REQ: Shantae (GBC)

[br1sby]

Shantae was a beautiful sidescrolling game that got released near to the end of the GBC's lifecycle, causing a lot of people to miss it. The art is seriously impressive and undoubtedly pushes the GBC's technical limits. Mapping it may be a bit of a challenge since the game employs a real-time transition between day and night which changes the maps' asthetiques and also reveals "fireflies," secret collectible items. Here's an illustration of the world-map (not in-game)



http://media.ignimgs.com/guides/guides/15286/images/MapAncient.jpg

[TerraEsperZ]

I once thought about doing it, but at the time Visualboy Advance didn't emulate it correctly making it playable but with garbled graphics.



Of course, nowadays I just have too many games to map to even consider it, but hopefully I'll at least have the time to play it now that VBA-M emulates it perfectly.



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Current projects: Metal Storm (NES), Clock Tower (SNES), Ristar-The Shooting Star (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), Bucky O'Hare (NES)

[JonLeung]

I thought it was neat that being one of the last Game Boy Color games, you could play a specifically advanced version on the Game Boy Advance.



That has better colours, so map that...though I would put it in the Game Boy Color section regardless.

[Will]

You're doing terrific Terra, but don't let your long list of projects become an obstacle. Whichever projects you are closest to completing it would be a good idea to get it over and done with.

[Grizzly]

IGN has maps for this games, but as JPEG. Still they are worth looking at:

http://uk.guides.ign.com/guides/15286/page_2.html">http://uk.guides.ign.com/guides/15286/page_2.html

[JonLeung]

A bit off-topic, but there has been http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=268132">talk of a Shantae WiiWare game.  That could be sweet.

[TerraEsperZ]

I once saw an impressive demo for a GBA sequel of Shantae. It would be cool if they were to release it for WiiWare as a retro title like Mega Man 9.



Which reminds me that I really need to find time to actually play the GBC game for more than a few minutes.



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Current projects: Metal Storm (NES), Clock Tower (SNES), Ristar-The Shooting Star (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), Bucky O'Hare (NES)

[Tropicon]

Well it looks like IGN beat me to it but I'll give a shot anyway.  Don't know where to begin so I'll just start mapping.