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Team Sonic's CD special stage starting sprites, but more accurate to the style of the original game. Imma talk about how I made these bc why not

Sonic — In Sonic CD's 2011 remake, Sonic's sprites were stretched horizontally from the 1993 version. This makes sense given that that the Mega CD rendered the special stages at a lower resolution to the rest of the game, but the upscaling in 2011 was quite rushed, as if they went into MS Paint and increased the sprite width that way. So what I did was I redrew the head and reused the shoes and gloves from the 1993 sprite.

Tails — Tails' sprites were designed with the increased resolution in mind, and so looked better because of it. All I did here was change the shading to be more consistent with Sonic's and added the yellow shoe shine. I also gave him his 3rd hair tuft back.

Knuckles — Ooh boy, where do I begin with his sprites in Origins. There are so many problems with them, most notably, that weird skin-coloured highlight on the top of his head and the fact that he looks off-model in nearly every sprite. It seems most of them were edited from Sonic's, so I made my own Knuckles sprite in a similar way. Making this made me even more baffled at how the Origins spriters screwed up so badly with Knuckles. I did reuse the hands from Origins, because I don't really have a problem with those.

Amy — My main issues with Amy's sprites in Origins is that her sprites have way too many colours, 23 in her idle sprite, to be precise, whereas the Mega Drive/CD is capable of rendering only 15 colours per sprite. To achieve hardware accuracy, I removed the darkest shade of pink as well as the unique shades of orange and blue for her skirt and shoes respectively. Now her shoes are grey as that is the closest I could get to her periwinkle blue shoes from official artwork without going over the 15 colour limit.

Let me know if I should talk about my sprites more often