A moderate update from my direction.
I altered the lava reef sheet by skylights so I can have more to add onto hidden palace, I had to make the crystals purple so they'll fit into the standard palette.
This is the new title card, not too flashy, if anyone has any better ideas, I'm down for whatever I suppose.
I took the time to carefully recreate hidden palace as well as I can, then, I continued from the area where it ended in the original sonic and knuckles and I'm going to design a whole zone from there.
The master emerald has been taken again, as indicated by the picture.
I started to the continuation from there.
There's not much since I just started the continuation yesterday while talking with Rael on messenger, so hopefully I can get more done, I want to release this level as the demo soon. I have to code some badniks, still manage to work on a few tiles, make a boss, and work in a few gimmicks which Ill more than likely have to code. Got my work cut out for me.