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Metroid

>>8273449
I understand your pain. However if you're careful this shouldn't really become a problem until the end of the game. Use a map to make sure that you collect every energy tank before you try to face Mother Brain. Made this mistake myself and cost me hours of unnecessary suffering.

The later games fix this problem, but each one still has its share of frustrating shit. Metroid is a series made for masochists after all.

>>7456235
Yes. I have an 8KB "engine" in the fixed bank that accesses data from the switched banks. All personal preference, but, this seems to work well.
>>7456304
> completely different
Not completely. Usually there is a fixed bank of 16KB and switched banks of the other 16KB. Sometimes you can switch out 8KB chunks, sometimes you have to switch the entire 32KB. In the 32KB case, i just clone the top 8KB of the "engine" in every bank.

>>7333341
>1986
You have to account this in. It's contemporaries were arcadey and score based. Though clunky and archaic with a modern lens, these were genre defining and revolutionary.

>>6672073
hideous

I guess this doesn't count as a map, but fuck you, I'm posting it anyways

HOW THE HELL DID SHE GET TO THE "START POINT" IN THE FIRST PLACE?

How on earth did she get down there in the first place?

Metroid is really just a glorified ZX Spectrum game

Microcomputers did this kind of game earlier.

>>4390772
Note that this game came out the same year as Metroid and makes the Metroid map look rather basic in comparison.

Behold, the entirety of Metroid on the NES!

>>4019503
here. :3

Open in new tab or download for full size.

I'm hip.

>>1719913
Your brain probably blocked it out