Thread 11899187

Back from the dead edition

Gameplay and development discussion:
What homebrew / hacks are you playing /vr/? Are you working on anything? Would you like to learn? Projects and questions welcome.

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Previous Thread: >>11863664

For those who missed it, new MK64 Amped Up update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvg20Gd58WA
https://files.catbox.moe/nnv35b.z64

>>11899341
those character models are a downgrade tbdesu

>>11899453
I think it looks better. The sprites don't fit with the environment in the original.

>>11899453
They should aleast have left the tires as sprites like CTR did.
Everything else looks nice, but the camera feels even more janky that the original.

>>11899453
Gotta say, I agree. The kart models themselves look especially bizarre for some reason.

>>11899513
They fit just fine, especially if you play on a CRT where their 2D nature is obscured. It's especially a shame that they would just port in the Bowser model from Mario 64 when Mario Kart 64 upgraded Bowser's design so much that his MK64 look became the default for decades after. MK64 Bowser is practically perfect and thoughtlessly subbing in his derpy Mario 64 model with zero refinements is a poor choice.

I tried reworking this mockup from earlier into a normal RPG. Who's ready for some GB Studio slop? I kid

>>11901448
This looks great. Can we see the other mockup?

>>11901950
Thanks. The original mockup was mostly identical, but it had a dungeon-building mechanic. Here it is again anyway for those curious.

>>11899835
Release on Super Switch online?

>>11899341
hotfix
https://x.com/Litronom/status/1949987088524337575

Till if she BTFO towelheads!
https://x.com/SokZaJelo/status/1949920712233234533

>>11903484
He took down the original demo BTW. I still have it in case you miss loli Till.
https://files.catbox.moe/yxr4e0.zip

>>11903484
Wow, she doesn't look like Megaman anymore

>>11903524
>He took down the original demo BTW.
Did he say why?

>>11899187 (OP)
>TFW no jank ass 2.5 Waluigi game with horrible production values
I would rather have this than whatever Nintendo is making today by quite a wide margin.

>>11903529
Probably to avoid confusion because of how much the game has changed.

>>11903484
>>11903524
For Armenia and Assyria!

>>11903527
Here X8 spc bgm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raarH4aSs3Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDhsf12vfdc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ss_ReoriR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgV1mAVnpDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgV1mAVnpDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2uD6fPGNFg

I wonder if there's any news of AGB_Firm but like TWL ? So like you can launch twl from boot instead from to the 3ds menu

>>11904376
You should try finding out instead of blogposting.

>>11903484
the gameplay looks so much better (and the original was already amazing), but i find the mature setting to be generic and lame
yeah cutesy japanese artstyle is cheesy and extremely overdone, but it's overdone because PEOPLE LIKE IT!!!!!11111

it must have taken a lot of optimization to get this many explosions on screen, and looking at the way he codes he is literally insane
https://x.com/SokZaJelo/status/1918052632230506540/photo/1
for some reason he REFUSES to use pointers unless absolutely necessary, every function takes in a u8 index of the entity array rather than just an entity*, and instead of the entity struct having a member like "void* vars" to point to the variables unique for an individual object, he just has these generic reusable members called "varA" "varB" "varC", and he doesn't even have the decency to use C macros to give them readable names, OH WAIT he probably can't because:
https://x.com/SokZaJelo/status/1853824097098088781
which probably explains why nothing is statically typed, AND TO TOP IT OFF, the code is filled with magic numbers, look at how he multiplies like EVERYTHING by 256, i'm guessing he's treating s32 as fixed point and using the lower 8 bits for the decimal.... WHY NOT JUST DEFINE A MACRO FOR THIS????? (and personally i find gcc optimizes bitshift and bitwise slightly better than multiply and modulo but it doesn't matter unless you're a cycle counting autist)

>>11904617
okay. i actually found out. it's by using the luma setting and turning on a setting in TWL.

It worked but it's still slow.
I wanted to try this method cause i thought it was faster than loading it from the menu

>>11905343
Can't be too bad if the game runs well on the SNES, after everyone's been crying about muh slow cpu for ages

>>11904026
10/10

>>11905343
My first instinct was to defend his indices because there's so many great things you can do with them like validation, block transfers on old platforms, cache management on new platforms, swapping the Zero/Direct Page on SNES for faster access... but he's not doing any of that. He's using it like a pointer but worse.

I'd be concerned he's actually slowing things down by using u8 indexes on a 16-bit system but I don't know the Motorola 68000 or its compilers well enough

>>11904026
Mod here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKlbKlezZwc

>>11907856
Okay, that one is really good.

>>11899835
>>11903484
https://zelder.itch.io/dangerous-drake-snes

>>11899187 (OP)
Anybody know any good 16bit DOS asm tuts?

>>11908112
Which assembler? By the DOS era you might as well just use C and inline assembly where absolutely necessary

on the Front of the Sword World games mentioned a while back, both are quite nearly done.
They're in a playable state at the moment.
G-Drive /drive/folders/1BKgVG61epJZgBjXsfnqwoFaq59qYc4aB SWPC (PC-98)
G-Drive /drive/folders/1GQNDSpYkJzdSFO1YXCdP9c96HJmfUMFq SWSFC (SNES)

There's a few quests that have been untested so if you somehow find a lack of translation there, then yeah, try and report it in and it should be patched up swiftly.

Hey guys. What's the easiest way to remove or replace a sound from a genesis rom? Explain like I'm five.

(specifically, the laser from eliminate down.)

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/07/developer-of-new-e60-mega-drive-genesis-game-accused-of-using-stolen-artwork
>Kai Magazine Software, the developer of homebrew games like Metal Dragon, Life on Mars, and The Secret of the Four Winds, has been accused of using stolen artwork on its upcoming Western-themed shooting gallery Death & Lead (alternatively titled Dead & Lead).
>Some examples Krokodyl highlighted, for instance, include Kai Magazine Software lifting animations from classic video games like Shinobi III (1993) and Wild Guns (1994), and perhaps more egregiously copying the work of a Vietnamese pixel artist named Dwayne Tran.
>We tried to reached out to Kai Magazine Software on three separate occasions for a comment to see if they had any response to these allegations, but have yet to hear back.

>>11908856
Krokodyl had previously busted Rod Merida "translating" several games for Retro-Bit which were sold on cartridges by stealing ancient fan translations and hex editing them to insert his name in credits (but forgetting to remove names of old translators).

I tried working out how the battle menus would function. It's not perfect, but it gets the job done.

Side note: The entire battle screen uses 242 out of 256 background tiles (assuming a Japanese font). That leaves only 14 tiles to spare. Needless to say, VRAM is pretty tight.

>>11908856
>"better than most snes game"
They said console is le bad?

Anyone have the Earthion ROM?

>>11908856
>Indie hack traces over shit
More news at 11, you probably shouldn't play any recently released STGs, since all of them not only trace but also completely steal exact bullet patterns from Donpach and Battle Garegga most often.

