Fixed!!!
I bought a new power supply yesterday, I installed it and the system has been stable since then.
I want to thank all the great people that commented here in the blog and emailed me with their suggestions. The faulty power supply was one of the most mentioned cause you suggested, one that I hadn´t considered.
Why did I take so long to fix it?
I discarded other possible causes in my free time, being the PSU and the motherboard the last two (the most expensive ones).
Now progress resumes, I´m preparing the tileset and backgrounds for the final area. It´s fairly small, I should have it done in a couple of days.
Thanks again for all of your support, and for taking the time to write. (Sorry if I couldn´t reply all the emails!)
I want to thank all the great people that commented here in the blog and emailed me with their suggestions. The faulty power supply was one of the most mentioned cause you suggested, one that I hadn´t considered.
Why did I take so long to fix it?
I discarded other possible causes in my free time, being the PSU and the motherboard the last two (the most expensive ones).
Now progress resumes, I´m preparing the tileset and backgrounds for the final area. It´s fairly small, I should have it done in a couple of days.
Thanks again for all of your support, and for taking the time to write. (Sorry if I couldn´t reply all the emails!)
Comments
Think you could reward our help with an update and some screencaps once you finish the final area? From there, I'm guessing you just have the finish programming enemy A.I. and the Queen, then give the whole game a few runthroughs to ensure everything works properly?
enjoy your new power supply xD
But there were so many Replys ,that my Help was not needet @ all.
You should know better to buy a Good PSU, and have a stable thing.
(Its the Same with defective TV´s an so on...)
I also got a psu with 7 Years of Warranty , whatever... ;)
Take good care :)
Already preordered Other M :D!
Greetings from NOA. Now as you may be worried about nintendo's lawyers and legal issues, I can assure you that we are not going to send out a C&D not yet anyways. The legal department wishes to and I quote "bring down the hamme on fan game" as most are not good quality and just fill up the Internet with unneeded games that smear the names of the games that they are a copy off of. We here in the development of nintendo do realize when I person has true talent in video game development and are trying to find any loophole we can to NOT get this game shut down. I have been following this blog for around a year and appreciate your work. As you have said metroid II is in desperate need of a remake and that is what you are doing! I can't say this is 100% for sure yet but if the opportunity presents itself would you be interested to sell the rights to NOA? We would develope this game on a perfesional level (maybe even with your help) and market it around the WORLD! Please do understand things army official yet but if you are interested please send us a message.
Scincerely,
Your pals at NOA
More to the point, they wouldn't contact him in this way. It'd be private and through a much more professionally written letter than what we've seen here.
Finally, while the doc's work is impressive and borderline professional (I want it more than Metroid Other M), it doesn't match the methods for how a traditional nintendo 2D game would be developed. The game's being built with a game design program. It's not being coded from the ground up. It may be possible to import the tiles and maps, but they're very unlikely to do just that.
I'm not sure what "NOA" here intends, but I promise you, they can't possibly be a legit rep.
No, of course it's not for real; did you see all the typos, punctuation errors and capitalization mistakes?
The shutdowns are because of overheating (ive hat a lot experience at that)
so if you dont put more vents or a cooling system in your computer you will be having the same problems at future.
okay doc you're doing good work.
Would you make new preview soon? :3
I am the vice president of the United States of America and I also work for sony's playstation division as well, and would like to buy the rights to your Metroid 2 remake so I can sell it for 90 dollars a copy and have merchandise rights. I think the children of America will enjoy metroid toilet paper (it clings to your butt like little metroids!), Samus cereal (Tastes like real phazon!), and Mother Brain perfume (made with real brain!) Please contact me! You got my number dog! Holla!
I just signed up to your blog but have been following your progress for quite some time now. I love the Metroid franchise and am very excited about your work. Keep up the great work! Can't wait to play it!
Ultimately we will get an awesome game.
Counting down the days to release.
Kinda hoping it's tomorrow... LOL.
No one is excited as me, I think.
I have really been looking forward to it.
Gonna play day and night when it comes out!
Get tons of energy drinks and play.
Especially on the weekends, awesome!
Really excited for the release!!
I come here to see if there are anymore updates almost every day, as I am extremely excited for this.
Hope everything works out nicely, and that the rest of the process goes smoothly.
paso pila de tiempo y sigue sin terminarse
This is so cool that you have taken the time to bring back a great game. I am checking out the version you have on the site. Thanks for all you hard work.Super! Sincerely an old guy.
One tip: make several backups of your project, if possible on DVD, in several different folders or on different computers. Care is more than necessary on a project like this.