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@luizssb Just use your power bombs on them until you get ice beam or screw attack. That's probably the best use of power bombs in this game if you ask me.

Nintendo feels your legos are infringing on their IP. Reggie has been dispatched to break your legos, be advised.

I love to see unreleased material get shared. I've been told that, in Japan at least, unfinished material is a taboo area. You don't talk about it as a developer, perhaps because it's potentially info that could be copied by a competitor (and you didn't release it, meaning there's material there that could be recycled into a future project). The unfinished colossi that didn't make the final cut of Shadow of the Colossus is where I first read about that, as no one could easily get info about these from the developers.

@Moviefan2k4 That was how the game ended in the original as well. No escape sequence because the planet doesn't blow up from exterminating the local metroid ecosystem.

Nice to see they turned some attention to two of the greatest games of all time. Perfect Dark was a great improvement to Goldeneye, especially in the way they came up with some cool, original weapon designs that fit well with that new universe.

om nom nom

@amiiboacid I think it's because this is included in the retail version, and in North America at least the servers will only support play for the retail release soon. Nintendo seems to be trying to get people "try it before you hate on it" but they forgot that only works when the product is unfairly hated. In this case, the product is just plain bad so letting people try it is worse than making them take a chance and buy it first.

@RandomBlue That's hilarious. Fans enjoying something makes you stay away, huh? Interesting, I guess you enjoy only liking what no one else likes, then. Maybe gaming is a bad idea for you...oh, wait, try Federation Force out, sounds like your thing!

@KnightRider666 Weren't some links posted in the topic before? If those are gone, just keep an eye out. I guarantee if you search it, you'll find links though I cannot provide you with one at the moment, sorry. Just keep an eye out, that's all I'm saying, the fans won't let this slip away.

@KnightRider666 If you haven't downloaded this yet (and have a way to play it on PC or Linux), get it wherever and whenever you can. It's the remake Nintendo wouldn't do, and it's so well done I was practically in tears when I completed it yesterday. The dedication DocM64 had to make this, it's head and shoulders above most fan projects. All must play it, it's that good.

I think I'm not going to buy Nintendo products for a while, I've lost a lot respect for them because of this.

The original Metroid 2 has a similar overall design, but it lacks a ton of elements that this remake brings to the table. The Game Boy original was all about the hunt of the metroids with hardly any boss fights other than the metroids themselves. Although Arachnus is actually in the original game, he dies from a couple of morph ball bombs and barely puts up any fight at all. You'll find that AM2R adds several other really cool fights as mini bosses, a few totally new areas (some quite large), and features a better sense of connectivity and pacing as you explore SR388. It feels like DocM64 (and his team) has expanded things out to almost double the content.

Oh, and beams didn't stack in the original game. This meant if you had spazer and picked up plasma or ice, you had to live with one or the other, so it was not possible to freeze enemies with plasma power. AM2R revamps things to have the standard beam mixing that the series is now known to support in most releases.

It's a superbly handled remake. Top tier, irrefutably so.

I've discovered that the queen in this can die two ways, cool. One way seems to be that you damage her enough that she has no time to try to swallow you at all.

All I can say is they were too late if it's really Nintendo trying to stop this. Talk about being asleep at the wheel, I already finished this amazing Metroid game 100%, Nintendo, so I'm good. Also, the game will be out there in some form even if the author complies with any takedown notice (if one happens anyway). It's already released.

Could just be a coincidence but if this did inspire the original Super Mario underground theme, that's a neat find. I've never heard of that group.

@Bolt_Strike I'm on Windows 10 and have no gravity suit glitch at all. I'm not invisible with gravity activated and I now have 100% on my file. It's probably not a guaranteed bug, but only happens in isolated cases.

This is cementing my purchase of one of these

My method for beating Omegas went like this:

Aim super or regular missiles at its weak spot until it gets pretty close to me, then jump to the top of the room and attach to the ceiling with instant morph button + spider ball attach. Stay up here until the Omega turns around and gives you room to repeat. It certainly preserves health.

They don't just camp and wait for you to come down, they actually leave you alone each time you trick them like this, thank heavens, lol.

I'm at 99% item percentage and agonizing over the one pickup I can't find.

@Kirk I experienced no bugs in this release. What system do you run? I'm just running it on Windows 10 on an inexpensive laptop and no issues. I didn't even change it to compatibility mode like some programs need.

@SanderEvers You clearly haven't played it. This goes far beyond a simple remake. This is a better remake of Metroid 2 than Zero Mission was for the NES Metroid. This dev didn't make power bombs a super late game powerup like Zero Mission, this dev made entirely new physics and puzzle changes, I mean, the list goes on and on.

The ice beam is further into this final version because he found a brilliant way to work it into the experience. Let's just say, getting the ice beam feels momentous now and not just a "oh cool, ice beam" moment.

Oh, and Metroids now fall when you freeze them. It's great to see it happen, a small touch but this game is full of both large strokes of genius and small finishing touches. It's the complete deal. I'm just glad I didn't realize how great this fan project would turn out 8 years ago, the wait would have been unbearable.

