Sonic 2 HD is Amazing! (HD Fan Remake)

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Thanks to everyone that suggested this one! I loved it!!!

[@bubbygreen8387]

Bruh

[@duckyvryoutube]

we already seen it

[@judecamacho9475]

You see why we liked it

[@Brabled]

Thanks for the content to watch

[@tristlol]

the funny

[@user-yf3cr5ev5p]

I wouldn't hold out too much hope for this project to be completed, sadly. Development has been off and on for many years. it's a great idea and looks fantastic! But it's a volunteer project and at one point the project died and they had to basically start over. Now if Sega would have thrown it's support behind it and done something like this for all the classic games instead of Sonic Origins, it would have been incredible! Can you imagine a HD version of all the classics in this visual style?

[@Khranok]

Can only pray but Sega is way too lazy and happy to take a quick buck for low effort on our nostalgia

[@nickfarace9339]

It was worse than died. It had a TON of drama involved. Basically power struggles over content. Which when it came to volunteer things was a death sentence. They were basically hand drawing all the assets and then putting them up for review. It was always going to be a painfully long process. I think this started like 10+ years ago, and even if they never stopped it might still not be done. I personally remember reviews of the attempts at the signpost Sonic when you beat a level. I think the original was intended to be kind of a slightly overhead angle view of sonic, and they couldn't nail that at high res. Clearly no one ever attempted to though and settled on just an original normal side view design. It looks good now, but doesn't match up 1:1 to the original. I just remember that conversation vividly.

[@iyaslullaby3264]

@@Khranok Yw

[@iyaslullaby3264]

@@Khranok yea

[@CorralSummer]

Starting over isn't really accurate. All the art and stuff from before the project died was still retained as well as the music. Only thing that was redone was the programming. You are right that it's sort of off and on tho, but it is still being developed. Most of us are busy with things outside of the project so it's often hard to find time to work on it. That being said, there's quite a bit done since this last level that we'll hopefully be able to share soon. I don't know when the game will be completed, but even if slow one day it should be.

[@CorralSummer]

It's cool to see people still playing this demo even in 2022. I can't say when we'll have a new demo, but we're still working on the game slowly. Many of our key contributors have been busy with things outside the project so progress has been slow, but we're still making progress little by little.

[@the-golden-duck]

Nice whats the next zone you think you could finish?

[@CorralSummer]

@Brief Keef not any time soon, but it will.

[@venagethebamboozler4243]

You made this game?

[@the-golden-duck]

@@venagethebamboozler4243 no one of the artists

[@CorralSummer]

@@venagethebamboozler4243 not alone, but yes.

[@asdunlavey]

There was a brief moment a few years ago when I would listen to Sonic 2 HD's remastered tracks on loop nonstop. This fan game is definitely one of my personal favourites.

[@TrashAnarchicoPasqualgruelico]

Same here. The boss music is a banger!

[@ANEWTIMELINE]

@@TrashAnarchicoPasqualgruelico all the musics here are bangers

[@firionkaiser8291]

Wasnt it lacking Oil Ocean Zone's track though?

[@virgilblaze9090]

I find the new music quite cheesy imo. The retro music will always sound better

[@isodoubIet]

@@ANEWTIMELINE except emerald hill

[@Chrisordie]

For a fan game this looks insane. Now all we need is some HD Sunky and we are all future proofed.

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Agreed _nods_

[@StaceyStAmant]

@Jellyfish Axolotl #roadto1k #saveukraine not enough sunky in it, -10000/10

[@AwesomeMinecraftfan218]

@@StaceyStAmantyeah sunky is better than sonic

[@DarkRavenYouTube]

Hyper Dark Super Sunky in 3d will be amazing

[@cream_main]

*we need ze babeh*

[@AlphaProto]

I love how the sprites look like the classic airbrushed box art. It's really amazing to look at.

[@fluttershystayshigh4202]

This was freakin awesome! its everything you'd expect an HD remake of this game to be, great job by the devs.

[@Nemo_DK]

Ok, I've seen quite a few games converted to HD with, let's say, "unfortunate" changes on the graphics, but this definitely sticks to the original! This is sooo neat!!

[@gneu1527]

I only now understand why the devs are still working on S2HD to this day. They have to add stuff like cgi, extra frames, and plus draw the backgrounds and everything. If they are as lazy as I am, then it's way more understandable.

