Rockman Basics
Rockman Basics is a Rockman hack. Modified Rockman game, that has
the same engine as Rockman 1, but new stages and new challenges.
Design priorities
- Eye-pleasing
- Improve the themes of the original game, but not replace them
- Avoid newbie level design caveats
- Practical cost (not trying to do too much work)
- Game that requires knowledge of the
game glitches
in order to be fully enjoyable
- Not frustrating to play
- An exercise of NES hacking and programming for the author
Glitches
The Nesvideos website
maintains a page called
Rockman Tricks, which lists some quirks inherent in the Rockman games.
Knowledge of those quirks will be strongly recommended for playing this game.
Creativity is encouraged.
The exact balance between "requires" and "recommends" is yet disputed.
The author doesn't want to make this into a puzzle, but...
Work in progress
Files
Screenshots
Ps: Work in progress. This is not all. Many things will change.
Some pictures and files are from testing versions only.
Timeline
It will probably be published in Spring 2006
Winter 2007 {$unknown_date}. ;)
Authors
Distributing
Source code
The source code of the hack will not be available before publication,
but following source code is available:
- Rockedit - the level editor
used (and made specially) for this hack
- Mega Man source code
- commented disassembly of the Rockman 1 ROM and of the music player
used in Mega Man 1 and Mega Man 2
- Nescom - the NES assembler
used (and made specially) for this hack
Testing versions
Beta and testing versions are currently given only to a few trusted persons.
Downloading
When it's ready, it'll be available here as an IPS patch file.
