Hello!
First of all, sorry for the lack of news here. I've been swamped with work and other real life issues.Let's do a recap of my current projects status.
Mega Man World 3 DX
The most recent hot news: we released Mega Man World 3 DX!Our initial idea was to release it on August/September. However, I changed my mind due to the coming events (continue reading).Hope you enjoy this hack as much as we did while developing it! While the original game is not top notch quality like Mega Man World 5, it is still a decent platformer and now you can play the best version of it which includes not only the colorful graphics from Kensu, but a pile of fixes as well!
Mega Man World 4 DX / Mega Man Mania
If you are not aware, MMW3DX is part of the Mega Man Mania revival, a project that aims to colorize the five Game Boy Mega Man games and then create a compilation for GBA.That means, after MMW3DX release, Mega Man World 4 is the only one left to complete the colorized series.I've got code working already, but this one is much more ambitious than the prequel and I am also aware this installment is well beloved by fans, I am going to put my best care on it. So I ask you for patience, it won't be released this year.
Donkey Kong DX
We've done a lot of amazing progress on DK this year. Unfortunately, development will be paused temporarily (keep reading, please!).To make up for it, stay tuned on July 27th for the very first trailer of Donkey Kong DX!Legendary SM64 hacker Kaze Emanuar holds an annual event called F3, which is a very cool showcase of fangames and hacks. I submitted DKDX trailer this year.I can't confirm it will appear there though, as Kaze receives lots of submissions but he told me DKDX he will likely be able to include it.In case it doesn't make the cut, I will release the trailer myself in my YouTube channel.In any case, I will keep you informed on my Twitter as the day comes closer.
Commercial colorization
As I told patrons in my last post here, if things go well I'll start working in a commercial colorization soon. This means, this will become my first priority from now on, that's why I have no choice but to pause MMW4DX and DKDX.It's not a big game, but I've already done some reverse engineering and it's going to give me trouble for sure (code is quite bad haha). And since I can only work on it during my free time (I still got my job and a life!), it will probably take me a couple of months. Wish me luck!
Ganbare Goemon: Seikuushi Dynamites Arawaru!! english translation
Currently, this is paused. I wrote a tool to extract the script and did some reverse engineering too, but due to my current workload I decided to step aside. Serpens will resume work on it once he finishes his current project with Tom: Shiren: The Wanderer english translation. I will stay in the team by aiding if it's necessary.
Ninja Gaiden DX
Yup, a little surprise!Truth is I started this one two years ago, but never did much progress (decided to focus MMW5DX back in the day).Recently I resumed it as I am always looking for smaller projects between the biggest ones, like I did with Snoopy's Magic Show DX or Amazing Penguin DX during MMW5DX.It is one of my childhood games (and a very good one too). I've teamed up with NiO107 this time, he is going to do a very good job with graphics (he is the one behind Cosmo Knight ZiON, a very promising homebrew game).It is too soon to give an specific date, but it would be amazing to release another colorization before the year ends :-)
Thank you for reading, and thanks for your support, love to see kinds words every time we release a new hack ^_^