Sonic: Silver Edition

Shouldn't a release thread have a download link somewhere?

Impressive stuff anyway. I'm looking forward to play this.

 

I'm loving the title screen. That was probably the first thing that caught my eye. Though, if you really want attention for your hack, I suggest you do something unique with it, like something that would take mad ASM skills. But even though a good Sonic 1 hack now-a-days takes more than just art/palette/layout editing, this looks like it will be very good regardless. Keep up the good work, Jimp; I can't wait to play!

 

The title screen really caught my eye, the other little graphical tweaks held it. The palletes... not so much. I do like your MZ pallette, but I'm so tired of green hill's that are golden or orange or whatever. Keep up the good work though

 

Ordinarily I get sick of pallete hacks, but its nice to see you put in new monitor art/title screen changes/title card changes. Keep it up. And (this is almost obligatory from me now), maybe someday you can stomach creating new level art? Regardless, nice job. You went quite a bit further than most first time pallete hackers and I think you've got some real potential.

 

You're obviously good with palettes but try to make new level layouts later on and also some new art.
Great start though, this shows promise.
Title screen looks great, the silver effect looks really good.

 

I like it.

 

To me, this looks like a very good quality hack in-the-works. The palette changes alone have me interested in this project. I'm not much of a fan of the first Sonic the Hedgehog because of the palettes (and loads of other things, sorry, just how I am). You made Marble Zone look beautiful -- and Green Hill/Labyrinth/Spring Yard Zone are so cool on the eyes, it's very refreshing. I can't wait to see what you can do to levels -- it looks like you're very tedious with every aspect of ROM hacking.

Good luck, and I look forward to playing Sonic: Silver Edition!

 

I like this little feature. =P



In general I like the direction this is going - the palette is pleasing to the eye (although I do wonder if it will be just a touch bright on the real hardware) and the level changes are nice, although I do occasionally get that little sense of deja vu when I find a bit of the level that hasn't been changed. The dual-path stuff is nice, and something I felt was missing from the original GHZ1. I look forward to seeing more.

One last thing...



These spikes irritate me SO MUCH. You jump on the monitor, hit the single spike on the righthand side and bounce onto the spikes opposite and die because S1 has no spike bug fix.

 

This is looking pretty damn good. I like what you've done with LZ so far, and MZ act one plays really well (in particular, the area where you can get invincibility then run across the lava as the ceiling falls down).

I'd suggest for GHZ making some of the tiles (the checkered 'ceilings' under which you run at certain points, as noted in Quickman's screenshot) have more defined edges - right now they just look chopped off. It might create a sense of "multiple ledges" more effectively than simply throwing a blank tile inbetween.

 

There are some solidity issues in GHZ.
I happened to walk through walls several times.

 

Fix the spike bug. There was a patch for it somewhere. Or I can send it to you, just contact me on MSN.