I've talked myself into it.  But, don't expect this to be done within 2 weeks, or even 2 months.  My coding time has decreased dramatically due to family issues.

After careful consideration, I've decided that Metroid Pi² will be much faster and much longer.  As of now, and probably for the final as well, it will only use 2 ASM programs--both used for program manipulation.  (I'll let you guess what one of them is )

This program manipulation will increase it's dependency on subroutines, but will also mean that there will be minimal code for it to parse--hence, the faster.  (And the subroutines will be dynamic--beam stacking, anyone?)

The manipulation also means that I will be able to can read maps from archive--hence, the longer.

This means it will be faster, longer, and probably have some more spiced-up graphics.  Hence, the better.

The subroutines I'm using are a little slow, so going from map-to-map might be a smidge slower than Metroid Pi.  But, it will also be extremely consistent, since loading each map differs in no way, except for code that might be executed for specific rooms.

So, here's some features I'm looking at right now:

• Beam Stacking--!
• Missiles
• Save Stations, Recharge Rooms (actual rooms, not just powerups)
• More varieties of enemies?
• 3 worlds--! (Maybe a fourth, but there's 9 programs for maps already)
• Same dynamic character appearance
• Hi-Jump, Space Jump
• Interactive blocks
• Energy Tanks!  Everyone loves energy tanks!

Suggestions?  Comments?  Complaints?

Awesome!  I still haven't had the chance to try the first one though, *blushes*.

for some reasons I was sure this last post was bfr's for a few secs

Thanks guys!  The first part of the level is coming along nicely, although I'm going to spend a day or so optimizing the physics engine.

Tiles are probably going to be somewhat the same, I like the Finance N and O for some reason.  But it'll change from world to world .

The first area is being worked on--just the maps, not the powerups (yet).  It's similar to Metroid II:Evolution .

You can't.  It's on the graphscreen.