Ummm, this is amazing. Holy carp, a fan outdid Nintendo at Metroid. PLAY THIS!!!!!

That's a giant Link.

I liked ZombiU, I just wish that Ubisoft had cared enough about that game. It didn't feel complete enough, probably why it didn't get a lot of fans in the first place. The difficulty? It was fine, same with the controls. It just needed a better melee attack system and better quests.

I knew about most of this already. I actually would normally use a Zoomer for early Tourian access but it looks like the Reo works as well, nice. I haven't done any real looking for the secret worlds in NES Metroid, but it's strange that Metroid has built up a reputation for secret worlds. Even Metroid Prime has them.

Gotta disrespect'em all!

I read that the hackers have updated the exploit because the only change to this updated release was that they updated their sdk but that was it. They didn't fix the programming flaw that made the exploit possible in their game code, so the hackers made a small change. If true, I shake my head at such a weak "fix" by this company.

This is awesome. Unlike Phalanx's boxart which turned out like this...

Pirates are funny people that do funny things to feel special, good for this guy. That's right, everybody, illegally downloading roms instead of working out the licensing really puts official efforts to shame! Can't wait for Nintendo to just go out of business and let the pirates make all these great games and give them away for free, too. Future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.

(don't let the sarcasm hit you on the way out)

I, too, enjoy holding a fan up to my face and rubbing it around...what? It's refreshing, I tell you!

@BulbasaurusRex Where did I endorse piracy at all? Oh, right, I never did.

These minis aren't for people that care about owning the original cartridges. If you do care about owning the cartridges, nice, but owning one of these is about having an easy way to play without paying for a retro cart collection that collector's grip tightly. Having to include hardware to put in cartridges would also make the thing more bulky, plus it confuses the digital only people they are really selling to anyway. Cartridges aren't something they want to officially support anymore, what with the batteries needing to be replaced all these years later. Really, makes sense just to ignore that feature.

Niantic needed to make a list of stuff and avoid letting it get into the app, and you'd think a nuclear wasteland would be high on that list. Guess not, though.

Nintendo is doing it right, Sega needs to step up its game. It should go back to the drawing board on its mini Sega if it wants anyone to care, because it's a really bad deal. Horrible emulation, really bad controllers, and that really bad sound, jeez.

I'm all about that bass.

Where we're going...

**puts on glasses**

we don't need SpaceRoads.

Mobile hype is volatile in ways that can be scary. Best not to copy Konami and end up catering to whims of the fickle mobile creatures. I'm kind of happy this is coming down from something so hyped and out of line, it's good for people to come back to reality on this.

3DS could run this with 3D and probably be the best version, but apparently Nintendo platforms were left out. Not really interested unless they correct this.

Wow, this looks a lot nicer than the kickstarter book if you ask me. Can't wait to see more of what's inside but 320 pages is pretty huge.

@Kirk Well then I have to totally disagree with you. Nintendo is fully in their rights and I support them. Sad to see you don't.

@Kirk I hope you're not suggesting Nintendo is in the wrong for doing what you say. Just saying, Nintendo should care when products try to cash in on their original work, and I'll support such products only as long as they work with the company to make sure they are legally in an amicable position and not seen as trespassing on intellectual property, which we have a real problem with these days.

NES Mini is the direction Nintendo needed for some time, it speaks to such a huge market. I hope they sell a ton with this little gaming delight. NES games are better than most crappy phone games and just as easy to get into if you just try, let's keep gaming high quality! Nintendo saved the industry once, time to save it again.

Aonuma toys with the fans again. Thanks, now unleash the crazy interpretations of this man's cryptic ramblings, lol.

Hmmm, not really interested...but I think I'll listen to some ♪DAYYTONNNNNNA♪

Blue, blue, skies. Blue, blue, skies, I see!

Next hot tip: how to cheat at cookie clicker!!!

This isn't a sandbox game, so no worries everybody. Zelda will never be sandbox unless you like to call games what they aren't, like calling Metroid Prime a first person shooter when it's barely that at all and misses what Prime's gameplay really is.

I played this on PS3 a few years back and haven't felt the desire to play it again. It's like a 3D Zelda game where everyone is on steroids.

So, basically Darksiders = Ocarina of Time + WWF No Mercy

@AVahne Alright, I see what you are saying, but that Atgames device was not what I want in terms of quality. It's still good enough for some, but give me a new wired controller any day made by the official company with quality emulation including sound. A lot of people, even if they don't notice the emulation issues, they will notice the crappy controller that's included and realize that half the games of the number stamped on the box are crappy. Nintendo is doing it right, and I have more faith than to believe will put out even a second version of this. SNES-Mini? Hopefully one of those with about as many games. That's about the end of this for a while, though, as the they will not drop VC on their consoles/smartphones (maybe, why not?).

A collector's item that plays 30 really fun games without resorting to piracy. Pirates weren't going to buy it anyway and are likely only considering getting one to try to hack it when there's no point. It would be like offering someone a way to illegally download 30 MP3s instead of just wising up and paying the amazingly reasonable $2 per song instead and support a company you enjoy.