File Name: | Test Sprites |
Added: | 04-11-2007 06:03:07 |
Authors: | Lavos |
Tool: | Romi's Spritetool |
Type: | Standard |
Dynamic: | No |
Disassembly: | No |
Includes GFX: | Yes |
Description: | Same file as before, but without the ROM. |
A look in the file reveals that many, if not all sprites in this pack, are simply edits of already existing sprites. Some of them even only exists for graphical reasons and hasn't got an edited ASM file
at all. That means, none of them really fits in out standards.
Here is a list of what the sprites do and they originally were:
- Coloured boss bass: Different speed and, in case for the blue bass, jumping height from mikeyk's boss bass. Of course, they're all absolete by Sonniku's version but even then, the changes are all too small to pass the purge.
- Giant Buzzy Beetle: A Giant Koopa. If we're honest then Koopas and Buzzy Beetles are in a way the same sprite but different graphics and fire immunity. Unfortunetally, this one isn't even fireproof.
- Zoombie Shroom: I... certainly have no idea what this sprite represents. It seems to be based of mikeyk's shy guy, though... Then again, so did he a couple other sprites.
- Pirahna Fish and Ghoul Shroom: A giant Shy Guy but set to hurt you when you touch it. And what they should represent is a mystary anyway.
- Cannon Shy Guy: Just a remap of mikeyk's birdo sprite (the one which shoots bullet bills, not eggs). It does play a differend sound effect but... You know. (It also features some routines in the ASM file except they aren't called in the code.)
- The monster fish isn't even a real custom sprites. Instead, it is a tweaked Porcu Puffer (making it even a better example that some of these sprites solely exists for their graphics)
Some of the sprites also had broken colour and page settings (they don't mach up with the included palette files and some of them used the first sprite page, not the second one where they were supposed to be).
In the end, this pack is a simple proof that the submission rules were very lousy back then. Thankfully, they have been changed now so such packs haven't got anything to search in the modern sections.
Edit: Improved the log at some points.