Let's have another comfy Cave Story thread to celebrate the game's 20th anniversary! Some questions:>What's your favorite section of the game? (Can be a boss, a certain level, maybe a specific story moment)>What's your least favorite section of the game?>Best version of the game? >What do you do to keep your replays fresh?
robo shota ass
>>698013854>What's your favorite section of the game? (Can be a boss, a certain level, maybe a specific story moment)I like the labyrinth music, somehow I feel like it fits the vibe of what you're feeling after what happens right before you get thereThen getting the blade to level 3 right around the same time, hits hard
I knew this game looked familiar
>What's your favorite section of the game? Labyrinth is where the game truly shines, in both design and storytelling.>What's your least favorite section of the game?Sand Zone is a popular pick for this and I'm no different.>Best version of the game?Freeware has yet to be surpassed.>What do you do to keep your replays fresh?Well, there's only one thing you CAN do, and that's picking different weapon layouts, so that's what I do.
>>698013854Party van is already over buddy>What's your least favorite section of the game?B2 of Bloodstained Sanctuary.>What's your favorite section of the game? Everything besides B2 of Bloodstained Sanctuary.>Best version of the game?Whatever version I can play, and I've played all of them except 3DS.>What do you do to keep your replays fresh?Challenge runs, beat game as fast as possible, minimum items, certain weapons, trying to discover obscure dialog based on screenshots and rumors, etc. Right now I am working on modifying the textures. Right now this is what Quote looks like :)
>What's your favorite section of the game?Balcony, for the music, vibe, and it being the penultimate area, where you can reflect on the events of the game before finally facing off with the two that's been tormenting the island.>What's your least favorite section of the game?Waterway :(>Best version of the game?Freeware>What do you do to keep your replays fresh?idk lol, doesn't need to be entirely fresh for me. the game's just fun and feels nice to play every once in a while
>>698019432Argh, forgot my image!
>>698013854So since I got the panties does that mean Curly Braces was nopan the entire game?
>>698019301*by 3ds I mean Cave Story 3D. I ended up buying the eshop version twice...
>>698019563Why do you assume she only has one pair?
Curly Story should've had her steal the panties back
>>698020001But... that's already how it is.
Good evening, I hate Nicalis.
>>698021795i hate you
Xoxo with this game
>>698013854love this thread, at least its genuine, anyways, Iplayed a lot of 3DS Cave Story years ago, should do that 100% run for every heart tank because youcan just get over 100 hp
20 years later, I still can't beat Hell...
>>698023681What are you having trouble with?
the absolute state
>>698024487He simply can't turn on the game. He's posted this like every thread.
>>698013854>What's your favorite section of the game? (Can be a boss, a certain level, maybe a specific story moment)Outter wall easily. No matter what you did regarding Curly, the climb feels melancholy. That's how I feel anyway.
>>698027808Kids just don't care about good games any more
Curly's big as fuck pants.
Curly's big as fuck heart
>>698032979Nice.
I love cute mimiga boys!! I love cute mimiga boys!!
No dying.
Is there any difference between versions of the game? I only played the psp port.
>>698035664there's the original freeware version and then a bunch of dog shit garbage with incorrect game speed and butchered music
>>698035664Technically more stuff is progressively added as nicalis made new ports like reskinning you to Curly and minor Dialog changes? a Whole Game Time Attack Mode and a brief additional campaign, but whether or not that interests you is up in the air.
>>698035664Here:https://antifandom.com/cavestory/wiki/Version_differencesAlthough in my opinion the only thing of worth that was added in the Nicalis ports is Wind Fortress, everything else was already implemented(and better) with mods by fans.
>>698036005Nicalis ports also feel a bit tighter but that can be a deal breaker to some of the hardcore autists
>>698013854The egg filtered me and I never want to touch this shitty game ever.
I still find amazing that only 1 person made everything>>698013854>Favorite sectionWhenever "Pulse" plays>Least favoriteThe very specific jump sections(labyrinth and waterway)>Best versionFreeware of course, plus only if you want to play the wind fortress.>keep replays freshUse only 1 weapon
People always talk about zoomers hating Cave Story, but are there any examples?The only one I could find is a popular undertale youtuber livestreaming the game, not taking any of it seriously, raging that there isn't a save or checkpoint before Ballos, and concluding that the story is bad because it lacked undertale's level of meta text.Incredibly thorough filtering, but it's the only case I've seen of someone genuinely hating it. Usually I just see people say "Never played it, heard it's good though"
>>698037425One thing I tend to notice is that, if a person gets backseat and does the best ending on a first ending on a first playthrough, they are very likely to hate the game, but if they are just going blind and see all the events that happen during a normal playthrough first, then they tend to like it a lot more.
>>698037425I've seen someone fail to find Arthur's key before and said the game was bad.
>>698037425Literally the only Undertale fan/Zoomer I know who was born the same year Cave Story came out loved it except he got stuck because he tried to spare Toroko in Mimiga village and didn't attack a single enemy besides the door in the First Cave.And then he got stuck at Igor because he didn't want to attack him either and it made him cry when he found out Igor was a Mimiga.
Also I forget was Christmas/Halloween mode only a Nicalis port thing?
>>698019301>B2 of Bloodstained Sanctuary.I still don't know how the fuck you're supposed to do that without just losting 90% of your health. It's just luck, I guess? Not that it matters since B3 is where you get all your health back if you're careful.
>>698038936Luck and insanely good reaction time
>>698013854Aah, nice to see some people posted in my thread after it almost died at the first post. I will just answer my own questions.>What's your favorite section of the game? (Can be a boss, a certain level, maybe a specific story moment)I'm gonna be unoriginal and also say the labyrinth, although everything from the beginning of the labyrinth up until the plantation is excellent. The first three levels were good, but it was the predictable Zelda-ish "go to three places, get the thing, and coma back" formula with a bit too much backtracking. Then, suddenly, this all gets thrown out and we get an hour or two of really cool and unique linear levels, no backtracking at all, fighting hard to get yourself out of the labyrinth, and then having Curly die to save you. The moment you leave the Core room and the blast door shuts behind you, finalizing Curly's death, is excellent. Obviously, you can save her, but barely anyone does that on their first playthrough.Coming back to Mimiga village and seeing that everyone's gone and then realizing the Egg Corridor blew up is just so sad as well. As >>698026046 said, the climb following this is really melancholic, although it's literally and metaphorically the moment you go from your lowest point to finally defeating the Doctor. (Even if that also comes at a huge price in the normal ending)>What's your least favorite section of the game?Honestly, Bushlands or Greentown or whatever it's called. I didn't mind getting the dogs that much. At least there it seemed like I was doing something different each time. Bushlands has you getting the jellyfish juice to go through a chimney, then again to get charcoal, then again just to have it for the bomb, and then (if you want) again to get the bubble weapon. I also found the Napstablook enemies annoying and Balfrog was forgettable. (Also, I just replayed this and he was just called Balrog as a frog?? I could have sworn he was called Balfrog back when I first played it.)
>>698039718I just can't write short posts so here's part 2.>Best version of the game? I played Cave Story 3D first and then bought Cave Story+. I vastly prefer Cave Story+, because Cave Story 3D completely ruins the Normal Ending with its loading times. Just picture this: The island is falling, sad music is playing as we cut to all the characters we've met in various different places, reminding us that all of them are going to die. Guess what happens in the 3D version: Whenever the camera cuts to a different scene, the music completely stops and you have to wait a few seconds. This was my first Cave Story 3D experience and I had nothing to compare it to, so it wasn't nostalgia or anything when I said that this was dumb and probably better in the original. Just look at this shit. It's even worse than I had remembered: https://youtu.be/Jvd3iF1g5xw?t=5344I can't really see how the original is better than Plus, though. I think Plus just looks way better while keeping the spirit of the original, and I honestly prefer most of the remastered soundtrack (which you can toggle off anyway). My personal favorite was the final fight music against the core, especially the percussion which wasn't really there in the original.>What do you do to keep your replays fresh?Since I'm not a huge expert on the game, all I do is try different weapons, although sometimes I do nothing because I don't replay it that often anyway.
