A new version of a Sonic Classic Heroes TAS is finally here. Optimized to the best of our abilities, I decided to obsolete The Previous Run and make this any% run!
Game Objectives
• Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
• Aims for in-game time instead of real-time
• Takes Damage to save time
• Forgoes time-saving glitches
• Genre: Platform
About the Game
About the Hack: Sonic Classic Heroes is a ROM hack for the Sega Mega Drive that is the result of a collaboration between flamewing and ColinC10, combining their respective hacks Sonic 2 Heroes and Sonic 1 and 2. It therefore is a single ROM that offers the entire campaigns of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2, either alone or together; and enables the player to play as many characters such as Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles. The hack is named due to the ability to control a team of characters, which is reminiscent of the more recent 3D game Sonic Heroes. The hack is built on Sonic 2’s engine, which has been enhanced by both flamewing and ColinC10 to have new features. These include: multiple gameplay elements from Sonic 3 & Knuckles, such as element shields and character-specific abilities; the ability to save progress, scores, etc. to SRAM (something rarely implemented in Sonic 2, with the other notable example being Esrael’s Sonic 2 Delta); various bug-fixes and improvements to the mechanics of the original games; and many more features, both implemented and planned.
I aimed to beat the game as fast as possible. This means optimized inputs and breaks, forgoing chaos emeralds, and taking damage.
Special Thanks
• Dominic/Yakko For the encode!
• WST For TASing the 1st 5 zones in this collab!
• CyanTheGamerhog For The Previous Run!
• The Sonic TAS Discord Server for their support of me since 2021!
• Everyone else who contributed to my success!
nymx: Claiming for judging.
nymx: It didn't take me long to see the power of this new TAS. WST was right about the previous submission being improvable. What I didn't expect, was the improvements being so shocking. Yes, the previous submission was rightly accepted...seeing that it still is a strong effort over human ability, but this one really put the heat on. Comparing between the two...each level just pulled away, leaving the other TAS behind in absolute clarity.
Congratulations to the two of you on a job well done!
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