You can do it Shane! Is mixer still working with you?
Sort of. Mixer8421 (now Randolf at the Cave Story Tribute Site Forums) won't be able to help until sometime in the future (don't know when), but there are things that only he (and a few other members of the forums) can do like the Title Screen hacks and the weapon hacks. If you have played my
Shadows of the Stars mod, the starting weapon was ASMed by Randolf. In the
Cave Story Re:coded mod (requires a better name) he made the Blade weapon better by allowing it to fire in two directions at once - but it can't fire up and down. He also changed the Nemesis' smoke into XP triangles.

This will hopefully be in the next version.
I have about two weeks before I can upload and release version 0.9X of
Shane's Cave Story Episode 1.