Sonic 2 v0.9.18

Competition mode keeps its screen divider in place through demo exit fades and manual skips.

Knuckles' half-pipe HUD follows the original Knuckles-in-Sonic-2 layout and checkpoint colours. HUD rendering avoids a redundant scan of Amy's name sprites. Special-stage results clear pending world tile redraws before drawing the result screen, and cold-state restoration clears native dispatch bookkeeping before execution resumes.

Fresh launcher settings use Fit to screen. Existing saved aspect, mod and input choices are preserved. Other imported and companion special-stage roles retain their existing support limits.

QA credit: TheGabeMaster29.