Just a little reminder that wood zone and cyber city zone are bonuses and most likely will be removed due to how unfinished they are, which is why they can only be accessed in the level select.

Warning Casino Night Zone Boss is Broken

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Here is a Fixed Version, However Due to the Rules the Build on this Entry page should be the one that is judged. Just Use this Version to enjoy the mod but the other to vote.

Makes sense, hopefully they can be finished in the near future along with fixing any bugs/glitches/crashes!

I was going to tell you about that problem but ... thank you!

Hey where is sound test 59, 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D, 5E, 5F, 60, and 61 used? Orrrr... are they unused?

Holy shit the art is beautiful!

I love this mod but i found a glitch in casino night where the game crashes during the boss and I can't avoid it

Which was already noted by the developer as the first comment, above. There's even a link to a fixed version.

That wasn't there yesterday so I didn't know

SophieDude, nice job on sprite work and the music! I liked the transition on Mystic Cave to Hidden Palace. I'm gonna explore more of this romhack after work.

How do you access the level select?

All of the Cheat Codes are the Same as the original, Enter 19, 65, 09, 17 in the Option Screen Sound Test

I honestly thought that this was just going Sonic 2 but with minor sprite edits at first, but I was very glad that wasn't the case! I can tell you put a lot effort in sprites and artwork, as every asset was changed! I was very surprised and impressed by this one!

The art of this Hack, simply beautiful, the music thinks the same. Nice job doing this Hack

I love the remix in Chemical Plant Zone Act 2. If this is what you can do as your first custom track in game, then I cannot wait to see what else you can pull off. I love the difficulty levels (although I feel a little more could be done with it), and the bosses using each level's instrumentation is a very nice touch.

Yay, someone used the 2P VS expansions. :D

Anyway this is looking impressive, the music remixes in particular sound pretty awesome and the extra shade and gradient to the whole package (along with the colour scheme tweaks between acts) really do spruce up the whole thing. Kinda looks like a 32X port.

The juiced up options is also a great bit of polish.

Is Works On MD.EMU Is Pretty Good But Wood Zone Is Unfinshed But Hidden Palace Zone And Cyber City aka Gencoide City Zone Is Complete

Did you even read Sophiedude's comment?

I really like this hack, the visuals are great, the music is great, and I'm glad you were able to implement tails flight and knuckles, really good job on this hack!

(1) This rom hack seems quite interesting... I have liked a lot of your hack: the new set of sprites, zone background palette colors, the new background music remixes... but what I liked the most is your new "hard mode". It's quite interesting to see finally somebody attempting to make a Hard mode for Sonic 2. I could suggest you adding up more hits required (8 for almost all Sonic 2 / 3&k battles) in order to defeat Eggman on each battle, something like 20.

So I actually did increase his amount of hits but it didn't make it harder just longer. so I reverted all of the boss to 8. I'm currently thinking I different ways of make each boss harder like for example wfz boss currently changes behavior a bit in hard mode

(2) Also if possible, I'd really like if you can increase Eggman invincibility between each hit so the battles don't end on the very usual 2-5 seconds (Chemical plant or Hill top boss battles for example)... As a final suggestion, is there some chance you could increase the amount of rings required for each round of each special stage ?

(3) I haven't seen a single Sonic 2 rom hack to ever change special stages but increasing the rings for each special stage round would definetely boost the "hard mode" to a way better and accurate spot. I'd really appreciate if you can apply either all or any of them into your hack... There're very few Sonic 2 hacks which may attempt to bring up a harder / more challenging version of the game... I hope you can answer, please ! Thank you a lot for sharing developer !!

The problem with changing the special stage is that I have to test to make sure you can get enough rings in each section. I'm really bad at the special stages in sonic 2. This is currently why they don't change on hard mode. I'm trying to think of a better way of making it hard.

(1)Is there some other social media to contact you for a faster interaction ? I'm a very old experienced Sonic 2 player which may help you out with difficulty testings on my little stream if you ever want a tester for a difficulty boost, no problem at all !! I literally know every single ring spot and I have just played them so many times in the past to know that those would be a whole different thing if actually was increased the rings required for each special stage Round...

