Brutal Sonic

By Team Brutality

IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS HACK IS EXTREMELY RUSHED IN SOME PLACES, THE PCM AND SOUND DRIVER IS EXPERIMENTAL AND MAY HAVE BUGS

Brutal Sonic is a difficult (and violent) hack that manages to not be total bullshit! There are six brand-new levels and some entirely custom bosses for you to defeat. Despite this hack looking very "vanilla" on the surface, it features a toally re-organized and cleaned up Sonic 1 engine. This allowed me to add more secrets speed up the development process towards the end significantly, and bring you this monstrosity of a hack.

This hack has five difficulties for you to choose from:

  • Weak - For people who don't want a challenge. No spike bug, standard gameplay.
  • Normal - The default difficulty. Spike bug is enabled, and all projectiles bounce.
  • Hard - For harder bosses. Identical to Normal, but with your rings being cleared before bossfights.
  • Nightmare - No. Rings.
  • ??? - ???

Good luck, and have fun!

Credits
  • Code: Fuzzy, Vladikcomper, Giovanni, Selbi
  • Music: Jet, KCEXE, Vladikcomper, FoxConED, JK Fox, Oerg866, dust hill resident, Lightning_Splash, Amphobius
  • VEPS Sound Driver + MegaPCM 2: Vladikcomper
  • Graphics: Fuzzy, KCEXE, TheBlad768, funamusea
  • Levels: Fuzzy, Giovanni
  • Secret Text: Fengish

Some stuff like explosions and music are taken from open-sourced hacks like Sonic ERaZor. The other one I would rather not credit for obvious reasons, however I have credited the artist. I could not find good fitting music anywhere else.

Dedicated to Cyan Helkaraxe, special thanks to Rivet

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File Type: rom/mega-drive

File Size: 3.58 MB


fuzzy @ 2023-08-26 10:14:46

Comment deleted by D.A. Garden @ 2023-09-17 07:45:36

fuzzy @ 2023-10-10 17:42:08

This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, actual events, Sonic ERaZor, or my hack! is purely coincidental.

DeltaW @ 2023-10-23 06:40:57

Peak ROM hack

dilworks @ 2023-10-23 07:44:54

Someone took inspiraton from the Michael Bay of Sonic ROM hacks, interesting.

Not great, but not bad either. Tunable difficulty is always a godsend. I'm not fan of the gore-y stuff, but it fits with the soundtrack choices. Eggy zapped my ass by Marble Zone, so... yeah.

Eeveelover64 @ 2023-10-23 18:48:55

this was a really fun hack to play through! i liked the fact you kinda took inspiration from ERaZor in terms "explosiveness" hehe. i was gonna say smth about the "spike bug" but i believe it was intentional to add to the "brutal" factor, the credits music was awesome and so was the music choice for this hack! btw i like the end credits scene, it was very cute :]

fuzzy @ 2023-10-24 07:24:10

Really glad you had fun! Voice and drawing at the end are from me, I'm quite flattered.

Souplike @ 2023-10-24 14:16:09

The violence is surreal! Great hack by the way.

Jdpense @ 2023-10-24 19:20:55

I really love the boss concepts! They are probably my favorite from this contest overall!

Xcourge @ 2023-10-25 14:01:00

Slaaaayyyyeerrr!!!!!

raining blood! Best hack ever! hehehehe, good soundtrack bro.

fuzzy @ 2023-10-25 15:52:12

Thank FoxConED for that, his port rocks!!

EddyTF & Co @ 2023-10-29 03:10:23

Awesome ROM Hack!

Peanut Noceda @ 2024-05-31 13:44:02

i love the mechanics of the game, and i LOVE so much the music, good hack