MMLEx 5.29

[JMC47]

It's been 2 years since MMLEx was started. The project has been through a lot in it's lifetime, from the horrid A6 engine to a custom C++ engine (a much needed improvement). However, the game has been on the edge of extinction many times, but none so close as now.

Right now, we are seriously lacking in staff. It has come down to the point where we cannot continue without new talent in almost all fields.

With that said, we're releasing our latest version, a completely unadulterated beta, without polish, sanding, or finish of any kind.

This is what MMLEx is now. Hopefully you'll enjoy it.

PLEASE READ THE README BELOW BEFORE PLAYING
DOWNLOAD HERE

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Hello, its JMC47, the co-founder of MMLEx, to explain this demo

First off I want to note that this is not complete. The models are not complete, the main mode is not complete, nothing is complete.

When you enter the menu, its self explanatory, and you shouldn't have a problem navigating it.

OPTIONS MENU

You can choose a few tweaks here and there, but the main thing is the firing mode. It is probably a good idea you check the options menu before playing the game.

When you are in game, here are the default controls

W - Walk Forward
A - Walk Left
S - Walk Backwards
D - Walk Right
Space Bar - Jump
Left Mouse Button - Shoot
Mouse Scroller - Switch Targetting Modes
Pause - P
ON CERTAIN CONTROL MODES

Hold Mouse Button Left - Charge
Release Mouse Button Left - Fire Charge Shot

Mode Descriptions

Main Ruins - This is where the story mode was supposed to begin. But, as it is, its the only non-random ruins. If you go into it, it is heavily bugged, with missing textures and walls. Game is not completed in any way in this mode. It is only included because it was in the actual test game we played

Random Ruins - The meat of the game. You go in a randomly generated ruins, and face off with 15 Zakobon. This mode has very few bugs and is nearly completed. You will notice that the Zakobon models are NOT complete do to the modelors missing shortly before this demo was released.

KNOWN ISSUES

Sound Blaster Sound Cards DO NOT play sounds correctly. Music will stutter on said sound cards and all sounds may stop playing.

KNOWN BUGS

Besides animation glitches, the game should not have any problems with crashing like the A6 counter part released a year ago.

Sometimes, only 13 Zakobons spawn instead of 15. No solution at this time.

CREDITS

All of the people here have my greatest appreciation for there help in the project.

JMC47 - Not much in this demo, but I started the project, so I deserve some credit. I did the animations on MegaMan and the Zakobon, though... I shouldn't be proud of it.

NMN - He essentially started the project, but left the project before this version and none of his work carried over from V4. Without him, MMLEx would have never made it out of the gates.

Eric Chiz - Essentially took over the project while I was floundering with what to do and saved it from oblivion more than once. He did level textures and levels, plus a lot of other various things for MMLEx. He did bug test a lot of the older versions of MMLEx as one of the main beta testers.

Fenix - An awesome coder who wrote all of the code that MMLEx runs on, from AI, movement, everything.

Mandinga - Mandinga disappeared recently, but his MegaMan model is the model used in MMLEx. He was with the project from almost the beginning.

Dash Myoku - Though none of his music for MMLEx appears in this version, Dash has made some awesome music for MMLEx. I hope that it sometime will be able to be used.

ShellDragon - At one point she was a concept artist for MMLEx. Though none of her work carried over to this version, it is very appreciated she took the time to help the project.

Feldinaut - She beta tested many bug filled versions of the A6 game.
Pharoah Man - He beta tested many bug filled versions of the A6 game.
Fire Griffin - She beta tested at least one bug filled version of the A6 game
DeathtoJohnny - Tested code for the C++ version of MMLEx
Strider of SMMD - Tested many later A6 and C++ versions of MMLEx

-Other people and things who have greatly affected MMLEx

fab of MMLS - Without fab's MMLS, NMN and I would have never have started the project.

SuperDanny of MLU - His enthusiasm for MMLEx was one of the things that kept me going whilst most people ignored it.

Strider of SMMD - He would have hosted the HUGE V4 version for me, and it was nice to know that MMLEx would have a reliable host when it was completed.

