All right, I'm sick of this. Normally, I wouldn't comment on a Sonic recolor, official or otherwise. But when you sit there flaming a person for something he's working hard on, it's annoying. He's actually drawing this all himself. No base. No pre-made sprites. Quit comparing the two. There's obviously some real difference between the two, and some of Hyper Metal Sonic X's look like they're recolored from something else. I'd like to see you try to pull of drawing a character from scratch. Oh, that's right, you think that imbecilic editing of the official SRB2 Sonic sprite is cool. If you don't have anything constructive to add to a topic where someone is putting actual work into the character, than don't say anything at all.
Now, some of you may think it's hypocritical of me to back Akira in this instance. But that's not the case. I get mad at the people who stupidly edit the SRB2 Sonic sprites and then pass it on as something all their own. Here, we have someone drawing his sprites from scratch, and moronic n00bs attack him for it. So, no, this isn't hypocrisy. This is defending someone who deserves defending.