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Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)

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Mod by ShadowLAG recreated by me.
Download: https://youtu.be/5PJgp0rlkdI
15 Years... Feel old? I know I do!

I still vividly remember watching this for the first time, feeling horse-struck that such a gameplay difference in speed and power in damage/infiniteness could be achieved, regardless if it was cheats or some other method. Try to remember that this was in an era where there were no fan patches, and no updates that attempted to fix/change elements of the game. The closest to this was the DLC making tails run a little faster, but since it only affected him, I get the feeling it was a coincidence or unintentional.
I really wasn't a fan of the speed that sonic made when you would jump from idle then move out of it, but this mod sped that up just a little. Not much, but I certainly noticed the change. And despite the amount of times I rewatched the original video ( https://youtu.be/_A9u7sjmXHQ ) I still wanted to play it. And for the next 3 years, I could only watch and see others try it, but it wasn't until a user by the name of CRASHICTH provided all the necessary tools and links in a video tutorial showing how to install the mod on hardware. Unfortunately all his 06 vids have been either privated or deleted due to a massive amount of people demanding the e3 demo from him when he made a joke post claiming to have it. It's for this reason that I won't link his current channel.
But man, I'm very grateful to his contributions, and ShadowLAG's. If it weren't for the both of them, I firmly believe that I wouldn't be anywhere near as involved as I am with PROJECT 06, or ChaosX (Thumbnail Renders by him!). At most I might've been checking the YouTube updates, because while there are certainly other (unrelated to sonic) projects that I've had planned for years with where I'd like my career to go in the future, and am trying to balance time for 06 stuff and those other projects, 06 did inspire a few elements in my other projects, so the game certainly did have an impact on me, especially with who I'd play it with back in the day.

I know there were other mods around this time that could've been made before this ( https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0QsGODF7UNM/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEnCOADEI4CSFryq4qpAxkIARUAAIhCGAHYAQHiAQoIHBACGAYgATgB&rs=AOn4CLAY1K_Y6RWOjOQKdVf5G0WQ6Qze5g ) but this still goes down in 06 history as the very first released 06 mod. It's bizarre to compare this, or even use this with patches. Now a days we're in the territory of telling the ring counter to go down as super sonic, returning you to normal once on 0! It was a mere pipe dream 15 years ago, but how the mods have evolved is amazing simply put.
It's interesting too, because when I did my first coverage of this mod going back to 2015 ( https://youtu.be/CrxVwHyTimo ) according to other modders that are in the community patching the game now, they watched my super sonic vid and were inspired to want to dig into the game files to see what could be modded/fixed/restored. And that's pretty much exactly how it was for me, seeing ShadowLAG's vid and wanting to experiment with the files, or even in gameplay. So in more ways than one, this mod has inspired many, and I'm glad, cuz even 15 years later it definitely deserves the title, 'The First 06 Mod!'

It certainly took a while to grow an 06 modding community, but I'm very glad to've been apart of its conception, and I certainly wouldn't have been present back then if it weren't for this mod!
Here's to the next 15 years!! 🎉

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