[@nickfarace9339]

It is because unlike most with pass things through whatever filters or AI or whatever, this was ALL done by hand. Every single asset. Which is also one of the reasons it never finished.

[@Nightopian1982]

It definitely looks impressive, no doubt, although I have to say I'm still a bigger fan of the charm of the original graphics. That said, I might change my opinion were there ever to be a finished version (including HD Mystic Cave, Aquatic Ruin and Wing Fortress Zones!). The one thing I'm loving with all these HD upscaled titles is the amount of love and attention that's ever-growing for the retro scene these days! Talk about how wonderful nostalgia can be....

[@tamerkoh]

@@Nightopian1982 I'm a big fan of HD remakes like these, because it's a chance to fix what's actually now broken on modern screens. We aren't seeing the old games in the intended way anymore, because the official re-releases are just scaling the games up to fit modern screens, thus stretching the pixels. And since we aren't on CRTs anymore, the effects like dithering are lost. Not that it's not possible on modern screens, but the pixel art needs to be much higher resolution for it to work, at least x4 the original size. So that's why things like the waterfalls are broken in this and Sonic 1. These HD remakes are not only a chance to have natively higher res graphics that are crisp, but also to breathe new life into the games that wasn't there before, like the extra animations here, Zone/Act transitions, etc. It's just like how gorgeous the PSP remakes of FF1, FF2 and FF4 were for me, the world looks so much nicer, it's really an example of how to properly bring an old game to a new system ^^

[@Nightopian1982]

@@tamerkoh I've been fairly pleased with the upscalers/converter cables I've got for most of my retro consoles. General rule is the cheaper the cable, the less effective it is. My PSX one is fairly basic, and like the N64/SNES one is primarily for playing on a modern TV (the N64/SNES one does so however without stretching the image) and avoiding RF or the need for SCART converters. The Dreamcast one I have is pretty good too, and allows for immediate increase of game speed to 60hz instead of the standard PAL 50hz mode. The Saturn cable I have is by far the best though. Not only does it not stretch the visuals, the smoothing feature gives a very noticeable improvement in image quality. I'm chuffed with it. All I need now is a decent option for the Megadrive, although if Retro Gaming Cables have anything as good as their Saturn one, I might check that out. The one major thing I'm gutted about on modern TVs is the lack of support for lightguns (playing Virtua Cop, Time Crisis and House of the Dead with a control pad is a waste of time). I'm trying to source a CRT that doesn't require pickup from a location, as I don't own a car and they weigh a bastard ton. It's not as straightforward as I imagined.

[@jepoacacs-2216]

The shading taken into this game is also really cool. Sonic and Tails will appear darker when in caves, or redder close to lava.

[@moondusk8385]

I loved this. Sonic two has always been my favourite. so many memories. Thank you for showing me this, looks sweet. The colour, music and looking so cool in HD, is wow, Tails spinn'in his tail at the extra cool. i cant believe this is a fan game. . I am lovin all this Sonic love, thanks to the movie. it would be cool if the released all the early Sonic games like this. Thank you BTG for the smiles.

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Yah, Sonic stuff seems hot right now, which is good for me...cause I love Sonic!!! Thanks for watching Moon Dusk

[@anormalperson7697]

@@BlueTelevisionGames is there a hd sonic 3&& knuckles

[@ReylordFX]

@@anormalperson7697 there is? But its a demo and its created by a different person, not by the sonic 2 hd team

[@troywright359]

I think I prefer the pixel style of Mania, but this is still good

[@KhaoticSanctum69]

I've been following the development of this one for a while now. It looks SO good and I'm so excited (if this is finished I'm gonna go play this immediately) Sonic 2 is one of my favorite games bc its the first one I was able to play (not finish unfortunately at the time) on my own. Tails is my favorite character and he's so cute in this 👁💧👄💧👁❤

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

It's cool you can play as Tails too

[@JA070288]

That was genuinly beautiful. It looks like promotional artwork not what would actually be playable. Wow!

[@theluckybostonlobstah]

I'm so glad you did this! I've been following this project for a long while. It looks beautiful, I hope they finish it!

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Me too. I really love it.

