About a year ago, we saw this beautiful image of what Sonic 2 would look like in high definition, and it was glorious. At that time, it was nothing more than a fan mock up, but the guys at Racket Boy are hard at work to turn it into a reality.

The purpose of the S2HD project is to remaster Sega’s classic Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in high definition graphics, whilst at the same time precisely preserving the original gameplay. New features that were not present in the original will also be made available.

The development team is hoping to add in everything fans loved about the original, but also a little more, too. They say they’re adding Sonic, Tails and Knuckles as playable characters, a new Hidden Palace Zone and entirely new sound effects. Of course, like other fan projects, they need more talented people to help this come to fruition; if you’re interested post some of your work here.

via sega nerds.