Sonic 3C(ustomizable)

As I said, I'm not adding any more characters after Amy. I also have no idea what "the black shield" is.

If you want to go to the effort of finding a whole ~200 sprites for him and aligning them up perfectly in SonMapEd I'd be happy to code a patch to replace Amy's slot with him, but I can't be bothered to do all the sprite work involved in getting Amy in the game a second time and there simply isn't room for a fifth character. There are four sets of character art in S3K big enough to hold a full character: S&K Sonic, S&K Knuckles, S3 Sonic and S3 Tails - so Amy will overwrite S3 Sonic's art.

She can jump over Knuckles' boulder to go into Knuckles' route, or she can stay still to go into Sonic's route.

Amy isn't in the original game, so how can I replace her with anyone? Assuming you meant "who do you plan on replacing with Amy", she's going to be added to the game, replacing the unreferenced S3 Sonic art as I mentioned above.

The "Sonic 3 and Knuckles redundancy edit" you mention rings a bell, but what you seem to not understand is that in this version I can't reorganize areas of the ROM on a whim. The patch system has been designed so that you can apply a patch from the current release to any future release and it should still work (the other way around probably won't work though, because most patches simply enable/disable code that's already present in the ROM release, rather than add code themselves). Plus, I want to keep compatibility with S2K and hopefully at one point make it possible to have a true S1K lockon - so that in other words you could take apart a genuine S&K cartridge, replace the ROM chip with that from a flashcart storing my S&K ROM (if that was technically possible, which it should be but I'm no hardware expert), lock on Sonic 1 and be able to play as Sonic, Tails or Knuckles with all their abilities.

 

So, after the annoying task of splitting the Sonic 3 ROM and compacting a bunch of copypasted player code to free up space so that I can finally start coding Amy, we get... Red Sonic!



Who can apparently stick to walls with his feet!

yeah =P I'm basing Amy's code from Knuckles' rather than Sonic's, because a) all the shared subroutines are in Sonic's code and b) Sonic has a crapload of Super checks and Knuckles doesn't.

And yes, she does have the correct sprites for walking and running, but she uses the wrong palette so her eyelashes are an ugly shade of green.

Edit:



I'm sorry, what?

 

Getting there.

Most of Amy's sprites are in now, and her ground hammer attack is in (but her air one isn't yet).

Still, I'm sure every hacker around here has seen what happens when you forget to check the hitcounter byte when destroying enemies:

 

Amy's attacks are pretty much perfected now, she can hit enemies and bosses, and you can chain together successful air attacks (if you don't hit anything, you have to wait til you land and jump again to attack again); you also get a period of invulnerability after a successful attack (to stop cheap "both objects get hurt" situations happening). Now I just need to let her break open monitors, smash walls, fix the garble that appears when she finishes an act (she needs a signpost frame, a life icon and an "AMY" text for the results screen) and put a few remaining unimportant animations (e.g. pushing, dying) in.

The sprites for her air attack are pretty shit at the moment though - since that was just me rotating her arm around in mspaint. :v: If anyone wants to redraw them be my guest. The dozens of rotating sprites (not including jumping off springs, because her spring launches and normal jumps will both use the same animation of jumping, reaching the peak of the jump and then falling) will just have to stay as pink Sonic until some fine spriter is kind enough to draw those, as there's no way I can do that and you hardly see them anyway. =P

Obviously the other things that I need to do are to add her as an option to the data select screen (currently I've been doing it through level select) and play through the levels to make sure nothing goes horribly wrong in Knuckles' paths (apparently, the game thinks that anyone who isn't character 03 is Sonic, which has already caused a few problems for Knuckles plus Tails which I've put in slot 04).

 

Never too late to make a suggestion, but no. I always hated how Tails couldn't go super with only the Chaos Emeralds. When I'm done rearranging the character code like mad (I spent more time making space for Amy's code than actually writing it!) all characters will have both super and hyper forms like Sonic and Knuckles. There'll be a patch to make Tails and Amy need all 14 emeralds, though.

Nope. I need a signpost frame as well, and a life icon. =_= If you're volunteering, go right ahead! You can get the palette from that SonMapEd screenshot I posted earlier, or here's the binary version.

Sure.