If you want to have one produced, of course, we are more than happy for your do so at your own risk, though we cannot recommend any particular supplier. The original exact-size versions can still be retrieved at their original URLs if needed.Īchtung! I need to point out that we do not produce any repros ourselves, and nobody has any kind of official endorsement to do so.
Note that as of May 2014, all the above images have been modified to include an eighth of an inch of bleed, with faint crop guidelines outside of the intended area, for cleaner printing. These artwork and designs were produced exclusively for Sonic 3 Complete – please be respectful and do not copy them for other projects. I've worked with a few people to create authentic-ish Mega Drive/Genesis cover slips and cartridge labels, which you can use if you'd like a reproduction cartridge made, or to decorate your flashcart, or just to sit and admire.
Implement modest feature changes where they improve the original experience, without significantly changing it.Provide improved versions of each game that made up the whole of Sonic 3 & Knuckles, hence creating an equivalent of Sonic & Knuckles Collection on the Mega Drive/Genesis.Fix bugs and problems in the original games.Restore Sonic 3-style presentation where this was changed in Sonic 3 & Knuckles.Maybe move the head one pixel to the left, too.Sonic 3 Complete is a hack of Sonic 3 & Knuckles with the following goals: The CD-adapted sprite at the end has a particular problem - everything that's not the head is still trapped in the CD style and palette. The juggling hand, too, is very lacklustre it needs more shading and the block where the wrist is needs to be smoothed out. A Chaos Emerald? It looks neither like the 3K version or the Advance version. I'm not sure what Sonic's meant to be juggling. The side-on fast running sprites don't match up with those on the first rows, quite simply, and look more like floppy clown feet.
Don't even get me started on the middle frame. It'd take a few pixels of tweaking to directly adapt the CD loop feet, but it'd fit the 3K style in time what I'm looking at seems to either deviate from the CD attempt, or the CD version was haphazardly scaled down by ramming certain columns and rows of pixels out - this can be best seen with the weird jutting out bit on the right half of the Mobius Strips. Was there a change to some of the quills in places?Ĭritically speaking, the running sprites that are unique or adapted from CD. More broadly, this is reminiscent of the early/mid-2000s in terms of quality. A lot of it appears to be unchanged, insofar as I can perceive.