SM: Decision

[JoshShoeWah]

Hello.

SM:Decision
Exploration hack that forces you to make decisions thru out the game.
This is a small full hack of Super Metroid about one third to one half the size of vanilla.
As you travel thru Zebes slaying Mother Brains Minions you will be forced to make a few decisions.
Each one will determine how you play the game.
No matter your decision the game is still 100% beatable
52 Total obtainable items. ending percent scaled to 100%
Max% is 100
No tricks are needed to beat the game other than 1 shortcharge (not a hard one)
Good luck and have fun!


Screenshots:
https://imgur.com/a/x4qpY
https://imgur.com/a/nVqB1
https://imgur.com/a/zjMNj
https://imgur.com/a/TIfVB

[Jet3rd]

Fun so far. Found a permastuck in the first room though. If you don't have morph ur screwed.

[spoiler][/spoiler]

[JoshShoeWah]

Oh thank you. I remember seeing that and I kept forgetting to fix it

[Steel Sparkle]

I like the premise of this hack.

[JoshShoeWah]

Thank you. Really in creating this I was hoping a more talented hack Author would take this idea and make a full sized hack much better than this one :)

[Jet3rd]

Also here. You can't really get out of the water unless you do a sorta tricky walljump.

[spoiler][/spoiler]

[JoshShoeWah]

I wouldn't call this a perma stuck being that you can get out.. I didn't find the wall jump to be too hard there are some points in the water where you might have to crouch jump to get over somethings

[Jet3rd]

Well I only marked it cause your hack description said no tricks. And since walljumping is a trick some people who can't walljump well yet might find it difficult. It wasn't that hard for me.

Also having alot of fun with the hack so far. Spring ball ftw.

[JoshShoeWah]

Thank you :) I didn't think of wall jumping as a trick lol. You are right :)

[nodever2]

Grapple ftw! :)
I just played this hack for a while, had a lot of fun! (couldn't check the exact time due to a glitch; more on that below).
This is as far as I got (sorry for bad image quality, I play hacks on my TV):
[spoiler][/spoiler]

However, there were some issues that I ran across, maybe it would be helpful to you if I pointed them out:
1: Tiling errors with slopes that lead to permastucks were present in a few areas that I found. Most notably in Ceres, in that area where you are supposed to.. walk through the blocks? (If that's actually what you're supposed to do anyway.. that part is strange). Another part where I found a permastuck is depicted in the image below:
[spoiler][/spoiler]
There's an invisible slope here which pushed me into the block above, and I couldn't get out.

2: Some saving glitches: There's a glitch which seemed to create a second save file even though I never did (I've ran into this glitch before while hacking as well, I'd be curious if anyone here who is more experienced knows anything about it). Later, I went to select my save file again and the file select screen was even more corrupted:
[spoiler][/spoiler]
Note that the file itself seemed to work fine, and as far as I could tell I had all of my items.

3: Anomaly? I don't know if this is a tiling error or if it is intended and I am missing something, but there is a spot in this wall where I can go inside but there doesn't appear to be anything actually there:
[spoiler][/spoiler]

Anyway, nice job either way. You should also post this on the main site sometime :)

[JoshShoeWah]

Okay so the red soil with the hole is a tiling error. thanks for point it out. the perma stuck with the slope also an error had no idea about that one. thank you for finding it lol. they save corruption ummm I have no idea what caused that being that this is my first hack..
Glad you are having fun even with the tiling errors :)
also the Ceres. You are not supposed to walk thru that. it was intentional for you to jump thru it. its kind of weird the way it is. but i could not figure anything else out

[nodever2]

Glad I could help find errors! If I find any more I'll try to take pictures of them.

[Jet3rd]

Found a pretty bad graphical glitch with this door transition. Sure sure if it's just my emulator or the hack.

[spoiler]https://youtu.be/Jp2oZis66rs[/spoiler]

[Jiffy]

Just to let you know, you've credited Scyzer and Sadiztyk Fish, even though they are the same person. No worries though, I'll let it slip.
Gonna give this a playthrough, and see what works.

[JoshShoeWah]

I thought they where the same,but was not sure. I'm new around here. Have fun!

[JoshShoeWah]

Found a pretty bad graphical glitch with this door transition. Sure sure if it's just my emulator or the hack.

[spoiler]https://youtu.be/Jp2oZis66rs[/spoiler]

fixing this now, I fixed this in another state of the room and did not realize that it did not change the other state. thank you. good find

[JoshShoeWah]

Found a pretty bad graphical glitch with this door transition. Sure sure if it's just my emulator or the hack.

Fixed this and reuploaded it. thanks for sharing

[Jet3rd]

Sweet! Thanks for the quick work. Il download the new patch.

[JoshShoeWah]

If playing on Old Rom do not save first tourian save. Do Not Enter the room. its bugged causes perma stuck

[DonnyDonovan]

Pretty good.   Really nice concept, a little less sold on some of the execution.   The old challenge hack Metroid Limit did something like this where you had to choose either Super Missiles or Power Bombs, and it really impacted your options from there.   Eventually you would have both but it totally changed the way you played through a good part of the game.   I wish this game did that a bit more.   The only change I really noticed by my choices is it felt like foregoing grapple made parts of the ship much tougher or unreachable until later on.

I'm almost done, but I can't seem to reach like half of Norfair.   The whole middle part of the map I can't figure out.   Is the one room in Norfair (you know the one I mean) just a troll room or is there something I'm supposed to do in there? 

[JoshShoeWah]

I'm almost done, but I can't seem to reach like half of Norfair.   The whole middle part of the map I can't figure out.   Is the one room in Norfair (you know the one I mean) just a troll room or is there something I'm supposed to do in there?

Im actually not sure which one you mean lol. Could you elaborate a little lol?

Also thanks for the feedback. i agree it could have been a lot better executed. I am not a super creative person in making this I was hoping for someone to take this idea and run with it, in a way

[DonnyDonovan]

Room in norfair --

[spoiler]The heated room near the entrance with the name in it and the animals[/spoiler]

[JoshShoeWah]

Oh that is just an Easter egg room. It does nothing. Have you been able to explore the whole map but not find lower norfair entrance?

[DonnyDonovan]

No I found LN.   There's a big part of the middle of the map that's still blue and I can't seem to find a way in.    I'll keep looking.

[JoshShoeWah]

No I found LN.   There's a big part of the middle of the map that's still blue and I can't seem to find a way in.    I'll keep looking.

[spoiler]Did you get past the one room with the nova?[/spoiler]