Neon Cannon - Fight the void denizens of SR-388 in a new, futuristic theme.

[fast pilot]

Oh I love that Hornoad!

[half plume]

neon genesis for my own future reference, no special extra accessories like a visor yet

[half plume]

serris recolour, idk about this one

[half plume]

New cover: Neon Cannon, a reskinned AM2R that is intended to make the game slightly harder with a futuristic look. Currently in early stages, I plan on making this throughout the entirety of 2023

[urban hollow]

Wow! That’s great

[half plume]

i might recolour genesis to be a black void missile launcher

so it blends with the dark background and i can play around with sound effects

[half plume]

Ashen Temple

[half plume]

second last preview, after the last till i release a version with almost everything recoloured up to A1

[loud lance]

Very Cool!

I'm surprised how quickly you manage to recoloured the Golden Temple

[half plume]

[loud lance]

LUL

[hidden spear]

then you have to change the name if it isnt gold anymore

also what if you change the missile highlight to purple instead of green?

[half plume]

wasnt so sure about how to change the header for when you first enter it, but every other text now says "The Ashen Temple"

[loud lance]

is there lore behind this reskin?

[half plume]

i was thinking of this actually, i was gonna call supers "void missiles" and have some beefy explosion effect when theyre fired

[loud lance]

did samus just decided to neon all over the galaxy?

[grizzled jetty]

It's Neonin' time.

[half plume]

well originally it was supposed to be like a bunch of years after metroid fusion, but all the metroids on sr388 werent destroyed and the bsl station didnt blow up the whole planet

[loud lance]

make the explosion effects to be black or similar to void

[half plume]

so the golden temple, which is near the surface, is covered in ash

[loud lance]

why?

[grizzled jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/bye-bye-bye-bye-missionnsync-nsync-boyband-gif-25518475

[half plume]

since this is after am2r technically, a bunch of the robots from distro repair all of the powerups

but then deactivate after a while

[half plume]

here's a neon missile, supers will be void missiles

bosses after super missiles will be much stronger and normal enemies would have much more health too

im gonna give genesis like 1.5k health lmao

[half plume]

everything up to a1 is complete

i can release a beta where everything up to a1 is reskinned and modified in some type of way

then just previews from there on

[half plume]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78UkN4mLT0U @grizzled jetty@loud lance what yall think

[loud lance]

I commented on it on YT

[hidden spear]

area 1
metroid queen

[half plume]

I’m putting Metroid larvae in area 3

[fast pilot]

[half plume]

Not what you’d expect tho

[half plume]

Ok so full neon lore cus I’m bored out of my mind rn:
Protagonist is not Samus. It takes place years after Metroid fusion, where sr388 isn’t fully destroyed by the bsl station. Distro robots repair everything while improving them, making non Metroid bosses stronger and part mechanical, but deactivate after years of no activity. Metroids aren’t fully wiped out and are still a threat as there is another colony so the protagonist must kill them all

[grizzled jetty]

Samus becomes Sarah

[half plume]

The neonverse metroids are now part of the void. They use it as their power and x parasites are kind of a void illness that spreads and is controlled by the metroids eating void creatures

I could think of a better lore sometime in the future but this is what I have for now

[half plume]

SOON

[loud lance]

what's that? neon beta?

[half plume]

ye

[loud lance]

it was asking me to send a request

which I did

[half plume]

bruh

ok i'll just

upload it on mediafire

lmao'

everything pretty much ends after Ancient Guardian

but i hope its a pretty good appetiser

i'm aiming to just work on every metroid, then the bosses, then the actual areas themselves with the basic enemies

[loud lance]

keep it up! I really like the reskin so far

[half plume]

ty

[loud lance]

the enemy tech like reskin tho simple gives off a vibe

[half plume]

https://www.mediafire.com/file/jyyhfkoiww2ex7o/Neon_Cannon_0.1.0.zip/file

FINALLY

surely do like a recording of your playthrough and post on yt

[loud lance]

This man

[half plume]

im kidding

[loud lance]

yea i know I still would tho

[half plume]

lol

[loud lance]

uhhhh

Haihaa are you sure it's actually neon?

It's just version 1.1 for me

[urban hollow]

I need that now man!

[karmic hawk]

Same here, just gives me 1.1

[fast pilot]

Wait is it actually just AM2R 1.1?

[karmic hawk]

No

I think something went wrong in the file packaging, investigating rn

[fast pilot]

Is it a patch to apply for the game or is it an entire build of the game?

