Sonic 1 Remastered

Change Tails gray pallet to the one in Sonic 3 and it will look better.

 

Remove that 'dent' in the grass under the capsule, move the capsule or place that little pit were Sonic stands instead.
As is, it looks awkward.

 

I don't think releasing your source code is very wise... Just my opinion, though.

 

Alright, here is my opinion of what you've done so far.

Sonic : The B move thing is kinda strange and for a while I had no idea why that was happening, until I read your post. It's fine though. Sonic's animations run smootly and flow just as they did in Sonic 3, good job. No problems with Sonic, just add a Super Peel Out animation and the spindash dust and your all set

Tails : Good for the most part. As you said there is no tired or flying animation in the demo, but you'll fix that. Doesn't have tails either. One odd thing is that Tails' sliding/braking animation is his pushing animation and when you run up against something he just is walking instead of pushing. Fix please.

Your overall tech stuff : Not that you did too much of it, but for the most part it's good. Nothing comes out of the Egg prison and there is that stupid glitch where you float around (You can still use the B dash move after you hit the capsle by the way). Green Hill has a couple messed up tiles which I really only noticed while playing as Tails. All the moves you added work fine and the Level cards look good. I like the "You suck at Special Stages" screen. One more thing. You seem to have mixed up your labarynth zone palettes. Now the regular level takes the Scrap Brain act 3 palette and the other way around. FIX PLZ

Music : THIS is the downfall of you hack. I'm sorry but playing through the game I cannot agree with many of your musical choices.
The Bads
Green Hill Zone Act 1
Green Hill Zone Act 3
Marble Zone Act 3
Spring Yard Zone Act 2
Spring Yard Zone Act 3
Labarynth Zone Act 2
Star Light Zone Act 1
Star Light Zone Act 3
Scrap Brain Zone Act 2
Scrap Brain Zone Act 3
Special Stage Music
Speed Shoe Music

Now for the songs I listed either they just don't work, don't sound right, or both (Best example of that would probably be SYZ 3)The rest are decent. Nothing really stands out in my opinion

Here is your grade report
Sonic:9.5/10
Tails:7/10
Technical stuff:8/10
Music:4/10
Overall:6/10

 

Hmm, why do you use Cowering's .gen extension for your rom?

No-one likes it anyway...

 

When I asked him about this, he told me that it's easier to register than .bin, because .bin files can be also stuff of other nature and not just Genesis roms.
I don't like this, either, and I don't need to double click on roms because I always load roms directly from Gens, but I guess that at least it makes sense.

 

.md would make more sense. =P

 

I'm sorry, I'm not feeling the music choices in a lot of places.

GHZ III
MZ I and II
SYZ I'm kinda iffy on, it almost fits, but I think without editing some art or somethin' it just plain won't.
LZ Still trying to figure out why Sandopolis kinda works here...
SLZ I and III
SBZ II I'm a bit iffy on, mainly because it's broken. I understand III is going to be moved, so I won't say anything on that one.

I really wanna like some of the songs you picked, but they're broken.

 

Not really, but .smd & .bin are the most used extensions so he should pick .smd if he doesn't want to use .bin

 

.smd is a different format than .bin and .gen files.

 

All three are used, and each of them correspond with a different format

.bin - Raw binary (normal address order, no changes)
.md - all odd addresses in the first half, all even in the second
.smd - 512k header, stored in 16k banks, each with all odd addresses first, then all even

He will either have to convert the ROM to the appropriate format to be able to use ".smd" or ".md", or will have to settle for ".bin" or ".gen" :P

 

I like how the mystery box gives temporary Super Sonic powers.

I like the SLZ1 music, intentionally strange or not. Sometimes one of the instruments changes in the middle of the level and sounds bad, though.

There's a floating bug if you stand on top of a monitor and dash.

 

I think you're confusing "wise" with "selfish" in a way that seems to be very common in ROM hacking communities (but especially this one).

 

I don't wish to offend but I think there are reasons both for and against releasing source code, I too at first wondered why there isn't a codebase like you would find for Darkbasic, Java or C but after taking the time to explore the forum a little I think I can understand why a lot of the rom hackers / programmers keep there code close to their chest - There are a lot of lame ass people out there who would be just ripping off other peoples code/hacks time and time again.... At least this way we don't end up with 100 hacks released by a 100 people all build on the same code !!! and not only that it forces those who want to learn ASM and hacking to learn like I am - this time last week I didnt have a clue about ASM but I am slowley learning by research and experimentation and you will find that as long as you are polite and don't demand help but ask for advice and guidence here you will get it. don't get me wrong if people want to share code that's cool too but it is at the choice of the Hacker / Programmer and not for others to judge and deem selfish !!! Just out of curiosity have seen the amount of work Tweaker has put into Megamix? Now imagine if he realeased his code... It somehow would seem fair would it?

 

Tweaker is only the ringleader on the Megamix project, there have been numerous other workers.

 

I do say, I actually like it. You know, the only things I have to criticize is tail's tails flying, and the menu.. Even if it is to be made simple, it's just 'strange' how it loads after character selection.. I know there's alot more stuff that's buggy, but as I know, you're still working on it.

 

Oh, I understand the reasoning behind it, I just disagree with the reasons that are slightly less close to the surface than the ones you bring up. But I'd rather not derail this topic. if you care to continue the discussion, PM me to ask wtf I'm on about.