Sonic 1 Megamix

Glad to see the layouts were of use to you! The amount of work you've put into this must be catoatrophic, as it really shows. The songs, pallettes, new abilities, and other little advancments always keep me coming back for more. I salute you, Tweaker, for making (dare I say), the greatest hack I've ever played.

 

Is the double jump supposed to be attracted to enemies and monitors like Sonic's Jump Dash? If you go into options and change to Shadow then go to save files, change it to "Save 1" and press start is it supposed to display the credits?

 

I'd try it out, but it doesn't work properly on my flash cart. As in, it fails to boot, and just goes to a black screen after the license screen. I tried flashing it with something else, and that gave me a red screen of death instead. Either there's something wrong with your boot code or you haven't patched out the checksum routine...obviously something works differently between emulators and hardware.

I padded the binary to an even 6 megabits (really, every ROM binary should be padded to an even number of megabits) and it booted, but selecting "start game" or "options" gave me a black screen, and "continue" gave me the message:
"ADDRESS ERROR $000B9AF0 $00200007"

Accuracy in emulators, my ass. :P People playing it on an emulator can give you useful feedback, though.

EDIT: Noticed that when the error pops up you can resume execution with the C button, and I was able to actually start the game with Shadow. Very cool stuff. It still hangs a hell of a lot, though.

EDIT 2: Most of it seems to stem from the saving. Maybe do a sanity check on the SRAM at boot and clear it if it's corrupt? I did play all the way through, though -- the original levels are ridiculously easy with Shadow. :lol: Good job all 'round, love the Hybrid Front music in there of course.

 

Tototeks require padding, copiers usually don't (my SMD doesn't).

 

Doesn't mean it's not a good practice anyway.

 

Same with the PSP, it crashes after you select to start the game

 

Oh, I agree, I was just stating facts. Any ROM that I code gets padded.

 

Just a couple of gameplay suggestions:

-Sonic's double-jump forward attack makes the spindash useless, and makes building up speed too easy. I think it would be better if double-jumping only brought the lock-on attack (plus an insta-shield made of the old Sonic shield tiles, perhaps?).
-The MD games used to have a button layout of C=jump (primary function), B=attack (secondary function), A=special (auxiliar function), which I think could be used here too.



EDIT: By the way, the more I play it the more I'm convinced that it could work quite nicely just with Sonic as the only playable character... I think you should focus on finishing the levels and other stuff before trying to polish Mighty, Shadow or any other characters you had in mind.

 

I loved the last release and I can say that I can't wait for the next!

 

Wow, this is one of the best Sonic 1 hacks I've played, in a while. But there's something that really bothers me about it. Why can't you press the "A" button to jump?

 

You can't use the A button to jump because it has a different function in this game. Atleast for Sonic, it is used for his light speed dash power. You can still use it to spin dash though.

 

I've long used C to jump anyway, due to S3&K's reverse gravity toggle in debug mode.

 

I always use the "C" button whenever I'm playing the Genesis, but whenever I'm using the keyboard, I press "A".

 

And also, the rightmost button is used to jump in 90% of the platform games (including Sonic Advance).

I've always used C as well.

 

I have might right hand using arrow keys and left doing anything else, so lining it up, my index finger is easier on whatever I put "C" on, not to mention I always used C on the Genesis.

 

Wow that's is a really great hack to play. I love all the new features and sounds well done.

 

Oh god, yes plz. Careful Tweaker: If you make this hack any better, there is a chance you'll send half the board into an awesome-ness induced coma.