[Morph]

Sonic Adventure DX: Fixed Edition is something I started working on for my own use, just to fix random crap that bothered me. The plan is to "fix" as much as I possibly can over time to, sort of improve SADX by fixing odd texture stuff, inconsistencies, level glitches, etc.

Here's a changelog of this version:
(not really a spoiler spoiler)

Spoiler

Changes:
Fixed generic loop glitch in Emerald Coast 1 (just before the loop with the whale, you can get pushed through the wall if you don't move quick enough)
Fixed random stopping near the end of Emerald Coast 1 (those objects were more annoying than helpful in that area)
Fixed 1-Up in the previously stated area so it is no longer somewhat inside the platform
Fixed in-air shadow in Emerald Coast 1
Implemented SADXGC Emerald Coast water texture
Fixed Rhino Tank under ground in Windy Valley part 3 for both Sonic and Tails
Implemented SADXHQ subtitle grammar fixes (unreleased mod of mine which is on hiatus, since I'll base it off of this when it's mostly done)
Implemented SuperSonic fix (I.e compatible with the playable supersonic mode (sadx_fix.exe))
Fixed speed shoe icon to be less Sonic R and more => Sonic Adventure
Fixed texture inconsistency in Station Square (incomplete; some textures still remain to be replaced)
Fixed menu grammar inconsistency issues
Restored Metalsonic's "voice" clips from SADX GC thanks to some noob
Fixed a dash panel in the whale chase sequence of Emerald Coast. It wasn't strong enough, and had the potential to make you get hit by the whale (you almost come to a complete stop before hitting the next dash panel normally!)
Fixed several enemies (most notably the Rhino tanks) in Gamma's Emerald Coast which were previously hidden/spawned in the ground.
Fixed random ring capsule-related textures to actually blend properly.
Fixed some mask related issues for some capsule icons (Excluding the 1-up icons, Metalsonic's being the exception. The rest are going to be replaced, so I didn't bother.)
Fixed a model alignment issue near the end of Emerald Coast 1 (you could see through the wall. Thanks to Dude for reminding me about this one)
Made all buildings in Speed Highway solid (in all parts) (another Dude suggestion~)
Fixed spawn point in Casinopolis for Sonic to not be in the floor (special thanks to MainMemory for help on this)
Fixed the random ring capsule in the 3rd part of Windy Valley on the island thingy to not be in the floor (for Sonic and Tails)
Fixed some ottotto objects (they cancel out the spindash and sometimes movement in general) in Emerald Coast 2 just before the second checkpoint (and by some I mean a lot)
Fixed a spring a bit in the third part of Speed Highway (for Sonic and Knuckles)
Fixed a few barriers in Speed Highway for Sonic and Tails
Fixed Tails' and Sonic's spawnpoint in Speed Highway act 1 so you actually start ON THE GROUND as opposed to floating above it
Fixed a collision issue near a lightning shield on the island thingie in Windy Valley 3 as Sonic
Fixed YET ANOTHER Rhino Tank in Windy Valley for both Sonic and Tails
Fixed the bottoms of the platforms in the tornado of Windy Valley (part 2) (lolhidudeagain)
Forced Z-buffer to be 24bit as opposed to 16bit (thanks to Dude and FraGag!) (http://forums.sonicr...ndpost&p=594916)
Fixed many collision inconsistencies in Red Mountain (Feet through the floor, no shadow).
Fixed a few objects that were too high or too far into the ground in Red Mountain.
Fixed a few ring alignment issues in Ice Cap 1 and 2 for Sonic. (subject to further change)
Fixed a few springs, a checkpoint, and a capsule for Tails in Sky Deck 1 and 3. (1 for both Sonic and Tails, 3 for just Sonic.)
Fixed 3 dash panels in Sky Deck 2 for Sonic (They had a speed of 2, which means they were essentially useless and made you just come to a stop)
[newest]
Fixed missing (Or rather, miss-rotated) snake statues in the rock chase sequence of Lost World (Part 2 as Sonic)
Fixed bad collision right after the waterfall ride on the platforms in Lost World. (Sonic floated above one of them. Invisible collision boxes were added and are not present in the DC version of SA1, where these platforms work fine. If there are any issues, let me know ASAP. I suspect they were put there to fix something, but I don't know what.) (Note for me: -1384.9)
Fixed water texture in the Station Square Hotel by the entrance to Emerald Coast to be consistent with the central Station Square area and Emerald Coast.
Fixed the launch ramp where you first see the whale. Sometimes Sonic would smack into it, fall over, and go flying too far.
Fixed the dash panel angles in the same area.
Re-adjusted that one dash panel in the whale chase sequence of Emerald Coast to still work better than the original, but be a consistent speed with the rest of the dash panels.
Fixed ring capsule out of place in Red Mountain for Sonic (near the end of the first section on the zipline; it's impossible to get under normal circumstances)
Fixed missing face on little wall in front of the bank in Casinopolis (right-hand side)
[10/15/2012] Re-added "ottotto" items to the end of Emerald Coast 1. They're way less aggressive however, so you can run around the bend smoothly.
(The way those work by the way, is that they stop you if you're going a certain speed or if you try to spindash. They took up a large majority of the walkway before, but now I have them as far to the edge as can be while still being as functional as possible.)