Anyway, play Mars Matrix, some fag made a hack that reduces the input lag and adds controller layout to be more like DC version.
https://archive.org/details/mmatrix_202507

>>11908098
I hope this crashes, the faggot called Pygsy released his really shitty SOTN demo on Genesis and it's fucking dogshit, all these years and he can't even get movement and controls right?, plus you get stuck between commands and can't program screen transitions and warps?

And of course so many faggots on YT and the Twats are eating this shit and clapping like mad.

https://youtu.be/qHtZjrbWm3E?feature=shared

All this overhype for shit that is fucking dogshit that doesn't go beyond "hey look what I did while goofing around", "wouldn't be nice if this was a thing?"

>>11909347
>Anon is upset that a work in progress is glitchy and missing features
Yeah?

>>11909347
that looks good :)

Sup /hbg/ ; around 2 years ago, i started a SimCity SNES romhack adding mouse support. I was updating this thread constantly with progress and about 90% done with the project when life got in the way and i was dealing with some nasty frustrating scrolling bugs. Anyway, i've picked it up again and have ironed out the scrolling issues finally. Thank god.

This hack is fully featured, autistically detailed, tested on real hardware, and the game plays with the SNES controller the same way it always did, but you can use a mouse now by plugging / unplugging it in at any time: It's basically a replacement for the original game. It was a ton of effort and i'm very excited to share it with the world soon... I'm ironing the final details now. Expect release in August. for real this time i swear!!!

>>11910129
Real hardware capture w/ added mouse speed adjustment menu

>>11910129
>>11910139
He's back!

>>11909274
The Steam version is emulated but the rom is not just some file, it's hidden in it somehow.

>>11908856
Kai has always done this, even back when they were making MSX homebrew, they don't care and will just keep on doing it.

>>11910129
>>11910139
amazing work, anon

>>11910157
The man behind the mask

>>11910139
>>11910129
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (SNES)

>>11899835
>>11909347
Kino demo

>>11910129
>>11910139
Shit hot man that's amazing

>>11910374
It's encrypted inside the game.bin file
Do you really believed they would just give the ROM as is?

>>11912342
>Do you really believed they would just give the ROM as is?
Yes. Micro Mages did that.

>>11909274
https://files.catbox.moe/n0g03i.7z
Some FPGAtards are hoarding how to decrypt the game.

>>11912464
thank you

>>11912464
Tried to boot this up on GenPlusGX on Wii but halted

>>11912713
Make sure you're using the lastest build.
Picrel is libretro

>>11912729
Huh, I assume you mean RA, I used standalone.

>>11912747
>I used standalone.
Again, check if you're using lastest.
It won't work on anything older (the ROM size should already tell you why)

>>11912782
Ok

>>11912729
I had no problem running it in most modern emulators that support the Genesis like Blastem, ares, or Bizhawk. It didn't like Mednafen though.

>>11912981
Nevermind now, updated GenplusGX build (standalone), it works now.

Paprium is still doesn't.

>Inb4, WHY WOULD YOU WANNA EMULATE THIS GAME IT ISNT EVEN WORTH WITH HUR DUR HUR FUCK PRESERVING JUST MAKE MERE

>>11913131
Anybody knows a good program where I can convert images into a Sega Genesis ROM?

>>11913131
>GenplusGX build (standalone)
Wait, what? For what system? I thought that was no longer updated for PCs except as a RA core?

>Paprium is still doesn't.
Sadly seems like nobody is bothering to put any more work into fully dumping/reverse engineering getting that game working now that they have the stop-gap solution of a modified version of an RA core and MP3 files to take the place of proper sound emulation. Reminds me of the "eh, good enough, it runs" mentality of the ZSNES era.

>>11913143
For the Wii, here.

https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/tree/master/builds

Make sure to download the 4mb dol

>>11909025
Very nice!
Can you do NES?

https://metroidconstruction.com/hack.php?id=837

x-fusion

WONT FUCKING LOOOOOOOAD... its finally happening

>>11913153
>The fucking Wii version is still being updated but the PC version has been left to rot over a decade ago.

>>11913594
damn is this the one they've been working on for years

>>11913621
10+ or so years. yeah.

>>11913621
>samus out of her suit
and it will be garbage

>>11913707
That's a different game, buddy.

>>11913275
It's been ages since I did any NES stuff, but it would be fun to get back into. I'd really just like to finish something for any system, but the gap between mockup/demo and completed game is massive. Huge props to C3 dev for actually doing it.

>>11913594
Make sure you patch to an unheadered ROM, or use a patching tool that can remove the header during patching.

I'm fucking hyped to finally play this.

>>11913956
first review I see on metroid construction is a 1/5 star rating calling it impressive but unfun. not more information other than that. same person complained in another review about being "deadnamed" in the credits.

cmon why are tranny schizos like that? I just want to do my own thing but they are everywhere.

>>11913621
>>11914097
Isn’t Samus a newhalf/transvestite?

>>11914131
No, that's Kasumi from Dead or Alive

>>11913617
The GX version is a fork of the original GenPlus

>>11914284
At this point it is safe to say that Genesis Plus GX is its own emulator and the original Genesis Plus is just a historical footnote.

>>11912464
Lol forgot I only have Everdrive X3 so I can't play <5MB roms. Have no clue how to romhack, maybe in few years I will figure out how to slim it down to 5MB by trimming the garbage GameSack and other yt VO they included in the game so I can play it on my genny.

>>11903484
Cris could never

>>11914131
No that's your mom

>>11913594
>intro starts off with a genetic rape scene
Sakamoto would never.

>>11914539
Samus Aran Has Great Jeans.

>>11914657
>>11914539
>>11913594

Works on my Wii, how many years did this thing took to make?

Are there any other console-compatible SM64 hacks I should put on my flashcart

>>11914539
Sadamoto, on the other hand, would. That silhouette looks definitely traced from Eva or something.

>>11915007
at least 10 (unironically)

>>11915035
And I bet only occasional work was done each year, because "I WAS LEARNING"

>>11915117
Nah, it's more that they were being a perfectionist whilst pushing the SNES storage limitations.
Metaquarius has put out a ton of other SM hacks in the years leading up to this.

>>11915154
Which is why the game so far feels very Kaizo lite, in other words, bad difficulty, and he is one of those assholes who will play the forever mantra of GIT GUD, NO FIX.

Pic related, this room can kill you in seconds

>>11914539
>>11914657
My beloved futanari wife

Am I supposed to run past that Gravity Suit SA-X after getting high jumps? Nowhere else to go

>>11915159
Filtered.

>>11915419
Asking because there doesn't seem to be anywhere TO go after getting high jumps. Obvious "go here and try your new ability" vertical shaft is just spike walls that can't be navigated, to the upper-right of the boss room is a bunch of kihunters that kill me if I look at them wrong and it looks like the road to the Plasma Beam area in the GBA game, so there's nowhere to really press through but the Gravity Suit SA-X here, and it doesn't seem like there's anything past her.

>>11915464
Reminds me how I got stuck in my original Fusion play-through on the random tiles in the ground you need to bomb to get pillars to rise up.

"Bomb everything" tends to be the Metroid failsafe when you get stuck.

