HyperSonic
What is HyperSonic?
HyperSonic is a cross-platform editor for (eventually) the Sonic the Hedgehog games on SEGA Genesis/MegaDrive. Currently, it only supports Sonic 1's disassembly from Sonic Retro, but it will eventually support more games, more disassemblies, and hopefully custom disassemblies as well.
This app was created as a result of my computer getting zapped during a thunderstorm in mid-July 2026. No, there wasn't a particle collider nearby and my PC isn't now the Flash. It is dead though, and that pushed me onto a MacBook as my main. This happened to be as I was trying to experiment and make a Sonic Romhack. I was poking around at SonLVL, which was seemingly one of the newer pieces of software at the time, and that wasn't feasible anymore since it only ran on Mac. So in a fit of nerd rage, I began building this. I also accidentally built a CMS and have been creating an HTML, CSS, and JS implementation of the first Generation Pokemon games. I'm normal, I swear.
I want to set some expectations, though. This is an early public preview. I've decided this roughly a quarter of the way into my next wave of development on this app. This can be considered early access, alpha, whatever -- there are features being added, and things can change at any time. Please enjoy the app as it is, though, and please give feedback!
I'm slowly working to at least bring feature parity with SonLVL. I haven't audited both apps in a while and it's a little difficult, but if you have certain features you want to see added, please reach out with feedback! It might be added to the to-do list, and if it's already there, it might get bumped up sooner!
Feedback
- Review the Changelog to see all new features and known issues, first.
- Reach out to IndyDako on Discord with any questions or issues, or post in the SHC or DVS Discord thread/channels, or the thread on Sonic Retro.
- Use the bright red Diagnostics button in the app when reporting issues just in case it contains valuable information to me.
