Sonic and the Secret Extended Edition

Hey! Great job so far! That said, I wish you good luck on fixing the rest and the other zones. :P

 

Could you just upload it somewhere or add it to the wiki? Thanks.

 

Having never played your hack before, I decided to take time with it and play it throughout as much as possible. I am impressed, however surprised at the same time in both good and bad ways, to describe you hack would be technically impressive, yet buggy. So, where the begin? right at the beginning I think.

The splash screens were pretty decent, and having that second screen pull out into the title screen I found to be nicely presented, with title screen's background image that scrolls along being nice touch, I found it to be a great welcome into the game, I also enjoyed to music too. The character select screen, the way that it would scroll up shifting the title screen out the way was pretty awesome, however I couldn't help notice glitches with your select screen, such as a blue knuckles and score data presenting as if a game was already played, I also found that I'd get different results depending on emulator it is currently being played on.

So, starting the game with Sonic. A sort of over world map presented in front of me with different zones to be played on, I enjoyed that. The design for it is pretty nice, however the background appears to be glitchy, I'm not sure if it's suppose to look like that or not which explains why I'm only assuming. The way that you select the zone to play is fun and cool, but I often found I had to reposition the character correctly before pressing down to get onto the zone, which is kinda annoying in my opinion.

The levels, I'll start with the first obvious thing, the sprites seem to be ported well, including an air bubble which I seemed to have obtained automatically from start (Intentional?). Upon jumping with that air bubble however, it appears to present it's self upside-down. The HUD looks nice although the RINGS, when red, appear 1 pixel lower which looks slightly odd but the stars, assuming they're the number of lives, that's cool and different, I liked that. Deformation and level design seem VERY odd, the BG clouds to GHZ look scrambled, and sometimes the draw code fucks up, but meh, I can over look that =P

Now certain things came to mind like the S Bends, for some reason they seem to cause collision or object position glitches, you might wanna look into that, but the act transitions were cool. The level's layout seemed to fit nicely the way it looked, but not the way they played in some areas. When I got to the boss, I thought it was cool to have to work my way up to the boss before the fight, but I did find it frustrating the way the objects were placed and the screen's auto-movement pushing me, and the spike's art was pretty glichy in the beginning (I'm assuming it's due to the time it takes to decompress the art before presenting, so I over looked that a tad).

The boss fight was fun in ways, having the ball drop and bounce around after a certain amount of hits, was unexpected and challenging (Robotnik's art doesn't seem to fit the palette me thinks =P), the prison capsule doesn't look so fun to press when it's standing on the end of a level chunk, where upon pressing the button can result in death, missed a piece out?

OK, I got to LZ in the end and a nice idea to start it underwater, but the level appears the glitch for a short period of time before correcting it's self, also Sonic seems to be able to jump extremely higher than normal to begin with lol. But apart from the usual glitches which I also noticed in GHZ, it turned out OK. The spindash (Before I forget to mention) I think there's something up with that, something about it feels incorrect, maybe that fact that the Screen's stall position fucks up a bit might have something to do with it.

I think I'll stop here for now, I found the hack to be interesting and fun in ways, but major glitchy, I hope you manage to fix those bugs in due time. Otherwise, awesome work =)

 

Its very good, couple of things I noticed that I don't think are known bugs.

If you spindash on a bridge then have chopper hit you from under, sometimes Sonic will exit his spindash but still have the dash animation then later preform the dash.

Boss seems to eject you away when you hit, therefore during the build up part of the level you can get ahead of him jump on top then he will take you nearly to the top of the level but as he stops and waits for you to enter from the right. He will stop you can kill him then the screen locks but you can never get to the top now.

Using Kega Fusion I started the game with a huge score, huge amount of lives, all emeralds and lighting shield. This was for Sonic, Knux, the Tails slot and also the 4th slot that has no name as it puts rings in the hud :P

Only played GHZ.

 

Having invincibility and 50 rings transforms you into super sonic.

 

yeah, I got a big monitor and I was temporarily transformed into Super Big Sonic. That may be the intended behaviour or not, but I thought I'd report that :v

 

The screen goes badly wrong if you stand still as mini-knuckles:



Everything else appears normal, albeit it's nigh-impossible to see anything

 

No idea how to record GMV, and there's a small possibility I did 'triple jump' as I broke the monitor but if it happened I was unaware. And I believed he was super big sonic because he donned super sonic's palette as he changed into big sonic for a brief moment of time.

 

Gens_Rerecording

 

Seems to be some very strange things going on with object loading, at least in GHZ2. I'll make some gmv's later of it. Another thing, I died in a bottomless pit with the fire shield in GHZ2, (coincidentally due to this odd object loading) and kept the shield upon the level reloading.

 

Went to make GMV, I was little incorrect in what I said. Its really easy to recreate.
The bridge works normal if your walking on ground then walk onto the bridge. However, if you jump and land on the bridge it will stay straight and doesn't dip. Because of that collision starts to go all weird and when your in the build up for spindash you can press left/right and move out of it. Thats when this bug happens.

Ill still make GMV if needed.