>>11915478
Guess I'll just bomb more tiles. I'm lucky the bosses themselves seem to be pretty easy despite everything on the way to them fucking my mouth. I do like the whole Ornstein & Smough thing going for the Zazabi though. Even works properly both ways, it wants you to kill the small one first since he's already near-death, but if you kill the pink one first it still makes the purple one go gold.

>>11915485
It wanted me to springball up a crumbling-block area that in the original game you would have been going down from. Kinda bullshit but sure I guess.

>>11915502
Yeah, got stuck on that SA-X for a while. Died many times trying to aggro it back into the left room or making it speed booster into the right wall but pulling those tricks off didn't do anything helpful. That review is pretty accurate, it is technically impressive but the difficulty and execution demands so early in the game hurts the presentation a lot. The dialogue is also atrocious. I do like the SA-X being much more present throughout the game though.

>>11914170
what the hell

>>11909347
Are you aware that things that are in the "Work In Progress" state aren't gonna be as polished as the final release of something?
>>11910129
You'd think they'd make a revision of the actual game when Mario Paint released to add mouse support and apply some shit like bugfixes and what not?
>>11912464
Fucking ffpgacucks.
also Thanks for the rom to the game I've been dying to play anon. ily.
>>11913135
Didn't Gamehut do an episode on how you pull such a feat off?
>>11914170
what the hell is this is shit?!

>>11915768
>what the hell is this is shit?!
A very simple graphic romhack which replaces hiragana text tiles with romaji text tiles.

croc and follow up are going to filter /vr/. really nice hack so far. way more difficult than I expected.

>>11916110
what now?

>>11916668
https://metroidconstruction.com/download.php?id=837&f=https%3A%2F%2Fmetroidconstruction.com%2F%2Ffiles%2Fhacks%2F837%2Fxf_v1.1-eng-fre-jap-ger.ips

he released 1.1. a lot of monster damage nerfs and more forgiving monster placement. just got varia suit pre patch. no way in hell people who only ever played vanilla get to that part.

>>11916735
Spotted a review complaining about the long unskippable death cutscene (that can be skipped if you press L+R+Weapon Cancel).
It reminded me of that shitpost hack "Super Metroid But I hate You" and that one has logic that once you've "died" for the first time (fake insta-death on touching spikes), subsequent spike collisions have quick animations and put you back at the start of the screen, almost like many SMW hacks.

>>11916813
to be fair not everyone wants to read a readme before he plays something. he should have added some kind of ingame help message, telling the player how skip the god damn animation.

>>11916817
Yeah, in-game documentation goes a long way.
Not retro, but my dumbass played Celeste 3D without playing Celeste first, and legit did not know how to progress past the opening sequence because nothing in-software tells you that you can perform wall climbs or what button to use. That info only existed on the Itch.io page iirc.

Modern software usually gets this right if a player starts pressing buttons during a skippable cutscene; a bit of text saying something like "Hold X to skip" appears. It prevents accidental skips and it lets you know that you can skip, and how.

>>11916834
this reminds me of oot. me and my friend were stuck right at the start of the game where you have to show the garudo guard some kind of item before he opens the game. the game never tells you about the "show item to person x" mechanic. friend found out by accident weeks after. this kind of shit annoys to me to no end.

>>11916870
Yeah, contextually showing a character an item in OoT was a design flaw. Although the game does tell you that you should show the item to a character (showing the royal letter to the Kakariko guard for Death Mountain access), it doesn't have proper context.
It isn't too hard to figure out putting the item on a C-button, and pressing the button in front of the character after talking to them, but this was apparently enough of an issue that Majora's Mask implemented specific functionality for showing an NPC an item mid-dialogue. Some players still mucked this up though and would accidentally drink a red potion in front of Koume instead of giving it to her, because of confusion in how to do it.

>>11911732
Who drew this? I like the art style.

>>11916895
I also want to know.

>>11915012
randomizer

>hack is veteran difficulty
>everyone conveniently forgot that enemies hit like trucks in the original fusion
I don't get why everyone is complaining, but then, I haven't actually played it yet. Should I play 1.0 and see what's what?

>>11916918
most enemies will literally 1 shot you and there are many, many hellrun kinda situations. you often have to backtrack minutes before you get another attempt at an 1shot situation.

>>11915012
I'm this poster
According to the mario64hacks wiki Star Revenge 1 also has a console-compatible version but I can't find it anywhere. Unless just the regular version works on console. But it doesn't say it does on RHDC. Anyway if there is a specific console-compatible version does anyone have the link

>>11916668
>>11913621
Aaendi updated Alisha’s Adventure demo?

>>11915762
>>11915502
Those death trap rooms with enemies that kill you in one hit is such a slap in the face it isn't even funny.

>>11916995
I see. Sounds like fun but also not fun at the same time. It also sounds like a bit of a departure from Meta's previous hacks. Weird if you ask me.
I'll give 1.0 a shot anyway, see if I like the challenge.

The Reserve X system is a little funky, I can’t tell if it regenerates over time or through damage dealt but I’m able to use it frequently during boss fights which leads to a lot of pausing and menuing that interrupts the action. Is there a button to use the reserve without going to the menu?

>>11917345
Not that I know of.

>water level puzzles
The fun stops here. Also not a fan of seemingly most of the expansions being visible behind late game blocks. You’re supposed to ease players into the game with occasional backtrack spots but I find myself overwhelmed by the amount you have to remember.

>>11917345
Pretty easy thing to test. I took damage from a spike wall and used it, then waited. It regenerated pretty quickly.
What I'm curious about is whether there's serious consequences or not to selecting "Join the X" on the game over screen.

>>11915405
t. Brianna Wu

>>11917845
It's probably just flavor text for returning to the title screen, but you could always just use a save state to check what happens.

interdasting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HTKWqb3Nq0

What's the best MSX emulator with a debugger or at the very least a RAM viewer/editor?

>>11916995
> most enemies will literally 1 shot you
Yeah, i just booted up 1.0 tonight, why does a random fucking slug one shot me kaizo style when bosses take away like 40 / 60 health per hit? This is dumb lol.
I feel like this is what happens when you work on a game for 10 years and don't have anyone else test it, you get ridiculously good at it and think it's too easy until the difficulty is just ridiculous.
Also, Metroid Fusion itself is flawed: Save stations should not restore health. It's impossible to balance a game like that constantly getting full health every few rooms: it makes health pickups and health upgrades generally worthless except in bossfights, or, worthless because in this game a random slug is just a one hit kill lol. You can't have a fair and challenging game that way.

>>11918540
Save stations don't restore health in Metroid Fusion. But there are health/ammo restoration stations at the beginning of each sector, right next to a save station.

>>11899187 (OP)
Its illegal to pirate nintendo games and hurts nintendo, what are you doing?

>>11919479
So there's a remake of SMB1 on the Super Mario 64 engine somewhere in Nintendo's offices?

Do I have to be a programmer to convert SM64 hacks to console-compatibility? There's a hack I really like (Star Revenge 6.25) that I'd like to play on my flashcart.

>>11920941
Older hacks that weren't made with the current SM64 modding tools that work with the decompilation source code, were known to have a bunch of issues like not running on real hardware often because they did things that were only possible on emulators.
Even if the code was fully console safe, they might too things like try to render too many polygons, so real hardware's performance would tank whilst an emulator could use speedhacks.

