Fans of the Metroid series will be quick to mention that it would appear Nintendo are ignoring the beloved franchise. In light of this, a group a three have taken it upon themselves to create a prequel to Metroid showing gamers what happens before Samus Aran’s ‘Zero Mission’. The small group behind the game state that: “Rogue Dawn surrounds the events that led up to the theft of the capsule which ultimately placed the Metroid’s under the control of Ridley and the Mother Brain.”
Rogue Dawn isn’t a stand-alone download but it’s a ROM hack. You must load it onto a Metroid ROM. It is a potentially a complicated process however. It’s also worth noting that when Nintendo gets wind of the project it’s almost certain that they’ll issue a Cease and Desist order (which has happened many times before with other fan pojects).
You can check out a video of their ambitious project below:
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand, it’s gone.
https://youtu.be/DXsyn-9VLVA
http://forum.metroidconstruction.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=8c356fdc9cfc39b04e5ee2f776813c1f&action=dlattach;topic=4221.0;attach=3911
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I thought you of all people would like this with you being the massive metroid-a-boo you are. you surprise me. Fan patches are fine nobody of profiting of it so there’s no need to be all “Oh the great Nintendo Monarchs will smith this unworthy heathen!” Calm down it’s just a patch for a game, take it easy it’s not the end of the world.
Tell that to Nintendo when they shutdown Prism.
True, but what “Quadraxis’s Beloved Monarchs fail to grasp once something is on the internet you cant just say (WAAAAH, I DON’T LIKE YOU DOING THAT TO MY PROPERTY!) no matter how much somebody complains there will always be somebody or a group that will still do it. For example they refuse to make the 3ds region free so region 4 exists
so some exploits are good.
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it’s still Metriod, Nintendo has apparently killed the franchise so if you want a good experience ,fan projects are your best bet. unless you just want to play all the old prime games. But there’s nothing wrong with this game patch it’s actually very good you should give it a chance and not be so stubborn
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Prime 4 would be a dream right about now.
https://youtu.be/vBPuJ9o8q0Y?t=48s
you realize you are violating copyrights by using unauthorized video copies in your posts, right?
You are funny
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facepalm.
Actually as a ROM hack and not a standalone ROM, this should be safe from a Nintendo C&D. It’s been up for a couple weeks now and, yes, despite the first couple humorous comments here, it’s definitely still available for download.
That’s what we all thought before Nintendo C&D’d Pokemon Prism.
Prism was a ROM hack.
Yeah, but Prism was distributed as a pre-patched complete ROM. This is only being distributed as a patch that you have to apply yourself. Countless hack patches have been up for years and Nintendo doesn’t bother until you put a playable game out there.
Was it actually? As far as I knew it was just distributed as a .ips patch
I guess it’s hard to check now that it’s down, but when it was reported on by this site, I clicked the link they provided and downloaded it as a patched ROM. No work required on my end to patch. Maybe they started with the IPS file and then got a bunch of requests from people who didn’t know what to do with it so they started offering the ROM?
Plus, he got shut down before Prism was even completed… so he never even started distribution in the first place.
I dunno about the prepatched ROM, but the patch itself contains many gen 3 and up Pokemon which are trademarked.
Not to mention Solgaleo is the Sunne Pokemon, Lunala is the Moone Pokemon and Necrozma is the Prism Pokemon (which should be obvious where I’m going with this).
But that’s the thing… those AREN’T contained in the patch. Just the ROM itself. So long as the hack is distributed as an IPS patch (and the original ROM is found elsewhere), there isn’t any copyrighted content being distributed. The patch only contains instructions for the patch utility to modify the ROM. It’s no longer a blatant distribution of copyrighted material, but rather a derivative work.
Clearly, it can still be targeted, but it’s MUCH less common.
How do I catch Gardevoir in Pokemon Crystal?
What? You don’t. That doesn’t mean Gardevoir is distributed as part of the IPS patch though.
Again, the IPS patch is literally just instructions for the patch utility to modify the ROM. Don’t overthink it.
just got it and can confirm it works on NES Classic. it’s actually pretty decent so far!
^This kinda thing makes me want an NES classic… finish filling it with NES games that are in my top-shelf list:
Battletoads
S.C.A.T.
Rampage
Starwars
Empire Strikes Back
Indian Jones Last Crusade
M.U.L.E.
Gauntlet
Gangus Khan
… I might be missing a couple, but I love to break those out and play, they would totally be on my NES Classic.
DOWNLOAD IT BEFORE IT’S GONE XD
If you think it’s gone, it never will be. At least one or two people (who aren’t the modest creators, after being DMCA-scared) will distribute it on the internet in secrecy. It will just take awhile, plus a massive amount of searching.
But yeah, it helps to download these things EARLY, even if you’re not immediately interested.
why do they keep doing this
Inb4 shutdown.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone call patching a ROM a “complicated process” before.
So in a way, you need to actually own the original NES game in order to even use this? I would think that’d keep it safe but Nintendo & all that.
nope. even owning a game doesn’t give you the right to a rom (or the use of licensed characters), not that i care or anything. roms are infringement straight up, though the enforcement is extremely lax. i’m all for fan projects though, mostly because they make idiots like quadraxis so mad.
There’s all sorts of great fan projects out there, though it does seem that a lot of them get squashed. Thankfully, there’s a few decent fanfictions out there. though most of it is utter garbage.
You know what they say… once it’s on the internet, it stays there forever.
Nintendo needs to embrace fan projects. It’s a reason why so many are being distant towards a company that yes, wishes to protect their intellectual property, but is still stuck in the past.
I doubt that Nintendo will take any action against the Rogue Dawn team because it’s being distributed as a patch and not as a pre-patched ROM. Patching ROMs manually has been done without persecution since the BEGINNING OF TIME whereas pre-patched ROMs have been under more scrutiny.