SHC'25:Sonic The Hedgehog -To Be a Star (DEMO) Gameplay [FullHD/60FPS]

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It's a beautiful summer morning. You are Sonic. Today's the big day where you finally get to show the world your talent. You and the band haven't stopped practicing for this moment. You can hear the crowd cheering in your dreams.

You are going to be a star.

All you've gotta do is get up, turn that alarm off, get ready, get set, and go...

...nothing can stop you now, right?

This is an extremely early demo for my upcoming hack, set as a prequel to the events of Sonic 1. It's meant to be simple, short and sweet. There is only 1 level currently, and currently the ROM itself is very small, only 256KiB big! I wanted to show that you can still make something meaningful without tacking more advanced tech onto Sonic 1's base engine. The engine this runs on was engineered from my work-in-progress disassembly of the Sonic 1 prototype, utilizing and in some cases restoring some forgotten functionality to drive some screen effects here and there.

credts: Katsushimi - Main programmer, music arranger/composer, project lead.
KGL - Main game designer, planning, general assistance.
MDTravis - Sound programming, secondary programmer.
Atolly Guyke - Main level artist, sound design, level design assistance and character art assistance.
CyberChobo - Music assistance, level design assistance, and programming assistance.
Oct - Lead character artist.
Stick Nick - Character & misc. artist.
Blaze - Character artist.
Laffy Taffy - Intro Rock GFX Base.
CyanHyprPsychic - Promotional Art.
ProjectFM, Inferno, Chopp, Rivet, BladeOfChaos, MrLordSith, Vincent, Naoto - Playtesting.