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Hi all!

It's been a few weeks since I've uploaded "Sonic - Into the Void" onto Sonic Retro, and I thought I'd break the ice and share the love, by telling you about my hack in a bit more detail and the funny history of it.





The story behind it all is this:

(Note: This story takes place directly after Sonic Generations.)

After Classic Sonic celebrates his 20^th birthday with Modern Sonic and friends, Classic Sonic and Classic Tails jump into a portal which leads them into the Void. Both era's Eggmans are stuck in the White Space, however they accidentally stumble upon an opening to the Void, seeing Classic Sonic and Tails soaring across. The Eggmans fire their laser pistols through the opening, hoping to hit Sonic and Tails, but their attempt failed and hits the Void. The Void then becomes highly aggravated and unstable, which splits Sonic and Tails up and sends them to their own time. However, expecting to return to his own time, Sonic ends up what seems to be Green Hill Zone, but he could see something was wrong. Green Hill Zone has transformed into a place called Midnight Aurora Zone. Due to the disturbance in the Void, the Time Continuum for Sonic has been completely distorted. Sonic thinks that maybe collecting all 6 Chaos emeralds will restore the Time Continuum, but he does also notice that all these events involving travelling through generations and the Time Eater seem oddly connected in a diabolical way...

ALL WILL BE REVEALED ON MAY 12^TH 2014!


Sounds exciting? Well you'll have to wait.

Anyway, now let me tell you about the funny history of where this hack once began.

On November 2012, my curiosity took over me after playing so many Sonic hacks, and I decided to create a hack. Originally, the hack was going to be just a mere palette and level layout mod hack. On February 2013, my laptop needed a memory clean up, and you know what I'm about to say... I accidentally, permanently deleted my hack, and so from that moment on I gave up doing a Sonic Hack.

Later in the year, about June, I got over the horrific incident in February, and I thought lets try again. Similar to the previous build, my hack was just a palette and level edit hack. In July, the first version was finally complete and released on YouTube only. The next release update only consisted of a couple of minor tweaks to the levels, so that was released right at the end of the same month. Then from that release I was looking at some of the guides from Sonic Retro about editing the game itself, so from that point onwards, Sonic-Into the Void became an ASM edit hack as well, plus new artwork was included. After 3 weeks, a massive update was released, known as (v2.4), which was released on YouTube and also Vizzed.com and contained masses of noticeable differences, and the HUD and Title Cards was changed from the original style to a more square-like font, and on Vizzed.com, this release is currently rated at 9/10. Almost 2 months later, a further update was released which contained some more level and object changes, and is also rated at 9.4/10 on Vizzed.com. We now move onto the currently released version (v3.0) which is another complete overhaul from the previous release, and the HUD and Title Cards took on a font based upon Sonic 3's style, but still it is my own creation.

OK so you've learnt the history of my hack, now its time to actually play it!
You can also see the NEW art what is included for the 4th and final major release on the hack's page, but because I'm so kind, I'll show a few screenshots with the zone names.

(v1.0) Midnight Plains - (v2,4) Dark Plains - (v4.0) Midnight Aurora





(v1.0) Magma Prison (v2.4) Magma Ruins (v4.0) Ember Gardens





(v1.0) Spring Mountain (v2.4 +) Pinball Pike





(v1.0 +) Hydroruin





(v1.0) Neggalopolis (v4.0) Moonlight Road





(v1.0) Egg Machine (v2.4) Death Gadget (v4.0) Delta Base





Here's the link on Sonic Retro:
http://info.sonicret...c-Into_the_void