A downloadable game

Thank you for taking the time to play Hard Hat - Rebuild!  This is a 20th anniversary re-imagining of my first truly completed Mega Man fan game, Hard Hat.  This re-imagining seeks to balance the game play of the original HH series as well as just a nostalgic project for me.

CONTROLS:

  • Z - Jump
  • X - Shoot
  • C - Special Attack
  • A - Previous Weapon
  • S - Next Weapon
  • Space - Pause
  • F12 - Screenshot
  • Escape - End Game menu
  • Weapon Left + Weapon Right + Special Button - End Game menu (game pad only)

The controls for both the game pad and keyboard are customizable

SAVING:

The game saves automatically in the places where a password screen would have appeared in classic NES Mega Man.

Customization:

Customize your Hard Hat experience with 4 skins and the following options:

  • Starting Lives
    • Set up to 9 starting lives
  • 1-Hit KO
    • One hit equals 0 health
  • Ammo Usage
    • Can be set to normal or half usage
  • Safety Spikes
    • Spikes either 1 hit kill or do damage
  • One Credit Clear
    • One death and it's back to the title screen
  • No Boss Weapons
    • Buster only mode
  • No Enemies
    • Remove all the enemies to just explore the levels [Bosses still exist]
  • No Checkpoints
    • Dying sends to back to the start of the level.

I hope you enjoy this re-imagining and thank you for playing!

StatusReleased
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorSilver
GenrePlatformer
TagsFangame, hard-hat, mega-man, metool

Download

Download
Hard Hat Rebuild.zip 139 MB

Install instructions

Extract the zip file to any folder and run the executable.  Save files and configuration files are located at: \AppData\Local\Hard_Hat_Rebuild

Development log

Comments

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Whoa!  I just decided to google your old games on a whim and did not expect this to be what came up.  Hard Hat must have been the first Mega Man fangame I ever played.  Your games played a big role in inspiring me to learn Game Maker.  Thank you for making this and for keeping it alive!

I'm glad you found this and remember the originals fondly <3 Thank you for playing!

Really cool game! Would be nice if some weapons use less ammo, like metal blade, one of my favorite weapons. I am almost at the end now, thank you for creating this masterpiece!

Hey SilverCartridge, could you please help me with finding some old fangames that were on fangamez.net? I can take this to DMs if need be.

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Could you fix this bug?

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ERROR in

action number 1

of  Step Event0

for object roomPusherDownNextObj:

Trying to use non-existing surface.

at gml_Object_roomPusherDownNextObj_Step_0

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gml_Object_roomPusherDownNextObj_Step_0 (line -1)

(1 edit)

Ah geez, that's a strange one. I am surprised it never came up.  That object is responsible for all transitions to the next room going down.  

I think I have rectified it. I have added a check in the step event that now checks to ensure that the surface actually exists before copying it. 

sur_newroom = surface_create(guiWidth,guiHeight);  
if (surface_exists( sur_newroom )) 
{surface_copy(sur_newroom,0,0,application_surface);}

It shouldn't have needed this as the line right before the copy actually creates the surface it so my only guess is it was a frame rate thing. This change should fix the bug.  

Thank you for letting me know!