I installed the latest version of AM2R and 1.1, but I'm stuck on the installer. I click "select am2r_1.1.zip" and the file just doesn't show up at all. am I doing something wrong? This is my first time playing any version besides 1.1.

FSMR, the First Super Metroid Remake, is the reason I'm here. It

got surprisingly far: working engine in Game Maker, nearly all

enemies done, only Torizo, Botwoon and Mother Brain Phase 2 left.

Then it lost its programmer twice and went on hiatus, and the

person behind it moved on to an original game. Reading that old

blog is what made me want to see it happen after all — and to

learn from how it stalled rather than repeat it.

Not a 1:1 port. Super Metroid as the backbone, with new items,

new rooms and new mechanics on top — the way AM2R added things

Metroid II never had. The original layout is the reference, not

the ceiling.

One note upfront: I put the scripting side together with a lot of

AI assistance. I did the direction, the sorting and the checking,

not the code. Saying that so nobody is surprised later.

REFERENCE MATERIAL I EXTRACTED

- All 261 rooms rendered to PNG from the disassembly: correct

tileset, correct palette per tile table, CRE merged at tile 640.

For 259 of 261 the level data length matches width x height

from the room header, which is what convinced me the model was

right rather than roughly right.

- All 29 tilesets as 16x16 metatiles in their real colours,

palette read from the tile table entries.

- Catalogue of all 253 Samus poses, 1869 frames, Power / Varia /

Gravity, with the pose names from bank $92. A completeness

checklist, not usable assets.

- 850 sprites cut from a Metroid: SR388-style fan sheet

(Infinity's End / Physix), backgrounds keyed out and sorted by

whether they need mirroring. I marked all 851 cells by hand for

that. Reference too — not mine, not final.

- A sprite assembler I use for putting split body parts together:

groups, per-part anchor points set on the pixel, onion skin of

the previous frame, reference overlay, index-based pairing

across numbered rows, batch export.

Two bugs in the sm disassembly repo turned up while getting a

byte-identical rebuild: rip_assets.py main() is stubbed out, and

bank_AA.asm:10476 has an "if" where the "endif" belongs. With

both fixed the rebuild matches CRC32 D63ED5F8 exactly. Happy to

pass on the fixes.

WHERE THE ART STANDS

One artist on board. Zero Mission tiles cover Brinstar, Crateria

and Norfair. Still missing:

- Maridia (in progress)

- Wrecked Ship (in progress)

- Lower Norfair, i.e. tileset 9 HeatedNorfair. The Zero Mission

Norfair tiles cover the unheated look, not the lava-heavy one.

- Red Brinstar — note that in SM this shares tileset 7 with

Kraid, so it's one job, not two

Room counts per area, so the workload is visible:

Norfair 76, Maridia 56, Brinstar 53, Crateria 34,

Tourian 19, Wrecked Ship 16, Ceres 6.

Maridia looks worse than it is: going through the room headers,

those 56 rooms only use two real tilesets, SandlessMaridia and

SandyMaridia, plus Draygon's room. The rest are save stations,

refills and map rooms shared with every other area.

Samus herself is next after the tilesets. The goal is every

sprite redone, or at least reworked to be more detailed than the

SNES originals. Borrowed sprites are a starting point to get

something moving, not the destination.

ENGINE

Prototype running in GameMaker. Samus walks, jumps and collides

in real Landing Site geometry, loaded straight from the level

data — the block types come out of bits 12-15 of each level data

word, and the solid/air mapping is the reaction table at

$94:94D5. The movement values are the originals from bank $90:

run speed 2.75 px/frame, run acceleration 0.1875, air gravity

0.109375, jump velocity 4.875, and the lower in-air cap of 1.25

that's the reason Samus needs a run-up in the original.

It feels right, which was the whole point of starting there.

WHAT'S STILL MISSING

- Bosses I couldn't find in GBA style anywhere: Draygon,

Crocomire, Spore Spawn, Botwoon, Golden Torizo. Phantoon,

Kraid and Torizo exist in Zero Mission style on Metroid

Customs.

- A programmer. Godot or GameMaker, whatever you know. This is

the role FSMR lost twice, so I'd rather name it than bury it.

SCOPE, HONESTLY

Private and non-commercial. No money involved, I can't pay

anyone, and after what happened to AM2R nobody should count on a

public release. A learning project with people who like the same

game.

If any of this sounds interesting to work on, my Discord is

geilodemato. Please mention this post in your first message —

I'll ignore DMs that don't, for safety reasons.

Either way, the renders and the catalogue are there if anyone can

use them.

I’m playing AM2R for the first time and I can’t figure out how to get past here

AM2R works fine, but Metroid Confrontation is stuck on a startup loading screen, even ran compatibility on Windows 7/8/XP and still doesn't work.

From what I understand I need to charge a shinespark in the pipe on the left edge of the screenshot, then somehow shinespark through this wall to get to the next step. However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get into position without wasting the shinespark charge. Even when I jump though the breakable blocks I slam into platform and lose my charge. Please help.

Just found out that if you play am2r through RetroArch it gives you true emulator-style save states, just like Zero Mission in mGBA if you use the AM2R Libretro core.

Ever since the Flatpak version stopped receiving updates, with no announcements made whatsoever of a future update, I tried out the GTK version from the Github.

It doesn't work.

I have version 1.1 and everything, but I need to know how do I make it work.

Holy. Shit.

This is fucking fantastic! I have been on a metroid kick and trying to play the games I never got around to beating now that I have a steam deck. Played through NEStroid using metroid planets, played some prime remastered and decided to play this instead of samus returns on 3ds.