[karmic hawk]

It's a patch, it doesn't contain the 1.1.exe from what I can tell

That being said I can't get the patch to patch anything

[fast pilot]

https://tenor.com/view/denzel-washington-relief-anxious-man-relieved-fallen-movie-gif-20959269

Yeah somethings probably wrong with the patch itself then.
Not too sure how that all works myself though.

[karmic hawk]

I'll just wait until haihaa says something, I have other things to debug rn xd

[grizzled jetty]

Lol imagine it's just 1.1

What an absolute troll

[karmic hawk]

Don't think so tbh, to me it just looks like a mistake on export... the Data.win is half the size of the community patch...

[half plume]

Bruh I swear I put in the correct file for mod file lmao, and put the 1.1 in the correct thing. Idk what’s wrong with it I’ll try later again this afternoon

[half plume]

ok yeah uh the packaging is kinda messed up

ill try again

ok there is definitely something wrong

or i might be doing it wrong

cus i installed it after loading 1.1 into the 1.1 thing, then a zip of my modded profile into the correct thing, and after installing it just plays 1.1

OHHHH

CUS MY MOD PROFILE

IS IN A SUBFOLDER

AND I FORGOT IM NOT MEANT TO DO THAT

[loud lance]

👍

[half plume]

HERE WE GO

https://www.mediafire.com/file/l49lqzr5d7mr6qz/Neon_Cannon_0.1.0.zip/file

@loud lance @karmic hawk @grizzled jetty

im gonna put some of this into multitroid and we nuzlocke it

[loud lance]

Nice new 1.1 update just dropped!

[half plume]

i installed it just to make sure it worked so if this just brings up 1.1 again after installing im gonna be mad

[karmic hawk]

I'll check in a bit, need to wake up first

[half plume]

nice

[karmic hawk]

Looks like it worked

[half plume]

sick, tell me how first metroid goes

it might be too easy

[karmic hawk]

Did you change anything with the metroid except the texture? Or are you worried it's too easy because you don't need to aim your missiles?

[half plume]

im worried its easy cus the triple missles lmao

im making other variants harder tho, like making them dodge really quickly and a further distance

i might also make their i-frames last longer

basically im looking to make bossfights generally longer for a lot of bosses and make the game a little harder

[karmic hawk]

Well you don't really deal "more" damage to Metroids because only one of your Missiles can hit at a time, so yes it's easier, but more because the triple missile makes aiming more of a suggestion

I did actually run out of missiles in BG1 though, since it eats through your Ammo like crazy

[half plume]

im making missile packs give more missiles in the future, since bosses will be made tankier and automatically increase in health the more missile packs you get

[karmic hawk]

Did you already implement something like that? I had 78 max missiles at some point while in normal mode

[half plume]

yeah i made them give 6 instead of 5

[loud lance]

yea I believe one missile pack gives you 6?

[half plume]

but i might make it 9

[karmic hawk]

I see

For me I don't mind having to be more careful with ammo, since it discourages you from just wasting them all

[half plume]

true

[loud lance]

also bottom left alpha in bg1 is just normal I assume is a mistake?

[karmic hawk]

I was about to say that xd

[half plume]

yeah i hadnt done the sprite for that one yet, neither the 3rd variant

im doing those rn 👍

preview of second variant

"void energy propellers" to make flying make more sense

[loud lance]

sure

[karmic hawk]

Btw small thing with charge beam, while the "Energy" that the cannon draws is the right color as well as the final spark, the charging spark is still the standard color

[loud lance]

to add to that the flash of normal shots are yellow

[half plume]

nah theyre changed to really light yellow-green

[half plume]

but yeah i was looking for a vortex design for this and didnt bother even recolouring this animation

cus i didnt have a good design for the vortex

[karmic hawk]

Gotcha

[half plume]

but im working on it

[loud lance]

good luck!

[half plume]

ty

[karmic hawk]

No rush, I like what I played here. Ancient Guardian looked really cool!

[half plume]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/970139012654301194.gif?size=22&quality=lossless

[loud lance]

sus

[half plume]

im looking for good music remixes as well or just learn 8 bit basics during the course of the making

[karmic hawk]

Ah sh*t I forgot to turn music on, did you change anything?

[loud lance]

good luck on em remixes

[half plume]

only the item fanfares and the metroid encounter ones

[loud lance]

the metroids appearing have a slight change in music but that's it

[loud lance]

the fanfares are kinda weak....

