Many new pieces of fan content have been added today. This includes the StarTropics commercial found in the Movies section as well as 34 midis and 10 mp3s found in the Music section.

The Fanfics section of the site has been replaced with the Literature section. You can find both StarTropics fanfics and poetry in there. All literature is stored as a PDF for your viewing convenience. Enjoy!

The Fan Art, Movies, Music, and Scans sections of the site have been completely redesigned in order to give the site a much cleaner and usable interface. Each piece of content now displays the date that it was added to the site. As a side note, the wallpaper section of the site has been moved into the Fan Art section.

To celebrate this redesign, 55 new pieces of fan art have been added!

The C-Island Forum is now the official message board of StarTropics.com! C-Island has been around for years and has an amazing community so stop on by and say hello.

Hey everyone and welcome to StarTropics.com (formerly StarTropicsHQ.com). Here you will find the everything you'll want to know about the NES classics StarTropics and StarTropics II: Zoda's Revenge. As a special treat, you can download a free copy of StarTropics III. It's more of a demo right now since it is somewhat actively being worked on by myself. The best part is that it comes bundled with a fully featured level editor so you can begin to create your own StarTropics game. Be sure to upload them to the site so they can be shared with others.

I pretty much copied the old site exactly as is for now in order to get things running. I expect to do a redesign eventually. Feel free to visit the forums and be sure to let me know if something on the site is broken. Thanks and enjoy the new StarTropics.com!

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, but I assure you this one was worth the wait...

A new cutscene editor has been added to the level editor! This new feature allows you to create mini-cutscenes within the game such as talking to the chief or displaying the chapter intro.

Cutscene Editor Features
- 26 different images are provided to create your scenes with.
- 2 different chapter intro music selections to choose from and 9 different scene music selections to choose from.
- You can make cutscenes play by triggering them via the triggers panel when editing an overworld or village area. A new option on the dialogue tab allows you to have a cutscene play when you talk to a villager. When editing a cutscene, you'll want to look at the triggers tab. This will provide you with different options to do once your cutscene ends.

Music
- I've rewritten how the game handles looping music. The music should sound seemless now instead of that 'pop' that was occurring on certain tracks when it started over. Also, you no longer have to enter the IntroMusic in the editor. There's just a single Music property that needs to be set now.
- 6 new music selections have been added for the village music.
- With the addition of the cutscene and village music, ALL music from ST1 is in the game now!

Sfx
- A new Speech Type setting on the dialogue tab has been added. You can have the text be spoken like a human, a robot, a dolphin, or a parrot.
- Some sfx were only playing the right channel so it sounded bad with headphones on. This has been fixed.

I hope everyone enjoys the latest update. I'm one huge step closer to being able to finish the game. Enjoy!

StarTropics was first released in December of 1990. Happy 20th to the greatest game ever!

A new Scans section has been added to the site. This page contains magazine scans that feature StarTropics as well as box art and instruction manual scans. All of this is in a convenient PDF format for you to download. Thanks to Mitch for allowing me to use many of the images from his former C-Island site.

- Fixed an issue where some machines were unable to run the game.
- Fixed a bug with area triggers not always transitioning to the next area.
- Fixed a bug with exploding walls not destroying their corresponding exploding wall in the adjacent room.

I believe I've fixed all installation failure issues this time around. The installer should now work on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7.

The dungeon file format has changed. Everything is now stored in one master file instead of multiple files and folders. You will need to download the custom dungeon converter if you have any old dungeons you want to convert. All created dungeons should now be saved in the dungeons directory instead of customDungeons.

Misc Editor Improvements
- Each room tab you open now has a close button on it.
- A tooltip now appears that displays the room name when hovering over the rooms in the Dungeon Layout.
- More detailed error messages appear telling you exactly what rooms have invalid trigger issues.
- The StartingRoom and StartingHeartAmount now work correctly when playing the current area.
- Both the StartingRoom and EndingRoom can now be found on the Area Properties instead of the Room Properties. The StartingRoom will work for all types of areas.
- The stairs/quicksand room that you previously would set on the Triggers tab has been moved to the Room Properties and is now called the WarpRoom.
- The import option now allows you to import multiple areas from one project to the current project.
- You can finally organize your projects exactly how you want them by dragging the area and room nodes around in the project tree. Rooms may only be dragged around into their same area.

The new installer and dungeon converter can be found on the Downloads page. It's great to be back working on this again. Enjoy!

75 new pieces of fan art have been added! In order to make the images a little easier to find, the fan art section has been reworked slightly in order to better organize all of the images. Enjoy!