dogtroid (2026)

https://metroidconstruction.com/hack.php?hack_id=878

Description

What if you were a dog? Wouldn’t that be interesting.

Created for the Ambureon Romhacking Showcase and the Ocean Ruins Contest.

I made this for a friend who is a smalltime streamer (they played a less finished build about a week ago and loved it). If anything appears inscrutable, please assume it’s an inside joke/reference.

This isn’t a visually polished as I’d like (many rooms lack proper backgrounds and detailing, by my standards), but as a gameplay experience it’s about 90-95% of what I had in mind. There are a couple oddities in the design that I would have liked to resolve better, but what’s done is done (or at least 69% done, going by the version number).

I don’t know how I managed to make this in the time allotted.

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i’ve already run across a longplay on youtube, and the impressions from the peanut gallery are clear:


Thanks Chad. I’m glad this passes the “total conversion” sniff test.


I’m flattered Andres, but there have been excellent Super Metroid hacks around for years.


Sorry Silver for not making this even more “cringe.” I will try harder next time just for you.

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forgot this ad existed until i was searching for playthroughs of the hack:

i would like to think i made something more safe for dogs

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I’m a genius who played this romhack in one sitting. As a Super Metroid Hater I finished in 1:05:48 with 94% completion.

I could not figure how how I was to break the speed blocks under the pokemon forest.

A good time was had by me.

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Is this one where you have to combine them with the base rom like at Super Mario Central, or can I download and load as is in an emulator?

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It’s a patch, so you need to supply the vanilla rom.

Here’s a useful web patcher:

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1:30, 96% (definitely missing a health upgrade probably missing gravity suit , maybe a bean, and one other thing that I could get to but I’m not sure what it was.

dinner time

I feel like I probably did a couple things “unintendedly” as they felt way too hard, so I must have been missing a powerup (maybe a bean, maybe a tank) that I could access. I also didn’t notice at first that there was an air pocket in that one deep room with two beans and kept messing that up too.

Anyway, pretty fun times!

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Thanks!

I’ve noticed a lot of people have been missing the gravity suit. It’s placement much easier to overlook than I intended. I have a couple ideas for how to adjust that, but nothing concrete quite yet.

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Woop woop

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