Sonic 2: Archives (SHC '23 Demo) ✪ Walkthrough (1080p/60fps)

Sonic 2: Archives is a Rom Modification of Sonic The Hedgehog 2 created by Team Conquest & Team Technical, featured as an entry to this years (2023) Sonic Hacking Contest!
#sonic2 #sonic2mods #sonicmods #SHC2023 #sonichackingcontest
The modification here attempts to restore unused conceptions, as well as concept arts, prototypes, and early/unused stuff etc.
At the moment, it's restoring the "Present" timeline and the current zones:
• Emerald Hill
• Ocean Wind (Still WIP)
• Jungle Woods (aka. Secret Woods, aka Wood Zone)
• Sand Shower (aka. Dust Hill)
• Metropolis Zone
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Changes:
• Different graphics and music for each act.
• New zones (Ocean Wind, Woods, Sand Shower)
• Zones look closer to their earlier iterations.
• New music.
• Music changes (made closer to Masa demos and betas)
• New bosses.
• Some Sonic sprites and Tails sprites redrawn.
• New gameplay features (wall recoil, Tails flying and more!)
• Title screen.
• Island map (much like Super Mario World)
• New Sega and sound test screens (by TheBlad768)
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⏱️ 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘀
0:00 - Intro
0:15 - Title / Menu / Island Map
1:26 - Emerald Hill Zone - Act 1
9:48 - Emerald Hill Zone - Act 2
19:17 - Jungle Woods Zone - Act 1 (I)
22:38 - Hidden Palace Zone
24:04 - Jungle Woods Zone - Act 1 (II)
25:31 - Jungle Woods Zone - Act 2
27:45 - Sand Shower Zone - Act 1
29:36 - Sand Shower Zone - Act 2
31:26 - Metropolis Zone - Act 1
33:13 - Metropolis Zone - Act 2
35:57 - Warp Point & Credits
37:40 - Tails Gameplay & Ocean Wind Zone (Extra)
38:52 - Outro
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✪ S.H.C 2023 Playlist ✪
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✪ Link is here! ✪
Sonic 2: Archives (by Team Conquest & Team Technical):
shc.zone/entries/contest2023/801
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[@KperaOfficial]

FUN FACT: tails is brown in aosth and satam because DIC received an early desing of tails to use on there shows, that means that in early stages of development of sonic2, tails WAS brown

[@KatanaNovaCat]

According to the Cutting Room Floor Wiki, Tails was only brown for 2 or 3 days, and wasn't really intended to stay that way. TL;DR: brown Tails was a rough test with screwy temporary colors. Somehow, that test got handed to DiC as a character design reference, even though it was never meant to be one. Long version: The brown version of Tails was an early test which was most likely made to see what could be done using Sonic 1's player color palette, because the developers knew they needed him to share a palette with Sonic and were figuring out how to make that work. They didn't like the results of using Sonic 1's colors and reworked the palette pretty much immediately. Tails sprites with early temporary colors probably resulting from that palette test got printed out on a bad printer known to mangle colors, as a reference for the shape and size of the sprite; pretty much everyone at SEGA Technical Institute knew that anything printed using that printer should never be used as a color reference. The design and printed-out sprites were used by the devs very, very briefly. But DiC and some marketing people got handed those bad print-outs of that outdated temporary palette, which were only meant to be seen by people working on the game itself, and the devs don't know why or how that happened and are very confused.

[@donnydebruijn424]

Tails doesn't look that brown to me in the SatAM cartoon version.

[@hastnicke_]

22:40 FINALLY SOMEONE USED THAT BACKGROUND

[@bonniebun-buns9874]

I'm a beta tester of this rom hack Thanks for playing and stay tuned for more

[@YassineTorchani-dc2cm]

Really ?

[@bonniebun-buns9874]

@@YassineTorchani-dc2cm Yes

[@WeeNeer_Chaneel]

@@bonniebun-buns9874 i too

[@jaynoyes8179]

Did You Know That Tails Is 10 Years Old In the Show Sonic the Hedgehog SATAM

[@mayracordero382]

I didn't know that about tails!

[@Budgiemusicianfr]

Tails is 8/7 years old in the current cannon

[@jaynoyes8179]

@@Budgiemusicianfr Yes That's True He Is 8 Years Old In Current Canon In the Main Series

[@Simeeow]

@@jaynoyes8179Despite it never being changed, I doubt that’s true anymore, ever since unleashed he’s had more of a design of a 13-14 year old.

[@TylerWilliamsGB]

@@Budgiemusicianfrisn’t he now 12?

[@alexandereaston3008]

One of the most inspired Wood Zone custom bosses I’ve seen in a hack.

