/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1462448]

HOW, WHY and IS SUCH A THING EVEN POSSIBLE?

I'm think I'm hearing the ghost of some mad Japanese programmer cackling madly as he put this thing in. Especially since you KNOW the final missile upgrade is just beyond. And I thought the trapdoor before the energy tank was bad...

[Anonymous No.1462458]

With screw attack that should be an easy jump

[Anonymous No.1462484]

>>1462458

You'd think so, wouldn't you? WOULDN'T YOU?

[Anonymous No.1462489]

Use bombs wisely

[Anonymous No.1462492]

And the worst part is that you can see the damned thing on your way up again. Sitting there. Just out of reach. I don't think a single other item in the game is teased like this for you.

[Anonymous No.1462497]

>>1462489

I sort of figured this. One false move though and you're dunked straight down again and have to climb back up and make that weird bomb jump from a perfectly frozen hopper to get over the pillar.

[Anonymous No.1462521]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASH!

[Anonymous No.1462525]

255 missiles is the max, right? If so I guess I can be proud of the fact that I have now found all them without the help of a single guide or map.

[Anonymous No.1462527]

>>1462525

How many life upgrades are there though?

[Anonymous No.1462534]

>>1462527
you've got them all, m8.

[Anonymous No.1462543]

>>1462534

You pullin me leg ere?

[Anonymous No.1462546]

>>1462543

"AWOP"

[Anonymous No.1462553]

>>1462546

I guess that did nothing though???

Fuck it, time to kill Mother Brain for the first time. Hopefully things will go better then when I didn't have the ice beam.

[Anonymous No.1462564]

Rate my mapping skills.

[Anonymous No.1462567]

>>1462564
>blue ink

0/10 would not cartographer with

[Anonymous No.1462574]

>>1462553
>I guess that did nothing though???
There are 2 extra-tanks in the game, and serve as mostly energy refills once you have the maximum tanks you can carry.

[Anonymous No.1462585]

>>1462448
Roll into ball, go off edge, unroll and jump out of mid air. Piss easy, and works every time.

[Anonymous No.1462598]

>>1462585

Just ended up doing what this guy>>1462489
said and made a top risky bomb jump.

Metroids are terrifying.

[Anonymous No.1462603]

>>1462553
The maximum amount of tanks that you can have is 6, but there are more than six to find.

[Anonymous No.1462660]

Got pulverized by floating doughnuts and cheeto launchers before even seeing the dumb brain. Now to find a good spot to grind health and missiles again.

>>1462574
>>1462603

Is this very last energy tank hidden in some random ceiling rock as well?

>>1462585

Having now actually tried this technique it would have certainly been useful knowledge for the now 95% completed playthrough of mine. Oh well.

>>1462567

Well then get ready for BLUE INK 2: REVENGEANCE
I actually started Mother Brain's lair off to the right there before realizing that it would probably not be necessary.

[Anonymous No.1462680]

>>1462448
>tfw I'm only half an hour in, already beat Kraid, but now have no idea where to find Ridley, and don't want to look it up but am sure that Norfair is much bigger than my map indicates

[Anonymous No.1462715]

>>1462680

Use my maps
>>1462564
>>1462660

They're pretty good.

[Anonymous No.1462840]

>>1462715
I respect your maps, but I must decline. I feel that if I am to truly beat Metroid, then I am to do it of my own volition. I guess I'm just frustrated now that I'm not getting any good leads since defeating Kraid.

[Anonymous No.1463059]

>>1462564
I never know how to map the vertical shafts. How do you really know when you've gone up one full screen, so it corresponds to one box on the paper?

[Anonymous No.1463081]

>>1463059
I always just guess. I usually count any door as one block and fudge the rest. Usually also update over time to make the accurate.

[Anonymous No.1464058]

>>1463059
>How do you really know when you've gone up one full screen
Focus your vision on an arbitrary tile at the top of the screen, then when that tile is offscreen you'll have traveled the length of the screen.

[Anonymous No.1464118]

>>1464058
I think there was some revolutionary war general who measured the width of a river using a similar method.

[Anonymous No.1466202]

>>1462564
Why are your lines so squiggly?
Michael is that you?

[Anonymous No.1466253]

>>1462564
Does /vr/ accept maps that weren't drawn on paper? I made this when I played Metroid II a few months ago.
>tfw it looks nothing like the actual map does

[Anonymous No.1466265]

>>1462492
haha wow thats pretty well made like that

[Anonymous No.1466318]

>>1466253
Metroid 2 is what inspired me to start working on a map-maker program that can run beside emus and other programs. It's nowhere yet though, since I've never actually programmed my own graphics stuff like this before.

[Anonymous No.1466562]

>>1462448

fucking casuals man, roll yourself into a ball and bomb yourself up a bit then un-ass-ball your shit.

[Anonymous No.1466567]

>>1466318

Metroid 2? Go to /v/ with that shit, this is /vr/.

I already had money in my 401(k) when you were dicking around with your god damned Metroid 2.

[Anonymous No.1466595]

>>1466567
I can't tell if this is a bad joke, or you're mistaking Metroid 2 for Metroid PRIME 2.

[Anonymous No.1466604]

>>1466567
dude, Metroid II is 23 years old.

[Anonymous No.1469253]

>>1462660

Are those supposed to be little Ridley and Kraids?

[Anonymous No.1469292]

>>1462564
Jesus Christ m8 have some pride in your work, use graph paper

[Anonymous No.1469297]

>>1462489
lold

[Anonymous No.1469769]

>>1464118
He made the river scroll offscreen?

[Anonymous No.1469785]

>>1462546
>played Metroid & Super Metroid for over 10 years
>never once thought of getting this energy tank by just freezing an enemy on the wall, always do some gay bomb jump/highjump/spacejump tricky bullshit as far as I remember
You have lifted a great pain from my soul, thank you.

[Anonymous No.1469793]

damn the original metroid was really fruity

[Anonymous No.1470869]

I'm not really a hardcore gamer. I've (re-)played and loved some essentials such as Alttp, Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, OoT and some other of the most famous games in those series (recent ones included).

My question is this: Will I be able to enjoy Metroid if it's my first NES game ever?

The lack of a map, limited shooting directions and starting off with 30 HP seems like a turn off for me. I've heard some criticism that the controls are stiff too.

On the other hand, the soundtrack is great, I love the NES graphics, drawing my own map sounds like fun, and I'm betting it'll feel really good when I finally finish the game.

I.. I dunno /vr/

;_;

[Anonymous No.1470880]

>>1470869
The original Metroid may actually have been my first NES game, back when Metroid Prime came out and the game was on the disc. And I loved it.

[Anonymous No.1470914]

>>1470869
>The lack of a map,
You can use the one from the manual to get a basic idea of how the first zones are built

>limited shooting directions
This isn't a big deal. At all.

>and starting off with 30 HP
Only really a problem in Ridley's Lair or if you die against Kraid.

>I've heard some criticism that the controls are stiff too.
Whoever says that has no idea what the word "stiff" means.
Castlevania 1-3 have stiff controls.
Ghosts 'n Goblins (NES) has stiff controls.
Metroid does not.

[Anonymous No.1470924]

>>1469292
are you blind nigga

[Anonymous No.1471094]

>>1470869

If you're emulating play the FDS version. You can frameskip past the loading screens so that's a non-issue.

The nicer sound effects and music make it totally worth it. Also give the enemies slightly more unpredictable patterns.

[Anonymous No.1471113]

>>1462527
IIRC, there are more energy tanks than you can actually carry. If you pick up one when you're already at max capacity, you get full health.