[SHC'25 Sorta Beta] Sonic Titanium
By EddyTF & Co
Sonic Titanium (other names: Sonic Christmas Drive, Sonic XMAS Drive) - a project that has been developed by our team since 2022. A lot has changed during this time, and we are finally able to showcase the first public release at the Sonic Hacking Contest 2025 as a beta version.
Plot:
Evil Doc Eggy has gone completely berserk, taken over Resort Island, and completely frozen it (as well as creating crazy badniks that are twice as evil as the previous ones). Help Sonic stop the crazy old man and bring back the summer to the island
Game Features:
- EddyTF's New Age System, PlayerFall routine and Smart HurtSonic/KillSonic routines
- A new cool system transitions between acts and levels/Speedy Title Cards
- Two Camera Modes (For more information, see Camera)
- New Polar Peak Boss (special thanks TheBlad768)
Sonic's Abillity:
- CD Spin Dash - "Down+A,B,C"
- Water Skimming (vladikcomper) - "EddyTF says: -It's a kind of water jump. To do this, you need to accelerate in a rolling state on the water zones"
The state of the level design:
- Polar Peak Zone - Completed
- Cold Mansion Zone - 20%
- Sochi Resort Zone - 20%
- "EddyTF says: -other zones - 10-15%"
Camera:
- If you press the "A" button on the title screen, EddyTF's SonUltraWideCamera mode will be activated (note: generally it is enabled by default lol)
- If you press the "B" button on the title screen, Original Normal Camera mode will be activated
We wish you a pleasant game)
- EddyTF - project lead, coding, porting music, some arts
- DarkShamilKhan (DSK) - level design, some coding
- Guyke (aka SuperSonic321) - Polar Peak Art
- TheBlad768 - Polar Peak Boss
- Nice SMPS, EddyTF, Dewar, Nothembur, JoenickROS, Cinossu, SEGA, Timaeus, Ivan YO (N-BAH), RRad Music - SMPS Music
- Hame - some coding
- ReZziguy (ReZ) - some coding
- Nik Pi, DSK, Dawid (aka Grosy), sanchiboy, AleDrawer - beta testing
- TN, Selbi - some ideas
- TheSpritersResources and SCAA - Art
Special Thanks:
- TheBlad768
- Guyke (SuperSonic321)
- Nik Pi
- DarkShamilKhan
- TN
- Selbi
- Joshwoakes (for Banger PCM DACs)
- MattGamer
- and guys from SSRG & SonicRetro. None of this would be possible without you
File Type: rom/mega-drive
File Size: 1.23 MB
small nice hack its icey too
how do i even play this hack? The game crashes no matter what i do!!!
You have to press down twice to get to the new Age option. Yeah, it's not obvious and it threw me off until someone pointed this out. And it's not mentioned anywhere that this is the case. A bad decision for sure.
This feels like someone just threw a bunch of things into Sonic 1 and called it a day. Nothing makes sense. It's wild that it was released in this state. I'd like to say more but the character limit on this site is actually pitiful, so I can't give you meaningful criticism. All I can say is that nothing feels good here.
This hack is like a time machine that takes you back to the Sonic CIS of 2013-2015.
For those who are stuck at the start, you're supposed to hit two options down to get to the age option, any casual player who isn't familiar with Sonic 2 (or sonic 3 by extention) isn't going to know this is a thing.
Sorry for the spoilers, but also you've hit almost all squares in our bingo card, congrats.
huh i dont remember working on this... the execution here is awful. weve got poorly placed enemies and a level design that starts "meh" but goes completely off the rails by act 3 and beyond, badniks are erratically with unpredictable and annoying attack patterns, all paired with a genuinely awkward, even frustrating camera system
why does this even have an age verification? i cant find any sense in this since its just a sonic rom hack and there isnt even any violent content
Last modified by Guyke Atolly @ 2025-10-06 08:51:17
OK, this was... something, yes. Getting past the "age not defined" stuff was a challenge on itself (what would think someone playing this off the Vault several years later with no instructions?). The actual hack reminds me if Sonic Winter Adventures and ERaZor had a love child, which is actually a interesting concept on itself... but the "new" camera quickly drops a nuke over it. Rough start there...
Once you get into the game... oof, while the art is nice and the music choices are not bad, the layouts are quite unforgiving, especially PPZ3 and those leaps o' faith.
Also, starting with just ONE life? Ouch. And why the entire screen shakes when doing a spindash!?
So yeah... playability is not exactly the forte of this hack. But at least it can deliver something, once you get past of the hurdles.
This hack reminded me a lot of both Erazor and Winter Adventure. The single life and weird age system are odd, and the ultra-wide camera was really annoying and probably shouldn't be the default. Otherwise I had some fun with this, I'm looking forward to see how this turns out in the future.
My playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdPQKq6KLU
The age system defintely gave me a chuckle lol
It honestly felt kinda weird playing SonUltraWideCamera mode as default
I thought the boss was pretty interesting, although it can be hard to hit him, since he's pretty high up
and I noticed the present bombs hitboxes are slighter higher then the sprites
Last modified by Jdpense @ 2025-10-04 10:47:30