AUTHOR: GAMMA V

Description written by Gamma V                                                                                —————————————————–

”Sonic Legacy is a fairly simple hack of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, with every level being edited to some degree, with scripted event-heavy levels receiving the fewest edits due to lack of ASM skills and overall inexperience with Sonic hacking”.

FEATURES:

• Custom music.
• Per-Act song changes.
• Changes to 6 of the 7 Special Stages (The editor for these is very limited, so they might be a bit messy.)
• New colours.
• New level layouts.
• Uses Clownacy’s Sonic 2 cloned V2 sound driver.
• Optimised audio for PAL 50Hz.
• Works 100% on real hardware via an EverDrive.

Despite being humble and talking her edits down, Gamma V has made an outstanding Sonic 2 hack for the community that offers the player an alternative take on the famous Sonic 2 game by Sega.

ZONES: 

1. Verdant Coast Zone: A relaxing tropical bayside resort, Sonic and Tails rush through this area at sunset.

2. Midnight Metro Zone: A huge industrial city area with many different ways to go.

3. Marsh Palace Zone: A large jungle area accompanied by a large lake of water.

4. Spirit Casino Zone: Night life has never been so exciting! Sonic and Tails enter into a casino area.

5. Lava Canyon Zone: This canyon area is located high in the mountains above the clouds and is filled with many lava pits and Sonic stopping obstacles.

6. Sapphire Shaft Zone: Is an abandoned mine located in a dark cavern.

7. Refinery Rush Zone: Is a giant Oil rig full of many nasty badniks. Beautiful colours fill the sky as the sun sets.

8. Metal Fortress Zone: Sonic and Tails have made it to Eggman’s capital base and are one step away from catching up with Eggman. It’s a huge fortress filled with badniks and traps.

9. Sky Chase Zone: Sonic and Tails catch a breeze high up in the clouds as they catch the wing of Eggman’s ship.

10. Egg Halberd Zone: Eggman’s battle ship, here Sonic and Tails find their way across and into Eggman’s secret station.

11. Neo Death Egg Zone: Same as Death Egg Zone but you get rings wow!

NOTES:

1. Inside the ZIP file you’ll find 3 IPS patches, there is a v1, v2 and a v3 (final), they’re in Lunar IPS format and simply need to be patched to the Sonic 2 REV A ROM.

2. v3 is the final version of the game but two earlier builds are added in the ZIP file for completionist reasons.

3. v1 and v2 crash sporadically through out the game due to a sound driver bug, this bug was later fixed in the final v3, so for a smooth and perfect gameplay, best to play v3.

4. The game has a PSG square wave bug where sometimes a square will sound out of tune for a second or two, it is only a problem when playing the game on an original Sega Mega Drive/Genesis model 1 FM-YM2612. All other emulators and consoles don’t have this bug.

5. The Special Stages have different ring patterns in them and they get hard very quickly!

6. Music and especially the drums are very clear sounding. The drums are hard and loud.

7. Back in the day over at SSRG, many armchair critics raced to insert their negative opinions like facts, although a select few praised it.

8. Lastly the video down below is a video of an earlier build of the game, not the final. So some levels will have different colours and different music tracks. Very hard to find a video of someone playing the final version.

Websites To Visit: https://www.igdb.com/companies/gamma-v

https://sonicresearch.org/community/index.php?threads/sonic-legacy-new-music-lcz-palette-tweak-and-beta-build.4706/