Posted by NetSplit

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Making the black at the bottom be foreground is not a correct solution. Backgrounds on the NES are not drawn in front of or behind sprites; instead, sprite tiles carry with them a priority that makes them be drawn in front of or behind the background. If you made the black a non-transparent color and made the ship be drawn behind backgrounds, it would also be drawn behind the buildings, which is certainly not what you want.

There are two correct solutions here that preserve the black bar. You can turn off sprites entirely starting after the last non-black scanline, but the timing for this may be difficult and it's possible you could get some onscreen glitchiness. Or, you can place 8 sprite tiles on each row of the black section with a draw priority higher than the ship so that the ship isn't drawn on those rows. Note, however, that many emulators allow the user to turn off this 'feature', which would negate your work, so the first solution is probably more likely to work. For reference, Zelda 1 uses the 8 tile trick to make Link invisible when walking through north or south dungeon doors, and that emulator feature breaks this trick. If the number of tiles you need for this is too much, you could do just one row and change how the ship comes onscreen (having its tiles not be drawn if they're below that row, so it appears row by row), or you could cut the required tiles in half by switching to 8x16 sprite mode.

Edit: Fixed an omitted word.

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Posted by kuja killer

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Afraid not, must be re-written from the beginning.
When i did that in 2006, he floated up about halfway up the screen until actually teleporting up..

So fixed that, here
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English version:

3A1B7 - 20 85 F4
3A231 - 89
3F495 - 9D E0 05 A5 22 C9 02 F0 01 60 BD 20 05 C9 3C F0 0A FE 20 05 68 68 A9 8A 4C 35 F8 BD C0 05 C9 99 F0 08 A9 99 20 35 F8 FE A0 05 60
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Japanese version:

3A195 - 20 85 F4
3A20F - 89
3F495 - 9D E0 05 A5 22 C9 02 F0 01 60 BD 20 05 C9 3C F0 0A FE 20 05 68 68 A9 8A 4C 35 F8 BD C0 05 C9 99 F0 08 A9 99 20 35 F8 FE A0 05 60
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If you want to change how long he stays as breakman,
then test out 3F4A3 (both versions).

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Posted by Zieldak

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Also. I've doing some research while hacking.
Why Breakman transforms in Geminiman's stage? If the player completes that stage, and goes to Magnetman, he isn't transformed here. Ain't it odd? I think the creators originally wanted to transform Protoman into Breakman on Doc Gemini stage! Why? Protoman doesn't appear on any other Doc stages, only after them, already transformed for the battle! This should be happened on Doc Gemini not on the normal stage! And you know, CAPCOM DIDN'T EVEN FINISH THE FIRST PART OF THE STAGE! The fights on robot master stages are really odd too if he should be Breakman after that stage, not just Proto. You know what I mean.

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