Mod for Sonic/Shadow Levels Only?

[RockyVega]

I'd love to give this game a proper playthrough (as I surprisingly never have) cause I love Sonic.

Every time I revisit though, I always remember why I never did.

KNUCKLES.

His levels (along with Rouge) are annoying sometimes and just feel like filler.

Even Tails and Eggman have better levels.

Any mods out there to ONLY play Sonic and Shadow levels (or at least get rid of Knuckles and Rouge)?

[Sixtyfivekills]

"I'd love to give this game a proper playthrough"
"Any mods out there to ONLY play Sonic and Shadow levels"

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by RockyV✫:

I'd love to give this game a proper playthrough (as I surprisingly never have) cause I love Sonic.

Every time I revisit though, I always remember why I never did.

KNUCKLES.

His levels (along with Rouge) are annoying sometimes and just feel like filler.

Even Tails and Eggman have better levels.

Any mods out there to ONLY play Sonic and Shadow levels (or at least get rid of Knuckles and Rouge)?

As far as I'm aware, there's no mod that removes Knuckles and Rouge. However, there is a code checkbox in the mod manager that makes the radar work like SA1's radar (i.e. it will show any nearby emerald instead of each one in sequence) which could make finding them a bit easier.

Whether you choose to use that radar mod or not, I can at least give you some help to make the treasure hunting stages more bearable: the emerald shards only spawn in particular albeit randomised locations and while the radar is less helpful than it is in SA1, you can still collect the second and third shards first if you happen to come across them.

Just check every major place you know about on the map to see if the radar goes off. If you really get stuck, there's floating purple monitors you can use the action button on to get hints. The first two hints clue you in to where a particular shard is and the third outright tells you where it is. The hints reset for the next shard so you can get help finding the other two as well.

SA2 Battle (such as this version on PC) does something the original Dreamcast version doesn't have (one of the few improvements Battle actually has) and that is when you are directly next to an emerald, the characters get a red exclamation mark over their heads, which is very useful for shards you have to dig to collect.

The main benefit to not using hints is to get a better score when you collect a shard, but a high enough time/ring bonus coupled with enough enemies killed may give you a good rank anyway.

If a particular emerald shard is giving you a lot of trouble, you can reset/change the shard's location by either dying (you keep any emeralds you've found by that point) or restarting the stage (you reset all 3 emerald shards), both at the cost of losing a life.

The stages that will give you the most grief are both Rouge levels: security hall and mad space. The former has a 5 minute time limit and sometimes the emeralds are locked in safes on the wall. You can open them by digging into the centre light of the safe door but if the lock is unlit, you must unlock them by throwing one of the three switches at the top of the map, color coded for each group of safes.

The latter is similar to meteor herd for Knuckles except you have a bottomless pit (open space), awful gravity mechanics on asteroids identical in function and annoyance to Mario Galaxy and the hints are reversed. In Mad Space, the first hint is written in mirrored writing while the other two are written forward but use the opposite terms to where the emerald actually is.

I hope this helps.

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by RockyV✫:

I'd love to give this game a proper playthrough (as I surprisingly never have) cause I love Sonic.
Every time I revisit though, I always remember why I never did.
KNUCKLES.
His levels (along with Rouge) are annoying sometimes and just feel like filler.
Even Tails and Eggman have better levels.
Any mods out there to ONLY play Sonic and Shadow levels (or at least get rid of Knuckles and Rouge)?

You should get a 100% save file from the guide section so you could skip them.

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:

"I'd love to give this game a proper playthrough"
"Any mods out there to ONLY play Sonic and Shadow levels"

Yes, a proper playthrough with the only good part of the games.

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

The latter is similar to meteor herd for Knuckles except you have a bottomless pit (open space), awful gravity mechanics on asteroids identical in function and annoyance to Mario Galaxy and the hints are reversed.

What do you mean? Mario Galaxy's great.

[RockyVega]

Originally posted by Ikagura:

You should get a 100% save file from the guide section so you could skip them.

Never thought of that. Genius idea.

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Yes, a proper playthrough with the only good part of the games.

This guy gets it.

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by RockyV✫:

Originally posted by Ikagura:

You should get a 100% save file from the guide section so you could skip them.

Never thought of that. Genius idea.

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Yes, a proper playthrough with the only good part of the games.

This guy gets it.

I mean there isn't really any mod that actually remove stages from the story mode...
Unless you want to swap characters but this won't change the levels themselves.

This is the only way I could think of.