[@hulyatunali1724]

​@@BlueTelevisionGamesycdhfslflg❤❤❤p😊😊

[@constellationmaker145]

I'm genuinely surprised that Darby has never called the "water" in Chemical Plant, well, *CHEMICALS.* I think that S2HD is actually still being worked on, and the small details are amazing. -Sonic, Tails, and even the terrain itselfget slightly redder when near Hill Top/Metropolis' lava -Sonic and Tails get slightly darker when in Emerald Hill/Hill Top's caves -Robotnik's machine in Emerald Hill is damaged on the last hit -Robotnik's glasses get cracked once defeated I so hope that someone, _ANYONE_ gets a dream that in the future, (like, Silver-time period future) a time traveller tells someone in the past that Sonic 2 HD is done. I believe it's still being worked on, so even if progress might be slow, one day it might be finished.

[@Cuz_whynot173]

It looks so good that it gos from sonic with a completely new level complete animation to the leaves moving in the wind, i also love how they connected the acts thats amazing

[@geneabrego9759]

14:31 "who needs extra lives ya know?" YOU do if you go to fight that chemical plant boss again! 🤣

[@private_c]

That is quality! This person did a really good job on making Sonic 2 look brand new!

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Agreed. Looks super modern, but captures the retro goodness too

[@imnotuploading512]

I like the 16-Bit version, but man… this one feels so beautiful

[@Superkirby982]

For those that don't know, some of the people that worked on Sonic Mania worked on this fangame (Tee Lopes with the music, Tom Fry, and Jared Kasl from Pagodawestgames)

[@johncave3334]

That means there will be more sonic 2 hd

[@yellowmelow25]

Great to see that game in the spot light again, 2 things : 1 - When Sonic goes really fast without spinning, it does an awesome animation of him running in the peel out fashion of Sonic Cd 2- When you defeat Robotnik in Chemical Plant Zone and he has the Blue Goo filled up in his flask, it actually falls on him, and only his big eyes shows through the goop in a very cartoony fashion Hope to see an update soon of that game, it has been a while...

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Those little details are so cool

[@Sonicspin]

Fyi, the top speed animation wasnt a Sonic CD peel out reference, it was my homage to the UKs Sonic The Comic. Its how he runs when drawn by my favourite artist Richard Elson :)

[@QuincyO5b]

its only a matter of time until Sonic XL gets ported to this game!

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Now that would be amazing

[@wetburntbagel]

This video needs to be more popular

[@MaverickTsuki]

To think many discovered Tee Lopes in the old version of this project. Who would thought he would be composing for an official Sonic game many years later.

[@lauramora1797]

Tails did a backflip before the fancy move

[@SammySesame]

I hope we get a new version of the game with new levels and stuff!

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Agreed

[@hihosh1]

well, a couple of week's ago they were doing collision mapping for Oil Ocean in their live stream

[@VideoGameAnimationStudy]

I'm sad he didn't get to properly see the new top speed animation.

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

I did! But not in the video. When I made the thumbnail I ran through the first zone fast and saw it. Looks awesome

[@Another_youtube_animator]

Ikr whenever you got close you would start rolling 🥲

[@amaniwhite9622]

Hey there Darby. I got wingstop today.

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Yummy

[@DaMoniable]

This is atually pretty darn cool :D Oh also just to throw a little shout out here. If you havent tried them, Bunnie Rabbot in sonic 1 and Bunnie Robbot in sonic 2, and Sonic 2 Pink Edition are all really good stuff. They were actually my first sonic romhacks that add new characters with their own movesets and stuff that make you approach things differently. Its pretty damn cool, and the Bunnie Rabbot series actually gets an upgrade from 1 to 2 from what i recall. Its pretty fun stuffs :D

[@ANEWTIMELINE]

It's crazy to look at this fangame now, even after all these years it still looks awesome, and it gets eve more crazy once you discover that some of the people who worked on this also got to work on Sonic Mania, like Tee Lopes, he was the composer for this and also work on the Sonic Mania OST

[@evenmorebetter]

Kinda was fun to watch Tee go from being like, the retro Sonic fangame composer guy to like... the official retro Sonic composer guy

[@NoxturnalMusic]

Glad that you played this mod! It’s really good!

[@flaxxei]

I remember watching some of my favorite KZbinrs playing this 4 years ago it's cool and the soundtracks are bangers

[@keithmichael112]

you can tell this was a labor of love. very cool

[@DemonXile]

I love the mod, and never would have known about it without you. Thank you for letting me see the mod! (Yes, this is me commenting, and I'm NOT putting an Omochao reference here.) (You deserve enjoyment of HD. Not annoyance and pain of Omochao!)

[@DemonXile]

@@reedspace8267 Oh no I'm scared (Though I am kind of curious on what HD Omochao would look like...)

