Check Out This Fan-Made Metroid Prequel!

Metroid is one of the most iconic games we can think of, with fantastic gameplay and fast paced action that still holds up great today. While fans of the series have been crying out for a new game, some have spent the last two years making one themselves; I guess they got a little impatient.

Metroid: Rogue Dawn is an unofficial prequel to the NES classic. Created as a ROM hack to the original, Rogue Dawn is set before the Zero mission, as you take control of Dawn Aran. What’s amazing is that while this is still based on the original Rom, the graphics still look fantastic for something running in 8bit, good enough to be 16-bit at least! Don’t take our word for it, check out the video below.

In the new game, you’ll find improved visuals, a new story, a cool screen-scrolling effect, different abilities and more!

Rogue Dawn is an unofficial prequel to the original Metroid game released in 1986. 30 years later we bring you the events that unfolded before Samus’s famous “Zero” mission on planet Zebes. The original Metroid manual tells us about a deep-space research spaceship that was attacked. Pirates seized a capsule said to contain a newly discovered life form in a state of suspended animation. Rogue Dawn surrounds these events that led up to the theft of the capsule which ultimately placed the Metroid’s under the control of Ridley and the Mother Brain.

The mission to acquire the capsule is placed in the hands of one of Ridley’s best kept secrets. A rogue human agent trained and manipulated by Ridley from a young age. Taken as a child from a Federation colony obliterated by Ridley’s faction she was initially just another test subject slated to undergo horrific experiments. Ridley decided to instead manipulate and mold her into a weapon, his first human servant and dark agent. Primed yet untested she is sent out on her “zero” mission to retrieve a newly discovered biological specimen in the possession of a Federation research crew orbiting planet SR388 and prove her worth. Her name is Dawn Aran!

To play this Rom Hack, you’ll need to load it onto the original games rom.