Hacking Sonic Hacking Contest 2024 starts off its contest week

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The Sonic romhacking and modding community is back at it again and in full swing with their yearly iteration of the Sonic Hacking Contest 2024, featuring everything romhacks and mods related to Sonic games, going from the 8bit games all the way up to the most recent 3D entries of the blue blur.

A yearly event going strong for more than two decades beginning in 2012, the Sonic Hacking Contest begun its 2024 contest week on Saturday, September 28th, and several popular content creators will showcase the many romhacks and mods that have been submitted to the contest, with creators like Tails Channel, Redhotsonic or SomeCallMeJohnny covering the entries.

The Contest Week started on Saturday, September 28th and will end on Sunday, October 6th, with each submitted contest entry being judged on a wide variety of metrics, like Best Visuals, Best Audio, Best Level Design, Best Character Implementation, etc.. The Contest is also open for the general community as well, with some entries being applicable to Community Trophies as well.

One big change of this year's contest is that, unlike all previous years, the "Expo" (a section where all users could submit entries for people to test without participating in the main Contest) has been removed, and the organizers will instead focus all their attention to the actual contest, with the main difference being that developers can opt in or out of their entry being admissible for judging or not. One reason for this is to improve the quality of the overall entries and avoid "less than favourable" entries that might turn people off from checking out the main contest entries.

As with each Hacking Contest, every entry can be downloaded and played by the user, with the community being able to send feedback or simply post as comments under each of the submited entries.

Sonic Hacking Contest website