First post here, so howdy! Anyway, I've been looking around to see what the community has been doing with the recently-released MM9, and while I see threads pertaining to particular details of the game, I haven't seen any general discussion on the topic, so I'll pose the question now: what are the chances of recreation of Megaman 9 via ROMhack? Is it feasable? What would corrently be possible/impossible using the tools available right now? Is it being worked on and I'm just clueless and don't know about it?

I'm not going to pretend to have any real knowledge of ROMhacking, but as far as I can tell there are only two real hurdles: firstly, adding the whole store system (although one of the GB games had a store, yeah? that should make it easier?) and avoiding legal action from Capcom. I'd guess the non-Robot Master bosses woud be somewhat of a hassle too. How accurate am I in my assumptions?

I know to some a MM9 NES ROMhack seems kinda pointless, but to me it'd be useful as a means of playing the game on my DS or anything else that emulates NES sufficiently, rather than just my Wii. Anything that you people could tell me about the process and whether I'm ridiculously late to the party would be much appreciated. Thanks!

This gets asked a lot these days, and it deserves to be. The best use for such would be to have it possible to be playable on an actual NES.

I recall playing through this game and wondering how tough it would be to program some of the stuff in it. I thought, yes, it's possible, though I doubt it would end up being as resemblant as the original. Someone would have to be really crazy to do it.

If we're lucky, the creators of Megman 9 paid careful attention to the game's hypothetical NES limitations, such as how many tiles could be used for a level. I kind of feel like a newb for asking, but-- Does anyone know if all of Megaman 9's graphics could be fit into a rom?

Are you sure the actual Dr. Wily Castle graphic adheres to the "three colors plus black/transparent" rule? Because I'm fairly sure it doesn't.

I would very much like this to become a reality, as I do not own a Wii and thus have no way to play MM9.

Though, as stated, the game might not be possible for NES, with hardware limitations and whatnot. Maybe SNES (though this would be substantially more difficult, most likely), or just as an EXE File?

This hurts the portability of the game if you want to play it on DS, like we all want to do. 

Is there any way to get a hold of the MM9 binary?  I don't know much about Wii, and I doubt that it will be coded in asm in the manner an NES game would, but it would probably be preferable to disassemble that to study object behaviors and AI, rather than watching the game closely and guessing - except that without a magic Wii emulator and debugger this'll be hard as nuggets.  Does anyone know where you can find the game's sprites, or would that have to be pulled from the binary as well?

Optomon,
Those were the first 2 hacks I ever played! 

Wow, looks like serious progress on that front.

And I like the main guy's user image:




Norrin says a lot of crazy shit, so I wasn't sure if that was a real hack. I was pretty sure that a naked mario hack (likely several) existed but not sure about a wheelchair one.

What about an XBox 360? Or PS3? It's for all three. :3


It's a regular enemy from the game. They come in green and yellow varieties: once you shoot 'em, they split into a bunch of miniature Devil eye things.

Was really suprising to me to find the tiles and sprites were stored in the same format as GBA.. of course it made ripping them a lot easier. Just wish my PC hadn't crapped out on me and I coulda gotten more done. :|

Was havin fun messing with the various cutscene stuff and posting it, too. At least I got the helmetless sprites done.