Sonic 1 Harder Levels Version

Fast Facts on Sonic 1 Harder Levels Version
Version: Version .006 System: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Original Game: Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit) Credits: Eduardo Knuckles, HPZMan, DeoxysKyogre, Harder Project

Sonic The Hedgehog Harder Levels Version is a hack made by Eduardo Knuckles and his team Harder Project of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. The hack aims to make the game levels harder without excluding the major original characteristics from this classic games. Development of the hack started on October 10th, 2004.

Changes to the game include layouts, sprite mappings, color changes, bugfixes, a new monitor, and new sound effects and ported music from other Sega classics (including other Sonic games). The game also features some Master System features and improvements, such as the "arrow monitor", and the "starting at the boss" battles, among other things.

Story

This time, Robotnik released heavy machinery to collect the Chaos Emeralds, so he can rule the world. He has an expert plan to take over South Island with his robots, and courses.

Will you be capable of helping Sonic to pass from this very difficult adventure? Good luck!

Features

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  New palettes and tiles for Marble Zone.

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  Arrow monitor, substituting the lamp post.

Credits and Special Thanks

• Mistergambit for his Spring Yard Zone and Labyrinth Zone level art used in the game.

• Tweaker for his information regarding music importing, bug fixes and the speedcap removal.

• HPZMan for the new sound driver instruments and the dynamic tile-set system.

• Selbi for some new exclusive ASM things and improvements.

• Master3k for sending and fixing some music.

• nineko for creating the xm3smps tool which was essential for the creation of some songs. Special credits to him for the different songs per act system used.

• SCAA for their art.

• Puto for his tutorial to add Spin Dash.

• FraGag for his tutorial to fix the spike bug.

• KlausPactus for main beta testing.

• SonicVaan for beta testing.

• CarrascoZX0 for beta testing.

• Tobey for beta testing.

• Irixion for beta testing.

• PsychoSk8r for his the dynamic palettes tutorial.

• Esrael for fixing essential things in the new sound driver.

Special credits to Harder Project's Team by all the useful exclusively things used in the project.

Downloads

Restart: On March 17, 2010 Eduardo Knuckles decided to restart the hack from a clean source. His reasons were the huge number of bugs and broken features, as well as his team being disrespectful.

Old Versions

• Sonic 1 Harder Version v0.6 (Hacking Contest 6 build) ^(info)
• Sonic 1 Harder Version v0.5 (Beta 2) ^(info)
• Sonic 1 Harder Version v0.5 Demo 01 ^(info)
• Sonic 1 Harder Version v0.4 ^(info)
• Sonic 1 Harder Version v0.3 (Download link removed due to the author's request)
• Sonic 1 Harder Version v0.2 (Download link removed due to the author's request)
• Sonic 1 Harder Version v0.1 (Download link removed due to the author's request)

External link

• The Official Sonic Harder Project's Website
• The Official Sonic Harder Levels Update Blog
• The Official Sonic Harder Levels Youtube Channel
• The Official Sonic Harder Project Youtube Channel
• The Official Sonic Harder Project's Question & Answers Page