Sonic: Project Chaos v2.5

Very good hack there StephenUK. I can't wait to play the final version, once it's complete.

A bug I noticed, which hasn't been mentioned already, occurs when you warp to a different timezone. When you enter the new time zone after the flash has occured and Sonic is standing at the lamp-post, Sonic's sprite is all messed up. At least until you press left or right or jump.

 

Excellent hack, Stephen. My only question is "What happens to all the other stuff from the previous release?"

 

Yay, it now runs on a real Genesis. A couple of notes, though:

The results screen looks weird. It's using the original charset for all but the O and N in the big text, and of course your HUD changes propogate here, but you still have original Sonic-2 style "BONU" and "TOTAL".

Also, when Sonic is running and is at a 45-degree angle, his sprite doesn't quite hug the ground, so it looks like he's "jittering".

 

Hahah, this mod's great!

 

Hey, just for fun I made a picture of Green Hill Bad Future.

http://img427.imageshack.us/my.php?image=g...adfuture6hf.png

What do you think? You can use it if you want.

 

Here is the collision bug, only occurs in the future.

http://www.homestead.com/specialvegetadays...es/other/pc.png

 

I also notice that, in debug, the millseconds continue to count after the clock is supposed to stop. You might want to enable the milliseconds only when debug is not active, since it's kind of meaningless with debug, anyway.

 

Bug: If you collect speed boots, then use Sonic Speed Boost, the speed boots stop working, but the music is still sped up.

I love the way all the ring boxes give you a random amount of rings, too.

 

Perhaps the speed boots could be scrapped completely in favor of a new and more useful monitor? By the way, I would change the "boost" button to "B" instead of "A". It would make gameplay a bit less awkward, and more similar to the Mario games and many other platformers.


Then perhaps you could map a special move to the A button, such as Chaos Control when playing as Shadow (for each 50 rings or something), and something else for the other characters. Hmm... perhaps you could even use the 2 Player teleport effect for that.



Oops, I'm thinking too much.

 

I think that'd be pretty useless, unless it worked on bosses. Most badniks aren't enough trouble to be worth spending 75 rings on. :P

 

Maybe the Chaos control could stop time as well? You could make Shadows Levels all have a strict time limit.

Edit: And perhaps replace the shoe monitor with a monitor that would add 10-20 seconds to the time.

 

Now that would be interesting, with Shadow being able to stop time and Sonic being able to boost. Needless to say, the characters would have to be balanced enough so their best times would be similar.


Say, this could make for a quite amazing 2 Player mode. If it was easy to implement, which I know it's not, sadly.

 

I just went into Hill Top and got complete shit.

 

I must say, though, there's something I don't like from this mod, and that's Sonic's graphics. =\

I think it would have looked better just leaving the Sonic 2/3 graphics alone, Sonic's feet don't look too good when walking (for example, you can clearly see both of his soles when walking, which would mean both shoes are slighthly facing to the camera?). Plus, the green eyes look a bit amateur-ish, with just one shade of green (which might be too bright for the way it's used, by the way).

The sprites in the original games featured a great use of each of the color tones for the shading, and that's something sprite edits seem to lack, usually.




Also, is it me or do those blue colors look a bit wierd when applied to Sonic 3's graphics?