dra600n

Thanks for the info. One would think that Sega Japan would be happy people are still interested in their product, and not pull these tactics to make people start to think otherwise.

That's interesting. I'll have to check with some of the people I know who've had contact with Sega about certain endeavors, and they basically said "meh, we don't care, just do it, but if people cry about it, we'll have to take some sort of action". This was Sega USA, not Sega Japan, however.

Having some experience with Sega, and some people who've discussed things with Sega, they won't endorse anything, but they certainly will turn a blind eye, unless you're blatantly stealing/pirating their stuff. If you use similar graphics and called it Honic the Sedgehog, they wouldn't care.

Sorry to hear that this had happened to you guys. It looks like a lot of time and effort went into the project, and it's a shame it came down to this. This definitely hinders the homebrew community that wants to make fan made games, or port over other games to their favorite consoles. The game looks excellent, so hopefully you can put together some new graphics and rebrand it