[karmic hawk]

That one sounds cool

[half plume]

fanfares are just a deeper metroid appear lmao

[karmic hawk]

Every item is just a metroid

[half plume]

lol

[loud lance]

wait... it's all metroid?

[half plume]

hmm i might increase sound for item fanfares, i thought the sound isolation alone would be enough but theyre still pretty quiet

[half plume]

LMAO

VOID ROCKETS ACTIVATE

[karmic hawk]

You talk about the rockets, but I love the glowing horns!

[loud lance]

very based voided

[half plume]

they become teeth

[loud lance]

...

[half plume]

lmao idk

i was gonna make it so when they do metamorphosis the rocket propellers and horns shift toward the mouth, which makes them breathe fire and be able to spew energy stuff, then their real legs grow

[karmic hawk]

Your world your rules xd

[half plume]

💀

[half plume]

really cool thing i wanna try

i wanna try echo the alpha metroid dodge sound so it sounds like its laughing when it dodges

what do you think @loud lance

[loud lance]

meow!

[half plume]

nice

[half plume]

also made the item get sound louder

[solemn root]

recommendation for music: I know Harmony of a Hunter Returns had some good tracks you could consider subbing in

might fit the theme

[half plume]

hi TheyDon'tCallMeXander 👋

[inland widget]

he calls himself the metroid community daycare centre and yet he's not on the mcd

curious

[grizzled jetty]

Time to play the demo

[half plume]

i'm gonna write some more lore down and info in the logs so people can read them when theyre bored and finished with the second update, whenever that gets released

[grizzled jetty]

Nice, I love reading lore

God the new shading of the letters threw me off really hard

I thought my game was glitching lmao

[half plume]

lmao

how much of the game have you played through so far?

[grizzled jetty]

None

First playthrough

[half plume]

o

stream?

[grizzled jetty]

I'm literally on the menu but noticed the new shading

Sure

[solemn root]

yeah because that's the metroid community nursing home

[loud lance]

That's a vibe lookin' place

[half plume]

very blue like water

im just gonna put some spoiler previews up in a bit

[loud lance]

||are you gonna change the water to that color?||

[half plume]

im not sure about its colour, but i feel like making it pink

[loud lance]

ewww

[half plume]

lol

[rich dawn]

you know if you need any help with coding then feel free to ask

but good job so far!

[karmic hawk]

Yo I love the red Breeding Grounds, that looks nice!

Blue also fits Hydro very well

[karmic hawk]

I don’t?

[half plume]

i changed it :/

[karmic hawk]

Oh

Welp, time to make my own recolor xd

[half plume]

💀

[rich dawn]

y'know, something that's a bit offputting is the fact that the extra missiles from the shotgun don't get momentum boosts from moving

[half plume]

strange

how only the first one does

[rich dawn]

obviously kinda a bug from my own triple shot code

but I think I know what causes it

here's the code for momentum

in the oMissile step event and not the create for some reason

but the bug is caused because the momentum is only given to missiles that are exactly aligned with the 8 normal directions

you'd want to make it a cone of directions

[half plume]

ohhh

how good is utmt with creating new code and objects? and adding sprites to the game instead of replacing them

also whats the code that makes you unable to move during the a1 item cutscenes

[half plume]

uhh flashing lights warning

honestly if you are sensitive to flashing lights dont even look at this mod

[loud lance]

Discorachnus

[solemn root]

opportunity to edit cool guy shades onto arachnus

[grizzled jetty]

So I made a video showcasing the demo... and added some music to it too cuz yes
https://youtu.be/-F5E0TSpFT0

warning: video quality looks like shit

[half plume]

Oooh interesting

[half plume]

spinnin

[karmic hawk]

He vibin

[half plume]

everything for a2 is complete! except for one small thing

[grizzled jetty]

Gotta go fast

[half plume]

Leaving it till next morning lmao

[karmic hawk]

You can’t rush greatness

[solemn root]

"if you give a project time, it's likely to be a lot better but a rushed project is forever f-cking lame" -Xander

[half plume]

the void has been released, i wonder what happens when it infects everything

[hidden spear]

were the sfx changed?

[half plume]

not of the x parasites yet, but most other things yes

[fast pilot]

Where did you get that missile sfx, it sounds beefy!