Years back, Kaze Emanuar did a port of Super Mario Star Road to get it working on real hardware.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQjn4nVJIJw
The video mentions a tool that works to fix older hacks to work on console, but there was a lot of manual fixes for Star Road's custom code and performance problems stemming from inefficient geometry.

Maybe that tool can fix Star Revenge 6.25 if it's a pre-2019 hack (I'm not familiar with it).

>>11914170
got a good chuckle from me

>>11915159
>GIT GUD, NO FIX
this but unironically

>>11918309
Brianna jealous of futa woman hotter than her, anon

>>11921745
Well yeah. Why else did she screech like a castrated chimp over Gwar Gura?

>>11921423
>Maybe that tool can fix Star Revenge 6.25 if it's a pre-2019 hack (I'm not familiar with it).
It's a 2019 hack but it has a lot of custom code (stay in level after getting star, custom star display in start menu, fall damage disabled, 80 coin stars, 6 coin red coin stars, only hack to have over 200 stars iirc) so I'm guessing it'd require a lot more work

okey just finished the x-fusion hack with 99%. the last x-reserve on the main deck is not findable without help. the last part of the game is different and frustrating. cant imagine how it must have been on 1.0

I want to make a beginner-friendly (like "the Kirby to Dragon Quest's Mario") RPG in the style of somewhere in between 8-bit consoles and 16-bit consoles.
Should I?

>>11922374
Is this actually in the hack? Why the red eye? Is it supposed to be part of the Metroid DNA?

Speaking about the Metroid DNA, its weird that he wrote a bunch of new dialogue yet didn't retain Fusion's explanation of what is happening to Samus and why she can absorb X.

>>11914170
Oh, so you wanna go cursed huh? Mother 2 at least has the -complete- Kana set so you aren't forced to use jank-ass fakedakuten.
tried to come up with an on the fly solution to the variable っ as well as ゃゅょ that didn't involve squeezing lya lyu lyo into a single tile, but I don't think it works...

>>11922394
Yeah it threw me off really hard that it seems like the X infection and the creation of the Fusion Suit and assumedly the Metroid vaccine all still happened but nothing in-game refers to it or explains it. Samus wakes up in a Metroid lab for no reason and both it and the Adam twist are spoiled immediately by placing them at the complete forefront of the game, so some of Samus's characterization from Fusion itself goes right out the window.

>>11922851
Who is making these.

>>11922874
No idea who the DQ guy was, I just threw mine together in a few minutes using the GBA version since the fonts aren't compressed in that ROM.
I think the better way to do a cursed romaji soup version of M2 would be to painstakingly insert a converted JP script into the English ROM anyway.

>>11922394
That's cause it STILL feels more like a Super Metroid re-skin at the end of the day, he did added the intro sequence when you run from the monster but it's no different then just a modified Ridley 1st encounter, also the fact that the new optional responses from Samus are so phone in they feel out of character, and the removal of the other GBA cutscenes and the Ceiling & Ledge climb mechanics, it's very disappointing, plus the GOTCHA rooms where rarely on enemies can take up to 1 fullbar with one hit.

>>11921443
What'd you mean? Don't ya like games that require save scumming for every single step?

>>11922892
Another Anon said it was pretty different from his other hacks and I'm inclined to agree. On a technical level it's great, but in many other areas it just doesn't measure up to his older hacks.

>>11922853
>>11922892
I'm not the biggest fan of the Samus and Adam development in vanilla fusion anyway, so I'm fine with that mostly being gone but it is really surprising how much of the fusion setup he skipped. While it was obvious you should play vanilla fusion first and this game was going to be a massive reimagining too different to call a remake, it's actually to the point where you won't understand what's going on without having played vanilla fusion or at least seen the Dread prologue.

And yeah I did notice the game was more like super than I expected. It's a super romhack at the end of the day sure, but when he called it a crossover between the two games at release, I thought he was exaggerating. Then he brought in almost every super boss. Most of them were great but Draygon and the rehashed giant metroid rescue felt extremely forced.

>>11922907
I was hoping for more stuff like Crocomire reanimating himself as a Phantoon fake-out.

>>11922907
10 or so years waiting for this?

>>11922909
>I was hoping for more stuff like Crocomire reanimating himself as a Phantoon fake-out.

I similarly thought that crocomire fight was going to signal a lot more creative sequences and the absence of some more boring vanilla bosses. Like, I was positive BOX was gone for good, and that neither Barrier Core nor the infested Torizo would make the cut. The Arachnus rematch had me almost annoyed. Perhaps he should have lowered the box count a little and focused more on Kraid X.

>>11922932
It actually is a total conversion. It's not a GOOD one at the end of the day, honestly, but it IS a total conversion and it's presented very well. "Total conversion" here meaning basically everything about the game was changed in ways both big and small.

>>11922932
>10 or so years waiting for this?
no beating AM2R

>>11922961
To be fair, it wasn't going to ever beat AM2R. AM2R was built from scratch, rather than just being a mod, even if the mod was a total conversion.

>>11922963
AM2R's bosses drag it down really hard for me anyways

>>11922948
>Yeah it's not a good one
>BUTS ITS A TOTAL CONVERSION
>it sucks

Be weary of TOO LONG TOOK YEARS type of fanprojects

>>11922971
It'll be remembered for its technical prowess and not its quality, methinks.

>>11922972
It's another Super Metroid Redesign.
What a horrible fate.

>>11922963
>Nintendo Literally greenlighted their remake of Metroid II to justify them shutting down AM2R
>Nintendies clapped and $0¥ed out
>Fuck all for years
>Finally rush it in a year
>It's shit
>AM2R gets revived as a fuck you back

>>11922978
Ironically I think both AM2R and Samus Returns suffer in similar ways, that being bad bosses and the level design not lending itself to a remake, even with their wildly different approaches.

>>11922974
And the thing is, I didn't disliked his Axiom Verge Super Metroid re-skin hack,bi had no hopes for this new hack to begin with, I give it a chance but so far, is JUST. NOT. GOOD.

If only because of the bullshit broken difficulty with how fucking weak you are early on, it's like he programmed a SUPER HARD mode and kept it as default as a troll.

People always talk about how inferior the EMMI were to SA-X, but I always felt they were a much better pursuer mechanic that actually afforded some satisfying chase sequences compared than the all suspense and little pay-off of 2002 SA-X.
Meta definitely proved how scary the SA-X can really be in 2025...but at what cost?

Lemme give you a couple of positive so far.

I like that saving gives your full health and I like how the unbrighted GBA assets look, also the first SA-X works like the first game.

>>11923004
full health? I only get three tanks.

>>11923004
>>11923009
Yeah im pretty sure it only heals like halfway once you get a decent amount of tanks

>>11923009
>>11923016
I am only at the first part of the game.

