Prof. 9

@prof9.com

Occasional ROM hacker and Mega Man Battle Network / Star Force modder | Part of @therockmanexezone.com

Hero of Law (Emu) True labor of love & must play for any Ocarina of Time & Phoenix Wright fan. The references in text, music, animation are on-freaking-point & had me laughing out loud constantly, and there's even an awesome new mechanic. Connecting Link's Awakening unlocks something truly special.

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Dark Auction (PS5) The characters & plot are good, but man is the setting poorly handled. It's jarring to see a story based around Hitler have so little to say about WW2's atrocities; at best, it feels cowardly. Use of gen AI taints the game's visual identity even if some of it was patched later.

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I've been working on a mod for Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection that lets you swap music to your liking. You can set separate playlists per type of BGM, selectively choose Original or Arranged mix per individual track, change the Main Menu music and even play the DLC music in-game.

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World's End Club (NS2) What appears at first to be a cutesy puzzle platformer turns out to be an amalgamation of Kodaka and Uchikoshi's greatest hits. Many ideas from their previous works make an appearance here, and it does feel a little derivative as a result, but it doesn't overstay its welcome.

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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (NS2) I don't mind a linear Metroid, but MP4 purports to be an open world, yet is in fact even more handholdy than MP3. Not once did I feel challenged on navigational awareness because each level is a straight line. The GFX do be looking great though. 120 FPS is awesome.

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ReCore: Definitive Edition (XSX) This game feels like a vertical slice that was stretched out to full length. Movement & combat are fun & feel good to play, but story is thoroughly lacking. Its best moments come after the credits, where it really does shine; sadly only for a brief, fleeting moment.

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I never really checked, but Shooting Star - Misora Live Version and Shooting Star - Sonia Live Version do have some slight differences in the melody to accommodate the Japanese/English lyrics. Only in the Arranged versions, of course. Maybe these never were meant to get vocal versions after all?

Playing MMSFLC on Xbox for the heck of it, I'm actually surprised by how much better the Xbox platform is than PS. Screenshots immediately appear in a folder on my PC, back compat is amazing, you can cloud stream digital games you bought even on the cheap plan! And the streaming actually works!

An update: it seems like Sigma Star Saga DX has added the required disclosure and LRG has also reached out to me about what to do going forwards. Looks like this is going to be resolved.

The amount of scammers on @discord.com is crazy lately. In the past week about 1 in 6 new joins in TREZ was a scam account. Discord's tools for managing this stuff are woefully inadequate.

Going to be slowing down a bit on the Star Force Legacy Collection mods for now, as I do have other stuff to work on. All the mods I've released so far are open source on GitHub, and the modding channel in TREZ Discord is pretty active, so stop by if you're looking to make your own mods.

This trick to get guaranteed Mr. Hertz encounters still works in Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection. Run around in this specific spot in Alt. Echo Ridge ER with max encounter rate. Easy way to get the No Hurt for Hertz award.

Here are the strings in Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection's files referencing the Battle Network music DLC, so we can all stop beating around the bush.

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The modding potential for Star Force Legacy Collection is kind of crazy. The game is a full native port to RE Engine down to the lowest level. None of that half-baked static recompilation crap from Battle Network Legacy Collection, this is a very comprehensive port indeed.

@fluffyquack.bsky.social Hi! Sorry to bother, wanted to ask about supporting Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection for Fluffy Manager 5000. We're looking to mod this game but I'm unable to get FM5000 to load PAKs after adding it as custom game, it's not recognized as RE Engine. Is there a whitelist?