Everyone at MMLS, MLU, and SMMD who commented or game encouragements for MMLEx, negative or positive, its all appreciated.

Anyone who I stupidly forgot because its been a long time

A certain video game - Without that game, I would have never have remembered MML in the first place, and thus the project would have never commenced.

[Musashi]

This sucks...at least we have what you have now...

EDIT: Playing random is actually quite fun, and the engine reminds me of Legends 1.

[betaman]

This is more like the original megaman games, the jump animation looks exactley like megaman's jump from megaman 8. The controls get awkward when in battle, you need to find a better way to turn. Oh and you even used music from the original series. I'm not saying it's bad, it's just interesting. If you need any type of midi tune you can contact me at my e-mail adress or send me an IM, I'd really like to see this game get finished.

NOTE: actually I just figured out how to get the controls right ;D

[JMC47]

Well, the music was thrown in before I even got to play the original beta.

MMLEx is not dead yet, just on life support really.

I wrote up a file on the controls and stuff, and it has some credits of people who helped on the project. I didn't have a host for the file, so I'll just post it here.

Another thing about the music, we have Dash Myoku, who kicks butt at music, but in our version that we were playing, we didn't put any in since it was just a private beta.

[Santa Melty]

Eh? Talent? Well, ain’t got none of that, unfortunately. Raw, tenacious guts, sure, but raw tenacious guts don’t make incredible games.

Would it be wrong of me to assume this to be a staff recruitment strategy, or am I just dense?

I’d like to contribute somehow, but the only thing I might be able to help with is doing some concept art, and you don’t have any need of concept artists at the moment, according to that Joining the Team application thread. I mention this only on the off chance that the thread might be outdated and that I might be corrected accordingly. Otherwise, I can’t do much more than offer condolences. I honestly have not been keeping up with the majority of the minor updates. I’ve just been sort of hovering, waiting for some semi-completed version or some spoilers. But as superficial as my interest has been, I would hate to see the entire project and all of the effort put into it go to waste. Two years’ worth of time is no small loss.

What positions are you people looking for right now, specifically? Mostly people who can work with 3-D stuff and codes I’d expect, but anything else? Or is that old Joining the Team thread reliable?



As for that beta, it is the first version of MMLEx I’ve ever actually played, so first impression:

I think Trigger’s face looks odd somehow, but there’s no complaining about the overall cleanness of everything, visually. Nice details on the walls and floors. I thought the controls handled quite well, and the random dungeons were entertaining. I was going to compliment the music maker until reading that it was just an old Megaman tune playing in the background. It did match the setting well, though.

Overall, I liked the feel of it.

Hopefully, the project won’t end here. I wish you luck, if nothing else.

[Chiz]

mltmlt22 said:

I’d like to contribute somehow, but the only thing I might be able to help with is doing some concept art, and you don’t have any need of concept artists at the moment, according to that Joining the Team application thread.

That's one of the large problems we've had. See, one of the problems with this community (don't get me wrong, it's not all bad) is that all the talent lies in drawing, sketching, etc etc etc. Beyond the basic visual arts, we have 2 people with a knack for music and a handful of people who enjoy working with sprites (and various forms of pixel art), the later of which easily fits in with the visual arts gang. Concept art is great so long as you have a crew to implement the ideas, and sprites aren't that useful for a 3D game. Myoku promptly joined the team filling our need for music, but that really doesn't help thing when there's no 'game' to put music to.
When I joined MMLEx, I really had no talent whatsoever for game making, and took a learn-as-I-go approach. I learnt some nifty tricks in Paint Shop Pro (hell, I'm surrounded by artists, some of it will eventually rub off) and made textures for what ended up being the recreation of part of the Kattelox ruin network (which, coincidentally, was born from just messing around in our previous generation's editor, WED, as an example of a traditional Legends-styled grid-based map (opposed to JMC's philosophy of putting stuff everywhere and anywhere)).
Our modeller, Mandinga, stuck with us through the beginning, but throughout the last year or so, he's been increasingly hard to contact. Ultimately, only one of his models, the current Trigger one, was used in v5. Another modeller, Ageman, had offered his wonderful reaverbot models for us to use, but quickly disappeared before we were able to get a copy of them. A few other modellers contacted us (but JMC to this day still insists he doesn't know where any of them came from), but we couldn't use any of their modellers for various reasons (mostly file format incompatibilities).

