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Sonic CD (Retro Engine) |OT| Where We're Going, We Don't Need Backbone
- Thread starter Anticitizen One
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Who did, then?
patrickthehedgehog
Member
God, it's horrible. Look for 'game types' with a jumping girl. Then pick 'arcade.'
Upsidedown Fuji
Member
If you are at a PC or full browser capable smartphone try the marketplace online. http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/P...802584111f1?downloadType=GameVideo&noSplash=1
Maybe it will get you around the error you are experiencing.
Thanks. I wasn't even sure what I did to get there, we took to cycling through all the panels. So sad it's been buried like that.
Thanks for the link. Alas,
"Your purchase cannot be completed at this time. Please try again."
Ug. Xbox support here I come.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Nobody is listed as having ported it. The GBA version displays the original credits from Sonic 1, and the manual just names a bunch of producers and marketing executives. No coding/porting staff whatsoever.
It certainly wasn't Sonic Team, though. As mentioned, the GBA version's credits are just the guys who worked on the original Sonic 1, a number of which don't even work at Sega anymore.
Last time Sonic Team did a direct, in-house port job, as far as I'm aware, was Sonic Jam on the Sega Saturn. Everything else since then has been a Sega Genesis emulator and some ROMs in a console-friendly front-end.
Yeah, took me longer than it should have for me to find it. It wasn't under new releases either.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Did you make it...?Orly. Any pics?
If so, it looks really awesome. I was using my Tales of Xillia theme up to the point where I downloaded it because the Sonic CD theme just looked so awesome. Love the background art and the icon choices.
SonicMegaDrive
Member
Mama Robotnik said:
Couldn't have said it better myself.
There was once a time that the word "Sonic" was synonymous with 'quality'.
This is a quality product. I'm so glad they really put effort into this release.
Professor Beef
Banned
$5, unless you live in an area where you get taxed.
I have only played Sonic CD once, and while I think the level design and bosses are not great, if supporting this results in Sega making more projects with this engine I will gladly buy it. Plus it's still a good game, just not as good as Sonic 2 and Sonic 3. $5 is a bargain.
Professor Beef
Banned
I already did, but I haven't had a chance to apply it yet!
It's like molasses on the htc desire
updating the HTC Desire to Android 2.3 (only avalilable as an optional download from HTC's developer site) sorted out my low framerate issues
Makes sense that nobody would be listed. I wouldn't want to be associated with that abomination either.
Anticitizen One
Banned
is this available on iPad or just iPhone?
Professor Beef
Banned
Applied. It looks awesome!
it's up on the US itunes store...
link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sonic-cd/id454316134?mt=8
btw, it's universal.
link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sonic-cd/id454316134?mt=8
btw, it's universal.
Azure Dream
Member
m0dus, it's an awesome and funny theme. I like the choice of the Eggman "block list" icon.
Played through a game (Bad Future, I need to practice some of those later special stage again), then played through a little bit with Tails. All sorts of new sprites were drawn or edited for him, including dropping down the Palmtree Panic vertical loops the wrong way, which is awesome. Special stage sprite looked a little off, but those sprites always looked odd anyway.
It's really impossible to begin to describe the care and attention that went into this game. I keep noticing little aspects I forgot were in Sonic CD, but here they are accurately reproduced. The game handles excellently, with the only weirdness being able to launch Tails into the stratosphere when I started flying coming out of a vertical tube (it seriously took him about 15-20 seconds to come back on-screen), and I thought I noticed more of a tendency toward crush deaths, even when the cylinder was rising up, but then I remembered those plaguing me in Sonic CD to begin with, so can't fault him for being accurate.
Sonic CD isn't my favorite Sonic game to begin with, it's alright, but the level design is just all over the place, and by the end starts getting a little Dimps-ish with the spikes and "gotcha" traps, and there's tricks to time traveling in limited areas that aren't obvious and aren't explained to you, so you could carry a Past sign through a major portion of Metallic Madness and have no idea where you're supposed to get a run up. And the stages are filled with all sorts of useless little alcoves and dead ends with nothing inside, that may have some meaning in another time period, or may not. It looks great, and it still plays pretty well, so don't let my opinion discourage anyone looking to buy it, and honestly at $5 for the best presentation an iconic Sonic game has ever had, you can afford the gamble.