[half plume]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OeCleZFpik i might actually replace it cus im not sure if im allowed to reuse these sound effects (and i dont know where its from) but here is where i got it from, i edited to make it shorter and tried my best to get a beefy sound effect

just searched up "shockwave sound effect"

[half plume]

EYO WHAT

YOUTUBE PUTTING ADS ON MY VIDEOS??

im not even getting a single cent smh my head

[karmic hawk]

YouTube is crazy with their ads

[half plume]

at least my preview for area 1 has gotten a couple hundred views

am2r community is great

some people found the video after searching up "metroid dread mods" apparently

anyways enough about that video

new preview coming up soon and i'll keep it brief

[loud lance]

cries

[loud lance]

You need to meet some sort requirement before you can earn money

[half plume]

true but why they putting ads for free now

[karmic hawk]

Becuase they wanna make money

[karmic hawk]

1000 subs is the primary requirement

[loud lance]

As well as I think 4000 hours of viewer's watch time

[half plume]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czaSjb8Ps9c

i plan the next update will come soon! maybe next weekend. it will be the final one for the year so i wanna make sure everything is good for this one.

[half plume]

[karmic hawk]

That anim looks surprisingly smooth

Nice work

[half plume]

ty

its not the final one cus i wanna add accessories

[karmic hawk]

Of course xd

[half plume]

welp i have no ideas on what to add apart from the wings

so MORE HORNS

then its done for the night

[karmic hawk]

I'm amazed how fast you are with this stuff

[loud lance]

Yea he's my son

[half plume]

got the sprite to work with the increased size

[half plume]

ok so i will have to take some time to work out the sprites in order because editing one could change the one after it

[loud lance]

LMAO

[karmic hawk]

I'm kinda curious where these people come from. Like who watches an Am2r video and is interested enough to comment on it. But not interested enough to join the discord xd

[loud lance]

Maybe they are

We don't know

[half plume]

i thought the discord is the only way people reach this mod

[loud lance]

I thought that video was public?

[half plume]

yeah it is

but i usually dont post much and dont get many views so i didnt think theyd get 100+ views, idk what theyd search to get this specifically

[half plume]

since i have no idea how to work utmt, the new update will be delayed slightly, as i work on a new concept for the gammas

i will make it worth the wait

[half plume]

anyways, this is what i have planned

[karmic hawk]

Super Saiyan Gamma let’s go

[grizzled jetty]

Oh my lord

He looks spooky

Ohh the crystals could be used as well for the Mines!

[loud lance]

Another Dragon Ball Z Remake

[grizzled jetty]

Oh god

[half plume]

https://www.mediafire.com/file/wphvi0nlkbohbvs/Neon_Cannon_0.2.0.zip/file

@grizzled jetty here you go tell me if theres issues with installing

[grizzled jetty]

Time to play

[loud lance]

Oh it's 1.1 again

Rip

[grizzled jetty]

oh rip

wait i don't believe you you don't have a pc

[loud lance]

[half plume]

💀

[half plume]

you little-

i actually got scared

at this

[grizzled jetty]

So yeah it doesn't work

???????

[half plume]

what

[hollow geyser]

Wh

Corrupt platform data?

[grizzled jetty]

i originally updated the mod

it appears as community updates

opened it and it was

i downloaded it again and deleted the other file

idk wth happened

still it says that

now it doesn't open or update

so yeah it doesn't work, maybe send another one?

[half plume]

i will

nothing should be wrong

[half plume]

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ye8arewwbjfei0c/Neon_Cannon_0.2.0_WIN.zip/file

i used this file specifically and was able to install

@grizzled jetty

[grizzled jetty]

ok ok lemme download it

[half plume]

hmmmm, first iteration of internal a3

[loud lance]

That's really cool

Plans on changing sand?

[half plume]

👀

maybe only sprites but i really wanna steer clear from sand

[loud lance]

Yea only the sprites

I heard it's a mess to work with sand

[solemn root]

I hate sand, it's messy and it gets everywhere

[half plume]

gonna have to change how missile fire works for supers because they use the same function, and i dont want supers to be triple shot

for now, here is first A3 preview

[half plume]

Neon Cannon - Fight the void denizens of SR-388 in a new, futuristic theme.

[half plume]

next update is due for next weekend, maybe

[half plume]

New lore dropping. if anyone can guess the "easter egg" or silly reference here, please tell me

[inland widget]

easy lmao

[lean pivot]

Yep ridley ref.

[solemn root]

Woah Riggles for Am2R?

