A set of Game Mods made by E-122-Psi in which the pink hedgehog takes over Sonic's role. Hammer in hand, she can bash enemies and perform large hammer jumps, but isn't able to perform spin moves, changing gameplay significantly.
These hacks include:
- Amy Rose in Sonic the Hedgehog - link
- Amy Rose in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - link
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Pink Edition, which replaces Tails with Cream and uses Amy's Modern look from Sonic Adventure - link
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Pink Edition, which replaces Tails with Cream and uses Amy's Modern look from Sonic Adventure - link
- Sonic 3 & Amy Rose note - link
These hacks provide examples of:
- Adaptation Expansion: Later versions of Pink Edition add Cream (with Cheese) and Big with their own movesets, some hidden levels and routes, and difficulty modes with altered layouts. It also includes Amy's Advance 1 Head Slide Attack which is absent in the other three hacks.
- Call-Forward: Amy's move set in all of three hacks is based on her abilities in the first Sonic Advance game. The hacks for Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 (and later versions of Sonic 1) add her upward dash from Advance 3 (which itself replicates Sonic's Super Peel Out from Sonic the Hedgehog CD).
- Guest Fighter: Big the Cat is referred to as a "Mystery Guest" in earlier versions of Pink Edition.
- Heart Symbol: Like in the Sonic Advance series, a string of them appear whenever Amy's hammer is swung.
- Later-Installment Weirdness: Later versions of the games feature a Giant Steps move performed by pressing Down+Jump, which relegates the Upward Dash (analogue to the Spin Dash) to Up+Jump. In a case of Early-Installment Weirdness, early versions of the first and second/third game also only had Giant Steps and Upward Dash respectively through the same control scheme.
- Master of All: Super Amy is, like all Super forms, invincible, negating her inability to spin. While Amy runs slower than Sonic, Super Amy closely matches Super Sonic's speed, and retains her other abilities.
- Palette Swap:
- Enemies and background tiles turn from blue to pink due to most palettes sharing Sonic/Amy's fur color.
- Pink Edition uses Sonic 1's colored fade-to-black transition albeit with a pink hue instead of blue.
- Retraux: While her moves are based on the Sonic Advance games, to further the hacks' connection to the classic Sonic games, the hacks use Amy's design from Sonic CD instead of her modern design.
- Schizophrenic Difficulty: While Amy's abilities are different from Sonic's, the levels and bosses are unaltered, making some parts easier and other parts harder.
- Sequence Breaking: Amy follows Sonic's route in Sonic 3, but her hammer can destroy barriers that give access to most of Knuckles' routes and acts.
- Some Dexterity Required: Downplayed; the original games only use the D-Pad and jump button, while these hacks add a second button for the hammer. Since Amy doesn't spin for her jumps, hammer attacks need to be timed to hit enemies in the way.
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Spiritual Successor: Amy Mania in which Amy replaces Mighty in Sonic Mania. She has her high jump move, but her hammer has less use as she can curl into a ball and is only used in a Knuckles-type glide attack. - Spring Jump: Amy's regular jump is the same height as Sonic's, but Down+Attack triggers a higher jump, sometimes dangerously so; Super Amy in 2 and 3 (And Hyper Amy in 3) can jump even higher.. And in a literal case, hammer attacking the games' springs propels Amy much higher and farther than normally jumping on them.
- Too Fast to Stop: Averted; no matter how fast she goes, pressing the Down button will stop all momentum instantly.
