Open Sonic 1 Recreation

Open source recreation of original Sonic The Hedgehog 1991 game on C++ programming language.

Media

Watch full gameplay on YouTube

Controls

• Gameplay
  • Arrows - movement
  • Z - Jump
  • X - Spindash (CD Style)
• System
  • C - On/Off Noclip
  • F - Change window size
  • R - Restart level
  • Q - Go to previous level
  • E - Go to next level

Check list

• Player ✔️
  • Basic Movement ✔️
  • 360 Movement ✔️
  • Collisions ✔️
  • Basic Actions ✔️
• Sounds ✔️
• Music ✔️
• Background parallax ✔️
• HUD ✔️
• Spikes ✔️
• Springs ✔️
• Bosses ❌
• Enemies
  • Moto Bug ✔️
  • Chopper ✔️
  • Crabmeat ✔️
  • Buzz Bomber ✔️
  • Newtron ❌
  • Ball Hog ❌
  • Batbrain ❌
  • Bomb ❌
  • Burrobot ❌
  • Roller ❌
  • Spikes ❌
  • Unidasu ❌
• Levels <Collisions> <Gimmicks>
  • Green Hill ✔️✔️
  • Marble ✔️❌
  • Spring Yard ✔️❌
  • Labyrinth ✔️❌
  • Starlight ✔️❌
  • Scrap Brain ✔️❌

Sources used

• Sonic 1 Disassembly
• Sonic Physics Guide
• Sonic Hacking Guide
• Spirtes Resource
• Sound Resource

Build information

CMake

cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build --config Release

Common

• You need SFML2 library to build it: https://www.sfml-dev.org/download.php
• link following libraries: -lsfml-window -lsfml-graphics -lsfml-system -lsfml-audio
• Put output file and SFML dlls to bin folder

Compiling args

<your compiler> src\*.cpp -I include\ -I <path to SFML2 include folder> -L <path to SFML2 lib folder> -o bin\sonic.exe -lsfml-window -lsfml-graphics -lsfml-system -lsfml-audio

Example for MinGW / GCC

g++ src\*.cpp -I include\ -I lib\x64\SFML-2.5.1\include -L lib\x64\SFML-2.5.1\lib -o bin\sonic.exe -lsfml-window -lsfml-graphics -lsfml-system -lsfml-audio