Rockman level editor

This program reads a Megaman 1 ROM and patches it to become a hacked game.

All the level edits are hardcoded into the program. This is Bisqwit's pet project.

• To provide a text based framework for creating a Rockman hack with new levels.
• To put the engine details behind. The user is not required to have knowledge of a "tile squaroid assembler". TSA blocks are generated automatically from the level description. Whatever can be solved algorithmically, will be done so. Background graphics are automatically generated.

How would you edit levels without graphics? Here's how. This is an example screen from the game. Can you recognize where?

    {
    "..............|="   "                "
    "..............|="   "                "
    "..............|="   "                "
    "..............|="   "                "
    ".......======##="   "  ee            " /* e=small energy */
    "..==.........##."   "                "
    "..........===##="   "                "
    "......=....==##="   "                "
    "............=##="   "                "
    ".............##."   "                "
    ".....=.......##="   "            P   " /* P=big weapon refill */
    "...........==##="   "                "
    "=============##="   "v     v         " /* v=spread cannon in floor*/
    ".............##."   "                "
    "=============##="   "                "
    ".............##="   "                "
    , 0 // monster graphics index
    ,Up}, // where the path continues

The commented disassembly of the game ROM is available at http://bisqwit.iki.fi/jutut/megamansource/.

It is updated occassionally, when I need to clarify something for myself.

rockedit has been written by Joel Yliluoma, a.k.a. Bisqwit,
and is distributed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL).

Note: This program is only available as C++ source code on these pages. To run the program, you need a C++ compiler to compile it. To make your own edits, you need to have some programming understanding in order to edit the proper files in a proper way.

The official home page of rockedit is at http://iki.fi/bisqwit/source/rockedit.html.
Check there for new versions.