"GET BACK HERE, YOU LOW EFFORT COPYCAT!"
NAMELESS is a Sonicpasta character created by geo i guess, who made his debut on June 11th, 2023, originally planned to be named. However, after many attempts at trying to gain a name, Geo eventually settled on leaving him as NAMELESS, seeing as in canon, the project he resides in was never actually finished.[1]
Unfinished ROM Hack[]
NAMELESS, a semi-sentient Sonic in a ROM Hack of Knuckles Chaotix, is described as the result of a failed, unfinished ROM Hack of Knuckles Chaotix, dubbed Project Speed Demon on the YouTube channel and Knuckles Chaotix: Speed Demon Edition in-game and in the YouTube's Header.
NOTE (JULY 5TH, 2024) - hey, geo here to say i decided to publicize the site finally, even if it's unfinished and i don't have plans to work on it due to lack of ideas and motivation. I am very sorry about that.
The site can be found here.
Knuckles Chaotix: Speed Demon Edition (or codenamed "Project Speed Demon") is an in-universe ROM Hack Originally created by the main programmer and head of the direction, Sylus Heathing (Sie-luss Hee-thing), assisted by several of his friends during the time they were high school sophomores. Initially, its goals were to:
- Restore Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles "Tails" Prower back in-game, replacing Bomb and repairing **********
- Adding an Extra Character to replace Heavy, Ray the Flying Squirrel
- Tweak the Physics to be a bit more tolerable (i.e. Stronger Spindash, however only applied to Sonic in the story's build)
- Restore unused and scrapped sprites, such as the Dizzy animations. The NAMELESS Website refers back to TCRF's Section on Chaotix's Unused Sprites
- Custom OST Pieces, some meant for the site, such as Page Not Found.wav, composed by Geo himself.
Of course, this didn't fully come to fruition, as after a long while of Sylus struggling to work with programming in the engine and Assembly, and overall stress, demotivation, and declining interest for the project, it was ultimately left to collect dust on Sylus' PC, development ending around December of 2017.
Appearance[]
NAMELESS[]
NAMELESS appears to be a rendition of Sonic sporting a purple tone to his fur. The ears are slightly longer to resemble Mighty, and the cuffs of his socks & gloves seem to have an indescribable prop band. He is also seen sporting Mighty's shoes as opposed to his own, and lacking a mouth. According to Geo, this is due to human error caused by the sprite artist.[2]
SYLUS HEATHING[]
Sylus Heathing is, at the time of the story, a 20 year old who was a bit of a programmer, having been learning since his sophomore year of high school had kicked off, way in 2017 when he had just turned 16 on August. Generally, in his loungewear, he's usually seen with dark green pajama pants, a Sonic T-Shirt, and sometimes a Jacket if needed.
ARMACHNIA (Working Name)[]
Armachnia (currently a working name, bound to change and open to suggestions) is dubbed as a Wechnia version of Mighty the Armadillo. Not much is known other than being a glitched out version of Mighty, seen in Concepts and the "Oops! Better Luck Next time!" art.
Story (I may fully rework this.)[]
... so, about the story.
I've been having a rough time trying to finalize this. The only currently public version, which is kinda old, can be found here.
Sorry about any inconveniences this may cause!
Abilities[]
Sprite Manipulation[]
Due to being a buggy mess, this is either at random or a controller glitch-out of sprites. This ranges from either changing the palette, clashing sprites, or mixing both into a cacophony of pixels. While this is mainly done to himself, when he does this, pieces of the stage around him tend to do the same in response, which is something NAMELESS cannot control himself. This can also be uncontrollable when in a rage fit, most notably seen in one of the first screenshot mockups. Although, as an upside, his speed is modified to his benefit.
ROM Corruption[]
If NAMELESS gets to a certain point, whether glitched out, or just purely pissed, he will alter a bit in the code enough to make the rom completely unplayable, and crash the emulator completely. This is only a last-ditch effort, and has never been used to public knowledge, so its unlikely that the information here is accurate.
