Sonic 2 HD fan remake
 

Something interesting I stumbled across, a HD fan remake of Sonic 2:

http://savygamer.blogspot.com/2008/0...ke-on-way.html

Interesting idea. It's good to see that they seem to be paying close attention to detail and that they're using a custom game engine. I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

I saw this on Kotaku. It looks simply amazing. The sad thing is a majority of these bigger game companies hate well-done fangames... like they find them a threat or something. Joe Shmoe can make 400 crappy games that nobody cares about... but as soon as something incredible such as this starts getting cobbled together... the lawyers get dispatched.

You have to protect your copyrights, or risk losing them.

Yeah, it's just business, man. Nothing wrong with protecting what's rightfully yours.

Would you like it if every company sent you a cease-and-desist every time you drew fanart or wrote a fanfic? It's the same thing.

Not really.

It's looking pretty great so far, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was shut down. I remember the 3D Chrono Trigger remake that Square-Enix shut down and the 2D orcarina of time project.

I fail to see how it isn't.

Fanart and fanfics are merely lifting your own interpretation of the property, this is actually recreating the product in which the property was originally presented, without the consent of those who hold the rights to it. I'm not saying it's not a great idea, but it makes perfect sense that Sega might not be happy about this because it's taking their product out of their hands and they're not getting any revenue from it.

I could considerably see that, but what about the ones that are not enhanced remakes? I've seen some fangames that were not remakes get shut down.

Who the hell do you think I am, anyway? And like Doom said, it's not the same thing in the least.

And I have received cease-and-desist letters from companies. Differences being I know I was violating their copyrights and was ok with it.

Come again?

He's the God Damned Batman.

All right... can we just get back to the topic at hand? We're just going in circles and some of you are confusing the hell out of me.

Does anyone know how exactly high-definition sprites like these are made? Hand-drawn? Computer tablet? Photoshop? Magic?

Someone doesn't have a sense of humor.

... Why do I even bother...? :roll:

Here's a survival tip. Don't take anyone so seriously around here. We don't.

It would be funny if Sega sent them a C&D in a sick way. As if Sega could/would do any better. The best HD Hedgehog action they gave us was some blurry, upscaled garbage ports on Xbox Live Arcade.

At the forum, the guy running the project seems pretty abrasive about Sega and their potential lawyer stalking. He said he would move the server to Sweden if they pulled anything. I hope they have the balls to fight any inevitable shutdown attempts, because this looks to be better than anything Sega has put out since the Sammy takeover.

I hope this gets somewhere, because the work they have so far is amazing. The character art is better than the past 10 years of Sega's garbage combined. It's like official art from the 90s in motion. The best part though is the music. I haven't heard Sonic remixes that good....well, ever. Some of them outperform the originals (Casino Night, and Hill Top specifically).

It reminds me of the Retro Sonic engine to show up a while back.