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Fan games are sorta intereting in that they occupy the space between rom hack and original game. Often using sprites from the original games, but using new engines.
Any worth playing? And more importantly, is there any attempt to archive all of them?
I'm enjoying Castlevania The Bloodletting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozlh9VboewU
>is there any attempt to archive all of them?
Nope, there is not.
>>3017331
> is there any attempt to archive all of them?
I wanted to, but there are so many fan games out there, I don't know which ones are worth archiving.
>>3017347
Yep, you do it first.
>>3017349
I'll plan on it. Once I get a new computer, and a new External. I doubt that an exhaustive list could be more than 1 TB. You could split them up into batches.
Quint's Revenge (Mega Man II GB Remade)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHn3WpzQ8yI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STmUaIEClmY
>>3017340
Just archive everything. That's the point of archiving.
Castlevania lecarde chronicles.
Best castlevania game ever ... even better than the real ones.
>>3017331
What kind of emulator would I need to play that?
>>3017331
Castlevania: Bloodletting would be a much better title.
some Mega Man fan games are plentiful (whether they are called megaman or are clones), some are pretty decent, notably the "demakes" of 7 and 8.
>>3017331
MFGG has an endless supply of Mario fangames, but a lot of them are made by children or young teenagers.
However, Psycho Waluigi is legitimately good.
>>3019925
Confirmed. I played this one to the end I loved it.
Better than recent Nintendo shit.
>>3017331
super metroid has some good hacks, and most of them break SMs aesthetic enough to be "new game" like.
can think of any off the top of my head though, and most of them require you to not be a filthy fucking casual as far as sm's mechanics go.
>>3017331
I fucking love fan games I always play any I can find and have kept a few of my favs on a portable hard drive my all time favorites are
Castlevania Sonata in Red an rpg maker game
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=IMkXuynqmM4
Metal Slug Resistance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpeZtPQUsjQ
a metal slug game made in beats of rage does not play like metal slug it takes a while to get used to but I loved it
Vampire Hunters a open bor castlevania game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrLBBGrFGkI
sonic after the Sequel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoisrT7g5bs
eggman hates furies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sh86I4vLeE
and I myself am programming a time crisis fan game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqnrCbtHzzc
Sonic before and after the sequel were amazing I had more fun with them than I had with any official sonic game in years
>>3021586
Sm hacks are usually walljump hell
>>3019737
Amen to that brother the Lecarde chronicles is ridiculously good why the hell he did not just call it something else and sell it I will never know
>>3022004
>sonic after the Sequel
This reminds me:
Sonic 3D
http://www.moddb.com/games/sonic-the-hedgehog-3d
Powered by EDuke32 Build Engine, it's a really great application of classic Sonic platforming into 3D. And I mean that, 3D Sonic games were nothing like previous Sonics, but this is to classic Sonic what Mario64 is to classic Mario.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIBEzepaTcQ
Tons of fun.
Anyone remember Mega Man 21XX?
Are there even any other completed X fan games out there? Other than that one that has been in development for like 90 years?
>>3026910
Oh hell YES!! This looks great downloading that right away
>>3019925
Psycho Waluigi was a lot of fun, would definitely recommend. For anyone wondering it's basically Wario meets Kirby. You enter levels with the Linate goal to collect coins, by using a psychics iris can pick up and throw enemies, or use their powers until they run out. No lives, you just lose money when you die.
Decently challenging without without ever getting romhack bullshit hard.
>>3022004
>>3022426
Posted this in another thread will repost for anyone curious:
The fangames Sonic: Before/After the Sequel are pretty dope. Although fair warning their more CD/3&K than 1/2, with a dash of Kirby. CD in that you can super peel out and all the music is MP3 (one of the composers for official Sonic called it amazing), 3&K in physics, stage layout (at times linear but exploration is possible) and Kirby in that occasionally you get powers (in Before when you enter the water stage you're given a non-loseble Bubble Shield with double jump, in After some levels have a Beam power for Sonic and Smirror for Tails, thanking their only forced on you for one level, oh and the Super Sonic ending zone is... Unique). Just don't play the third one, Chrono Adventure. It gets too heavy with the powers and has a story like an awful fanfic.
>>3026917
>Anyone remember Mega Man 21XX?
God, do I.
4 player Mega Man X.
I don't remember if it's any good but I remember playing the shit out of it and finding all the secret characters.
Super Mario Star Road is a work of art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn8mceu4V1k&index=3&list=PLiNC8EBtvi_GKnDWVp3CkmZiY8xHnsKgG
>>3017331
The bloodletting sucks ass and so do you for shilling it.
>>3022004
>Eggman hates furries
Just a Sonic themed boss-rush. Pretty impressive except
>That name
>That ending
Ruined. 0/10
>>3028375
>ending
Niger that was the best part. I fap everytime
I remember someone made system shock in rpgmaker for some reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEIOhtu7I-0
>>3026910
Download blocked. Bummer.
