CD Sonic

Spoiler: Background Information

So, I started dabbling in Lua scripting for SRB2 about a year ago this month, and CD Sonic was the first project I remember working on. I took all the sprites I could find from Sonic 1 and Sonic CD to create a barebones character upon which I could construct custom abilities. Needless to say, it wasn't a particularly impressive project, nor did I ever have the intention of bringing it to the Message Board. Yet for some reason it was quite popular among the people I showed it to, and soon it somehow became an uncommon but fairly present mod in many public servers. There are several different versions and edits floating around at this point; in fact as I was writing this post I stopped to check the Master Server and, sure enough, I found a server playing with someone's edit.

Because it became so popular, I've decided to release a definitive edition onto the Message Board! I'm aware that sprite rip characters are generally frowned upon and I would be lying if I said it wasn't an awkward thing for me to submit, but I've done my best to make up for it by including a plethora of fun abilities.

As if you haven't had enough of Sonic clones, here's CD Sonic! Don't worry; you'll find there are a lot of differences between CD Sonic and any other Sonic we've had in SRB2 so far.

First off: the crouch.


Instead of charging his Spin Dash right away, CD Sonic crouches when you press spin. From here, you can do two things: start a Spin Dash, or start a Super Peel-Out. To charge a Spin Dash, repeatedly tap the jump button; you'll retain the charged up speed until you let go of the spin button to burst forward as usual. To charge a Peel-Out, press forward instead. Unlike the Spin Dash, you only need to press the button once, and you can cancel the move by jumping.

Oh yeah, and the crouch also reduces CD Sonic's height. Might come in handy for certain levels.


Now for CD Sonic's primary ability: Spring Spawn!


While jumping in mid-air, you can press either jump or spin to spawn a spring that will propel CD Sonic either forwards or upwards, respectively. (Note that if CD Sonic is wearing a shield, pressing spin will perform a shield maneuver instead.)

Finally, CD Sonic's unique mechanic: Chaos Emerald powers!


Inspired by Sonic CD's Time Stones, each Chaos Emerald that CD Sonic acquires will grant him a unique ability. Use the weapon selection keys to highlight an emerald, and press fire (or Custom 1, if you prefer) to activate it! Do note that as a drawback, CD Sonic can't use his springs while any emerald slot is highlighted. Collect enough emeralds, however, and you'll start learning how to chain the actions together to perform some nice maneuvers! Here's a peek at what a couple of the powers are—you'll have to figure out the rest on your own!


CD Sonic can't use the Chaos Emerald abilities in ringslinger gametypes, to avoid conflicts with the regular weapon ring selection.

There are a few other neat additions, such as NiGHTS sprites while FSonic is added, and a classic-style control set in 2D levels. Enjoy!

(Please note that the WAD is Wadzipped.)

[who-what-where-whale]

Originally Posted by Chrispy

I mean if you really want to poke at the super sprites being wrong, he's got 2 extra spines there

I thought those were supposed to represent the anomalous extra spine that appears when looking at super sonic from the side; the extra spine that toei Sonic also mysteriously has sometimes.

[Chrispy]

From the Sonic 3 sprite I always assumed that extra spine was just one from the other side of his head

[Fres]

So I played around with this a bit, and it was really fun, even without a single emerald, the spring thok and double jump made speeding through the stages fast and exhilarating.

I've yet to try the emerald abilities, but what I've seen so far kind of reminds me of the Custom Shoes' gem abilites from Sonic 06.

Disregarding the whole sprite color situation, this wad is a solid 10/10 for me, and that's just without the emeralds.

[ToeiSoni1998]

I love your CD Sonic Character Mod here. If it's possible, could you please update CD Sonic with the Homing Attack...? Maybe then it can balance everything out instead of CD Sonic being to overly difficult since I have an extremely hard time playing as him. I love the ability of using the Chaos Emeralds and everything, but I feel (and possibly others) would agree that CD Sonic needs a Homing Attack to balance CD Sonic's Move set and Game play. This wad is a solid 10/10 for my book in my Mod Folder, and that's just without the emeralds. I still very recommend you give CD Sonic a Homing Attack.

[Elyos03]

Originally Posted by ToeiSoni1998

I love your CD Sonic Character Mod here. If it's possible, could you please update CD Sonic with the Homing Attack...? Maybe then it can balance everything out instead of CD Sonic being to overly difficult since I have an extremely hard time playing as him. I love the ability of using the Chaos Emeralds and everything, but I feel (and possibly others) would agree that CD Sonic needs a Homing Attack to balance CD Sonic's Move set and Game play. This wad is a solid 10/10 for my book in my Mod Folder, and that's just without the emeralds. I still very recommend you give CD Sonic a Homing Attack.

Just to make sure, he ALREADY has a Homing Attack. If you get the 3rd Emerald, of course.

[Lach]

Elyos is correct! Grab the third emerald and you can use ringfire/custom 1 to perform a homing attack.

Also, apologies to all for not getting the update done yet. I'm really busy with school at the moment, and I've also been working on other WADs (I worked on the recently released TSonic; go check that out if you haven't already!).