Topic: Strider (NES)

[KingKuros]

I'm back into mapping now and this is the game I'm doing now.



Here's what I got so far:



China

http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/2391/chinato1.png



Egypt (train)

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/599/egypt1ge4.png



Egypt (pyramid)

http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/4962/egypt2bx8.png



Japan

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/3087/japanwy5.png



Kazakh

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/1363/kazakhtx9.png



More to come later.

[KingKuros]

Africa

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/6108/africali4.png

[TerraEsperZ]

Nice! I've always been intrigued by this game since seeing it in my first issue of Nintendo Power. I rented it but didn't get really far since back then, my grasp of English was pretty poor.



I think I got stuck in the pyramid since I was incapable of pulling off the wall-jump, and only saw further stages because a friend of mine was much better than me.



I've also heard that most people consider this a "bastard" version of Strider compared to the original Arcade version and the Genesis port. Have you ever played it KingKuros?



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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

[KingKuros]

It took me a while to figure out the "triangle jump" myself.  I have never seen any other versions of this game, but I'll take a look at the arcade version sometime soon.



Here's what I have left to do:



Los Angeles

Australia

The Red Dragon

[TerraEsperZ]

If I remember my GameFan days (god, how I miss that magazine which died in the great dot com crash), Strider 2 was released on the Playstation along with the first game on the same disc. I wonder if that ISO is available somewhere...



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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

[KingKuros]

Los Angeles 1

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/2530/la1fy7.png



Los Angeles 2

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/1863/la2ki9.png



Australia

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/7051/australiacl2.png



All I need to do now is The Red Dragon.

[KingKuros]

Red Dragon

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/1218/reddragonle5.png

[KingKuros]

Submitted to JonLeung.

[MagnetiC]

Nice maps and it made me try yet another game I've never played before.



I was wondering though, how do you decide what palette to use? Do you use the 'default' one that comes with the emulator or just a custom one? Or does it depend on what game you're mapping (choose whatever palette looks nice for that game)?

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Ignorance is bliss.

[KingKuros]

I use the default settings on Nestopia 1.26.

[KingKuros]

I looked at and played the arcade version of Strider a little bit and I tell you, it sure is a heck of a lot different from the NES version.  It has some flashy animations and 3 layers of parallax scrolling.  So I won't bother trying to map it (for now).