Sonic 3D: no flickies hack

YESH!
http://srb2town.sepwich.com/junk/s3dhack.zip

I finally made it! =D I got rid of the stupid "collect all flickies" system! Now all non-boss levels play like Panic Puppet 2 =O

Gameplay changes:

• Big rings don't take into account the amount of flickies anymore, they always allow you to continue. So now they're basically checkpoints.
• Enemies still release flickies; however, you can't collect them. So now they're merely scenery.
• No more flicky HUD =P
• The last tube in Gene Gadget 1 can be passed at any time now, as you can't collect flickies (and requiring them would sorta kind of defeat the purpose of this hacking).

So yeah, that's it. I should remove the Flicky Bonus from the tally score but right now that's out of my reach =P Whatever, I guess I did a very good job already =] I would put up how to achieve this but right now the doc is a mess, despite being just an indication of what to patch for each of the above things I mentioned =&

Anyways, now go and play =P

PS: if you want to help, remember that on the SVN there's my very early Sonic 3D disasm work. But it's an IDA file because it's too early and IDA makes things a lot easier, so if you want to help, don't complain about binary blobs, please >_>

 

=D

Whatever, tell me what things I didn't catch, OK? Some are too far right now for me at this moment though.

Right now what I have:

• Flicky Bonus still in score tally
• FIXED.
• The game won't release all flickies (5 guaranteed, more may or may not appear, undefined behaviour it seems o_O)

 

You can't even collect them now...

 

When it comes to Sonic 3D, I made a custom boss too (in a lame hack D=). I also made a post with a lot of information about Sonic 3D, mainly RAM variables. So yeah, in some sense I'm sorta kind of Sonic 3D guy. Outside that I made some MD ROMs, but honestly there isn't much progression in them =[ The one that had most progression was lost in an unavoidable HD crash >_>

 

Fixed Special Stage bug, go redownload =P

 

About the unreachable medals: my idea was that once I had enough information, actually edit the levels too. But I also wanted to get rid of this and trying to find out how took me two freaking years - no kidding. I knew where the RAM address was and even had a PAR code for it, but for some reason the correct instructions didn't pop up in the searches. Luckily this time I had the idea of doing a "search all" and then sort by instruction, which helped a lot =P

The only thing I don't understand is, why does Panic Puppet 2 have code that checks the number of flickies chasing Sonic when there aren't any flickies in that level? o_O

Good point. Whenever I remember where is it (translation: gimme the URL) =P