Startropics Legends

[Osmose]

Yup. I'm making a game. Or, at least, attempting to. Don't expect me to finish it or anything like that

Anyway, it's also a fangame. Yes, a fangame. Throw paper at me if you want, but it's a fangame. Although based on a game practically no one has heard of, it's still a fangame.

Aaaaaaaaaanywho, SL is basically an RPG version of Startropics and Startropics 2 - Zoda's Revenge. The main character of the game is Mike, who goes to visit his Uncle, a scientist working in the tropic islands, specifically C-Isle. When he finally reaches the island, however, he learns that his uncle has been abducted by ALIENS! Armed with nothing a but a Yo-yo the island natives give him, Mike sets out on a crazy adventure to save his Uncle and defeat the evil invaders from beyond the stars.

For the sake of lazyness, I will be using ripped sprites from Star Tropics and Zoda's Revenge, and so I'd like to thank the wonderful guys at Nintendo for making them for me

As a treat, Below is a picture of the title screen along with the title music. One of the reasons I'm making it in RMXP is support of mp3s. I've decided to take the music from Startropics and spifferize it into small mp3s. It won't be TOO big, since it's NES music and only replacing it with more advanced instruments, and even so, you weenies not willing to download such a big file don't deserve to play it.

BAH! CAN'T FIND A DAMN PLACE TO UPLOAD THIS!

[AsakuraHao2004]

Why is the copywright date 1990?

[Osmose]

Because that's when Nintendo made it.

[dragoninja]

Lol! was that really hard to guess?

[AsakuraHao2004]

I thought that you'd edit the title to say 2005 because it's when your making your game.

[White Dwarf]

....nice...*throws paper*

um..RMxp? we aint allowed to use that.....so you cant have a thread about a ame your makeing on the Rmxp.....can you? and im sure RM2K3 lets you use mp3's...i know my version does.....

[Osmose]

Oh, we can have a thread if we want. I just can't request anything.

And RMXP also has the front faxing battle thing, another reason why.

[White Dwarf]

i thought we couldent talk about it...

[Dragonium]

Originally posted by White Dwarf
....nice...*throws paper*

um..RMxp? we aint allowed to use that.....so you cant have a thread about a ame your makeing on the Rmxp.....can you? and im sure RM2K3 lets you use mp3's...i know my version does.....

Do you use a patch or something? My version won't let me use MP3s.

[DragonBlaze]

Yeah, you need a newer version of rm2k3 to play mp3's. I think version 1.08 is the newest, so I suggest getting that. To update your rm2k3 you need to download a small patch file, I don't know where to get them though.

I'm pretty sure we can *talk* about rmxp, just no links or requests or anything like that. Remember there are "legal" versions of rmxp out there, and as far as anyone knows, the game is going to be made with a legal version.

[barnsalot]

I remember star tropics!
It was one of my favorite games back in the day. Will you be keeping the ATB used in the originals or the DBS?

I look forward to being able to play your new game Moose. Good luck!

[dragoninja]

The game sound ok... only, I've never played it before... I've heard of it though
(the real game, not the fan game)

[Enduo_Ril]

Wow.. someone's making a Startropics fangame...

I wonder... are you leaving the code thing in one part (which originally came from the "letter" in the game box.. you had to run water over part of the paper to see the number, and all that, heh) the same, or will there be some way to find it in-game so people who never played the original (or did, but can't remember the number.. and unfortunately the paper's been gone for a LONG time...) can get past that part?

[Osmose]

In game. Having it not ingame would be funny, and just, but cruel

And I'm going with an RPG type battling system. I mean, why put an ABS? It's not going to be a friggen clone, just an RPG version

[Osmose]

Wow, how'd this fall all the way down here already? Anyway, here's some screenshots. I've been spending most of my time playing through Startropics 1, both to refresh my memory and to get a feel of how I'm going to do this.

I haven't started on any of the islands yet, because I'm going to have to go through all of Startropics 2 just to rip the improved C-Island sprites for use in the Startropics 1 part of the game, but in the meantime, I've gotten to work on the desert part. I've already got a nifty theme for it done, and you can listen to it at http://tinyurl.com/4shjn

Anyway, here are two screenshots of what I've got done so far.