
The Game Boy title Metroid II: Return of Samus has just received a colourful spruce-up thanks to the efforts of first-time modder Ryallasha N’vetay.
Metroid II: SGB Enhanced adds a Super Game Boy border and custom palette to the monochrome title, making it look a lot more lively and interesting.
"The Samus, Chozo and Metroid sprites were edited from the game; the gunship is entirely custom," explains N’vetay when describing the custom border. "The background mimics the promo poster/boxart."
N’vetay leveraged Marc Max's Super Game Boy injector program to create the ROM hack.
"I really hope y’all enjoy my first venture into ROM modding," concludes N’vetay. "Here’s to hoping for more to come in the future!"
Originally released in 1991, Metroid II: Return of Samus serves as a direct sequel to the NES original. It was remade for 3DS in 2017 under the title Metroid: Samus Returns.
[source romhacking.net]
Comments 7
That's pretty nifty, but the EJRTQ colorization mod makes the game look like a DX version and has better colorization than what I'm seeing here.
Sweet. Can't wait to see all the borders people produce for various GB games on the SNES now, to give them just a wee bit more of an authentic SNES look.
@Pillowpants Yeah that DX mod of Metroid II is outstanding, I wouldn't want to go back to the original now! 😅
That looks terrible. Just play the sweet color mod.
Metroid 2 already has a preset palette on the SGB and it's better than this one. The border... eh, it's a little busy for my tastes.
I get nervous with SGB borders. They're static images. I actually had burn in on my cheap Goodman's CRT (upper left) due to a constant unchanging border image on something.
Tried to use this myself the other day, and it's surprisingly easy to get to grips with and create something in really a matter of minutes and inject it directly into a GB rom.
I might make some proper borders myself at some point.
Really wish actual SNES development tools were this easy and intuitive to use. I'd be developing directly for SNES right now if they were.
@TransmitHim @Pillowpants You can set the palette colours to whatever you want with this tool.
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