[@Potent_Red]

On the time 2:01 sonic and tails arent being kid friendly at that time

[@slimeinabox]

If someone saw this even the original Sonic 2 came out, he would have a aneurism.

[@thatlilly]

“Please don’t try to drill me ok he tried to drill me” BTG out of context

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

hmmmm xD

[@jamesiewalters2360]

i gotta say, your reactions are pretty adorable; there's really no other word for it.

[@planetzach]

I just did a Hilltop themed Minecraft build for my channel, so seeing that particular zone reimagined in HD was really neat. I really liked the look of this demo. Hopefully they can add onto it in the future. Maybe someday I’ll actually beat Sonic 2. I always get stuck on Wing Fortress Zone if I even make it that far.

[@tatsumikun1566]

If only Sonic Orgins would've instead looked like this.

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

That would have been really cool

[@MayaMahyah]

The fact that they look like the cover photo is amazing

[@Drayton226]

Darby the people that did this are amazing it looks amazing it sounds amazing! Darby you are the best to do this video:-)

[@Estaguy24]

The game is still in development, the next big steps we know so far are the Special Stages and the Aquatic Ruins

[@ritavalencia3727]

DARBY U ABSOLUTE LEGEND I STARTED WATCHING WHEN U DID THE ONION RINGS MOD

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Thanks !

[@matthewturcotte5079]

Wow…this is absolutely gorgeous! I think I may have to play this!

[@SonicHedgehog1FingerWaging]

Im sure they are working on Aquatic Ruin Zone and you can also access Debug Mode!

[@IaMAkuma.]

I'll be patient to wait for this to be fully complete since I do own an original Sega Genesis 16 bit and this brings back memories for me to play this game as a child and having fun.

[@jacobac07]

wow that game was brilliantly remade, thanks for showing it to us!

[@letailsofan3430]

The graphic and the music are sweet

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Heck yah

[@thoyo]

This is too cool. So many creative details I missed in the original game are super clear here.

[@chuckthequail137]

Imagine the whole Sonic for Hire in this Style.

[@siphiwemabaso-ju3jx]

Sonic 2 HD is awesome it's just like sonic 2 but it's even better

[@schar1024]

Man i love these Parallax scrolling backgrounds.

[@thekittygamer7745]

WOW. This is amazing. I can't BELIEVE how good this looks.

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Same, I never realized how crazy good this would be. Glad I finally played it xD

[@HurricanMHFO]

Wow this is so nice! Thanks for the video🙂

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Thanks for watching

[@Hammyboi35]

This would be cool if Sega remade these games but with these graphics

[@theryderchannel232]

This HD remake looks awesome.

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Agreed

[@arthurmartin4616]

Love that you can actually tell what animals are on screen easier

[@BLASTIC0]

WOW. I had no idea this existed! I got goosebumps. That was amazing. I cant wait to play it.

[@ceciliaandersen3849]

This is what we want, Sonic in glorious 2D. Amazing job!

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Ooooh yah

[@DeathDealerGamin]

I love the HD remake. I hope that saga don’t smack this down. Sonic 2 is my favorite sonic game.

[@deudz]

sega is not nintendo this game has been up for years

[@DeathDealerGamin]

@@deudz I didn’t know that. That is awesome 😎. Then again Sega dose what Nintendon’t 😂!

[@selikahjessop5380]

Eggman got the really smooth floppy mustache

[@DarkShadow-jv3ef]

This looks really good. They did a great job and love the level remixes.

[@Bunnygirlpeach]

Most of the remixes in Sonic 2 HD were done by Tee Lopes, who did the sonic mania soundtrack

[@mattburkey]

I wish this was the quality Sonic Team/Sega were churning out in the futuristic year of 2022, but alas. I'd buy this.

[@pencil8329]

I think this video was awesome!! Also, I think you (Blue Television Games) should play Sonic 3 & Knuckles as Tails, also if you do play it, good luck on the Marble Garden act 2 boss!

[@darksecrets6200]

I saw this game before I was about to tell u to play!

[@GamerFunOriginallyAarush]

So beautiful! Glad you finally played it!

