Sonic Zeta Overdrive
From Sonic Retro
| Sonic Zeta Overdrive |
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| Version: Release 2 |
| Last release: 11/1/08 |
| System: Sega Mega Drive |
| Original game: [[]] |
| Credits: Mikel, Nineko, Tweaker |
Sonic Zeta Overdrive is a hack of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit) for the Sega Mega Drive by Mikel. Plans as of now include adding the Centisecond timer.
Contents
Features
- New Level Layouts
- New Palettes
- New Music
- 11 Levels
- Sonic 2 Clone Driver
- Flying for Tails
- Super Peel-Out, and Jump Dash for Sonic
- New level art
Planned Features
- Centisecond Timer
Features confirmed by Mikel
- Bean the Dynamite as a Playable character
- Kula Diamond from The King of Fighters 2000 as a boss
Controls
For All Characters
- Look up, useful for looking up at your higher surroundings, can also be used for the Super Peel-Out (Sonic Only)
- Crouch, useful for looking down at your lower surroundings, can also be used for the Spin Dash
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- Move, move at the same direction to go faster, press the opposite (Left if moving right, Right if moving left) button to break.
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- Spin Dash, used for rolling at fast speeds, Press any button to increase Speed
For Sonic Only
+ // - Super Peel-Out, used for running at fast speeds, unlike the Spin Dash, you can only press any button once, since the Peel-Out is not chargeable.
For Tails Only
Jump + // - Flying, Fly at anytime, but don't fly for too long, flying for too long can cause Tails to get tired.
Jump + // if underwater - Swimming, swim at anytime, but don't swim for too long, swimming for too long can cause Tails to get tired.
For Bean Only
at any direction - Bomb Toss, Bean can toss a bomb at any direction (Won't be available in the Hacking Contest Beta)
- High Speed Dash, Bean can do a instant spindash at the touch of the B Button
For Sonic and Bean
Jump + // - Jump Dash
Known Bugs
- When you are playing this hack on real hardware, you may notice when you press down while standing, the game will crash, but not the music. (Bug found by TmEE)
If you found a bug you would like to report, PM Mikel on the Sonic Retro Forums.
Credits
- Nineko - For xm2smps, xm3smps, the boss tune from Granada, the F-Zero ending theme, and some of the songs that Mikel is using from SoniNeko
- Tweaker - For the Sonic 2 Clone Driver
- Puto - For xm4smps
- roxahris - For the Metal Gear 2 - Frequency 140.85 tune
- Xenowhirl - For the Sonic 2 2007 Disassembly
- Ollie, JcFerggy, DNXDelta, ShadowFire and the SCAA - For compressed art
- Dr. Kylstien - For the Peel-Out code
- SMTP and drx - For the Tails Flying Code
- Selbi - For the Jump Dash code
- Stealth - For SonED2
- Hitaxas - For the RetroHack Splash Screen
sonichackman1/steven the human for being a beta tester.
- UtopiaUK - For the MTZ1, MTZ2 layouts, the MTZ Background art and the CNZ layouts.
- DeoxysKyorge - For the Bean sprites that I built upon by adding more sprites.
Downloads
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Download Sonic Zeta Overdrive
File: Sonic_Zeta_Overdrive.rar (829 kB) (info)
Current version: Release 2 |
Prior Versions
- Hacking Contest 2008 build (info) (803 kB) (802KB, released 8/31/08)
External Links
- Preview video #1 at YouTube
- Preview video #2 at YouTube
- Preview video #3 at YouTube
- Preview video #4 at YouTube
- Preview video #5 at YouTube
- Preview video #6 at YouTube