StanJr #1 Posted December 22, 2003 This is what you call TOO much free time. I am a Castlevania FREAK, and as an early Christmas Present, Aimee helped me round out my NES collection (I was missing Dracula's Curse, long story), which got me in a Castlevania kick, so I started playing the NES trilogy again. I got to Simon's Quest and I remembered attempting a map when I was a kid, but never finishing it. So I decided to right that wrong and finish the job. After doing a technical screen-by-screen map, I then thought it would be MORE fun to make a quasi-realistic map of the game. The result you see below. Bear in mind that I am NO artist nor make I any such claim. I'm just a stupid fanatic with WAAAAY too much free time on a Saturday afternoon. Enjoy my insanity. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
A2600 #2 Posted December 22, 2003 This is what you call TOO much free time. I am a Castlevania FREAK, and as an early Christmas Present, Aimee helped me round out my NES collection (I was missing Dracula's Curse, long story), which got me in a Castlevania kick, so I started playing the NES trilogy again. I got to Simon's Quest and I remembered attempting a map when I was a kid, but never finishing it. So I decided to right that wrong and finish the job. After doing a technical screen-by-screen map, I then thought it would be MORE fun to make a quasi-realistic map of the game. The result you see below. Bear in mind that I am NO artist nor make I any such claim. I'm just a stupid fanatic with WAAAAY too much free time on a Saturday afternoon. Enjoy my insanity. Wow NICE map, man... I'd frame it! I wonder what would happen if you get into Zelda?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oesii #3 Posted December 22, 2003 Stan, I would have let you have the map that came with the game if you would of asked :wink: Cool homemade job though Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
liquid_sky #4 Posted December 22, 2003 i like it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Adrian M #5 Posted December 22, 2003 Not bad. I can't remember the last time when I made a map for a game that I was playing. I'm thinking it may have been Super Hydlide on the Sega Genesis and that was ages ago! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
liquid_sky #6 Posted December 22, 2003 you actually played that game? a thousand mercies be on your soul. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Adrian M #7 Posted December 22, 2003 you actually played that game? a thousand mercies be on your soul. Yeah. Sadly enough, it was the very first game I bought after I got my Genesis in the summer of 1990. I wanted a game that would take me a long time to finish as well as one that offered a decent quest. Well, I partially got my wish granted...it certainly DID take a long time to finish thanks to its insane difficulty and ambiguous puzzles....but a decent quest it definitely was not. Good points...decent attempt at a realism (ie: weight system, day/night cycle, necessity to eat meals and sleep regularly, etc) I kind of re-discovered the game in the summer of 1991 when Game Players Magazine ran a huge "how to" article on the game. that provided me with all the knowledge and hints I would need to finish that bastard of a game once and for all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nateo #8 Posted December 22, 2003 Wow, that is a nice map! Certainly a much better job than I could have done! Now I just need to download the ROM and actually play the game... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StanJr #9 Posted December 22, 2003 Thanks peeps! It was a labor of love and I had a LOT of fun. I'm totally into cartography and the like. I have LOTS of Legend of Zelda Maps and had started an Adventure of Link map long ago. Maybe someday, I'll finish it.... There was a map that came WITH Simon's Quest??? d'oh. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Megamaniac #10 Posted January 15, 2004 Last map I ever worked on was for the olod Ultima series on a C-64. Ultima V I think....fun stuff. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MegaManFan #11 Posted January 15, 2004 I made a map for the standard adventure that you can load off Adventure Construction Set, but it didn't help me much - I still couldn't solve the game. I even tried to hack it to see what I was missing; still didn't help. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tantone56 #12 Posted January 15, 2004 I made a map for a socom online level so I could plan the best points of attack that would provide me with easy cover. But the map was no where near as comlpex as yours is...nice work CHEERS Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Susuwatari #13 Posted January 16, 2004 I've done some mapping with NES and SMS games but they generlly were just pencil outline, nowhere near as artictic as that Castlevania map! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nintendo Penguin #14 Posted January 17, 2004 Stan! My goodness! You need to get a really big scanner and let me post those on PLayNintendo.com! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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