Anyone seen this? On Monday, a new NES game was released via RetroUSB.com. It's a physical NES cart, not a ROM image to use on an emulator, and it was coded from scratch, it isn't a ROM hack. The gameplay is pretty much a straight cross between Mega Man and I Wanna Be The Guy. It was actually inspired heavily by IWBTG, as you can instantly tell by the main character's sprite. Believe it or not, IWBTG fan games have become its own little genre in itself.
Here's a trailer he put together a couple months ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnxdgzQB_ps
link to the demo, in ROM format:
http://www.nintendoage.com/media/_usermedia/attachments/BK-demo1.zip
Link to the game on RetroUSB:
http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=86
I'm not affiliated, nor am I trying to spam links or anything, I just wanted to share in case anyone else at PA is like me, and still reeaaalllyyyy enjoys retro gaming, has an ambitious growing NES collection, and thinks Mega Man 10 will be a total goty contender XD .. I ordered mine on Monday, still haven't gotten it... I live in NY and it looks like it's coming from CA. I'm impatient -_-
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Enough to meet demand, I assume. There are other homebrewed Nintendo games at RetroUSB that have been sold for years. If you mean you want to know its total sales, so do I.
I hang out at the site/IRC chat where games like this are developed. I've been (slowly) working on my own NES game as well. It's pretty challenging and fun.
Although Sivak has been marketing it pretty strongly to the collector crowd, attended conventions with the demo, that sort of thing. Weird people like me who listen to chiptunes.
I don't think I'll be buying it though because I always found Megaman difficult as it was, and IWTBTG is just ridiculous. I wouldn't find it fun, as admirable as it is.
Now these projects, I can really get behind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFoBdeLDVc8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb9GzcHtdzU
The active dumping/hosting community is mostly tied into this scene and will honor the fact that the game's still being sold. The rest of the sites that host these probably don't maintain their NES sections anymore, or are uninterested in unofficial Nintendo games.
I doubt you could find dumps of many of the other games sold at RetroUSB, simply because it's low profile. However if this game achieves a high enough profile, then you're right. Playing the game isn't the point of the cart - it's more to support the creator and for collecting.
I know from talking with the owner of RetroUSB that there is an exclusivity contract so the creator doesn't release a ROM and cannibalize his own sales. Depending on the situation I would hope you could release the ROM after six months to a year of physical cart sales, that's what I'd want to do anyway. A lot of people don't have working NESs anymore and I'd want people to be able to play it.
Apparently I didn't see it at NWR. I saw it somewhere but can't remember.
The spike balls are very close, but really, how many different ways are there to draw spike balls?
My NES will be happy to have it's first shiny new game in years. :P
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I kind of meant that in terms of layout rather than actual sprites used. The one bit with the platforms that sequentially appear and disappear. I remember it being in at least one MM game. Anyway, I can see it more as a homage than plagiarism. It doesn't bother me.
Cool factoid, though.
I mean, you can only make jumping from platform to platform so hard and then you have to do things like make the platforms disappear and move around.
It's been sold out several times already.
The first 30 or so copies sent out were accidentally unfinished prototype versions from last year. Whoops...
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I won't say it's being sold at cost, but there is not really a lot of profit being made. This game doesn't even have SRAM (battery backed up save), that would be $50-$60.
I ordered Battle Kid last night.
But yeah, good game. Very impressive for being made almost entirely by one man. Good music too.