PYRODOOM'S PROFILE

author=PepsiOtaku
Yeah unfortunately, if you want to make a proper sonic fan game, you're probably gonna need to buckle down and learn rom hacking/asm. Even if you were to do it in game maker, you'll need some kind of physics engine that accounts for a character running along sloped surfaces & loops (which I think would require some trigonometry know-how). Sonic fans go the rom hacking route because those physics are already in place. Here's some physics info though:

http://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Sonic_Physics_Guide&oldid=162913

Sorry there's no easy solution/answer. :-/

O.k.

author=ShortStar
Back in 1999 there was a Sonic 3 ROM editor. Try with that. I dabbled in it, but found it pretty rough to deal with.

I guess that's cool. I'll try it...later.

author=UPRC
I don't think that such a thing exists, especially anything similar to Mario Bros X. The fat plumber is just much more popular than the hedgehog.

You'll probably have to learn Game Maker.

I've tried Game Maker, and it doesn't make sense, I looked at some other people's creations, and they're games didn't make sense or they may need to fix their physics a bit(Sonic Zone, I'm looking at you...), otherwise, I may need to learn how to make a plat former game on RPG maker 2K3.

author=PepsiOtaku
There's a ton of romhacking tools out there, but it's not easy. I think sonicretro.org is a big community for that. The rom hack "Sonic Megamix" should give you an idea of what you can do with those tools.

Again, as with game maker, except worse. I have gotten only some programs to work on any of the computers I've worked on, and some of them needs all this complicated stuff to go on, like put these files in this folder rename it to this and then do this...and sometimes I screw up on the instructions because I don't understand!

author=LockeZ
If you want to make a game based on a commercial game, romhacking is the way to go. Warning: you will need to learn how assembly language works. You won't actually need to learn the language itself (you can always look each instruction up as you get to it) but you'll need to know how it works in general. This probably means you first need to be familiar with a real programming language just so you have a basic idea how programming works. (Scripting experience in RPG Maker will suffice, if you've gotten to the point where you're good at that.)

Yes, there are some tools to keep you from having to hack the assembly for everything you want to do. But the tools involve assembly too - they just make it less painful.

I guess you could build it from scratch in Game Maker but that would be far more work than editing the original game. At that point you might as well make an original game instead.

Yeah...I don't know programming in any language, unless you count me editing the scripts a bit for certain things to happen :(

I guess I'll have to look at a few tutorials on rom hacking and game maker(in case I find one is better than the other in either tutorial)

How do we join? I read the whole topic and didn't find anything about that. Do I just tell you that I want to join this, or is it something else. Because I would like to take a shot at this.

God dang it! This time I made sure I clicked resubmit and after waiting a while, my review STILL hasn't been approved or denied!

edit:It was denied. I'll edit it next time I'm on.

author=Deckiller
I do not see your review in the queue.

What? I know I made the revisions, and did what I could to fix it, and then I re-submitted it. It hasn't been denied or approved ever since the revisions. Wait, is that what you mean by queue? You can see which reviews are to be approved or denied or something?