Insane Difficulty: Mega Man X: Hard Type v2.2.2 FINAL - Insane Difficulty

To share some news, I'm slowly reading the ASM behind this game.

After a week of full commitment to learning 65816 ASM, I've accomplished some very important things: Reducing the initial Max HP, reducing the HP gained with every Heart Upgrade, Reducing the Initial Ammo of every weapon (per stage), and reducing the Max Ammo per stage (the last two are different). About those 2 last, the player will have less Max Ammo (from 28 to about 6, I need to test it before deciding on the actual number), but you will actually start the stage with little to no ammo per weapon, about 2 shots per weapon. This will make ALL weapons matter more than ever. Whenever you get a recovery item for ammo, you will have to cleverly decide with weapon suits best the situation.

Next thing to look after in the code are subammo per weapon (which can be interpreted as cost, because I'll use that to differ each weapon's Max Ammo). Some weapons aren't as powerful as others (Storm Tornado and Homing Torpedo, I'm looking at you). So the player will not be able to just equip those weapons and storm the levels. Just go play the Sigma levels (when you already have all upgrades / weapons) and you'll see what I mean. Storm Tornado and Homing Torpedo are most usually everything you need.

Other things to look, before the next release:

Damage done per weapons (non-charged, charged, and against their respective weak boss. Also the level 4 buster).
Some of the normal enemies' HP.
Some of the bosses' HP (if I can make them higher, that would probably be a workaround to reducing the weapons' power).
Ammo recovered by the items.
Consider recovering large amounts of ammo with the usual 1-UP (as you already have infinite lives, yay! We'll see about this one, as that could be too much for a ASM noob like me).
Removing the random platforms in Highway stage.
Making the actual design of the next stage to mod.

Please make suggestions! Every feedback is greatly appreciated!

New name:

Mega Man X: Hot Load

Kaffe Myers, on 20 October 2013 - 05:38 PM, said:

That's a little too Kaffe for my taste. Heh.

Progress, people. I have nerfed the HP gained per Heart Upgrade. I think I've fixed a bug which ocurred because of that change.

On another note, Storm Eagle's stage is fully designed and modded, except for the boss fight, which I need to edit an event to make it work properly. As soon as I can edit that event, I'll be releasing Storm Eagle's stage.

There has also been some important changes (polish) to Highway Stage and Chill Penguin's Stage.

The hack seems to emphasize Mega Man's mobility skills.

Therefore...
Mega Man X: Air Gear
Mega Man X: Sky so high
Mega Man X: Parkour edition

Mega Man X: Pit of Death

Mega Man X: Where's My Mother Fucking Dash Hart

Mega Man X: Pew Pew
Mega Man X: Ω

Mega Man X: Hitler's Return (leaving people hangin', wondering when Hitler will appear)


If we go on maxi's line:
Mega Man X: Sky Rider

If I was ever to replace "Hard Type" (though I really like how it sounds), I would like it to have "Sigma" on its name. Kinda like "Sigma's trials", but you know... good.

Hart-Hunt, on 24 October 2013 - 01:56 PM, said:

Mega Man X: Sigma's Haters

Megaman X: Sigma Factor

http://en.wikipedia....ki/Sigma_factor

Why you hatin' on mah suggestions?

Update: v.0.2.5 released. See OP.

Storm Eagle's stage fully playable! The boss will be a disappointment, though.

Highway Stage and Chill Penguin's stage polished! Try them out!

Do not waste your ammo!

Update: v.0.2.9 released. See OP.

Boomer Kuwanger's stage fully playable!

Make good use of your newly acquired Storm Tornado!

Update: v.0.2.9b released. See OP.

Fixed some graphical issues caused by the editor. Also, Boomer Kuwanger's boss arena was slightly changed. Have fun.

Update: v.0.2.9c released. See OP.

Toned down some jumps, added a wall in Boomer Kuwanger's to avoid the boss teleporting out of the room.

Okay peeps, this is looking good. I've got some help with lots of insight in the Megaman X9 forums. And not only that... I've been greatly helped with ASM hacking!

The next version will include:

-Sting Chameleon's stage
-Different costs for each weapons
-Exit feature for all levels before beating them, allowing for getting upgrades, or doing scout runs (doesn't apply to Sigma's Stages, or Highway Stage)
-Huge tweaking in Highway Stage and Chill Penguin's Stage
-General polishing of all of the stages released so far

Stay tuned!

Sounds awesome dude. Looking forward to it.

We are very close!! Just a little bit more testing and polishing, and 0.3.0 will be out!

I have an honest, genuine question. ... what sets this hack apart from the MySelfTheThird's "Mega Man X Alpha" hack? I mean, I sincerely appreciate that you went out of your way to make sure things didn't look too insanely out of place, unlike MSTT. But from what I saw of the v0.2.9c video, this still seems like a general level redesign hack that changes it from a fun little platformer to a crazy obstacle course gauntlet. With a name like "Hardtype", I was expecting... something else, I suppose. Harder enemies, less power-ups... Things like that. It's a shame no one's bothered to make a convenient, all-inclusive editor for Mega Man X. Or at least a hack that lets you save alterations made to a stage in the debug mode.

Ah well. Plenty of people like these kinds of hacks, so the more, the merrier. Right? I wish you the best of luck in your editing, sir.

Update: v.0.3.0 released. See OP.

This update is a huge one, gentlemen. Please stop by the OP to see what I'm talking about.

Huge polishes all over the place!