Don’t think this is gonna be a 100% Gold Remake, it’ll have its differences. Extra battles (some’ll be optionals, tough but rewarding), Hoenn Pokemon (in every area, and hard to find) New areas, Remapped some dungeons (so your old guides wont work) , Extra recurring characters (some’ll hate you, some’ll help you)
Note that the hack is incomplete but feel free to enjoy the hack as-is.
++++++++++++++++ + INTRODUCTION + ++++++++++++++++ ---<(ASSALAMU'ALAIKUM WR. WB)>--- I'm beginner hacker from Indonesia. My age is 18 years old when I submitted this. +++++++++++++++++++ + GREAT THANKS TO + +++++++++++++++++++ 1. Matrixz's MegaFLEX. 2. Rock5Easily's Rockman 5 Editor, Parameter Editor and Sprite Viewer. 3. Yum0987654321 and Kain for suggesting title from 'Artefact' to 'Artifact'. 4. YY-CHR, the great tile editor. 5. FCEUX, great emulator for making ASM datas. 6. Dwiki Prayoga as tester (beta version). 7. Insectduel as tester. 8. Zieldak as tester. 9. RHDN, the great place of ROMHacks. ++++++++++++ + PATCHING + ++++++++++++ (I'm Indonesian, sorry for my English) Please patch this ips file into Mega Man V (U), not Rockman 5 (J). +++++++++++++++++++++++++ + WHAT ARE DIFFERENCES? + +++++++++++++++++++++++++ ---<( I. GRAPHIC )>--- New Graphic for robot masters, Levels, weapons, etc. Some tilesets was made by me. It's fun for changing NES graphics. Also I made most of the boss graphics from scratch, while there're 3 robot masters which was integrated from other robot master. ---<( II. MUSIC AND SOUND )>--- I usually use Fruity Loop and write the hex code from scratch by reading the notation block one by one, 80% of the drums from whole music are my creation, making the drum in hex editor directly is easier than reading in FL (or any other musical softwares). Most of the musics' source are song from my country, Indonesia, while others are from well known song in the world. I knew some of them are ridiculous and didn't really fit on the stages, But, I just want to pick their notation only then I rearrangement again. Here the sources : 1. Opening : Dr. L. Manik - Desaku (My Village) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf2cu9s7PVo 2. Title : Michael Bubble - Sway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmYMkl1Grzc 3. Password Screen : J. S. Bach - Orchestral Suite 2 (My Remix version) I don't know which OS2 song was used in my hack, but, search in the Internet the filename "bachos2.mid" 4. Stage Select : Opick - Assalamu'alaikum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3pYBTOb2Io 5. Selected Stage : Snada - Neo Shalawat (Go to Minutes 2:00 to the actual song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv6zCE-3TBY 6. Puzzle Man : Project Pop - Ingatlah Hari Ini (Please Remember This Day) Weapon Name : Puzzle Power 7. Sultan Man : Camelia Malik - Rekayasa Cinta (Modified Love) Weapon Name : Hunter Mine 8. Frozen Man : Nidji - Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Soldier/Warrior) Weapon Name : Frozen Dash 9. Space Man : Air - Bintang (Star) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCc6qV6Ygac Weapon Name : Aiming Glob 10. Tune Woman : Opick - Alhamdulillah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUxZE1EK_84 Weapon Name : Synth Burst 11. Marine Man : Ratu (Queen) - Dear Diary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5eYpw-2djw Weapon Name : Marine Flow 12. Batik Man : H. Muntahar - Hari Merdeka (Independence Day) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LkXxQrh39M Weapon Name : Canting Barrier 13. Brave Man : Anggun - Mengaku Bujangan (Confessing Celibate) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCnbXjDahEY Weapon Name : Brave Hound 14. Dark Man Fortress Map : Mr. X Fortress Map 15. Dark Man 1 : Meggy Z - Rindu (Missed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67xJFFxYb7M 16. Dark Man 2-4 : Tangga - Cinta Begini (Love Like This) Cinta = Love ; Begini = Like This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7C8vHFfKZk 17. Wily Fortress Map : Mega Man 8 Wily Fortress Map 18. Wily Stage : Dewa19 - Risalah Hati (Heart