MonoStory: Cave Story in Black and white! V1

MONO STORY
Cave Story in B&W!​

This is my first mod(although it's more of a mini-mod), so I hope everybody likes the idea behind this..

This mod is simply the same as the original Cave Story, but with one difference:
Everything is in black and white!
Everything in the mod does not have any color any more, this includes the whole game, but also the icons for the EXEs.
Some things use full black and white, and don't have any shade of grey.

Here are some screenshots to show some stuff.

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Title screen, not much to say about it.

Mimiga Village with the new black background.

Grasstown/Bushlands with the new black background.

Download link
Version 1.0: Download link

Changelog

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==========V1==========
•Most things should now be fixed, and there should only be minor problems about choices of several things. The major reason it is 0.9.5 is that there are is a slight chance of several small things that might still be transparent.
•Some less intense flashing, including hearts.
==========V0.9============
•Fixed blue transitions fully, hooray!
•More transparency fixes
•Black backgrounds for even more awesome experience! Normal backgrounds in grey shades still included in the data folder.
•Experience triangles now are white with black outlines to fit the black background.
•Better cursor for YES/NO thing.
==========V0.8.1==========
•Fixed certain things being transparent on fullscreen.
•Fixed blue background for quite some areas.
==========V0.8============
•Inititial version, not much to say

There might still be issues including very rare blue backgrounds and unintentional transparency in fullscreen, please note them so I can fix those.

Feel free to use the sprites used in this mod for your own, I won't mind.

 

I think it would be cool if it was REAL black and white, like Hero Core. But that would be hard because you'd need to redo the assets pretty much for it to look okay.

 

True, that was what I first had in mind, and it can still be seen in some things like quote, the weapons and the interface items, as I started with those.
I only had some problems concerning transparensy and visibility when I was working on Outer Wall(which I started on after some things), that's why I decided to use shades of grey.
I might once work on that sometime though, but after I fixed some minor things.

 

Cool idea, I hope to see you complete it.

 

You should use #010101 as your black colour so that your black colours aren't transparent if needs be. Using some black outlines and fills for interface elements such as health, exp., level weapon icons, etc. would help them stand out from the background regardless of what colour it is. This needs to be done if you really, really want to pursue the 2-colour look. Also all backgrounds should be solid black (or #010101 in this case).

 

Wow, this really makes the game feel vintage.

 

Ahhh I feel such a retro feel when I play this. Reminds me of many side scrollers I played on my old Game Boy. Thank you for making this.

 

You should use #010101 as your black colour so that your black colours aren't transparent if needs be. Using some black outlines and fills for interface elements such as health, exp., level weapon icons, etc. would help them stand out from the background regardless of what colour it is. This needs to be done if you really, really want to pursue the 2-colour look. Also all backgrounds should be solid black (or #010101 in this case).

I am already using #0A0A0A for the black colors on the things that should be black but not transparent (and the stuff that is not greyscaled like the interface elements and Quote), I noticed #010101 can become transparent in fullscreen, so that's why I'm using #0A0A0A.
I'm going to think wether it is really needed to make the background fully back, as that would make some things not really visible(Polar star and the normal Missile Launcher).

Cool idea, I hope to see you complete it.

Wow, this really makes the game feel vintage.

Ahhh I feel such a retro feel when I play this. Reminds me of many side scrollers I played on my old Game Boy. Thank you for making this.

Thanks for the support, I really appreciate it.


Edit:
I updated the mod to v0.9, this one features fully(non-transparent of course) black backgrounds, the original ones in grey colors is still in the memory, for those who want to use those.

 

This looks cool. Good concept. Not much else to say.

 

Well, thanks to the help of quite some people here on the forums, I finally got rid of all minor problems, and now call this as good as complete!
There might be some small things I may have forgotten, if you see any unintenional transparency or areas with blue backgrounds, please notify me.
Again, thanks for all the help.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KH-Xl4G2dk
It reminds me of this for some reason.

 

Huh, looks really cool.

At the same time it makes me feel kinda sad on the inside...