One small disappointment that I had was that the intro and ending still ran in sort of broken Gems speed. The main intro runs just a little too fast, and the Ending is WAY too slowed down. I guess Sega was trying to match the music back in Gems, and Taxman couldn't really touch the video mastering, but it was a little disappointing that it wasn't running smoothly. Maybe it had something to do with the Japanese version having sound effects overlayed over it?
Edit: Clarification, I realize the original Sega CD version ending ran at choppy-mc-slow framerate, but it's clear the video was drawn to animate faster than that. The parts when it "boxes in" on the other hand play a little too fast, like they did in Gems. Again, I don't blame Taxman for this.
Played through a game (Bad Future, I need to practice some of those later special stage again), then played through a little bit with Tails. All sorts of new sprites were drawn or edited for him, including dropping down the Palmtree Panic vertical loops the wrong way, which is awesome. Special stage sprite looked a little off, but those sprites always looked odd anyway.
It's really impossible to begin to describe the care and attention that went into this game. I keep noticing little aspects I forgot were in Sonic CD, but here they are accurately reproduced. The game handles excellently, with the only weirdness being able to launch Tails into the stratosphere when I started flying coming out of a vertical tube (it seriously took him about 15-20 seconds to come back on-screen), and I thought I noticed more of a tendency toward crush deaths, even when the cylinder was rising up, but then I remembered those plaguing me in Sonic CD to begin with, so can't fault him for being accurate.
Sonic CD isn't my favorite Sonic game to begin with, it's alright, but the level design is just all over the place, and by the end starts getting a little Dimps-ish with the spikes and "gotcha" traps, and there's tricks to time traveling in limited areas that aren't obvious and aren't explained to you, so you could carry a Past sign through a major portion of Metallic Madness and have no idea where you're supposed to get a run up. And the stages are filled with all sorts of useless little alcoves and dead ends with nothing inside, that may have some meaning in another time period, or may not. It looks great, and it still plays pretty well, so don't let my opinion discourage anyone looking to buy it, and honestly at $5 for the best presentation an iconic Sonic game has ever had, you can afford the gamble.
One small disappointment that I had was that the intro and ending still ran in sort of broken Gems speed. The main intro runs just a little too fast, and the Ending is WAY too slowed down. I guess Sega was trying to match the music back in Gems, and Taxman couldn't really touch the video mastering, but it was a little disappointing that it wasn't running smoothly. Maybe it had something to do with the Japanese version having sound effects overlayed over it?
Edit: Clarification, I realize the original Sega CD version ending ran at choppy-mc-slow framerate, but it's clear the video was drawn to animate faster than that. The parts when it "boxes in" on the other hand play a little too fast, like they did in Gems. Again, I don't blame Taxman for this.
I might be side-topic here but I needed to express some opinion on the graphic options of this game. Its just that hits a cord with me regarding some bizarre mentality some people have...
There's 3 options, "sharp", "smooth" and "nostalgia". Those a very fucking bad names. First off, "sharp" means "greasy" as it's the most violent filter and it pretty much destroy all the pixel art. Some people like it but this is not "sharp", it's the smoothest filter. "Smooth" is a good name for the second filter as it's just a little blur applied on the original graphics or a different upscaling technique giving a blurry look. Again, I'm not really a fan but it's a nice middle ground and most people will like.
But then there's "nostalgia". What the fuck is this name? lol. What's that supposed to mean? I will like this if I am nostalgic or what? Old graphics? It somehow sting my eyes like the name is pejorative or something. This option simply means "no filter". It's the graphics display exactly as they have been drawn. The exact original intention. Why not call this "true" or "sharp"? What the fuck is relation between nostalgia and wanting to see graphics exactly as they were created? I mean, it's not nostalgic people that should like this option but simply people that like 2D and pixel art and understand what's beautiful about it.
To me this option naming reeks because it's like it implies we need nostalgia to appreciate 2D graphic pixel art as it is. It's just an artstyle and therefore still relevant today...
