Blue Blood, on 24 December 2011 - 12:39 AM, said:
Herm the Germ, on 24 December 2011 - 12:31 AM, said:
It does raise the question why it hasn't received any re-releases like just about every other main-series game that's older than 5 years, though, especially considering it's popularity.
SA1 -> SADX
SA2 -> SA2B
It got re-released not too long before SADX, and it wasn't until last year that SADX was ported to anything this generation. I don't think we've been kept waiting longer than usual to be honest.
It's been ten years since Sega did anything with Sonic Adventure 2. Six years for Sonic CD, prior to the 2011 remake. I think it's due for another visit.
Blue Blood, on 24 December 2011 - 12:58 AM, said:
Herm the Germ, on 24 December 2011 - 12:45 AM, said:
Well, it had gotten it's PC port as far back as 2003-2004, though. One has to wonder what stopped them from giving SA2B the same treatment back then as well as now, considering they ported even Heroes.
Maybe cause SA2B was the first one at which point they had no intention of porting it. SADX, Heroes and MC+ were released afterwards and all got PC ports.
I see your point with SADX, Heroes and MC+. But for SA2, the time difference between the DC and GCN versions seem to suggest otherwise.
It's possible that the GCN port didn't became a priority until the end of the DC version's development.
SA2: Battle was announced in August 2001, just two months after the original release. While extremely early in development, the fact that Sega announced development of the port so soon,
along with screenshots of the port (which showed that Sonic's ears,
which were pointy in the DC version, possibly due to the polygon count of the original, were already modified to be curved at that point of time to take advantage of the higher poly count the GCN allowed), suggested that SA2 could easily be optimized and realized on Nintendo's then-new platform, the Dolphin (the codename for the Nintendo GameCube).
With the amount of content added and revised for the GCN port (particularly the revised Chao status', Karate, etc.), it's possible they anticipated the GCN while finishing up the original to bring the more of the Chao content to the updated release as well. The timing couldn't be better either, as the announced GCN-GBA connectivity feature allowed for exchanging data between the two systems, which Sonic Advance could do with its Tiny Chao Garden mini-game. The two were developed in tandem, and were released together in Japan on the same day on December 20th.
So yeah, it's possible they saw SA2 coming to GCN.
This post has been edited by OKei: 24 December 2011 - 02:56 AM
