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Big's Fishing Derby
Version: 1.05.0200
Last release: 2015-10-09
Status: Active
System: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Original game: Sonic Classic Heroes
Credits: flamewing

Big's Fishing Derby (ビッグの 釣りダービー) is a hack of Sonic Classic Heroes for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis by flamewing that allows the player to play as Big the Cat on various fishing levels. Platforming is gone and the game takes place by a series of bodies of water where the player must catch Froggy while avoiding hooking underwater badniks. Eggman also competes with Big in the race to catch Froggy.

Originally intended to be a secret mini-game in Sonic Classic Heroes, the idea grew beyond its original inception and ended up becoming a game of its own.

Controls

  • Down to increase or Up to decrease the length of the fishing line (i.e., the vertical position of the hook).
  • Left and Right to move the hook horizontally. The hook will move back to the center when neither is pressed.
  • C Change the selected power-up.
  • A Use the selected power-up to attack or hinder your opponent (if any). This does nothing in single player mode unless Eggman is on-screen.
  • B Use the selected power-up to help youself.

Game modes

  • Single player:
    • Time Attack: Race against the clock to save Froggy! You have 10 minutes to finish all zones; if you fail, it is game over. To compensate, there are no distractions in this mode.
    • Arcade mode: Battle Eggman's robotic army with limited lives, limited time and ever increasing difficulty to save Froggy! Also features boss fights.
  • Competition:
    • Random levels: Instead of always following the same level order, the game decides on a random level order.
    • Best <M> out of <N>: Instead of going through all zones for each round against Eggman, play only a selection of levels, with simple majority winning the game.
  • Either:
    • Zen Mode: No lives, no time, no pressure: just fishing. Allows optional join in of a second player.

Power-ups

You gain power-ups by fishing out badniks.

BFD-Rings.png Immediate effect Gives you the indicated amount of rings. Rings improve the quality of the power-ups you gain, and may give lives depending on game mode.
BFD-Shield.png Immediate effect Gives you a protective shield that will absorb one hit.
BFD-Bombs.png Usable You gain the indicated number of bombs. Bombs can be used for:

A Competition mode: breaks your opponent's line, destroying the hooked badnik or freeing Froggy.

A Arcade mode: Damages the Boss Fish.

B Destroys a random number of badniks on your side of the pond.

BFD-Shoes.png Usable

A Competition mode: Speeds up your opponent's badniks, and cancels his own speed shoes.

A Arcade mode: Slows down the Boss Fish and speeds up right-side badniks.

B Speeds up fishing line movement, and cancels badnik speed up on your badniks.

BFD-Stars.png Usable

A Competition mode: Makes your opponent's badniks invincible (can't be fished out) and cancels his own invincibility.

A Arcade mode: Makes right-side badniks invincible, causing them to hurt the Boss Fish.

B Makes you invincible, and cancels invincibility on your badniks.

BFD-S.png Usable

Combines Speed Shoes and Invincibility in one rare and easy-to-use package.

Known bugs

The 2015 Sonic Hacking Contest version has the following bugs:

  • There is a mistake in the controls page, which swaps the line position and line length controls.
  • The emerald jingle incorrectly overrides the "sucking in" sound in the introductory cutscene.

These bugs will be fixed after the contest.

Revisions

  • Revision $200, the 2015 Sonic Hacking Contest version.
  • Revision $D9 which fixes input issue in real hardware.

Downloads

Download.svg Download Big's Fishing Derby
File: BigsFishingDerby-v1.05.0200.7z (378 kB) (info)
Current version: 1.05.0200

Prior versions

External links

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Release thread
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