It's you against the evil Mother Brain in the thrilling battle of Metroid! You're inside the fortress planet Zebes. The planet of endless secret passageways where the Metroid are multiplying. Left alone the Metroid are harmless. But in the wrong hands they could destroy the galaxy. It's up to you to prevent the Mother Brain that controls Zebes from using the Metroid for evil purposes. But that won't be easy. You'll have to use your spacesuit to absorb valuable energy for your search to gain the use of power items like the Ice Beam, Wave Beam, High Jump Boots and Varia. If you survive, it will be you and your acquired powers against the Mother Brain.

This ROM hack is mainly all graphic hack of the original Metroid for NES. The YouTube Trailer has links to the game maps, the soundtrack and more.

Orphan Moon: A Metroid Story
Galactic lifeform scans have discovered potential Metroid existence in a very unusual place. Sometime after the complete destruction of Zebes, it's large moon was found adrift, now in orbit around the host star FS-176. A genetics lab has been detected beneath the surface, along with Chozo technologies. This off-site moon base was used by someone to enhance the DNA of various species of life, active to Zebes, in attempts to find a perfect hybrid formula for fusing beings with Metroid DNA. Find this lab and destroy it.


What you'll find:
-All new sprites and graphics to just about every tile in the game
-All new music for each stage
-Save Game states (no passwords)
-Wave Beam & Ice Beam can be combined
-New respawn points for each stage (not just the areas elevator)
-Since most of the original ROM build is still intact, majority of Game Genie cheats still work for this game!

Database match: Metroid (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210216-231042)
File SHA-1: 166A5B1344B17F98B6B18794094F745F8A7435B8
File CRC32: 4DE6A02B
ROM SHA-1: FDBFC7871962F72A1EF57E5A7E456164FB93430B
ROM CRC32: 70080810