Sonic 1 Brother Trouble

no, I've aways wanted at least one level that was made completely without the use of art from other levels, or music from other places, this is that level

 

ok looking at it now, yes it does seem to look like ristar's Soundtest in ways (strangely enough I hadn't noticed at the time), but it's actually meant to be sort of a "recreation" of Hydrocity Zone as it were, the Organ in the BG was added because I somehow think that a Catherdral just doesn't look like a Cathedral without one.

thanks SOTI, that means alot to me =)

 

Ok, so I was debating on whether I should let you all on an update or not, and decided to just go for it, YouTube clip time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJhGr5KZx50&fmt=18

As you all might have guessed by the clip, there have been a lot of improvements, fix ups and new stuff added to the recent Bro-Tro so far, so allow me to go through what's updated and what's new.

First thing you'll see is an improved map, with a Status Bar in the top showing you your score and lives, plus additional stuff telling you how good or shit you are at playing the hack =P, you may also be happy to know that there are now three acts and 1 boss act to every zone plus an extra area that says “Save/Load”, this will essentially take you to a save screen where there are 3 save slots including a No Save slot, now the way of how you access the save menu is actually quite handy as you are able to start a no save game, but later save your progress on a save slot if you for some reason change your mind and want to save after all, you are also able to change what slot you are playing without having to reset the entire game, special thanks go to Malevolence and TmEE for the explanations of SRam and how to use it.

Next thing that may come to mind is a new zone I previously posted pictures up before, but this time showing it in action, this zone is almost 100% original if it weren't for certain objects, this time I'm currently playing as manic for once, and you may notice something different about him, not only has there been a complete sprite change, but there's also an extra move enabling you to climb on walls (Similar to Knuckles in S3&K), with thanks to MKAmeX for making the 4 wall climbing sprites that look absolutely awesome.

Now, as far as bosses go, the first zone boss (although you can't see it currently now)
has in fact been changed to make things a little more difficult for you, however moving onto the next zone boss, you are able to see this one practically in full, and as I've been told by the beta testers it appears to be too fucking hard (This clip is proof that the boss is complete-able, so take that! =P), before anyone asks, the music in the background of the boss is a remix of BGM 09 in Rocket Knight Adventures.

There's a few other things that have been done, but I'd rather not discuss right now, that shall wait for another time, for the mean time, any suggestions on improvements are very well welcomed, please by all means don't hesitate to suggest anything or criticise in anyway, the more I know, the better.

Now most of the stuff present is all working reasonably fine thanks to the beta testers, mainly D.A.Garden and SonicVaan for finding a huge amount of bugs that I could fix, thank you guys, you've done a fantastic job so far, and a thanks to Malevolence, although you never got to program anything on the new boss, your ideas put into the new boss are great, so thanks for that =)

Onto the full credits so far:

General Beta Testers
-Pegasus
-UtopiaUK
-Lips
-CarrascoZX0

Debug Beta Testers
-D.A.Garden
-SonicVaan

Additional Manic wall climbing sprites
-MKAmeX

SRam Info Help
-Malevolence
-TmEE

 

I never really watched Sonic Underground very often, but when ever I did, I don't recall seeing him climb on any walls as such, I just decided to add it because I felt that Manic needed another unique move that could help him reach places of which sonic couldn't (Helps make seperate paths in levels)

 

yeah pretty much that second part, I wouldn't know where to go about finding code in S3&K let along port it =$