Sonic Hacks

[KnightWarrior]

Don't get me wrong, I love the Hacks, But

All Sonic Hacks including Sonic MegaMix have shit ton of Enemies on Screen at once

Another thing is Enemy Placement

[Heilong79]

I hate Sonic hacks, If we had a filter option on Rom Hacking.net to turn off all sonic and mario hacks in the search that would be super.

[LinkueiBR]

I hate Sonic hacks, If we had a filter option on Rom Hacking.net to turn off all sonic and mario hacks in the search that would be super.

Agreed

[midnightrider]

Well, you can look for individual games.

I think with Sonic, well done character hacks are all you need. That'll make the game more fresh than any stage layout total conversion, in trying too figure out how to get through the stages with a completely different kind of skill set.

That said, just for the fun of it, I'd recommend some of the total conversions that make a different genre out of the game as well. Like the Tetris one, that also allows you to play the main game, but with Tetris in place of the bonus rounds; or the Big fishing one(more arcade-like than it sounds); or the one with Robotnik capturing the animals and putting them into the capsules.

[chilled]

there are dozens of great Sonic hacks. You were just too lazy to search and try them.

[eukara]

not every hack is like Sunak The Bratwurst.

[chilled]

Here's my own curated list, updated:

Sonic 1 16 day challenge (2017)
Sonic 1 Amy Rose v2.1
Sonic 1 An ordinary rom hack 2013
Sonic 1 at SAGE 2010
Sonic 1 Bouncy Edition (Within a Deep Forest)
Sonic 1 Brother Trouble v1.5 (Beta)
Sonic 1 Code Gray
Sonic 1 Color Contrast 2014
Sonic 1 CrazyBus 2015
Sonic 1 Dr Robotniks Creature Capture v1.3
Sonic 1 Dragon edition (2017)
Sonic 1 Erazor 2012
Sonic 1 Giant
Sonic 1 Gotta go fast
Sonic 1 Limbo 2018
Sonic 1 Megahack ultra 2012
Sonic 1 Megamix v3
Sonic 1 Metal Sonic Hyperdrive v4.2 2014
Sonic 1 Next Level 2015
Sonic 1 No music (rev01)
Sonic 1 Painto edition 2 2014
Sonic 1 Pana Der Hejhog 2011
Sonic 1 Pixel Perfect
Sonic 1 S Factor, Sonia and Silver 2013
Sonic 1 Scorched Quest (SHC2016) TeamPainto
Sonic 1 Somari the Adventurer 2015
Sonic 1 South Island Warped demo 2014
Sonic 1 Supersonic
Sonic 1 Tails Double Trouble 2014
Sonic 1 Tetris (Crash) SHC2014
Sonic 1 The Hackable (2019)
Sonic 1 The One Ring
Sonic 1 Untitled (jubbalub)_(SHC2016)
Sonic 1 Virtual Adventure (SHC2016) Ladego
Sonic 1 Winter Adventures 2013
Sonic 2 Advanced Edit (2019)
Sonic 2 Big's Fishing Derby
Sonic 2 Boom
Sonic 2 Classic Heroes 2013
Sonic 2 Hybridization Project
Sonic 2 Kirby
Sonic 2 Knuckles Emerald Hunt
Sonic 2 Metal Sonic Rebooted (2018)
Sonic 2 Portal
Sonic 2 Recreation 2013
Sonic 2 Retro Remix 2011
Sonic 2 Robotnik's Revenge
Sonic 2 S3 edition 2009
Sonic 2 The Lost Worlds (scrapped levels)
Sonic 2 Tribute 2013
Sonic 2 VR Anamanaguchi
Sonic 2 XL
Sonic 3 & Knuckles Hellfire saga
Sonic 3 D.A. Garden 2015
Sonic 3 Resort Island Demo 2015
Sonic 3&K Battle Race (2p) 2018
Sonic 3&K The Challenges
Sonic 3D No Flickies & Super Sonic

EDIT: forgot about original games goto replacement hacks (bugfixes, etc):
Sonic 1 revXB + better framerate for special stage
Sonic 2 rev01 + improvement v6.0
Sonic 3 Complete
Sonic 3D Director's Cut

[Stifu]

Sonic 3D No Flickies & Super Sonic

There's also Sonic 3D Blast: Director’s Cut, by the original creator of the game. It has good reviews.

Also, some nice improvement hacks:

• Sonic 2 Improvement (I just dislike the more complex ring counter because I'm a casual player and like to keep things simple)
• Sonic 3 Complete (I guess most of you already know about it, it seems pretty popular)

[chilled]

Yes thanks I forgot about the ones that don't change anything and just improve/bugfix the original rom, like REVXB + better framerate in special stage for Sonic 1, Sonic 2 extensive bugfix hack (the one you mention), Sonic 3 Complete and Sonic 3D Blast DX hacked by its own creator.

Those four have actually replaced the original 5 Sonic games for me.

[Alianger]

I liked this one overall:
https://info.sonicretro.org/Metal_Sonic_Hyperdrive

[Heilong79]

ok, Sonic 3 Complete is a good hack and one I missed, I have patched it with Sonic 2 sprites so it feels more complete now.

[Stifu]

I liked this one overall:
https://info.sonicretro.org/Metal_Sonic_Hyperdrive

Nice. I see there's also this one by the same author: https://info.sonicretro.org/Metal_Sonic_Rebooted