>>698037425>popular undertale youtuberThis guy right? https://youtu.be/qO2OizQEVCs?t=4696I watched some his livestreams before. He seems to be generally dismissive of older games in general. He only really cared about playing games that inspired Undertale to understand the references.
>>698040047>I can't really see how the original is better than PlusIt costs money.>I think Plus just looks way better while keeping the spirit of the originallmao, absolutely not.
>>698041234>picThese were all done by Pixel, and show how horny he's always been>tough robot woman/derpy fat bimboCurly's always been both>shitty side tieand the addition of a string knot, adding infinitely more sex appeal>okay but overdetailedthey're faithful and higher fidelity, there's nothing wrong with saying you just prefer minimalistic pixel art
Guys, I just wanna have sex with Misery.
>>698041390>These were all done by Pixel...No? They're Nicalis sprites, and they are notoriously shitty with sprite work, just look at Isaac Rebirth.>Curly's always been bothIt's leaning too much on one aspect, flanderization if you will.
>>698041234I don't see how this picture is supposed to show me that the original looks better. The only thing that's worse about the sprites on the right is that the description is telling me that it's worse. >metrosexual pleasure botGood.>Curly looks fatterKinda true, I'll give you that.>Oh no they removed the heart symbol on Curly's clitSame dude who complains about Quote looking more breedable suddenly complains about this.>Guns look overdetailedDo they? They look more detailed, but so do Quote and the backgrounds, and I don't see how it ever clashed with that.I do kinda find the mouthless faces of the original more charming, though.>It costs money.This is true and it's often a good argument, but as someone who has access to three dollars it's not really a problem for me.
>>698041591*seams
>>698041654Personally I hate that the sprites have mouths, it makes them look less cute and more retarded. See also Hello Kitty for example, their lack of mouths is entirely intentional because it's cuter.
>>698041950True, I just made this and it does look kinda less cute.
>>698041950I don't think the mouth itself is an issue. In general they're trying to be too faithful to the old sprites, which makes for a pretty unappealing chibi style.
>>698038365Is he mentally disabled?
>>698013854My favorite parts of the game are Last Cave (hidden) and Sacred Grounds, since they use the booster 2.0 to its fullest and it's very satisfying when you get good at it.Sue Sakamoto is best girl.
>>698043235I just realized that I have only done the non-hidden Last Cave one time in my entire life, and that was on the 3DS version. Maybe on my next run I'll let Curly die and go for the normal ending, and I'll finally pick the Machine Gun again.Ooh, and maybe confront the final boss with the Mimiga Mask! I wonder how hard that is.
>>698013854Why is she splaying her right hand like she's holding an invisible frisbee? Quote has it too.
>>698043603>>698041950Fuck, wrong post.
>>698043603>>698043664It's to fit in with the gun sprites, make it seem like they're holding it.
>>698042950Nah, I mean maybe if you qualify being a crybaby as a mental illness, but I think a lot of the people who (actually) play Undertale are like that, it seems like a game for that kind of person.I'm pretty sure he just got confused because I told him it was like Undertale and Balrog just lets you skip the first boss by talking with him.
>>698013854Where the fuck are all the Kazuma X Quote Doujins? I remember it was in the usual places before
>>698013854>What's your favorite section of the game? (Can be a boss, a certain level, maybe a specific story moment)That one section where you have Curly as a companion after the Balrog boss>What's your least favorite section of the game?Grasslands and a bit of sand zone>Best version of the game?Original of course, wish someone got Wind fortress into the OG though
>>698023681Your room reset exploit bro?
Is there any way to open a port for port forwarding without needing to go into the router's settings?>>698032461based
>>698045127Technically no, but UPnP might be able to do it FOR you without you having to open up your router's settings
>>698039718cute
Alright, I beat it and I finally got the True Ending achievement on Steam that was broken until a few years ago! (I've had "Defeat Ballos" for 12 years, but never "Get the Best Ending" until now). I guess I will be going for the Masked Mimiga Hero achievement next.Until then, what do I play next? Is Kero Blaster any good?
>>698046050Kero Blaster is fun. It's not structured like Cave Story though, so don't expect that.
>>698046050kero blaster bretty good
>>698046050Better than cave story gameplaywise
>>698046050>Is Kero Blaster any good?Unironically has better bosses than Cave Story. I love the clock fella.
Does anyone have good mobile wallpapers for this game?
>>698046710Just crop it yourself
Have you guys played Pixel's shoot 'em up Guxt? It's very short and sweet, filled with cool hidden weapons, and it has a secret final boss. Very fun playthroughAlso Pixel has a FREE smartphone game you can download right now called Azarashi, it's about cute seals getting brutally impaled by arrows Pixel's frogsona and Ame are also unlockable characters
>>698046825Guxt 2 never ever
>>698046050Kero Blaster is great. Importantly, the hard mode you unlock after you beat the game features completely remixed stages, a different story and a whole new final level and final boss, so don't be stupid like some anons and stop playing once you get the first credits roll.
>>698042126still would
>>698047190Wasn't there another hard mode that you could unlock after that?
>>698046215>>698046129>>698046101>>698046237>>698047190Awesome. Is Kero Blaster better with controller or keyboard? I preferred keyboard for Cave Story.
>>698045172>find a guide on how to turn on UPnP>this still shows a NOguess that's a "no" for my hosting attempts
>>698049019Cave Story Multiplayer??? That's why you were asking? I wonder how good that is - I need to try that out.
>>698050603anons like to host a group Cave Story session every now then (usually on the anniversary, or Pixel's birthday) so it's a pretty common thing to do. if enough anons seem interested, people could play another round of it
>>698050603it can get a bit laggy and rubberbandy at times if your ping is bad, but it's good fun to all go up to a boss and just Fireball it to deathI personally had slight problems in hell with what im assuming was the whimsical star causing errors, and sometimes crashing me outit's good solo too, you get multiple save slots so you can do stuff like a 3hp run and a normal one side by side if you want to
>>698049019>>698050841>>698050898178.18.168.158:28000Does this work? I've never played this or hosted or port forwarded before, and I don't know if I'm gonna be able to host for long, but let's see.
>>698037425>People always talk about zoomers hating Cave StoryNo, they fucking don't. Didn't even read the rest of your post. Starting with a false proposition to justify your bullshit is the lamest trick in the book.
>>698052098Yeah, I've never heard about that either. They either simply don't know the game or they like it.
>>698052176Yeah, basically the same as boomers.
>>698051850it resolves, but doesn't connect
>>698052098No need to be aggressive about it anon, it's just how I remember conversations in Cave Story threads going. I'm ready to admit fault and say I could have misconstrued other dismissive threads talking about zoomers with ones in Cave Story threads. Maybe that youtuber got me constructing a false narrative in my head. Either way I asked people to share examples so I could confirm if it's true, and clearly it's not prominent enough to bring any immediate examples.
>>698052392Weird, it now says Port Forwarded: NO, even though it said yes a few minutes ago.
>>698046825According to the manga, the frog is simply named "Kaeru"
>>698052392>>698052675>>698051850Try again.
Some questions because I've never done this.Is there a chat?Is there a way for people to join while we play?Are there any settings that I need to change?
>>698053323yeah it works now
>>698053583>Is there a chat?press t>Is there a way for people to join while we play?yeah they can join mid-game>Are there any settings that I need to change?i dont remember if Friendly fire is on by default, buy everything should be fine as it is
>>698053583well that was a lagfest
>>698055097Yeah, let's wait until someone with a better connection can host!
>>698041234I like the new Curly sprite, it's cute.
>>698045127Hamachi I guess is a work around but a pain in the ass
Before the thread dies, I just wanted to say that I fucking love Curly.
Bump
>>698057152same
>>698057152I love Quote!
>>698041234Have you considered that the + assets are 4x the resolution and thus implicitly 4x better
Is there anyone here who actually figured out how to get the Best Ending by themselves? I just played the game normally and then found out about it later. I don't think I would have ever figured this out on my own.Also, is it just me or does it not make 100% sense in-universe? I understand that not talking to Booster will allow him to escape with his own jetpack, therefore he appears later with an upgraded version. But how does jumping over the pit cause a tow rope to appear in the next room? They could have done a thing where you always get the tow rope after you already fought the core and the blast door closed behind you, but then you can somehow get back into the core room with the Booster 2.0 or something. That would have at least been coherent. I dunno, this always bugged me a little bit.
