Discontinued

This project is officially discontinued until further notice,do to numerous game breaking glitches and problems

 

It crashes right after the Knuckles cutscene.

wat

 

I'm not very fond of the new palettes. The colors don't look like they match very well. The choices for shades of color aren't well chosen. So, I recommend that you fix that. However, it suffers one fatal flaw. After the AIZ cutscene, the game crashes. This is common in hacks of S3 and S3K that were made in ESE II. Note that I tested this on Regen, Kega Fusion, and MD.Emu. So, I'm gonna guess you beta tested with Gens, which isn't a good choice of an emulator when bug testing. Make sure that when you're hacking,  or programming for the MegaDrive in general, make sure it works for more than just Gens.

 

Thanks for the tip.I will try and fix those problems and hopefully I will have a new release by the end of this week

 

This hack will only work on the Gens Emulator. Sorry for not saying that earlier.

 

Please dont bother to release something that not even Fusion can run. That pile of garbage runs mostly anything and if you cant even satisfy its needs then you are not doing it right. Also just in case you used ESE 2 to make this hack; dont. There are better tools (that actually work) that you could utilize instead. Such as split disassemblies and SonLVL.

 

if this is the case then i would suggest using more then one emulator for when it comes debugging\bug testing your hacks because as i learnt from experience you may not notice or come across a bug/glitch/game crash when using the Gens Emulator (which in this case i'm guessing GENS is your default emulator) but when you run this hack on a different emulator (E.g Kega Fusion or Regen) you will most likely notice bugs/glitches/game crashes that you didn't notice or come across when using the Gens emulator.  

anyway with that out of the way here's my short review of your hack. Starting with the palettes for angel island since that's only zone i played, to be honest your palette choice isn't horrible its just... bad and i mean bad, the shading is all off and some of it in some areas is just way too dark and bright. for the level layout its OK but it needs a little more work as there is just random eggman monitors and death pits that blind sight you, also the special stage rings are mostly in plan sight and are easy to get to. in my opinion the special stage rings in Sonic 3\S&K should be in areas that are hidden and hard to get to in order to make player do some exploration to get the special stages.

anyway that's all i have to say.