Socket the Hedgeduck Title Screen
(No, "Socket the Hedgeduck" is not
an avian O.C.; it's an in-progress modification of Sonic the Hedgehog, which aims to port
Socket/Time Dominator's levels to the Sonic the Hedgehog engine!
Boring backstory:
During 2014, I discovered about and played a somewhat obscure Genesis game on my Genesis called " Socket"/"Time
Dominator", which many people label as a poor Sonic clone, due to it
having monitor-like powerup objects, a "High Speed Zone", spring-like
objects, (poor) slope physics, checkpoints, and ring-like collectibles
for health (sparks). Although I really liked the concept of Socket and
the different, non "press-right-to-win" level layout styles and themes, I
was greatly disappointed in the poor slope physics and slow overall
speed of the Socket character, and wondered if the Sonic the Hedgehog
engine would handle the levels much better .
This advanced hack is an unofficial port of Socket/Time
Dominator assets (music, level layouts, art, objects, and more) to the
Sonic the Hedgehog Engine.
Implemented/in-progress features:
- Modified menus
- New SEGA Chant, SSRG Logo screen
- New Title Screen with options to toggle extended music playlist and bonus stages
- Press
 or  buttons on title screen, respectively
- Level Select cheat (
    ) enables both level select and Debug Mode cheats
- New Level Select screen, with 3 pages of levels
- New Zones, title cards, level and cycling palettes, art, level layouts, deformed backgrounds, etc.
- Title cards have been extended to handle acts 1-7 (especially for High Speed Zone)
- Normal levels
- Each zone has 3 acts
- 2 are pure ports from Socket
- 3rd act is original, has a boss room
- The Zones
- Emerald Forest Zone (EFZ)
- Treasure Castle Zone (TrCZ)
- Olein Cavern Zone (OCZ)
- Antiquity Zone (AZ)
- Stone Age Zone (SAZ, New)
- Future Zone (FZ)
- Time Castle Zone (TCZ)
- Time Lord Zone (TLZ, formerly Final Zone)
- Bonus levels
- Each level has either 2 or 3 acts
- Levels can be accessed by jumping onto a door object in a level
- Completing the level/dying takes you back to previous level. No lives are decremented
- Completing the level warps you elsewhere in the previous level
- The Zones
- Lights (BZL)
- Castle (BZC)
- Lava (BZLa)
- Fence (BZF)
- Special Stages
- Normal S1 rotating special stages have been replaced with standard platforming levels.
- Reaching the signpost without dying will award you a Chaos emerald via the Special Stage Results screen
- Dying will not award you a Chaos emerald, but will not decrement lives.
- Obtaining 50 rings in the zone will earn you a continue (disabled in the v0.3 demo)
- Each special stage are ports of the "High Speed Zone" acts from Socket
- New YM2612 tunes
- MegaPCM Driver
- Ports of Socket music
- New music for the other acts of levels in the extended playlist,
a separate "good"/"bad" playlist (based if Sonic has all the chaos emeralds) for some levels - Music slots ranging from $80-$9F and expanded to $E5 - $FF
- New/ported objects where necessary
- New object art/mappings where necessary
- Custom door object for level warps
- Art edits
- Various SCHG/SSRG bug fixes and tutorials, and other original code
- Expanded Sonic 1 Water tables (AZ and BZLa)
- Implemented Sonic 1 ROM Chunks and removal of Sonic 1 loop system (ROM chunks now expanded upto $FF chunks, new)
- Touch-pop monitors
- S1 New zone guide
- Walk-jump, spike, and other bug fixes
- Zone-agnostic objects
- Spindash
- Boss areas
- Title Card has its own song
Releases:
Demo Download Link:
Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Classics
Steam Workshop item for Sonic 1:
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