Sonic the Hedgehog: The Lost Land 2

Jesus. Calm down people. We're all entitled to beign assholes and have our work bashed more than it deserves.

Quickman, I'd like to see you make a hack. You have pleanty of insight about what makes hacks bad, if you tried you could make a good one.

 

Can anyone mirror it for me? Thanks very much!

 

That's the problem. I've got my opinions, but the well of ideas runs dry as a bone.

 

OK, the timer's screwed, it's countin' down the minutes as seconds, 10 seconds = dead.

The checksum wasn't OK, I had to fix it.

The HUD was messed up on certain zones - I take it this is one of the bugs?

The character start points need to be adjusted for several zones also, the character drops down onto the ground - I guess that's another of those bugs?

I could say more if it wasn't for the timer cock-up.

And the level selct text looks fine in-game.

 

And...it...trickles...down...the...pipe...one...byte...at...a...time...

Five minutes to 1337 o'clock.
Four minutes to 1337 o'clock.
Three minutes to 1337 o'clock.

Summary: everything is messed up. Art, timer, level loading, title card... it's all screwed up. What works is quite nice though - ingame I will agree the level select background is more manageable, the Press Start looks a little naff. Many many many many bugs.

 

yeah it has its bug but its just owns...
hope that you can fix the problems.

 

Heh, didn't I tell you about the fuxed timer? :P

I'll try helping you fix it though. We'll run through xeno's instructions again, eh? =P

 

SF, it messes up in Genecyst as well. I think GENS is the problem; It's accepting incorrect code and processing without problem.

 

Really? Guess we should revise the code then. Got a link to his topic?

 

Alternate Link, E&RE Archives.

Ambil: Mind disassembling for us? =P

 

Let's get the final word - nevermind emulators, what does the hardware do besides puke? If it doesn't run on hardware you really screwed up somewhere.

EDIT: And if you're making ASM hacks it's far better to disassemble, edit and recompile. You might also enjoy taking a look at the Megaplay timer which is optimised to counting down rather than just reversing the commands.

 

The timer does work fine in Gens.

Anyway, criticism!

The level select screen is nice, but the text could stand out more. Maybe consider adding a 1pixel shadow around it to make it stand out more? I mean, it's definitely readable, but not ideal.

On Charcoal cape zone, the water in the background is too close to the same colours Sonic uses, in my opinion, and it makes it look... well, a bit weird. My opinion though, your choice as to whether you change it or not.

Whenever I complete a level, for some reason parts of the surrounding scenery dissapear. I don't know why this happens, but maybe something you could look into?

Starlit shrine, I love. Did you do some of the artwork yourself? If so, wonderful work! My one criticism is that the clouds look a little too bright for it to be... well, starlit. But hey, yet again, my opinion.

I loved your SCZ, it's awesome.

Nice release, despite the bugs.

 

The sprites do seem too bright for many of the levels.

 

I've solved the problem of the screwed up timer, and now have the code that'll work in both Gens and Kega. I've altered the code to compare words instead of bytes, and changed a couple of values as well to make it work perfectly.

Code (Text):

1. //check if time is 0:00 before updating (for starposts)
2. 0C380000FE2266140C380000FE24660C
3. ****            ****
4. //copy 9 to mins, 59 to secs, if the above is true
5. 31FC003CFE2431FC000AFE22
6.      ****        ****
7.  
8. //restarts the seconds at 59 after reaching 00
9. 0C380000FE2531FC003BFE254EF900040E18
10. ****    ****    ********
11.  
12. (**** indicates incorrect code/data)

now becomes:

Code (Text):

1. //check if time is 0:00 before updating (for starposts)
2. 0C780000FE2266140C780000FE24660C
3. ^^^^            ^^^^
4. //copy 9 to mins, 59 to secs, if the above is true
5. 31FC3C3CFE2431FC0009FE22
6.      ^^^^        ^^^^
7.  
8. //restarts the seconds at 59 after reaching 00
9. 0C780000FE2431FC3C3CFE244EF900040E18
10. ^^^^    ^^^^    ^^^^^^^^
11.  
12. (^^^^ indicates corrections to code/data)

There isn't a great deal of difference, but I'll update my posts on all forums where this info is available. Gens (and Gens+) must be more forgiving of slight errors in code. In future, I'll try and test my hack/code on both emulators.

Hope this sorts things out, Shadowfire!

 

I did the art for him for Starlit Shrine. Didn't take too long to be honest, considering 90% of the art is existing game art. I think only the grass and a couple of other things are actually my own work. I used to make art for people on request, but I stopped doing that not long ago coz now I've got a shitload of art to do for myself and I haven't got the time.