Aaaand beta is live. There are still a couple things I want to fix before leaving beta (see readme), but it's fully playable. I'm starting to work on fixing the screen fade issue right now, and should have it fixed today or tomorrow. If I can ever find a way to reproduce the other issue I will be all over that.
I didn't get an answer to whether it's allowed to post links to ROM patches, so I guess we're gonna try it and find out.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/490065800225488916/519356964724277248/m2ejrt_fix.zip
Please give it a try and let me know if you like it and whether you encounter any issues not mentioned in the readme.
Oh, and if you make any YouTube videos of runs, post them so I can narcissistically watch them.
Couldn't help myself and went straight into implementing a bunch of new stuff on the wish list. The wish list is now empty for this release and all that's needed is as much testing as you can give it. See readme for full details.
Again, let me know what you think or if you run into any issues. And if any of you record a video of a full run let me know the link.
Final version: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4388/
All that's really changed from the last one is that various miscolored tiles have been fixed, and hidden passages are hidden again.
I would love to see metroid 2 at a gdq in any form (not the remake(s)), it's been submitted multiple times but still hasn't been featured, I don't see why they couldn't use this although I have heard that they would rather not have flash carts used when not necessary.