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Coming straight from Sonic Mania Plus, is Encore Mode. An alternative gametype that aims to recreate the titular mode with a few enhancements and compatibility for mods & level packs.

This mod comes in two parts: The script and the level pack. Both must be added if you want the True Encore Experience™, otherwise you can have one or the other. :threat:


THE SCRIPT

DISCLAIMER: This mode is only compatible with No Save Mode. Until we can find a way to make Encore progress save within save files, it'll probably be best that you don't touch save files period with this script active.

The script adds the Encore Mechanics into the game.

From the outset, you start off with one character (or two, depending on who you pick), and if you die it's game over.
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That might seem dire, but luckily, popping a 1-up monitor will give you a buddy
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You can swap between you and your buddy by pressing CUSTOM3 (Default keybind: RB/R/R1 for controllers, C for KB+M)
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Any extra life monitors you get from here on out will get added to your reserve.
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Once you get every character, the life monitor will then cycle through every other available monitor, similarly to Mania. (srb2 shields excluded)
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Dying will result in you losing that character. Provided you don't have continues, the game is over once you lose every character in your party.
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There are some new monitors as well to spice things up.
SWAP: Forcefully swaps you with your partner character, and makes the character next in your reserve the new partner character.
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RANDOM: Shuffles your entire party! Who knows what you're gonna get.
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Finally, the script isn't just compatible with custom characters, but as many custom characters as you can add! Make your enemies cower in fear as you build your Encore Army™.
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BE WARNED: Adding too many characters *will* bug out the game. On top of that, there are a myriad of freeslot limits alongside the skin limit that you could potentially run into whilst adding said characters. Remember to be sensible and put a limit on the amount of characters you add.

On top of that the script is also compatible with the vanilla campaign and any level packs you may add. With Swap and Random replacing certain monitors at random.
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THE LEVEL PACK


Now, if it was just the script, what's presented here would already be pretty neat.
So to sweeten the deal, this thing comes with a level pack.

This pack is a game-wide edit of the vanilla campaign, aiming to make it overall a bit harder without going too crazy. (for the most part :threat:)

On top of the increased difficulty, certain zones have new remixed gimmicks taken from other parts of the game.

And because this pack is emulating Mania, it'll also include:
- Reshuffled monitors
- Reshuffled emerald tokens
- Inclusion of the S3&K elemental shields into the campaign
- Alternative palettes for each act
- Harder special stages, with difficulty ranging from decently challenging to extremely brutal
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CREDITS


Twins'R'Okay: Main Design & Visuals. Including but not limited to the various Sky Texture Edits, the Random Monitor, and the swap graphic

delf: Made a majority of the Main Script

(assets (including design and lua) from the old Encore mod from 2.1 and early 2.2 were used with permission)
DirkTheHusky: Designed ERZ1E, A majority of ERZ2E, and BCZ1E. Made the Swap Monitor graphic

Lactozilla and TripelTheFox: OG Lua from the old Encore mod

FSX/tertu: SeedRNG for SRB2

TelosTurntable: Enhanced ERZ Textures & Flats
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  1. oh shit delf's awake too

    The script has finally gotten an update for 2.2.11 and above. Changelog (Script): + Full 2.2.11...
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    sorry about that, should be fixed now
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    happy 1 year anniversary btw lmfoa Changelog v1.3: * GFZ1E, GFZ2E, THZ2E, DSZ1E, DSZ2E, CEZ1E...

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brutally murdered my fps but it was worth it
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The new mode is really cool, it's a fun way to have more character variety in a playthrough! I don't mind the save system not working, since i usually do a full playthrough in one sitting anyway. I'd like 1 free ring on death so you're less likely to get into a death spiral, but it never actually happened to me – it just felt like it *could* happen.

The level pack though, i'm not a big fan of... there's *very* severe visibility issues with more than half the levels (because of an over-reliance on fullscreen filters instead of texture edits), and there's a weird balance of "the early levels feel unchanged" and "the later levels are all three times as hard now". I really like shuffling all the powerups and emeralds around though, so i'd love to see an updated version of the pack someday!
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Probably my favorite way to play through level packs, good way to play a bunch of characters, but there are some issues.

