NIN8HALOS'S PROFILE

author=seiromem
Wily Heart is just fine for me, except the boss is a little bland. It's not a huge problem though.
Assault on Skull castle, lemme play it first if you really want something.
I have absolutely no problems at all with Assualt on Skull castle

Good to hear! I agree on the boss being a bit bland, but I don't really want to make anything fancy out of it. Thanks for responding.

author=seiromem
I got a run time error for dividing by Zero (No idea where) O.o

When do you get the message?

author=Isrieri
ASSAULT ON SKULL CASTLE

-I don't suppose there's anything we can do about how if you fall in the pits halfway through, you just fall into space? I know those gaps are there to save memory and reduce lag, which I heartily approve of. So I'm more than willing to overlook it.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but if you're talking about the giant empty space below those pits, I have many carefully placed invisible friendly Goombas that readjust the level borders so that the bottom of the screen is actually higher once you reach the area before those pits. Even if you manage to fly way above. And there are more invisible friendly Goombas that restore the original borders if the player backtracks. So it's not even noticeable.

author=Isrieri
-I noticed a glitch with the checkpoint: The bottom right background tile won't appear for some reason when you playtest the level. Maybe it has a lower priority?

Yeah, it does seem to have lower priority. I'd consider that a flaw in the program, since obviously you'd always want the checkpoint graphics to appear in front of anything else. I could fix it by merging the two into one background tile.

author=Isrieri
WILY HEART

-No Mega Man 10 music?! Seriously, the Wily music in that game is kickass.

I'll consider it. I'm not actually too happy with the music in this level, but it's all I could find. And I'm surprised how lame all the Wily boss music is.

author=Isrieri
-Wow those thwomps are in some rough spots. Fantastic! The first one surprised me because it blends in so well with the level tiles. You could make them more noticeable by recoloring them red, but I imagine their current color was intentional.

I actually recolored those from red-orange to gray because it fit better with the level. I can change them if they're not conspicuous enough.

author=Isrieri
-I love the elevator. But I have a minor gripe with it. It's possible for megaman I mean Mario to get crushed if he's standing on top of a spike when he reaches the floor. I can't think of a workaround though.

That's one of those lovely SMBX quirks that we can't do anything about. Fortunately, the player will be avoiding those spikes anyway.

author=Isrieri
-This level punishes hasty twitch-control players like myself. I got my ass handed to me, so it's difficult for me to place this. It was a 3 or 4 for me, but I imagine it's a 4 or 5 for everyone else.

As long as there isn't anything unfairly difficult about it, that's fine. I intended for this to be the most challenging of my levels anyway.

author=Isrieri
-I have no clue how you pulled off an elevator that goes up and transitions into an area at the bottom of the map.

The elevator doesn't move up. The walls, spikes and coins move down. That way I could keep the entire level one screen high.

author=Isrieri
-Just a nitpick here: There's a block at the “top” of the elevator that is a quarter of a tile too high, and so I kept getting stopped when I moved forward. Only fix it if it's worth bothering with. It may be more trouble than it's worth, I dunno.

The downside to the elevator trick is that I couldn't get the walls to stop in a position perfectly even with the rest of the level's blocks. That's the best I could do. A minor problem considering how well the rest of it worked out. It does kinda suck though.

author=Isrieri
-The cannon-dudes have a very light box surrounding their sprites. That's only the case in this level, they're fine in Assault.

I didn't even notice. I'll have to fix that. If they look fine in Assault, that means the background there just makes their sprite box unnoticeable.

author=Isrieri
-How do you get that 1up on the ledge? Leaf? Or is there another way?

Leaf.

author=Isrieri
-I got on Farlon about this: The player should only be able to enter pipes that have flat ground before them. I'm referring to the tanooki room entrance. Set it up so the player can hop up there a little easier.

I can move the pipe back a tile.

author=Isrieri
-The Wily fight is deceptively simple. The hardhats are in the prime trajectory to nail you if you aren't careful. Funny story: When I first played the level I did it without sound, so I had no clue if I was hitting him. Made me laugh when I figured out what you did. Well done.

I'm thinking about adding cracks, like the glass normally gets when you damage it. Shouldn't be too hard; these are 8-bit graphics I'm dealing with.

Uploaded my third level and made very minor changes to Assault. I removed maybe 3 enemies. I don't think splitting it into two sections will make it work better, and from my past experiences, it tends to permanently screw up the block placement by shifting everything about half a tile. If there's anything else I need to change, let me know.

Spirit Temple:

This level is a war of attrition. With a very long series of death traps between the player and the checkpoint, it's likely they won't make it. The leaf helps a ton, though.
The graphics are just weird. Seems a lot of you guys have a strange sense of aesthetics.
Para-goombas work much better than Ninjis. Unfortunately, it still forces the player to spend a bit of time studying their movement to find the right time to jump, during which Bowser statues are spitting fireballs at them and what-not.
My biggest problem with this level is that every move the player makes has to be carefully calculate, or they'll either fall into quicksand that isn't actually there (fix that) or run into an enemy. With Bowser statues, sparks and torches that blast spinies into the air for some reason, there isn't any time to stop and think about what to do next.