"Multi-Layered" Parallax in Sonic 1?

HTZ in S2 has the same effect. I'm sure it could be done in S1 if you know ASM well enough.

 

You certainly can do it. What the game does is just changing the tile graphics as the scroll moves. Mushroom Hill and the gumball bonus stages also have this effect.

 

In other words it's an animated pattern, much like the oil in Oil Ocean or the tubes in Metropolis -- actually it's more like the backgrounds in some of the later levels of Headdy which have a similar effect that isn't based on horizontal position.

Actually pretty much all the stages in S3K have the effect somewhere.

 

If you take a look at Hill Top, you'll see that the section that scrolls "behind" the big mountain tops actually just wraps around itself. Every pixel that disappears from the left side will reappear on the right. It's arithmetic they do that draws it differently depending on the camera position.

This could absolutely be done in the original Sonic the Hedgehog. Now how to go about doing it is a different question altogether, and it's one I don't have the answer to. But it's definitely possible without a single doubt.

 

Yes it is 100% possible, just to prove we aren't bullshitting you, here's a small proof of concept:

http://www.2shared.com/file/6426136/4f8ed876/s1built.html

Play MZ act 1 please and observe.

EDIT: Apologies for the messed up graphics, couldn't be bothered to fix it

 

I haven't really decided on whether it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make just yet, I guess you'll have to wait until I'm sure that I wont get my arse kicked for giving out such coding =(

 

I'll asume you think it's due to the animated tiles in MZ XD, funny enough no, I used MZ because on a blank DisASM I need to sepereate the title screen art and the GHZ art and patch the GHZ arts 1 & 2 together, couldn't be bothered to do all that just to get a point through, so I went for the next zone, however it would be a great place to start, seeing at it already has animated tiles designed for that level, but it will take abit of moding to get it to read the camrea's X position other than a continusly running timer (Edit: TWO continusly running timers if I'm not mistaken), anywho, I'll leave you to it. good luck!

 

Definitely awesome!
I hope can see this code available for us soon. But yeah, this appears be hard to work on in a very detailed background.
Well, is great to see that this thing is possible.

 

I always wondered how they faked the parallax scrolling in Sonic 3 and Knuckles. It's actually a lot simpler than I imagined it was.

Not to derail the topic, but I've also been wondering how the water surface effect is done in Hydrocity and Launch Base, in places where you can see the water surface stretch into the background.

 

Tets: http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?s=&...st&p=276281
Same deal, tiles overwritten in real time.