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Sonic the Hedgehog
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Name Sonic the Hedgehog
Category PC / Computer
Game Sonic Mania
Section Playable Characters
Submitted August 31, 2017
Uploaded By kewlzonic
Additional Credits AsuharaMoon
Size 223.79 KB (1226x2466)
Format PNG (image/png)
Hits 392,847
Animated GIFs (0)

Comments (121)


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i can kind of see how this was somewhat inspired by the Sonic 2 prototype sprites
Danny Jarquin Mar 28, 2025, 8:15 PM
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@CamTGMYT It really depends on the game. Some sheets are larger because they go into more detail. Some detail the animations, palettes and extra info while others just for the basic sprites. In a few cases, they aren't optimised and can be a bit small in filesize but people usually do. All I can say, glad PNG exists as a format otherwise you'll dread to think how big a sheet can be if it was in BMP.

From a technical point of view, sometimes the sprite sheets has to be larger than in the ROM itself usually for older games. In many cases, sprites are made up in tiles where they can get duplicated or made in pieces and the game coding sorts it out. Palettes are usually stored elsewhere. Compression is also a factor where the game would have to decompress just so it can get shown in game. Java mobile games sometimes crammed the sprites into what little space is on a sheet making it nonsensical, again the coding sorts it out. All of that just to save space and back then, it was precious. (Some companies though like Capcom often wasted storage space)

If you think this sheet's big, try the Metal Slug rips. LOADS of animations to boot as well. Anyone who rips from that series or from fighting games has my respect (in most cases).
Yawackhary Feb 9, 2025, 2:42 AM
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To be fair it's probably just large to people unexperienced in this kind of thing. Like me for example, I underestimated sprite sheets heavily in size and am only recently learning that they are astronomical. Not knowing would make smthn like this seem big. Hell, it still looks large to me, just understandably so
CamTGMYT Feb 9, 2025, 12:40 AM
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@FridayFunkGaming291: It's really not? I'd hardly call a thousand-by-two-thousand pixels in dimensions that's only a couple hundred kilobytes "big" by any means when we have submissions on the site that are like six thousand pixels in height and a few megabytes apiece.
Random Talking Bush Administrators Feb 8, 2025, 7:28 PM
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i agree
Son1c Feb 8, 2025, 12:13 PM
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dang this sheet is big
if only you could make a sheet both a sheet and a zip (and no this isnt a request)
FridayFunkGaming291 Feb 1, 2025, 9:38 AM
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wait... all the characters have dedicated air walking sprites

(or should I say A.I.R. walking sprites... I'll see myself out)
BonfireTheBat Oct 30, 2024, 10:51 PM
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frame 10 of transforming looks like he's melting
Catperson6 Oct 8, 2024, 7:03 PM
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@GooberttheGoober i cant unsee that
McRat Sep 16, 2024, 6:50 PM
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Why does the AIZ Ray Cutscene sprite look like he's flipping someone off?
Goobert the Goober Sep 11, 2024, 7:02 PM
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@PlayerZeroX it is seen while hovering over the exit button but went unused in mania (i think)
Son1c Jul 9, 2024, 4:04 PM
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the "Outta Here" sprites... I can't believe that's in Mania.
PlayerZeroX Jul 21, 2023, 2:03 PM
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How do I get the pages separately? I don't want to be cutting them 1x1!
Anormalperson Jun 6, 2023, 1:49 AM
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Spoiler:Fired but cool
AnNormalCat2014 Apr 6, 2023, 1:48 PM
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Hey, is there a way for me to get a Zip file of all the isolated sprites instead of having them all in one png? thanks.

A helpful alternative would be to have the sprite sheet how it is here in one image, But with the sprites evenly spaced out, like a grid, with a transparent background
The Pan Man Aug 28, 2021, 5:20 PM *
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@Random Talking Bush: The update that Supersonic got his own sheet was way back in 2018, I tracked the Way Back Machine using this URL and found this, the old sprite sheet.

Edit; I forgot it was HTTP when I loaded it it was blank:

http://web.archive.org/web/20170912145719/https://www.spriters-resource.com/fullview/95304/
ILikeSonic80904SR May 2, 2021, 2:35 PM
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One of Sonic's "turntable" frames looks like his version of Crash's "WOAH surprise"
SpyrotheDragon2021 Mar 29, 2021, 6:07 AM
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These sprites when put together frame by frame into one animated sprite looks so smooth. I was gonna rip them but since I didn't have an account yet, I decided to rip them for me until this sprite sheet popped up. Thanks :)
The Sprite Planet Apr 8, 2020, 4:25 PM
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This sprite sheet highlights the problem I have with normal Sonic's palette. It's too bright imo, it strains my eyes. I wish that they used a slightly darker blue
JacobLeBeauREAL Mar 31, 2019, 1:20 PM
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hecc nevermind i am blind
SuperSonicChaos Mar 13, 2019, 2:35 PM
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