Nicalis has released a new major update for Cave Story + on PC via Steam, which implements the various additions included in its console versions. These include features such as two-player co-op, plus enhanced visuals and built-in mod support, among other inclusions.
According to the Steam page, the patch notes are as follows:
CS+ Switch on PC
- 2-player mode
- Famitracks soundtrack
- Ridiculon soundtrack
Sand Pit Challenge Jukebox Widescreen Animated and flipped dialogue portraits Lighting system Physical water Water backgrounds Map shading Strafing Skipping dialogue Difficulty tweaks Jelly stacking - Escape Booster’s pit
- Easier Waterway cabin jump
Iron Bond acquirement tweak Altered warehouse scene
Modding support
- Stackable mods
Lua API Converted code - Arms
- Bosses
Bullets Carets NPCs Player
Unused code NPCs 58 and 79 Various commented-out lines of code
Mods can add custom… Graphics packs Seasonal themes Soundtracks Sounds Challenges Fonts Screen filters
Settings
- Allow dialogue portrait flipping
Enable lighting system Enable physical water Adjust internal resolution Change default player costume
Conversion of data blobs to JSON
Starting stage and event Tables Arms Bullet Caret Music NPC Stage Dialogue portrait animations
- Custom bitmaps can now overlay (instead of replace) vanilla bitmaps
- Per-room custom water backgrounds
- 4x resolution textures
WAV sounds (instead of PixTone) Unified shaded and unshaded map data Merged challenge map tiles into main map tiles Booster’s Lab fork CS+ TSC commands 2x sprite resolution New PXM file format Reads and writes JSON map metadata files
Debug mode
FPS counter (default) - NPC list (default)
- Unlocked challenges (default)
Unlocked jukebox (default) Holiday selection (options) NPC hitbox viewer (swap-left and pause) NPC code viewer (F8) Invincibility & infinite booster code (swap-right and pause) One-hit kill (jump and pause) Credits cheat code (up, left, down, right, up, left, down, right, L1) Costume unlock cheat code (up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, L1) Fast-forward (swap-left and swap-right) Swap controllers in 2P mode (F12)
New TSC commands
- XX2
Similar to TSC+’s IMG
OUT Changes the player’s ‘outfit’, allowing mods to switch between playable characters
- Raised NPC limit from 512 to 1024
Raised maximum number of tiles per stage from 256 to 65536 PXM file format has been expanded to allow this Raised flag limit from 8000 to 10000 Curly Story difficulty levels DSiWare Sanctuary Time Attack Snake, Super Missile Launcher, and Life Pot Alternate music in starting room Bonus image upon completion
Extra 2-player costumes Easy Mode Curly Hard Mode Curly CS+ Quote (when using Classic graphics)
Fixes
- Unobscured dialogue portraits (top and bottom rows are no longer missing)
Restored missing features Scrolling damage numbers White circles that replace the ‘=’ character in dialogue Text box scrolling text out of view instead of just disappearing ‘THANK YOU’ stars easter egg after the credits
Centred Heavy Press and G-CLONE boss arenas Missing translation for Balrog’s, Misery’s, and the Doctor’s descriptions in the normal credits Stage name no longer has two drop-shadows Text drop-shadows uses correct colour - Level 2 and 3 missile graphics are no longer swapped in CS+ graphics
- Corrected centring of the ‘<GIT’ graphics.
Animated dialogue portraits in Challenges Wind Fortress Sanctuary Time Attack
Improved sprite-work Challenges now support seasonal graphics Updated credits illustrations in Classic graphics Boss Attack uses native Classic graphics instead of downscaled Cave Story+ graphics Various NPC sprite improvements, including an overhauled Heavy Press
Improved Organya playback Drums use linear-interpolation sampling instead of nearest-neighbour sampling Fixed panning of right channel being inverted Fixed track panning not being initialised (would make notes very loud when panning is not explicitly specified) - Improved Remastered soundtrack
- Last Cave (Hidden) has a unique version of the Last Cave theme
Credits use a unique version of Mischievous Robot Corrected song looping Balrog’s theme Sand Zone theme Labyrinth theme Last Cave (Hidden) Balcony Mischievous Robot (Credits)
Updates from Freeware v1.0.0.4 to v1.0.0.6 Behemoth rage effects Gravekeeper sound effects Closed chest flickering sprite and animation speed Modding-related fixes
TSC commands CAT now clears auto-turbo mode instead of setting it.
MYD supports events above 255. Game no longer corrupts when player has maximum weapons (8) or items (32). Weapons no longer level-up to level 2 prematurely when EXP requirement is lower for level 3 than level 2. NPC 150 can now use direction 10. A line-break is no longer redundantly inserted at the end of a maximum-length line of text. Recreated official English sprites from pre-release Cave Story Incorporated unused dialogue portrait animations into the game Smiling Balrog, in Malco’s room Coughing Toroko, in the warehouse Fist-clenching Itoh, when first talking to him
CRT screen filter HD Japanese font Challenge taglines - V
astly-improved controller support Button icons Key icons Custom controller bindings Bindings for each player Separate bindings for controllers and keyboard All controllers control player 1 in single-player mode Automatic player controller allocation in two-player mode
Lastly, Cave Story is available now on PC, Mac, and Nintendo Switch.
