The Ultimate Sonic 1 Sheet

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Do I have to add that 3rd dark red from the Sonic 1 pallete that no one uses for some reason?

If you intend for this sheet to be the Ultimate Sonic 1 and not just a collection of recolors and frankinsteins, then yes and more.

The Sonic 3 poses are from Sonic 3 Complete an unofficial compilation od Sonic 3, Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic 3 complete, AKA S3&K and you can patch in the sonic 1 sprites.

Hackers do an amazing job, but even still they recommend you playing with the default settings. Such limitations were most likely made because there were no decent Sonic 1/2 version of those sprites. An example of such is the Super Sonic sprites they used. Instead of a recolor Sonic, they used these sprites so Super Sonic looks Super no matter the position.

Another example, compare the Prototypes of Sonic and Tails sprites to the reshading/fixing up of these Knuckles Chaotix Sonic and Tails. He did more than recolor the Prototype to have Knuckles Chaotix color scheme. He reshaded parts so they look more accurate looking.

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The first three rows are comparing 3 sprites from the Prototype with the Customs accepted. Note that he reshaded the sprites so they could look more accurate to Knuckles Chaotix.
The 4th Row has the Prototype and the Custom being compared to an in game sprite. Which looks better?
The 5th Row is a Sonic 1 Sprite, a Sonic 2 Sprite Recolored to look Sonic 1 and a Sonic 3 Sprite recolored to look Sonic 1. Notice how vastly different Sonic 3 is to Sonic 1.
The 6th Row is two sprites from this sheet. Outside color (because I copied and pasted it which messed with the colors), do they look similar to Sonic 1 style?
The final row is a Sonic Battle Pose that is on this sheet to the Sonic 3 Sonic Battle Pose that was not in Sonic 3 Complete. Notice a lot of shading similarities?[/Spoiler]

Making these poses into Sonic 1 style is a lot more work than copying a head and recoloring. You have to make sure they look accurate to the original source. And that means not only reshading but also reshaping the sprites to be close to the original. Here's an example of the reverse.



The Sonic 3 sprite is doing the exact same pose as the Sonic 1, but notice all the differences between the two. Its more than just a recolor with Sonic 3's head on top.

EDIT: An example to see side by side
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