Metroid: Over the Moon is a fan-created romhack for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Doug Hancox. Players assume the role of Bessie, a bio-engineered weapon tasked with erasing sensitive data from the Bloom Lake Research Facility. The game features a new map, sprites, and streamlined gameplay, emphasizing exploration and choice while reducing tedious elements common in the original Metroid.
You play as Bessie, bio-engineered weapon under the employ of the Ax, a powerful alien species that has been monitoring Earth for hundreds, if not thousands of years. They maintain their secrecy by destroying any evidence of their presence. That's where you come in.
It is your mission to travel into the Bloom Lake Research Facility and erase the data being stored in the central server. Unfortunately, this server is inaccessible without the two passcodes, each protected by powerful defense robots kept elsewhere in the facility.
Explore the BLRF in search of weapons and equipment while avoiding dangerous robots and hazards, track down the two passcodes, and find your way through the security systems to destroy the main computer.
Over the Moon is the creator's first attempt at a serious total-conversion romhack, and is based on a metroidvania idea he had for a few years about a gun-wielding alien cow. It features a brand new map, new sprites, and slightly modified gameplay (health drop values are increased, missiles are more rare and more valuable)
The main idea for OTM was to take the traditional Metroid format and remove all the boring parts: Long corridors and repetitive climbing, grinding for health, getting lost and having to backtrack, and the end result is, what the creator hopes, a much more streamlined and concise Metroid experience.
The game is fairly open-ended, with the player's choice of which areas to visit in which order, and new things to do depending on the kind of equipment the player chooses to use and in what order they are picked up.
Over the Moon is a Metroid NES romhack created by Doug Hancox AKA TestZero
To play this game you will need a ROM of the original Metroid for NES and an IPS patcher such as LunarIPS
https://fusoya.eludevisibility.org/lips/ or https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/240/
The homepage of this hack is http://www.testzero.net/p/games.html
Here you can find more information, including the game's backstory and enemy/item descriptions.
Known Bugs:
- The end credits and epilogue text are just gibberish right now. I plan on going back and changing them once I know more about hex editing.
- Some Adaptive Armor pieces are not correctly saved in the password system, and you may end up with more than you've picked up if you continue after dying.
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Readme file created at 7:33 PM 7/16/2018
rominfo : No-Intro Name: Metroid (USA)
(No-Intro version 20130731-235630)
File SHA-1: ECF39EC5A33E6A6F832F03E8FFC61C5D53F4F90B
ROM SHA-1: FDBFC7871962F72A1EF57E5A7E456164FB93430B
Patched File SHA-1: C245B91204285D3DB3209C29ADACF1959D6072DE
Patched ROM SHA-1: 912DA5BCC68EF1D993BD20CCFC9D50C09F58ED5E
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