Sonic 1 and 2

That's huge. I didn't think that it could be stretched that far. Mind ya this kind of techno politics is really not my field.

 

This is truly one of the coolest ideas turned into an actual game mod that I've seen. A+ job on this!

 

Played to LZ2 through normal game. Sadly my SRAM got wiped, even though I already had 10 of the 13 emeralds (I really should directly click on the ROM while it's still in the archieve). It was the first game I played in a long time, where I honestly tried to get all emeralds though (the last one was Megamix v3 which is over a year ago).

What I played so far was amazing and at the same time not that special. I mean, sure, combining the two games into a single one is awesome, technically seen, as well as the gameplay. But it's basically the same two original games. The only difference I can see is that you can play with Tails as sidekick in S1 and play both Special Stages in both games.
The Arena Mode however saved your rating from a 9/10. It was truly amazing to play all the levels with a given time limit (even though I don't really get how that ranking system works, I played GHZ2 with about 30 seconds left, but it still showed F when it was selected again).

So, my rating would be 9.5/10 (yes I know, no real difference compared to 9/10, but at least it's bigger), because it's technically totally awesome, the way you did everything awesome, the Arena Mode is awesome, just the basic idea is a bit lame, since it's basically just the two games combined into one.

 

played through the whole thing and loved it, the only thing I would change (besides fixing the bugs) would be removing 6 of the Emeralds. They way I would take care of that is by pulling a Sonic 3D. Have both types of Special Stages, and their normal ways of activating them, but only with 7 total Emeralds (yeah you'd have to make a 7th Sonic 1 Special Stage)

 

That makes the game(s) too easy, though, and removes the purpose of half of the rings/posts in them. And why would he have to make a seventh stage for the first game, if players could just use a Sonic 2 one instead?

 

Great work here, gonna download and play. (:
Now all we need is Sonic the Hedgehog 1 and 2 and 3 & Knuckles.

 

Keep playing. You get a promotion after every fourth level.

 

That would be epic. Sonic Classic: the complete Saga

Maybe to cut out space in S3K you could remove bonus stages and make starposts entry into special stages like in Sonic 2

 

I'm no oldbie, so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the first time we've been able to play as Sonic and Tails in Sonic 1? And what about Super Sonic in Sonic 1?

Awesome hack, BTW! I love having both Special Stage entry methods (Giant Rings and Lamp Posts) active simultaneously, it feels like Sonic 3 (and the subsequent games) where there're Bonus Stages in addition to the Special Stages.

Sonic 2's engine handles quarter-curves differently, and also has the ground speedcap removed. It's amazing, but even minor engine modifications build up to huge differences in play. Remove the speedcap in Sonic 1 and watch the demos, you'll see what I mean. =P

 

I doubt that would save much space. Each bonus stage has only one map, so they probably don't take up much space, and how would changing the mode of entry make any difference?

 

You can definitely get S3K <3MB by removing shared data, taking out Competition mode and Blue Sphere (obviously keeping the special stages as they were). I believe it's possible to get Sonic 1 <400KB, and Sonic 2 <700KB, by removing unused data, and in the case of Sonic 2, 2P VS mode, although these are just estimated figures.

Sonic 1 will have to be heavily edited, in a similar way to how it has been here, to run on S3K's engine. Sonic 2 will need some tweaking too, but it should allow for the physics engine to be dropped from both of those games, along with the universal sound effects and unneeded music.

I think that should be more than enough trimming to fit it into 4MB.


EDIT: Hell, now I want to try it.

 

Make up for the lack of hidden rings in Sonic 1 or 2.

 

I hate to bring something else up, but playing as Tails alone, it's impossible to complete SBZ2. With the cutscene with the breakable floor, Tails doesn't go to SBZ3. He falls and actually wraps around to the ceiling, off screen. You can die by hitting into Robotnik, if you manage to get down to him (Which is possible), but it just loads SBZ2 again.

 

There are plenty of places to add hidden rings to Sonic 1 and 2. In fact, sometimes when going through the levels I see places that were practically designed for them, but instead replaced with an extra life or a series of ring boxes (or both).

 

That is true I can think of some places to add rings in Marble Zone and Mystic Cave at the very least

 

That's because nobody plays as Tails, at least not in Sonic 2. :v:

 

I could reach rank S a few times, but I can't seem to keep it for long. Apparently I'm awesome in certain levels, but I blatantly suck in other ones :v: