Looking for Information about a lost official Sonic Level Creator

i honestly thought i had hallucinated this existing, but i remember exactly what you were talking about. i might have an ancient vista pc with the thing still in its cache, and i'll follow up if i manage to unearth anything

 

I played it while still up, the level art was really cool, but the actual physics and overall game control felt awful. You could sign up for a premium subscription to make and publish levels, which also gave you the PlaySEGA saturn style controller too, which iirc wasn't as great as a Saturn controller build quality wise.

I never paid for premium, so I was only able to play levels iirc. It was neat though.

 

Gameplay footage with music. Can confirm this was it as I played it back in the day as well.





I haven't looked into it myself, but there was an effort to archive all available flash files called the Flashpoint Archive. I'd check if they have it.

 

Sonic had a level creator before Mario Maker

Sega truly does what Nintendon't

 

Techokami ripped all of the graphics from it and uploaded them onto The Spriter's Resource. I think he could help.

 

Sonic the Hedgehog Level Creator - that one

I have no idea if anyone's mirrored the SWF - I would expect so in this case since it was quite a late (and popular) Flash game, but it doesn't look like the wiki page has been updated in a while.

Retro had a topic for this back in the day:
https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sonic-the-hedgehog-level-creator.22770/

I did dabble in it briefly at the time - I think the consensus was that it plays pretty badly, but it was notable for having semi-original graphics rather than recycled Green Hill Zone or whatever. Still not really sure what the story is behind those - feels like a fan project got lucky, but other than "it existed" it's a bit of a mystery.

The joke was this was more interesting and on-point than Sonic 4.

 

No one here managed to back this up when it was still online? That's actually shocking seeing how we're usually good about these things. I remember the thread linked above, I don't think I actually ever played any of the levels. I think it was one of those things I kept telling myself that I would "go check it out later" and later never came. This may be a stupid question but has anyone checked Archive.org yet? Sometimes things end up there under our noses and years later someone finds it. Also check the lost media wiki forums and discord server if you haven't yet, someone there might have the files saved on a computer.

 

I remember this thing being brought up during the most recent thread around R2/Dubious Depths, because someone (jokingly) suggested the unique level theme in this was R2 assets

 

I briefly got in to contact with Mediatonic to try and recover this several years ago. Things seemed promising and suddenly communications became that they wouldn't be able to help. It's likely lost forever.

 

I have the music from this.
I could upload it if it doesn't break the rules

 

Ok this should be it: https://files.catbox.moe/auez5o.zip
Catbox changed the file name of the zip upon upload. It was formally called "Level Creator" after the folder inside.

I don't remember where I got these from, but I saved them anyway.

 

I remember playing this on my Mums laptop waaaay back in 2010 and being super obsessed with playing other peoples levels, I remember reading somewhere that it was likely based on the J2ME port of Sonic 1, and that you could somehow play Green Hill Zone Act 1 by reverse engineering it, but I don't know if I'm entirely remembering correct. Hope you can end up finding it, as I would love to see it be reverse engineered and see if what I say is really true.