Meh, I don’t like pony mods.
 
 
Call me vanilla gamer, but there’s something about pony mods that creep me out too much to try.

Let’s see…I have played the original Cave Story 3 times - one for each gun. And then I played The HD remake, one for each gun. And then I played through Curly’s Story, one for each gun. And by the ninth playthrough I just ended up HATING the game because I had played through it so much and yet the only new content I could get was the impossible level, but sometimes I couldn’t even get past the “last” level.  
The art for the sprite mod looks really nice, but I don’t think even ponies can get me to play that damn game one more time.

Well, I’m pumped up enough to work on my next project now.  
I’ll find out soon enough if I can pull 16x16 off decently again.

@Dirkos  
Part of pixel art involves tossing out or deemphasizing some details in favor for more important ones. It’s impossible to use show-accurate proportions but using accurate human proportions is another impossible crusade. I have pulled off 16x16 pony sprites going by the same stylization choices most spriters make so they can draw humans at tiny sizes. Big heads, small body. Pretty much what your sprites did, but if it looks to filly-ish to some, its an unsolvable problem I would not worry about.

Ah… if ponifying bipeds were a bit easier, I’d go straight to Earthbound.  
Also fun fact, I started making Cave Story Pony sprites specifically for Desktop Ponies… it wasn’t until I had nearly all of them completed, but not animated, that I wondered if they’d fit in Cave Story… 16x16 is pretty dang small for a quadruped. I was gonna use a filly before realizing the adult ponies fit.

@Dirkos  
Lol my sprite mod? I’m probably replacing all the main robots and maybe a couple others into pony versions, and replace full-screen art with pony versions if I can find them… or remember if they exist. I’m in most part leaving mimigas and humans alone. Transforming bipedal beings into four-legged ponies is crazy hard.

Thanks, and if you like the sprites and have Desktop Ponies, there are 53 reasons to check the source link.

Tried it, it was very cute! Thanks, good job on the character sprite!

@Vree
 
I believe Pix3M is working on a larger scale (and nicer quality. Have you seen his stuff!) mod than mine… ponified NPCs are a good possibility.

i still need to do the third play through. might as well.

Wait, this is playable?
 
I may replay Cave Story, only for the ponies.
 
(I wish there was a mod where the NPCs are ponified too.)