Sonic the Hedgehog: Overlooked!! (FIRST PUBLIC RELEASE)

Oh my god, I've always wanted to see full size Endless Mines, it looks amazing! Good job. Also, I hope you're keeping the original Endless Mines music, it's one of my favorite songs =P

 

Awesome, I look forward to it

 

Sonic 1 / 2 / 3, S&K -> Sonic CD
GHZ, EHZ, AIZ, MHZ -> PPZ
MZ, ARZ, MGZ, --- -> R2
SYZ, CNZ, CNZ, --- -> CCZ
LZ, ARZ, HCZ, --- -> TTZ
QQZ is more like a mix of ALL levels. MZ, SBZ, MCZ, HPZs (2/S&K) ...
SLZ, CPZ(!), ---, --- -> SSZ
SBZ, MZ, ---. DEZ&FBZ -> BOTH WWZ and MMZ


So, in Sonic 1 all levels are implemented.
Sonic 2 - Unused Hill Top (it's reused EHZ, putting down), Sky Chase and Wing Fortress (do not fit), and Death Egg (just a boss level)
Sonic 3 - Unused Ice Cap (there seems to be NO iced levels in SCD) and Launch Base.
Sonic & Knuckles - Unused Sandopolis (possibly 9TH yet more hidden desert SCD zone???), Sky Sanctuary (does not fit) and The Doomsday (a boss level)

So, it's 99% chance that R2 is a MZ-ruin like zone
(and 1% that there were 9, not 8 zones in development. Also mentioning volcanoes in TTZ)

 

Eh, considering S2 for how Sonic CD's missing 8th Round was seems rather inefficient. They were developed by different teams, each sitting on the other side of the globe. Both went very different directions in basically everything. The style of the graphics, level progression, spindash, level design, overall feel, number of Zones/Acts per Round/Zone...
The similarities merely come from how both SCD and S2 developed from Sonic 1, just in different directions. And SCD's entity was so wholly different and unique that I doubt the development team would have been any influenced by the earlier-released final Sonic 2.
S3K is entirely irrelevant , as it was made a year after SCD.

...I really hope drx' magic proto-powers can find us an earlier Sonic CD beta someday. D:

Also to stay on-topic. I really look forward to this hack, it looks quite interesting. :o

 

<!--quoteo(post=196144:date=May 20 2008, 09:02 PM:name=Ayla)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Ayla @ May 20 2008, 09:02 PM) [/quote]

WANT. This is already becoming truly epic.

On the subject of upscaling, I'm mid-way through upscaling Sonic Chaos' Turquoise Hill Zone for my own hack -- doing it by hand, pixel-by-pixel. I'll let you know how it went when I've succeeded/aborted that little endeavour

 

Wow. I just noticed this project just now. Shows how much I've been around lately huh? I debated doing this very thing myself earlier this year but never got around to it. Now I'm glad I didn't. It would have been all for naught! I definitely can't wait to see what you create from this. It looks pretty good so far. My only criticism is the background of Desert Palace. It looks a bit too pixelated in my opinion. Is there any way to smooth it out or is it just a rough draft so far that you'll refine later?

 

Needless to say... Ayla, if you need some songs for this masterpiece, don't hesitate to ask me.

 

From now on, feel free to use my tilemaps from S2 8bit in order to import the lever art and blocks to your Scrambled Egg zone port.

This also applies to anybody else wanting to use S2 8bit level art/layout.

 

<!--quoteo(post=182296:date=Feb 29 2008, 03:32 PM:name=P.P.A.)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (P.P.A. @ Feb 29 2008, 03:32 PM)
Looks like Rusty Ruins (because of all the metallic buildings that seem overgrown with ivy, and broken tiles on the ground. I wish the featured badnick would make it into a level too.)
Here is a partial mock-up I made.


I realize that the post I quoted is quite old, so my opinion might not be needed, but It's there.

 

I still stick by calling R2 Abandonned Archetype

 

*Plays*
Pretty neat so far.

 

I like it so far. It's cool to see those levels blown up and not for competion. Keep it up! :v:

 

If you can keep the crystal blocks the same size but fix up those lines so they don't look so pixelated, it'll look much cleaner. Otherwise, looks good very good.

 

So, playing that beta, I didn't get past the first act; I quit after two game overs.

The upper route appears to contain a leap of faith, but I always plunge all the way down into a bottomless pit.

On the lowest route, there appear to be some small invisible platforms. I keep dying because Sonic will touch down on such a platform in midair and start running before he lands on the intended platform.