>>698064587This is something which makes sense after the first time playing. You get a hint in the Pre-Fab building where Booster mentions he would have finished his prototype if he didn't die, and that red line is obviously there for a reason. Really, it's worse trying to figure out that you have to get the tow rope DURING the core fight, attach it to Curly before leaving the room, then drain her AND pick her back up in the waterway. Forget any of those and you're locked out of the good ending. So yeah it's a bit bullshit, but because the game is so short and you can change which weapons you use on future playthroughs, it's not a huge concern. If the game was 15-20 hours and pulled this crap, people wouldn't be as forgiving.
>>698064889>You get a hint in the Pre-Fab building where Booster mentions he would have finished his prototype if he didn't die, and that red line is obviously there for a reasonYeah, what I'm saying is that this part makes sense. Cause and effect. Booster still has his jetpack, therefore he survives to upgrade it. But how does talking to Booster spawn a tow rope in the core room? You get there faster because you don't fall in the hole and the tow rope was seconds from disintegrating?
>>698064587Cave Story's a short game, I'm sure the intent was to replay the game enough times that you eventually challenge yourself and think "What if I try to skip booster?" which in turn would make you notice there's something new and shiny in the rooms you've already replayed a few times. Secrets like this weren't really intended to be found your first or second try, and its design is likely only really there for the truly dedicated. It feels a bit silly, but it makes sense given how much more dedication games were given back then. If you liked a game, you'd stick with it for a good while, milking it for all its worth. Nowadays game designers really don't want to waste your time, so even the concept of missable content is side eyed nowadays.As for it not making sense in-universe, that's just how it is I guess. You could argue Quote, stricken with grief about the death of Booster, just didn't notice the rope. That's bullshit though, it's just oldschool game logic at play.
>>698064587He doesn’t even use the jet pack to escape he builds a teleporter in the bottom of the pit so you can get the whimsical star
>>698065140>>698065296I think it's also so players don't get hung up on "why did I save Curly if there's no use for her?" The reason the tow rope and Curly at all even exist past the Core is so you can enter Hell, but you can't do that without the BoosterV2.0.
>>698013854Why do all these gems have their 20th anniversary this year? What ambrosia were game devs taking in 2004???
>>698065296>You could argue Quote, stricken with grief about the death of Booster, just didn't notice the rope.Oh man, someone should make fanart of this.
>>698065727It was just a really really good year.Probably also doesn't help that it mostly preceded every getting progressively more evil towards end users since Steam succeeded.>Cave Story>Half Life 2>Counterstrike: Source>GTA San Andreas>Katamari Damacy>Halo 2
>>698013854I'm tired of comfy, man...
I have tried playing this game so many times and get bored. What's the appeal?
>>698066287It might just not be your thing. Personally, it's just a good game with a lot of charm.
Ol' luggage lad's favorite game.
>>698060306More pixels on the screen doesn't automatically equal good. Nicalis is just shit at spritework.
>>698067595Let's see some fixes then anon. No good art critique isn't complete without making your own better version, especially with how easy to pick up pixel art is.
>>698066287It's okay. You just have bad taste, which can't really be helped unfortunately
>>698066287I don't how you could get bored. Maybe it's just not for you?
>>698068901Probably doesn’t realize you can chako skip to avoid having to run grasslands like 3 times back and forth to collect jelly
I love the Blade (lvl2)
>>698065848>>698065296Fine, I will do it myself.
>>698068689I've already posted an example, and Cave Story Encore exists. I wonder why there weren't any autists like you complaining when fans had fixed a lot of the shitty Isaac sprites from Nicalis in the newest DLC.
>>698069476soul
>>698069668I might be retarded but I don't see any examples. Unless you mean the mouth removing edit?Checked out Encore, it looks okay. Curly, Quote, and Balrog need more work though. Curly and Quote in particular feel weird with their far apart eyes, while everyone else feels pretty on model to their portrait.
>What's your favorite section of the game? (Can be a boss, a certain level, maybe a specific story moment)The outerwall gives you such heroic anxiety for going into the endgame.And there is the iconic background with the clouds,stars and the moon.>What's your least favorite section of the game?Collecting the dogs>Best version of the game?original>What do you do to keep your replays fresh?Northing,either mods or I dont actually replay it,self imposed challanges are lame
Taking Cave story requests
>>698070417Mimiga quote or curly
>>698070417I don't care what happens, make more Misery. I'll even take her fucked up bird looking form, as long as she's doing anything.
>>698070417Quote handing out with Bender Bending Rodriguez
>>698070595*hanging out
>>698070371>Unless you mean the mouth removing edit?Yes, it keeps the "cute" art-style the original was going for, while the Nicalis sprites completely miss the point.>it looks okayI don't personally love it either. But it's still looks better and has more effort put into it than Nicalis' shitty sprites.
Running Hell really was our generation’s Megalovania
I miss the garyc threads, even though they've practically just turned into fanart threads
>>698071929What's a garyc thread?
>>698037425Cave Story kind of sucks honestly. After the first few playthroughs its just a slog of unskippable text and obnoxious backtracking through mostly mediocre level design. Kero Blaster mogs the everloving shit out of it in pretty much every aspect.But I do deeply appreciate CS, it was my autistic obsession for over a year and has inspired pretty much everything I've made sense on a core level.t. zoomer
>>698072539since*
>>698044067>I told him it was like Undertaleyou fucking moron, the gameplay is nothing alike and by saying that you gave him the impression that you could reasonably do something along the lines of the 100% kill/spare runs. You are entirely at fault for setting false expectations.
>>698072237GaryC is a site where you draw and share your sketch with a random anon. The threads have been dead for well over a year due to namefag drama killing interest and barely anyone actually posting a drawings.
>>698072701In my defense, I meant it was a quirky little independent (not indie) game with funny creatures and good music, and there's 0 possibility that he'd do a 100% kill run (even if that was hypothetically possible).He still loved the game even if he got stuck a couple times.
>>698064587I did back in 2005. there's a hint in the pre-fab room about booster and I made the jump with the machinegun on my first time (didn't know about spur yet)I failed to save curly in several iterations and that gave me the drive to keep trying, eventually I found the tow rope by accident during the core fight and from there I was set, although I did also forget curly in the waterway house an embarrassing amount of times, not realizing I could take her with me once I did that part successfully it was a straight shot for the memory restore and stumbled back into the pre-fab house after the boss gauntlet and started getting my teeth kicked in by hell.having friends to talk to about the game while we were playing it was great, but we did figure things out without outside assistance.
>>698069818Thanks, 50% of my time went into drawing his armpit, then I just rushed the rest.
>>698072539Well the switch port has the exclusive ability to skip cutscenes
>>698073745The physical copy is still like 40 dollars though
>>698074052Well it does have a bunch of extra features like two extra soundtracks and local co op multiplayer
>>698072968Also he was only stuck for like, 20 minutes collectively, I'm assuming in those two areas. Because he messaged me after 15 minutes asking if I was sure he had to shoot Toroko
>>698074247>extra soundtracksThat I can listen to online and probably wouldn't care much about>local co op multiplayerI don't have anyone to play with and there are multiple free versions with online
Is Pixel making a new game? It's been ten years since Kero Blaster. Has he been doing anything but jerking off to his furry OC since 2014?
>>698074895A while ago some retard on the cave story forums who claims to have insider knowledge (and unfortunately probably does) said he is getting close to announcing a new game. The anniversary video makes it seem like it may unironically be cave story 2
>>698074895Made some weird demos here and there. Nothing concrete though.
holy crap the newest nai model is really good at curly
>>698077614But can it do golden age wamu?
>>698077692no vibe copying yet, i prefer old style anyway
>>698077775That IS the old style.
