Post by: TerraEsperZ on January 22, 2007, 11:46:09 pm
Well, I like a challenge and as I said then, I started working on a map for the first level, to see how hard it would be (similar to the Super Castlevania IV map I did). Turns out that it was really hard and time consuming to do, and that was with only *one* parallax background to separate from the foreground. Anyway, I have finished mapping this level tonight, and for once, I decided to make it an official submission to the site, with map header and all. JonLeung, feel free to be angry at me for making you do a virtual Boy section ;)
Game Name: Virtual Boy Wario Land
Copyright: Nintendo 1995
Level Name: Level 1
Resolution: 7168 x 432
Size: 151 KB
Format: PNG
Type: Ripped
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me
Post by: The Ultimate Koopa on January 23, 2007, 06:21:19 am
Post by: JonLeung on January 23, 2007, 07:37:11 am
Post by: TerraEsperZ on January 23, 2007, 11:01:22 am
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me
Post by: JonLeung on January 23, 2007, 12:06:50 pm
If anything, you may have to remind me on the weekend if it's not in my email.
Speaking of forgetting things not in my email, didn't you say I could put up one of your Contra: Hard Corps maps and didn't you create that Legend Of Zelda map using A Link To The Past's in-game map tiles?
Post by: TerraEsperZ on January 23, 2007, 05:45:21 pm
Yeah, you can put up my first Contra: Hard Corps map, and that Legend Of Zelda map too if you must. I find it so horrible nowadays....
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me
Post by: Revned on January 23, 2007, 08:31:32 pm
Post by: TerraEsperZ on January 23, 2007, 09:38:58 pm
But seriously, using the correct red palette, the darker shade of red is just too dark and the parallax backgrounds are just too hard to make out. I can post the red version too for comparison, but I'd really rather have the black & white version on the site.
Black & White:
Red Tones:
Game Name: Virtual Boy Wario Land
Copyright: Nintendo 1995
Level Name: Level 1
Resolution: 7168 x 432
Size: 45 KB
Format: PNG
Type: Ripped
Painting the outside of the map in red for the red tones one allowed me to further reduce the number of bytes used for colors (4 colors thus 2 bytes instead of 5 colors necessitating 4 bytes).
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me
Post by: Grizzly on January 24, 2007, 12:27:26 am
Post by: Captain Drake on January 24, 2007, 05:53:05 am
Post by: TerraEsperZ on January 24, 2007, 06:13:30 am
Good job. Gonna do all other stages as well?
Good god no! This was most likely the simplest map in the whole game and I still had to do tons of pixel editing to separate the foreground from the background. I've stopped mapping game for less than that you know :) Disappointing I know, but I only finished this one to see if I could do it.
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me
Post by: JonLeung on January 24, 2007, 07:41:42 am
I think I really do prefer red for these maps. It's an easy fix that makes it feel like the Virtual Boy. Anyone looking for Virtual Boy maps would know what they're looking for. I don't think anyone's being "penalized" for seeing red here.
I don't prefer Game Boy maps in their original spinach-green colour, but then again, the latest iteration of the Game Boy was the Game Boy Pocket which did use a black-and-grey-and-grey-and-white palette. Unquestionably, the VB is red, and infamous for it, so unless you strongly oppose it (you're the mapper, after all), I would put up the red one.
Post by: TerraEsperZ on January 24, 2007, 10:08:07 am
As for the Wario Land map, let me just play around with the brightness level. My beef with the red palette so far is that the darkest shade is really hard to notice and makes the map hard on the eyes (at least, on my eyes).
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me
Post by: TerraEsperZ on January 25, 2007, 06:37:23 pm
At first, I considered showing all the secrets and items but in the end, the only hidden things I'm revealing are the spring blocks (some are hidden) and the doors leading to treasures (usually hidden behind blocks; so far, I've removed the blocks directly in front of it because the limited number of colors, 4, make transparencies really hard to discern).
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me
Post by: JonLeung on January 27, 2007, 11:13:17 am
Where was that Contra: Hard Corps map again? >_<
Nice to see two VB maps, that will make that section start out larger than the WonderSwan and Xbox sections! >_> If Level 2 is ready to be up, that is.
Post by: marioman on January 27, 2007, 11:32:02 am
I am looking forward to seeing some more - I have never played that game.
Post by: Captain Drake on January 27, 2007, 12:36:13 pm
Post by: RT 55J on January 27, 2007, 01:55:04 pm
Where was that Contra: Hard Corps map again? >_<
https://www.vgmaps.com/forums/index.php?topic=376
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Dot? Dot. Dot!
Post by: TerraEsperZ on February 04, 2007, 08:39:02 pm
Anyway, Level 3:
Late thanks to RT 55J for providing the link for my Contra: Hard Corps map.
And Captain Drake, we'll cross that bridge when I get to it ;)
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me
Post by: Captain Drake on February 05, 2007, 11:01:12 am
Post by: TerraEsperZ on February 05, 2007, 11:04:32 am
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me
Post by: JonLeung on February 05, 2007, 04:21:00 pm
I'm of the belief that if the non-map background is white and there's nothing in the upper-left corner, that the header or something should be there. I've loaded up a map and not realised it was there because I got a whole white screen before scrolling.
Post by: TerraEsperZ on February 05, 2007, 04:57:06 pm
Give me a few minutes to change it...
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me
Post by: JonLeung on April 29, 2007, 01:04:35 pm
One of these Februaries (if I still do them month-themed), I'd like a Virtual Boy game to be featured as the Maps Of The Month. It would certainly mix things up.
