likes its unseeable paths huh
-Most of the second part of the Sand Zone is fairly easy, which again makes it a pain to go through it only to miss at the jumping section, die in one hit in the cramped boss fight room or mess up the block climbing section which is very easy to do with these weapons (thank god I didn't... also that life capsule stuck in the crack before the fight looks awfully like a trap as well.) The simplest remedy is probably a save before the boss or the jumping section, but if it's the latter maybe make it less easy to slide out of that pillar before the first jump.
-That life capsule/exp caspule are in no way worth it I do like that you made the Fire Whirr's projectile destroyable though.
-If you can't get the Fireball after the Machine Gun you may want to give an option to grab it from the chest instead of just auto-giving it.
-So far the Blade has been a no-brainer to pick over the Northern Star (I kept both), it's better for both damage and coverage. Even with the Star's fancy spreading it still tends to let enemies and projectiles through, which isn't worth the unreliability in these already difficult areas. You could probably afford to double its damage at each level and the Blade would still be slightly better.

Got up to the Labyrinth, I'll stop there for tonight

Right. There are a few hidden save points in shootable blocks, namely one before the Critter boss fight! I maybe should make those look slightly different from the actual blocks, but I'll do that later. Also, the Northern Star will be traded for the Super Spur, which you might have already seen, and I have yet to implement an upgrade for the Blade. Also, the Northern Star can get 'Critical Hits' on enemies by hitting them exactly where the bullet splits. The crits do up to about 64 damage each.

The Cluster Firework Explosive was the hardest weapon to code for me, because not only did I have to seriously optimise the Missile Launcher, I also had to rewrite the entire coding of the Fireball to account for the randomised directions.
EDIT: Mini update, nerfed the Blade from max 3 Blades to 2; originally a bug.
Added upgrade for Blade, can now throw unlimited Blades, a bit buggy right now
EDIT: Another mini update, fixed shootable blocks, fixed weapon issue with getting both weapons (I think), allowed the player to decline the MG.
New update: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7vddue90heza0u0/Rise_Of_Ballos_v0.8.0.1.zip?dl=0
Also updated the Critter Machine a bit, allowed the spawn rate to get much higher, also edited some of the critters it spawns (They are all edits of critters from the vanilla BTW).

 

Slight continuance: I actually kind of enjoyed the Labyrinth once I figured out what was going on, but having to complete that + the entire end section of the Sand Zone with (seemingly) no save point is far too long (I put hax back on to get there). The destroyable droplets were a neat idea too. However now I've taken the teleoporter back to save, I can't continue because it's not possible to get back out of the little room that it's in due to the ceiling slope tile there. Looks like Seasons already mentioned this. Even upon haxxing back to the same point I'm stuck because the computer has already been activated but the tiles have been respawned

 

What do you mean no save points? There is a Save Point inside a Starblock at the end of Sand Zone, one in Chaba's shop, one in the Camp, one in Labyrinth B, one in Labyrinth S etc.

 

Oops yeah I was going to go back and add that I meant before Chaba's shop in the last post (didn't get the one at the end of SZ). Still stuck though

 

New Update...
Added 4 new boosters!
Now there are 8 Boosters!
Booster v0.8, in the vanilla.
Booster v1.6, Basically the Booster v0.8, but with more fuel and higher max speed.
Booster v2.0, in the vanilla.
Booster v4.0, Basically the Booster v2.0, but with more fuel and higher max speed.
Booster v6.4, Basically the Booster v0.8, but with unlimited fuel.
Booster v8.0, Basically the Booster v0.8, but with unlimited fuel and higher max speed.
Booster v16.0, Basically the Booster v2.0, but with unlimited fuel.
Booster v24.0, Basically the Booster v2.0, but with unlimited fuel and higher max speed.

Added 3 new weapons: Snake Mk2, Snake Mk3, and the Turbocharged Super Spur.
Redesigned Mod Debugging Mode, feel free to blast your way through thousands of Starblocks (It's wierdly satisfying), also placed a copy of the Critter Machine if you want to test it early.
Added Lava Level mechanism, basically a resprited Water Level with damage.
Right now these things above are only in the code, they haven't been implemented in the story yet. I'm going to be doing a bit more assembly before I return to level editing. The above can be accessed via 'Mod Debugging Mode.'

Allowed 'Ignore Solid' bullets to break Starblocks.

EDIT:

Slight continuance: I actually kind of enjoyed the Labyrinth once I figured out what was going on, but having to complete that + the entire end section of the Sand Zone with (seemingly) no save point is far too long (I put hax back on to get there). The destroyable droplets were a neat idea too. However now I've taken the teleoporter back to save, I can't continue because it's not possible to get back out of the little room that it's in due to the ceiling slope tile there. Looks like Seasons already mentioned this. Even upon haxxing back to the same point I'm stuck because the computer has already been activated but the tiles have been respawned

Why would you need the tiles to get through? You might've already seen the secret path I made beside the tiles. You need to take damage to go there, though.

Also, another slight new update, introduced Slippery Conditions, which I've implemented into the map Frozen Caves. Currently that map is connected to the Sand Zone, which is sort of illogical, but I'm going to add a map inbetween later.