Nestroid

knuckles5577 · Dec 30, 2014

I've been working on this for a few weeks now... and I'm finally ready to make a thread about it.
It's sort of a remake of NES Metroid using Cave Story's Engine.
I don't really have much done yet, but here are some pictures.

Title:

Loading Screen:

Quit/Resume/Reset Screen:

Samus and Morph Ball Sprites:

In-Game Pictures:

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The morph ball doesn't really work like it's supposed to yet.
I tried to do something with setting and unsetting flags but it won't work right.
Bombs don't quite work like they're supposed to either.
The "Bombs" are really the machine gun with short range and
Noxid's shotgun hack.
The letters and numbers used are actually from NES Metroid's font.
Also, I have most of the songs from NES Metroid I need but there are still a few I don't have.
Some of the graphics are likely to change later.
Like the health bar.

apis · Dec 30, 2014

1) In order to make a thread for your mod, it must contain either a link to a demo or at least two screenshots showing what has been changed.

No download link?

Spirit · Dec 30, 2014

Did you not read what you quoted.
"it must contain either a link to a demo or at least two screenshots"
so this thread fits the rules.

Claoose · Dec 30, 2014

I fail to see the use of a ball made to get you into small places if you're around the same size as it.

Reddeh Le Steddeh · Dec 30, 2014

Silverpaw19 said:
I fail to see the use of a ball made to get you into small places if you're around the same size as it.

magic

Sora655 · Dec 30, 2014

Silverpaw19 said:
I fail to see the use of a ball made to get you into small places if you're around the same size as it.

Well, it's going to have bombs too.

Aar · Dec 30, 2014

Notice anything... off, here?

SuperJaws100 · Dec 30, 2014

Wow, this looks awesome. I have never played Metroid or any game with Samus other than Super Smash Bros but...

Speaking of Super Smash Bros, I just had a brilliant idea for a mod

Aar · Dec 31, 2014

SuperJaws100 said:
Speaking of Super Smash Bros, I just had a brilliant idea for a mod

It won't work, and that's a terrible idea.
Edit: That sounded kinda harsh, I'm sorry...

knuckles5577 · Dec 31, 2014

Silverpaw19 said:
I fail to see the use of a ball made to get you into small places if you're around the same size as it.

Reddeh Le Steddeh said:
magic

Sora655 said:
Well, it's going to have bombs too.

I plan on making tiles that LOOK like they'd fit you when you're in morph ball mode and find a way to make it so that you can only fit in them when you are.

Aar said:
Notice anything... off, here?

I plan on fixing that, but all of the capital letters for "LOAD" don't actually fit those annoying boundaries.
Edit: Is that better?

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I know I'm going to need asm for this mod, but I don't fully understand it yet.

Polaris · Dec 31, 2014

I do like me some Metroid. I'll give this a shot once you have a download link, but I don't think it's necessary to add "Story" to the title. I'd say Nestroid is fine, but that's your choice.

Aar said:
It won't work, and that's a terrible idea.

Well. Aren't you just a ball of sunshine? o.o

Goodness, they didn't even give any details. It's one thing to assume things will be crappy as a defense mechanism and quite another to immediately shoot it down like that.

knuckles5577 · Dec 31, 2014

Polaris said:
I do like me some Metroid. I'll give this a shot once you have a download link, but I don't think it's necessary to add "Story" to the title. I'd say Nestroid is fine, but that's your choice.

I might change that. It didn't really sound right to me when I named it with story on it.
Edit: I can't seem to get morph ball to really work. It changes the way the player looks, it gives you Bombs and removes Power Beam... but when I set Flag 304 from the item it doesn't seem to affect npcs with that flag at all.

Yinga · Jan 2, 2015

LordFunghi said:
wow that was actually my idea

knuckles5577 · Jan 2, 2015

LordFunghi said:
wow that was actually my idea but still thx that someone finally is doing this
Ranking:
-faZe clan 1/10 2 n00b 4 me
-LordFunghiThePr0 10/10 i love metroid
-._. okay that joke´s getting old

Realtalk:
This is a realy good mod already if u fix some bugs and working on some "Metroid-kinish" things like a grappling hook than you would make me proud gj~

Sorry? I'm pretty sure we aren't really the "first" ones to think of it either.

Realtalk: Thanks... I'm kind of stuck on the morph ball thing because it's a big part of the game and it messes up my map making. Maybe until I get a better knowledge of asm, morph ball will just have no real purpose.

Edit: New title screen!

duncathan · Jan 2, 2015

Niiiiiice.

Sora655 · Jan 2, 2015

knuckles5577 said:
New title screen!

That actually looks really nice

Badnik96 · Jan 2, 2015

I feel like it would look better if you made your name smaller and had it fit completely under "NESTROID", but that's just me.

Mod looks pretty good so far, though I'm not sure you'll be able to implement certain things.

Aar · Jan 2, 2015

This mod actually looks really good.
I'm quite excited to see what happens in the near future!

Parkraft123 · Jan 2, 2015

Can't wait to try it out!

knuckles5577 · Jan 2, 2015

Badnik96 said:
I feel like it would look better if you made your name smaller and had it fit completely under "NESTROID", but that's just me.

Mod looks pretty good so far, though I'm not sure you'll be able to implement certain things.

I'll probably do that and add the version info as well.