Sonic 2 Recreation

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Sonic 2 Recreation
Version: Demo 2
Last release: 28th March 2009
System: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Original game: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit)
Credits: redhotsonic

Sonic 2 Recreation is a hack of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit) by redhotsonic. It sports various ASM edits, multiple characters, levels from other Sonic games (notably Sonic Advance 3), and also includes his own level art.

Information

After a year of not hacking, redhotsonic missed working on Red Hot Sonic 2, and decided to start hacking Sonic 2 again from scratch using ASM. This hack has a different objective than most others: you must find the emerald in the level before you can finish it. Hill Top Zone is replaced by a level select level featuring various logos, each corresponding to a different level, with the logo for a particular level not becoming active until the preceding level is completed.

Sonic 2 Recreation features Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Mighty and redhotsonic as playable characters. Each character can be played as individually, and additionally Tails can pair up with Sonic or Knuckles, acting as a sidekick, and Knuckles can also pair up with Sonic. Cream the Rabbit was originally going to be present in the hack as well, but was soon scrapped due to a bad spritesheet and people disliking her. It is unknown as yet if JetPackTails will make an appearance.

Updates on this hack are mainly posted on the SSRG and RetroHack forums, and occasionally on the Sonic Retro forums.

Mighty on the lightning level. This barrier blocks the end-of-act sign and will remain until the emerald is found. The warp will take you to the beginning of the level, facilitating searching the entire level again to find the emerald

Demo

A demo of Sonic 2 Recreation was released on the 19th of April, 2008. Not all planned features are present in this demo, which only features:

• Level select level (replaces Hill Top Zone)
• First emerald finding level (Emerald Hill Zone)
• Sonic and Tails/Sonic Alone/Tails Alone as playable character combinations
• Sonic's air dash (a double-jump action)
• Tails' flying ability (keep pressing or whilst in mid-air)
• Tails' drop ability (while flying, press the button to drop to the ground quickly)
• Tails' carrying ability (while flying, make Sonic jump into Tails' arms and Tails will carry Sonic)
• A sneak-peek at Knuckles with Tails on the second level (which is incomplete, although the emerald is there)
• Knuckles' gliding and climbing ability
• New Eggman explosion art
• Act 1 of each level uses the 2P mode death mechanism (the level scrolls back to the beginning instead of restarting)
• Back logo (to go back to the level select level)
• Warphole (to go back to the beginning of the level if you do not find the emerald)
• Barrier (disappears when emerald is found)
• New art
• Some different music from other Sonic games
• monitor, which gives a variable amount of rings
• Different waiting animations: Sonic blinks and taps his foot, while Knuckles blinks and punches the air
• Knuckles can break monitors by walking into them
• Different title cards for different characters.

Level one is completable, level 2 is not: although the emerald is present, the end-of-act sign is inaccessible. In addition, level 2 can also only be played with Knuckles as a main character and Tails as his sidekick.

Demo 2

The second demo of the game is more complete. These are the features in the second demo:

• Level select level (replaces Hill Top Zone. The unerased parts of Hill Top Zone can be found to the right, in very garbled form.)
• The first four emerald finding levels (In order of Emerald Hill Zone, Chemical Plant Zone, Casino Night Zone and Metropolis Zone.)
• A ton of different character combinations, including Redhotsonic and Cream alone (which is garbled Shadow and Cream.)
• All the moves and features in the last demo.
• Knuckles has gliding and climbing ability.
• Mighty has a sort of "Wall Stick" move (Mighty sticks onto the wall when you press jump near one, but you can't leave the wall without waiting for Mighty to drop off.)
• Aquatic Ruin Zone is accessable via level select and It might be based on a zone like Sunset Hill Zone because that those tiles are found there and the very start of the level is complete (but the rest isn't.).
• Glitches and hidden things:
  • The Casino Night and Emerald Hill Zone's new tiles aren't made for getting compressed in 2P mode. They look weird.
  • Selecting the Hill Top Zone Act 2 will bring the player to A very garbled form of Hill Top Zone.
  • Aquatic Ruin Zone is accessable via level select and It might be based on a zone like Sunset Hill Zone because that those tiles are found there and the very start of the level is complete (but the rest isn't.).

Downloads

Download Sonic 2 Recreation File: Sonic_2_Recreation_Demo_2.zip (1,017 kB) (info) Current version: demo

Previous Versions

• Sonic 2 Recreation Demo 1 ^(info) (1 MB) (1MB)