>>698077907wow, guess i've completely forgotten about it, guess i like the newer simpler one then
cute mimiga knots!
first time i played it was after some anon recommended it to me in 2007. too hard for my pea brain at the time. didnt beat it till 2022 during a couch coop session. took me to the hell level and i was not expecting CS to have something like that. fun game. probably wouldve been a CS autist if i beat it when i was younger.
One of my favorite games ever and the first indie i think i played that wasn'5 a shitty flash game. Still remember stumbling upon that fake true ending where you get a godlen ending where no one dies and everyone is happy. Wish Nicallis had the balls to make it real, to atone for fucking Pixel over, but oh well
>>698077692Reminder that AI retards repeatedly exposed themselves that AI just steals art because Wamu is way too much of the sample size for Curly Brace art.
>>698077614>>698078012
>>698078818>Reminder that AI retards repeatedly exposed themselves that AI just steals art...Did... did they ever pretend otherwise?
>>698078818yeah well curly art is great and wamu art is great, of course it mimics the styles it sees
>>698078818>exposed themselves that AI just steals artNo fucking shit, anon.I balance my karma by using scrapped keys and billing some trillion dollar company for my AI slop
>>698078938Literally constantly.
>>698013854>>What's your favorite section of the game? (Can be a boss, a certain level, maybe a specific story moment)Boss: the Undead Core, there is so much going on with the minionsLevel: Last Cave (Hidden), love the soundtrack and the general vibe. It also filtered me for a few days as a kidMoment: Returning from the Labyrinth to the empty Village>>What's your least favorite section of the game?Ironhead. I'm a completionfag so I always want to get the badge for beating him no dmg, which can be bullshit sometimes>>Best version of the game?Original, + has some good extras but fuck Niggalis>>What do you do to keep your replays fresh?Nothing really since it's so short, I always go for 100%. It's like a comfort game I replay every year
>>698078818what's fucked is that ai is so good at making wamu art every once in a while you stumble on something that's not obvious enough and it's easy to think it's just old or even new art you haven't seen before
>>698013854>What's your favorite section of the game? Boss: Core (normal), I usually die there tooLevel: Wind Fortress if it counts, Outer Wall otherwise, I find the atmosphere of being on the outside at a very dangerous angle interesting.Story Moment: The one slide in the good ending credits where you see slightly older Misery, it's a nice touch.Miseryfag so 100% proudly biased>What's your least favorite section of the game?Grasslands, I always fuck up something and need to backtrack>Best version of the game?Plus, pirated. But I prefer the older translations.>What do you do to keep your replays fresh?I play mods and maphacks although the community is pretty dead
>>698079357sometimes you do get really shocked at results, of course artists will always win but as a stop gap?
>>698079492Me on the left
>>698079616
>slopspamWell, the thread was nice while it lasted.
>>698080195>Romanian Quote
>>698080283it was already dead
>>698080347It was a slow but good thread you spamming nigger.
>>698080425calm down you luddite
>>698080195why he pickpocketing her
>>698081017disarming her
>>698080283>>698080347>>698080425>>698080534Guys, calm down and let's just keep comfily discussing the game, I even brought talking points.Uuuuuuuh If there's anything you'd want to add to the game, what would it be? Can be a scene, a character, or a gameplay section or something like that.I personally would have liked a bit more choices in the beginning. To me, a lot of the game's replayability, apart from it just being a short and fun comfort game, is that you can choose to play with different weapons, but you will always miss out on some. Get the Machine Gun and you'll miss out on the Spur and also the Snake. Get the Nemesis, you'll lose the Blade. Do the hidden final cave, you won't see the regular final cave, etc.These choices only really start around Sand Zone when you meet Curly, so it would be nice to get some choices earlier than that, perhaps some that make the game harder but give you some sort of reward. Like have an upper path and a lower path on the Egg Corridor or something, and the lower path involves dodging the white instakill thing a lot but you get a neat weapon at the end.
>>698081017Why can you even enter her pockets from the front like that? Is she wearing her pants backwards?
>>698081484what if
What makes her best girl?
>>698082089>cute design>heroic>cheery personality, contrasting with the mc's.>trades her cool gun for your shitty one>will sacrifice herself for you>serves as a massive upgrade in hellno contest really, there's a good reason she's the most popular cave story character by a huge margin.
>>698082089loyal and kind to mimigas
>>698082518>trades her cool gun for your shitty oneShe just wanted the Spur, dude.
>>698081404>These choices only really start around Sand Zone when you meet Curly>he didn't get the super secret fourth ending
>>698013854Its been a long time since I played the game... Might replay it tomorrow.
I wish Curly mode wasn't just a sprite swap.>But the dialogueYeah but everyone just ignores her anyway
>>698082609lol, I was in the middle of watching that exact video.
>>698082596She can have it, Machine Gun is more fun.
>>698082089There's a good video that explains this in detail.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0_NcDKmUw
>>698077614Human colored Curly isn't right.
>>698082840yeah well it tried, white skin doesn't always get it right. still close though
oh cool it can generate misery too, seems like it can get "obscure" characters a looot better now. too bad it's limited to sfw right now
>>698083216I just hope the full model uses more stuff not on danbo, so much stuff that should be easy to learn but their limited v3 dataset couldn't do it.
>>698083606it's already extremely promising, i've been shocked with every character i've tried so far, basically nailing the look every time even with their strange fumo prompts making custom plushies of anything
>>698083768like how fucking wild is this
>>698083768Post fumo curly
>>698083921I take it back >>698083869It's a nightmare
>>698084006i think it looks great, honestly. the background is just a bit off
>>698084094You need to be stopped
>kero blaster is as old now as cave story was when kero blaster releasedwhat the fuck
>>698084225what are you talking about
>>698083869demonic creaturehumancurly fumo
>>698083768Yeah which is why I'll be pissed if my wife with more then enough art doesn't work because she's scattered on random blogs/untagged twitter posts/paywalls
>>698084356what
>>698084332yeah i forgot the white skin tag. need to play around with it more, seems to be working with mimigas too
>>698081404A little more information about the various areas you find yourself in. Not for a big infodump, but just slightly more history/lore about why the warehouse with the red flowers is in Sand Zone, the balcony's statues, why the Bloodstained Sanctuary got demon angels.
>>698080195Definitely me on the left, holy shit
>>698084669gay
>>698070417More Misery, please.Draw her adult form in a casual outfit
I would honestly rather sit through watching UnderBoy (What's the secret of your power? UNDERBOY Won't you take me far away from the mucky-muck?) spend an hour trying to figure out how to not shoot Toroko and Igor than this garbage.
>>698086164What are you TALKING about
>>698086164what is he saying bros...?
>>698013854I've never beaten this game because I got completely filtered by monster X during the Curly survives route.
>>698087279Monster X comes right before the first divergence point, though?
>>698087326I think there's a weapon I used to cheese monster X on my first playthrough that isn't obtainable at that point in the game for the curly route. It's been a while so I can't remember. I think it was a gun that could also be used as a hover rocket thing.
>>698086920>>698087202The fucking Undertale child that other guy was talking about earlier, I'd rather watch him play cave story totally wrong than look at AI garbage
>>698087503Aaah, yes, you mean the Machine Gun that you trade your Polar Star for. That actually has nothing to do with the ending requirements, but people do recommend keeping the Polar Star for what's to come, which is why a lot of people play Machine Gun on their first Curly Dies run and then with the much worse Polar Star on the Curly Survives run.
>>698087516Nobody's posted AI shit in like 40 minutes.
>>698087279Sword rapes Monster X
>>698087749Well I had to wait for the post timer again :(
>>698087845Maybe you should have thought about that some more before posting.
For real though, do you think Quote and Curly have Barbie and Ken anatomy, or are they FULLY MODELED?
What type of plot would work for a Cave Story Sequel?Aliens, Another ancient civilization, Computer Virus?
>>698082089Big pants and big heart
>>698089443whats bigger, her pants or her heart
>>698088375Do we really need another one? I guess you could do another one with the same characters but why tear away their ending?
I have a confession I've never beaten hell, and always go for the machine gun. I'm so sorry pls forgive me
>>698089506The heart is stored in the pants.
>>698089631I haven't either but I've only played the game like a day ago so I'm still attempting it.
