Sonic Classic Heroes

I'm afraid you are!

I wish I had the technical knowledge to make a guess at this. But even without that, I'm impressed by the palette acrobatics people have managed to pull off recently: flamewing here, ColinC10 in Sonic 1 and 2, Tiddles for Sonic 3 Complete.

 

1, 4, or 5 look awesome.

 

Any chance of getting rid of all those extra zeros for the score? I know it's supposed to be like Sonic Heroes' score counter, but I hate having zeroes before the first digit that has an actual value in any context. + - Except for binary, but that's different.[/INSPOILER]  

 

+ - Classic games had one extra zero after the last digit of the score. Least score you can get is 10 as you may remember. So that doesn't really matter.  

 

I think the parachute looks fine, only that maybe you should make it a bit higher than it already is

 

On the topic of zeroes, is it possible to fill the leading zero in the score? And is it possible for the game to actually have a timing resolution of milliseconds. I ask because I wonder if both are redundant.

 

Dammit why do you never call me for these things.

 

I've always assumed they fell to the sea... for some reason.

 

This actually sounds quite awesome!

 

I find the parachute idea interesting... but why not just replace the turtle with another color of Flicky, or another flying animal?

 

Really happy to hear this actually.
The turtles thing sounds great too.


Two things this hack has made me notice:
1. I can not get enough of Emerald Hill. I just can't stop playing it, and when I get to the end I just play it again. Not only does the zone complement this hack so incredibly well, but this hack makes me really, really admire Emerald Hill's level design in its own right. It's like having all this three-way bouncing, homing, air-curling nonsense really increases the player's ability to feel out a level. Tl;dr - Just loving Emerald Hill tonnes more than ever before. I honestly wonder if any other classic zone with this hack would be so fun.

2. Some of the diagonal springs in Emerald Hill are very suspicious in that they land you right on top of a monitor. Why suspicious? Because thanks to this hack you can now curl up before landing, thus crack open the monitor and thus use all that spring's speed and height to get a free rebound into the stratosphere. Try the first diagonal yellow spring in act 2; don't press any direction, just curl up in the air. Two free bounces and in that particular area there is heaps to play with. I actually hit those 2 bounces, snaked down the gap to fall onto the quarterpipe leading left, rolled all the way left, got flung up in the air again, bounced several times more heading to the right on the badniks all around, actually made it past the vertical yellow spring without using it, bounced off yet another buzzer.... From start to finish look at the massive distance traveled in one long stretch of no-running classic physics. Or you know the life high up on some floating terrain with 4 Coconuts? You can again use a spring and recurl to bounce off a lightning shield all the way up there, then thanks to the shield's protection you've got another 5 bounces to pick up before dropping off the edge again and seeing what you find. Pretty cool.

I was actually against the idea flamewing implemented of Sonic being able to re-curl in the air from any state. For Tails and Knuckles it made sense, but for Sonic I felt that it wasn't right that he could enter his protected spinning state again without some ground to push off. But having discovered all the setups on offer from springs that just never existed before, I love it. It's better than the Tails + Knuckles fly, carry, huge drop, glide bounce manoeuvre.


Gotta say, this isn't just my favourite hack, this is a contender for my favourite classic Sonic game. The main hook of 3 characters, the Sonic 3 refinements in physics and controls, the small but great tweaks flamewing has made to the controls - all really fun. Big props to you flamewing for dabbling in the controls without stuffing things up and in fact making things simply funner.

 

But Flicky already has a net for that in his game, and would take less tiles.


Or else, (classic) Charmy. =P

 

That annoying piece of shit will ruin what is an otherwise epic hack. I'm for the Flicky with the net... whenever a Turtle falls, a Flicky can swoop down and catch him with a net, much like in his own original game.

 

I have no real opinion about the curling, but I don't know how I feel about the characters been able to use their mid-air moves even when they're not curled-up (I.e. Sonic can insta-shield off a spring, Knuckles can glide, etc.). It feels a bit weird and might make things too easy—although admittedly the core idea of the hack already does that to quite an extent. And obviously, the ability to re-curl in the air would make mid-air actions easier than they originally were anyway, even if the characters couldn't do them from springs and had to curl first (a trivial single button-press).

Just rambling as usual. Any opinions?