>been dying to literally nothing while trying to bomb a tile in a chase like five times
>finally make it there damageless through with aggressive freeze missiles and a good power bomb
>another
i fucking hate this game so much

>alternative patch for Fusion-X to give it a GBA control scheme instead of Super's constant toggling
>disables item on/off for no reason
>L and R are reversed for no reason, for it to control like the GBA game you have to switch L and R in the in-game button assigning

>>11923024
The chases in OG Fusion were definitively the WORST parts among with that one shitty part when you fall into a boss pit and the game glitches out of a platform and you are trap unable to go back in.

But so far, this hack DEFINITELY screams like it needed at least 6 more months of playtestin and balance refining.

By the way, are you SUPPOSED to raise the water level here so you can kill the robot then just tank the damage from spikes to get across in order to fight Serris? This just left me with very little health when I went in originally.

>>11923043
If there was a damageless way, I most certainly did not find it

>>11923043
Again, this hack is bad.

I bet you every walkthrough released so far is TAS bullshit, because the developer is a hack.

Jesus Christ, this fucking game is cursed to be the new Parallel Worlds of this generation.

Also 4chan is being homo right now and doesn't allow me to quote more then 3 people

Member that garbage.

Still stuck here, I struggle with even just the first room
But yeah this is how it was getting me >>11923024 completely blindsided every time

>>11923107
you're probably alerting the other one with fighting. I didn't fight at all, managed to sneak by the first one and then surprised number 2 with a power bomb. Either way its not easy.

>>11923141
That did it, thx
The timing for the space jump to not alert immediately is trickier than it seems
Also the second one would still snipe me merely for getting pushed up by my own power bomb explosion

>>11923217
>>11923141
This sounds like it's not a Trick but what you are supposed to do, as if, what Metaquarius wanted it to be

>>11923247
idk i might just be a coward though, genuinely never ice missled the SA-X once despite how early you get that. I have power bombed and speed bolstered their asses a few times though.

>Final X turns into a giant demonic Kraid that gets promptly Giga-Beamed into oblivion by an anime charge shot in Samus' super end game form
Either this is a Dread reference or Nintendo totally beat him to the punch.

>>11922302
Let's see it.

>>11923217
That no Samus allowed poster is hilarious

So its sounding like Subversion is still the undisputed king? I won't have time to play this for at least another week.

>>11915017
otaku amerumutt challenge
reference something that is not evazzz (failed)

>>11922894
If you got gud, you wouldn't need to save scum. You're not having fun because you're shit at video games.
Let this be a lesson.

how much different is omega/hard mode? looked like the first part of the game is different since the game starts in different areas of the world or is it just the first few minutes of the game and the rest is identical?

>>11923651
You save scum too and you know it

>>11924049
>can't even imagine someone not cheating
you're on a level of bad previously thought impossible

>>11923075
Agreed, still love the hack regardless of all of it's glaring downs

>>11922964
This is the only thing that SR has against AM2R, the bosses are actually fun to tussle with.

If AM2R didn't shut down, i would imagine Doc would do an update or expansion that brings over ideas like all Alpha/Gamma/Omega Metroids having special Evolved variants.

>>11924181
Good for you, nobody else does.

>>11923651
>GAME GOOD YOU BAD
>GIT GUD, GIT GUD

Get Whacked! Sometimes games do SUCK!

>>11924204
AM2R got revived you know

>>11924213
True, but
>it's too hard for me so it's bad!
isn't one of those times.

>>11924252
Yes it is.

>>11922394
The game is an AU, literally features a horrific merge of a infant Metroid and X-Parasite.

>>11924253
Very telling.

>>11924216
In what way? If it's like those Team Rainbow revivals, I'll remain a bit cautious.

>>11924209
I think someone should at least step in and make a separate hack that adds a proper difficulty setting.
The GBA/Mercury Stream/Prime games had them, so why not?

>>11924334
>someone should sand all the rough spots smooth to make it more palatable to me
lolno

>>11924346
or maybe you can give options to people who want to enjoy the hack

>>11924367
No.
If it's not for you, then it's not for you.

>>11924209
Speak for yourself. I also like it despite it's flaws.

>>11924371
Cope, i rather not have this hack's deteriorated and end up like Parralel Worlds just because the dev sucked as balancing or didn't know how to set in custom difficulty.

>>11924397
So don't play it.

>>11924398
Justify mediocrity then

The Paralell Worlds Remodel treatment is not a fate I would wish upon any hack, no matter how hard it is. It just straight up lobotomizes to the game to the point that things stop making sense.

>>11924398
It's not about me.

>>11924418
What did the PW Remodel hack do exactly?

>>11924405
You've yet to actually point out mediocrity.
Your complaint was that it's too hard for you. Something not appealing your tastes specifically is not a flaw.

>>11924420
Yes it is.
You want someone to alter their work to better suit you. It's 100% about you.

>>11924431
>You want someone to alter their work to better suit you.
Not for me, for future players who are going to build the opinion of the hack.
They deserve a choice. To play a cozy experience of the hack or play a balls to the wall edition of the hack.
and not through patches either.

>>11924436
>They deserve a choice.
Why?

>>11924437
The dev added a lot of cool shit and managed to put most of Fusion into Super's engine.
If the filtered has to miss out on that, that'd be a damn shame. They'll be too busy dismissing the game whenever it gets brought up or whenever people talks about a potiential remake for it instead talking about it's awesome moments.

>>11924450
That'd be on them. The developer isn't obligated to alter their work to kake sure you don't get left out.
Either engage with the game on its own terms, or don't play it.

>>11924427
The equivalent of taking platforming sections of Super Mario Bros. and replacing them with flat straight hallways.

>>11924427
>>11924431

Look, I get it, you are under 20, you weren't there in the 2000s, but Parallel Worlds was blindly praised because "the first ever AlttP Hack" with custom graphics and new mechanics, which btw, they weren't any, it was a Skin Mod, but with awful level design, late game enemies early on and more enemies per screen regardless of how it would run on real hardware, as a matter of fact, PW was designed like those early SMW hacks, to be played on Zsnes and with design that relies on Save States, I played trough this hack back in 2007 and yes, I beat it, and guess what, even back then I knew it was way too hard.

And to top it all, the ending SUCKED!

>No I wont help this accursed world, PISS OFF.

>>11924427
As for PW Remodel, it was shit too, all it did was just add some band aid things over the level design and progression instead of redoing the layouts and design as well as rebalancing the difficulty.

>>11924437
What do you think you are accomplishing with your dilated contrarianism and fence sitting? You clearly are just a plant.

>>11924450
>>11924462
>HOW DARE YOU TO HAVE AN OPINION EEEEEEEH


Talk about Elitism.

>>11924495
I never said anything about Parallel Worlds, but congratulations.

>>11924506
>dilated(?) contrarianism
That's not contrarianism, that's asking someone to explain their position.
You deserve a choice in how someone else creates their own work that's been given to you for nothing? Why?
This is strictly a mindest held by people who have never, and likely will never produce anything.
>a plant
A plant for whom?
You're just throwing out insults you don't understand, hoping one of them means anything.

>>11924509
Demanding that someone make changes to their work is not "an opinion", it's entitlenent.
Go make your own if it really bothers you that much. That's what this thread is about, after all.

>>11924491
Yeah, this is definitely not what were asking for, lol. Just another bad way to resolve something.