>>698089508From pixel on the 20th video
>>698089856It's just gonna be another gay collab
>>698090037
>>698015759this
>>698078875>sloppaShame, but also>plump tummy grabOOOUGGHH
>>698090514>king card>isn't King
>>698088210Their biological aspects seems to mimic humans well so I'd assume they have some
>>698091297endless tummy grab generations...
>>698013854>What's your favorite section of the game? (Can be a boss, a certain level, maybe a specific story moment)The end of the sand zone is when the game goes from 0 to 100 real fuckig quick, anything inbetween Toroko+'s boss fight and meeting Itoh is the pinnacle of gaming.>What's your least favorite section of the game?The Sand Zone and it's not even close, i'd rather go to hell without health upgrades than doing the constant backtracking you do in Sand Zone.>Best version of the game? OG Freeware release, CS+ has wonky physics, worse music and the art is blegh>What do you do to keep your replays fresh?I finish the game and then play other things until i forget the game, usually it takes 1 year but this time i took a 2 years break and didn't do my yearly CS playthroug in 2023
>>698092065BIGGER tummy
>>698092575
>Blasting through the hordes of hell while the island is crumbles and falls to its demise, your robo gf strapped to your back providing the best covering fire possible, while the sickest, hypest music ever plays. Finishing it off with a showdown with an ultra powerful wizard and ultimately saving everyone in the end.Let me tell you, 20 years later and indie games have not even come close to reaching this level of pure undiluted kino.
>>698013854I payed all the games /v/ recommended am I a /v/ gamer now?
>>698092887FLUB
>>698088375I'd rather get a prequel>Tell Quote's backstory when he gets dropped on the island to fuck shit up and get the crown>Faction wars against the other teams of robots slaughtering mimigas and shit>More fucked up mutated mimigas after they slurped the red flowers>Misery and Balrog on their prime being legit serious threats>Final boss against that lizard guy that wore the crown before the doctor >True final ending that shows how Team 9 got utterly slaughtered and reduced to nothing by the prime coreA cave story prequel would go hard. There is a lot of material in the setting to make it work
>>698093648>Final boss against that lizard guy that wore the crown before the doctor It was the burly guy with the sword, not the lizard.
>>698013854>>What's your favorite section of the game? (Can be a boss, a certain level, maybe a specific story moment)final cave (hidden)>>What's your least favorite section of the game?grass zone :(>>Best version of the game? switch>>What do you do to keep your replays fresh?i play different versions. my most recent one was encore but i really liked cave story 3d too, i thought it was pretty interesting. i also liked the new areas they added.
>>698093814right, i forgot about that part because any time i go to the sculpter's room, i just fire a full powered Spur to turn the statues good (and make Blade go to lv2 to utterly fucking rape Ballos)
>>698037425my gf HATES cave story and shes both transgender and a zoomer (still love her tho)
>>698088210Female robots are made for SEX. It would just not be logical to make a robot explicitly female and not give it any pleasure features.And they look like they come from the same model series, so Quote might be a sexbot as well - the shota model (dick included).The only thing that has me worried is his dick size, which is most likely child sized.
>>698070371oh wow the detail that looks really good, hope they finish it that would be a good replay
Curly ballin'
>>698098296wrong one.
>>698093050Fuck cupids. I hate these lil niggas.
>>698098385Still the wrong one. Curly wouldn't call me pathetic.
>>698098919make your own then, the template is right there.
>>698099521
>>698100148Curly wouldn't call me mr gay.
>>698100441Proof??
>>698100862She told me in a dream.
She told me I was her favorite. :)
>>698013854I couldn't beat the robot x-boss thing and gave up.
>>698102383How are you people having that much trouble on that specific boss?
>>698102470for me it was because before you can get to it you have to go through a slow ass like 5 minute portion so you either go at normal speed and lose all your shit or drag ass to keep your shit and then you lose to the boss too fast to figure out patterns so to actually get some practice in it'd take like a half hour of just getting to the boss so i gave up
>>698102802It's not really that slow just use the fucking sword.
>>698079492>>698080195Cute slop
FINALLY BEAT BALLOS EAT SHIT YOU FUCKING FECAL STATUE
>>698107154congratulations you finally delivered
>>698107361
Going to bed now.T'was a comfy thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30JZylPUmz0
Thinking of Misery, she is prime fatuglybastard material like she services all the fugly crown wearers against her dignity
>>698070417chaco blowing a kiss
>Snake>Nemesis>Rocket Launcher>Skip Bubbleline to make cycling weapons fasterAll you ever need.
>>698108751quote is for sue ONLY
>>698110280Quote is for Chaco
>>698110362chaco is for santa ONLY
>>698110235How is snek compared to spur?
>>698110128cuck
>>698110235This but Spur and Sword
>>698110427I seem to recall the snake not being a very good weapon, but it can shoot through walls to hit the timer blocks in the sanctuary faster... which is kind of pointless because you can do that with the spur too.
>>698110427It's amazing for leveling, mediocre for bosses. I can't honestly say it's better than the spur though just because the spur doesn't have to worry about its level resetting in hell.It pairs really well with the Nemesis because they both pick up the slack on eachothers weaknesses.
>>698089856Has the drawing been posted anywhere?
>>698110128Misery is for harsh femdom while she's under the crown's power and lovey dovey handholding missionary sex after she's freed from it
footfags get the rope
Toby Fox made this for the anniversary which is cool and all but goddamn does his sprite art suck.
>>698111007Sorry anon, not him, but I don't like femdom
I could always go for another play through of Cave Story, but is there any good mods or a multiplayer server to look into?
happy anniversarysorry to pixelhttps://anonsharing.com/file/53d1eb9baf03a49b/doukutsu-src.zip
>>698112386is it real?
>>698112386>>698112892hmmmmm
>>698112386Big if true!
>>698111101>goddamn does his sprite art suckYeah, music is kind of his thing, not sprites. iirc Temmie was the one who did the artwork for his games.
Controller or keyboard
>>698013854 Only need to play it once.
>>698112386>>698113203CSE2 is basically the original source code because of leaked symbols, prove this isn't just it with the modified dates changed. And if it is real, leak the beta we know Nicalis has it
>>698112386>>698117298>it isn't cse2>it has the original japanese code commentsHoly FUCK its real, if you work at Nicalis please for the love of god leak the beta
>>698112386Do you have the beta of Cave Story?
>>698118059It could be one of the people Pixel gave the source code to for homebrew ports back in the 2000s but if its someone from Nicalis quite possibly
First time this year that I've been in front of this door on full health.How do I psych myself up?>>698093917Damn it took me until now to learn that those are destructible, thanks.
>the actual, original, non-decompiled, cave story source code leaked>nobody notices because the anniversary was 3 days agobtw hashes for the fileSHA1: dad37378cccb014270041dabc84240d97bd91e03SHA256: 41171496ced649528e002ae9d5aababc84e1b4ac7de54839e8b08a5301edf046>>698118241Actually it doesn't contain any tools like a level editor so the first seems more likely
>>698119084>nobody noticesI noticed.
>>698119084>nobody noticedI noticed but I lack the tech literacy to access the site, let alone those hashes
>>698119014power without perception is uselessmash the fire button with lv2 sword as fast as possible, stay as close as you canthe spikeballs do a hell of a lot of damage, but the spikes that rise from the ground only do 2damage boost off them and boost into his eye and unload all your super missiles and he should die
>>698077614You talk like an actual paid shill.
>>698013854favorite section of the game is the return to the egg corridor when the dragons are hatched prematurely. that level left an impression on me.
>>698109201Made me open the window to get that cold air and reminisce of high school
>>698119712Thank you for the advice anon, however I am bad and died to phase 1. I'll just have to try again tomorrow.
>>698120234...The shockwaves do 10, and contact damage is 3. When I said to stay as close as possible, this is what I meant.
>>698120595Damn ok, that's definitely something I'll keep in mind. Come to think of it I always use a similar strategy in the falling blocks room.
Why didn't Pixel just make a melee mechanic?
>>698072539I got turbo filtered by kero blaster
Once again, in case the thread dies. I am proclaiming my love for Curly.
