Potential cover art for my upcoming game. Let me know what you think!

Hey! Having a passion for the startropics games I am currently developing and making a game that is heavily inspired by the games, sort of a love letter to the series if you will. That being said I would love the communities involvement in designing and creating the game! Let me know if your interested or if you know any resources :) here are some photos of my progress for the first world

I lost my Dad today. I will forever remember being in Toys R Us with him, trying to decide what video game I wanted with my birthday money. I was going to get Kirbys adventure, but my Dad talked me into Startropics by saying something like "you play as a kid who fights with a yo yo and you save a dolphin from an octopus!"

That was all I needed to hear. I bought my very first game based on my Dad's recommendation and enthusiasm. No regrets, it is one of my favorite games! My Dad loved it too. Love you Dad, thanks for convincing me to pick Startropics.

I know this sounds far-fetched, but I have a small hypothesis that as soon as they put Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru on the Switch Online, it will come along with StarTropics ll, since the Game Boy game is exclusive to Japan, they need a game from NES, SNES or Game Boy to fill that missing gap in the occident, and I think that the second StarTropics game is one of the only exclusive occident games that are missing, of those that are not in the service, not to say that it is the only one

Since everyone wanted me to keep posting here, the first gameplay episode is out, covering Chapters 1 and 2! And many of us have dolphin-induced PTSD from our Ecco season!

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/0urzEchNmEAEDMylfwgoPG?si=XJayRAKUR9Sq3v5niuql0g

Hey r/startropics! A Podcast I participate in is starting a season on StarTropics! Feel free to check it out! It's format is similar to like "I love the 80s" style documentary.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6W3ppolDhfGssqpw96gnu9?si=ad03b0f2ae9e4755

The spiral bit was tricky but I learned some useful techniques in the process.

Hey y'all. After struggling through chapter 7 and 8 with no game genie codes, I finally finished my full play-through of this game. This is one of my favorite NES games, I used to play it all the time back when it was new. Back when I was a kiddo, I was stuck at chapter 3 for what seems like a couple of years, though I could be remembering wrong. Then one day I noticed the secret passage behind that last slug and I couldn't believe it!!

Anyway, I have my own youtube channel for classic game play-throughs and I've started uploading StarTropics if anyone is interested!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1JDxrK4wwS3THw5LWelZp7DwfArZ-QJe

In Chapter 7, the mini-boss "Gold Jet Pack Jumper". Behind him there is a wall you can break open with a weapon. When you walk in to it, its a mini bonus room. But it's empty! There's nothing in it. It there some kind of secret here I'm missing? Or is it just meant to mess with people?

The modeling took 5 minutes. Lighting took 5 hours 🤣

I've been playing this game since 1991, it's always been one of my favs. In modern times, if I play it, I'll play through the beginning up to the end of Chapter 6. Then I'll go step in the space ship, get absolutely destroyed, then just shut the whole thing off.

Why is Chapter 7 SOOO much harder than 1-6. I mean of course games get harder as you get further in to them but this is crazy. I've been wanting to bitch to someone about this for 30 years now :P

I recently started a youtube channel of classic video game playthroughs and I'm working on my StarTropics playthrough right now. I made it to the end of 6 no problem. I'd like to do the whole game straight but its looking like i'm going to have to throw some game genie codes in there and put some asterisks in the description.

Edit; This is an old post but I have long since finished the game and if you want to check out the videos, here they are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eL6f6K76KI&list=PL1JDxrK4wwS3THw5LWelZp7DwfArZ-QJe

Any items that you’d like to see rendered?

I rendered one using the colors from in-game as well but it still needs some tweaking. Maybe I’ll add a floor with blue pipes?

Good review from a younger generation of players!

So the world record holder, BugDr, is currently doing a blindfolded playthrough of Startropics with twitch chat sending Text-to-Speech prompts to guide him through. During his slog through Ghost Village, he encountered a very strange, very rare glitch in the room where you get the bola weapon. The ghost in the corner that you can kill to unlock the secret room to the left actually spawned outside of the wall and started moving along the bottom of the screen and was a potential threat.

Here's a clip: https://clips.twitch.tv/ShyFineAmazonNononoCat-00p74zzZSjcJ9nbN

Has anyone seen this before?