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The Sonic Hacking Contest 2022 event is now live and has started its playthrough, review and judging phase, with all the mods and romhacks now available for download. The event is also celebrating its 20th year anniversary from its inception, starting all the way back in 2002 (similar to GBATemp's own anniversary as well!).

The contest begins on Monday, October 10th, and will continue during the whole week, ending on Sunday, October 16th. Afterwards, the results of the contest will be known, and the contest will award several trophies that range from a wide variety of criteria to the submitted game which excelled in one or several of those categories. Several well-known YouTubers like Tails' Channel, Chaomix, SomeCallMeJohnny and many others streaming the games that have been submitted and giving their own thoughts to each of them.

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For those unaware, the Sonic Hacking Contest (SHC for short), is a yearly event that takes place within the Sonic community, in which developers from all around the world showcase their on-going projects which focus on Sonic-related games or themes. The projects range from all kinds of romhacks for older titles, like the Genesis / Mega Drive games, and mods for more current games, like Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Forces, SA2 and more.

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[Chris_Dai_Gyakuten_Saiban]

This looks cool.

 

[Bladexdsl]

oh shit nintendo is definitely going to shut this dow...oh wait it's sega they actually like their fans and encourage this unlike them stuck up pricks at nintenDMCA

 

[lordelan]

Contests like this already spawned some fantastic Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario World hacks. As you may have guessed I'm mostly interested in rom hacks for classic systems, because I just love those old games and rom hacks are just like additional games for those systems, literally for free.
I wasn't aware of the SHC so thanks for that. I'm currently playing many of those Mario rom hacks on my Miyoo Mini so I'll definitely keep an eye out for what the contest might spawn, especially since I applied a SEGA theme to my Miyoo Mini:

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[chrisrlink]

I might learn howv to do Sonic rom hacking and giiive it a go sometime since being C&D'd by sega is nearly non existant (I can imagine going too far (ex hentai rom hacks) would get the wrong attention by Sega and trigger a C&D

 

[ShadowOne333]

Contests like this already spawned some fantastic Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario World hacks. As you may have guessed I'm mostly interested in rom hacks for classic systems, because I just love those old games and rom hacks are just like additional games for those systems, literally for free.
I wasn't aware of the SHC so thanks for that. I'm currently playing many of those Mario rom hacks on my Miyoo Mini so I'll definitely keep an eye out for what the contest might spawn, especially since I applied a SEGA theme to my Miyoo Mini:

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It's worth mentioning that there's also F3 (Fangames and romhacks E3-like event) by Kaze Emanuar, which started just a few years ago, and I even submitted a hack of mine to it and it got featured.
F3 is the closest I can think in terms of wide-spread notoriety for romhacks in general, though Kaze's event is more focused in SM64 stuff, which kind of narrows it down a lot, but thankfully he's open to adding other systems and franchises to the F3 event.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

@ShadowOne333 Nice job with this post.

Though I would be interested in seeing what some of the people qualified to review games on this site have to say about some of them. Maybe some suggestions too. Lol

 

[Lostbhoy]

The problem with most of the previous years entries I've seen is the games are always submitted as demos and never get finished. Is this still the case?

 

[TheNintendoEnthusiast]

I am so excited for this! It looks so good! I didn't know this was a thing!

 

[HarveyHouston]

Sponsored by SEGA, perhaps?

 

[Wolfy]

Always a treat to see this when it happens, and can't wait to see what they show off this year! Thanks to all the creators who make all the amazing goods!

 

[urbanman2004]

I know this may be asking too much, but could we get a surprise reveal of the Sonic 2 HD Project being completed. I know that's a farfetched idea, but a man can dream.

 

[depaul]

Sonic.exe and Kaizo Sonic lol

 

[breathergames]

Excited to try some of these out this weekend.

 

[mrmagicm]

Viva SEGA, SHIT to nintendo!!!

 

[shadow1w2]

Trailer alone looking like a big turnout this year.
Always exciting.

 

[Luke94]

Does it mean that I'm too late?
Anyway I remember interacting with some users in Bisqwit YouTube Discord Server regarding replica of Epic Games Launcher Storefront by reinterpreting some users quoted words would it result especially these days,nowadays DMCA,NDA,copyrights infringement,multiple lawsuits?

Or even Id Tech 1 videogame engine-like-esque replica of Unreal Engine 1(even way much earlier than final build).