New NES overlays

meleu

@meleu do you have any advice for a newbie that wants to play through Mega Man 1 for the first time?

Advice #1

Look at yourself in the mirror and repeat 3 times: "I am a tough guy!" There's no E-tank in this game. And no passwords. If you want to beat the game you have to play from the start (oh! I'm assuming you use retroachievements and hardcore mode enabled. If you use savestates you don't have to be that tough.)

Advice #2

Train your memory. Those parts where there are blocks appearing and disappearing demand a good memory. :-)

Advice #3

There's a "bug" in this game that you can use to your advantage when facing bosses. You know those fractions of a second after the boss take a hit, he becomes invulnerable and blinks? Well, if you hit the boss and immediatly press select (pause) the boss blinks for those fractions of a second and becomes vulnerable again. Yes, it happens even with the game paused!

I mean, if you shoot quickly and pause immediately after the boss is hit, wait a second and unpause, your next shot will cause damage again! And if you do it when using the Elecman's weapon it's a guarantee of success!

OK... It's cheating, but maybe you like to have this ace up your sleeve when facing the Yellow Devil. :-)

backstander

@meleu

OK... It's cheating, but maybe you like to have this ace up your sleeve

That is a crazy bug! Thanks for the tips! I'll see how frustrating the bosses are and as a last resort I might use this...ahem...bug.

UDb23

@meleu said in New NES overlays:

making a cool image with the original Mega Man boxart can be challenging. :-)

and here comes the overlay!!!

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Used Japanese Box art... therefore used same style for the logo as original Rockman...but says Mega man ;-)

If anybody dares to ask for the US box art... they'll get a downvote from me :-))

meleu

@UDb23 Nicely done!!

Just a small request, if I'm not daring to much... Could you change the Roll image with a Mega Man one?

No, it's not a case of misogyny! I love girls! :-) It's because Roll just appeas very briefly during the ending of the game...

Maybe this image inspired in the original Rockman title screen:

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meleu

Fun fact: in the original Japanese version, some names are music-related. For example, Dr. Light created Rock and Roll. :-)

update: also, Proto in Japanese version is Blues.

UDb23

@meleu sure, I'll replace Roll ;-)

UDb23

@UDb23 Overlay updated. Good thing with posting linked images is... that they update with no need to edit post.

Let me know if it's ok for you.

meleu

@UDb23 Looks great! I'll post a screenshot when I have time. Thanks!

meleu

@UDb23 The rom config file for Mega Man overlay sets video_scale_integer = "true" and it looks like this:

I commented the video_scale_integer line and it seems to look better:

Both screenshots with lr-fceumm.

UDb23

@meleu scale integer should not be there (not for this game)
Delete or comment provides right layout as you already found out.
As previously said I should not "patch around" with overlay images late at night ;-)
Fixed.

UDb23

Mega Man 5 complete Art Pack now available:

@meleu: as promised ;-)

Overlay
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Launching Image
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ES "Scrape" image
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Have fun!

meleu

@udb23 about 3 weeks ago I was trying to write a kind of "cheevos scraper" (discussion in this thread) but got distracted hunting cheevos for Mega Man 3 and 4. After beating Mega Man 4 i restarted the work on the cheevos-scraper. And now you throw this Mega Man 5 art here!!!

They look awesome! The launching art is so beautiful!

The temptation to dive into Mega Man 5 cheevos hunting is big, but I will try to finish the cheevos scraper first. I think I can release something in a week and then it will be @pjft turn to make it useful for EmulationStation. :-)

@UDb23 Thanks again for this artwork!!