The True Arena! (BOSS RUSH) (2024)

Supporters/Co-Authors:

• -CG7244-
• Blade
• FuriousFox
• glaber
• Inazuma
• Latius
• ManimiFire
• Sapheros
• The Underground
• toaster
• TrustyGun
• Zeno
• Zipper

I have some advice for minor changes to "character" style bosses like Knuckles, Shadow, and Infinite you can make to stop them looking like robots, in a way which was not originally possible for 2.1.

If you give their object flags MF_GRENADEBOUNCE (yeah, it's a hack) they won't flash black and white. You can then use a Lua script to make MF2_DONTDRAW toggled every tic while they're not in their painstate until MF2_FRET has been removed (It's easy enough to do, but if you need help from someone else I understand). This will match the behaviour of the Fang boss in 2.2, which itself is meant to look like a flashing player.

I'd also like to make a suggestion. While I did mark the Ugly Knuckles """battle""" (like everything else in Final Demo Zone) as reusable, it was meant to be a one-off joke, not a legitimate boss battle that could show up in other mods. You definitely have permission to continue using it because the mod was marked as reusable, but I don't think it makes sense for people looking to have a challenging series of battles to hit this guy and have him immediately die. (If I ever change the stage to end with an actual fight, this advice obviously goes out the window.)

Other than that, this is a nice little package! ^u^

That sounds cool, I didn't know Fang flashed differently from the others, but I will probably need help setting that up.

Also i just thought the Ugly Knuckles was funny so i put him in as a joke.

Update 2.0 12/31/2019

Added 2 new bosses
Added custom save data
Fixed Robo Hood's spike ball sprites
Nerfed Infinite's HP
Added Soundtest
Added Emblems

Logan8r said:

Okay I made a version of The Arena with Egg Boiler. :)

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Thanks a bunch! :D

I'm quite late to notice this, but the Infinite fight in this pack is built off of Sapheros' Silver the Hedgehog boss battle which is not marked as reusable, and considering that Sapheros is permanently banned it seems quite unlikely that you'll be able to ask them for permission to use their soc.

I get that this probably wasn't done with any malicious intent and rather just not realizing that the file isn't marked as re-usable because it's been passed around and appeared in multiple places over the years, so I'm just going to ask you to remove this boss or replace it with something of your own coding when you get a chance. Sorry to only realize this now so late after you originally put it in via an update!

The file inside the zip is a .bak file instead of .wad. It loads fine but it won't show up in the Addons menu with the default settings, which might confuse people.

Also, the emblems were not updated. The mod still thinks there are 38 emblems to collect, but there are only 16 boss fights (2 emblems each, 32 total) and 4 extra emblems.