Sonic 2 LD

I'm last.


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Can I try again?

 

That's probably because they already use it for Genesis stuff. I have already played the hack in Dega (needed something lightweight to try it at my in-laws') and MEKA (wanted to take a peek at the tiles and palettes), in addition to Kega.

I'm a terrible player, I'd be ashamed to be part of a high score table... =)

 

Are we gonna get a completed episode 1 before we see an episode 2?

 

You gotta fix the fish. I keep jumping into them thinking I can attack them. Also, if you can, try to implement spikes that go up and down like in the 16-bit game.

 

6. Ramps, if these aren't workable in some fashion then in future casino night zone will be dreadful.
7. Bottom spikes pointing upwards, redraw them to match the collision data, at the moment they are too short.
8. Not as important but having the speed shoes give you stars is annoying because you run into things without thinking.
9. If possible force Pal on loading, for some reason NTSC makes things choppy and slow in places (tested in 3 emulators).

To be honest I don't think people mind too much how long it takes, but the release is confusing, I've been reading through the entire thread since the first post 2 years ago and I'm still not 100% on what you are doing.

In my understanding you are thinking of doing one of these three:

1) releasing episodes, first as beta, then with improvements, and after all those are done you are releasing a full Rom of sonic 2 LD, with all levels

2) you're releasing the zones one at a time AS betas, with the improvements in the full release with all the levels together?

3) Just episodic releases with no full Rom.

I hate giving feedback like this, it always feels like I'm nitpicking at someones hard work.

 

Yeah, I sent one using Regen v0.97. Overall the hack was very enjoyable, so much that I played it 3 times through.

I look forward to the other episodes.

 

Fixed enemies and music are the things I'd like to see most. Spindash would be nice, but I'm used to not having it on the MS version of Sonic 2 anyway.

 

The main points that concern me, at the moment, are Sonic's movement routines and the collision data. The former concerns me the most. The sms engine has no concept of angular momentum which means that loops & curves have to use hard coded positioning data. As noted previously, this is going to cause problems with levels like CPZ and CNZ.

I'd say that's coming along nicely! I had a stab at it myself but my musical ability leaves a lot to be desired (unfortunately ).

 

I'm interested to know whether it'd be possible to also create replica titlecards, sound effects and HUD as the 16 bit version.

 

This I approve of.

EDIT: So much so, I converted it to MP3. MP3 lovers rejoice!

EDIT: It's working again

 

Just a thought, because Sonic 1 SMS had far more accurate sound effects, would it be possible to copy those over to this game?

 

<3 and I had to play it another 3... That just made my night.