Corrupted Clone[3][]
Since he's a semi-sentient game glitch, he can create dormant clones as an obstacle or a warp path to come back to. However, the sprite itself, since it doesn't have a proper sprite to accompany it, instead what comes out is garbage data, usually an amalgamation of 4 different characters: Knuckles, Espio, Mighty, and **********. This, in turn, corrupts NAMELESS's look the more he adds in the garbage data clones, so it's proper to only use them sparingly and limit himself on how many he can summon before things turn south.
Trivia[]
NAMELESS[]
- If NAMELESS were to interact with a Mighty EXE before his story took place, he would do anything in his power to rid of it, thinking it actually is mighty himself.
- If NAMELESS were to interact with a Mighty EXE after his story took place, depending on appearance, he may either try to contain/eliminate it (I.e. Armadex) or leave it be.
- He holds close a fascination with Espio due to his colors being able to change constantly when in an idle state.[4]
- He is considered friends with Hazel.XML's RINGSTAR
- Do not under ANY circumstances let him lose the combi-ring. If in the rare event he does, he will become nothing but a danger to everyone around until he either gets the ring back or a suitable replacement to, over time, mold into a combi-ring.
- If he has to take someone out to get his ring back, he will unintentionally and unknowingly inherit the victim's abilities, if any.
- NAMELESS can speak in Hexadecimal.[5]
- He was originally supposed to get his own neocities website, serving as an ARG. Unfortunately, this will never be finished.
- The reason why NAMELESS's victim is mighty is because he replaces Sonic's slot from Crackers in Knuckles' Chaotix.
- He alternates listening to VGM, EDM, and rarely metal. In some instances, it's whatever the hell he decides to pick out.[6]
- The range in which he listens to VGM is not at all limited to Sonic the Hedgehog.[7]
SYLUS HEATHING[]
- He takes a particular interest to Espio the Chameleon, even basing his online sona's appearance on him
- He holds a deep fondness for ROM Hacks, especially ones like Megamix, The Next Level, Sonic VR, and Classic Heroes
- Aroace, as he's never had much luck with relationships, always failing one way or another
- He tolerates horror a bit, finding some things they do "kinda neat"
- He doesn't usually rush things, but is laid back and lazy enough to not deal with deadlines, as that seems to add pressure
- He considers Knuckles' Chaotix to be his personal favorite spinoff in the Sonic series
CHAOTIX: SPEED DEMON EDITION + DEVELOPMENT[]
- There was a plan to replace the Chaos Rings with Chaos Emeralds, brought up by Andrew, but was shut off after a few days due to it not making sense. On the same note, Sylus would have to rewrite how they worked almost entirely just so they worked properly.
- There is supposedly some old concepts by developers still hidden away in several places. Where they are is unknown at this time, but its known there are some made by Sylus and Andrew, a sprite artist for the hack.
- Due to the nature of the unfinished state of the hack, Mighty is also semi-sentient, similar to NAMELESS, and is more paranoid as a result.
Gallery[]
Extra Links[]
https://youtu.be/Jlaj0NJlpdw - SONIC IN CHAOTIX 1 - DEMONSTRATION
https://discord.gg/E78pSNSESP - Official Discord Server
- ↑ https://x.com/susamongus018/status/1693287874806911024?s=20
- ↑ https://x.com/susamongus018/status/1701196206037197242?s=20
- ↑ Fun Fact: This ability was thought up based on a VC held in geo's friend group discussing Sonic.exe: The Disaster (2D Remake) reskins
- ↑ I cannot currently find when this is said, but it is confirmed by Geo that NAMELESS has a fascination with Espio's color-changing ability.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/susamongus018/status/1748600836924506309
- ↑ https://x.com/susamongus018/status/1802697472772280447
- ↑ https://x.com/susamongus018/status/1802701065537892556