Sonic Quick Winter Adventures

I knew the boss is too hardcore from the beginning, but that was the best I could do for such short time. Disabling his counterattacks would make him boring, the game would be less interesting.
BTW this is my first custom boss. =)

The same was in original Sonic games, I didn't make it.
Also, you can't pick up rings for a few seconds after Sonic was hurt, but not during the whole flashing time.

Yeah, my Homing Attack is buggy. Sometimes it targets wrongly. I'm going to redo it.

 

I wasn't sure if I should show this or not, but I've finally decided.

The work I'm going to show is currently in Russian (yeah, I've trasnlated my hack to Russian), that's why I wasn't sure about this. Unfortunately, I can't translate it to English until all the work about hack is done.

So, I've made a new video of upcoming Sonic Quick Winter Adventures 2. I'm so glad I finally can show all the features I've been working on for several months.

Firstly, I've made some new bosses for the hack. Evil Sonic was completely remade from the ground up, you'll also see an uncompleted mini-boss in MZ.

Secondly, the music. I've finally started learning music hacking =P (I hadn't time to do it for a long time)
SQWA now uses new jman's DAC-driver, with more samples added. Some samples, like Kick and Snare, were replaced, that's notable when listening to music. Also, there are some new music ports in the hack. I'd like to thank Jet (he's not on the forums though) for main menu theme which is music port from Megaman: The Wily Wars. Other new songs are mine, they're generally XM2SMPS ports featuring Sonic Advance music.

You'll see the rest of new features when watch the video, so... enjoy! ^_^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDHSAh4BgVE

P.S.: I was making this post in a hurry, so there can be lots of grammar mistakes. =P

 

That's not intentional. I've probably broken something after some experiments with the sound driver. I'll attempt to fix it.

 

Yeah, music in my hack is not really impressive, that's because I still don't have enough time and experience to do good music ports (as seen on the latest video, there are only two of them currently). I'll probably do some more ports before the next release, unfortunately, I'm going to put all my efforts in bosses and menu system, but not in music =(
As for homing, it's really buggy a bit (I did it long time ago, when my knowledge of ASM and Sonic engine was worse, that's why the code isn't completely optimized and has some bugs). I'll probably redo it soon.

 

The boss development took about 2,5 days, it was the second (as far as I can remember) object I've coded, so it's code is big and stupid, and I couldn't do some extra abilities I had planned. The newer version of boss, seen on the video, was completely remade. I learned much about objects and Sonic engine by that moment, so coding took about 2 days. I also could do anything I wanted, and even more =)

As for the snow, it was made through the objects as well. Each snowflake is a single object. But I've redone the snow recently, so two snowflakes now use one object. It can't be seen on the video due to frame rate, but snowflakes are blinking every frame, when one part of them is hidden, the other one got shown.

 

Sorry for the double post, but there is an update.

C/P form SSRG:

I've had some progress on my hack, Sonic Quick Winter Adventures 2, and due to I'm often asked about how SQWA2's going, I've recorded a small video featuring MZ 1 and GHZ 2 game play.

I haven't changed much since the previous video, levels are still almost original.
Hack now features some new songs done by Jet for me, because my ports were really awful.

In the end of GHZ 2 you'll see a new Eggman boss. I found original GHZ Boss boring and easy to beat, so I programmed more complicated and smart boss, having several kinds of attacks. Hope you like it ^^

Well, enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PRMKGsES2U

 

I finally decided to do more graphic changes, since my hack lacked for them. The results are new title cards, signposts, level results card and redesigned pause menu (better than you could see in last videos). I was having a hard time when drawing these, hope you like them ^_^

Also, as you noticed, the hack has finally got an English translation. Both Russian and English languages will be present in a single ROM.

Pause Menu is now very smoothy animated. As for the title cards, they're animated too. It was my dream for a long time to create a title cards like these.
If you want to see their animations, here is a short vid: http://vladikcomper.narod.ru/download/SQWA2-VideoBonus.7z
(to play the video, you should have the Kega Video Codec)

 

Yes, I plan to do some level art edits, because palletes edits are overused and boring now. Art changes won't be large though, because drawing is not my cup of tea.
As for release, unfortunately, it won't come soon. Too many things still need to be done. My current goals are to finish the menu system, MZ bosses and other features, which will be shown later.
But I promise that you'll see millions of new things in the next release. =)