So cute!
Now this is MUCH better !
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Metal Slug animated gifs are fucking awesome so post your favorites. 56k WARNING!!!
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GhostWriter24
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Are 56k warnings still a thing?
TheRedSnifit
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The Rootmars energy ball animation is one of the coolest effects I've seen in sprite-based games.
TheRedSnifit
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Whether you get the pepper or the battery is random. Iirc, the pepper's fireball lets you hit enemies on the ledge above you, but the electricity gets you more points.
Yes! The energy beam it fires is one of my favorite effects animations in the game.
I found a blog called Pixel Digest that had the energy beam itself without the main sprite, so I comped the two together. (Edit: Added an extra version with a dark background so the effect is a bit more visible on the forum)
Woohoo! Nice find! Yeah, that awesome wispy laser effect looks so good against the stormy skies in the background... super cool boss too, love the Aztec feel to it.
*EDIT* Hahaha, what the fuck!?
Fun Fact: Monkeying Around
In Metal Slug 3, you can find a monkey partner named Utan at the start of Mission 2. If you sit with him long enough, he begins to play through a variety of idle animations. One in particular has him eating bananas that he pulls out of his diaper. If you idle long enough, he’ll eat three bananas, but on the fourth, he accidentally pulls out his penis, blushes and then quickly puts it back in.
http://pixeldigest.tumblr.com/post/87464583477/fun-fact-monkeying-around
TheRedSnifit
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TheRedSnifit
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MS4 definitely had some huge balance issues. Mission 2 is one of the easiest levels in the series, but the boss is absurdly tough, probably harder than most final bosses. Mission 3 has that horrible mummy section. They definitely aren't as guilty of cheap quarter-sucking as 3, though.
Have you tried 6 and 7? They're much more fair than the others, especially 7.
Cow Mengde
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Playing them right now actually.
6 is the only one I haven't played till a week ago. Too bad auto fire doesn't work in 6 for some reason in the PSP Anthology. Works for all the games but 6. I like that each character has their specialty in 6 and 7.
Heheh, that's my blog. Unfortunately I never actually finished any of the Sol Dae Rokker animations, although they're all about 90% done. One day maybe!
Since most of the stuff I've put on Pixel Digest has already been posted here, I'll put up some gifs that never saw the light of day.
Man Eater
Chowmein Conga
TheRedSnifit
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Wait, how do you get this one? I swear they have a different death animation.
It's the shotgun death animation with the giblets removed (because the way they fly apart is randomly generated). EDIT: They probably have a couple different death animations, like most enemies in Metal Slug. The Mummy Dog for example has 3 or 4 different death animations if I remember correctly.
TheRedSnifit
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Oh, derp. I see it now.
The animation of the dog hurtling through the air when you blow it up is amazing.
EDIT:
And awesome blog, by the way.
Very ... so sad that it is the ONLY gif I found of the Neo Geo Pocket Metal Slugs =(
TheRedSnifit
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This thread came in a perfect time. I finished Metal Slug 3 for the first time this past weekend. For some reason I only played the first three missions and never bothered on finish it despite being a super short (but intense as heck) game.
The animations are supreme! It's like the they were done by Disney animators of the golden age! It is that good! I could spend hours watching every single character and machine animation.
It would be absolutely amazing to see SNK pull a brand new Metal Slug game.
The animations are supreme! It's like the they were done by Disney animators of the golden age! It is that good! I could spend hours watching every single character and machine animation.
It would be absolutely amazing to see SNK pull a brand new Metal Slug game.
TheRedSnifit
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Yes. In Mission 4 (the one that starts out in a desert), go in the building with the giant plants. There's a crank that opens a passageway into an underground area filled with bugs.
Prepare to get naked (and melt into a puddle of goo).
Springfoot
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Oh nice! Great blog, I just discovered it searching for the Sol Dae Rokker animations but I'm looking through your other stuff now. You have a ton of great stuff on there (just saw you posted some of Venom's beautiful anims from MVC). Glad you posted those MS3 Man Eater sprites here too, I always loved their transformation and death animations.
Edit: I have seen your blog before - I had stumbled across it when you posted the KOF2003 intro without the flash effect. I remember thinking it was interesting they bothered to have additional frames back there and that those unfinished frames looked like the backs of old painted cels.
Springfoot
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*accidental duplicate post*
metareferential
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Great thread. Neo Geo sprites are out of this world. SNK art at its finest.
MafiaMurderBag
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Wow, i'm aware of these games but never really realized/appreciated the quality of the animations and sprites.. Getting the urge to pick this series up and play now!
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Metal Slug X is BC in X1.
We had a really nice thread discussing this actually. Nothing you probably wouldn't already have assumed, but some good information was dug up here.
El_Cinefilo
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Vita Baby!
Metal Slug, Metal Slug 2, and Metal Slug XX are on PSP/Vita and Metal Slug 3 is PS3/4/Vita Cross buy
https://youtu.be/RjXF0SX7qlQ
MS3 Level 8 no death run
Best part if the final mission being as long as the first four
MS3 Level 8 no death run
Best part if the final mission being as long as the first four
TheRedSnifit
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Scarecrow
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What I really want is for somebody to put together Morden's fist pump gif from MS7.
Keen. I'd like to think he's saving that eyepatch for later.
Awesome, thanks for this!!
Palculator
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Appreciate the 56k warning. I always promised myself I'd add one as a joke if I made an image-heavy thread.
Springfoot
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This is a great run, thanks for posting this. Too bad about the youtube compression, but this player is great, and it's fun to watch all the tricks and level knowledge at play. And yeah, the last mission is actually more than half the game. I ran a rough tally, and it took this player a little over 27 minutes to beat the first 4 missions and nearly 33 minutes to beat the 5th one. I remember learning that stage was pretty grueling when it came out on Xbox/PS2 since those releases limited you to only 3 lives per level. Learning the ins and outs of 6-8 minute levels isn't too bad, but that final one is a half hour marathon and took a lot of attempts to reach the later sections in order to even begin learning how to do them efficiently.
To expand on TheRedSnifit's answer, this part of the flawless youtube playthrough goes through the snail section of Mission 4. The specific path to get there starts around 1:45, he enters the snail caves at 2:20, and then encounters the large slug enemies and snails near the end around 5:20.
Rellik
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2.1m people in the US alone are still on AOL dial up.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/08/technology/aol-dial-up/
I can't even imagine how 2016 internet looks on that connection.
Thanks and crazy that I never got to that part despite playing this more than a few dozens of times! And especially since I really hate the section with the man-eating bugs and plants too!
TheRedSnifit
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It's ridiculous how detailed AND well animated everything is. Having done pixel art animation myself, these look like fucking nightmare to animate. We will never get this level of pixel art animation with such high detail again. The detailed pixel shadowing makes everything look more detailed than if it was just cell shade coloured.
TheRedSnifit
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