>>3028668
https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=87HSVoXsNqOA8Qehhq2gCw&gws_rd=ssl,cr&fg=1#q=sonic+the+hedgehog+3D
this looks bloody good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTNwrLmYOoo
I was coding some sort of Mega Man fangame where you can use the robot masters but i lost the code kek
>>3017331
I just downloaded CV Bloodletting and was very disappointed. It looks like CV, it sounds like CV. They obviously did their work and it shows. The problem is the underlying game. The biggest problem is with the level design. Already on stage 1 they have platforms that can only be accessed by backflipping off the edge of the previous platform, and not as special optional paths, but as the main required steps. I'm not against 'advanced' jumps, but having them as the crux of the game and as early as the first stage is just unprofessional. What's more, the enemy placements are not put together with any real thought. It's just "here's a bunch of bats" or "here's the obligatory zombie-spawning ruined foyer/hallway". As a result, there's none of the complex push-and-pull of managing your abilities against the enemies and environments that Classic CV always embodies. It feels more like the aimless enemy generation that permeates the symphony-style games, but shoved into the classic CV formula, making me wonder if the creator shouldn't have just done a Symphony-style game instead.
>>3029765 (cont)
The more mechanical issues come with how the characters are together. Things are very loose where they should be tight. The hitbox on the whip is a big one, I know that in some CVs you can damage enemies by hitting them with the 'top' of the whip in the animation that plays when you're about to send it outward. That's not a problem, but what is a problem is when you are in this animation, and a bat that's clearly above and in front of you gets hit. This problem extends to the whip attack itself as well, it's as if there's a huge aura of death around your whip which leads to enemies dying without even being touched by it. Sometimes you can even whip out one way, then instantly turn around (so fast that the whip doesn't extend outward to your original facing at all) and still you will hit an enemy that is where your whip would have been had you not turned around. The whole thing feels very sloppy, and when combined with the level designs just gives the game an unmistakeable air of amateurism. There are some minor bugs which I'm willing to overlook, but the inherent problems to the game itself are simply too much to bear.
I wanted to like Bloodletting a lot. The title screen is great. The opening cutscene, the beginning bridge segment, and the foyer entrance were fantastic. In every way it really looked and sounded like a lost mid-90's CV game. It's just unfortunate that after you get into it, the game quickly falls apart, and demonstrates that the creator, despite his clear passion, simply lacks an understanding of what makes the games so great to play. His heart is in the right place and his audiovisual talents are clearly there, he just needs to really study his level design and tighten up his mechanics.
>>3029765
Great review I would love to hear what you think about Castlevania lecarde chronicles.
>>3026910
So I tried that Sonic 3D. It controls like a 2D to 3D Sonic game but the level design feels wrongs. The way they are huge open zones makes it feel more like Sonic has been put in Mario 64. For that's what you expected than okay I guess, but I prefer Adventures more "linear with detours route". Something feels wrong about easily being able to end levels with over 100, sometimes 200 rings. The special stages just being tiny levels with lots of rings and non enemies were disappointing but probably a limitation of the engine.
The Mach speed segments are better than the trainwrecks from Adventure, although the technically without running on the walls and roof really they're impossible to fuck up. Boss fights are tedious, and feel impossible to win without taking damage, a big no no.
Perhaps the worst things are the short overall length, and the midi quality music. Seriously the one Sonic games are always got wrong even when everything else was wrong was the music. Should have just ripped some of Adventure's music, I mean they already did for the invincible tune.
>>3029471
This looks better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSSqXTOgNvI
>>3030813
Maldita Castilla is a MASTERPIECE I mean it. It is one of the best games I have ever played. I loved it so much I sent the creator £20
>>3033378
I know that feeling buddy, of course you could just use ripped sprites.
I made a rocket knight fan game once it was not very good you can play it here if you likehttp://www.mediafire.com/?628yulwtt4p5fzf
![a4_2[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/nM9nr2W.png "a4_2[1].png")
Well, it's not done yet, but AM2R is pretty good.
It's a remake of Metroid II, in the style of Metroid Zero Mission. There's a demo available that goes through a little bit more than half the game at this point, as well as a tech demo showcasing an earlier version of the engine that is basically it's own small game (Metroid: Confrontation.)
http://metroid2remake.blogspot.ca/
>>3026910
Reminds me of Sonic Robo Blast 2. If you're looking for a decent 3D Sonic fan game that plays similar to the genesis ones, I highly recommend it. It has online multiplayer and since it's based off of the doom engine it's very easily moddable. Also has a fair amount of secrets.
>>3034875
I started playing that after i finished the other 3D game and while mostly well designed (the Nights Supersonic levels are 10/10), it's so fucling slippery and hard to control - although that might only apply to Sonic. Also the music is disappointingly generic. Come on, Sonic Games = great music. It just had generic, Marioesque background midis.
>>303510
Sonic is slippery as fuck and makes the first few levels super easy, which makes the difficulty spike more apparent later in the game. Plus multiplayer racing levels become a huge thok fest if you use Sonic. Try the other characters,
I have just spent a week playing Castlevania lecarde chronicles I can't believe how good it is, why is everyone not talking about this it is an incredibly well made game huge levels gorgeous graphics nothing but custom sprites nothing ripped. I got to the castle figured that would be the end of the game and I found out I was only half way in I can not recommend this game enough.
