About
Sonic Nexus is a fan-made Sonic game built on version 2 of the Retro Engine, released as a demo in 2008. This is a complete decompilation of the Retro-Sonic Engine v2, the engine used to build Sonic Nexus. It adds a built-in mod loader, a settings.ini configuration file mirroring Sonic Mania's approach, and debug/dev-menu features ported from Sonic Mania, accessible via ESC, F11, and F12 once enabled in the config.
How it differs from the original
Adds a mod loader and Sonic Mania-style debug tools (a dev menu, pause/step, fast-forward) that were not part of the original 2008 Sonic Nexus demo release.
Getting started
Requires assets from the Sonic Nexus 2008 demo to run, since the decompilation itself contains no original game assets. Build with CMake after cloning the repository recursively to pull in required submodules; do not use GitHub's ZIP download, which omits them.
Additional notes
- External link
- An unofficial Nintendo Switch port exists as a community fork.