Metroid II gets remade by a fan |
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BY Se Ajala March 22nd, 2008 |
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Metroid II: Return of Samus is getting a full blown remake from a fan in Argentina who, going by the handle DoctorM64, has recreated the entire game using Game Maker 7. For those of you who may not remember, Metroid II was originally a GameBoy title, so this is quite a feat considering that the original game is pretty much monochrome. DoctorM64 put a lot and time into this “fan-make” (3 years to be exact), while he used some elements and stages from Metroid: Fusion for the GBA, he actually had to re-draw some of the designs and enemies to keep the game in line with the original.
He’s released a demo and a trailer for the game, and he’s put up a blog to chronicle his trials and tribulations of designing the game. Now that this has been released to the public he’s not even sure how long it’s going to last before he gets the call from Nintendo’s well paid lawyers to shut his operation down. So hurry! You can try the game over at YoYo Games (and don’t miss Part I of the interview Zee did with YoYo’s CEO).
March 22nd, 2008
at 5:51 am
Hopefully Nintendo doesn’t shut them down. I mean this guy is just showing his apprecation to the Creative Artform called video games.
March 22nd, 2008
at 2:56 pm
Me too, this looks really good and the guy put a lot of time and effort into it. But you know how it is when you make it public. I’m sure somebody is snitching to Nintendo right now as we speak.
April 2nd, 2008
at 5:19 am
You wrote “while he used some elements and stages from Metroid: Fusion for the GBA” but it’s not “some”, all the graphics except for some Metroid 2 enemy colorizations and edits are simply direct rips from Metroid: Fusion and Zero Mission. You should give credit to Nintendo for making them instead of acting like this guy made them. Have you even PLAYED Metroid:Fusion or Zero Mission? If you had, you wouldn’t be so confused.
April 7th, 2008
at 5:45 pm
And you should maybe calm down and stop reading into things so “literally” and maybe try looking at the context, as in some being a mixture of both.
Just a suggestion.
April 7th, 2008
at 5:47 pm
I don’t like being attacked anonymously especially when I clearly wrote:
“DoctorM64 put a lot and time into this “fan-make” (3 years to be exact), while he used some elements and stages from Metroid: Fusion for the GBA, he actually had to re-draw some of the designs and enemies to keep the game in line with the original