Rockman 5: Wily’s Dream Space Released
April 10, 2009 by Ryudo
Filed under Community Developments, Mega Man News
Remember how back in the day Mega Man 5 used to be tough to beat, but nowadays it’s one of the easiest games to best in the franchise (unless you do some crazy No Charge Shot/Slide challenge, among others) without much effort? Always wanted one of the most favoured of the NES titles to be much, much tougher?
Furthermore have you always wanted some Kirby in your Mega Man 5?
Well Tar, maker of the Rockman 2 hack Rockman 2 Minimum has both these things covered with the release of Rockman 5: Wily’s Dream Space, a hack of Rockman 5 for NES.
What is Wily’s Dream Space? It’s a complete overhaul of Rockman/Mega Man 5 with all levels redone, new music, edits made to weapons, modified Boss AI + Weaknesses along with MUCH stronger enemies. All these elements together make it a very tough game to handle.
Easily the best of the known MM5 hacks so far, it’s challenging but fun at the same time. I personally love the new music that the game sports, course that MAY be because all of the songs in this game are lifted from other games like Earthbound and Donkey Kong Country;
The patch for the game can be found here, but obviously you’ll have to find the ROM yourself. Being just released there aren’t that many videos of it yet, although notable names like qzecwx and insectduel are already working on the game as we speak. Can’t wait to see them tackle Gravity Man’s level.
Okay so I cheated a little, I was sick of dying all the damned time! >_>
~Ryudo, who highly enjoys this even if his constant screaming at the game may say otherwise…
Hm. That first “level” screen shot kind of gives me the idea that this hack is REALLY cheap. (By cheap, I mean really hard.)
I’m not sure I’ll download this. It looks good, though.
They used the Tiny Toons NES game’s pirate ship tile for the wooden ship pictured…ftw.
Pretty cool.
For those who want to see it in action before DLing, check out this Youtube vid of the patch in an earlier build. There might be more recent ones but this is the first one I found – Youtube : RM5WDS Demo.
-Age
Looks pretty cool, but that’s all it seems to me. Honestly, this reminds me of the rockman no constancy hack I saw on youtube. The game looks fun and I’m sure most people will find enjoyment in the extra challenge, but I think whoever made no constancy was trying too hard in emphasizing enemy and level difficulty. Plus, the darker style in the sprites, background and music clashes with the bright colorful look and feel of the classic series (and I’m not saying that for nostalgia sake). For these reasons, I vowed that I would NEVER play Rockman no Constancy (or as I initially read it, “No Consistency”).
there’s an unclosed em tag at the bottom of this post making everybody’s comments in italics. It confused me, I thought everybody was quoting something in their comments =P
I LOVE ITALICS
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The above will look weird if its fixed.
Anyway, I might try this, at least, maybe with Save States, that first in-game screen looks ridiculous. <_<