Originally posted by Dragonsbrethren

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Jigglysaint: That sounds great, looks like I won't have to worry about limiting myself too much... hmm, maybe I should start planning something now, I have a basic map I made when I was still planning on hacking Super Metroid.

interdpth: Looks great! I'm really looking forward to this

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Originally posted by zhaDe

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My editor is not really more helpful than a hex editor it only displays the bytes of one object per line.

if you are looking into changing enemies, the object type for enemies is 03 (not all 03 type objects are enemies tho..) for example the first enemy in the game is :

1E50B0 : 03 B0 04 08 01 98 8B 60

the 4th byte is the kind of enemy, 08 is for that round purple enemy with a canon on the head

Jigglysaint: 00 is used mostly for items like heart tanks, doors, teleporters, and the sprite that makes zero go bye-bye in the level. 01 I haven't figured out yet. 02 is used for scrolling, enemy gfx swapping, and tells the game to load areas with breakable walls and stuff. 03 is for enemies, including bosses and the sprite that sets up the Light Capsules.

the 5th byte is a tag depending on the kind of enemy, for example if 4th byte is 08 and 5th byte is 01 the purple enemy can jump around instead of only standing still

For things like heart tanks and sub tanks, the 5th byte are bitflags, each representing a level. For example, the heart tank in Blast Hornet's stage has the tag of 01, and Neon Tiger's is 80.

you can try to change the 4th byte to get different enemies but be sure the enemy is normally in the same level or else the graphic will be corrupted because the game only loads the graphics and pallettes of the needed ennemies for a level.

Jigglysaint: I covered that, sprites change what graphics are loaded. For example, you can't have a heart tank and a light capsule on the same screen, as they occupy the same graphics on the sheet.

I only know another enemy, 0B, its the second enemy encontered in the game that green thing which crawls on walls and shoots plasma or something like that.

Jigglysaint: I know several more, including bosses. It's interesting to note that a boss can't be in a different level than it's supposed to be or else it just lets you exit the level and get the weapon.

I have made a new version of my object editor ( the old one had tons of bugs.. ), I also added a level map display which shows the room arrangement but it is still incomplete.

~ et en passant ! c'est qui le 3e ?

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Originally posted by AlexAR

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"Looks at screenshots...drools." There is just absolutely no way for anyone looking at these to not get a smile from ear to ear.

Couple questions / features I would love to see:

Any way of seeing the background or enemies along with the room objects?

Instead of just choosing a "Room Number", can you just choose the room from a graphic of the entire map?..like Metedit..

Also, like in Metedit, can you create a new and/or edit the map layout?

Item power-ups..any sort of support for those?

Your previous header program did this right?..being able to change tilesets/music/enemies types without having to transition to a different area (Brinstar to Norfair)

Palette support?

Superb job interdpth.

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