Sonic Robo Blast 2

Sonic Robo Blast 2 is a fangame of the Sonic The Hedgehog series, from SEGA, and whose fangame is not only known for using the same engine used in the FPS of the 90s Doom, but was also the fangame that gave life to the Ghost Race Championship, which, in 2017, was a series of races in Sonic Robo Blast 2 via player-recorded ghosts, and which has now become a franchise run by one person.

Sonic Robo Blast 2 was started in 1998, and even today it remains in an "in development" state, with several things being planned for the future of the game.  The fangame is highly inspired by the original 2D Sonic games for the Sega Genesis and has its attempt to replicate that style in 3D.

## SRB2 and its connection to the Ghost Race Championship

Before the Ghost Race Championship even existed, SRB2, in 2014, was updated to version 2.1.x, and these 2.1 versions gave life to several tools for mods, and it was also the first version of SRB2 that would have Lua implementation script, which broke barriers from various limitations that were previously seen in versions 2.0 and below.  But the 2.1 versions didn't just include these as new features.  A system of ghosts was also introduced in the "Record Attack" mode, where the player needs to reach the end of the stage to make the fastest time.  It was this novelty that contributed to the creation of the Ghost Race Championship, which despite not being official for the fangame, greatly popularized the "races against ghosts" theme in the game.

The first edition of the Ghost Race Championship was in January 2017, where Ashley The Fox, the person behind the popularization of the Ghost Race Championship, is seen playing a custom character named "Jasper The Fox", in the original SRB2 stage "Deep Sea Zone Act 2", competing against ghosts he recorded for skin.  However, the level's music was replaced by "For The Glory", from the game F-Zero GX, which was released on the Nintendo Gamecube in 2003. This game also made Ashley The Fox go further in what he could change to Ghost Race Championship , and it was in September 2017 that his confirmation that Ghost Race Championship would move to a series in SRB2 for a franchise entirely made from scratch was confirmed, only with the franchise being heavily inspired by F-Zero, which, according to Ashley The Fox, it was a decision that could cause controversy, which did not happen, as the new Ghost Race Championship was quite irrelevant and very poorly known by outsiders, but that did not stop Ashley The Fox from releasing a franchise film in 2020. Sonic Robo Blast 2 became the software used in the racing scenes of that film, and that the same method of recording ghosts to compete in the game's Record Attack was done.

However, Ashley The Fox has been planning a sequel to Ghost Race Championship, which, oddly enough, started in early 2018, with the first film still in development.  Only, despite the first film being released only in 2020, the film's recordings ended in May 2018, and that Ashley would reserve 2 years to work with subtitles for the film in several languages, which did not happen, and that days after the release of the film Ghost Race Championship in September 2020, it was confirmed that Ashley was indeed creating a sequel to Ghost Race Championship, only that all post-activity for the 2020 film was discontinued, meaning Ashley would no longer work on Ghost Race Championship (2020), to focus on its sequel, which despite all the concept artwork for all 70 drivers being ready, it was confirmed that he began redesigning all the characters, to make them look consistent.  With the discontinuation of Ghost Race Championship 1, Ashley was able to start Ghost Race Championship 2: The Video Game, a Sonic Robo Blast 2 mod that would give players a new Ghost Race Championship experience.  However, this mod, unlike Ghost Race Championship 1, will only be available for versions 2.2.11 and onwards, despite September 2021 being the start of mod development, SRB2 was still at version 2.2.9, and that was only updated to 2.2.10 in 2022.

Sonic Robo Blast 2, in a nutshell, is the Sonic The Hedgehog fangame that made possible the creation of the Ghost Race Championship that exists today.  Without her the Ghost Race Championship would never exist, the same would apply to this Wiki.