True Blue Sonic (First Version);

During the years 2010 and 2022, NeoFireSonic (an American MUGEN content creator who became famous for creating characters related to the Sonic franchise) created a character called "True Blue Sonic", which had 3 versions. While the two known versions of this character have known whereabouts and are publicly preserved and available (both publicly and by one of their full games), there is one version, more specifically the first, whose whereabouts are unknown.

## Known Information

- First version: The first version of this character was mentioned for the first time in a video dated May 31, 2010, entitled "Sonic vs Sonic fcs mugen: Neo vs True blue sonic" [0], where in this video, the author showed a game that sought to place the canonical characters from the series against fan-made characters, even at the time when this was a fad among the Sonic community.

The star of this video is a character that is mentioned in the title and appears twice in the video: the first on the character selection screen, which lasts from 7 to 23 seconds of the videos and as the first character that the author of the character and the game itself (who is playing) faces in the "Arcade" mode of the game. T.B.S was originally part of a currently lost full game project called "Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Fanchars", where he was the first selectable character from a queue that contained 3 other characters (Ashura, made by MageFX, a version of Rouge whose authorship is unknown and another version of Sonic, this time by Rice and Tetsuo9999, with the portrait changed to the one used for the Sonic Battle game), both also selectable.

Due to the low quality of the video and the very high lags, it is not possible to say what this version of the blue hedgehog has that is different from the other versions, with an exception for a few things:

* He has as a hyper an SGS (Shun Goku Satsu) that kills the player on the first try if he hits. [1]

* It has a victory animation, which can be heard in the 53-second video. [2]

* His portrait is a snippet from the Sonic Battle game cover, except the skin, eyes, and shoes have been color-changed to light blue, orange, and dark blue, respectively. [3]

- Second version: In mid-2013 and 2014, NFS started working on creating their fourth full game related to MUGEN, which he simply titled as "Sonic Speed Fighters 2", where T.B.S appeared again, this time, remade from scratch, with a New and improved portrait, sprites, attacks, coding, animations and gameplay. [4]

The first time this version was mentioned for a second time was in a video posted on April 4, 2014, titled "Mugen - Espio vs Sonic", which shows more content related to the second version of T.B.S, which is facing a version of Espio made by TheJv15 (edited by the author of the video for the full game) in "Watch" mode. [4]

- Third version: In 2020, Neo finally finished Sonic Speed Fighters 2, and posted a video on Youtube, dated November 15, 2020, titled "Mugen - Sonic Speed Fighters 2 All SuperMoves", where in it, True Blue Sonic appears in 1: 45 video, with a new posture animation, but with virtually the same encoding. [5]

## Sources

0. https://youtu.be/MQndRs-4ekc - Video of the first paragraph, in which T.B.S appears for the first time.

1. https://youtu.be/MQndRs-4ekc?t=41 - Excerpt from the video that shows one of his movements.
2. https://youtu.be/MQndRs-4ekc?t=53 - Excerpt from the video where you can hear the audio of the character's victory animation.
3. https://youtu.be/MQndRs-4ekc?t=24 - Excerpt from the 24-second video, where you can see the portrait of the first version of this character.
4. https://youtu.be/sd5fFGOfFSc - Demo video of the second version of the character.
5. https://youtu.be/5D-dtSfLH8U?t=105 - Excerpt from the preview video of the full version of the game "Sonic Speed Fighters 2", which shows not only the third version, but also its hypers.

I sincerely apologize for the spelling errors in this post, my English is below average and I made this entire page using Google Translate.