Sonic the Fighters

**Sonic the Fighters** is a Russian bootleg game for the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis. It's available in Russian, English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese.

## Summary

It is a fighting game based on the Sonic the Hedgehog series, having various characters. It uses the Classic designs of the characters and attempts to be a bootleg port of an official fighting game called Sonic the Fighters. Everybody can jump in this game by curling up into a ball. It has got many playable characters, including Sonic and Tails themselves.

## Characters

* Sonic - His attack is the spindash. He can also turn into Super Sonic.
* Tails - His attacks are the spindash and flying.
* Knuckles - His attacks are the spindash and gliding.
* Amy Rose - His attack is smashing the opponent using a hammer.
* Fang the Sniper - His attack is shooting the opponent with a gun.
* Bean the Dynamite - His attack is throwing a bomb at the opponent.
* Super Sonic - Same as Sonic, but he can shoot fireballs at the opponent, unlike Sonic.
* Dr. Robotnik - His attack is

### Unplayable characters

* Metal Sonic - His attack is electrocuting the player. Was playable
* Bark - His attack is throwing fish at the player.

### Removed characters

* Dr. Robotnik (original) - Added in v1 alpha. Removed in v1 final beta due to being useless. Deleted in v1 RC due to cleanup.
* Honey the Cat - Added in v1 beta. Removed in v2 beta due to being useless.
* Espio - Added in v3 beta. Removed in v3 RC due to being useless. Deleted in v3 due to cleanup.
* Rocket Metal - Added in v4 alpha. Removed and deleted in v4 beta due to backlash from fans.

## Levels

1. South Island
2. Flying Carpet
3. Aurora Icefield
4. Canyon Cruise
5. Casino Night
6. Dynamite Plant
7. Giant Wing
8. Death Egg's Eye

## Development

### v1

* v1 PROTOTYPE - The earliest revision ever of the bootleg. Sonic, Tails and Metal Sonic were added. Canyon Cruise, Giant Wing and Death Egg's Eye were added.
* v1 alpha - Dr. Robotnik, Amy and Knuckles were added. South Island, Flying Carpet and Death Egg's Hangar were added. Super Sonic was added.
* v1 beta - Honey, Fang, Bean and Bark were added. Aurora Icefield, Casino Night and Dynamite Plant were added.
* v1 final beta - Dr. Robotnik was removed, but kept in the files. The clones were added. Death Egg's Hangar was removed and deleted.
* v1 RC - Dr. Robotnik was deleted and all mentions to him were deleted. Most bugs are already fixed at that point.
* v1 - Initial release.

### v2

* v2 beta - Honey was removed, but kept in the files.
* v2 - All mentions to Honey in the game (except the sprites) are removed.

### v3

* v3 beta - Espio was added. Mushroom Hill was added. Dr. Robotnik is back along with Death Egg's Hangar.
* v3 RC - Espio was removed, but kept in the files. Mushroom Hill was removed.
* v3 - Espio was deleted and all mentions to him were deleted. Dr. Robotnik is now playable again.

### v4

* v4 alpha - Metal Sonic was removed, but kept in the files. Rocket Metal was added. Metal Sonic is no longer playable, Rocket Metal is playable.
* v4 beta - Rocket Metal was removed and deleted. Metal Sonic was readded, being playable again, as Rocket Metal is no longer playable.
* v4 - Metal Sonic is no longer playable. All mentions to Rocket Metal were completely deleted.

## Unused content

### Honey's sprites

In the files, among the sprites of the characters, Honey's sprites can be seen. They are leftovers from v2 beta.

### Mushroom Hill remnants

Also in the files, you can see also see Mushroom Hill's remnants, which are actually the sprites. You CAN actually load the level, but it will crash due to it loading non-existent graphics.