[@ahmedanima1532]

The man who did the sonic mania art work made the art work of sonic 2 HD

[@user-wx9yj2ht6s]

OMG!its truly amazing! I love how they add extra animations and make the screen bigger it remind me of sonic the hedgehog 4 II and sonic mania at the same time

[@firionkaiser8291]

Could've sworn the original had that same lava issue 12:04 thought it was gonna crush me

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Oooh

[@AliceJoy78]

This game is still in development, even though its very slow going but the next few zones are close to completion, including the special stages. I've played this and the first 3 zones are currently available.

[@Thunderdragon-uc1lw]

I’m so happy you finally played this remake

[@harshvardhan2016]

this brings back soooooo much memories of your channel

[@smachynia]

#sonic Very cool game (with great fun, fantastic HD graphics, musics, greatest gameplay and funny moments too), Darby. I am very enjoyed (with waiting for more similar games, of course too), our BTG dude, the best Mario and Sonic gamer ever.

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Thanks for watching Sebastian

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

9:34-9:35: Game Over and Stage Failed

[@deanlamb275]

Looks great, this is the version I wish came back in the 90s.

[@Itz_YoshiMelon]

You know what they say darby, better late than never! Great video!

[@son-of-a-game]

I love how you are always so hyped and happy!

[@xShinigamiRyukuux]

I love how this emulates the look of the Mega Drive box arts.

[@Robski10]

About time you did this one! (Remember me, Darby?)

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Hey Robski, how have you been?

[@Robski10]

@@BlueTelevisionGames Not bad, Not bad at all!

[@chrisrj9871]

12:32 -- we all know that trees like to pulsate their leaves when there's wind. XD

[@areyoukittenme1677]

HOLY MOLEY! This is awesome! They NEED to carry on with there work!

[@whact]

i would love to see hidden palace in HD

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

That would be sweet

[@jacobharvey9120]

looks fantastic, and it didn't seem to take away from the originality

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Agreed

[@Alex-Defatte]

It looks cool. I feel privileged to see it but my hearts still with the original pixelated version. Maybe it's because I grew up playing this everyday from age 4 to 7 and the characters already seemed real. It's almost like this version has too much sugar. I just like the gritty pixels more. Again, grateful to witness this.

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Hard to beat the original. But neat to see this version too

[@Ezekial2517]

Of course a fan made this. It’s rare when a video game company actually makes something with a fraction of the care put into this.

[@moonthevaporeon5113]

Hyped for the full thing, i really hope for it to come someday

[@nevimendoza7623]

For a fan game thislooks insane. Now all we need is some HD Sunky and we are full future proofed.

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Oooh yah

[@annetthunter1079]

Michael everything is so smooth and that one video 🙂

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Sweet

[@scuba_otter]

Darby: "I'm kind of tempted to hear the drowning music..." 7:41

[@Drayton226]

It looks like you're playing a movie!!!

[@nazeVOV]

Imagine If THIS is what Sonic Origins looked like. That would be amazing I stead of essentially the mobile ports and a few extra modes. This Full on HD Remake is So Beautiful all I ask is why does Sega not do things like this it shouldn't take too much effort from a big studio. I mean the music the Animations all of it looks and sounds Stunning.

[@wmatheson1611]

I've been waiting for another youtuber to play this masterpiece, seems like someone actually did. Edit: wish he could have seen the max speed animation (If any of ya'll don't know what that is, its a animation that triggers when sonic hits his max speed, so its a third speed animation.)

[@Latoshajsinspiration]

You mean the running animation

[@wmatheson1611]

@@Latoshajsinspiration Yes I did mean that

[@mlee4467]

@@wmatheson1611 I know, he rolled every opportunity and it got annoying ngl

[@mychanneliswow]

I wish Sonic Origins had an HD version is this!

[@leejoe8668]

I like the animations! They look very accurate like original game! 😎👍

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Agreed. Just super smooooooth

[@montywh]

8:55 Tails: i'm player 1 now

[@lgflbrandyascognac]

damn, ur so lucky you got it. I saw it plenty of times but back then , not knowing how to get it lol

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

Haha

[@hiimlorenzo807]

This remake looks amazing. Although I don’t know why they did hill top zone instead of aquatic ruins zone which comes after chemical plant zone.

[@thisisasupersayin376]

They could finish Hill Top first because its tiles are Emerald Hill's recoloured

[@johncave3334]

Sonic 2 HD + Sonic 2 xl

[@BlueTelevisionGames]

That would be awesome

[@leam1978]

I appreciate how the artists faded the background a bit more. The intense color saturation of the original confused me a lot as a kid.

[@mrpositronia]

Greatest platform game ever made. This looks lovely.