[@Physicxxxxx-qc6ty]

Wow this hack actually gives the impression on what sonic 2 was supposed to be based if, all with the scrapped levels and a time travel idea that never got to final realease! Also WHATS UP WITH TAILS??!!!

[@Grigrithereal]

tails was supposed to be brown

[@KatanaNovaCat]

Tails was brown for a couple days early in development, while the developers were figuring out what colors they wanted to use. (And images of this design that got used by the game devs for less than a week somehow got used as references by people making promotional images, merch, and cartoons, even though those images weren't meant to be used as color references or seen by anyone outside the dev team.)

[@PkVibyn]

Curious to know what’s the source of that drum sample, is it something that can be found unused in official prototypes of Sonic 2 or just something they took liberties with

[@odog4547]

It's an unused sample from Sonic 1 if memory serves me right, probably also in sonic 2 aswell due to them sharing the same drum samples

[@thardump859]

It's just the same standard drum sample from Sonic 1/2. But pitched lower like it was in the prototype of the first game that leaked.

[@ssg-eggunner]

I like the lower pitched snare better but I don't see why S2 beta would use it S1 final was high pitched

[@RoseSupreme]

Sonic's walking sprites look kinda jank with how he barely stretches his arms out during his jog.

[@shadowopsairman1583]

15:34 Tails ran into Sonic and got knocked back, was that in the prototype game or was that just a knod to Sonic Adventure? Sonic gets the 7th Chaos Emerald and then Gets Automatically Transported to The Hidden Palace Zone, touches a Shape that looks like an emerald and transforms somewhat into Super Sonic inspite only having 15 rings and is transported to the game Map, what was the reasoning behind it all, did you ever complete Hidden Palace Zone? 33:40 Sonic gets knocked back by the cog, i guess that is what wall recoil is? After Metropolis Zone is beaten you are sent back to Hidden Palace Zone and then touch an emerald shape and warp like you do in Sky Sanctuary Zone in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, what was that for?

[@nikpi5703]

1) It's wall recoil from protorype 2) Hidden Palace at this moment is not fully finished (as whole game), and now it's how you can done zone. 3) It's a bug of collisions. Will be fixed, I hope 4) It's Warp Point, not Hidden Palace. There will be time traveling, and after warp point- you'll come to another time period (medieval, past and etc)

[@Mana_412]

When's Madness Mountain?

[@nikpi5703]

​@@Mana_412In 2024 or 2025. Everything depends on free time and people who can work

[@Mana_412]

YO U ACTUALLY REPLIED 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

[@0xm]

Nope its a wall recoil hypothetical

[@donnydebruijn424]

I got Sonic megamix vibes from this.

[@henrythestickman124]

L hope There's more Update of the awesome rom hack

[@edgardeitz5746]

As a suggestion, if this game is all about reimplementing scrapped ideas, why not create the scrapped sidekick (Boomer the Turtle)? Also, work in the Sonic Bounce Shoes / Tails Jet Shoes moniter and item from the 8 bit games

[@sergk393]

Sonic Bounce Shoes are already in one place, and they work)

[@epicpufferfish]

some sneak peaks: there is winter zone, hidden palace zone, cyber city zone and flying fortress zone

[@Ellemunro-mw7tr]

makes me feel nostalgic...I guess

[@charliekahn4205]

Weird suggestion, but maybe there should be an additional objective involving ring collection and checkpoints after getting Super Sonic. The idea would be that the levels are designed both for this collect-a-thon gameplay and for the usual speedrunning, but currently you cant experience the levels in the collect-a-thon way after getting all seven emeralds, which can be in just a few levels, but if there were another thing to do that required a lot of rings, that would add more give and take to using Super Sonic rather than it just being a reward. Is there something planned for this game along those lines (especially with the new checkpoint design)?

[@leocampo2755]

Fantasic content,Jaypin88...nice day👋🏻

[@nathanielhermanson6987]

They should put future and past signposts like in Sonic CD to transport to go back or forward time. For example, You go to the past version of Green Hill Zone, and it would be Hill Top Zone.

[@nikpi5703]

It's not how it should work

[@Theargballer1234]

Sonic 2s time travel was different to sonic cds time travel

[@RedPhotonTheRobot]

Aosth tails

[@Joey-lv5ou]

I like tails brown.

[@gabrielrattay3439]

Wow genius

[@scooterman3]

Isn’t it weird that Sonic detaches hi shoddy from his legs when he goes faster?

[@MiahTee-oe2cx]

why is tails brown bruh😭😭

[@nikpi5703]

Why y'all ask this question without even reading shc entry page, or sonic 2 development lore, or at least watching random recent video about sonic 2 development bruh

[@LawaniFamily]

Yeah.

[@ssg-eggunner]

Lost his rights

[@Theargballer1234]

Ummm