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Competition Central / Sonic Advance Maps, The Sequel

« on: March 23, 2012, 12:24:55 am »

Some of you might remember this old thread from 2008, where some people were complimenting my work on maps for the first Sonic Advance. I was asked to do more maps for the game but I pretty much admitted that it was way too time consuming to do so.

Well almost 4 years later, with some custom coding of my own and a few months of work, I just finished (re)mapping the whole thing. Now I'm *not* posting this to get praises or to satisfy my ego, but because I want some feedback.

I managed to get pretty much the same results as Nitsuja did when he made his maps for The Sonic Center, but with more emphasis on the aesthetics (with the backgrounds and the enemies placed on the ground, etc) and getting all the moving platforms and bumpers to show in their starting position.

Anyway, as I said, I want some feedback. Most specifically, I'd like those of you who know every corner of every level by heart to tell me if I've missed anything such as a ring here, or a spring there. My capturing method was still mostly by hand with only some automation, so I even had to refer to Nitsuja's maps as reference. Even then, I might have missed a bunch of hidden spikes or springs, or even a secret area (which I've tried to indicate using transparencies). Any help to achieve the most accurate maps possible would be very appreciated.

Thank you all in advance!

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Competition Central / Re: Awesome Sonic Advance maps

« on: March 31, 2008, 10:13:51 pm »

Zeupar, I'm unable to send any PM (it keeps coming back to my post with a new verification code every time I click on Preview or Send) so here's my answer to yours.

Thanks for the link to his profile. I'm not sure if I'll ever get around to mapping the Advance games, but I'd certainly want to given enough time. Of course, I'd require tools like that hacked VBA Nitsuja did, but I'd be up to capturing everything again instead of taking his maps and his hard work.

Concerning Egg Rocket, I liked that stage so much because of the music and the race against time to clear each section before they were jettisoned, I just had to map it. In a way, not having tools to fully explore the map was better for this one because the raw map that Nitsuja assembled doesn't look that good. There's that empty portion on the top right section, and the horizontal "ceilings" on top of the first part and on the right side, and not knowing what was there I did what I could to make it resemble an actual rocket. Anyway, I don't want to bore you with my crazy stuff :)

I think your English is really good, and anyway, I'm not one to talk since I'm a French Canadian from Quebec (by the way, don't believe what they say about all Quebecers being crazy English-bashing separatists).

And don't worry, I intend to keep mapping Sonic as much as possible :)

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Competition Central / Re: Awesome Sonic Advance maps

« on: March 31, 2008, 01:02:37 pm »

Thanks for the information everyone. I'll certainly try to contact nitsuja to see if he's willing/able to help me.

Oh and Rolken, you can safely ignore/delete the two emails I recently sent you on a similar subject as this one.

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Competition Central / Re: Awesome Sonic Advance maps

« on: March 31, 2008, 01:44:52 am »

Funny. I mostly registered here because I was amazed at the accuracy of the Advance maps on The Sonic Center :).  I guess they were made by ripping the stages and the sprites straight from the ROMs; they're not credited, but considering Rolken recently ripped all the stages from Sonic 2, Sonic Chaos and Sonic Triple Trouble for the Game Gear on the Sonic Retro forum, he might have done those too.

At any rate, I gave up long ago on completing them because they were a real pain to do considering the size of the stages and the huge number of screenshots required to make even one (I think back then I averaged a stage every few weeks or so). Nowadays I'm trying to map the main Sonic games for the Genesis (Sonic 1, 2, 3 & Knuckles and CD) using the built-in Debug Mode which makes it a lot easier and thus feasible to actually finish them in my lifetime :)

Whoever did the Advance maps on this site, I'd like to contact him both to try and get full-size versions of them, and also to offer to do the backgrounds for them. I mostly map games because I like the graphics of them and not to provide help, so aesthetics is and has always been my goal, and making those maps look as good as they deserve would make me really happy.

Anyway, I don't know if I have the right to "advertise" here the game map forum where I hang most of the time, but search around on Google and you're bound to find it. I've done so far about 40% of the maps from Sonic The Hedgehog and Sonic CD, and I switch from one to the other whenever I grow bored.

Anyway, thanks for the interest and for the welcome. Hopefully, I can one day finish mapping an entire Sonic game, since it's a shame that nobody so far has done (well, with quality maps at least).