Anyone else think we should start making our hacks more accessible to non English speakers? I sure do. I chose Portuguese and Russian because from my perspective, Brazil and Russia are the 2 largest non English speaking countries that consume Sonic ROM hacks, if not seeking them out intentionally, then because hacks get bootlegged (Let's not forget the Russian physical release of Sonic Megamix) and I'd love for most who play this to be able to understand it! Edit. Marthon mode. Evidently I'm not even an English speaker. 2nd Edit: Finalized the graphics (I hope) so here it is in motion.
After 2 weeks of just cleaning up my disassembly and adding fancy menus, and generally fixing insignificant bugs, I've finally added the actual gimmick of my hack. Yes, it's choppy, that's to reduce ROM size and I intend to interpolate the data so it'll look smoother in the final release. But this is what my research on the Everdrive X7's USB port has been leading up to!
Been a minute, here's what's been done since you've last seen this hack. Metal Sonic now has a death state, which the camera will pan over to show you upon winning. And there's now a countdown before the level starts so you can get ready. Of course with Portuguese and Russian translations too. And for CHEATERS there's options for removing the speed caps, and add the spindash and drop dash. But using these will STAIN your time records as is deserved for SCUM.
The trailer for a project I'm on the dev team of got released today, we're all super excited to push towards release within the next 2-3 months It's a fairly big level mod project within the style of vanilla frontiers but with all original level design, and a few other surprises!
So, there was a problem with my hack. While on a technical level it was interesting in how I recorded Metal Sonic's data, it wasn't necessarily fun to play. Effectively, Metal Sonic was just a fixed countdown timer. You would get the same experience out of playing Sonic 1 Mega Play. So I fixed that! You can attack Metal Sonic to slow him down for a couple seconds, and he can randomly speed up and attack you!
If your program misbehaves, MD-OS will take your program into a dark damp room for punishment. (Yes, you'll be able to write and run your own programs, provided the right SRAM type is available ) Spoiler: If you're interested, here's a sneak peak at some sample code~
