v2.99 - first public beta

Play as the SA-X in Metroid Fusion. Full sprite swap, full SA-X loadout
from frame one, fully beatable start to credits.

How to apply

1. Download fusion_become_sax.ips below.
2. Apply it to your own legally dumped Metroid Fusion ROM
   (US, AMTE, CRC32 6C75479C) with any IPS patcher
   (Lunar IPS, Flips, MultiPatch, or an online patcher).
3. Play. The title bar shows SAX V299 so you know the patch took.

No ROM is included here, and none ever will be.

Highlights

• The SA-X's actual animations pulled from the ROM, plus fan-sheet art
  for poses it never performs on screen (crouching, vertical aim,
  ladders, and more)
• Ice Beam, screw attack, and Hyper charge shot with the SA-X's own
  sounds
• Save stations, nav rooms, recharge, and the save-load materialize
  are all SA-X
• All story events work. Upgrade-guardian bosses still spawn: each
  boss's item temporarily leaves your inventory in its sector until
  you beat it. That is intended, not a bug.

Known issues (beta)

• Screw attack visual effects still being reworked
• The beam's 30Hz ghost flicker is misbehaving and being redone
• Ceiling-ladder poses still use the Fusion silhouette

Credits

• TheMa-x: "SA-X sprite sheet (complete)" (DeviantArt)
• SemiJuggalo: expanded SA-X crouch set
• metroidret: the mf/mzm decompilation projects