Honestly, the title screen is about how far I have gotten so far, which just had different layers similar to the Metroid one. Here is a comparison to the standard NES, although they are not too different, honestly.

However, when comparing the ship, you may notice that it is layered as well, and when comparing the two, it doesn't look too different from head on...

See? Not that different at all! However, when looked at from a different angle is where my real work shows, I believe!

As you can see here, I have not just added different layers, I have actually used the layering system to make an entire 3D model of the Vic Viper. (With standard and retina variants as a comparison.) This is what I have put most of my time into, and plan to do this with most entities in the game.

The ship itself is based on Gradius' box art, and other concept art of the ship itself. 

Here is some of the art I used as a reference, although I gave it some personal touches as well. I'm rather happy with the results, although this does mean that this could take some time... Now I have to go work on the other Sprites for the ship. Let me know what you think of it, and let me know if you think any improvements could be made! I'm looking forward to seeing what the final product will look like-

Here is a screenshot of the original version, and my version. (That is again, a heavy work in progress, almost nothing is done at this point in time, but it should show the perspective I am going for.

While this doesn't show too much, you can probably see that I am attempting to turn this into a flat track, and convert everything to actual 3d, instead of what the pseudo-3d entails. This however, has a few major problems. While the original moves the characters up and down to create an 'illusion' of changing tracks, if I move him to the location shown above, and decide to go left or right, he will still go up and down, and float in the air. My question is, can this be changed, through scripting, or something of the like? Or am I just out of luck?

My other question is that excitebike uses objects in odd ways sometimes, at least, when trying to convert them to 3d, so, I was wondering if there was a way to disable the 'rippling effect' that repeating objects gain, so that a change to one of the objects will not necessarily effect another one. It sounds a bit complicated, and it might be able to be done with some careful cloning on my end... maybe. Let me know in the replies! I'm not sure if the thing I am working on is even feasible...

JP exclusive into the screen shooter (reminiscent of space harrier). I think i've done as much as i really can to give it the 3D effect without driving myself mad. tl;dr of how i got the sprites to have distance? shape2D.Size.y was useful :P

3dn file

Also: Check the scripts for improvement on how i positioned the Y/Z field.

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this is just one of those ones that were the equivalent of "throw something until it sticks". and this one did work but i didn't want to upload it literally just after i had just uploaded chase H.Q. either way, this works well enough that you can probably just tweak bits and it'll be done.

also: don't try and take some games on (hint: solstice will be night on impossible at all because of it's tile arrangement but that will be another thread entirely).

3dn

Edit: Video!

3dn Link

Savestate

the 3D slant itself works a treat and because the sprites are mostly together there's not much issue with split-tiles. however, i'll probably wait until some sort of texture import/export is done for this one because getting the buildings in full 3D would be a hell of a task with the existing texture editor.

Edit: added Savestate on geod request

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Beaten the first boss, got some way to the second but the difficulty curve of the game is making me want to throw something out of the window so i throw in the towel at the moment.

UI-wise, most UI stuff is sorted, and everything up to the point of my last savestate (BK2.sav) "should" be done. and the scripting side of things is relatively simple when compared to zelda or river city ransom so i ran into no headaches with the modifications themselves, only how difficult the game is, even on easiest.

massive mess right now because all i've really worked on is the scripts. i have things moving on the Z axis but i have these troubles:

1. Determining jumps without memory addresses (so i can apply it to multiple objects at a time without laborious tagging and duplication of scripts to adjust memory addresses). I could do it by animation shapes but even then, it wouldn't work entirely correctly afaik

2. Adjusting multiple sprite shape offsets without duplicating scripts or massive branching complications even on the player character alone. as is, things move on the X and Z axis in the 3dn file but the individual elements of the sprites do not join, instead they go one after the other (check the file and see what i mean). the main reason for this is because i have a static high and low variables set because i see no way of getting the highest and lowest possible numbers for an individual sprite shape and adjusting accordingly, meaning every sprite shape is at the same level even though the top, middle and bottom of the player character shapes have different y coordinates and different highs and lows for it to be even and join up right.

Shatterhand V2 3dn

.Sav file to get to the post stage 1 select screen.

notes on the script in the file: if you want the UI to ignore an element (if you're modifying it), just tag the element (no matter the layer) as "background" (no quotes).

I've only done the 1P parts, and I haven't done the ending cutscene yet so all i have is the Title Screen and the 1P Game

I know somebody already did this a year ago, but the dropbox file is down soo....

WARNING: I suck at Dr. Mario.

Dr. Mario 3DN

Let me know how i've done.