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Metroid Ridley X Hack

Original game : Metroid

Platform : NES

Author : Ridley X

Release date : 18 December 2016

Category : Complete

Patch version : 1.0

Modifications : G, L

Downloads : 775

ROM Information

Country: USA
CRC32 A2C89CB9
MD5 D77C8053168DA14B360BF5CAECCC5964
SHA-1 ECF39EC5A33E6A6F832F03E8FFC61C5D53F4F90B
SHA-256 E6E6B7014685ADAE447EBB3833242815747BC1E5DF83ADE79F693FB67CF565B6

Hack description

Here is Ridley X's first metroid hack, have fun ^^

Edit with Editroid 3.7 and yy-chr

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Contributions

ContributorType of contributionDescription
Ridley XHacking

Reviews

A pretty quality hack, with a few downsidesLittleRollBot2017-01-03Version 1.0

I'll start with the good.

The game seems to be completely re-arranged using tiles from Metroid 2 giving it a completely new look and feel. You'll spend a lot of time exploring trying to find each upgrade. My playthrough took me about 3:30 hours and I still haven't even found the wave beam!

The bad:

I should mention, this is a really good hack. I hate saying negative things but this is a review...

A lot of the area designs are very repetitive. Especially norfair. Each area looked exactly the same for a majority of Norfair. Kraid area bug was interesting. While fighting a fake Kraid I died. But when I continued I was in a different area entirely. Because of this I managed to beat Kraid and get the Varia suit before I even had the bombs.

Even with those negatives, it's still a good hack and worth a playthrough for sure. Designing maps for Metroid can't be easy and Ridley X did a good job of creating a new experience out of a 30 year old game.