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Gaming / Re: Crater, a Sokoban clone for MS-DOS
« Last post by FlyingArmor on January 18, 2026, 11:21:57 am »Looks great, mechaskrom! I'm happy you enjoyed playing Crater to the point of wanting to map it. 
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Gaming / Re: Crater, a Sokoban clone for MS-DOS
« Last post by mechaskrom on January 17, 2026, 04:07:55 pm »I thought the game was good enough to deserve a map. In order not to spoil the whole game, I left out the ending for now, but I might submit an update with the ending after 1-2 years.
If you're even remotely interested in puzzle games, you should give Crater a chance.
If you're even remotely interested in puzzle games, you should give Crater a chance.
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Gaming / Re: Crater, a Sokoban clone for MS-DOS
« Last post by JonLeung on January 17, 2026, 01:20:08 pm »The map for FlyingArmor's game, Crater, are now up here... by mechakrom...
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Maps In Progress / Re: FlyingArmor's Map Projects Present and Future
« Last post by Cyartog959 on January 16, 2026, 07:34:22 pm »Using Tiled would've taken 10 to 20 times longer than just taking 30 seconds to a minute to clean up each room. I used Tiled for the very first room, then I switched straight away to screenshots because it took way too long. All the tiles don't fit into a neat 18 x 24 grid since there're tiles that sit halfway between those grid lines in pretty much all the rooms. While Tiled is great for a ton of other games, it's a bad fit with how ElecHead is constructed.
Guess you felt how certain different tile sizes that aren't evenly sized weren't effective as you thought. Oh, well. Thought I'd suggest, anyway. There's still others that do very well.
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Maps In Progress / Re: FlyingArmor's Map Projects Present and Future
« Last post by FlyingArmor on January 15, 2026, 04:39:17 pm »Did you use Tiled to do the maps? If not, well, give it a go. It helps cut down time.
Using Tiled would've taken 10 to 20 times longer than just taking 30 seconds to a minute to clean up each room. I used Tiled for the very first room, then I switched straight away to screenshots because it took way too long. All the tiles don't fit into a neat 18 x 24 grid since there're tiles that sit halfway between those grid lines in pretty much all the rooms. While Tiled is great for a ton of other games, it's a bad fit with how ElecHead is constructed.
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Maps In Progress / Re: FlyingArmor's Map Projects Present and Future
« Last post by Cyartog959 on January 15, 2026, 02:05:05 pm »A new year has come and I bring with me a new map set!
For a little change of pace, I decided to try mapping a more modern game instead of the SNES stuff I usually gravitate toward, so here's the PC game ElecHead. Given how the graphics are fairly NES-like, it wasn't too difficult stitching rooms together. The main annoyance was getting rid of the particle effects that were present in nearly all the rooms. The rooms with stars had me taking twice as many screenshots just so I wouldn't accidently erase a star I had thought was a stray particle.
I'm fairly certain I didn't forget any rooms, but if I did, I'm sure the ElecHead fans will let me know.
I'll probably try to merge all the stages into a single image some time just for the fun of it. Hopefully 32 GB of RAM should be enough to make that happen, haha.
Since I've mapped this game, I've been thinking of taking on Nama Takahashi's most recent game Öoo as well, but that'll be something to do later down the road.
Well, that's good. Doing a platform game is a good change of pace for your previous RPG inclined mapping works. Have you thought of mapping the whole Blaster Master Zero Trilogy games sometime? I'm quite curious to see how they are.
Perhaps they'll let you know, should they find this site and contact you.
I think it'd be quite less than 32GB of RAM if you did, given the game's map sizes I've looked at, but, if you do put all of ElecHead's stage maps into one, well, I'd be surprised if it was that close to it.
Did you use Tiled to do the maps? If not, well, give it a go. It helps cut down time. Worked well for eishiya while The Mummy: Demastered was being mapped out.
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Maps In Progress / Re: FlyingArmor's Map Projects Present and Future
« Last post by FlyingArmor on January 14, 2026, 06:37:51 pm »A new year has come and I bring with me a new map set!
For a little change of pace, I decided to try mapping a more modern game instead of the SNES stuff I usually gravitate toward, so here's the PC game ElecHead. Given how the graphics are fairly NES-like, it wasn't too difficult stitching rooms together. The main annoyance was getting rid of the particle effects that were present in nearly all the rooms. The rooms with stars had me taking twice as many screenshots just so I wouldn't accidently erase a star I had thought was a stray particle.
I'm fairly certain I didn't forget any rooms, but if I did, I'm sure the ElecHead fans will let me know.
I'll probably try to merge all the stages into a single image some time just for the fun of it. Hopefully 32 GB of RAM should be enough to make that happen, haha.
Since I've mapped this game, I've been thinking of taking on Nama Takahashi's most recent game Öoo as well, but that'll be something to do later down the road.
For a little change of pace, I decided to try mapping a more modern game instead of the SNES stuff I usually gravitate toward, so here's the PC game ElecHead. Given how the graphics are fairly NES-like, it wasn't too difficult stitching rooms together. The main annoyance was getting rid of the particle effects that were present in nearly all the rooms. The rooms with stars had me taking twice as many screenshots just so I wouldn't accidently erase a star I had thought was a stray particle.
I'm fairly certain I didn't forget any rooms, but if I did, I'm sure the ElecHead fans will let me know.
I'll probably try to merge all the stages into a single image some time just for the fun of it. Hopefully 32 GB of RAM should be enough to make that happen, haha.
Since I've mapped this game, I've been thinking of taking on Nama Takahashi's most recent game Öoo as well, but that'll be something to do later down the road.
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Map Requests / Re: Mega Man Maps
« Last post by JonLeung on January 13, 2026, 10:12:33 pm »As I mentioned in the Hand-Drawn Game Guides topic, I just received their latest book, the one on Mega Man (NES)! It also covers Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge (Game Boy).
It's nice to see that people still care about Mega Man games. I bought it to support Phil Summers's efforts, so I'm glad that he is working on one for Mega Man 2, which is good since as you probably know, my brother and I sure have a lot of Mega Man 2 stuff between us...
It's nice to see that people still care about Mega Man games. I bought it to support Phil Summers's efforts, so I'm glad that he is working on one for Mega Man 2, which is good since as you probably know, my brother and I sure have a lot of Mega Man 2 stuff between us...
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Map Gab / Re: Hand-Drawn Game Guides by Phil Summers (NES)
« Last post by JonLeung on January 13, 2026, 10:04:13 pm »I just received the "Hand-Drawn Game Guides" book on Mega Man!
It came with all these goodies!
In the age of AI and overused CG, we should support efforts like this. There's a real charm to hand-drawn guides!
(I know that seems ironic coming from me, who runs this site, full of screenshot maps... 🙃)
This guide also covers Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge for the Game Boy, if you're wondering about the poster... the other side shows the same art as the book cover.
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VGMaps Social Board / Re: YouTube channel! (JonLeung1)
« Last post by JonLeung on January 13, 2026, 09:06:13 pm »
Sometimes, I really lean into a joke.
Here are fatalistic ninjas and Funtastic Nintendo 64s.