So, I've settled on a name for my hack, I'm gonna call it Mega Man 2: Revenge of Samus Aran. The story is that Samus is fighting Dr. Wily, when he shoots her with a weapon that impairs her suit. It disables her armor upgrades and missiles, stops her from being able to permanantly keep Energy Tanks, and stops her from being able to somersault. Being the vengeful woman she is, she sets out to defeat Dr. Wily in combat, and force him to undo the effects of the weapon. She is also helped out by Dr. Light, who equips her armor with a copy chip, allowing her to absorb the Robot Master's powers.

So far I have an idea for the levels. I want to make the levels a twisted version of what they are, and have reskinned Robot Masters to reflect that. For example, I want Wood Man's stage to be on fire when you enter the level, and the boss is Fire Man from Mega Man 1. I will probably keep Wood Man's attack patterns, and the Leaf Shield, and just rename it the Flame Wheel (A nod to one of my favorite fire-type moves in Pokémon). Another level idea is that Heat Man's level is in a hydroelectric dam, the lava is replaced with electric water, and Elec Man is the boss. Are these ideas good? Is the story good too? I'm looking for feedback on this.

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Thank you for being so helpful Model FZx! I do want to finish my level ideas first though. here's another level idea: originally I wanted to add an 8-bit version of "Airman Ga Taosenai" (or "I Can't Defeat Airman) to Airman's level, but it wouldn't really fit to well with the normal style. I then thought about adding tiles to the background to make it dark and rainy, like Toad Man's level, just without the wind. The dark and rainy style would probably fit better with the theme.

Also, Insectduel, I can't use YY-CHR sadly, I am currently using a tablet to hack stuff. I am going to learn ASM to make up for having limited utilities to work with.

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Okay, sorry for the double post, but after thinking things through very VERY carefully, I've decided that Mega Man: Revenge of Samus Aran will be a Mega Man 6 hack. I will have to make a Samus sprite sheet 2.0, but it will be worth it. here are the things that made me choose MM6 instead.

-Multiple characters. I can have Zero-Suit Samus AND Mega Man playable, each with advantages over normal Samus.

-Slide and Charge Beam. I feel Samus should have the Charge Beam, and I can probably modify the slide into being a decent Morph Ball. Zero-Suit Samus and Mega Man will still slide though.

-Branching paths. Something I wanted for my hack, but couldn't pull off in Mega Man 2.

-The plate collecting. I will make it so that every level has a hidden boss, but it will be different than the normal boss in the level. Getting all eight plates will give an epic bonus.

-The game automatically loads the enemy graphics, so no junk graphics when placing enemies in different levels.

I want this hack to be the RockMan 4: Minus Infinity of Mega Man 6 hacks.

Actually, screw that, when this is finished, I want RockMan 4: Minus Infinity to WISH it was the Mega Man: Revenge of Samus Aran of Mega Man 4 hacks.

Edit: Sorry for being kinda annoying in switching the game I want to hack, but I'm not switching again. Mega Man 6 probably has an insane amount of hacking potential just waiting to be harnessed.

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I'm gonna sprite her in 8-bit. I will be doing weapon get sprites, as well as the cutscenes. Normal Samus will be the one in the cutscenes and get weapon sprites, not Zero-Suit Samus, though.

I have some cool ideas. I want Zero Suit Samus to be quicker with better jumping skills, but she takes one bar more of damage than normal Samus or Mega Man. Basically, Zero Suit Samus would be a speed-runner's character of choice.

There will be two DIFFERENT bosses in every level, and every character will have their own seperate powers they gain from the Robot Masters, making sixteen upgrades for each character.

Mega Man will have use of sixteen different powers from Mega Man 1-5, with no weapons that are clones of each other, like having both Skull Wheel AND Leaf Shield.

Samus will get upgrade to her armors by beating bosses. She will get upgrades like Morph Ball Bombs, High-Jump Boots, Spring Ball, and Missiles. She will also get three different beams, the Ice, Wave, and Plasma beams.

-The Ice beam freezes enemies, making them temporarily harmless.
-The Wave Beam has a larger spread than the others, but you can only have to wave shots on-screen at a time.
-The Plasma Beam does twice the damage of other beams, but you can only have two beams onscreen at a time.

The beams will not use extra ammo, they are simply different ways to play the game.

Zero-Suit Samus... I'm not... quite sure what special abilities to give her. I'm thinking of giving her the auto-charging pistol from Zero Mission, the charging will be represented by a empty gauge filling up next to the energy gauge.

I'm also thinking of giving her an energy whip, give her a sort of Castlevania feel when using it, also I would make it possible to aim up and down as well as left and right.

I also want to have her energy sword be there, for some Zero-styled gameplay, just like the later Mega Man X games. Her pistol is a very multi-purpose weapon, I want to reflect that in her gameplay.

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