>>698121527Because it would be incredibly gimpy in a game with moon jumps and shoot
>>698110869Not yet
>>698105270lul
>>698114559I wish blade strangers was a better game
>>698122978Didn't Momodora made it work?
>>698121527Because it's a shooting game. Why should there be a melee mechanic in a shooting game?
>>698123559Because it's cool
>>698123652It would be cool if you shot yourself in the head.
>>698123718Rude
>>698112386i have no idea what the fuck i'm doing with visual studio, and my windows xp vm isn't set up to handle japanese properly, but i managed to successfully build this anyway. i think this might actually be legit?
>>698123861What is it?
>>698047058Guxt plus never ever
>>698124370>2022
>>698123861for future reference - before compliling, you need to install the dx5 sdk first (https://archive.org/details/idx5sdk), create a folder named "DirectX5" in the root doukutsu-src directory, and copy these files from the sdk (C:\dx5sdk\sdk\inc\ and C:\dx5sdk\sdk\lib\) into it: >ddraw.h>dinput.h>dsound.h>ddraw.lib>dinput.lib>dsound.lib >dxguid.lib after pasting them in, rename them to:>DxDRAW.H>DxINPUT.H>DxSOUND.H>DxDRAW.LIB>DxINPUT.LIB >DxSOUND.LIB>DxGUID.LIB >>698124003pixel's cave story 1.0.0.4 source code? (i hope?)
I'd kill to have the beta. I just wanna know what the story was originally.
>>698123861I really dig the color scheme you set up in that VM
>>698125062it's the mystery theme from windows 95/98 plus, i think i used this pack to install it on xp: https://kibmcz.ca/site/media/downloads/PLUS!98%20Setup.zip
>>698125653(the direct link doesn't work, but if you go to the downloads page and scroll down, it should still be there)
>>698125653>>698125721Appreciate it man, I give you this rabbit as thanks
>>698126150We can post MP4s now?
>thread is still up>leak happeningOh shit. Hope we have some progress by tomorrow.
>>698126617Yeah, I thought it would be dead by the time I woke up today, but not only is it still going, there's also an actual leak happening.In other news, I'm 5 levels into Kero Blaster for the first time and I'm really enjoying it so far.
>>698112386Holy based, anon.I wish it was one of the old Pixel betas because holy shit the old versions looked wild
>>698126714Did you keep your jacket?
>>698126226since last month
>>698112386
>>698128304You mean did I not get hit at all? No, I did not keep my jacket. Although I just now beat the game and now I'm playing Zangyou Mode.
Never played this game, are the modern console versions good or should I hunt down the original?
>>698129515The original is good and free, so there's nothing to "hunt down", really. You just google Cave Story download and you got it. There's Cave Story+ on Steam right now, which costs 3 bucks right now and has new graphics and music, although you can switch back to the original versions if you prefer those.The 3DS version is, to me, not as good.
>>698129515Original is free. All ports are good. Only bad version is the 3D remake.
>>698129515>>698129838Should also say that the ports for the most part have extras like Curly story and challenge modes
damn audio streams https://files.catbox.moe/heb44g.webm
>>698129515>hunt downliterally first result on google
>>698111101I think it's alright, maybe he just needs some better colors for small asian child.
https://youtu.be/R5EJQWtXwro?feature=shared&t=9i still think about this alot
>>698129515The original is easy to find, rough around the edges but perfectly playable.If you wanted more features both cse2 and nxengine sort of exist, although the former you had to build yourself off of its source code which got dmca claimed, so is harder to dig up.The main thing you get out of both of those rebuilds is widescreen support, with cse2 having frame rate toggles and v sync support while nx engine has a little lighting engine and controller rumble support, but no v sync so it might tear quite a bit unless your gpu has v sync of its own.The retail versions are all built off of nicalis’ Wii ware port, featuring redrawn graphics and new sound track.There was a version for the 3DS done in all 3D graphics but it’s really bad and its only legacy is that it had its own soundtrack which is included as a third option in modern releases.Then of course if you get it on switch it has a bunch more features that nicalis has never seen fit to back port to the pc release, such as 2 new soundtracks and co-op multiplayer.
>>698130843>rough around the edgesexplain how, without sounding like a zoomer.
>>698041223Tried watching for a bit and holy shit, this dude complains about the most miniscule shit.>Why did this grate suddenly open? It makes no sense! *Goes on a random rant about gameplay gates in JRPGs*Not to mention all the repeated instances of "it's always the game's fault! It's never my fault!".I usually enjoy watching people play through Cave Story, but shit like this reminds me of why I hate zoomers. I can guarantee when he plays Toby shit he never complains about anything and takes it seriously 100% of the time.
>>698052098>>698037425I take everything read here at face value and believe both of you
>>698130843>crt effectunironically would love to replay it this way, it doesn't look blown out like other stuff I see. How to get it? I've only played the original and CS+
>>698133927https://github.com/nxengine/nxengine-evo/releases
>>698131989I've only watched a couple of his early streams, and his Cave Story stuff is just one side of the bullshit.Earthbound:>Names Ness Frisk, and the dog Sans>Dismisses dialogue from NPCs as nonsense>Pogs off at every detail he can connect to Undertale/Deltarune (He sees multiple black phones in-game and goes "Yo it's the Spamton phone!")>Ends the game dissatisfied saying "I was hoping for more story."OFF:>Hates the ATB battle system because he can't stop to look at chat (he dies doing this)>Comparing random shit to other Earthbound inspired games (A character climbs a ladder: "Climbing the LISA ladder")>Dismisses the story as outdated because "Undertale did the 'killing bad' moral better"
>>698119845i'm just excited man
>>698119014based win7 user
>>698131025it runs at/is locked to 50 fps and has a really awkward config program
>>698134152Thanks anon, seems the crt effect isn't native to nxengine. Googled it, all I get is people using retroarch to apply the effect. Big shame, but I guess I don't need a screen effect to enjoy the game.
Soooo anon, whats todays fetish?
>>698137185>>698015759
>>698070417curly with curly pubeslots of them
>>698139906sexo
>>698130043That is a good video, I will save it for further use.
>>698130043cow Sue hiding in there
>>698123861What version of visual studio are you running? I tried to set up a few versions on my XP VM but always ran into a different problem.
i was mad about not being able to save carly without a rope you only get through a very convoluted quest
>>698123861visual studio .net 2003, since that's what the project file specified and i didn't want to risk upgrading it with a newer version:https://archive.org/details/microsoft-visual-studio-.-net-2003-professional-disc-1https://archive.org/details/microsoft-visual-studio-.-net-2003-professional-disc-2https://archive.org/details/MSDN_Visual_Studio_NET_2003_Prerequisites_Disc_2072_May_2003_X09-51482https://archive.org/details/MSDN_Library_for_Visual_Studio_NET_2003_Disc_1_Disc_2073_May_2002_X09-51483https://archive.org/details/MSDN_Library_for_Visual_Studio_NET_2003_Disc_2_Disc_2074_May_2003_X09-51484https://archive.org/details/MSDN_Library_for_Visual_Studio_NET_2003_Disc_3_Disc_2075_May_2003_X09-51485the problem is that i have no idea how to activate it - both of the license keys provided don't seem to work for me - but i was able to ignore the error that pops up, load the solution file and rebuild it anyway? i don't know jackshit about visual studio, let alone versions that are 20 years older>>698143296quickly ran it through malwarebytes and virustotal and i didn't see anything suspicious, so i'm guessing it's a false positive
>>698143716>>698142070meant to respond to this anon, too sleepy
>>698143716Fuck it I'm gonna try converting it with the newest visual studio version.
>>698112386based if real, crigne if elaborate troll based off the decomp.
its just gonna be another shitty hoax lol lmao
>>698145624Yeah. After that fake proto leak I'm extremely skeptical of anything Cave Story related. The fans of this game are complete trolls.
