#and even then the only sequel with any actual data n not just sprites or cues is micro-row 2

[puppys-rhythm-heaven]

the tiny robots from fillbots 2 being unused in megamix and moddable is really inch resting to me cuz like. there's no listing for fillbots 2. or any unused icon or anything. meanwhile the double cue from micro-row 2 is unused in megamix and moddable also but there IS data for micro-row 2 (or i guess micro-row 3 but whatever). there's so much weird unused stuff in megamix like that-

[blazehedgehog]

Just thinking of some notable Sonic fan-work vaporware. 1. The Sonic OVA sequel 2. SatAM Season 3 (can't remember if there was a stab at animating it, or if it was always intended to just be a pitch + scripts) 3. Sonic XG 4. Ashura: Dark Reign... do you recall any more across your fandom history? Funny that I thought I had a load of examples - yet the latter two are actually getting out of vaporware status. Bonus: The one that's not quite notable, but the one you're personally the saddest about?

The very first Sonic fan game I remember finding, the one that eventually lead me to SFGHQ, was something called "Sonic 2000." Even by now, things like Klik 'n' Play and The Games Factory were the most common ways Sonic fan games got produced, but Sonic 2000 was written for, and in, DOS.

I barely remember it now, but I think it might have been the source of one particular set of Metal Sonic sprites that were pretty common back in the day. Here they are in a fan game recently tweeted by Rlan's SonicFanGameBot:

The only other thing I remember about Sonic 2000 now is that it eventually scrapped and tried to reboot as one of the first 3D fan games -- I believe the coder was going to write his own entire 3D engine to support the game. It didn't get very far to say the least.

My memory is grasping at straws now; I think the villain was also this, like, muscle-bound humanoid cyber-man? The sort of thing where, when you're 15 or 16, it seems REALLY cool, but as you get older you start to realize how much that probably clashed.

Doing some digging, I have uncovered this:

Which comes from this Youtube series. Gameplay looks very much like The Games Factory's default platform movement, so I'm guessing the "I'll make a 3D game!" reboot is when it became DOS-only.

(what are the odds: this person just did a complete TFH playthrough only a few hours ago, as of this writing)

Beyond that, I dunno. Sonic Madventure 2 never came out that I remember? I could never get very far in Madventure 1 (I think my computer didn't like it and it'd crash at a specific part), but I remember being very interested in Madventure 2. But, as I recall, it succumbed to the problem a lot of Clickteam Fusion games had back then: data corruption followed by "I just don't feel like fixing this."

Some of your examples are showing signs of life, however. The Sonic XG twitter account tweeted out two new gameplay videos in February, and Ashura: Dark Reign rebooted in Unreal Engine 4 last year and is making regular updates again.

Season 3 was many things. To my memory, it ended up as a fancomic, which I think is still going to this day. (If you have trouble navigating pages, the next/previous page buttons are the tiny little arrows in the top right, next to the RSS feed icon)

You didn't bring it up, but even Sonic 2 HD is showing signs of life recently.