Originally posted by Imajin

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I thought of doing this once... one major problem I had was discovering new areas- I suppose if you could find a way to make the fireflower permanent, that would be a start, as you could melt blocks and discover that way... however, you'd definately need more than that, look how many weapons Metroid has after all...

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Originally posted by FirePhoenix0

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You'd need to dump most of the Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion and Metroid Zero Mission graphics, plus probably make some of your own for areas that haven't been featured in a Metroid game.

For the Laser Mario idea, I suggest contacting KPhoenix. He just created a Laser Suit power-up for Mario.

For just plain moving around, you'll probably have to hack the physics of the game a little. You can either go for the "floaty" feel in SM and MF or you can choose the more natural drop in MZM. Also, you'll need to change it for sure if you plan on adding a Hi-Jump item of sorts.

I'm definitely interested in this and if you decided to go with it and make this a team effort, I'd be happy to help. Metroid is my favorite series and I've always wanted to create a Metroid game in some way.

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• Using the overworld as a map. You'd go into a special room (mainly so the effects of reloading the level aren't so noticeable) and do something to "show the map", which would actually exit back to the overworld. You could choose how the map works: A, make it truly just a map; there's no way to move between levels, but you can use Start to browse. B, make it a teleporter, where you can choose a destination and jump to it; essentially just like SMW, except you could get from any point in the game to any other without ever using the map since it's all connected as one big level. You could have save points here too, possibly by hacking the save prompt routine to show a prompt after every level, so you'd be prompted to save every time you view the map. Only big issue is the music would change, killing the "just viewing a map" feel, but that's probably easy to avoid. Of course you'd need to disable 2-player mode, but could use custom blocks to switch Mario and Luigi for a 2-player coop game. (For 1-player mode, just tell the player to unplug controller 2. The game uses controller 1 for both if #2 is not present.)
  
• Building on this, submaps could be smaller planets or something.
  
• Obviously there'd be no time limit, but the timer could be invoked at any time if you wanted a time limit for certain parts, EG if you need to escape from an exploding space station. You enable the timer by just setting the current time limit to nonzero, but I'm not sure how you turn it back off without killing the player.
  
• FPS-like powerup selection. You can have many powerups but only use one or two at a time depending which they are. (EG you could use the cape and fireballs at the same time, but not fireballs and lasers.)

Originally posted by The 13th Prodigy

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Seperations:
Fire Mario, Feather Mario, (Laser Mario), 4 Switch Palaces, Renzor, Big Boo, 7 Koopa Kids, On/Off switch, locked doors

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Originally posted by The 13th Prodigy

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I'd be really happy with your help, is there a particular time you can talk about this on like IM or something, or should I just PM you?

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Originally posted by Imajin

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find a way to make the fireflower permanent

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