Sonic 1 - Dick Move Prevention Edition

Greetings ladies and gentlemen~

Are you tired of dick moves in Sonic games? Do you hate that you cannot see things off-screen? Are you unable to dodge things without lizard reflexes? Well fear no more!! Sonic 1 featuring a new revolutionary "Dick Move Prevention" mechanism, for all those pesky off-screen annoyances.

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"now i've seen everything... and that's the point!" - MegaGWolf
"Now we don't need to backport 16:9 aspect ratio to Mega Drive to make Sonic playable, you dumbasses" - Miss Fox
"are you trying to save VRAM that badly? :v" - Sik

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A special thanks to Natsumi for bug testing, while not entirely bug free, it is certainly better than its proto version.

 

While it's possible to do the whole hack, it'd be quite tedious and time consuming, so I'm afraid I won't be doing the other levels. The special stages especially would be of concern, it's possible, I mean, we could get around the 80 sprites limit, but the number of sprites per scanline limit would be an obstacle to overcome.

Yes, it'd be certainly possible to do a split screen of this, but I'm kinda busy with other things.

I initially started this back in 2015, handled the sprites side of it, but the level concerned me as to fusing four tiles into a single tile, especially when they can operate their own palette lines, priority, etc, not to mention the VRAM costs, it essentially put me off bothering, so I shelved it.

I only started it very recently because I came across it randomly while searching for something else, and that something else happens to be related to a project I should be working on.

 

Don't tempt me.