As mentioned, it doesn't save your lives at all when you quit, plus later stages in the main campaign AND the one included are very stingy with lives, plus getting rings doesn't give you any more characters either. In practice, this meant that the later stages were basically just one character with one life, at least until I opened up the code and kludged together a janky "pity" mechanic where swap and mystery boxes dropped encore boxes if I had no partner. And then an even more janky "save" mechanic where it counted lives upon loading the game and dropped that many encore boxes. If you could put together a better version of these fixes, and make getting 100 rings give you an extra character too, that'd definitely move it from "really good" to "perfect, never playing any other way at this point."

Also for earlier levels in the encore map pack I wasn't even sure anything was different.

Still, even as it stands it's pretty great and probably my favorite way to play SRB2 until things get hard and encore makes it much harder.
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Really neat in concept. But it's not useful outside of no-save mode. This is because the game doesn't save how many characters are in stock after you exit the game, so when you come back, only the character you were playing as was saved. And for how stingy the levels are with 1UPs after around Eggman's Castle, it's basically just a campaign as that one character for the rest of the game except you only ever have one life the entire time and have to start every single level over from the beginning every time you die. If the level pack had a lot more 1UPs, this wouldn't be an issue, which begs the question of why they don't when these levels are supposed to be designed with this gametype in mind, which they generally are until you get to Red Canyon. Overall, a fun mode, but use it with shorter level packs or level contest packs.
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Really fun map pack for something different from vanilla
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This mod is so absurdly fun to explore!

The mechanics of Encore mode are used very well in the familiar sections of the levels, and especially in some of the unfamiliar sections of the levels! These stages reward you generously for your knowledge of the levels from the original game. Despite getting my ass kicked by the last two special stages multiple times, by the time I got to CE3 (or ACZ1 since emeralds don't matter in boss levels) I already had all the Chaos Emeralds just due to the sheer amount of tokens you get for looking around in familiar locations. Some can be found in the same place as usual, such as the one behind the door in DSZ1 and the spring-gauntlet one in CEZ1, but a lot are in areas you'll hopefully remember to look if you've gone hunting for those more secret emblems and extra lives.

My complaints are mostly parrots of some earlier reviews, mainly Special Stage 7's time limit and the small amount of i-frames when respawning as your partner character. Magma Caves can be cleared with some good time management and movement, including slipping right between that last mine and the cannon to make sure you don't lose those 5 seconds and hitting that super paraloop a little safer and earlier than usual, but Egg Satellite pretty much requires a perfect run to hit it. You're pretty much done if you don't hit the laser room paraloop where the Sun Emblem usually is, considering you'll probably end up with just barely under the requirement when you get to the capsule even if you hit everything else perfectly. This on top of the fact two mistakes pretty much means you're dead makes this stage especially brutal. Just another 10 seconds would help this level a lot, not removing it's brutality but giving you just a bit more room to breathe. As for the other issue, I didn't experience it much, but it becomes apparent when you land in the thorns in CEZ3 due to Tangle not being able to hit Eggman even on the edge and then immediately losing three characters to the thorns. There are some i-frames, but just not enough to escape without immediate action.

Those are my only gripes, and they're very easy to look past when compared to the rest of my experience! To the throwbacks to older versions in Egg Rock to the more interesting boss arenas (some of which are also throwbacks) to not making that ungodly final section in ACZ1 more difficult than it needs to be, you're gonna have a lot of fun if you're an experienced player of this game! As of the time of writing, admittedly, I haven't beat Encore Mode, because the Metal Sonic race is so damn tight that I decided to call it a night after an hour of attempts and I'll have to do another playthrough to get another shot at him. Here's to finally beating that bastard and seeing what comes after!
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Can't really say much more that's already been said here. Really solid pack of more challenging levels with the awesome encore mechanics. Only thing I don't like were the special stages. Pretty much all of them are just annoying to be annoying and not fun. Especially special stage 6 with the mines you HAVE to hit at the end, where (for me) 9 times out of ten you have around less than 10 seconds with all the hazards the stage throws at you. Not to be rude, but it's just crappy and cheap level design you'd see in a bad kaizo mod. Other than those, really great mod!
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One of the best full game modifications I've ever played
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I really enjoyed the previous iteration despite its flaws and am excited to see this! The added campaign is also a nice change of pace! While it works as intended in single player, I've had issues getting it to work in multiplayer. Despite that, I can't wait to combine this with other add-ons in the future!
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FINALLY, IT'S BEEN 4822 YEARS...
Just beat Encore Mode with all characters in reserve and all seven Chaos Emeralds. I feel good : )

Though there are a couple issues that take it a bit down from the perfect 5 stars. See Discussion post for more info.
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