General Screenshot/Movie Thread

Man, Mega Drive Sonic 2 with no slowdowns, are really amazing.

 

Well, I've been working on this for a while now, but I have had yet to post about it here.

I've been working on a full restoration of Sonic 3 and Knuckles back into SCE. While most of everything will be the same, I will also be adapting the game to work with SCE's engine changes, and also changing SCE's engine to restore features S3&K needed for the game to work properly. As of right now, a total of four zones have been mostly restored into the game, with FBZ about to join in as well. I will be restoring some cut content as well, such as the original zone order, some prototype DAC samples, (The tom drums sound slightly stronger in the prototype compared to the final release) and also add more moves to Sonic, such as the Super Peelout and Drop Dash, and also give Tails a flight cancel ability.

Most of everything works as intended, with some things not working as okay as others, due to some engine changes that I haven't yet been able to figure out, whether it's how to modify some code to fit the changes, or revert the change to the original S3&K Version. Playability has only recently been restored, and some zone transitions aren't complete yet, such as HCZ1's zone transition lacking a whirlpool to bring Sonic into Act 2. Speaking of HCZ, that pseudo-3D water effect in Act 1 has problems with actually loading the art for the water. While the waterline itself does work, the art doesn't load at all. So you instead get a mess of background tiles scrolling in the wrong way. There's also this weird glitch in the intro, where the water palette loads OVER the normal palette. I think this could be because of the water loading without the actual water palette for the intro, but I'm not entirely sure. One annoying thing that I haven't been able to fix is several bugs related to how level layouts are modified. In AIZ1, the hollow tree can end up reloading itself to before Sonic ran through it, instead of still using the hollow graphics. In CNZ, the level transition is VERY broken. The layout refreshes in the wrong way, and it causes Sonic to end up dying after the results screen. If you use debug mode, you can move back up to where the level transition normally happens, and aside from a slightly misdrawn background (and water palettes being entirely blacked out) the second act plays normally.

Despite the various bugs, the game still plays pretty normal, but there's still a lot to be done to completely adapt the game to SCE's modified engine. Below are a few screenshots of current development progress, and a YouTube video of a showcase I did two days after Sonic 3's anniversary. Once a decent amount of the game is restored, I plan to record another showcase, but this time playing through the game normally, as hopefully I will have gotten a lot of playability restored, and a lot of the engine adaptations done. But for now, here's the current showcase. I hope you like it! (Screenshots were taken in KEGA Fusion. For some reason, they were cropped to PAL resolution, even though they were taken in the NTSC resolution)

Spoiler: Screenshots

 

What state is this hack in? I am a big fan of this game and I am very happy to know that you are giving it love.

 

Adding Mega CD support to my emulator has been going well, with help from Devon. Aside from its special stages, Sonic CD is very presentable now!

 

That's fantastic to hear! If you ever get to a point where you work on 32X support, this one will be #1 on my list for top emulators (either way, it'll be #1 nonetheless).

 

woah that background scrolling in ghz looks really weird

 

Hi it's been forever since I last posted back from 2021 [wow it's been that long]
Wanna do some screen dumping in here to show off a personal project I recently got back in since last year and still working on it.
Sonic 1 Strange Dream World. It's a RSDK mod project that aim to reimagine Sonic 1 with some overhaul graphics in a sort of dream like color style.

The title screen, clouds will be edit differently sometime soon



Green I mean...Dream Hill is looking a lot more colorful



Scary wasp badniks!!!



Marble zone is becoming more colorful.





This one took a long time to get where it was at back from 2021 SHC Expo.
I took a lot more time on this to practice editing the zone graphics and palettes. The practice paid off well : )




Starlight is slowly becoming something other worldly

 

Purtty stuff. I love some of the purple tinted stuff (I might be biased, because purple is my favorite color).

 

Sonic 1: RTX On

 

Minor username change: didn't want to maintain a common Italian name as my username.

