metroid 64

[Lazycow]

-All tiles are 8x8(actually 4x8 cos widthpixel),
-Also all tiles share the same 3 global colors (thats the first palette row below each mockup here)
-Each tile can have one additional individual color, the twist here is you can only use the first 8 colors for this.

Actually, you can even tell each block if it is a hires-block (8x8 pixels in 2 colors) or a multicolor-block (4x8 widepixels in 4 colors) in this screenmode. (That's why you can only use 8 colors - the 4th bit of the color nibble is used to switch hires/multicolor) It has been rarely used in games, because using individual colors for each block doubles the amount of bytes that has to be scrolled by the CPU. It can be found in games that use page-flipping (like Antiriad) or games that use special scrolling-restrictions (like Citatel).
Here is an example (the leaves at the right use hires blocks and the stones at the left use multicolor blocks. Yes, the red "ghost" is a sprite) http://www.thelegacy.de/pics/screen/a/antiriad-06.png

[ptoing]

Afaik loads of games use the mcol/hires thing. Giana Sisters, Hard'n'Heavy, both Rick Dangerous games, Creatures 2, Mayhem in Monsterland, the Turrican games are ones that come to mind from the top of my head. I think it was actually quite common.

[Dusty]

I love this... really a great deal better than the original. One thing I don't like though are the doors... they look really plain and simple compared to their surroundings.

[wah_wah_69]

This is AWESOME!
Could a real c64 be able to move this?

I've been looking for some metroid sid files but I haven't found any, I found this post though:
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/forums/index.php?roomid=11&topicid=46862

[wah_wah_69]

Finally found this .sid :
http://hvsc.tp2.be/C64Music/MUSICIANS/A/Ashrilyn/Metroid_Brinstar_Remix.sid

[Jiisuki]

Finally found this .sid :
http://hvsc.tp2.be/C64Music/MUSICIANS/A/Ashrilyn/Metroid_Brinstar_Remix.sid

Lovely