Sonic 2 Addendum (DEMO)
By Speems
Are you REALLY up 2 it?
After Sonic's journeys across South Island and the Little Planet, he sets his sights to settle down on the Westside Islands. During his travels, he meets and befriends Miles "Tails" Prower, a young fox boy with the power of flight using his own two tails. But where there's Sonic, there's Dr. Eggman. And this time, Eggman is planning a world takeover while trapping animals in capsules or turning them into robots. With his fabulous friends and extreme powers, Sonic must find the seven Chaos Emeralds and stop Eggman once again!
The development for Sonic 2 is undoubtedly a well-documented piece of Sonic history, showcasing the process of how the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive classic came to be from its co-development between Sonic Team and Sega Technical Institute. A combination of scrapped content, additional quality-of-life tweaks and bonuses result in the Sonic 2 you know and love getting better than ever.
This demo build contains six zones: Emerald Hill, Secret Woods, Casino Night, Sand Shower, Mystic Cave, and Cyber City. A bonus zone can be accessed if you know where to go in a certain stage...
Special thanks to Giovanni.gen for the Score Rush disassembly, which was used in the creation of this hack!
- Speems (Project Lead)
- Giovanni.gen (Score Rush Disassembly Branch)
- E-122-Psi (Sand Shower and Jovial Tundra Assets)
- CartoonsAnimate22 (Knuckles Art)
- TheCrushedJoyconTSR (Missing Tails Sprites)
- Hez and Tom Payne (Cyber City Assets)
- Aprkot/AlyStyle/Cosmic Eternity/Cyb/KatKuriN/King the Memer/Louplayer/RetroForever/Storice/TruthTomato/Viator_/Greenknight9000/Makoto (Sonic 2 Absolute Assets)
File Type: rom/mega-drive
File Size: 1.38 MB
Sand Shower is really well done, fits right in with the other Sonic 2 levels. Wood Zone could have been done better, its lvl design is very blocky.
The enemy placement in Wood Zone is very oddly and cheap at points. Sand Shower and Cyber City were pretty decent for the most part.
Here is an updated version of the demo, giving you a better look at what the game'll look like. This patched version contains a few adjustments to some levels and a total art rehaul to give a proper fresh coat of paint to the aesthetics.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g34pmvYtmsOPM5X_JtvVa6Ovtqxnih1N/view?usp=sharing
Might as well make this clear right away: the art is getting replaced by its proper assets from the original and 2013 port where applicable. As such, most of the art assets in this demo are already outdated and have already been changed/replaced.