>>11924509
>>11924495
Why are you replying to my posts?

he he he
not so powerful now are you, you fucker

Moar Till! https://x.com/SokZaJelo/status/1953167995993235650

>>11925047
What is with all the sprite flickering? It doesn't look like the scan line limit is being hit most of the time.

>>11923107
>>11923141
>>11923217
Are you even trying?

>>11925090
I think that *MAYBE* it's a LOT of shit being fed to vram or something.

_Do know that I'm no expert on the SNES/Super Famicom._

>>11922374
That secret twist ending was... interesting.
I hope Metaquarius cooks in the next hack.

>>11924397
>or didn't know how to set in custom difficulty
There's a Hard, Omega, and Super modes in X-Fusion.
Normal mode is nothing lol

if you want access to the difficulty mode, hold SELECT
have fun

>>11925524
>Normal is Hard
>Hard is I Wanna be that Fag
>Omega is Kaizo
>Super is SUICIDE PTSD

I hope you enjoy not fun.

>>11925540
>Suicide Samus
Sounds like a shitpost creepypasta

He has spoken.

>>11925540
Maybe it's only because I spent five minutes playing, but what's suicide ptsd about Super mode? It looks like it'll be easy mode.

>>11925090
there's like a million explosions on screen every frame

>>11925554
https://youtu.be/T03vHSPH-HA?feature=shared

>>11925554
Where do you draw the line man?

>>11925554
Based. We need more devs that are willing to tell casualfags to get gud or gtfo.
This is a free romhack, why are people acting like shareholders?
>please make this unofficial romhack accessible to a MASS AUDIENCE, who cares about meaningful challenge, just make slop that lets toddlers get to the credits with their brains turned off
If you're gonna be a scrub at least have the decency to cower in shame about it, not shove your lack of skill and willingness to learn and engage with the game in others' throats

>>11925540
Explain, super looked easy since you start with everything same with omega. Is the exploration fucked?

>>11925554
based
You're not owed an ending for figuring out how to turn the game on. Learn to play.

>>11924216
>AM2R
Not retro, blockheads.

>>11922963
>>11922961
>fan remake on modern engine
lol

>>11921893
She also screeching over Pokémon porygon joke and Zelda casting

>>11899835
Absolute kino.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_wP8m94-Ks

Been trying to do line scrolling but looks like the glitches happen when the tiles move 8 pixels.
I'll keep chugging until I get it, yeah 0 page is faster but I want to see if its really necessary. I moved the sprite 0 all over the place and glitches are pretty similar.

in nmi after sprite 0

.LineScroll
sta $4000 ;easier to see in debugger

lda $711
sta $2005

lda #$00
sta $2005

jsr .DelayLoop

dec $711
ldy $710
dey
sty $710
bne .LineScroll

>>11926372
> I moved the sprite 0 all over the place
Can't move sprite 0 mid frame on hardware
> looks like the glitches happen
You'll have to sync that w H-blank to get a clean break, not easy. good luck.

>>11921745
By jealousy, you mean ulterior intent like trying to pull an Ian Flynn on Wikipedia?

>>11925878
So nobody dismisses it despite being good?

>>11926805
The hack is not good, dilate

>>11926805
That would make sense if it was a product being sold, and mass adoption had any tangible benefit. But it's not.
As it is, it'd just be putting in a lot of extra, unpaid work for a handful of people who are already so far removed from the initial target audience and can't appreciate the 10+ years of work that went into this passion project.
There's plenty of other stuff out there for you, this doesn't need to be one of them.

>>11926241
few romhacks have custom bosses anyway

i want to make an umihara romhack

>>11927550
what's stoppin ya?

>>11926147
>>11925878
About that. He was serious.

>>11927563
>what's stoppin ya?
i'm not creative enough

>>11927582
Huh, ok, could done it without the cheeky jab

>>11927582
If he wants to, that's his choice.
I wouldn't have.

>>11927642
And this attitude >>11927627 is why.
He's giving you what you cried for, stop whining and be grateful.

>>11927627
This

>>11927647
You know Metaquarius is just gonna implement it and give you a shitty catch, just because you're not playing on the kaizo cool kid modes.

>>11927582
Good, at least more people will appreciate the effort he put in this unique conversion.

>>11926830
>not liking Phantomire-X and Mecha Draygon-X
Die

>>11926895
>That would make sense if it was a product being sold
Not true, i seen people push back on terrible Smash or Fallout mods because of a terrible creative choices. Some of these just die or stay in true obscurity for the most part with dissenters assuring nobody bothers with it, while other mods will just gets heaping praises and constant recommendations even in corners for mainsteam discussion for said game.

>>11928568
>i seen people push back
And? I'm seeing people whine about getting free stuff in this very thread, that doesn't make it a valid argument.
Appealing to people whose only input is "this clearly isn't for me so change it!" isn't going to somehow make your romhack profitable, and those people still aren't going to appreciate the work that went into it.
So what exactly is your point?
>terrible creative choices
Such as? I don't consider a skill-based bar for entry to be a terrible choice at all.
If you're not familiar with how Super Metroid works, then maybe the intermediate/advanced Super Metroid hacks just aren't FOR you.
Crime and Punishment doesnt suddenly become a bad book just because some people can't read above a 3rd grade level. This really isn't any different.

>>11928552
That Draygon fight makes no sense at all. It's really unclear how you're supposed to fight it.

kaizo hacks like this with cheap deaths are for faggot speedrunners

>>11929147
I am not a speedrunner and I finished the hack. Have you tried not being bad like unironically.

I bet the N64 could emulate Genesis and GBA if someone put their mind to it

>>11929147
cool, don't play it

>>11929159
>I LIKE TORTURE

>>11929147
I wouldn't call this kaizo. Not by a long shot. But there are some cheap deaths for sure.

>>11929605
>I HATE THIS BUT I HAVE TO PLAY IT

>>11929605
what torture? it took me like 11 hours to finish the game with 100% item completition and without looking anything up. its not my fault you suck. this is a retro board. you would expect the average retro player to have at least some experience with these games, wouldnt you?

learnin' snes programming. The PPU is pretty easy to work with. 65816 kinda sucks. Too scared to touch the sound chip.

What is even the point of this if .net hosts again

>>11929786
It's good to have multiple options.

>>11929786
The point is that it stopped hosting and several replacements jumped in to fill its place. Now there's redundancy so nothing is locked to one place.

>>11929147
Im completely burnt out on Kaizos. It feels they've done everything they can with the sub-genre and new hacks just repeat the same chiche designs over and over again.
Many times they think "hard" is a synonym for "good", where they think harder it is, the higher quality the hack it is.

>>11929695
Some, ALL the regular enemies do fucktons of damage early on and even when you get more etanks, they still take a shotload of damage, I could swear some of them even do RNG Random damage, like one of the forehead bugs took a full ho bar, and I was maxed out.

Even the bosses do less damage.

What the fuck is that shit?

>>11929813
Sadly GIT GUD became such a scummy excuse that lead to fanatism.

They know sometimes these hacks are bad but they had to defend it and chew the opposition, it's like Nintendies.

