Nicalis has significantly updated the PC version of Cave Story on Steam. The update includes new features like two-player mode and mod support, as well as improved graphics.
Here are the details:
About the Update
This update brings all the features from the console versions of the game to Steam, including the ability to play with a friend in two-player co-op! Now you can explore the caves together.
This update includes a lot of visual improvements! We’ve added animated character portraits during conversations, made the lighting and water look more realistic, enhanced the shading in environments, and added support for widescreen displays, among other changes.
We’ve made several improvements to the gameplay, making things a bit smoother and more enjoyable. Some areas are now easier or more straightforward – even tasks like stacking puppies have been refined! We’ve also added a new Sand Pit Challenge level to the bonus challenges.
Even if you’re a long-time Cave Story fan, this update adds exciting new possibilities! You can now use player-made mods to change the game’s look, add new challenges, customize the music, and much more.
That’s not all! You can find a full list of all the changes in the patch notes below. Enjoy discovering everything new!
Patch Notes
- Cave Story+ Switch on PC
- Two-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
- Puppy 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
- Converted 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
- XX2
- Raised NPC limit from 512 to 1024
- Raised maximum number of tiles per stage from 256 to 65536
- 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 two-player costumes
- Easy Mode Curly
- Hard Mode Curly
- Cave Story+ Quote (when using Classic graphics)
- Fixes
- Unobscured dialogue portraits
- Restored missing features
- Scrolling damage numbers
- White circles replacing “=”
- Text box scrolling text
- “THANK YOU” stars Easter egg
- Centred boss arenas
- Missing translations fixed
- Stage name drop-shadows fixed
- Text drop-shadow color fixed
- Missile graphics corrected
- Animated dialogue portraits in challenges
- Improved sprite-work
- Seasonal graphics support
- Boss Attack uses native Classic graphics
- NPC sprite improvements
- Improved Organya playback
- Improved Remastered soundtrack
- Updates from Freeware version 1.0.0.4 to version 1.0.0.6
- Modding-related fixes
- Recreated official English sprites
- Incorporated unused dialogue portrait animations
- CRT screen filter
- HD Japanese font
- Challenge taglines
- Vastly-improved controller support
- Button icons
- Key icons
- Custom controller bindings
- Bindings for each player
- Separate bindings for controllers and keyboard
- All controllers control player one in single-player mode
- Automatic player controller allocation in two-player mode
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