Sonic Debut (Legacy)

SONIC DEBUT is a project I started on in early 2020, initially being a replica of the TTS demo, and evolving into a much bigger project. Recently, it's became increasingly obvious that the community's starting to get tired of Sonic 1 concept-related (aka "beta") hacks, and recently, I've also become quite tired of it.

After 2 years of development, I've rebooted the project for a more unique approach, based on Sega's arcade platformer titles. The Sonic 1 concept-based version of the hack is no longer in development.

Well, that's it for the introduction. Now, a description of the hack itself, at least in the status it was before it was rebooted.

• Spinning Jump - Sonic doesn't instantly go into a ball when you jump. Press the action button mid-air to curl up and attack enemies.

• Health System - Sonic's health is no longer tied to rings. In fact, rings don't exist in this hack! There is a more standardized hit system here, starting off with 5 hit points. You lose a life if you lose all your hit points. Extra HP monitors are scattered around the levels.

• New Level Layouts - As per usual, there's a new level layout. Not exactly new, but rather a twist on the existing ones.

• New Sonic Sprites - It's TTS! Now you see why we're changing that.

Filename: Sonic The Hedgehog (USA, Europe).md
CRC32: f9394e97
SHA-1: 6ddb7de1e17e7f6cdb88927bd906352030daa194
Verified: Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis v.20260617-060303 (No-Intro)
Filename: Sonic The Hedgehog (Japan, Europe, Korea) (En).md
CRC32: afe05eee
SHA-1: 69e102855d4389c3fd1a8f3dc7d193f8eee5fe5b
Verified: Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis v.20260617-060303 (No-Intro)
Filename: Sonic The Hedgehog (USA, Europe) (Beta).md
CRC32: 917c9ca9
SHA-1: 0b38a66d5e2ffa2394fccb41e4871419cd0a077d
Verified: Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis v.20260617-060303 (No-Intro)

• Lead - MDTravis: Programmers - MDTravis, Inferno, Rivet, KatKuriN, Giovanni, KGL, MrLordSith Art - MDTravis, BladeOfChaos, ManiacShard, KatKuriN, Joshyflip, Gastón A. Guzman, StarDrop, PepsiJuan666 Music - MDTravis, KatKuriN, THiN CRUST, seafour Testers - BladeOfChaos, LittlePlanetCD, KGL, Inferno, ManiacShard, Giovanni, MrLordSith, Sleekflash16, seashore, KatKuriN, Icytroids, dualsh0x, St. Nick, EmmaNerd, dweeby Special Thanks - CaioST, Miles Tails Power