Metroid Fusion: Special Edition (Now with hard mode!)

[Emberson9000]

This mod is really impressive, but I noticed when playing hard mode, the game consistently softlocked after entering the door to the Charge Beam boss. I would walk in, the game would freeze for a short period of time, and then the screen would transition into a mass of destructable blocks and garbage everywhere. The normal mode worked fine, but I'd love for Hard Mode to be fixed. The color choices for Hard Mode are great, even if I didn't notice too many changes in the actual difficulty other than maybe an enemy taking an extra missile to defeat. I wouldn't really know how much harder it gets though, so I'm eager to see where this mod is going to go.

[sheck]

I just discovered this and this is a great mod - I love that the vanilla progression is untouched, but there are still so many little changes that allow items and routes to be accessed earlier. Replacing so many screw attack blocks with power bomb blocks really makes things move faster even just playing linearly (I loved being able to get those damn shinespark items in Sector 6 without backtracking).
However, one softlock I just discovered is in the pump room in Sector 4.
I played through normally, getting missiles, morph ball, charge beam, then bombs. In lower sector 2, I got the early power bombs, then used those to escape TRO without collecting plasma or high jump. Then I went to Sector 4 and got speed boost from Serris. At this point, I tried to go lower the water so I could collect the few items that opens up. However, the pump room computer was not available to use. So once my shinespark wore off I was stuck. You can drop down and collect the missiles below the computer, but you can't jump up the two blocks to get out of that little chamber. It's too low to grab the ledge, but you can't bomb jump underwater (and I don't have high jump/spring ball yet).
Anyway, I guess the pump room is inactive until you're "supposed" to be in AQA after getting high jump. The more you know.

[H A M]

when you download sector 6 map data it displays the boss icon which ruins the surprise
also there are 2 boss icons when you download sector 4 map data
when playing mfse in the "intended" path

[ShadowOne333]

Been having a blast with MF Special Edition.
The changes in mechanics and visuals really make it seem like a much more fluid and pleasing game. :)

It's a shame that MAGE currently doesn't support the Japanese version of Fusion though.
With it, it would be very much feasible to port Special Edition into the Japanese version to have the added bonus of the Hard Mode included within the same ROM with a sole-standalone patch.
Hopefully in the near future.

[FelixWright]

Been having a blast with MF Special Edition.
The changes in mechanics and visuals really make it seem like a much more fluid and pleasing game. :)

It's a shame that MAGE currently doesn't support the Japanese version of Fusion though.
With it, it would be very much feasible to port Special Edition into the Japanese version to have the added bonus of the Hard Mode included within the same ROM with a sole-standalone patch.
Hopefully in the near future.

MAGE alone isn't the reason this hack exists. You would also have to wait for ports of the MFOR/sequence breaking fusion patches in order to port MFSE to the JP ROM. That said MAGE 2 will support more regions so that's a start.

[scm440]

MAGE 2？？

[FelixWright]

MAGE 2？？

Lol! Yes! It won't be out any time soon though. (we will be getting MAGE 1.4 before we get 2)
If you havent already you ought to join MAGConst.

[ShadowOne333]

Been having a blast with MF Special Edition.
The changes in mechanics and visuals really make it seem like a much more fluid and pleasing game. :)

It's a shame that MAGE currently doesn't support the Japanese version of Fusion though.
With it, it would be very much feasible to port Special Edition into the Japanese version to have the added bonus of the Hard Mode included within the same ROM with a sole-standalone patch.
Hopefully in the near future.

MAGE alone isn't the reason this hack exists. You would also have to wait for ports of the MFOR/sequence breaking fusion patches in order to port MFSE to the JP ROM. That said MAGE 2 will support more regions so that's a start.

Oh yes for sure, while having MAGE support the Japanese ROM wouldn't make porting SE to it a breeze, it'd certainly help to at least port all the graphical and level layout stuff from it.
The ASM and other code specific to MFSE would still need a proper port into the Japanese ROM.

Either that or port the Hard mode code from MF(J) into MF(U) :P

[TwistedPretzel85]

Excellent hack! I love being able to sequence break and collect items like Power Bombs and the Plasma Beam early. The one issue I had playing was after clearing the Nightmare boss, I wound up running in place endlessly after grabbing the Gravity Suit and was unable to escape. Hopefully this will be ironed out in future updates. If there is any way to make the computer's dialogues skippable with Start, that would also be much appreciated. On the whole, very nice work.

[CrystalUM_]

A great hack for a great game. And frankly speaking, the hack adds what the main game lacked. It is the Sequence Break. I hope that in the future it will be possible to play the WHOLE GAME without visiting the navigation room.

[Lucky Dearly]

this is a pretty cool hack. just wondering if it's compatible with the Fusion randomizer?

[Nicholas Steel]

There's only one thing that I absoloutely hate in Metroid: Zero Mission and Metroid: Fusion... and that is breaking Spin Jump cancels your upward momentum.

Especially bad when fighting the B.O.X enemy. It's obvious what to do but the game fights your attempts to reach the overhead ladder whenever you try to Spin Jump to it.

Does this hack address this?

[Meinos Belfort]

No it dosen't
tho shouldn't be hard to do in ASM
(however why especially B.O.X Fight since well ...
there is monkey bar in both fight ? (well being useless for Core X one)

Tho i guess it is safe that Special edition
Won't receive any update until MAGE 2.0 as it
been a whole 2 year it didn't have any.
Unless there is a way to import JPN difficulty function
to Both EUR and US (which the wiser would be eur because of the
languages select even if less documented and dosen't have support for mage 1.X)

[Meinos Belfort]

this is a pretty cool hack. just wondering if it's compatible with the Fusion randomizer?

no , it is not as random and special both change the event behavior if i remember correctly.

[SpineShark]

There's only one thing that I absoloutely hate in Metroid: Zero Mission and Metroid: Fusion... and that is breaking Spin Jump cancels your upward momentum.

Especially bad when fighting the B.O.X enemy. It's obvious what to do but the game fights your attempts to reach the overhead ladder whenever you try to Spin Jump to it.

Does this hack address this?

If you hold up+left / up+right while spin jumping, you will consistently grab onto ceiling ladders.

[Nicholas Steel]

> -MFSE now has an optional hard mode patch, which includes some extra changes.

is there any elaboration on this?

[Nicholas Steel]

There's only one thing that I absoloutely hate in Metroid: Zero Mission and Metroid: Fusion... and that is breaking Spin Jump cancels your upward momentum.

Especially bad when fighting the B.O.X enemy. It's obvious what to do but the game fights your attempts to reach the overhead ladder whenever you try to Spin Jump to it.

Does this hack address this?

If you hold up+left / up+right while spin jumping, you will consistently grab onto ceiling ladders.

Until you shoot to deal with incoming missiles. Then you will fall because you broke spin jump. I end up awkwardly doing non-spin jumps to deal with the attacks while being able to grab the ladder. It'd also just feel better in general outside of boss fights.

[Nicholas Steel]

Hey, just ran in to a bug. I defeated Nightmare and when Samus landed from collecting Gravity Suit she became stuck in a running animation... hard locking the game as the cutscene of the suit upgrade never occurs and I've lost control of Samus.

Seems to happen while holding across when dismissing the "You've acquired Gravity Suit" message. Might be a bug in the vanilla game as I feel like I've experienced this before.

Edit: Also happens when taking damage during the final boss fight though it can knock you out of the bugged state if it knocks you in to a stunned state, might be either a issue with the hack or more likely, an issue with the really old emulator I'm using.