Sonic The Hedgehog: Ancient Isles

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  1. Catswell

    Catswell Plushy lazy cat Member

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    Aren't you tired of these hacks overwhelmed with new features that make you surprised every time? Are you want to just chill out in some simple atmosphere with new levels? Well, here you are!

    Sonic The Hedgehog: Ancient Isles (formerly known as "Catswell's Edition") - is a hack that directed to create simple, chill yet fun and memorable experience with a whole bunch of absolutely new levels with drawn from scratch sprites.

    Plot of hack is basically same as Sonic 1, it's just variation of "What if, events happened on another island?".

    Gameplay also as Sonic 1, without spindash, so only thing you can use here is momentum. A lot of things in level design based on momentum basis. Master it and you can reach some heights on multiple paths. Also you can use Air Roll (press A/B/C in the air, while you are not jumping/rolling).

    Hack is working on hardware! Tested on Sega Genesis VA6.5 with Mega Everdrive Pro. Not tested on other flash-cartridges, but it should work everywhere, I think.

    • Intro > orig: Owl City - When Can I See You Again?
    • Title Screen (Discovering Something New!) > by XBRO
    • Ancient Forest Act 1 (Here's The Start) > orig: Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari EX 2007 - Houryou theme
    • Ancient Forest Act 2 (Never Late To Be A Hero!) > by XBRO
    • Ancient Forest Act 3 (Night Is Calling) > orig: Adeq - Dance In The Universe
    • Buried Ship Act 1 (Forgotten Base) > by XBRO
    • Buried Ship Act 2 (Wild Jungle Woods) > by XBRO
    • Buried Ship Act 3 (Nature Works With Metal) > by XBRO
    • Stardream Oasis Act 1 (Dehydration Isn't An Option) > by XBRO
    • Stardream Oasis Act 2 (Drowning In Waves) > by XBRO
    • Stardream Oasis Act 3 (Night Diving) > by XBRO
    • Invisibility (You Can't Touch Me Now!) > by XBRO
    • Got Through (The Way Out) > orig: Bomberman Tournament - Finish Dungeon
    • Boss Theme (Maniac In Disguise) > by XBRO
    • Special Stage (Uncontrollable Gemstones) > orig: Bomberman Tournament - Overworld
    • Credits (Never Stopping) > by XBRO

    • TheBlad768 - main programming, feedback, testing (both emulator and hardware)
    • XBRO - music (both custom and ports)
    • stare (FlyTF) - helped me to understand basics at the start
    • Vladikcomper - original MegaPCM, Advanced Error Handler, palette changing guide, modified original disassembly (source code)
    • Hitaxas and ProjectFM - Splash Screen example/guide
    • flamewing - DMA Queue
    • Hivebrain, drx and Stealth - Original disassembly
    • mrcat-pixel, SomeRussianDude21, FoxConED, Papazakku and others - betatesting, feedback
    • SEGA/Sonic Team - original game, Title Card font sprites
    • CatswellMeow - everything else (custom spriteart, addit. programming and etc)

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    Download (Demo 0.3) -
    Since I'm creating this thread, all new info and wips will be in here. Stay tuned, that hack'll impress you later (maybe). Thank you everyone for your support! I really appreciate it.
     
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  2. nineko

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  3. Catswell

    Catswell Plushy lazy cat Member

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    A little bit late, but still...
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    Thank you for playing, see ya later.
     
  4. Catswell

    Catswell Plushy lazy cat Member

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    A little upgrade of SOZ art.
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    A late reply, but congratulations.

    Nice. You have done an effort on this one.
     
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    Good afternoon everyone!. I arrived here, now the tracks for Ancient Forest 2.0, present a more attractive and sweet style, in turn also, with the original atmosphere from the original tracks, with a touch of exploration perhaps.
    These remixes are their own and have much more fluidity in audio quality than it was in the previous version. Thanks to Catswell and XBRO for their acceptance of the musics collaboration. I still have more works to complete and do, whoever wants to contribute their opinion, let me know and I will take your criticism to elaborate something better, if you feel that there is something than needs to be improved.


     
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  7. Catswell

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    Hack is officially cancelled due to my inactivity, lost interest to Sonic hacking, lost interest to content creating overall and IRL circumstances that hold me down.
    Thanks to my team who believed in this project and helped me through these long 6 years of slow hacking!
    And thank you for being interested in hack. Good luck everyone!
     
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