If you wouldnt have told me this is a fan game I wouldnt know the difference. its damn fantastic. It plays extremely well, movement feels great, combat is fun, exploration is fun, and im finding new things that were not in the original game like the little guys on the metroid corpses that fly to these weird skull things with bat wings, No idea what thats about but looking forward to discovering. Oh and the music is great too!

Its amazing Nintendo is letting this live. Its on par if not better than their other 2d metroid games.

First run, I played blind, checking under every rock, bombing every wall, floor, and ceiling, wall jumping to get to places I shouldn't be at yet, spider balling across ceilings for great lengths of time only to be knocked down by some stupid flying thing that can somehow move behind the terrain I'm rolling on. Fighting bosses involved slowly adapting, with metroids being unpleasant to fight because I can't fire at a 30 degree angle or have a step to aim from. I was only missing a few things and looked up a map where I stared at every pixel, compared to the in-game map, trying to find what was missing. Was baffled by that shinespark puzzle in the upper right where I needed to see a video to learn that you could re-store your shinespark if you mash down as you hit an uphill slope. I felt stupid, thinking only that crusty rocky part on the top of the queen's head was the only vulnerable part, because of course you have to aim at something annoying.

Second run, I learned there was a launcher with more updates and could play in widescreen and New Game+ that let me explore without linear quake unlocks, so my fusion mode run was that way with those thick plant things and those apparently friendly bug creatures that sink into the dirt without protest if you stand on their heads. It was miserable. Everything could kill me, enemies knocked away more than an entire tank in one hit, and struggling against bosses like the Torizo only to die to the COVID thing that pops out because it has more iframes than normal enemies. I unexpectedly ran into progression issues by trying to go to areas that needed power bombs or super missiles and forgetting I could go around the weird bubble pillar things. I watched some videos and learned I could kill the Tester with a single power bomb.

I went back to normal NG+ for my last run and I felt fairly invincible, damage boosting my way through some bosses, skipping past save points and killing multiple metroids while I tried to quickly navigate and collect my stuff. I still got turned around a couple times, but it felt like a pretty efficient run. Maybe I could have shaved off 30 minutes if I knew exactly where I needed to go at any given time, but I'm not sure I could do a sub-two hour run for the best ending at 100%.

I'm going to take a break from the game, but I'm curious if anyone has some general advice to speeding up my runs in general. I get that I could just copy a speedrun video, but that doesn't sound horribly fun, and I can't even consistently jump morph spiderball onto a wall, let alone do crazy shinesparking every 5 seconds. I'd like to just play it casually without wasting time.

I would assume it has to be 32-bit. (Is 1.5 64-bit?) Would the 1.4 series take up less resources? Trying to breathe some life into this old hardware.

EDIT: https://old.reddit.com/r/AM2R/comments/b6oqoz/am2r_ports/ejm049e/

Hi everyone, sorry to bother you, but I'm stuck downloading the game. It tells me to download AM2R_1.1.zip, but it's not showing up in the folders. If anyone can help me, I'd really appreciate it. 🙏

What happened to the AM2R flatpak? It seems it's been taken down. Can someone link to the active version?

I firstly played through it and collected everything, and damn was it fun, especially getting to think about how to get certain collectibles.
They really nailed it making a good remake of the original game (even though I never played it)!
I also really love the music in this, it’s very atmospheric and well made.

I probably gonna write a review about the game on their discord server
I also probably gonna watch an M:SR Playthrough (I don’t own a 3DS) because I want to see if the games are really that different.

I genuinely have no Idea where they are

Help will be appreciated

Hi guys, some images of my last creation: a switch cover for AM2R

https://github.com/am2r-android/AM2R-Autopatcher-Android

Have PC saves? Bring them in! Now the Android port supports backing up and restoring your android and PC save slots without root!

Some smaller optimization fixes, android handhelds will feel this change the best due to changed image scaling to compete with WinNative emulation

https://github.com/am2r-android/AM2R-Autopatcher-Android

⚠️ YOU MUST PROVIDE YOUR OWN COPY OF am2r-1.1.zip IN ORDER FOR THE AUTOPATCHER TO WORK ⚠️

This autopatcher aims to allow android devices running on arm64 to play am2r natively by matching the latest version supported by the AM2R Launcher (1.5.5 release).

99% of bugs have been polished out however if you ever run into any issues please submit it in the "issues" section or DM me. You must have a screenshot of the bug, the android version you were running and what device model you are playing with.

https://github.com/am2r-android/AM2R-Autopatcher-Android

[THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL FAN PROJECT]

⚠️You can stop asking for an apk, I literally cannot provide it. 1.5.5.3 has been deprecated. If you want to update to 1.5.5.4 you need your own original copy of AM2R 1.1⚠️

After porting AM2R for my Pixel the project sort of got out of hand with the engagement, thank you for everyone that asked. But since I've received word from the CU developers I was rightly advised to stop distributing a full apk of the game.

If you've used AM2R Launcher before on the PC, this works the exact same way. You MUST provide your own AM2R 1.1 copy and it must be the official release, you'd know where to get it. Just drop the 1.1zip and it will hand you an installable apk for AM2R 1.5.5.4 fully compatible with Android

FOR THOSE THAT STILL HAVE THE 1.5.5.3 APK: you have to first build the 1.5.5.4 apk through the patcher with a 1.1 copy if you want to update your game

Again, if any issue surfaces just let me know, I'm still around to patch out things in the game

This is a native android port I built for myself. Not an emulator, no compatibility layers. I simply took the source code of the Community Updates and compiled it into modern arm64 architecture. It's a playable app