[NovaWizard]

Here is a hack I'm currently working on for S3&K, making the level difficulty much harder, the layouts of the levels are mostly rebuilt.
This is mainly a start hack to learn hex, I have also edited some boss patterns and HP (IE first miniboss in AIZ now fires his flame attack almost the second he lands then flies off again without waiting leaving allot less time to hit him on).

Some pictures below:












Here is the list of levels and things done.

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Angle Island Zone
- Palette, layout and object placements altered.
- Miniboss and boss HP and pattern edited.
- Music edited for both acts.

Hydrocity Zone
- Palette, layout and object placements altered.
- Miniboss and boss HP and pattern edited.
- Music edited for both acts.

Marble Garden Zone
- Palette, layout and object placements altered.
- Miniboss and boss HP and pattern edited.
- Music edited for both acts.

Carnival Night Zone
- Palette edited.

Hidden Palace Zone
- Palette, layout and object placements altered.
- Knuckles boss HP and patterns edited.
- Music edited.

Sky Sanctuary Zone
- Palette, layout and object placements altered (Only up to first boss).
- First boss HP and pattern edited.

Other Edits
- First 5 chaos emerald bonus stages edited.
- Slot Machine special stages layout altered.
- Title screen palette and text edited.
- Data select level palette for AIZ, HCZ and MGZ edited.
- Level select palette edited.
- Data select and level select font edited.
- HUD (Score, Time, Rings and Lifes) font edited.
- And other small stuff.

Public Beta Link Version 1.100

Anyway that's all, enjoy.

EDIT: Edited first post to include link to the beta hack and newer pictures.

This post has been edited by Nova: 26 March 2007 - 11:14 PM

[Bowser]

Wow, I think that's actually pretty impressive. The Sky sanctuary is the only thing that gets to me.. You know? It looks a little.. "plain". Maybe add a few clouds, or so, then it'll look great. :D Nice job, nonetheless.

[Tadashi]

Wow, AIZ and MGZ palettes are actually very good.

[Mystical Ninja]

This, I'm REALLY looking forward to, since it's not very often you see a level design hack of Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Nice work.

[Hayate]

Looks nice, and making a hack to change the behaviour of stuff in S3&K is something I've never seen before. Keep up the good work.

[Tweaker]

Wow! For hacking a game such as S3K, this is excellent! How'd you go about editing the boss patterns, exactly?

[NovaWizard]

Thanks all for the replys.
I will be updating the first post with progress as time goes.

Tweaker, on Jan 2 2007, 06:36 PM, said:

Wow! For hacking a game such as S3K, this is excellent! How'd you go about editing the boss patterns, exactly?

Well still learning the basics, might release a small guide for it once I get better.
But quickly said I first find the boss I want to alter then I alter some events, events is normally in XX7C YYYY ZZZZ format.

I.E $6B05C lies the amount of bombs Robotnik drops on the HCZ boss, 117C 0008 0039.

This post has been edited by Nova: 02 January 2007 - 01:01 PM

[Andy]

wow, looks good. can't wait to see how hard the final boss and doomsday are going to be :D

This post has been edited by Andy: 02 January 2007 - 02:05 PM

[Rockman Zero]

[ThunderPX]

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Holy shit... it's Frost Walrus' stage in Megaman X4. o_O

[Chimpo]

This hack looks delicious :9

[Shadow Fire]

Nova for full member plzkthxbai.

[Sith]

Good palettes, just don't make the difficulty level impossible...

[nineko]

Sith, on Jan 3 2007, 01:07 AM, said:

just don't make the difficulty level impossible...

Why not? S3&K is too easy, imo.

[Jimp]