Nintendo Power Style Maps for Mega Man 9

[jbanes]

Remember how Nintendo Power used to publish maps of NES games? i.e. The ones were they stitched together the screens to make a contiguous whole? Well, I recently bumped across an artist who was attempting to recreate these sorts of maps with Mega Man 9. After some negotiation, he allowed me to publish these maps.

 

We\'re currently aiming to publish one map per day. So check back here daily for the latest updates. And if you\'re interested in helping to get the word out about this great work, please friend the WiiNode user on Digg and I\'ll make sure you get shout-outs about map updates.

 

Happy gaming!

 

List of Available Maps

Edited October 2, 2008 by jbanes

[Reaperman]

hmmmm....

so I wonder how hard it would be to hack that into megaman 6.

 

no reason.

[jbanes]

so I wonder how hard it would be to hack that into megaman 6.

You mean create a DHTML based Mega Man? That wouldn't be too hard. And can be done a lot better than sliding an image around like the little viewer I created.

 

As it so happens, I did a bunch of experiments a few years back to create games with sliding areas like this. While it worked fairly well, it didn't take long for the CANVAS tag to come along and make my experiments obsolete. These days you can make a web-based video game fairly easily. e.g.:

 

http://java.dnsalias.com/tetris/

 

(IE sucks, so that won't work in IE. However, you can preview my CANVAS-compatibility library at http://java.dnsalias.com/tetris/ie/. Just make sure you click outside the falling block area so that the keyboard events are read.)

[Reaperman]

so I wonder how hard it would be to hack that into megaman 6.

You mean create a DHTML based Mega Man? That wouldn't be too hard. And can be done a lot better than sliding an image around like the little viewer I created.

Actually I was thinking of the standard NES romhack. I really think it's sad that they took all the time to make a new 8-bit looking game, and not bother to release it on the system.

[jbanes]

Actually I was thinking of the standard NES romhack. I really think it's sad that they took all the time to make a new 8-bit looking game, and not bother to release it on the system.

I think someone did at least start this. I can't find them right now, but there were some alternative maps out there I found. One of the commentators mentioned that the maps did not appear to be from Mega Man 9, but a romhack designed to look like Mega Man 9. Presumably, the enemies were missing from the map because they had not yet been implemented.

 

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BTW, I updated the viewer with the Jewel Man upload. Zooming and jumping to tips should be smoother now. Let me know if you see any issues with the viewer or the maps themselves.

[jbanes]

Ok, the list of maps is complete for the time being. I'm still expecting Plug Man at some point, but the artist is in the middle of a move ATM, so he won't be getting me that update for a few days at least.

 

Also, the full collection of the Mega Man 9 info I collected can be found in our Mega Man 9 FAQ: Mega Man 9 - Top to Bottom

Edited October 2, 2008 by jbanes