Joseph's Skins, Bots, Etc. **UPDATED: Quint's Revenge Music WAD**

[Joseph Collins]

"Hey...  You got your Mega Man in my Minecraft!"
"Oh yeah?  You got your Minecraft in my Mega Man!"
"I did?"
"Well, now you did!"

Steve/Aka Mr Minecraft. :D

While this wasn't done as as request, it does kind of fill that criteria.  XD


Minecraft Steve Skin/Bot

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I took some minor liberties with this skin, as I did with SuperDanny.  Basically, the original skin I had in mind was basically a "copy-and-paste" from all angles.  However, once I drew the bodies of the odd angles, I noticed how utterly bizarre the darn thing looked.  I decided to "round" his head a little more so his face shows from the sides.  Turns out, that really did improve on the overall skin.

I tried to find 8-bit analogs for Minecraft sounds, but I gave up, so Steve currently uses the built-in game sounds for injury and landing.  A bot is also included, but it has no chat lines.  This is intentional.  Steve no longer even grunts.

[Korby]

I remember Steve having darker skin than that, but I'll get it anyway.

[Joseph Collins]

He does.  But I couldn't find a good analogue in the 8-bit palette.  Other than brown, I mean.  And his skin's not quite that dark. (Actually, it's kind of a funky "needs a bath", washed-out kind of tan.  The closest match according to NeoPaint was grey.  XD)

[Joseph Collins]

I know a few of you have been wanting this for a while now.  So... here it is!


Metall EX Skin/Bot (8.46 KB)

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Decided to try something different this time.  Analogue weapon palette!  :D

Some time back before v2a, I released a skin for the game.  It was basically a skin version of the built-in Metall EX enemies.  I called it "Met" or "MetSkin".  It was cute, but I later learned that the palette was a little screwed up.  How did I find this out?  As luck would have it, someone made and released a modification for the game, Roboenza Mode (Note: Rage Roboenza linked for lack of link to the original mod), which changed not only the primary and secondary colors, but a third color as well -- black.  The screw-up comes from the fact the sideways sprites for the original Metall EX sprites use two different shades of black for some reason -- #000000 and #050505.  There's no real obvious reason as to why this is so, but regardless, it made for some rather funny-looking Mets in that game mode (or so I'm told) -- funnier-looking than intended, rather!

Well... about a year and three versions later, I finally decided to redo the original "MetSkin" a bit.  But rather than make it "MetSkin v2", I actually ended up changing quite a few things about it!

Change Log:

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v2.0:
- Changed the standing frames to make the Met hide under his shell.
(Note: This has no impact on gameplay, unlike the Mega Man games.)
- Altered several frames of animation to look nicer overall.
- Changed a few frame pointers for better accuracy compared to the original games.
- No more color errors in Roboenza Mode!!

Pre-post Edit: v2.1 now available to the public!:
- Changed a couple more frames of animation to look nicer.
- Added "ear-bolts" to all front and back frames.

Second Edit: v2.2 now available to the public!
- Changed the firing frames so he doesn't look so ridiculous when charging a weapon.  Special thanks to Zerokk for pointing this out!

Third Edit: v2.3 is now available to the public!  It's a bit of a mandatory release...
- I... forgot to add in the sprite offsets.  And if that wasn't dumb enough, I also forgot to add the SKININFO file into the actual skin.
  ...
  Bear with me.  It's been half a year since I've done this.  ._.
- Changed the secondary firing frames to the v2.0/v2.1 primary firing frames.  It looks pretty good with most weapons!  But not all of them...

[Ceridran]

I dislike the firing pose.
When it's shooting/charging something, it looks like it's freaking out.

The helmet should be lower.

[Joseph Collins]

Originally posted Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:12 pm

I dislike the firing pose.
When it's shooting/charging something, it looks like it's freaking out.

The helmet should be lower.

You're right.  The helmet should be lower, going by how Mets fire in the games.  However, if I did that, then you could hardly tell the thing was firing at all.  So I decided to use the "pop up" frame of animation instead.  I thought it looked more interesting that way.

Though admittedly, I didn't consider how it might look when charging a weapon.  I'm going to have to remember that if I make another skin.