>>11929836
I've seen Kaizo authors make that excuse too many times. They're so stubborn they cant admit they just suck at making entertaining levels and can only recycle ideas that have been around since the original Kaizo Mario.
I also don't get why people watch Kaizo streams. What is entertaining about watching someone die 500 times on the same screen, only to get to the second one two hours in?
The original Kaizo was good and used a lot of original ideas at the time. Instead of just repeating it again, they should try making their own sub genre, like the original Kaizo author did.

>all the 15 year olds that don't know what kaizo is
>i can't beat it so it's kaizo
lol

>>11929865
If they call their own hacks Kaizo then Im gonna consider it a Kaizo. Also Im millennial.

>>11929853
Kaizo Mario wasn't meant to be fun or played in real hardware, it was A PRANK, but since it came from Japan people missed the point and it led to imitators and a forced zeitgeist that hasn't left romhackers to this date.

>>11929870
>If they call their own hacks Kaizo
example?

>>11929891
It was a creative prank at the time.
Kaizo made its way into Mario Maker too.
>>11929902
Go to SMWCentral and use the Kaizo type filter.

>>11929916
>SMWCentral
so not the hack being called kaizo

>>11929918
What exactly are you asking? The hacks in the Kaizo category were put there by the hack authors despite if its actually Kaizo or not.

>>11929920
why'd you join the duscussion already in progress if you didn't know what it was about?

>>11929927
Because you suck ass at proprerly conveying what you actually want me to do.

>>11929865
>>11929902
>>11929918
>>11929927
>"Kaizo" developer got their feelings hurt.
Thankfully school starts next month.

omega difficulty is one big hell run. I might have to give this shit a try.

>>11929937
you could start by reading

>>11929965
Then tell me right here, what the hell do you want me to do?
>>11929952
You're probably right, they shortened summer break to mid August, so these morons should be out of here in a week or 2.

>>11929981
i would like you to either read the previous entries in a discussion before participating, or i would like you to stop posting
if this is somehow too difficult for you to undersrand, please resort to the latter

>>11929997
>Just read the discussion!
I did, answered it but still claiming I didnt read.
Please stop posting, because you must be at least 18 to post here.
Your ROM Hack is shit.

>>11930007
>just tell me what you want me to do!
>this
>I DON'T GET IT YOU'RE CONFUSING ME AAAA
damn kiddo, simmer down it's not that serious
just read next time

>>11930012
>Metaquarius
Is that the guy who's trying to bait people into playing his hack with AI slop? Why not let the hack quality speak for itself instead of these dumbass marketing tricks?

>>11930018
omg does it really use AI? let me see

>>11930017
I mean, I answered your question in a way most people would've, and when I ask for clarification you say "just read what was posted".
If you weren't so serious, you couldve either accepted my answer or elaborate. Since youre doing neither, it tells me I struck a nerve by my comment on Kaizo hacks and not interested in conversations. Or youre a child with down syndrome.

>>11930027
Its in the thumbnails on his YouTube. Its not in the hack itself, its just a stupid marketing stunt for people to comment on "I cant believe you did an AI thumbnail!"

>>11930039
for real? post one

>>11930030
>I answered your question
The only question asked was "why'd uou join a discussion you weren't privy to?", and your answer was something like " because I didn't understand your instructions".
Gotta be honest, you come across as less than stable.

>>11930047
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zcvk1Oaqnk
I didnt see this one last time, but its full of AI shit.
>>11930056
Youre retarded.

>>11930056
>People can only join my conversation on an anonymous site if I approve.
This isn't your secret club kid.
>>11930060
Just stop replying.

>>11930060
Nothing I said was meant to be an insult like you've obviously taken it, but I guess I have no choice but to accept your concession.
The posts are still there for anyone who might be confused or wants more context.

kaizo is trash

>>11930087
Careful anon, you'll get moron to ask you a question and claim you "didn't read" to discredit you, refuse to elaborate, then say you're the one who takes it too seriously.

>>11930060
oh so it really is just the thumbnail

>>11930103
Theres more in the second half of the video. Doubling down always works when you want to market controversy for something unrelated.

>>11929765
The sound chip is fucking retarded. 64kb RAM and slow data throughput for a purely sample-based system. It produces a nice sound but working with it is an unnecessary pain in the ass, and almost singlehandedly adds noticeable loading time into snes games. If you've ever noticed snes games pausing for a while before bosses, it's not for gfx/code, it's to load the boss music.

>>11929058
Point is that this isn't exclusive to payment. People will become ignorant over whatever work that's put out there for any iffy reason, paid or not.

>>11929832
Metaquarius thought he was making Metroid Souls, that's the issue.
Unfortunately the bosses are just as easy to beat than any Souls boss you encounter.

>>11929952
It starts next week in my country, what bumpkin slacker state you live in that gives kids long ass summers?

>>11930018
You're mistaking Metaquarius with BigSharkZ, who's still hoarding his showcase hacks on YouTube.

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/7953/
This is by far the best way to play Star Road, not only on console but on emulator too (though on PC generally the native port probably beats it out), why have I never seen anyone recommend this?

>>11930103
Not that one, which was presumably made in response to the first one having an AI thumbnail as a smokescreen. It was changed after the hack released, and the second video is now unlisted.
Dude's a joker. He has an ongoing project making fun of yandev.

>>11930512
Can you post a prepatched ROM?

>>11930396
I unironically believe dark souls was a very big mistake. It influenced so many games but in the wrong way. Open world wrpg like skyrim did similiar kind of damage to other games and genres just as wow did. These devs dont understand what makes that game good, all they see is a single aspect of it and they try to shoehorn that shit into their slop.

>>11930396
>Metaquarius thought he was making Metroid Souls
What does that mean?

>>11930534
https://mega.nz/file/fktS3JhC#mJ0StozDaozzK8WuWn0iJeJTic0_L726W6dUSgu1NGo

BOY I sure love reloading from save over and over again until I find the correct frame to jump so I don't get instakilled by SA-X beams or whatever shit. Truly the GOTY of hacks

>>11930630
he wants you to die in certain parts of the game until you figured out on how to progress.

>>11930642
Oh. Yeah that's not great design.
Haven't played the game yet, but I'll take your word for it that the solutions to those segments aren't alluded to or otherwise able to be intuited.

>>11930656
sometimes it can work. you are forced into a very small section of the game with no way to backtrack and you only have a handful of rooms to progress so your choices are limited. later in the game, right before it opens up you are in a weird part of the game where you have the choice of progressing through a hellrun situation or look for an alternative way to progress. that part was dog shit and his patch didnt really adress it. he should have closed up all doors right before the hellrun so it would have been more obvious but he decided to just nerf some enemies which didnt really help imho.

>>11930631
Basado.

>>11929317
GBA is stronger.

