http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2013/04/25/the-anatomy-of-metroid-i-welcome-to-zebes/ Defunct, amateurish, game design analysis by Jeremy Parish Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:31:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.7 http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2013/04/25/the-anatomy-of-metroid-i-welcome-to-zebes/#comment-1603 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:38:22 +0000 http://telebunny.net/toastyblog/?p=7661#comment-1603 @The Undesigner: Ah, okay, cool. I’d always wondered about that. I’m certainly no expert myself. I’ve read some of the technical documents on the NES, and am fascinated by stuff like that (I am a computer engineer by trade), but I’m not overly familiar with the architecture, and haven’t dived into the world of ROM hacking. I want to, though! Maybe I’ll find some time eventually. It’s awesome that you’ve dug into it at least to some degree!

]]> http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2013/04/25/the-anatomy-of-metroid-i-welcome-to-zebes/#comment-1602 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:12:20 +0000 http://telebunny.net/toastyblog/?p=7661#comment-1602 But I don’t ride BART! Please keep this evil doppelganger far away from me.

]]> http://www.anatomyofgames.com/2013/04/25/the-anatomy-of-metroid-i-welcome-to-zebes/#comment-1601 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:52:40 +0000 http://telebunny.net/toastyblog/?p=7661#comment-1601 @Sarge: Sorry if I was unclear; I was talking about the fact that rooms generally switch *between* vertical and horizontal scrolling when you go through a door, not the fact that scrolling is always mono-directional. The fact that it’s mono-directional is certainly hard-coded into the game, and I suspect that with the size of the map already straining the limits of the cartridge’s memory it would have been pretty hard for them to do it any other way. I’m not an expert on NES hardware or assembly code, though – far from it. I merely dabbled for a short while.

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