Superstars Amy Rose in Sonic the Hedgehog

By rocketsailor
   

Have no fear, Amy Rose is here!

This ROM hack of Sonic the Hedgehog features the same familiar places, but with Amy as the main playable character. Amy can use her double jump for platforming and her iconic Piko Piko Hammer to defeat enemies, just like in Sonic Superstars!

Playing as Amy is simple: When you jump, Amy starts using her hammer automatically. Pressing jump again will cause Amy to gain some additional height! If you hold jump until Amy lands on a surface, she will rush forward with a swinging hammer, destroying any enemy that crosses her path! In addition, Amy is capable of performing a spindash to build up speed quickly.

This project is a labor of love. I have spent many hours carefully analyzing how Amy plays in Sonic Superstars and worked to recreate her playstyle as accurately as possible. I even included a couple custom sound effects! Various bugfixes and optimizations have also been applied to the original game for an improved gameplay experience. My recreation is not 100% perfect, and probably never will be, but I still hope everybody enjoys playing this ROM hack as much I as I did making it.

Credits
  • E-122-Psi, DeltaW, and Kilo - Assistance with hammer object programming
  • RetroKoH, DeltaW, and others - Bugfixes and changes from S1Fixed
  • Mercury - Bugfixes and changes from ReadySonic
  • Rrose80149 - Fixed demos
  • vladikcomper - Author of the MegaPCM 2 Sound Driver
  • LuigiXHero - Wrote dropdash code that the hammer rush was initially based on
  • Devy - "AMY" letter graphics on title screen
  • A+Start - Original creator of the Origins Plus Amy sprites

Hacking guides on Sonic Retro and Sonic Stuff Research Group were also utilized for this ROM hack. Additional credits can be found within the source code here.

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File Type: rom/mega-drive

File Size: 575.45 KB

SegaHatty @ 2024-09-28 02:35:46

Comment deleted by SegaHatty @ 2024-09-28 02:40:57

SegaHatty @ 2024-09-28 02:41:34

Utilising the DAC channel? Nice!

randomfan21 @ 2024-09-28 13:08:00

Comment deleted by randomfan21 @ 2024-09-29 16:11:00

rocketsailor @ 2024-09-29 13:25:15

While I appreciate your suggestions, I am going to decline because I want to keep this as accurate to the original game as possible. This project is open source, so you are more than welcome to modify it to your heart's content if you like! Thank you for playing!

Jdpense @ 2024-09-29 20:44:16

I really liked Amy's fluent sprites, not much to say other than that.