Greetings romhacking forum-goers. The name's StarsimsUniverse. I've been a follower of the ROM scene for quite a few years, never gone as far as to participate in forum discussions before, but frankly, I've never had anything to say or contribute to the community.

Some of you may find my username familiar, I'm one of the contributors to the fangame "Mushroom Kingdom Fusion" by Judgespear. I'm mainly the level designer for the Mega Man levels in that game. I have a vague idea how to create levels using Game Maker 7.0. We use the Hello 3 Engine.

Recently, because we're using 16 Bit graphics for the game, (Super Mario Allstars. Super Mario World, Wily Wars, etc) I have a vast collection of sprites for Mega Man. Some ripped from Wily Wars, and even some that have been custom created using Wily Wars style of pallete and shading.

It occurred to me with this much material, I pondered if it was possible if we could experiment and try a Mega Man 1 ROM Hack, replacing the 8 Bit sprites and tilesets with the Wily Wars style pallete and graphics. I have no ROM coding experience, I could merely provide the sprites and tilesets (hopefully 16x16 tiles will work) and this should be a simple ROM to create, just almost cutting and pasting the existing layouts so it has Wily Wars quality to it.

Here's an example of some of my Mega Man sprites and edits from "Mushroom Kingdom Fusion". Some of the Wily Wars sprites were a tad weird compared to the original NES sprites so I've done a few recolours myself.  Alot of these can be imported and used for my ROM Hack idea.

Is anyone willing to attempt to try this ROM hack out with me?

I moved your topic, and changed the two largest images into links.

Interesting... see this thread:
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,6894.0.html

tomaitheous has hacked the original Megaman to run on the PC Engine/Turbografx system, which is capable of the enhanced palette (mentioned somewhere in that thread).

He might very well be interested in doing something on this...

You did see the thread dshadoff linked to??

Well then I'll continue with Mushroom Kingdom Fusion. Your right a PC exe is much easier and more flexible. Our Mega Man levels have turned out to be really well designed and beautiful, plus the cool experience of seeing many Mega Man 4+ levels pimped up to 16 Bit quality. While we've been making our own edited tilesets I found others had beaten us to it. I'm going to speak to this guy and ask kindly for permission to use his tilesets... http://forums.stencyl.com/showthread.php?tid=2681&page=1   Currently we have Skull man and Pharoah Man as two of the MM4 levels in the Rock Man Realm.

I guess I could still keep you guys up to date on my progress on Mushroom Kingdom Fusion, then? Even if I'm scrapping my ROM idea? Does this Message Board allow discussion on fangames as well as hacked ROMs?

Check out the kind of 16 Bit rejigging we've been able to make in our game.. here's a mock up of a planned Tornado Man stage (with an 8-Bit mock up for comparison) its pretty good looking, but we may still change the windows.

Heh, I'm the same way Disch, I blame you for it though. Way back I made the same mistake, you corrected me, and it's become one of my pet peeves since then too.

(I don't know why I remember this, especially when I tend to forget far more important things regularly...)

I know the spriters tend to use the defense that they're referring to a style (The style of the graphics that appeared on a 16 bit console, not actual 16 bit graphics) but that's invalidated by the fact that the Genesis game had vastly different graphics compared to the SNES game. It would be far more sense to refer to them as NES-style, SNES-style, Genesis-style, etc.

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I haven't replied to this yet, StarsimsUniverse , your sprite work and foreground graphics are great, along with most of your backgrounds. I'm not too keen on the photo realistic backgrounds in some of your shots though, they seem really out of place with the colorful foregrounds. One thing I'd suggest correcting is the proportions of a few enemies, when they did the Wily Wars graphics they scaled Mega Man up slightly but didn't scale up any of the enemies, so the Sniper Joes which were supposed to be as tall as Mega Man are too tiny in that version. Unfortunately this also happened to poor Proto Man, so he looked like a midget compared to his brother...

You misunderstood what I was talking about, I was referring to the Mega Man games exclusively in this case. The Genesis game used an entirely different style that was more akin to the NES games than the SNES game did, which used large cartoony sprites and backgrounds. In this case you can't use "16-bit" as a style, as there were two completely different styles that appeared on 16 bit consoles, and a third if you count the X series games.

Its ok, we're keeping the original size of the enemies because most of the playable are similar in size to the original NES Mega Man. If you stand the new playable Roll next to our line of Sniper Joes, she's the same size as them. She looks taller in our image earlier in the thread because she's leaping.

Anyway I may ask this thread to be closed so I can post a new one thats more relevantly placed in a fangame project section, this is in General Rom Hacking. If the subject with my ROM Hack is over I'll create a new subject. I wanna keep you guys up to date on Mushroom Kingdom Fusion, you guys seem to like it!