I enjoy this one more than the Pang/Buster Bros. games.
>>3036723
>Castlevania lecarde chronicles
this looks awesome
>>3036978
it is.
PLAY IT NOW
I am making this time crisis fan game should I continue with it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqnrCbtHzzc
>>3038254
come on guys I can't decide if I should carry on with this project
>>3034549
>It's a remake of Metroid II, in the style of Metroid Zero Mission.
I have not much enthusiasm for this because I actually like Metroid II. Not to say I'd necessarily mind it being enhanced or remade, but I feel like the sentiment is that it's this shit game that needs to be "fixed" by turning it into Super Metroid.
How is it anyway?
this is a cool looking castlevania/contra hybrid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQL8CNjCJLs
>>3017331
Are all those backgrounds ripped from other games?
>>3040792
yes
I remember playing a chaotix themed sonic fangame back in the day. You could play espio (I think that's the chameleons name? Don't remember) and the others. Also don't remember if it is really any good, but was fun to me like 10 years ago
>>3039475
Maybe it's not about "fixing" it, it's just that Zero Mission was a "new age" remake of the original, and they author things II deserves the same. Ya know, improve a things that were only created by limitations of old hardware, like 4 colours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAJ6ZPgArak
This is cool youtube channel where he talks about a different fan game every Friday today he is talking about sonic overture which looks pretty fucking sweet
>>3042938
>Sonic Overture
Hm...
>Prequel to original Sonic
Alright...
>Eggman mining "phossil" fuel
Um, okay, a bit unsubtle but whatever...
>Based on prototype material
Oh god yes.
>Sonic is being followed by a mysterious character (image of some original character donotsteel)
God fucking damnit why?
>>3042938
I hate that channel... Fucking cancer... The guy always shout: excuuuusmeeee
>>3043015
the mysterious character is the original prototype for sonic all the stuff in the game is based on the old unused concept for the original sonic game basically it is a sonic version of epic Mickey
>>3042938
>it's the exact same shit as sonic 1 but with slightly better art
Meh, nostalgiafags are pathetic, I still liked what they did with freedom planet better even if the story was cringeworthy.
By the way those loop de loops are a waste of time, in a normal playthrough you'd want to avoid those. They should at least put some rings in it to make them less pointless.
>>3043043
Who, the Rabbit called Feel who is more a prototype of Ristar/Cream? Or the giant monkey who plays guitar in Sonic's band? Or maybe the giant chicken who sings in his band? It can't be the crocodile, he clearly became Vector. Maybe it's the wolf wearing an American t-shirt? Or the bulldog? Or maybe it's the weird Sonic with a human face? Or maybe the guy that looks like a fat, adult Bart Simpson? Maybe one of the generic knights that look like they belong in Project Dream? Or even maybe that weird shitty "totally not you" nerd Sonc from the comics where Amy (sorry, "Eri") came from?
Is Eggman gonna also be wearing his Pajamas the entire game? Is Sonic gonna engage in some nice unsettling, uncanny valley romance with Madonna too?
None of this is relevant. It's all cutting room floor development garbage. Oswald was actually in shit before Mickey. He was just a sketch they decided against using.
I Don't understand how people can be so negative when it comes to fan games, even the simplest game takes forever to make. The fact people can spend countless hours of their free time on something they can't sell
>>3017331
What game did they rip the backgrounds from? The backgrounds in OP's picture look cool as fuck.
>>3043791
Rondo of Blood, I think
I remember having a lot of fun with sonic nebulous despite the fact it has the ugliest art style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4t5cOQFcZs
>>3045725
This is horrible, I love it.
>>3043114
>Is Eggman gonna be in his Pajamas the entire game?
Play the demo anon, maybe you'll be surprised :^)
>>3045725
Fuck man, that art-style, all those characters including community OCs, based on the dark American cartoon, they way the camera keeps feet oriented to the floor, the way most of the characters are completely broken, that drawn in resolution, that generic music...
It's like they were trying to make the worst fan-game ever? It anything about that game redeemable?
>>3047017
For all its many flaws you can tell it was a work of love it must of taken forever to draw all those ugly sprites
>>3048017
Thanks buddy, you work so long on something you can't tell if it is good or not
>>3048007
Honestly it's probably just the lack of colour. Sonic had always been a vibrant series, with the 3 mains being bright primary colours. Then you get this game and it's all grey and brown, any colour is heavily darkened.
>>3049045
Unfortunately I kinda suck at art lol but I will definitely start brightening things up
>>3049362
What did you make it? Can you also make the camera not reorientate so legs are always down? That's just dizzying.
You do realize, most of these are rom hacks, not fan games.
>>3054915
You're wrong. But here's a (You) anyways for bumping the thread.
>>3038791
Huge Time Crisis fan here, looks fun as hell, can't wait to see/play it. NEVER GIVE UP
>>3056281
THANK YOU
I worked out a way to play it with a lightgun useing a wiimote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCUuw8Ot9yM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFStIBtgOdo
Super Mario fusion was a great fan game
http://www.fusiongameworks.net/smf/index.php?board=2.0
you all sould try super mario fusion it is massive
>>3043114
Holy christ, take a pill
