Sonic 1 - Emerald Power : By LOst and Fiz

...um, my muscle mass is dense....yeah....right....I just look weak. :P

 

Your HEAD is what is dense, if you're picking a fight with Fiz.

 

You want to see me take LOst or you on, I just want to see you take it off! :o!

 

"Round 1....Fight!"

There's an idea for some new art, Fiz.

 

lol :D

 

New version available! Now with no bugs, new ending, parallax scrolling backgrounds, and much much more.


DOWNLOAD:
http://www.logotypes.se/sonic/S1_EMERP.BIN

 

No bugs eh? What do you call this then?

 

Blame Yuji Naka for that one

 

That new thing in the title screen looks very cool... But the new "emerald invincibility" looks a bit odd since it's not touching Sonic, and it disappears when you get an invincibility monitor.

Also, I've noticed that some emeralds have changed places for the worst... Putting emeralds in the middle of a lava pit is kind of silly, and at least one of the most challenging emeralds from Marble Zone is not hidden anymore...

Maybe it would be possible to add an emerald detector that would beep when an emerald is near (on screen)? That way, the emeralds could stay hidden so they would still be a challenge for the pros, and also they wouldn't be impossible to find for the new players.


About the way Sonic exits the stages, if you want to force the players to find all three emeralds you could make the stage a bit shorter so the boss or end of level can't be reached, and when you get the last emerald, after calling the emerald power and reaching a certain speed, you could use a modified "warp" object that doesn't allow Sonic to return and then the "end of level" function. That would make it a bit Sonic CD-ish.

 

Gah. At least it's woking :P

I just finished it with all the emeralds. Worked like it should. Very nice (hot) ending with boob pix and all

 

You must have changed the priority on Sonic's object there, since he's in front of the title screen...

...wait. Wasn't that a function of the sprite limit? How'd you 'fix' it?

 

It can't be fixed! Sprite limit is a hack in Gens

 

That's why I was curious - in Gens, IIRC, the sprite limit is emulated correctly on a standard S1 ROM, right?

Yet another reason we need a cycle-exact Genesis emulator with a frame size roughly equal to the entire signal, and not just the 320x224 screen itself.

Of course, it'd be slow as hell, but that's the way to get true accuracy.

Right now, I prefer Kega for full-resolution interlace, and the (IMO) more accurate YM emulation. Although I will be using DebuGens of course, for the debugging tools. Perhaps fuzzbuzz could work with Steve to help port those debugging aids to Kega, once he's done adding them to Gens?

 

Possibly...um, if I got to know Steve.

 

Steve, the man behind Kgen. Well you can always try.

 

Is a great hack. Congratulations, Fiz and Lost!

But I've a problem... I can't obtain the first emerald in Star Light 1

It is really obtainable?