Message) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk 19. Regular Boss : Opick - Irhamna (Go to Minutes 1:37 to the actual song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7dsi_JPbPI 20. Fortress Boss : (Fariz RM) Rossa - Sakura https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuw924oMgWo 21. Final Boss : Agnes Monika - Tak Ada Logika (No Logic) 22. Ending : Kahitna - Cantik (Beautiful) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2dvQYgn-YA 23. Boss Fanfare : Original 24. Final Boss Fanfare : Super Mario World Level Clear 25. Chasing Wily : I don't have idea what song to change this one 26. Get Weapon : Cindy Cenora - Gembala Sapi (Cowherd) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPC6We7Zu0M 27. Game Over : My Remix of Jungle Book NES Level Clear There is several sound effect addition : ---<(From other Mega Man game)>--- 1. Mega Man Electric shocks. (Created From Scratch) 2. Mega Man 2 Quick Laser. (Created From Scratch) 3. Mega Man 3 Cannon. (Just Copy and Paste in cause of same engine) 4. Mega Man 3 Explosion. (Copy and Paste) ---<(My Creation)>--- 1. Timer Ticking. 2. Aiming Glob. 3. Rising Platform. 4. Falling Platform. 5. Wily's bullet. ---<( III. LEVEL )>--- ---<( IV. TEXT )>--- The most text entirely changed in global language (English), althrough I'm suck at English grammar. ---<( V. GAMEPLAY )>--- Attention, please... This is the first time I change whole bosses' AI and I just a newbie for 6502 hacking, I believe there's still many bugs in my current project. First of all, I learned how to code in 6502 based on other superior MM5 hack like RockMan 5G , Endless, Air Sliding, or Even Matrixz's Mega Man 4 Forever and PureSabe's RockMan 4 MI. So, there're some new stuff... :3 Oh, thanks Matrixz for giving me some help in the very beginning 9 months ago about "how to find enemy pointer and description for RAM Address $0588 and $05A0". ---<( VI. OTHER )>--- - No longer enemy invincibility. (I learned from PureSabe's patch, but I didn't applied his patch) - Climb Faster. - Faster recovering. - Faster fading (by changing LDY value to 02). - Sound Effect addition. - After revisiting stages done, weapon will be full again. - Not stopped charging while take damage. - Some new stuff. - Energy Balancer. - etc. +++++++++++++ + KNOWN BUG + +++++++++++++ - None +++++++++++ + CONFIDE + +++++++++++ I'm sorry if my hack is terrible enough, because I just sharing what is in my mind and I just newbie. Really, I don't know any ASM languages, and I just self-taught other ASM documentations. But it's very, very hard to applying in the NES rom, until FCEUX come with its breakpoints and Hex Editor feature... My hack is easy enough to deal with, and I hope the new re-modified weapons are more useful than the original ones. ~Enjoy... ++++++++++++++ + CHANGE LOG + ++++++++++++++ - 1.00 1. Tweaking Marine Man, Frozen Man, Puzzle Man, Boss, Stage Select, and Boss Select Music. 2. Changing Brave Man, Wily Fortress, and Final Boss Music. 3. Speeding up Brave Man Ceiling Camping. (Oh What an Irony) 4. Tweaking Marine Man, and Dark Fortress 2 Enemy Placement a little bit. 5. Tweaking Marine Man's Kraken AI a little bit. 6. Adding some challenges to Wily Fortress 2's Press Machine Section. 7. Making Brave Hound and Puzzle Power more expensive. - 0.94 1. Thanks to ZuchZero for showing the pause menu glitch for Batik Man, and now that was fixed. 2. Fixing Marine Man bug. 3. Making the Brave Man's Quick Laser Easier. 4. Fixing a little enemy placement and graphical error. - 0.91 1. Fixing a little graphics errors. 2. Fixing a little 'lame' things in Level Design. 3. Fixing weird bug in Dark 3 stage upscrolling which found by Zieldak. 4. Fixing a little ASM and a bit music volume. 5. Fixing gramatical error in beginning of the story which suggested by Kain. - 0.88 1. Fixing fatal scrolling error which found by Insectduel in Dark 1 stage. 2. Fixing fatal error in beginning battle Wily 4. 3. Swap enemy in Wily 1. 4. Change Wily 1 and Wily 2 boss color. - 0.86 ~First release +++++++++++ + CONTACT + +++++++++++ 1. mailto:[email protected]
