Homebrew: Mega Man: The Sequel Wars - Episode Red released

[RHDNBot]

Update By: Woodfrog

Note: This homebrew game was removed and is not available on site. Please check the Related URL for policy on this matter.

In 1994, Capcom released Mega Man: The Wily Wars, a remake of Mega Man 1,2 and 3 for the Sega Genesis, which let players experience the classic NES titles in 16-bit glory. However, the later NES titles, 4-6, were left on their home system and never got a conversion. There was a gap that never got filled.

Until now. Mega Man: The Sequel Wars continues where Wily Wars left off and aims to recreate Mega Man 4, 5 and 6. It is a homebrew project built from the ground up while still running on the Sega Genesis. Episode Red is the first release of the project and contains the full remake of Mega Man 4. Experience this underappreciated classic with new stylish 16-bit flair. The full power of the Mega Drive is used to deliver detailed graphics, elaborate parallax backgrounds, two quality soundtracks and a slew of gameplay improvements and additions. Great care has been put into recreating the original game faithfully while adding new features.

Even if you're a veteran that knows the original like the back of their hand, there is new content to enjoy. Use new weapons or play as completely different characters. And remember... Only for the Mega Drive!

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[Special]

Wow, now this is really cool.

[kaiisen]

This is truly fantastic, the visuals feel like it's an official game.

At first, the only thing that comes to my mind that could use some further improvement is the audio, it just feels like the SFXs overlap the BGM way too much most of the times so you can't enjoy them properly as you navigate through the stages.

Can't wait to see the rest of this project.

Thank you very much.

[Special]

And now it's dead...

[tolaris]

IANAL. And I think this is an awesome project.

But, this being a fully-built homebrew containing trademarked names and copyrighted character likenesses will put it on the wrong side of laws in many countries. A romhack is legal because it doesn't distribute the original copyrighted content, but rather modifies the assets the user already possesses (presumably, legally).

This won't be safe to publish on RHDN, and it's at risk of receiving take-down notices. If you really want to finish this project, hide that you are doing so until it's entirely done. Then publish it and let the Internet make copies before the notices come. By launching a partial release, you've drawn attention early.

Good luck, the demo is neat. I hope it all goes well.

[kaine23]

It's tons of fun!

[Green Jerry]

I just saw the recent changes and lexluthermiester is claiming this is a hack and that it was submitted in the wrong section (The specified removal reason was: Contains a ROM file and was in the wrong section. Was in homebrew and belongs in hacks.), even though the description said it's an actual homebrew written from scratch and not a hack of The Wily Wars.

[Special]

lexluthermiester was just straight up wrong, it's pretty clear from this...

NOTE: this is not a rom hack of Wily Wars! It is fully coded from scratch in C using the SGDK library. As such, the game will be distributed as full ROM releases as there is no original game to patch to.

[Rabite890]

"Episode Red is the first release of the project and contains the full remake of Mega Man 4. Experience this underappreciated classic with new stylish 16-bit flair."

Isn't Megaman 4 the second most popular game of the NES series?

[PowerPanda]

"Episode Red is the first release of the project and contains the full remake of Mega Man 4. Experience this underappreciated classic with new stylish 16-bit flair."

Isn't Megaman 4 the second most popular game of the NES series?

Yeah, it's considered one of the best. Most people would rank it just below MM2, but I actually like it better.

[Rudy]

IANAL. And I think this is an awesome project.

But, this being a fully-built homebrew containing trademarked names and copyrighted character likenesses will put it on the wrong side of laws in many countries. A romhack is legal because it doesn't distribute the original copyrighted content, but rather modifies the assets the user already possesses (presumably, legally).

This won't be safe to publish on RHDN, and it's at risk of receiving take-down notices. If you really want to finish this project, hide that you are doing so until it's entirely done. Then publish it and let the Internet make copies before the notices come. By launching a partial release, you've drawn attention early.

