Ikachan (preview 1)

http://www.mediafire.com/?d62iq4ya81m6e6c

I'm attempting to remake/port Ikachan in Cave Story. Enjoy.

 

What a coincidence, considering I had also released a Cave Story ported Ikachan map on my profile feed about two weeks ago. Weird, huh? (I hope this doesn't make you feel like I'm accusing you of plagiarism, because I sincerely am not doing so.) The solid yellow block that appears on shooting the breakable blocks is sort of hurting my eyes, I hope it's a placeholder. So, now to change sprites, hack NPC movements, do something useful with all those blue fish scattered all around, radically change the physics (perhaps), maybe use an English version, and change dialogues. Did I miss anything? That seems like a lot of work to do. Or were you just wanting to use the map, instead of a whole game change? If so, you're done already! But considering it's still called a preview, you probably have more in mind. Good luck!

 

Screenshots..?

 

All you would really need to do is make it universe 1, add an invisible dog to every level, and change the sprite calls for the physics edit. Ass for the level up, try looking through Haunted House Story Revised for level up. You would have to make some heavy edits to the NPCs and the bullet physics, but it's entirely doable. I won't be much help, though. I just know how they could work, not how to make them. I could supply you with the hack that Randolf gave me that allows directions to change in <UNI0001, though. I'll try to see if there's anything else that needs work. I hope you have luck in making this!
Oh, also do <FON(Whatever number the dog will be) 0001 to every start of the level for it to work.

 

Why the japanese version?

 

I was thinking of doing this some day... Also please fix the link, Firefox doesn't like anything and says "The connection was reset"

 

I hope the refusal to use a patched/prepatched version of CS doesn't turn into the status quo for new modders.

 

What a coincidence, considering I had also released a Cave Story ported Ikachan map on my profile feed about two weeks ago. Weird, huh? (I hope this doesn't make you feel like I'm accusing you of plagiarism, because I sincerely am not doing so.) The solid yellow block that appears on shooting the breakable blocks is sort of hurting my eyes, I hope it's a placeholder. So, now to change sprites, hack NPC movements, do something useful with all those blue fish scattered all around, radically change the physics (perhaps), maybe use an English version, and change dialogues. Did I miss anything? That seems like a lot of work to do. Or were you just wanting to use the map, instead of a whole game change? If so, you're done already! But considering it's still called a preview, you probably have more in mind. Good luck!

I hadn't seen your link, and it seems the link is broken anyway.. The solid yellow block is very much a placeholder. I plan to port most, if not all of Ikachan, possibly including the music. The initial version will be in Japanese.

All you would really need to do is make it universe 1, add an invisible dog to every level, and change the sprite calls for the physics edit. Ass for the level up, try looking through Haunted House Story Revised for level up. You would have to make some heavy edits to the NPCs and the bullet physics, but it's entirely doable. I won't be much help, though. I just know how they could work, not how to make them. I could supply you with the hack that Randolf gave me that allows directions to change in <UNI0001, though. I'll try to see if there's anything else that needs work. I hope you have luck in making this!Oh, also do <FON(Whatever number the dog will be) 0001 to every start of the level for it to work.

I'm going to base my ASM modding upon Ikachan itself, but I haven't figured out how everything works yet.

Why the japanese version?

The initial version will be in Japanese.

I hope the refusal to use a patched/prepatched version of CS doesn't turn into the status quo for new modders.

Not sure what you mean?

 

The initial version will be in Japanese.

oh, that was intentional

Not sure what you mean?

the guy who released that balrog mod used an untranslated cs which caused problems. you're the second in a row to not use a patched version

 

The initial version will be in Japanese.

Why would you release a mod to a forum which is mostly comprised of people who can only speak english in a language that almost no one here understands
Granted you might be going for authenticity or something but it really comes across as a bad decision any way you look at it, that is unless your native language is Japanese

 

Why would you release a mod to a forum which is mostly comprised of people who can only speak english in a language that almost no one here understands
Granted you might be going for authenticity or something but it really comes across as a bad decision any way you look at it, that is unless your native language is Japanese

Fair point. I plan to upload it to http://doukutsu.rdy.jp/ when it's more complete, so that's the main reason.

 

Could you maybe release a version in English for the forums then?
Since it's here and all and almost none of us speak Japanese, it's a bit discouraging for people to play through a game where they have no idea what they're reading

 

Could you maybe release a version in English for the forums then?
Since it's here and all and almost none of us speak Japanese, it's a bit discouraging for people to play through a game where they have no idea what they're reading

Once I start work on porting the script and add some of the entities. At present, there's not really anything to read.

 

How are you going to manage to so completely rework the physics? It seems basically impossible.

 

How are you going to manage to so completely rework the physics? It seems basically impossible.

I could either re-write Ikachan's physics in C, and load it as a DLL, or do ASM hacking.
But physics isn't a major priority for me now. It doesn't need to be done for it to be playable.

 

Oh right.
Also, you should probably change the breakable block sprite in NpcSym to sponge block. Also, for the yellow placeholder, here's my little chip-in:

Basically I deleted the darkest areas in the sponge block and shifted the color ramp one tone darker.
Also here is a post about Ikachan's theme Organya by GIRakaCHEEZER. I hope he gives permission to use it.