Question : Game Gear Remakes?

Well there's bridge zone in Sonic 2 Advanced Edit, but I think that's it.

 

http://derzocker.deviantart.com/art/Triple-Trouble-16-Bit-Mock-Ups-179041615

This guy made mock ups back in the day, unfortunately that's all we got. Mock ups. Still cool looking though.

 

So close :U

Music remakes are way more popular than graphic remakes, by the way. We have 16-bit version of most 8-bit songs, if not all.

 

One problem with using the original tiles is that the SMS/GG horizontal resolution was lower than the Mega Drive's, so all the graphics would need to be horizontally stretched first in order for them to look correct.

Else, you'd get a lot of oval-shaped loops, thinner-than-usual trees, etc.

 

http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_2_-_The_Hybridization_Project

I did this way back in the early days when compressed art hacking was new and the disassembly was a far away dream. It's pretty rough around the edges compared to today's hacks.

 

First thanks again. I originally made the graphics to encourage people to finally make a few remakes.
Well, if anyone wants to tackle the task, I'll gladly share my tilesets. Though most of them are still unfinished (yeah, even after all those years) and unorganized. The checkerboard pattern from GTZ drives me crazy and makes it a pain to organize into proper chunks without messing up the pattern
Just look at this mess^^



Though I wouldn't say no either if someone wants to help me to complete the sets. Many of them already have a lot of tiles, (some not much) they need to be cut down into useful chunks. Also help with some palette and pattern choices would be nice too from time too. Don't ask how many times I tried to start Tidal Planet. I already fail with the base block in this set^^'
If there's enough interest I could start a workshop thread, so we could get them finished together

 

And I always loved that project of yours, Doc Eggfan. I'm a huge lover of the 8 bits games ( specially the first two) and always wondered why there isn't more hacks who uses things from them. I would love complete "Hd remakes" of them into the 16 bits engine.
Specially Sonic 2. That game is awesome.

 

On a somewhat related note, has anyone ever tried recreating the level layouts from Sonic Pocket Adventure in a Sonic 2 hack? Most of SPA's level art are basically 8-bit versions of Sonic 2 stages, but the level layouts are completely different from the corresponding S2 zone, so there wouldn't even be need to convert much art unless you wanted to recreate the SPA Bosses as well.

 

Thanks. I wish I had more time to devote to my long abandoned projects. Can't wait until I'm old and retired.

 

I never did understand why the mantle has never been taken up to 1:1 recreate the Game Gear games, it seems like an interesting project to make the 8-bit games work with their 16-bit brothers.

Hell its too bad the idea can't be presented to SEGA and have Team TaxStealth work on the project, if we can't ever have Sonic 3 & Knuckles I'd buy 16-bit remakes of the GG saga games.

 

@Zeoinx: To your question about game gear remakes, there was also the jungle zone port that was in Sonic the Hedgehog Plus Though the level layout was a tad bit small. That and it was only one act long. still it was pretty neat to see and play at the time.

@DerZocker: that level art looks awesome Dude. Too bad it's only a mock-up :<

 

It's SORTA around this line, but I made some 16 bit translations of the Mean Bean Machine 8 bit backgrounds:




I'm not 100% positive they'd work within the palettes and VRAM space since MBM hacking is sparse however.

 

those are pretty awesome, Psi. I hope to see them implemented someday.
Another thing I hope to tackle someday is doing a few Tails' Adventure tilesets.