[half plume]

indeed its riggles from that hit metroid sequel am2r

[half plume]

holy shit

torizo

thats all i have to say atm

[loud lance]

https://tenor.com/view/nervous-retsuko-aggretsuko-uneasy-anxious-gif-18081066

[half plume]

testing (making it harder) torizo fight has hurt my ears

[loud lance]

Very nice

The sounds are crisps

[half plume]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDHXQPfpT2k

new preview!! and only a day after the second update's release

[karmic hawk]

The algorithm must really like Neon Cannon, it even put it on my front page today

[half plume]

ZAMN abyss getting the neon algorithm's blessing

[loud lance]

Noice

[half plume]

slight missile rework

[half plume]

What could have happened here?

[loud lance]

I love that!

[urban hollow]

Holy frick! that's cool, what is that laser looking thing it seems as a cool decoration at the top there, what if you could put real lasers in there that would be so cool to!

[half plume]

it's not a laser

[grizzled jetty]

it's joe

obviously

[urban hollow]

Well ya Joemama

[half plume]

in the near future, haihaa will repeatedly ask jes how to make custom rooms and annoy everyone in am2r_custom

[solemn root]

Whats that music? Sounds like if Cadence of Hyrule did a metroid game

(I know Crypt btw, i just meant as in the style)

[half plume]

i think its a remix of lower norfair, hold on i have a list

ok nvm i dont have the title of this one lol

[solemn root]

Better find it to credit the author, u piece of

[half plume]

abyss can find it, he suggested it

[solemn root]

@grizzled jetty help this man fix him error

When will he be renamed Neon Abyss?

[half plume]

when my name finally has 100 a's

[half plume]

perhaps not a laser

[grizzled jetty]

Ashen Temple music's is named "Ashes to Ashes — Harmony of a Hunter 101% Run"

[half plume]

[urban hollow]

That reminds me of the laser decorations in the first half (never finished it cause it’s so hard) of Super Zero Mission, rings a bell?

At least I was good enough to beat Kraid and enter Norfair, oh good god!

[half plume]

Let’s just say it’s a platform for a specific enemy

[half plume]

https://www.mediafire.com/file/klszb5mowbmtpy4/Neon+Cannon+0.3.1+WIN.zip/file

Neon Cannon 0.3.1 is now released!
From now onwards, there will be no other public releases until 1.0 has been completed.
Furthermore, I will be taking a short break until January-February next year to help with family business and will not be able to develop anyways.

[loud lance]

some Genesis fights requires tuning up

as in that they're pretty buggy

[urban hollow]

Ooooo👀

[half plume]

theyre fine so long as you have wave beam and know where to move

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[loud lance]

No I mean like the OOB glitches

[half plume]

yup

[loud lance]

cough A2 cough

[half plume]

i infused their dna with druid's

[loud lance]

...

Druidesis

Genevorsis

[half plume]

Genevorse

[urban hollow]

Genedrip

[inland widget]

dripvorse

[half plume]

All hail Lord Genesis!

[urban hollow]

Omegadrip

[half plume]

Neon Cannon will now move to GitHub: https://github.com/Haihaa/AM2R-Neon-Cannon/releases/tag/v0.3.1 👍

[half plume]

Development has been delayed till February or even March, but till then I am still planning concepts for future updates

[loud lance]

https://tenor.com/view/disintegrating-funny-thanos-gif-22399978

[half plume]

Another update: I do have access to the newest data.win file thanks to abyss, now I can work slowly on my laptop but progression is still minor until my computer is back

Something I want to fix is ||genesis|| minibosses respawning after dying or reloading a save

[half plume]

this mod isn't dead, there's just been some issues lately, as well as a different mod that's popped up as a side-project. 👍
here's a tiny teaser for people still interested, the mod is still in development, slowly but steadily

[urban hollow]

Okkk, good to know

[split nebula]

Just started reading through this here and looking at the previews
Gotta say I love the missile shotgun and the sound it makes it just delightful

[haughty zinc]

I found a bug where if you enter a room that had Genesis in it, the Genesis music keeps on playing and doesn't stop until you either kill the genesis or exit and reenter the game.

[grizzled jetty]

Oh yeah that patch is VERY old

I don't recommend playing that one, a lot has changed since that release

[haughty zinc]

Wait, you made a newer patch?

[grizzled jetty]

Not public until 1.0, but the current "public" release is really buggy.

[haughty zinc]

Okay, so we're just waiting on a newer release, and you're saying that in it, you fixed the genesis music bug?

[grizzled jetty]

Most of the issues are fixed, yes, but I didn't fix it myself, Haihaa did.