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Zomba13 · Jan 20, 2012

OMG Aero said:
Here's another fun thing from the PC version, apparently if you hold both direction keys down at the same time Sonic freaks out and starts sliding.

Well... at least it looked like Sonic was having fun.

RagnarokX · Jan 20, 2012

Sega saw the "What if Sonic ran like an idiot" thread and refused to be outdone.

vall03 · Jan 20, 2012

just finished the game on PS3 and damn, now I know and understand the hate. I just hope that Episode 2 follows in the footsteps of Generations...

Dark Schala · Jan 20, 2012

vall03 said:
just finished the game on PS3 and damn, now I know and understand the hate. I just hope that Episode 2 follows in the footsteps of Generations...

I wouldn't set expectations that high. However, I expect Classic Sonic Generations 3DS physics since it was mentioned previously.

TimmiT · Jan 20, 2012

Someone replaced Sonic's textures with the textures from the iPad version, which looks a bit better:

You can download it here, it needs to be placed in the PLY folder within the G_COM folder.

BlazeHedgehog · Jan 20, 2012

Are we sure "textures" is the right term? It seemed like a shader effect to me.

Diablohead · Jan 20, 2012

If only the model could be replaced with the generations classic model...

Rlan · Jan 20, 2012

Diablohead said:
If only the model could be replaced with the generations classic model...

I'm sure someone will hack classic Sonic physics into the thing.

TimmiT · Jan 20, 2012

Sega1991 said:
Are we sure "textures" is the right term? It seemed like a shader effect to me.

The one who did this said he replaced the textures. Besides that, the file says SON_TEX.
I should also probably credit the one who did this, it's done by Twilightzoney from Sonic Retro.

Azure Dream · Jan 25, 2012

Butt-skidding across Android now

Funny thing: introduce it on Steam, a year after consoles, at $10. Introduce it on Android just a few days later for $4.

So let your green robot make a splash in the Splash Hill Zone and continue where the Sonic CD saga left off!

Oh damn it, now Sonic CD is a Sonic 4 prequel? But I thought it was Sonic CD continuing the saga of... AGH.

Zelda timeline thread.

Edit: What the hell, this thread is in community now too? As much as I don't like the title, it was just released to two brand new platforms.

ezodagrom · Feb 8, 2012

About the PC version of Sonic 4 Episode 1, some interesting things.

In AMD/ATI graphics cards it's possible to force anti-aliasing through the drivers, but it only works at the resolution 1280x720, it doesn't work at any other resolution. Apparently this doesn't work for Nvidia graphics cards, I don't have one though so I can't test this.

Here's a comparison picture using both the default Sonic texture and the iPad version texture:

Default no AA - Default 8x AA
iPad texture no AA - iPad texture 8x AA

TheCongressman1 · Feb 8, 2012

ezodagrom said:
About the PC version of Sonic 4 Episode 1, some interesting things.

In AMD/ATI graphics cards it's possible to force anti-aliasing through the drivers, but it only works at the resolution 1280x720, it doesn't work at any other resolution. Apparently this doesn't work for Nvidia graphics cards, I don't have one though so I can't test this.

Here's a comparison picture using both the default Sonic texture and the iPad version texture:

Looks good, I saw your post over at Sonic Retro. It's a shame they haven't validated you yet. I'd love to post there but you have to put so much work into it with the strict registration and whatnot, it's really not worth it, IMO.

Anyway, I wish somebody would get to work on fixing the physics, or even model swaps. I'm really surprised that no one has swapped environment textures yet. Has anyone even ripped the graphics? If so, I'll get to work right away... You would think more people would be trying to fix this steaming heap.

qq more · Feb 9, 2012

ezodagrom said:
About the PC version of Sonic 4 Episode 1, some interesting things.

In AMD/ATI graphics cards it's possible to force anti-aliasing through the drivers, but it only works at the resolution 1280x720, it doesn't work at any other resolution. Apparently this doesn't work for Nvidia graphics cards, I don't have one though so I can't test this.

Here's a comparison picture using both the default Sonic texture and the iPad version texture:

Default no AA - Default 8x AA
iPad texture no AA - iPad texture 8x AA

Nice fix. Sonic definitely looks a lot better. Seriously, the cel-shaded models were so out of place.

Kokonoe · Feb 9, 2012

Those iPad textures look great, sucks AA only works in 720p though.

ezodagrom · Feb 9, 2012

Kokonoe said:
Those iPad textures look great, sucks AA only works in 720p though.

Yeah...AA only working at 720p is the result of SEGA doing this the lazy way, they used 1280x720 as the native resolution and only upscaled/downscaled the image for the other resolutions. If they suported the other resolutions properly, AA would have worked for every resolution.

They did this for the 2010 Sonic Adventure DX port and the other Dreamcast Collection games, but in those it's even worse, since the native resolution is 640x480, and so Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering only work at 480p for those.

Kokonoe · Feb 9, 2012

For the heck of it, I took a 1080p screenshot with maxed out AA of the WiiWare version.
Here's Sonic in it.

BlazeHedgehog · Feb 9, 2012

Huh. I did not think they used 3D models for characters in the WiiWare version. I figured it was all pre-rendered sprites.

TheCongressman1 · Feb 9, 2012

Kokonoe said:

Holy moly, this absolutely blows. I'm so glad they aren't developing ep. 2 for Wiiware. Maybe they'll put more effort into the assets. Pffft, who am I kidding?

TheCongressman1 · Feb 17, 2012

Some nice new texture work over at Sonic Stadium

Look at the new Robotnik texture:

Nice. They finally figured out how to unpack and repack textures, and as a result:

Oh, that's a shame. At least it's posible now.

WillyFive · Feb 17, 2012

Sega1991 said:
Huh. I did not think they used 3D models for characters in the WiiWare version. I figured it was all pre-rendered sprites.

I figured it would most likely be in real-time, since pre-rendered sprites at that resolution would take up a bit of space, which you need to conserve on a 40 MB game.

ezodagrom · Feb 20, 2012

I've been messing with the iPad version textures for the PC version of Sonic 4 Ep1, this is the result of what I've been doing.

Texture Pack:
http://www.mediafire.com/?u3zk664sikqvfky

Comparison pictures, first is the default texture, second is the modded texture (I took the pictures with anti-aliasing forced through the drivers):

Sonic and Super Sonic:

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