[Sonic2024]

Just use the SA1 Emerald Radar mod if you have any problem with those stages. Even I had that problem but now I like playing those stages. And if you want to play as only sonic and shadow you can anyway play like that once you beat the game.

Plus, there is even another game called "Shadow The Hedgehog" which ONLY consists of action stages. But that game took out what the adventure games made great for me. Anyway, it's your choice.

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by Sonic2021:

Just use the SA1 Emerald Radar mod if you have any problem with those stages. Even I had that problem but now I like playing those stages. And if you want to play as only sonic and shadow you can anyway play like that once you beat the game.

Plus, there is even another game called "Shadow The Hedgehog" which ONLY consists of action stages. But that game took out what the adventure games made great for me. Anyway, it's your choice.

The thread's title is literally:

Mod for Sonic/Shadow Levels Only?

But you're answering something else.

Also don't play Shadow the Edgelord, it's a mediocre game from the "give mascots a gun" era

[Sonic2024]

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Originally posted by Sonic2021:

Just use the SA1 Emerald Radar mod if you have any problem with those stages. Even I had that problem but now I like playing those stages. And if you want to play as only sonic and shadow you can anyway play like that once you beat the game.

Plus, there is even another game called "Shadow The Hedgehog" which ONLY consists of action stages. But that game took out what the adventure games made great for me. Anyway, it's your choice.

The thread's title is literally:

Mod for Sonic/Shadow Levels Only?

But you're answering something else.

Also don't play Shadow the Edgelord, it's a mediocre game from the "give mascots a gun" era

I told him there isn't anyway you can do that and gave him other options as advice. He specifically asked helped in Knuckles and Rouge stages and so I recommended the mod. Is that a problem? And he asked for only speed stages so I told him about Shadow the Hedgehog. And I already told that I FEEL like it took away everything that made the adventure games great.

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by Sonic2021:

Originally posted by Ikagura:

The thread's title is literally:

Mod for Sonic/Shadow Levels Only?

But you're answering something else.

Also don't play Shadow the Edgelord, it's a mediocre game from the "give mascots a gun" era

I told him there isn't anyway you can do that and gave him other options as advice. Is that a problem? And he asked for only speed stages so I told him about Shadow the Hedgehog. And I already told that I FEEL like it took away everything that made the adventure games great.

I already told OP to fetch a complete save file.

Anyway this game is only 33% interesting.

[Sonic2024]

Originally posted by Ikagura:

I already told OP to fetch a save file.

And I gave him other options. So what?

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Anyway this game is only 33% interesting.

FOR YOU it's 33% interesting. For many others including me, it's the best sonic has even been. Stop forcing your opinions on others and calling yours factual.

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by Ikagura:

it's a mediocre game from the "give mascots a gun" era

It's certainly no Ratchet & Clank or Jak 2 Renegade, but I'd happily take Shadow the Hedgehog over something like Mega Man X7 any day.

Originally posted by Sonic2021:

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Anyway this game is only 33% interesting.

FOR YOU it's 33% interesting. For many others including me, it's the best sonic has even been. Stop forcing your opinions on others and calling yours factual.

I'd say it's about 96% interesting, the other 4% being Mad Space and Eternal Engine, which IMO is still the best Sonic has ever been and probably ever will be.

[Sixtyfivekills]

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Anyway this game is only 33% interesting.

Just like Mania.

33% is original levels, rest is lazy recycled content from easily accessible games that many already played. That being said, not even all original content is good, puyo puyo boss is horrible.

[Sonic2024]

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:

Originally posted by Ikagura:

Anyway this game is only 33% interesting.

Just like Mania.

33% is original levels, rest is lazy recycled content from easily accessible games that many already played. That being said, not even all original content is good, puyo puyo boss is horrible.

I am sure he would come up with something like "And Still, Mania was a success and was praised not only by the sonic fans, but even from non sonic fans". Lol

[Sixtyfivekills]

Originally posted by Sonic2021:

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:

Just like Mania.

33% is original levels, rest is lazy recycled content from easily accessible games that many already played. That being said, not even all original content is good, puyo puyo boss is horrible.

It seems that Sonic in general is not for him. It's not the sort of game he likes. That's OK. But he bashes the series unnecessarily. That's the problem.

Gotta feed up that fragile ego somehow by convincing himself he's special right?


I don't actually hate Mania at all, but there's certain level of satisfaction when you fight fire with fire

[Sonic2024]

Yeah me too. I also like mania. It was a generation concept for the 2D Classics. And I enjoyed it. But I prefer games like SA2 and Generations over it but when I tell my opinions, The problem is he who must not be named, that's all.