Sonic: The Lost Worlds

Yea, just the new zones, in this order (slight change from before):

Desert Zone
Rock Zone
Wood Zone
Winter Zone
Hidden Palace Zone
Casino Night Zone
Cyber City Zone

I always just went to level select on Sonic 2 Delta and Long Version so when I decided to make this I figured since there's 7 zones, that was enough to make a whole game instead of an extended Sonic 2. Plus, I didn't want the number 2 in the title.

Oh, and thanks for the comments everyone!

 

It's interesting you brought that up, I was just looking at what bosses to use yesterday. Here's the bosses I was thinking about using:

Desert Zone - Aquatic Ruin Zone Boss
Rock Zone - Hill Top Zone Boss
Wood Zone - Emerald Hill Zone Boss
Winter Zone - Metropolis Zone Boss
Hidden Palace Zone - Mystic Cave Zone Boss
Casino Night Zone - Casino Night Zone Boss
Cyber City Zone - Final Boss

That seems like it should fit pretty good, but there could be changes. I didn't think about making new bosses. If I decided to do that, I'm assuming I'd have to switch over to a dissassembly cause right now this hack is done in hex. Actually, the final copy of this hack isn't being touched with anything except the Visual C++ hex editor and FixCheckSum. (SonED2 and TLP for graphics, mappings, and layouts.) Has anyone made new bosses in their hack yet?

 

Yea, Emerald Hill's boss might not be the best for Wood Zone, but there's not many choices left. Maybe Oil Ocean's boss could work if I change that part of the level to be 3 trees with spaces in the middle or something. The only other option I can think of is maybe to flip Wood Zone's boss with Winter Zone's boss.

Exactly. Plus, the arrows that fly from the totem poles match, since I'm using the arrow shooters in Desert Zone. And yep, there's lava in Rock Zone. It's edited lava from Metropolis Zone.

 

Remember how I said I might finish this hack over summer if I didn't have any more delays? Well guess what? DELAYS! This semester of college took a lot of time and there was about 2 months with very slow progress. But now I've been on summer vacation for about a month and I've been working on this more. I added more sprites to the list of what will be used in each zone. Some of the sprites have new art and new palettes. I also got more level layouts done. I did layouts for Winter Zone and Hidden Palace Zone.

Here's Winter Zone in action:


This shot of Hidden Palace Zone should look familiar:


And here's the end of that water slide:


Next is Cyber City and Casino Night and then I'll be going through and adding the ring and sprite layouts for each level.

 

It's been a while since the last update. There were a few months with almost no progress because of college and stuff. But in the last few weeks I've been getting a lot more done on this.

I finished the floor layouts for Cyber City and Casino Night zones. Actually, Casino Night layouts from the Sonic 2 Beta are almost the same as in the final so it was more about fixing anything that wasn't done. Desert Zone is now Dust Hill Zone since we know it's the true name now.

Cyber City Act 1 is modified from Metropolis act 3 since we know that was how its layout was reused but don't worry, it's not going to play the same as Metropolis 3. Act 2 is all original and has lot's of different paths to take. I also made some adjustments to the art and palette. Hopefully it looks better now.

Cyber City:



Some of the other levels got little fixes for where the boss fights take place. So, now all of the level floor layouts are done and I'll be starting on ring and sprite layouts soon.

Right now I'm working on placing the bosses in the levels. I did the event scripts and now I have the edit the code for the bosses so they show up in the right spot. Another thing I'll have to do is layer deformation.

I should be able to get a lot done over this winter break. Maybe by this next hacking contest I'll have this finished. I can't say for sure but the chances are better than they were last year.