The GHZ Forum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmigJZg4fvM It's like a fusion of Mario 64 and a Banjo game! And the levels look huge! And yet the attention to detail is still really impressive. I wonder if it shares some code with BotW. This is the Mario game I've been wanting for the last decade. It just needs an...

My immediate thought was that they're either being hypnotized by Infinite or Shadow is a double agent who'll betray Eggman at the end and Chaos is...angry or something.

WOW. Ok. Let's go over the bullet points on the back of the box so far. From the directors of Sonic 06 and Lost World 'Darker' tone (as written by Pontac and Graff) OCs with guns Time travel Shadow is a bad guy again Sonic Heroes levels of will not shut up SILVER. Reality-altering villain #80 (Medus...

It looks like nobody's ever compiled a complete list of the minigame events from Sonic Pinball Party, so I made one while I was grabbing a screenshot for the emerald chart. Sonic --- GRIND Make the ball go through both return lanes! LOOP & LOOP Make the ball go through the left and right loops! JUMP...

It turns out Pocket Adventure has the same problem as G-Sonic where it includes 3 completely different emerald shapes in different parts of the game.

big_smile wrote:Force reminds me of 06 in that it's trying hard to be epic but it doesn't know how. I guess that shouldn't be surprising because it's the same director.

No, 06 was Shun Nakamura. Morio Kishimoto was Colors and Lost World.

Does anyone have a VBA save file of Sonic Advance 3? While I'm updating the emerald chart I figured I'd replace the jpged emerald sprites (apparently I was lazy the first time and ripped half of it from here) and I seem to have erased my ROM some time ago.

The directory seems to be password protected now. Any idea what it is?

it's a game fir us not the casual and core fanbase. People who played Sonic 4 and claimed it was a good call back won't "get it." I'm with Dr. Bugman. I don't think it's so much that these people prefer modern Sonic gameplay or aesthetics as it is that they're a bunch of undiscerning paint guzzlers...

Thanks Wombat! I've also recruited someone to go through Tails's story in SA1 and grab good shots of the emeralds around the shrine in the past, so I think we'll be good on those games.

Dr. BUGMAN wrote:There's also Gameworld

The Gameworld sprites are already on the chart.

There's an odd little detail to the "Blue Spheres" Chaos Emeralds that isn't mentioned on the chart. In Sonic 3 stand-alone, the second emerald is yellow. Orange is the unused one. Ok, that IS worth fixing. Might as well fix Sonic R and grab screenshots of the Adventure games while I'm at it. Damn ...

er, I was focusing on the colors alone. 3&K are the only ones that fit chromatically, I should've said! Oh, wow, the orange emerald is back? Now that really IS odd. And unlike when Sonic Team uses random colors, I don't think Taxman's team could possibly have done this unintentionally. I wonder if ...

They seem to be the set found exclusively in 3&K. No, these have a hexagonal top, whereas the ones from Sonic 1, 3&K, if we assume we're looking at a diamond-shape from the top down, are definitely octagonal. The only way they could arguably be hexagonal is if we're looking at them from an isometri...

So it's been ten years, give or take a couple of weeks. Sega Enterprises, for all intents and purposes, died about three years ago, but The GHZ yet pulses with life. Sonic the Hedgehog ceased to be relevant roughly eight years ago, but The GHZ still stumbles blindly into fiery blue damnation. Every...

We have achieved full parody. It is somehow consoling that Emperor Iizuka has been the one to finally bring us across this line, though some more bad jokes from Pontac would complete the circle. I just don't understand, why do this now that Sonic is decidedly unpopular with the kids and they've effe...

SEGA and the dev team lead by Christian agreed to my proposal for Sonic Mania. Before releasing ‘Sonic Forces', the big title by Sonic Team in 2017, SEGA wanted to bring back core fans to Sonic. This is where the idea of 2D Sonic revival came from. I find it hilarious that this long-awaited return ...

Sonic Adventure 2 [w]as probably the first time his ambitions were explicitly global (as opposed to taking over an isolated island, planetoid, or a single city) Sonic 1 manual: "Your friends are henceforth under my control. The entire island has now become your enemy! Bwa ha ha ha ha ha... This tim...

0:33 - They felt the need to label every single death pit with an X. I appreciate that it's blended as part of the background, but come on. It almost looks like GHZ was teleported into the middle of a desert. With a few nearby exceptions, the chunk of land you run on is the only one with grass and ...

I was originally going to say "it can't be Sally because it doesn't have a shirt and surely they wouldn't revert to this design:" http://sonicsatam.com/forums/uploads/gallery/category_4/gallery_1717_4_353834.png I'm still expecting to hear the word Freedom Fighter at some point. I know it's SoJ, but...

Maybe the optical processing center of his brain is like a fly, but instead of compound eyes that point in all directions at once, he spins fast enough to produce a fully panoramic view that his brain interprets as normal. In this fashion, the third person perspective views offered by the video gam...

big_smile wrote:A teaser of the 3rd character (From Violet on Sonic Retro):
http://i.imgur.com/fxdoXU7.jpg

The lovechild of Silver and Blaze? Or Big and Cream? It doesn't have a shirt, so it's not female.

Dr. BUGMAN wrote:character creator

I think at that point we will have definitively moved into self parody.

Hm, you're right. Nothing about stealing that I can find, but Rouge says "The doctor sold these Guard Robos just to make extra cash on the side." Not that I take Sonic Battle as canon. But if he was going to make money, that's probably how he'd do it. Selling inferior bots for commercial use (that h...

I feel like Eggman is the sort who would shun financial support. Like dealing with the financial powers of the world is beneath him. Given his industrial capacity and incredible ingenuity, he may not participate in the global economy at all. With enough worker bots he can mine his own ore, cut his o...

too expensive This is a guy who built at least 3 Death Stars in the course of a few years, with flying fortresses and hidden bases to complement them. I don't think he's ever run into a problem of limited resources (which makes his reluctance to pay the Chaotix in Heroes somewhat funny). In fact, n...

I'm more struck by the fact that "Robotonic" got through.