At last, we have 7 emeralds

We deliberated on this for days. And now, we have the 7th special stage installed plus the emerald.


But I do have a couple of issues:








How can I fix the palette for the 7th emerald? And how can I change Sonic's starting position, as shown in the second screenshot? In the 7th special stage, a duplicate of the 6th, Sonic starts way outside the regular stage area in a glitchy area. I know I can't use ESE because it won't save, but what program can I use to edit the special stage layouts? Also, the ring counter is black in the second picture. How can I make it flash like in a normal level when at 0?


And guess what, I perfectly aligned the emeralds with the HUD. Also, the emerald positions on the results screen are adjusted so that the first emerald collected is the first one in line and so on.

 

My guess would be to adjust the mappings as well as the palette. I would start with that.

 

Nice work, I told you it was easy

Add 4 bytes to misc\sloc_ss.bin (XXYY).

To edit special stages, you can decompress them with TSDC (enigma compression) and edit them in ms-dos editor. And of course recompress them (still enigma).

 

What MS-DOS editor should I download, and what does each symbol mean?

 

If you have 2000 or XP you already have it. Just open a command prompt, go to the folder where you have the layouts, and type
EDIT /64 xxx.bin


As for the symbols, I forgot. Just compare them with another special stage, I guess.


Also, just out of curiosity, what ID did you give to the new emerald?

 

I didn't give it an ID yet, but I'll work on that when I work on the layouts. I want to thank you for helping me figure out how to add a 7th special stage and chaos emerald. This wasn't as difficult as you said. Even though I annoyed you before at Sonic Retro, I still appreciate your help. Is it ok I still contact you if I have any questions to ask? I know you blocked me on YouTube and I'm suspended indefinitely from Sonic Retro. But I am doing some actual work for this hack. And if anyone wants to add a 7th special stage to their Sonic 1 hack, have them contact me, I remember how to do it now. And I'll type up a tutorial as soon as I fix the palettes. I will also include the ending sequence.


P.S. How do I add 1-UP icons to my special stages? What symbol represents that?

 

Fixing the juggling Robotnik on the "Try Again" screen is easy enough, but I want to give you a tip about the good ending, when Sonic launches the emeralds in the air, since that one is tricky.

In Obj88_MainLoop

Code:

		addi.b	#$2A,d3

becomes

Code:

		addi.b	#$25,d3

That's the angle to add between two emeralds, which is $2A at first ($2A x 6 = $FC ~ $100), and $25 after ($25 * 7 = $103 ~ $100). $24 would work fine too ($24 x 7 = $FC). You won't get any closer to $100 than this, anyway.

 

To make sonic get a 1up edit obj09 which is the special stage sonic object. Im not sure what ID is the 1up, but you have to compare it with d4.

 

The code that checks for the 1-UPs is already in. In fact, if there were 1-UP icons in Sonic 1's special stages, they would be working.
All he has to do is to add them into the stages.

 

I can't add them with ESE unless there's a way of making ESE save special stages. I was thinking that was the only way to add 1-up icons.

 

-Edited-


Please give credits to: RamiroR.....He did most of the work...Thanks...

 

Why are you telling me? o.o
You should tell willj168

 

I was talking to willj168.....sorry about that nineko.....will fix.....

 

Credits go to both Nineko and Ramiro. Nineko provided us the information and Ramiro helped me put the codes in. Fair enough that I appreciate both of their support.

 

While I appreciate that, you don't need to credit me, I just threw there a few ideas without doing any actual coding.

 

This is what I have:

Code:

		

Map_obj88:

; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

; Sprite mappings - chaos emeralds on the ending sequence

; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

		dc.w byte_5788-Map_obj88, byte_578E-Map_obj88

		dc.w byte_5794-Map_obj88, byte_579A-Map_obj88

		dc.w byte_57A0-Map_obj88, byte_57A6-Map_obj88

		dc.w byte_57AC-Map_obj88

byte_5788:	dc.b 1

		dc.b $F8, 5, 0,	0, $F8

byte_578E:	dc.b 1

		dc.b $F8, 5, 0,	4, $F8

byte_5794:	dc.b 1

		dc.b $F8, 5, $40, $10, $F8

byte_579A:	dc.b 1

		dc.b $F8, 5, $20, $18, $F8

byte_57A0:	dc.b 1

		dc.b $F8, 5, $40, $14, $F8

byte_57A6:	dc.b 1

		dc.b $F8, 5, 0,	8, $F8

byte_57AC:	dc.b 1

		dc.b $F8, 5, 0, $C, $F8

		even

But nothing happened when I tested it. Did I forget to duplicate something?

 

when I open ss in cmd it looks all weird

 

You have to type EDIT /64 1.bin and not just EDIT 1.bin.

 

. . thank you it worked!!


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When I try to decompress it, it starts, then I get a message saying it has to close.