Cool bro

hmm, interesting, thanks for the reply! i suppose that makes some sense, though i have to imagine at some point it does come down to "vibes": percentage-wise, a mega man fangame has a lot more original fan characters than sonic.exe does, but since sonic.exe is featured as the main antagonist and the game revolves around him, it's not considered as significant that every other character is official. if you really wanted to be pedantic with it though, you could ask what even defines a fan character - if sunky is simply a deformed version of sonic, would exe not be one too? hell, the weird extra lore added in the My5tCrimson game kind of seems to imply that, unlike the original creepypasta, sonic.exe *is* just a possessed sonic instead of some separate demon creature, which would make him... not a separate character at all. in the end while it does sort of bug me it doesn't matter too much, and i don't intend to belabor the point, just had some more thoughts on it spurred by your reply bringing the topic back up.

As I understand it, Mega Man 8-Bit Deathmatch is allowed because it features, but does not center around, original characters. The original Mystcrimson Sonic.EXE game, though very influential and honestly really deserving of a page, centers around a fan creation and thus doesn't get the pass.

do fan characters for mega man fangames just not count under that rule? because they really should, but that'd require removing a lot of really beloved fangames for no good reason - maestro from 8 bit deathmatch, all of rock & roll, origins, and christmas carol, some of mega man arena... the list really does go on

This was something that was brought up repeatedly -- the characters in Sunky are essentially super-deformed / low-effort / "parody" versions of the already-existing Sonic cast. Just because they have goofy names doesn't mean that they're considered "fan characters", they still resemble their original counterparts.

would sunky's schoolhouse break this rule because he is a fan character are you going to rip the page for that game off of the site like the mr incredible poster

Sonic.EXE goes against our very rules for fan characters not being allowed on the site, for starters -- just because it somehow got popular doesn't mean we should accept it. And it's not just Sonic.EXE stuff we haven't been allowing for the record, so we're not being "petty and exclusionary" there.

pretty funny how fangames of almost anything else are allowed but we're still being petty and exclusionary about exe games in 2025, going on 2026. yeah the games aren't good, but neither are a bunch of games that are allowed on the site; i get why obviously no customs are accepted, but this sheet should really open the door for existing games like the My5tCrimson original considering how damn old they are by now. hell, the sonic twitter *did* officially use its own exe sprites for halloween one year, if you want to make the official argument. wouldn't recreations of those be acceptable the same way undertale/deltarune promotional sprite recreations are? to clarify, i have no stake in this debate, i've simply been a lurker on this site long enough to find it curiously hypocritical.

Cagney Carnation? Man what a weird ha- Wait is that... So- So- So- So- Sonic.EXE?

Nope.

hey uhmmm if somebody made a sonic.exe game in PC / Computer would that still be allowed? As technically Sonic.exe isn't an offical Sonic character but could be put in a seperate Sonic.exe game. Same for exetior as its the same case but with a different game as nightmare beginning and EOT also don't have a specific area for people to get the sprites from. would these two games be able to be added in that way?

And it will not get accepted, as we do not allow submissions of unofficial characters.

Before anyone says "but you accepted this one though!"... I don't have an answer for that, as I wasn't the one who accepted this. But we've been more selective about which kinds of ROM hacks get on the site, so don't expect another game like this to be approved in the future either.

I could try getting a sprite sheet for sonic exe.

the best sonic.exe sprite sheet on tsr

@Unoriginal_Fox if we aren't talking about that one Sonic custom spritesheet where one sprite of him was included as a joke

this is the only sonic.exe sheet on the website

let's hope it stays that way

This is the sprite sheet ever.

best sonic.exe ever

Stretched.exe

@Ton Careful, Sanic's been in a few now.