Enemy Scroll Concept

Enemy Scroll Concept
Release date: Jun 28, 2005	Author: Jathys	Download: Version 1.0 [UH] (508 downloads) Download: Version 1.0 [H] (432 downloads)
Genre: Incomplete [?] Game:	Difficulty: Unknown [?]	Average runtime: 0:02 Average collection: 4%
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Description

A mini hack to test an idea I had for auto-scroll rooms in Super Metroid. I know of better ways to do this now, but the principal is the same: Base the screen's position on the enemy, not Samus.

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Ratings and Reviews

By Aran;Jaeger on Dec 09, 2016 (

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4% in 0:00

No animals to be saved.

Quick Summary of the meaning of my SM hack ratings:
5 orbs: SM hacks within the 80% to 100% (90% ± 10%) range of perceived perfection; SM hacks for outstanding wholesome playing experiences and at most minor inconveniences.
4 orbs: SM hacks within the 60% to 80% (70% ± 10%) range of perceived perfection; Well done SM hacks with noticeable design problems.
3 orbs: SM hacks within the 40% to 60% (50% ± 10%) range of perceived perfection; Normal decent average SM hacks.
2 orbs: SM hacks within the 20% to 40% (30% ± 10%) range of perceived perfection; Overall messy, confusing, or punishing SM hacks with some upsides.
1 orb : SM hacks within the 00% to 20% (10% ± 10%) range of perceived perfection; Ruthlessly unplayable, broken, or barely from the original game changed SM hacks.

Judgement parameters summary:
° Creative ideas and features, polished design, how enjoyable and fun the hack can be, lack of hard to find or cryptic required game elements, the difficulty, and if the hack can be finished without major guides or tools.
° Note that the length of a SM hack will not necessarily contribute to my rating of the SM hack, since instead the averaged out experience over the whole hack will be taken into account to get a relative comparison between SM hacks.
° Besides this, lack of impactful changes from the original SM game also went into the evaluation of SM hacks (otherwise one may consider them among the 3 stars hacks) as follows: Ultimately, for my ratings I consider a situation in which an SM enthusiast that already has, knows about and is familiar with the original game and its prominent mechanics could only choose 1 new SM hack to play and thus would really want to make sure he/she will get a fresh and fantastic experience or journey out of his/her 1 choice.

The goal of all these SM hack ratings is so that rather new players have an overview of the whole spectrum of SM hacks and how to sort them in, in relation to each other, where SM hacks that are rated lower might still be enjoyable for more experienced players.

Finally, sometimes for SM hacks it can be relevant that they may be significantly more enjoyable from a player standpoint at which the player is well practiced and familiarized with Super Metroid's game mechanics in general, and that in particular some of the best SM hacks may not be the outright best first SM hack choices to play otherwise because of this, and for beginner SM hack players this typically steers the best first SM hack choices towards some of the SM hacks that I rated with 4 orbs instead of 5.

Rating for some hacks may be off by 1 Star, but arguably not more, and ratings are not attempted to be provided within the precision of ''half orbs''.

By Sapphron on Jul 15, 2019 (

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Cool little idea, screen jumps around if samus moves offscreen and gives seizures though. Not enough to give it two stars though.
time is rta

By Syphon on Dec 24, 2019 (

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No completion stats.

Another one of Jathys' experiments.

By Megabrainz 357 on Apr 21, 2023 (

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4% in 0:03

It’s a mess. The hack goes crazy if you leave the screen. Samus stays onscreen, like she looped, but she really is forward. So you can’t see where you are. Bomb Torizo is blocked off, so you can’t progress further than that. That’s really the only description of it I can give. You have to play it to really understand why it’s so bizarre and bad. It’s something that’s hard to describe. Enjoy, should you choose to see for yourself.

By ClaireDiviner on Feb 23, 2024 (

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No completion stats.

There's potential here. The hack itself is just vanilla outside of Parlor, so don't expect anything outside a showcase of a potential idea for an autoscroller. That said, I'll give this a 2/5, despite the hack barely even being a hack, simply for the concept alone. I really hope someone, in the future, takes this concept, refines it, and makes something out of it.

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