(2) Not only that I haven't ever seen changed from any sonic 2 hack but also I haven't ever seen somebody who ever changed object/mine/rings from any special stage so AT LEAST this harder rings requirement for each Round would actually make the game feel much more fresh in my very honest opinion... I'm pretty sure there're other people who are looking for a way HARDER Sonic 2 experience which may enjoy this as well...

(3) Either this or I would really appreciate a unique version for me to play them with a higher rings requirement I could let you know specifically for each round... This harder special stages version is something I always dreamed for, but I'm way too stupid to know how to modify by myself.

Your hack fires on all cylanders! The graphics, the music, and the whole enchilada are perfect. This perhaps may be the definitive Sonic 2 experience.

I love this Beautiful hack!

Holy crap! This is good! This is now my prefered method to play Sonic 2!

Hey, if you can, please keep Cyber City Zone. It is actually what I really wanted. Also, fun fact, someone put Metropolis's palette into Sonic Spinballs "The Machine" level and noticed that it looks exactly like Metropolis. If you can keep it, please use The Machine's palette, if you can.

Also, I will rip this games music... eventually, cuz the remixes are AMAZING! This soundtrack deserves to be listened by EVERYONE!

This game is very good, especially the music

7/10

If Amy Rose Was Jourable in Sonic 2 Anniversary as Knuckles ?

I cant download it!

Nice Game

Huh, cool, i hope to see how it'll be when it's complete.

Something i'd like is that the themes of the levels would change when Hard Mode is activated.

I played it, and honestly, it's a good game, It would've been nice if we could play as S&K, but at least it's nice we can play as K&T so i'll let that pass, However, this isn't what i want to say, i'll give my criticism to da Hard Mode:

1. Hard Mode is Almost not different to the normal Sonic 2:

(I had to resume all of this to comment this.)

you said the level layouts was changed to be harder, Through, i played it and didn't other differences other than jerk moves in some parts and boom, really? I throught it was HARD, add some bottomless Pits, More plataforming, it could be harder, like changing the level layouts so they're harder.

2. Bosses being very easy on Hard Mode:

Despite it is "harder", I can Jump like 8 Times on Eggman and destroy him in less of 5-10 Seconds, At least make them have 15 HP and his Invecibility Frames last longer so you don't defeat him that fast.

4/10, it's good, but it's anything but Hard, This fails at being what it is. HARD MODE. If you improved or not it'd still be a nice game i'd still enjoy, because 1 bad aspect won't ruin the entire game for me, Keep the good work, buddy.

Hey, love the hack! Only minor moan is that the ring count goes up in debug mode when Super.

Dude, cool hack! Everything look as a good old, yet a bit polished! Hope you will add more needed stuff on actual anniversary! You've got two years! ;)

I didn't get it, did you hardened the special stages a bit (in hard mode) - your hack made me play Sonic 2 without save states! I never made it since... I learned emulation, about 20 years ago I think! O_O......

But I did beat it on a good ending ai a first play. thou it is still was a challage! Thanks

Hello, are you updating this rom hack still ? Would love to see more additions into it.

ok can some one help me please i have the mod downloded how do i run the game

Despite the many bugs that happen from time to time, letters break or you lose speed in a part of the Chemical Plant, this is ignored because the game is done well!

That is so cool, such a crisp re-representation, I definitelly should go throught it!

The only thing, that I wish for, as perfectionist, is to add a Widescreen GX (libretro) hack! Or, the better — is to recreate it once again as a Sonic2 whitehead decompilation!!

Loving it.

What's the voice clip you're using for Robotnik's laugh (whenever he scores a hit)? Could you share that as a sound file somehow? I would like to use it in my own rom hack as well.

I made an account just to complement you on this piece of art. I love this soundtrack and I even played it on my megadrive! You pushed the hardware to it's limits with the colors, music, and overall gameplay. Slow downs did happen when too many sprites loaded on the screen, but that is inevitable with any megadrive game. I was very shocked by the clean samples, especially because the megadrive doesn't do well with samples, unlike its competitors. I really love this game.