Coupled with the rather lackadaisical reply from many other MegaMan sites (when there was a reply at all), we obviously could not find any fresh talent to fill the holes that had been created. Eventually it got to a point (a few months ago) where the general concensus between myself and JMC was that the project really wasn't going anywhere...people who should've been working had to wait for others to complete their task (I was waiting on Fenix, Fenix was waiting on Mandinga, Mandinga was waiting on Ageman's models, Ageman started to disappear at this time, as well as Mandinga, so I passed off the one model I did get to JMC, but JMC kept on forgetting, so at this point Fenix is waiting on JMC, JMC is waiting on me for more models which I can't obtain, I'm still waiting on Fenix for various tools to be coded...). The whole system we called a team collapsed and all work completely stopped. What was done at that precise moment is what we call v5.29.

There's really not much that can be done. Motivation for the project is pretty much shot in everyone who was working on the project. Fenix has moved on to something else, I have too, and while JMC wants the project to live, he didn't do anything on the project of much worth for quite some time.

It's possible it was doomed from the start, but we held out for 2 years...that's worth something, isn't it?

[JMC47]

As Chiz said, I'm not ready to give up yet, but I really don't have much of a choice unless we get the necessary help really. This is definitely not the limit of what we could have achieved. This is just how far we got. I know if we could get the project moving again, we could pull it along a lot farther.

[Darfox8]

That was amazing. Alot smoother than the last ones. Say what you say about being low on staff but it's gone very far. Even though I couldn't find the last two guys in Random it was really cool.

[in·clover]

The level design, layout and textures are great. What isn't great, however, is the model for Rock himself. He's WAAAAY too thick, he's too 3-demonsional/realistic looking, and his animations look really.... unnatural. If someone can find me a pirated copy of the program you guys used to make the model, I'd be more than happy to redo him. Heck, I'd feel obligated to.

About the gameplay its self:
The controls are smooth and responsive. I LOVE IT.
The button layout is perfect for a Legends PC game. I really hope you guys stick with this control scheme ^^
The only real complaint I have is the charge shot. The charge shot, in my own opinion, disrupts the game. It seems like a nice weapon to have when you absolutely need it, but it's way too slow to be using through out the game. Maybe you should consider having it as a sub-weapon...?

[Rage]

I have a question.

I have downloaded the game but when I press "RUN" it goes to a black screen and then just goes back to where it was before. Also it's saying OPENAL32.dll is not found and I'm looking right at it. Do I upload it to somewhere or something.

[Blues]

Hmmmm.... For some reason, it dosen't work on my computer.

EDIT: I have the same problem as Rage.

[JMC47]

Search for said DLL and it will work.

Charge shot can be disabled in options menu.

The missing enemies bug does pop up once in a while

EDIT

The site cancelled the request, so you'll have to search for the download yourself. Just type the DLL name into google and the top site on the search will lead you quickly to a download.

Just put it in the MMLEx folder, or the system 32 folder inside the windows directory if that doesn't work.

[Chiz]

@darfox: Yeah, another bug. Only 13 Zako are generated. We've had that bug for a while, since we tried to increase the number from 10 to 15.

Rage & Blues: Try putting the DLL in question in \\Windows\System32. It's worth a shot.

@in-Clover: I was never much for the charged shot myself (seeing how there was no such thing in the original games) but seeing how every other MM series had it...*sigh*. My suggestion is to turn on rapid fire. That wait it won't charge up (To make it charge up under rapid fire mode, double right click and hold the second click. It's a little tricky, but you can master the manuveur fairly quickly)

[Blues]

Um, where would "\\Windows\System32" be?

Also, that link dosen't work.

[JMC47]

Dang site cancelling the page... try what Chiz said.

On most computers that folder would be

C:\WINDOWS\system32

if that doesn't work, type the DLL name in google and the first site on the list will have a download of it.