Sonic 3C(ustomizable)

Nope, there is no hammer object (unless debug mode is on, in which case it does create an object which shows a ring sprite at the hammer's location, but this doesn't actually do anything gameplay-wise).

The hammer position is stored relative to Amy's position in Amy's SST. Collisions are done with a special routine which adds the positions and then behaves similarly to TouchResponse.

The fact that Amy can still get hurt while attacking is entirely intentional. Playing as Amy is supposed to require more skill and timing than Sonic, if you don't want to lose your rings.

I had fun practicing landing on the AIZ midboss with the correct timing to score six hits in a single jump, I hope other players will enjoy this challenge (in all bosses, of course!) too

I wasn't asking you which button I should use - the option of A, B, C or the default Down+Jump will be given in the customizer.

 

Well, it doesn't check directions or animation frames. It just tells enemies to die if they're in a certain box, which is always on a certain side of Amy, so if she jumps into something from that side, the enemy dies before it can hurt her.

 

I can't compile to Mac, but I will release the source code for the customizer with the next major release (I.e. 2.0). Alternatively, you could use WINE.

Her hammer is supposed to destroy all kinds of breakable blocks, including Knuckles-only ones. However, some haven't been programmed to react to the hammer yet, and strangely, some will break whenever the hammer is swung no matter where on the screen the hammer is (e.g. MGZ breakable blocks).

I'll fix them if/when I do anything with the ring layouts. It's not exactly a priority, though!

 

Thanks for finding that! I was looking all over the level scripts but I didn't know there was a standard DSR as well (why SEGA didn't just put the standard DSR in the level events is beyond me).

It also doesn't help that the scroll manager (which calls the DSR) is called "Restart_From_Starpost" in the disasm... I've checked every line of code in it and nowhere does it do any restarting from starposts.

I'll change it so that it chooses the path based on the current Y screen location, rather than character, because Amy should be able to go either way.

 

...Um.

This is going to be harder than I thought.

 

I laughed all the way through that video. That was awesome.

I haven't tested special stages AT ALL in this hack yet, but it makes sense for Sonic to show up for the other characters. I dunno what's up with the glitches on the results screen though.

The other things in the video have been fixed, though (other than the appearances of Sonic's and Knuckles' sprites for Amy's missing animations).

She already has a high jump. I intend to implement the Advance behaviour of gaining extra spring height if you hit a spring with her hammer though.

If by the hammer dash you mean the attack she can do while running without losing speed, I /might/ implement that. I have been thinking about it.

There are no other moves I'm intending to add though.

I won't be adding anything to Competition Mode, and I might just remove it completely because of the amount of space it takes up (I'm going to need quite a bit of extra space for new levels/parts of levels). I don't think anyone would really miss it if I got rid of it - you could just play original S3K if you wanted to play the 2P levels.

 

I meant that her jump height is already a lot higher, so you really don't need the alternate high jump move.

Oh, that one. No, I don't intend to add that.