DeltaWooloo and SuperEgg presents: Do you like fish sticks? Do you like putting fish sticks in your mouth? Well, keep biting on those fish sticks because you'll need them as you play this incredible masterpiece of a ROM hack. Sonic 1 Fishsticks is a Sonic 1 ROM hack created by me (DeltaWooloo) and SuperEgg which aims to give you the best Sonic 1 experience possible. Explore South Island as you play one of the best well-structured, well-thought-out level designs. Jump over obstacles, destroy badniks and hey, do you notice a lot of traps everywhere? OK, maybe what I just said was an overstatement. This ROM hack will test your strength and ability to manoeuvre through the junk you hated in Sonic games/ROM hacks from the overuse of spikes to the iconic and most lovable badniks we all love and remember fondly. There are 7 levels to go through, and 6 emeralds to collect in each level (apart from the final one) which thankfully, you can keep if you die. As I was making this hack, I was a little lazy with the coding side of things and I haven't been bothered to fix the general Sonic 1 bugs. I'm referring to the infamous walk-jump bug and the classic spike feature (it's not a bug, fight me). They've been left intact within your journey which should be a benefit to your journey if you ask me. Level layouts aside, we even went ahead and made changes to the stinky blue rat himself by giving him a fresh makeover and using the sprites we all think are the definitive classic Sonic sprites out there (alongside having the best jumping sound effect (that being from Sonic CD)). He even has one neat move to go along with it, the spindash, see at least this ROM hack is being generous to you. There are also additional features that I'll let you read in-game. Whether they'll help you or not is something for you to find out. I don't want to spoil the fun. So, are you up to the challenge? Do you think you're really to keep biting those fish sticks down as you explore the wonders of this game? Get your controller out and explore the joy of playing such an aspiring and pleasant ROM hack! Spoiler: Bugs - shield stacking HUD doesn't clear if you lose all of your shields as it'll stay on the number 1 - there may be graphical glitches here and there (might be fixed in future updates) - gaining one shield gives you two extra hits (call it a feature if anything lol) - more bugs will be mentioned here as time passes Spoiler: Credits Project Leaders DeltaWooloo - the megamind who started this masterpiece SuperEgg - the intelligent bastard who collaborated with me to make this possible Playtesters SilviaFox Sock Team KC Battons TheJoebro64 gold lightning Special Thanks SilvaFox - made the idea of a Sonic 1 with dickish level layouts from one of my tweets (without her, this project wouldn't have even been created in the first place) Chron D - port used in SLZ (Cirno's theme from Megamari) CHRdutch - SBZ2's layout Giovanni, Scrap Sorra, DaxKatter, ArcaniaCQ, pixelcat, Inferno, CHRdutch - all of them suggested ideas to make the levels a lot saucier External Assets KC - custom S3K-styled Sonic 2 waiting and balancing frames Smoke-The-Pyroling - custom S3K-styled waiting/lying down sprites Sonic3Expanded - custom S3K-styled Sonic 1 ending sprites (sadly they go unused here) ProjectFM - Sonic 3K object and rings manager vladikcomper - MegaPCM, water skimming code and Advanced Error and Debugger ValleyBell - SMPS Converter and SMPS Research Pack Ivan YO - vgm2smps Clownacy - Sonic CD SFX in ASM format Cinossu/flamewing - SMPS2ASM flamewing - UltraDMAQueue and Kosinski+ Filter - Knuckles Chaotix Nemesis decompression and sound driver optimizations SCHG/SonicRetro/SSRG - general Sonic 1 bug fixes/optimizations devon - Sonic CD Spindash port Naoto - extended camera port DOWNLOAD THE ROM HERE!
I found another bug: it seems that fragments left behind by smashable walls never seem to delete themselves, so they just keep falling forever, taking up precious object RAM space.
Oh yeah - Thanks. I remember finding a similar issue during development where the falling blocks in Labyrinth don't delete themselves but fall indefinitely and loop back to the top of the screen instead increasing its y velocity. If I ever get back to this hack, I'll fix it in an update.
It's joeover. Sonic 1 Fishsticks didn't win. I commend everyone for playing the hack though. It was funny seeing all of you + - die to the first Eggman monitor in GHZ. But it doesn't mean I'll give up - I'm currently in the process of making Sonic 2 Fishsticks and should hopefully release next year if I don't procrastinate like we all do.