>>698146202I faked it. I took the decompiled source code and intentionally made a bunch of minor syntactic changes and put macros where there weren't and removed macros where there were as a joke. I did it in C, my favorite programming language, as a gag. I then proceed to do that a bunch more times to every source file also as a joke. i then wrote japanese code comments for everything as a joke. i also changed the folder structure and made source files that aren't in cse2 as a joke. i then setup an entire visual studio build system in an old version all for a laugh. and i replicated the exact version that pixel gave the code of to people for homebrew ports as a joke. you all fell for it
>>698146818This isn't really that much of a stretch for a troll. It's not like the game freak leaks that are undeniable.>entire visual studio build systemOh no, it's retarded.
>>698146912>what are rc files
>>698112386witnessed
>>698119591it's literally just clicking a link retard
>>698148802The link just doesn't work for me anon, I'm not THAT tech illiterate.
>>698148983guess it just doesn't like you, have a reupload https://gofile.io/d/hf2FyY
>>698112386BASED
>>698149139Appreciated anon, I won't have much use for it, but it'll stay in my humble Cave Story versions folder
>>698037425I'm a zoomer and my first experience with Cave Story was the freeware version over a decade ago. Back then I only got the normal ending because I found that jump to skip Professor Booster and get the Booster upgrade to be too hard.I did end up playing more Cave Story+ than the original due to the extras and added achievements, and later on I managed to 100% it. I haven't really touched it since so my memories with it have been fuzzy so I only remember the major plot moments and endings.Funnily enough I never saw the comparisons between Undertale and Cave Story and I was there when the community was still new and thriving after finishing the game in 2015. I'd like to believe the majority of zoomers have atleast heard of this game but haven't played it/are against it, but those who did genuinely love it. You just have to look.
>>698149880And to avoid confusion with 2015 I meant Undertale, not Cave Story. I was already aware of Cave Story's modding scene before I even heard of Undertale.
>>698149880I don't think a lot of zoomers remember this game or know about it at this point it just kind of faded from memory
>>698146818I know this is a /vp/ copypasta, but you severely underestimate the autism the community around this game in particular and Pixel has.It has all the typical signs of a Japanese programmer rather than gaijin adding hoge fuga comments, but these same people also willingly replicate and admire his late 90s book-style C programming and painstakingly studied Organya's source drop from years ago.As for the lack of tools... it was given for the sole purpose of porting to another platform. Kero Blaster's source is out there too, Pixel keeps outsourcing port jobs to white people.
>>698150192I do agree with you. I hardly find any zoomers or younger kids talking about Cave Story in the places I visit. Maybe its for the better. I have a hunch most Sue shitposters have played it but don't have anything else to post about other than edits of her face.I'm not sure if younger generations will even dare to try out older games before their time. They atleast show interest in indie games but its nothing more than generic slop like Friday Night Funkin and Geometry Dash.
curly butt
Do you guys remember when someone asked pixel to draw sue and toroko's butts on his BBS and he actually fucking did it
>>698151570Yes I do, because it's mentioned in every single Cave Story thread.
>>698151570every of the time
>>698143716>>698143773Thanks, I finally got it running. Here's the debug and release builds:https://files.catbox.moe/edfa3j.zip>both of the license keys provided don't seem to work for meThe first one worked for me but I only used it when it prompted me for a key and not for the online activation. The only thing I can imaging to be different, assuming you didn't make a typo, is that I used the Windows XP Activator on my VM.
>>698124652don't even need a vm, it builds prefectly fine in VS2022 other than needing to turn off safe exception handlers and a slight edit to 3 lines it complains about
>>698112386>version is 1.0.0.4>same version that has debug symbols from the linux release and had people reverse engineer from scratch>no svn, cvs or any version control what so ever>no tools used to develop the game's maps or compiler for the tsc files just the source code for the main game>we had somebody pull a similar stunt almost half a year ago with a fake beta buildyeah no I smell bullshit, at least this is done better than the "dying japanese laptop" trollhttps://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/682117816
>>698152748explained by >>698118241
>>698150608>Maybe its for the better.The Zeldafag in me wants to agree but a part of me wants Pixel to get more recognition because he genuinely deserves it but it's opening Pandora's box especially with the modern furfag that'd put even the most dedicated Sueposter to shameI believe they'd be willing to try but whether it sticks or not is up in the air
>>698152037that's me, sorry/you're welcome.
>>698153036i dont believe that,if it was nicalis then it'd have to be a version later than than 1.0.0.4, pixel wouldnt send an earlier revision for the wii port that would then serve as the base for future ports going forward.the only person we know that had 1.0.0.4 was the dude who worked on the linux port that coincidentally was the build that was released with debug symbolsif this really is the source than coolas this is however it doesn't contain anything that isn't already provided by the CSE2 decomp. hell there isn't any debug code or anything unique from what I see. its not super special other than "hey theres some sparse japanese comments and different formatting"
>>698150608>spoilerI ran out of things to talk about well after the translation and CS+ threads, so I let it go and sometimes played it for the Halloween/Christmas easter eggs. Recently I saw more threads showing up for whatever reason and eventually made some OC for threads with everyone else. Multiplayer was also a big factor for a small time.
the source has you be invincible in debug mode but it got commented out
>>698139141cute
>>698152748>>698153960Yeah, the fact that there's literally nothing new in here versus the decomp is super sus.
>>698037425I'm a zoomer and I got past Hell in like 4 hours. I was pretty shit at games back then. I would have a hard clear if not for fucking B2, I'll settle for the normal end because everything else was crazy enough already. Not to mention of course that Easy and Hard are Nicalis fanfiction and not in the original game so it doesn't matter. My least favorite part was definitely Monster X, hard enough just getting to the boss and then I had to fight the boss with all the random shit coming at me. Fun fight normally though. From what I've seen, the reason some zoomers don't care about Cave Story is that they just get the normal ending and dip, and the game does not tell a story in the same way newer games do. I personally think Undertale is annoying with how it tries to tell its story, like shut the fuck up I'm doing genocide because it's more content that's all there is to it. And then on top of that the genocide route is made intentionally boring because uhhh basic RPG grinding le bad, no Asgore for you. I think meta is too easy of a thing to use, and I feel Cave Story does not overstay its welcome, nor does it rely on anything else to do what it does. Shooting down a frenzied Mimiga is sad and there's no explanation needed for that. The lore fits with the game and is not very complicated.TL;DR zoomers don't like honest games as much as pretentious "experiences"
>>698155378the new stuff would be in comments, impossible to find in a decomp
>>698078875If you didn't tell me this was AI I don't think I would've figured it out
>>698155970An obvious sign of AI is that the image looks like it was photocopied onto printer paper.
>>698155609>>698155378an example, this bit from NpcAct080.cpp
>>698129515There is literally a version on roblox of all places.
>>698155387Zoomers like their shit over-explained to them, that's why "essay" videos are so popular nowadays, so something more subtle like Cave Story will go over their ADHD riddled brains who is unable conjure an apple. The brilliant usage of "show don't tell" that is the Curly scene in the core will do nothing for them, because they need the Undertale approach of needing a character, that is supposed to be dead already, to have 20 full dialogue boxes to force you to feel sad before actually dying.
>>698156095>>698155609One word comments scattered throughout the code. Nothing convincing, desu.
>>698156360
>>698156468oh shit pixel's yandev arc begins
>>698156095>>698156468>>698156703>pixel's messy coding anticsNow THIS is what I'm here for. Keep them coming.
>>698157113Wait on a second read this is not that special. It's just commented out code that you might want to use again in the future or for debugging purposes; it doesn't get included in the compiled game. I do the same shit too.
>>698151570how do they look
>>698121527Japanese sensibility
>>698157267>it doesn't get included in the compiled gamethat's the point i'm making with these
>why isn't there any toolsit was for porting>why is it version 1.0.0.4it was for porting>why didn't he comment a his codehe was the sole developer>why is there randomly commented out logic with no extra commentshe was the sole developer>why didn't he use svn or cvs (in 2004)retarded zoomer>why isn't there anything newretarded zoomer
commented out bit for a boss
I'm playing it for the first time ever because of the 20th. Just got to Curly saving me from drowning, RIP.>What's your favorite section of the game? (Can be a boss, a certain level, maybe a specific story moment)When I can shred enemy groups with Bubbler or Blade and see/hear dozens of XP drops.>What's your least favorite section of the game?Monster X is a bitch.>Best version of the game?I'm playing the Freeware English Patch.>What do you do to keep your replays fresh?I know there's optional weapons like the Machine Gun so I guess that.
