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The Sonic romhacking and modding community is back at it again and in full swing with their yearly iteration of the Sonic Hacking Contest 2024, featuring everything romhacks and mods related to Sonic games, going from the 8bit games all the way up to the most recent 3D entries of the blue blur.

A yearly event going strong for more than two decades beginning in 2012, the Sonic Hacking Contest begun its 2024 contest week on Saturday, September 28th, and several popular content creators will showcase the many romhacks and mods that have been submitted to the contest, with creators like Tails Channel, Redhotsonic or SomeCallMeJohnny covering the entries.

The Contest Week started on Saturday, September 28th and will end on Sunday, October 6th, with each submitted contest entry being judged on a wide variety of metrics, like Best Visuals, Best Audio, Best Level Design, Best Character Implementation, etc.. The Contest is also open for the general community as well, with some entries being applicable to Community Trophies as well.

One big change of this year's contest is that, unlike all previous years, the "Expo" (a section where all users could submit entries for people to test without participating in the main Contest) has been removed, and the organizers will instead focus all their attention to the actual contest, with the main difference being that developers can opt in or out of their entry being admissible for judging or not. One reason for this is to improve the quality of the overall entries and avoid "less than favourable" entries that might turn people off from checking out the main contest entries.

As with each Hacking Contest, every entry can be downloaded and played by the user, with the community being able to send feedback or simply post as comments under each of the submited entries.

Sonic Hacking Contest website

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

This is the most nerdy and specific thing i've heard of.

 

[ShadowOne333]

This is the most nerdy and specific thing i've heard of.

Thanks?

 

[Robert Newbie]

This is the most nerdy and specific thing i've heard of.

That's what's so entertaining about it. In fact, I wish there were more communities doing events like this because it brings out so much creativity.

 

[Vorde]

I look forward to this event every year! There's always a lot of talent and dedication.

 

[DJ-Yoshiman]

This is the most nerdy and specific thing i've heard of.

Hell yeah.

 

[raxadian]

Honesty I am mostly interested in 16 bit remakes of 8 bit Sonic games.

 

[DragonMals]

Sage this year was incredibly boring but I have already gotten myself a handful of Rom Hacks to play thanks to this site.

 

[BingusMcgee]

The live stream is a nice touch! I'll probsbly never go out of my way to play these so it is a nice way to check them out!

 

[lordelan]

This is the most nerdy and specific thing i've heard of.

You bet? Look into the "MiSTer FPGA" project. Then look into it's "TapTo" sub-project. Then, if you understood both, watch this video and die in a nerdgasm as I did:


There's currently nothing on this planet that I want more than this lol. And hopefully next year I'll be able to build it. And to shift this post from off topic back to Sonic: When I did, I'll be able to play all the outstanding Sonic rom hacks on it and even have them physically as "imposter GB cartridges" in my collection.

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

You bet? Look into the "MiSTer FPGA" project. Then look into it's "TapTo" sub-project. Then, if you understood both, watch this video and die in a nerdgasm as I did:


There's currently nothing on this planet that I want more than this lol. And hopefully next year I'll be able to build it. And to shift this post from off topic back to Sonic: When I did, I'll be able to play all the outstanding Sonic rom hacks on it and even have them physically as "imposter GB cartridges" in my collection.

That honestly is not as nerdy. I understood what that was at a glance.

 

[raxadian]

You bet? Look into the "MiSTer FPGA" project. Then look into it's "TapTo" sub-project. Then, if you understood both, watch this video and die in a nerdgasm as I did:


There's currently nothing on this planet that I want more than this lol. And hopefully next year I'll be able to build it. And to shift this post from off topic back to Sonic: When I did, I'll be able to play all the outstanding Sonic rom hacks on it and even have them physically as "imposter GB cartridges" in my collection.

I don't see the point of that thing? Like why bother having Super Nintendo game roms in Gameboy like cardridges? Then play them in the Super Nintendo?

If it was a GBA player for the Super Nintendo then yeah it would be cool but the video only showed games you can already play in a regular Super Nintendo?

That honestly is not as nerdy. I understood what that was at a glance.

Then please explain it to me.

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

I don't see the point of that thing? Like why bother having Super Nintendo game roms in Gameboy like cardridges? Then play them in the Super Nintendo?

If it was a GBA player for the Super Nintendo then yeah it would be cool but the video only showed games you can already play in a regular Super Nintendo?



Then please explain it to me.

An FPGA based recreation of the super gameboy for SNES or whatever that was called. edit: watched the video and read the description. I can't understand the use for anything in that video

 

[lordelan]

If it was a GBA player for the Super Nintendo then yeah it would be cool but the video only showed games you can already play in a regular Super Nintendo?

You didn't get it what this is at all. Fast forward to 3:32 and then tell me how you ever played Super Mario 64 on your Super Nintendo. (or Sonic)

 

[raxadian]

You didn't get it what this is at all. Fast forward to 3:32 and then tell me how you ever played Super Mario 64 on your Super Nintendo. (or Sonic)

Well why the heck did the video did not start with stuff like that?

 

[lordelan]

Well why the heck did the video did not start with stuff like that?

To keep surprises for later? It's called dramaturgy lol.
Besides, why do you judge if you haven't watched the entire video or at least skipped through it?

 

[ikynx]

now imagine the same kind of event, held in mario world. Nintendo would probably go nuclear.

 

[raxadian]

To keep surprises for later? It's called dramaturgy lol.
Besides, why do you judge if you haven't watched the entire video or at least skipped through it?

Because is Youtube, people stop watching a video if they lose interest.

 

[SylverReZ]

Let's hope this event is better than what Sonic Central showcased. Not sure if I have high expectations on this one.

 

[Jayro]

Someone please port Sonic Chaos as a native Sega Genesis ROM.

Please and thank you. <3