Good luck, the demo is neat. I hope it all goes well.

How would that be difference from a rom hack that changes Link in a Link to the Past to Mario? The IPS patch while it doesn't include the data from ALTTP would include all the sprites from Mario that are getting included? Pure translations are different since they mostly include text, but rom hacks VS a homebrew that includes copyrighted material isn't quite that different

[Tsukiyomaru0]

How would that be difference from a rom hack that changes Link in a Link to the Past to Mario? The IPS patch while it doesn't include the data from ALTTP would include all the sprites from Mario that are getting included? Pure translations are different since they mostly include text, but rom hacks VS a homebrew that includes copyrighted material isn't quite that different

Lemme tell you a history:
Once Nintendo re-released "Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3" on WiiU VC with all the e-Reader content included. Sometime later, someone submitted a romhack for the GBA version that backports the WiiU VC's exclusive content to the original GBA one.

It was taken down.

[JP32]

"Episode Red is the first release of the project and contains the full remake of Mega Man 4. Experience this underappreciated classic with new stylish 16-bit flair."

Isn't Megaman 4 the second most popular game of the NES series?

2 is the most popular(and overrated) one with 3 being the second most popular one, then its toss up between 1&4, but after 3 people got tired of the endless megaman sequels so they get a lot of unjustified hate, especially considering how much garbage nes platformers there are.

[tc]

Lemme tell you a history:
Once Nintendo re-released "Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3" on WiiU VC with all the e-Reader content included. Sometime later, someone submitted a romhack for the GBA version that backports the WiiU VC's exclusive content to the original GBA one.

It was taken down.

That was an actual, official Nintendo product.

Very different in spirit from a romhack that happens to use copyrighted material as a homage or parody.

[dukemagus]

Not 100% sure of the line of thought the admins took to post it without hosting it, But if it was a patch for Wily Wars, the end user would (theoretically) own a copy of the actual game, and that makes the patch less controversial.

Since the game was made from scratch and availiable as a full rom with Capcom property on it, there's no way of saying that the end user "owns the original" and just patched it.

In the end, it's a shout out and letting other sites host it is safer.


But that creates a precedent for posting shout outs for other games made for retro consoles "from scratch". From Pier Solar and Coffeee Crisis from the hundreds of Commondore Amiga.


So... Open the floodgates or let this title as an exception?

[USC]

Dukemagus: Commercial games are already prohibited per site policy, so Piers Solar and Coffee Crisis would be out of bounds anyway.

We try to move quickly when a full ROM of a commercial game is accidentally uploaded to the site. In this case, one reviewer felt the submission was in violation of policy and removed it out of an abundance of caution. The rest of the staff is currently discussing this matter to determine how it should be handled (e.g. if the submission actually violated policy). We'll update once a group decision has been made.

[matador]

I was able to test it and I saw that the work was well refined.

[Tsukiyomaru0]

But honestly... I think it could be brought back up, but perhaps with a legal disclaimer that it's a non-profit recreation.

[hdofu]

IANAL. And I think this is an awesome project.

But, this being a fully-built homebrew containing trademarked names and copyrighted character likenesses will put it on the wrong side of laws in many countries. A romhack is legal because it doesn't distribute the original copyrighted content, but rather modifies the assets the user already possesses (presumably, legally).

This won't be safe to publish on RHDN, and it's at risk of receiving take-down notices. If you really want to finish this project, hide that you are doing so until it's entirely done. Then publish it and let the Internet make copies before the notices come. By launching a partial release, you've drawn attention early.

Good luck, the demo is neat. I hope it all goes well.

Capcom is usually chill as long as they don't start asking for the moneys

[Zynk]

Capcom is usually chill as long as they don't start asking for the moneys

https://twitter.com/Protodude/status/1328129705787142144

Historically, Capcom have never ordered a Mega Man fan game to cease development. As long as it's not for profit, you are alright. This has been the case for a long time.