>>698157857try to make your bait less obvious, pal. Now I know this shit is fake.
huge chunk of commented out code in organya.cpp
interesting bit from the audio code
>>698158587That commented code all exists herehttps://github.com/shbow/organya/blob/master/source/Sound.cpp
>>698013854this game could've used a prequel
>>698158587>>698158706a slightly modified version of the standalone Organya editor was already open sourced by one of Pixel's friends a couple of years backhttps://github.com/shbow/organyamight be interesting to compare details, I know from the decomp that some subtle details like the exact frequencies of notes are slightly different
just found a giant almost 1000-line clump of if/elses lmao
>>698159303TextScr.cpp
>take decomp>run clang-format to change up the formatting a bit>sprinkle random single word comments and useless simple commented out code bits>idiots slurp it up
>>698159520I faked it. I took the decompiled source code and intentionally made a bunch of minor syntactic changes and put macros where there weren't and removed macros where there were as a joke. I did it in C, my favorite programming language, as a gag. I then proceed to do that a bunch more times to every source file also as a joke. i then wrote japanese code comments for everything as a joke. i also changed the folder structure and made source files that aren't in cse2 as a joke. i then setup an entire visual studio build system in an old version all for a laugh. and i replicated the exact version that pixel gave the code of to people for homebrew ports as a joke. you all fell for it
>>698159802>i then setup an entire visual studio build systemYes, creating a "build system", ie opening visual studio and adding the files to a project, is a big endevour. Kill yourself.
>>698159520pixel's coding style is way too fucked for clangd-format to replicate it
>>698013854>Favorite sectionThere's too many but maybe the moment you visit the Egg Corridor again, or when you turn down Kazuma to continue your journey as you ascend upwards to an unknown destination as Moonsong plays, which is like right after the Egg Corridor stuff so I guess that part of the game >Least favorite sectionProbably Sand Zone I really don't like the dog fetching, Grasstown is second place here>Best versionPirate the Switch version and throw it into doukutsu-rs>What do you do to keep your replays fresh?Different weapons, self-imposed challenges, Christmas/Halloween skins, sometimes a soundtrack change for the hell of it
>>698141071Very rare Mue Sue
Skullgirls Curly
>>698150431>it was given for the sole purpose of porting to another platformCan't tell if in on it or just guessing like me. For sure Nicalis has the original tools>Kero Blaster's source is out there tooYou mean leaked or just in the possession of the port creator?
>>698164203the port developer is a cave story community discord tranny so it's guaranteed
>>698112386based if real, cringe if fakesomeone should compile and run it>>698123861does the exe work
>>698160010It has an rc file with a lot more stuff in it than CSE2s, Pixels coding was so Windows centric he unironically used the form and resource stuff
>>698041583metoo
>>698077692so thats his true power. i hope to get there someday
>>698164663Oh wait, it shows the portable branch by default on the github reupload of CSE2, the rc file in the accurate branch still isn't structured exactly the same as the leaks
>look up mimiga art>it's mostly dominated by two suspiciously wealthy fursGreat.....
>>698160958oh I didn't know about -rs, that's pretty cool.Funny how everyone's always got their own lighting system
>>698160010btw yes setting up a visual studio project for an existing codebase with a bunch of resource bullshit is a decently large endeavor for a GCCchad such as myself.You don't need more, do you?
>>698157523nodevs are so funny they will pretend they are interested in >console.log('hello world');just because its written by someone who made a game 20 years ago and then go right back to scrolling on tiktok after virtue signalling
>>698166053>realtime per-pixel lighting in a 2d pixel gameWhy.....
>>698166053Pixel, HIRE THIS MAN!
>>698166875It's neat
>>698166875Animal Well did pixel lighting really well (heh)
>>698166875I think they’re just having fun since the switch port similarly has spotlight lighting and dynamic water surfaces
The new soundtracks for the switch version sure are something.On one hand you got the Famitracks chiptuning it uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td-evNdOvtsOn the way opposite end of the spectrum you've got Rididculon rocking outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PklZdTjaAnk
>>698165402one of them spends 90% of their paychecks for commissions and frequently cries about depression and not having friends, not sure about the one with the pink shirt
>>698171714You know I still maintain that Ridiculons's early isaac tracks are kind of cheeks and they should re-do em.But they've gotten a lot better over the years.
>>698171714iirc nicalis gave ridiculon only like 1 week to do the whole soundtrack. which explains why most of it is garbo.although it's odd that they would rush them considering that that soundtrack was added in a later update.
>>698165402>That brief time in like 2018 where there was a little extra art of mimigas because there was that undertale fan who killed himself.
>>698172035what
>>698172102Mimigabro.I found out about it in one of the Christmas threads where Sue took the hat.Had a gay little original character with a green and purple sweater
>>698171906the only game I think Ridiculon did a good job with was The End is Nigh. Cautiously optimistic for Mewgenics
>>698158310Bro? You didn't just leave her there did you?
>>698172990Ssshh, let him find out.
>>698172990I didn't know you could save her until after. I was having fun with my new jetpack and suddenly we're drowning. I'M SORRY CURLY
>>698171869who's the depressed one the one with the orange sweater mimigga?
>>698172610repentance was unironically decent to great everything else he worked on for isaac is ass and only really serves to give the game an edgy dark vibe
>>698041654Great game but too many fags in these parts
>>698013854Why is he so angry
>>698175241Full of mana
>>698013854Does the android port have controller support yet? I want to play at work on overnight ahifts byt hate touch controls
>>698175241He was permanently rangebanned from CaveChan for excessive funposting and making the jannies seethe
>>698158860Interesting, I've always imagined what a prequel might be like as well. It sure has potential for prequels with all that war on the surface stuff and the previous Demon Crown holders.
>>698171869>and frequently cries about depression and not having friendsSounds like the average /v/ users.
>>698175241Gem
>>698175125All the gay posts in this thread are just me.
>>698176875that's just the average internet user in general, really
>>698174590>who's the depressed one the one with the orange sweater mimigga?idk haven't seen them be depressed
>>698177757his oc is cute in a sexy wayit's like the konata to sue's haruhi
>>698177757>idk haven't seen them be depressedHe's constantly doomposting on the bird site and then deleting the tweets a couple days ago.
>>698171714I think the only remixed version that came with a game and I liked was famicom one, but I honestly find including them with the game unnecessary when the original version is perfect (as in literally what it is supposed to be), and setting anything but the original as the default a blasphemy.
>>698178564I guess I don't see them because I look at the site maybe once a day at most
I tried hard mode earlier this year and got to the boss rush at the end and I couldn't do it. Should I try again?
>>698038936>>698019301After doing a run where I only take half the hp upgrades I normally would I think B2 might be one of my favorite maps. By the time I beat Ballos I would sometimes slip in-between two falling blocks or zig-zag though them and the boulders. It's random but only just enough to make you pay attention to each moment.I may not have the same opinion once I do it at 3hp run however
>>698178927>spoilerYou're insane.
>>698178927Good luck you fucking psychopath
>>698178927Yeah, not an option for Unstoppable/ Time attack.I just made a new save file, just to have another shot at that. I can do everything before that fairly easily (I killed Monster X first try /w no damage) but that section is pure rng. no matter how precisely I use the booster, either the angels do too much damage, or the blocks do too much damage. One time I managed to get through with only 1 hit in practice, but you can't be hit at all with 3HP.
>Bump limitNice thread. Would like some multiplayer threads or something engaging in the future or anything really. Love me some Cave Story.
>>698164506i didn't record it because it forces the resolution to 640x480, but yes, it launches>>698152748there was an "accurate" branch of cse2 that reverse engineered the entire game complete with period correct windows dependencies, although i can't read code so i'm not sure if the formatting being different is actually significant or not
>>698170089chunky
OP here, it was a fun thread. Can't believe it lasted this long!
Back on the grind. I'll get it one day soon I swear.
YABBA DABBA SUE
Curly best girl all time hands down
