Sonic 2: S3 Edition

Ok, I thought I should post my hack here as it's already posted at Retro. No pics as of now, but expect some soon.


Copy/Paste from Retro(slight edit).


What's included:


1) Act transitions in all levels. Excluding sky chase, wing fortress, and death egg.


2) Fully functional InstaShield (Even extends sonic's attack radius)


3) Tails can fly and swim.


4) Using S3K ring management system (Thanks to Shobiz)


5) Slight changes to level design (makes transitions flow better)


6) 2 player mode removed (goes to options if selected)


7) Double Jump to change into Super Sonic


Current Known Bugs:


1) No act 2 or 3 title cards as of right now.


2) After playing Special Stages, start at begining of level.


3) No sound effect for tails' flying animations


4) Tails' swim animation is buggy, sometimes crashes.


5) Sonic's balance animations are not correct.


Click for Current Release.


Let me know what you all think and of any other bugs that are found.


Thanks to anyone who helped me with anything, and to anyone who made any utility used in this hack.


EDIT: Finally Updated!


Enjoy!

 

Hmm, perhaps you could post some images so you can show us what you have done.

 

Omg, this is a fuckin´ great hack! But why did you removed the Level-Select?

 

I didn't. I just changed it. It's now 1-9-8-2.

 

the game crashes after CPZ act 1!

 

Copy/Paste from Retro


Ok, since I start school on Monday and I work all day tomorrow, I have decided to release what I've got so far.


Sonic 2: S3 Edition Current Features


1) Act transitions in all levels (Excluding sky chase, wing fortress, and death egg)


2) Fully functional InstaShield (Even extends sonic's attack radius)


3) Tails can fly and swim.


4) Using S3K ring management system (Thanks to Shobiz)


6) Slight changes to level design (makes transitions flow better)


7) 2 player mode removed


9) Double Jump to change into Super Sonic


10) Slightly Modified Sonic 2 Sound Driver


11) Level Transitions (In Progress EHZ is finished)


12) Sonic 3K Shields (In Progress)


13) Save Screen (almost finished)


14) EHZ Mini Boss (GHZ boss port)


Also lots of bug fixes and some new and modified objects!


I'm a little lazy right now so no new pics.


Here is the link. (Updated)


There are still many bugs present. Also a lot of Tails' levels will NOT load. I am aware of this and am trying to fix it.


Aside from that, comments are welcome and let me know of any other bugs found.


Enjoy!


Thanks to everyone who helped contribute something.


Shobiz


Hitaxas


Irixion


And anyone else I forgot!


EDIT: Few things and some people I forgot to mention who helped me out with something or another.

 

Wow!!!......This game kicks ass!!! nice job!!!........oh and when you finish ARZ Act-1 the game/hack crashes. =(

 

Man, that's the best Sonic 2 hack in history. Just for that this is still in development, it's quite awesome-- I hope there's a final release soon and you fixed all the bugs. And I hope Stealth would make a Sega CD port for you. It's worth it.


And in my opinion I like that Sonic 3 savescreen. I like the EHZ Act 1 boss, too. And the other thing I like too is the events.


Keep up the great work! *thumbs up*


EDIT: Shame it crashes after ARZ Act 1


EDIT 2: I noticed a bug at the EHZ Act 1 Boss. If you stand on the platform still if you defeated the boss, you will have the "walk-in-air" glitch. This will happen too, if you jump before the signpost stops to turn.


EDIT 3: Please place the usual platforms to EHZ Act 2. Or some places are unreachable Or at one place you have to die.


EDIT 4: At the beginning of CPZ Act 1 if you take Tails and fly to the ceiling, the backgroung is sometimes screwed up. And you'll see water at the top


EDIT 5: At the options if you press start on the player select, you will beginn at Emerald Hill Zone. I suggest you to remove that Player select on options and replace it with another feature.

 

This hack is awesome!

 

Thanks.

The savescreen was a pain in the ass. The EHZ act 1 boss was mostly just to test the signpost. I'll change the boss in the future.

I am trying to find out what went wrong there... I'll update as soon as it is fixed

Found the problem. It'll be fixed in the update.

Not worried about it right now. I'll look at it later.

I'm keeping it for now until I find a replacement for it.


Everyone else, thanks for the comments.

 

I like this hack, the S3 save game is awesome. Hope you fix that ARZ glitch for the next release.

 

The link is updated now. ARZ should not crash.

 

Alriightyman, feel free to put this hack on Hacktube! It deserves to be on there

 

I have been meaning to do just that. It's up now.

 

I'm loving this hack even more. Are you planning more minibosses concepts in the future?

 

Hmm, seems the hack crashes in the on-site emulator, probably some address problem, if you care you can grab the offline version of the emulator to see if you can fix it.


The emulator is more picky than Gens, it's closer to real hardware.

 

The hack didn't crash on me at all, I only played the first 2 levels though. Also are there going to be level edits?