Edit: You're right.  That looks absolutely ridiculous.  And unfortunately, not in a good way.  And so... I've updated the skin (Sub-Edit: This link now works again.  Oi.  >_>;), just for you.  ...  No, I'm serious.  I would have never have noticed how silly that looked had you not said something.  So, thanks!  :D
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... I screwed up bad.

Have you ever uploaded and released a skin without testing it?  I just did that yesterday.  >_<;  Not only did it lack the SKININFO file, but... the sprites didn't have their proper offsets!  It's all fixed now, plus I changed the secondary firing frames to the "surprised" look.  It works pretty well!

[Ceridran]

Thanks! I'l go try it out.

[Joseph Collins]

Oh, hey.  Guess what?



New skin coming this Friday.  And I personally think it's of someone a lot of people have been wanting to get into the deathmatch arena...  ;3 (No, it's not Anonyman.)

[Hallan Parva]

Is it Miles Prowler? Is it your furry form as seen on YouTube?

[Joseph Collins]

There's already a pretty decent Miles Prower MM8BDM skin floating around the interwebs (possibly two!), so it's not that.  :3

[fortegigasgospel]

Its Antowan (or whatever his name was) from the SATOM

[Joseph Collins]

I know I said this about the Metall EX skin, but I know at least a couple of you have been waiting for something like this for a while now...


Joseph Skin/Bot (29.10 KB)

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Release Video (YouTube)

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Release Information
- What is it?
It's the result of three days of spritework combined with a day of testing.
Or... a new skin for Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch.  It also includes a bot.

- What does it do?
It allows you to play as me, Joseph Collins!
Or rather, my furry incarnation, "Joseph Lithius".

- Who is "Joseph"?
Joseph "Doc" Lithius is a character I made to represent me.  He's basically me as an anthropomorphic fox thing.

- Anthropo-what?
an·thro·po·mor·phic [an-thruh-puh-MAWR-fik]
adjective
1. ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, especially to a deity.
2. resembling or made to resemble a human form: "an anthropomorphic carving."

Also, an·thro·po·mor·phous.

- How can an anthro-whatsit fox participate in a robot tournament?
I'm glad you asked!

The simple explanation: "It's a video game.  Don't overthink it."
The stupidly complex explanation:
 "Joseph found his way to Mega Man World through a transdimensional portal.  Wanting to participate in the tournament, he somehow got himself equipped with a Variable Weapon System Buster and shock-absorbing pads for his shoes which allow him to take long falls like the other robots in the tournament.  Any time he "dies", the shoes and buster explode, instantly vaporizing him.  Fortunately, he's patched in to the same "Respawner" technology that the other participants are hooked into, including the other organic combatants."

Ever had the urge to shoot me in the face with high explosives?  Well now you can!  Given that I can't actually play online like a normal human being (due to my satellite internet), I figured this was the next best thing!  Possibly even better, in fact!  The bot is actually a little more accurate than I am most of the time!

In all seriousness, this was a good four days of work and I'm really pleased with how the skin turned out!  The color palette (aside from the cyan and blue) are authentic NES colors, though I'm sure some of you may have noticed that there's a few colors too many for a strict 8-bit sprite.  The simple explanation is that it's a "layered sprite", like a number of the Mega Man boss characters.  In Joseph's case, he uses an absurdly greedy 3 layers -- 3 colors for his body (black, olive-gold, and dark brown), 3 for his clothing and face (white, what would be blue for his pants, and black), and 3 colors for his outfit overlay (cyan, blue, and black).  I thought about reducing the colors to simulate 2 layers, but after seeing official skins like Ballade and Slashman -- especially Slashman -- I decided not to worry about it after all.

I hope you enjoy this skin and the accompanying bot!

As a sidenote, if there's any problems with overlapping skin name ("Joseph" is pretty generic...) or file names ("JOCO" should be okay...), I can release a patched version that changes the skin name or data file names.

[Hallan Parva]

Is it your furry form as seen on YouTube?

I KNEW IT

[Joseph Collins]

Well... it was pretty obvious, all and all.  Though I like FGG's guess of "Antoine from Sonic SatAM".  So much so, in fact, I was tempted to edit the running animation into Antoine just to mess with you guys.  But then things came up and I got busy, so...  XD

[GravityBones]

when anonyman is gonna be released? Can't wait for it.