Contra : Locked 'N' Loaded

[StryfeDC]

And he is not me

I didn't mean to belittle your efforts, and I appreciate the work you're putting into this project. I was wondering about the general 2d platforming, action, and shooter possibilities.

I wouldn't be interested in a traditional OBOR beat'em up Castlevania anyways. 

[Mrgrill247]

If you do a search on Castlevania, you will find a few mods.  A great example would be Vampire Hunters which is bascially a fun game.

Enough about Castlevania in this Contra thread, lets get back to what we really want to know from Bloodbane, Demo 3!

And he is not me

I didn't mean to belittle your efforts, and I appreciate the work you're putting into this project. I was wondering about the general 2d platforming, action, and shooter possibilities.

I wouldn't be interested in a traditional OBOR beat'em up Castlevania anyways. 

[Bloodbane]

I forgot that Vyck and I are also working on Castlevania mod named Devil Slayer. Haven't heard anything new from him lately.

I was wondering about the general 2d platforming, action, and shooter possibilities.

 Hmmm.... there are couples issues but in general, they are possible.

 About Demo 3, I don't have plan for that yet. It's too early to talk about that.

[mgman]

Heh, he's right about that!

Anyway, if you're looking for sprites, backgrounds, music, I can definitely try and get them for you. I can rip sprites/backgrounds from Contra Hard Corps now, so if you want, tell exactly which.

[Bloodbane]

 Thanks mgman, I still making plans for next levels but at least for now you could help me rip missing sprites for Sheena. The spritesheet you showed me before missing these:

- Shooting animation. No, I can't use aiming sprites for shooting. Shooting sprites has slight difference in arm position. While shooting, arm is slightly pushed back.
- Bike Ride animation. I need sprites WITHOUT the vehicle. So that means, the Bike must be erased.
- Drop animation. I am referring to state when Sheena drops off platform, ceiling or railing or walks off platform. During this state, Sheena can aim and shoot in 8 direction. Since she flips, technically there are only 5 sprite set+ static drop pose when she didn't do anything while dropping.

 I hope this is understandable.

 Now while I'm here, I would like to announce this. This mod's name is Contra : Locked 'n Loaded. I'm gonna need to find proper fonts for the Locked 'n Loaded part in the title.

 Anyways, my plan with this mod is to have multiple mission. As you know, just from Contra series, I could use background and sprites from Contra 3, Contra Hardcorps, Contra 4, and the arcade Contras. Excluding NES and gameboy that is. If I use resources from other games, there would be even more to be used.
 Jumbling all of these resources into one mission is too much so I decided to make couple missions within this mod.
 Extra mission in the 2nd demo is one of the missions. I have plan for other mission but I better focus on the main one first. Umm... I shouldn't called it main actually since every mission should be equal.

 Currently, I'm working on Fang and most if not all of his sprites are ready. Just need to add remaps, adjust mechanics and test him.

[mgman]

Ok, I will try to get them for you

BTW, the Contra 4/Contra Rebirth inspiration is made of WIN.

[Darkmanx_429]

If you do a search on Castlevania, you will find a few mods.  A great example would be Vampire Hunters which is bascially a fun game.

Enough about Castlevania in this Contra thread, lets get back to what we really want to know from Bloodbane, Demo 3!

And he is not me

I didn't mean to belittle your efforts, and I appreciate the work you're putting into this project. I was wondering about the general 2d platforming, action, and shooter possibilities.

I wouldn't be interested in a traditional OBOR beat'em up Castlevania anyways. 

Don't hate on Castlevania, my mod is coming along too! lol
Bane, I have access to the Contra 4: Rocked and Loaded OST if you want to include the music in your mod...

[Bloodbane]

 Rocked n Loaded? from which part that soundtrack is?

[Darkmanx_429]

Rocked n Loaded? from which part that soundtrack is?

http://www.rockednloaded.com/

Trust me, you want want it. It's primarly tracks from Contra 4. It's not as custom as the music for my mod, but it will make your tracks sound a hell of alot better. If you are interested and like what you hear then hit me up on the PM.

[Bloodbane]

If you are interested and like what you hear then hit me up on the PM.

 It's tough to judge music without listening. Hmmm... I will gonna have to find time to view the video.

 Anyways as usual, another thanks to God for these updates!
 1st, Shot of Power Shot,

Power Shot:



 It's similar to Fang's B weapon except that it can be fired in 8 direction. Like the original weapon, it's close range weapon however in this mod it packs high damage.
 Speaking of Fang, let's welcome him to this mod!

Fang:



 Thanks to DJGameFreakIguana for half of his sprites . I ripped the rest including motor bike sprites myself. He has 4 remaps. You can see one of them above.
 This is his ride bike version:



 If you don't know from what levels these shots were taken, that means you haven't played every level in 2nd demo.

 Aside of showing Fang, the 2nd shots show new level. The background was ripped from a boss fight in Cyber Lip. Here it is:



 If you have played that game, you'll see that the level is flat and limited (well that's a boss level anyway), I have to do couple edits to split background and front layer and to add variations to the level, especially for adding platforms. The level itself is 80% finished BTW.

 And from the HUD, you can see two weapon icons which show 2 current weapons. Just like in Contra 3, bright icon shows the held weapon while dark icon the stored one. This also means, another key is used to switch the weapon.

 Now to finish that level and make new vertical level;)!.

[mgman]

You should make a vertical descending level

Or if that's what you're planning to do, awesome!

[yotatouch]

The "power shot" looks very interesting! Hope to see it in action soon.

[Darkmanx_429]

If you are interested and like what you hear then hit me up on the PM.

 It's tough to judge music without listening. Hmmm... I will gonna have to find time to view the video.

 Anyways as usual, another thanks to God for these updates!
 1st, Shot of Power Shot,

Power Shot:



 It's similar to Fang's B weapon except that it can be fired in 8 direction. Like the original weapon, it's close range weapon however in this mod it packs high damage.
 Speaking of Fang, let's welcome him to this mod!

Fang:



 Thanks to DJGameFreakIguana for half of his sprites . I ripped the rest including motor bike sprites myself. He has 4 remaps. You can see one of them above.
 This is his ride bike version:



 If you don't know from what levels these shots were taken, that means you haven't played every level in 2nd demo.

 Aside of showing Fang, the 2nd shots show new level. The background was ripped from a boss fight in Cyber Lip. Here it is:



 If you have played that game, you'll see that the level is flat and limited (well that's a boss level anyway), I have to do couple edits to split background and front layer and to add variations to the level, especially for adding platforms. The level itself is 80% finished BTW.

 And from the HUD, you can see two weapon icons which show 2 current weapons. Just like in Contra 3, bright icon shows the held weapon while dark icon the stored one. This also means, another key is used to switch the weapon.

 Now to finish that level and make new vertical level;)!.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EuAAlDeY74#

[Bloodbane]

 Darkman, you need to get used to reply button instead of quote or at least remove the unnecessary part of your quote. You are wasting space here.
 About the teaser, cool remixes! So how do I get them?

You should make a vertical descending level

Or if that's what you're planning to do, awesome!

 That's correct! That's exactly what I'm making now.

[Damon Caskey]

Bloodbane, I just added a new setting that might make life much easier on you with this project. It will appear when the latest release is auto compiled, but I'll go ahead and post a zipped copy for you.

rangeb {min} {max}

It works just like rangea (and has same defaults of -1000 1000), but checks base instead of altitude.

I added it for dealing with a combination of traversing platforms on the Z axis and entities with Z range attacks. Instead of the entity Z jumping up to the platform, it kept trying to do its Z attacks. Rangeb fixed that right up.

For you I imagine it might keep an entity on a different platform from shooting or whatnot at something it can't actually hit.

DC