Sawnik Teh Hedgehawg

*copy & paste from RetroHack & Sonic Retro*


So, this is my first attempt at a ROM hack, and I decided to start with Sonic 1. Why? I have no idea XD


So anyways presenting my "hack":


Sawnik Teh Hedgehawg


(joke name until I think of a better one, unless you think I should keep this one =P)


Scratch that, it's the definate name now =P


Not very much done at the moment, but I do have a couple of things to show.





This screenshot shows off quite a bit in one go. My attempt at making a Sonic Adventure 2-esque HUD, the Sonic adventure style life icon, the different sprite style I'm using (Sprite import around 70% done, just gotta work on ones not in the spritesheet), and a new palette for GHZ that I'm trying out. (Palette, Yes or No?)





This second one just shows new signpost art, and that I'm using Sonic CD Title card art.





Just to show that you now get a life every 50000 points like Sonic 2 and 3.





Things are not what they seem...*shot*





Working Spindash.





Monitor art made to look like/similar to Sonic Adventure style.





Monitor images from various games.


1-up: Same as life icon.


Speed Shoes: A shoe from an advance style Sonic sprite.


Shield: ...I forget where it's from.


Invincibility: The original


5 ring: Sonic 3 Ring image edited to have the number 5 on it. (I made all normal ring boxes give 5 rings...don't ask why, I don't even know =P)


15 ring: Same as above, but with 15 on it. S box made into one that gives 15 rings.


Robotnik: Sonic 3


Music planned for stages: Various music from Sonic 2, 3 and maybe 3D.


Credit where credit is due


Sonic Retro: Helpful guides.


Shobiz: Helping me with the life every 50000 points thing.


Rathe: For making the sprite sheet I'm using for Sonic.


SCAA: Some compressed art.


ESE Sound Importer: Lots of music ports.


The guy who made SonMapEd (I forget his name): For making mapping editing, sprite importing and getting the pallete from a sprite quick and easy.


I think that's about right.


No download yet, sorry =P


Anyways, all comments and criticism welcome, and if neccesary, feel free to mock =P


Updates since then:


New Marble pallet





A few of the ending sprites:





Walking sprites:





(They may look as if it'd be jumpy towards the middle but it looks fine in game, so =P)


New Scrap Brain and Labrynth pallets:








Updates since posting this on Retro =P:


Decision time peoples, which palette should I use for Sonic? (Mainly focusing on the blues and the reds. The rest of the colours are pretty much the same.)





Palette A: Sonic's Sonic 1 palette.


Palette B: Sonic's Sonic 2 palette.


Palette C: The one I'm already using.


Palette D: A mix of all 3. Darkest blue from Sonic 1's, main blue from Sonic 2's, and brighter blue from the one I'm already using.


C is already winning, with B close behind, and D just behind that =P


For the tl;dr people: I'm working on a hack, updates as and when they happen =P

 

Really good, I must say. Definate C. Why is Sonic in mid-air in the last two shots?

 

The Scrap Brain one was just bad timing for takign the screen, because as you can see, the blocks are just dissapearing =P The other one, I dunno, just felt like showing a running sprite & that's the only place at the beginning of LZ 1 that had a long enough distance for his speed to get high enough.


Anyways, not long now before I can release something. Just a few sprites left to put in. It'll only have sonic's sprites, palletes, some other art and boss arena layouts different in the first release, but there's not much else I can do at the moment without some more practice at it XD

 

C is by far the best. How much of the art did you do yourself and how much did you just download?

 

The hud, the life icon, end of level sign, some of the sprites for sonic, the monitors, and most of the monitor images I did myself.