It's still thinking! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDwepnnzB9M

>>11908634
unfortunately it's gonna be a totally different answer for every game. audio code is the least standardized thing on these old machines
(assuming no existing documentation is available here)

one way, if the sound is synthesized:
try running a code logger while the sfx plays. I know Bizhawk has one for Gen/MD
ideally you do this when nothing else is going on, eg. a sound test menu, otherwise it may also grab other code.
this will log what bytes in the ROM were utilized, and whether they're code or data
you can also log a neighboring sfx separately to look for differences and filter out anything common
and then once identified, you can try and either wipe it all out with $00s in a hex editor and hope nothing breaks
or do a bit of reverse engineering to figure out the format for the sfx data/code and change the pitches/volumes/etc.

if the sound is sampled:
same idea but then it's just PCM data of some kind which can be replaced with any other PCM data of the same type

||I was bored so I tried finding it. using a "Eliminate Down (J).bin"
I'm guessing you're talking about sfx 38 in the sound test
at $4F44E, the bytes $23 00 00 03 31 02 00 09 00 1F 1F 1F 1F 00 all seem to affect sound in some way, especially the last 2 bytes there
specifically turning the first $1F at $4F457 at $00 seems to disable it entirely
this also affects sfx 37 as well as 38. it's possible this is an instrument setting that is also used elsewhere in the game

other potential ranges to try goofing with:
$4F44C 29 bytes
$43D91 12 bytes
$35B2 24 bytes
$3606 12 bytes||

good luck
I also see a major hack of this game was just released less than a month ago called "Eliminate Down - Remix Mode", maybe reach out to the author for help

Does a SNES counterpart to N64 Tools soundbank exist?

>>11915159
The game's original version was put out specifically to find where players thought the difficulty needed to be adjusted. It's already been adjusted since then.

>>11926023
Super starts you with everything but the dispersion beam and omega suit. Omega does NOT start you with everything either. Super is the easy mode of the game, Omega (in spite of all the additional stuff you start with) is intended for people who've mastered Normal (specifically in terms of world traversal and item collection).

subversions hard mode did it better. the difficulty there came through different item placement/routing and not having less life and doing less damage to enemies.

>>11929786
to separate the penis cutters from the rest of society

>>11930848
Than the N64?
The PSP emulates GBA a lot easier than SNES, and the N64 has a SNES emulator. Therefore GBA should be possible.

>>11932349
You mean doctors?

I was expecting Omega mode to be a lot harder, it just gives you the Hyper beam. You can kill the SA-X and late bosses without issue. I guess I'll run into some challenge when I need to do hell runs because of no suit upgrades but this is easy mode so far

>>11931989
Version 1.1 is out and yes, seems that enemy damage was adjusted properly, I was able to last longer at the first prologue boss without him taking near all my health.

I'll play this till the point I left v1.0 Before the Crogamire fight

>>11932339
Nintendo really beat that guy to the punch with the Metroid Suit

>>11933420
To be fair, they were completely different interpretations of it.

>>11932339
You're thinking of the second quest, I think. Subversion hard mode sped up enemies and reduced iframes if I remember correctly, so kinda similar to the issues with X-Fusion though I never personally played it to know if it's as masochistic.

>>11933438
yeah was talking about second quest. havent noticed the iframes thingy desu so that wasnt really an issue. it was more about exploration and that one hellrun at the end, which was actually fun.

>>11933443
What I'm saying is that subversion has both second quest and an actual hard mode that's unlocked after you beat the game. Hard mode is the normal world/items but harder enemies/execution.
I did like the idea of second quest a lot more too though.

>>11933428
iirc, the main gimmick of his metroid suit is that you can stand in green lasers to shoot hyperbeam, while also granting cold weakness. So, in effect it's like a mix of the phazon and fusion suits.

What strikes me as odd is that its description claims it's just made of a verdite alloy, not somehow biologically linked to metroids. Makes it feel a little forced.

>>11933481
Might've been a last minute change for.. I dunno, synergy? I mean, it's a green suit.

>>11933808
it's so cute!

>>11908138
Well I'm trying to reverse engineer some DOS games using ghidra or Ida. I got chibi akumas book and plan on going through that and another book I grabbed from Amazon I can't recall the name of ATM. Should I learn C? I'm also trying to learn python, is Cython any good?

>>11933481
it's been a while but I think the lore book said that the ship you find the metroid suit in was researching metroids in order to build weapons, so it's possible it still incorporates metroid dna in some way, while also using verdite to have more resistance or such.

>>11933851
>I'm also trying to learn python, is Cython any good?
nta, but Cython is pretty niche, it compiles python-like language to C. Unless you're trying to optimize a python program I wouldn't worry about that.
You should probably learn some C regardless of anything else.

https://youtu.be/5qFzPX2dnuM?si=mQnsv9WDVc9D_Y-h
Cute

>>11929786
The site started development at a time where's RHDN's future was uncertain (when only news could be submitted and when the site's filehost was at risk of getting shutdown). And despite RHDN
eventually reopening submissions, however, ROMhack.ing still serves as a decent alternative (and is even considered by some as RHDN's spiritual succesor).

An advantage that RHDI has over RHDN (in my opinion) is that they have a bot that informs people on Twitter and Bluesky about any new submissions (hacks, translations, news, etc.), which may help them get a wider reach.

Has anyone tried this
apparently good if it wasn't a kaizo hack

>>11933020
jewish emos, yes

>>11934312
I didn't get too excited for it myself because I knew that after how long it's been in development and from the lack of restraint the creator had in his other stuff, that there was no way it could possibly live up to the hype. Glad I wasn't wrong.

>>11934312
Try version 1.1, has been rebalanced.

supposedly

lmao. I just found out about the slow walk functionality of speedbooster level 2. I straight up beat the game without ever knowing about it, had to time the diffuse missile really well to do the puzzle to turn on AQA power. He really should have explained what the upgrade actually did.

>>11934312
Its literally the main discussion point of this thread

>>11934419
>slow walk functionality
say what? I carefully jumped/switched directions midair in order to charge up in tight spaces. I thought thats how its supposed to be done.

>>11916813
>that shitpost hack "Super Metroid But I hate You"
Has anyone played it? Is it any good? I saw a lot of super metroid people seemed to stream it back when it released.

>>11934613
aren't you a smartass?

>>11899835
Anything else better than that Netflix trash

>>11931334
It called snesmod, and xmsnes

>>11934761
It's a troll hack and very blatantly so with a kaizo opener coupled with stretches of nothing changing, but it was also made to troll one specific streamer. Most of its jokes actually do land and it's extremely technically impressive with what it does, ranging from Super Mario World-izing the opening rooms of Crateria to adding a Sudoku puzzle to one stretch

>>11934770
but the title is "xfusion" not "x-fusion".

>>11935151
clearly the title is メフュージョン

>>11935152
>mefu~yūjon
uwu

>>11935151
Who cares?

>>11935151
https://metroidconstruction.com/hack.php?id=837
>Super Metroid: X-Fusion
https://metaquarium.wordpress.com/
>X-Fusion released

>>11935416
Don't forget the readme.
I particularly like the part where it says that it isn't for casuals.

>>11935427
> not for casuals.
fine
> stupid one hit kaizo deaths with full health on random enemies
garbo

>>11935416
>>11935427
Then someone should tell him to fix the title screen

>>11935454
it's stylized.

1.2 released with baby mode changes

>>11936004
What the fuck.

>>11936090
Expected to be the last patch for a while.

>>11933870
Thanks, will do.