Sonic Encore (Post Shc 2023)

Sonic Encore: SHC 2024 Update!
(If it didn't appear in this year's SHC trailer, there's a reason. I could have sworn I sent the clips but apparently they didn't show up lol)

It has been a while since there has been any movement on Encore. Originally this was to come out in mid-August but seeing that the SHC was coming up we decided to push it back to today.
But that extra time was enough to further polish this Encore Demo. Here is a list of what's new in this update:

1. Sound adjustments were made. Now some sounds are corrected.
2. The Mega PCM 2.0 has been integrated allowing the DAC to sound without being scratchy. This also opened the door to include PCM Music and limited Sonic voices (taken from Sonic CD) although they interrupt the DAC momentarily while playing.
3. The Dropdash code was rewritten, it should now be much closer to what we have in Sonic Mania.
4. Afterimage effect was added for Speed Shoes.
5. Retouched and added some new Sonic sprites.
6. New Marble Palette!

Streamer Edition

Lately Youtube has not been happy with the music of the classic sonic games (this because of scammers or people who copyright the music). Causing in several cases parts without sound or music without copyright in videos.
For this and other reasons I have decided to release together an edition that removes the “most problematic” music that is in Encore (but not guaranteed to work 100%).

The contest entry is here if you want to take a look at it.

Credits:

Team Encore members who supported this:

1. Me: Creator and director of this
2. Carlos Iagnecz: Programmer
3. DarkShamilKhan: Beta tester and musician
4. Alegamer700: Spriter
5. RaeZ: Nothing

Non-Team Encore Members:

1. Alfombra de Madera: GHZ Palette Creator
2. Hortinus: Sonic Sprites
3. Frik: Other Sonic Sprites
4. The One Musaab: Other Sonic Sprites (This person almost gave me a heart attack. I forgot to credit him in the previous versions. Epic)
5. Clownacy: Clone Driver and Sonic 2 Level Art Loader
6. VladikComper: Mega PCM 2.0 and Comper Compression
7. TheBlad768: Sound Driver Auxliary Code
8. Sonic Retro: Spin Dash Guide and other Fixes
9. Devon: Smooth Ring Guide
10. Markey Jester: SSRG splash screen
11. RetroKoh: Auxiliary code
12. Mercury: Auxiliary code
13. Sprites Recourses: Some Sprites
14. MainMemory: KEH Source Code (Some of his music is used in Sonic Encore)

Images:

Spoiler: Large images

[SHC] [contest2024] 987 - Sonic Encore (By Red2010).bin
Streamer Edition SHC [2024].bin

Spoiler

If razor & zenon play this I will release an Encore patch as soon as I can

 

It's been a while of silence here.
After this year's SHC and receiving the air trophy (which I was told was an award for mediocrity or something like that), it was decided to further refine Sonic Encore

In the 2 months of silence, there has been a lot of progress on Sonic Encore. In order not to leave this thread so dead I decided to do:

Sonic Encore: Preview Screenshots The Third
Black Friday Edition

There are several new features but I will focus on showing those that do not completely ruin the surprise of the next update that should arrive at Christmas.

Title screen improvements:

Thanks to Carlos (Alegamer has other projects and can't take care of Encore) The title screen Sonic was redesigned. It should now be much closer to the gameplay Sonic.

DropDash Improvements:

After changing several aspects of the code (especially the HUD to use the Sonic 2 system), we were able to successfully port the S1Fixed code and thus redesign the Dust code, and taking advantage of that we decided to make that small touch-up.

HUD Changes:
This is a fairly small change, but the HUD sprites (specifically the numbers) have been tweaked a bit to give them better shading)

Before:

After:


Other than that and code changes that aren't worth mentioning, there's not much else to see here.

Spoiler: Huh?

I think I'll have to give you an explanation another day...

I guess I'll see you another day. Bye!

 

Sonic Encore: Next Year's Update

It was today or tomorrow (2025 already lol)

Before starting with this I would like to thank you for the support of this whole year 2024. Although it also comes with its news for this project.

After 11 months just developing this I have tired of developing it and if I continue like this I will most likely retire next year

So for now I will take a break from Encore but you will probably see other Team Encore projects that are coming.
Leaving that aside let's move on to the important thing

All of Sonic's abilities are available NOW!

Sonic now has his full repertoire of abilities from the classic Sonic games (Superstars abilities don't count just in case).

It's redundant to explain what all this does. But now the elemental shields are spread out across the levels, which means the blue shield won't be there for now.

Blaze?

I don't know. Blame Selbi and others for her inclusion (never vote on what to add to your rom hacks).
She has her own repertoire of abilities, credit to TDRR for that.

Known Bugs:

1. Some graphical glitches
2. Marble Zone is not available
3. Spring Yard Act 2 is not available
4. Insta-Shield can give you invincibility or leave you exposed
5. Some sounds do not play correctly
6. Preferably do not access SonAmy's FanFic lobotomization

Credits:

1. Devon: Sprite Sub System
2. RetroKoh: Without it, elemental shields wouldn't be possible
3. Peanut Noceda: ...He left without doing anything relevant lol
4. TDRR: Blaze's ability code
5. Madz: Blaze Sprites

And the members of Team Encore remain the same with no major additions.

Spoiler: Revs

(01/02/2025)
Revision A: Some graphical glitches have been fixed and some details have been adjusted

Sonic Encore 01 - 02 -2025.bin

 

PD: I will be releasing some minor updates to the last update to fix bugs and solve the lack of levels

 

The first minor patch for the latest Encore update has been released

It fixes and modifies the following:

• Various graphical bugs
• Some minor adjustments
• The sound of the double jump in electric shield has been fixed

 

An Uncertain Future for Encore...


Yesterday was my birthday (I am now one year older) although that day was characterized by the fact that I did not make any important announcement for this project.

It was also one year since I updated Sonic Encore for the first time and started everything that is today.

But now what? After a review it seems that I have left this project aside. The answer is:

Recently I've been busy with studies (don't really ask how old I am) and that some members of Team Encore were focused on their own projects and ideas so there hasn't been time to do relevant things for Encore.

In the past I said I wanted to leave Encore aside to focus on other projects (a year with the same thing has made me tired). And so it was, new projects and ideas have started to emerge and some of them you will probably see in the future.

I have also been joining other projects to help with testing and bug finding. So you will not fail to see me as a secondary role in some project not related to me or Team Encore.

Just in case, what would be a bug fix revision for Encore has become a bit bigger with the introduction of some things and quality of life fixes. So while I'm not promising anything, there should be one last big Encore update (at least for a while) by February or March if the mood strikes me.

Besides that, with those dates you should see the preview images very soon so stay tuned!

See you whenever I post something relevant here. Bye!