Sonic 2 SMTP v.5

Its been a long time, I've been away doing other things in the past 4 months. I havnt touched the hack for awhile now, so I figure I should release the hack now before I forget about it completely. Its not exactly how I wanted it before I release it but its better than never releasing it.


Current levels Completed:


EHZ1&2 ARZ1&2 CPZ1&2 - Easy Difficulty


EHZ1&2 ARZ1&2 CPZ1&2 ICZ2 - Normal Difficulty


EHZ1&2 ARZ1&2 CPZ1&2 - Hard Difficulty


Current Features:


* Knuckles


* Bonus Stage


* Big ring for Special Stage


* ICZ & DEZ ported


* Tweaker's clone sound driver & S3K Drum system


* Sonic Retro Screen (Thanks to Cinossu)


* Special Ring: 7 are hidden within each act, they give 10000 points at end of level. Collect them to enter Special Stage at the end of the act in addition to the special stage from 50 rings.


* Easy, Normal, Hard Difficulty


* Options Zone


* 2 Save game slots


* Sonic 1 special stage


* Hyper Sonic & Knuckles (Tails to be added)


Might be missing quite a few...


Known bugs/issues:


* Sonic 2, Sonic has no animation when Tails is carrying him.


* Some bosses do not have the correct hit amount.


* The end of act score tags are glitched in Ice Cap act 2.


* Sonic 1 special stage results screen is incomplete.


* Super shoe music does not play with original soundtrack on.


* Some Super Sonic underwater palettes are incomplete.


* Underwater palettes can screw up if too many objects get on screen.


* GHZ3 boss doesn't lock the screen in correctly


* Knuckles' palette does not revert correctly after turning back from super/hyper


Please report any bugs you find. Anything outside of EHZ, CPZ, ARZ, GHZ should be seen as still in progress.


Credits:


Stealth: SonED2 and SonED 0.1 way back when I bought it when it was a DOS program.


Tweaker: ICZ music port and many other things.


Drx: Betatester


Pu7o: A few Knuckles fixes, many music related changes, S3K drums.


JohnnyUK: Betatester & hosting S2SMTP way back on the old Shadowsoft-games


Ultima: Betatester


Cinossu: Some general help & S2beta screen


jcferggy: Art


Saxman: Plenty of help way back on Area51


and many more I've probley forgotten.


Download link: S2SMTP v.5


Here it is! Enjoy. Please report any bugs you may find!

 

I can't get hold of him because I want the SSRG screen in, as he did say all staff can have it.


As for the hack, I will download later, as at work at the moment. I'm sure to enjoy it though.

 

Ok, I have played the hack a couple of times and it is very fun to play and it is brill so far, but I have noticed a few bugs: -


1) Aquatic Mine has no Special Stage ring at the end of its act 1.


2) When playing Knuckles and Tails and enter a Sonic 2-type special stage, you will have a Sonic with Tails's tails running through the stage as well as a few out-of-place tiles around him.


3) On the 6th Sonic 1 special stage, you start outside the maze.


4) The Sonic 1 special stage score tally-up screen is made up of random tiles.


I have also noticed that you go back to Green Greens Zone after the Ice Cap Zone and the levels cycle again, I was wondering if that was a bug or it was done for demo reasons?

 

I still can't play this hack, it does not work on Regen and it quite literally crashes Megasis, I'm going to have to try this on my DS. Though from the feedback, this hack does seem good.

 

Why can't you use Gens?

 

Gens on my DS runs at 1 frame per second


I can't really be stuffed downloading it to be quite honest, yes I am that lazy.