Post by: TerraEsperZ on April 29, 2007, 02:17:37 pm
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me
Post by: Raccoon Sam on June 24, 2007, 09:37:35 am
In case you didn't know, R. Belmont is making a port of ViBE, a Virtual Boy Emulator for the Macintosh to Windows and Linux. Perhaps that'd help even a little?
Nonetheless, I loved VBWL, and I still do. Great maps, sir. Great maps.
Post by: Captain Drake on June 24, 2007, 10:01:12 am
Post by: TerraEsperZ on June 24, 2007, 10:04:27 am
I can tell you that they were among the most difficult and frustrating map to do. Since I can't disable layers at all, I was forced to separate everything by hand and assume in a lot of place where to remove pixels and where to keep them.
Using a useful emulator might motivate me to work on these again but as it is, they are at the bottom of the list. To preserve my sanity you understand...
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me
Post by: Raccoon Sam on June 24, 2007, 11:14:17 am
ViBE has full sound support, so that adds a bit of hope. The link of the man's website is escaping me at the moment, but when it's released, I'm sure to note about it to you. (Unless you've already mapped whole VBWL by then)
On a side note, I myself have ripped the first 8 tracks of Virtual Boy Wario Land. Be sure to check them out in my webpage if you want more feeling into the game;
http://raccoonsam.ifastnet.com/Virtual_Boy_Wario_Land_Music/
Post by: Captain Drake on June 24, 2007, 01:11:28 pm
Thanks for those MP3s.
Post by: Raccoon Sam on June 24, 2007, 01:17:14 pm
Problem is, ViBE only works on Mac.
Thanks for those MP3s.
Thanks for those MP3s.
I guess you didn't read my post up there carefully enough...
R. Belmont is porting ViBE to Linux and Windows, but his website is escaping me at the moment.
Post by: The Ultimate Koopa on July 10, 2007, 04:22:52 pm
Post by: Captain Drake on July 10, 2007, 06:18:13 pm
Post by: TerraEsperZ on July 10, 2007, 06:34:22 pm
I only lost two maps when mine crashed, but they represented 2 weeks of work and I still can't bare to recreate them yet a few months after the fact. Be smart, unlike me.
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
B*tch, meet reality. Reality, meet b*tch. - Me
Post by: The Ultimate Koopa on July 28, 2007, 02:20:14 pm
Post by: Captain Drake on August 01, 2007, 03:44:30 pm
Post by: The Ultimate Koopa on August 02, 2007, 02:57:09 am
Post by: The Ultimate Koopa on January 07, 2008, 12:47:38 pm
Post by: Revned on January 07, 2008, 01:36:58 pm
Post by: The Ultimate Koopa on January 08, 2008, 06:28:44 pm
Post by: JonLeung on January 19, 2009, 07:28:26 am
:P
Post by: Raccoon Sam on January 19, 2009, 03:16:19 pm
I've beat the game before, and you're awarded with no level selection or ?ironically enough? anything, for that matter, so that won't ease it one bit.
Post by: Peardian on January 20, 2009, 11:13:23 am
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YTT (34%) - WL4 (60%) - PM (36%)
Post by: Raccoon Sam on January 20, 2009, 03:56:32 pm
VB has really no 'cheat codes' or anything like that, and thanks to it's incredible checksum system, no ROMs can be really modified (one byte changed = kaboom)
So count out ROM hacking.
But the first 40 levels could be ripped with ease because of the level select feature.
Post by: Raccoon Sam on February 01, 2009, 06:05:58 am
]https://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2097/virtuboysi2.png
It is tedious but I think I can manage.
Post by: The Ultimate Koopa on February 01, 2009, 09:33:30 am
...2009...
:P
:P
I demand more Wario LAnd 2 maps from Captain Drake pl0x.... :P j/k <--- note those two letters seperated by a '/' please.
Post by: Peardian on February 01, 2009, 12:53:57 pm
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YTT (34%) - WL4 (64%) - PM (36%) - YI (11%) - SMRPG (0%)
Post by: Raccoon Sam on February 01, 2009, 02:34:48 pm
Post by: The Ultimate Koopa on February 03, 2009, 06:19:39 am
Post by: JonLeung on July 23, 2009, 08:59:57 pm
If I do decide to keep Terra's maps, tell me, is "redscale" a word?
EDIT: The new ones by Trebor are now up.
Post by: Peardian on July 25, 2009, 04:23:51 pm
And yes, redscale is a word.
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YTT (40%) - WL4 (72%) - PM (50%) - YI (14%)
Post by: Raccoon Sam on July 25, 2009, 07:25:16 pm
Awesome job.
Post by: Trebor Almasy on July 25, 2009, 10:10:25 pm
Post by: TerraEsperZ on July 25, 2009, 10:57:43 pm
Glad to see this game fully mapped, and I'm really curious to know how easy/hard it was to do. I had a hell of a time separating the foreground and background layers, but that might have been because I used a barely functional emulator (heck, I forgot which one I used). Anyway Trebor Almasy, keep sending such quality submissions!
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Current project: Not sure yet
Upcoming project: Not sure yet either
Post by: Trebor Almasy on July 26, 2009, 10:58:22 am
As for the emulator, I used 'Reality Boy' with the Key to Joy program and just went through snapping shots every 3-5 seconds or so.
I honestly don't see how anybody could do it any other way, it would just be SOOOOO slow.
Thanks for the encouragement though, TerraEsperZ.