Sonic and the Secret Extended Edition

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=...654874796475821

It's hard to see because of the shitty quality of the video, but try to notice that while in the scrolling part, the screen's X position (first 4 numbers on the bottom row of debug numbers) is always 0Axx. So I succeeded to get the screen to scroll indefinately =D

Of course, since I know way less than I need to about sprites, I can't actually make the boss yet -_-

 

Well, it'll stay there till I figure out how to fix it. :P Interestingly, in Marble Zone 4 (I set the DSR so that it would assume you'd beaten the as yet nonexistant boss after the timer reached 1:15), the capsule works completely with no glitches.

I've also fixed up GHZ 3 and MZ 3, to add in some more level to make up for lack of a boss, and in the case of MZ I also made an extra path that you can take to avoid having to wait forever for the block to move across the lava.

Currently though, I'm trying to get the level transitions to work (I wonder if anyone's done this before? lol). It's a bit problematic, but I'm getting somewhere. For some reason, I get to a playable, object-less, and graphically glitched zone if I try to use the transition from the overworld, but if I try to use it from the end of a level (where it was actually meant to be), I get a red screen of death. How ironic.

I was wondering about that... although I'd much prefer being able to make my ideas work than have a green square under my avatar :P

 

Aw crap, I was hoping I'd be the first. :P Still, no matter. XD

It actually almost works now - all I need to do is to stop it re-fading in the palette, to remake the start of each non-act 1 level in SonED 2 so that it is the same as the end of the previous level, and to sort out the end level results screen (I just can't find what makes it fly off the screen in SBZ2) and the signpost.

 

It doesn't really matter. :P

I only have 2 problems left now. The first one is that some PLCs don't load when they should do, but I can probably fix this easily. The other one is with objects. The HUD is the only object I can keep on the screen between the previous level being unloaded and the next being loaded. This means that other objects disappear completely, and Sonic will warp to a new position once he reappears.

 

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Or I could delete that background and only use the other one, which would save making duplicate mappings all over the place.

As for the level transitions, I still have no idea how to fix the objects, but I might try a different approach...

 

I will be keeping Rings, Time and Lives. Only score will be removed while in the special stage.

That's IF I can get the object bugs fixed. :P

I'm now starting to import S3&K-style Sonic. Can anyone tell me if S3&K uses the same format for mappings as S1, and if so, where the mappings for Sonic are located in S3&K? If not, I'll just redo them from scratch.

EDIT: Screw that, the mappings are different. I'll redo them.