Had to modify the H-scroll effect for my Splash Screen, as this new logo of mine is now too wide horizontally to be rendered under the previous code.

 

Thank you. Hopefully I'll get something done for SHC 2024 : )
More will come soon

 

From the creator of Sonic Maxidrive...
A new adventure is on the horizon.



This project is aiming to be built off Sonic 2, tho the particular disassembly version is undecided due to the ever-changing structure of the disassembly hosted on GitHub. Top current choices are Giovanni's Score Rush branch and Filter's optimized engine. Stay tuned for more.

 

Here is the current progress on the work to port Sonic 1 to S.C.E. (S3K Engine)

We have completed the main work and are now working on bug fixes. We are planning a release this year.

Screenshots:

Spoiler

 

Currently, Sonic Encore has been evolving.

I guess I'll put some images here, since I've never (I think) used this thread.

 

Here are some screenshots of Needlemouse Return To Tokyo (Note: the screenshot with the slope is currently a mockup everything else is in game though), also the tree is by Guyke, the BG is by Peanut Noceda, chunks by RJ and the green plant is by me.

 

Hello. Back at it again, this time for the original Sonic the Hedgehog's "street date" release that was on this day back in 1991.

I happen to come across a very odd version of Sonic 1 in my house. Here's what's on it:

Spoiler: DON'T CLICK ON THIS BEFORE WATCHING; DO IT AFTER WATCHING

That's right. Breaking the magic here from this video, this is, ladies and gentlemen, the very first ever ROM hack of Sonic the Hedgehog that I've ever made (and also my very first ROM hack in general), which featured none other than the 5th-generation Pokémon starter, Snivy, replacing Sonic the Hedgehog. This is not fake, it's real.

The sprites for Snivy in this hack were originally done by Neweegee, with some edits that I made to accommodate the animations featured within this game (as well as porting over the color palette for Snivy to the ones made to fit for the Genesis).

Now this is a personal, private project of myself for many years (I've been doing this since 2016), but this is the very first time that I've shown this to a wider audience here on the net. I won't distribute the ROM for this hack due to personal situations (and don't ask me for one), but when it's ready, expect that to come very soon.

Also, this was the very first public upload on this YouTube channel that I have (the one you're seeing right now, as I had done public uploads on my personal YT channel, which I will not disclose publicly for obvious reasons).
Also, also, this ROM hack is working on real hardware, as shown in the video. Can't you believe it?

Also, happy 33rd birthday to Sonic the Hedgehog as a whole.

 

I don't think I've ever posted anything here before so this is my first post in this thread.

Hello everyone, here I present some screenshots of Sonic 1 Mixed 1.3

For those who still don't know what hack this is, it's a hack where I put together ideas and what people would like to see in a classic Sonic (that's why it's called Mixed). Remember that you can recommend any ideas if you want

Version 1.2 was released a few months ago in case you want to play it.

 

See you soon!

 

As revealed at the Sonic Hacking Spotlight, Giovanni's Level Pack 2!

This in-development Sonic hack of mine will have a bunch of fully renovated levels, with multiple exits to find, and also Red Star Rings to collect, for the more die-hard collectionists!

It's a project I've been cultivating while waiting for the release of the Sonic 1 remake in Sonic Clean Engine, to keep myself occupied and continue honing my level crafting skills in the mean time.

You can expect this ROM hack to release this summer!

 

Decided to step out of my comfort zone and started doing some romhacking stuff, i usually do fangames and sometimes RSDK mods. A friend of mine from Radiant Nexus suggested me this Hedgebrew Engine because its clean and easy to use, and it is, i really like it! i hope it gets finished someday.
I did some art on my own and pretty proud of it



I think the fun part was trying to figure out how to do palette cycling in this, since this engine had Wacky Workbench as a stage i somehow managed to make palette cycle code out of it, code is pretty bad but im surprised it was even working to begin with. Here's a gif of it: