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Map Gab / Karnov (NES)
« on: January 09, 2010, 01:48:46 am »
Hello all! This site is great, and combines my two favorite hobbies - video games and cartography!
I noticed that there weren't any maps for one of my fav games, Karnov, so I felt obligated to give back. I created a map for the first stage.....it took about 2 hours to put together with Nestopia screenshots and editing in Photoshop....however, stage 1 is the simplest stage in the game, so also the easiest map to make - most of the later stages have multiple paths, which would make interesting maps, but also would take much longer to compile. Is there some way to extract the maps straight from the ROM? Or would that be too easy.
For this map, I left all of the visible items intact, as well as the stage's boss, but edited out all of the regular enemies. There are also items which only appear by jumping in certain places, but #1 none are needed to complete the game and #2 I don't know where most of these are...
Anyway, here's stage 1. Please provide some feedback before I invent my time in stages 2-9.
I noticed that there weren't any maps for one of my fav games, Karnov, so I felt obligated to give back. I created a map for the first stage.....it took about 2 hours to put together with Nestopia screenshots and editing in Photoshop....however, stage 1 is the simplest stage in the game, so also the easiest map to make - most of the later stages have multiple paths, which would make interesting maps, but also would take much longer to compile. Is there some way to extract the maps straight from the ROM? Or would that be too easy.
For this map, I left all of the visible items intact, as well as the stage's boss, but edited out all of the regular enemies. There are also items which only appear by jumping in certain places, but #1 none are needed to complete the game and #2 I don't know where most of these are...
Anyway, here's stage 1. Please provide some feedback before I invent my time in stages 2-9.