There's 3 options, "sharp", "smooth" and "nostalgia". Those a very fucking bad names. First off, "sharp" means "greasy" as it's the most violent filter and it pretty much destroy all the pixel art. Some people like it but this is not "sharp", it's the smoothest filter. "Smooth" is a good name for the second filter as it's just a little blur applied on the original graphics or a different upscaling technique giving a blurry look. Again, I'm not really a fan but it's a nice middle ground and most people will like.
But then there's "nostalgia". What the fuck is this name? lol. What's that supposed to mean? I will like this if I am nostalgic or what? Old graphics? It somehow sting my eyes like the name is pejorative or something. This option simply means "no filter". It's the graphics display exactly as they have been drawn. The exact original intention. Why not call this "true" or "sharp"? What the fuck is relation between nostalgia and wanting to see graphics exactly as they were created? I mean, it's not nostalgic people that should like this option but simply people that like 2D and pixel art and understand what's beautiful about it.
To me this option naming reeks because it's like it implies we need nostalgia to appreciate 2D graphic pixel art as it is. It's just an artstyle and therefore still relevant today...
Azure Dream
Member
Oh, and I forgot to add: the new music looping is so much better than it was before. You completely forget how segmented they used to sound.
And it sounded like there was some new guitar work on the ending of the credits version of "Sonic Boom," I guess to mix it up a little for the extended credits.
And it sounded like there was some new guitar work on the ending of the credits version of "Sonic Boom," I guess to mix it up a little for the extended credits.
TheCongressman1
Member
2 bucks on Itunes?! This is the best Sonic related thing to happen in quite a long time!
Octorockin'
Member
Yeah, that Sonic CD theme is really awesome! I'll definitely switch to it when the game releases next week.
I really hoped they would remove the time travel loading screen or at least turn the volume way down. You could even skip the animation in the mega cd version (but the annoying sound still kept playing) but not in this one.
That was really my biggest pet peeve about SCD. Ah well.
That was really my biggest pet peeve about SCD. Ah well.
Azure Dream
Member
corrosivefrost
Member
I had my money ready.
Then I was told "no sir, you can't buy it on Steam or PSN today."
And now I am sad.
Then I was told "no sir, you can't buy it on Steam or PSN today."
And now I am sad.
Professor Beef
Banned
It's available everywhere now, gogogo!
Rewrite
Not as deep as he thinks
wtf. wtf. wtf. wtf!
FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
You're right! Thanks!!
So this is pretty much the best track in the game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okc6zeKPmlg
Incredibly nostalgic for some reason...
Incredibly nostalgic for some reason...
Professor Beef
Banned
I still can't believe EU gets it first. We saved your ass in WW2.
I hope someone gets that.
TheCongressman1
Member
I think that was probably intentional. It looked good, but was never finished. Why not CD-ify it?
Yeah. That gave me a laugh, too, as it's a total nod to that secret picture.
Beat the game with the good future ending + extra cutscene. "You're too cool!"
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Now to find all the robot machines although I read you can't do that with Tails.
What's with the unlockables in the "Extras" menu?
I can't imagine this game playable on a mobile platform especially the special stages. Those stages are already so difficult with a controller with buttons.
Barkley's Justice
Member
i bought this on xbl & ipad. each version is so on point.
AbsoluteZero
Banned
The iPhone version because my 360 isn't hooked up at the moment. What a mistake that was. I really need to find some way to disable the games section of the app store or something.
Tell me about it.
Something that says Dead Rising on it? I love Dead Rising! It's only a dollar, so whatever!
*deletes 30 seconds later*
Playing on XBLA, a masterpiece. Feel like I owe Taxman a favor, maybe he needs someone to help him move or a fence to be painted.
Azure Dream
Member
For those curious, Tails does NOT do the "I'm outta here!" suicide at 3 minutes of inattention, but Sonic still does. I'm pretty sure Amy doesn't show up for Tails in the first level either, haven't played past that as him.
No, I think it was because of the cactus on the Little Planet map that Sonic CD fans speculate is a missing level.