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Sonic the Hedgehog - The Final Showdown

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Sonic the Hedgehog - The Final Showdown is a hack of Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis by Anthall.


Story

After the battle of Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr Ivo Robotnik at the end of Sonic the Hedgehog, Dr Robotnik promised to remove all his batniks from Mobius. Robotnik was doing as he has promised, or as Sonic thought...

Dr Robotnik was secretly double crossing Sonic. He was secretly torturing all of Sonic's friends and was sending meteorites to the planet. Dr Robotnik then when to attempt to steal the Master Emerald from Knuckles.

On Robotnik's confrontation with Knuckles. They started to battle, Knuckles tried to fight Dr Robotnik but was sorely defeated and was left for the dead as Dr Robotnik stole the Master Emerald.

When Sonic found out about Dr Robotnik's double crossing. He severed his new found friendship with Dr Robotnik and went to the Master Emerald. He saw Knuckles and dying and Knuckles's last words were: "Sonic...Please get the Master Emerald back and save all of mankind.". Knuckles passed away. Sonic was furious and upset. After crying for a bit, Sonic stood up and lifted his fist in the air and shouted "I will kill Dr Robotnik:

In the Final Showdown.

History

Sonic Seasons

Anthall initially started off like most people, using level editors to try to make a Sonic hack. He used Esrael Sonic Editor II to create his first Sonic hack, which was called Sonic Seasons. It was never released to the public and was admittedly very joke looking, featuring clashing colors, plenty of errors, awkward looking sprites and a glitched HUD, but it was his first experience with Sonic hacking.

Sonic Gets Poisoned!

He started his second Sonic hack called Sonic Gets Poisoned! because Sonic was colored green at that time. It was a very large step forward from Sonic Seasons, as it was far less buggy and the colors clashed much less (although they still clashed a lot). It was also his first hack with all the levels modified. It was met with much criticism due to the amount of glitches and the clashing colors from the Sonic Retro members however.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2008 Beta 2.0

The second release of Sonic Gets Poisoned! was called Sonic the Hedgehog 2008. It was far less buggy, and had some more alternate routes and half-decent colors. Sonic's blue color was restored (which is why the name was changed). The response from the Sonic Retro members was far better this time, due to the better color pallet and the reduction of glitches.


Sonic the Hedgehog - The Final Showdown v2.1

This is the pre-release of the third version of Sonic the Hedgehog - The Final Showdown. It was released to allow a wiki page to be created for it, because all the earlier versions didn't met the Hack Policy. It is the first time he has done ASM and graphics editing. Admittedly the changes are minimal but he is only a beginner. He has changed some of the monitor icons and monitor effects. Anthall has also made Techra City Zone 3 is now much longer.


Sonic the Hedgehog - The Final Showdown v3.0

The upcoming 3rd release of Anthall's hack is called Sonic the Hedgehog - The Final Showdown. Also, many of the weaker levels in Sonic the Hedgehog 2008 will be completely scrapped and replaced and Techra City Zone 3/Scrap Brain Zone 3 will have many of its air bubbles and monitor boxes removed, to make the level more brutal.

Levels

Note: These levels will be in version 3.0, they are not in the current Pre-Release.

Neo Green Hill: Walk through the new Green Hill Zone, covered in fires caused by the endless streams of meteorites.

Skylight Zone: Walk through the stars in the sky in Robotnik's redesigned Star Light Zone. Be careful though, Robotnik has done all he can to make the layout more difficult.

Aqua Jungle Zone: Walk through the orange jungle, while trying not to stay under the water for too long. (Water not implemented yet)

Ancient Ruin Zone: The new Labyrinth, with unfair jumps and a desperate rush to keep Sonic's oxygen up.

Spring Stadium Zone: A huge party level full of springs and other bouncy objects. Try not to bounce to your death!

Techra City Zone: Dr Robotnik's final area, which is rumoured to hold Dr Robotnik's world wide headquarters, but be careful! Dr Robotnik has protected his HQ by a huge refinery and a huge labyrinth.

Monitors

10ring.png - A monitor that gives Sonic 10 rings.

50ring.png - A monitor that gives Sonic 50 rings. Very Rare and Valuable indeed.

Speed.png - A monitor that gives Sonic a temporary speed boost.

Bubble.png - A monitor that tops ups Sonic's oxygen supply.

All other monitors remain the same as the original.

Features

  • Spindash Implemented (Partial).
  • Spike Bug Fixed.
  • New level layouts, pallet colors and new monitors.
  • Dr Robotnik's ships are stronger.
  • Rearranged Level Music.


Future features

  • New ported Music from other games.
  • Water in Aqua Jungle Zone.
  • A monitor that increases Sonic's jump height and allows Sonic to reach new areas.
  • Fix Title Cards to reflect the new Level names and change the level order.


Credits

Tweaker, SOTI and nineko: For help in creating the bubble monitor. Insanity, MegaMan88, ColinC10, HighFrictionZone - For advice and opinions.

Downloads

Download.svg Download Sonic the Hedgehog - The Final Showdown
File: Sonic_the_Hedgehog_-_The_Final_Showdownv2.1.zip (383 kB) (info)
Current version: 2.1