And here's a screenshot:

See a problem there? No? Good! You're not supposed to. This is the random ring capsule (and the speed shoes, but that's not as important). Normally when you get one of these, the numbers are all offset and screwed up, taking a chunk of the ring in the image with it, which looks retarded. I fixed it. YAY

Also this:

Better shot of the water, the texture of which is from the GameCube version of Sonic Adventure DX. (As opposed to the neon blue water as seen in the SADX Preview proto, SADX PC normally, SADX XBLA, and SADX PC 2010)

And last but not least:

OHMAIGAH IT'S THAT RHINO TANK... that I believe they may have fixed ONCE in some version of SA1 for the Dreamcast. This Rhino Tank usually spawns in the ground, falls into the pit, dies, respawns, repeat; so I just moved it up a bit, and that was that.

You can download what I've got so far here: (10/15/2012)
Full package:
Download for SADX PC 2004 (Retail)
Download for SADX PC 2010 (Steam/Dreamcast Collection edition) - Mirror: (Dropbox - zip) by Stevoisiak

(No patch available this time; full package only)
Patch to upgrade 6/10/2010 version:
Download for SADX PC 2004 (Retail)
Download for SADX PC 2010 (Steam/Dreamcast Collection edition)

SADXPC 2004:
To use this, you need to do the following:
(Note: If you plan on modifying this for whatever reason, this is built off of the 2004 US Sonic Adventure DX PC executable)

• Go to where you installed Sonic Adventure DX, find the "System" folder, and make a duplicate of it (yes, and everything in it).
  
• Rename the duplicate to "SADXFE"
  
• Extract the content of the 7z to the same place that the SADXFE and System folders are, and replace anything that it asks.
  
• Run SADXFE.exe to play, and have fun.

SADXPC 2010 (Steam/Dreamcast Collection edition):
Note that the SADXFE EXE is not compatible with this version of SADX, but all of the resources are.

• This is optional, but I recommend backing up the "SoundData" and "system" folders.
  
• Extract the content of the 7z for this version into the folder containing the SoundData and system folders, and replace whatever it asks.
  
• Start the game up as usual and have fun.

Please tell me what you think, if there's anything you'd like to see fixed, etc.

If you're not using SADX 2010 and want to use your 360 controller, you can use the 360 controller patch, which you can get here: http://x-hax.cultnet...SADX360Patch.7z

This post has been edited by Morph: 03 January 2013 - 04:21 PM

[Lanzer]

Wow, neat. thanks much for this! some of those things bugged me as well.

[JcFerggy]

Just a quick question, but do you have any screens comparing the visual changes that you have made? I don't want to install the game again to check.

[Dude]

Did you fix the mis-rotated rock piece in emerald coast part 1 - you know, that giant rock tower that goes up to the lighthouse? One of the branches to that tower is mis-aligned. It's a simple fix really but most people don't notice it.

[Morph]

Just a quick question, but do you have any screens comparing the visual changes that you have made? I don't want to install the game again to check.

Left = before, right = after


And this one makes it obvious which one is my fixed one:

Did you fix the mis-rotated rock piece in emerald coast part 1 - you know, that giant rock tower that goes up to the lighthouse? One of the branches to that tower is mis-aligned. It's a simple fix really but most people don't notice it.

I don't think I did. I'll take a look.
Edit: OK, I see what you mean. I remember seeing this before actually; I totally forgot about it. I'll go try to fix it now.

This post has been edited by Morph: 19 May 2011 - 01:01 AM

[Morph]

Sorry for the double post, but I just fixed what Dude mentioned. If you already downloaded the previous version for SADX PC 2004, simply download this patch: http://sf94.reimuhakurei.net/SA/DX/FE/SADXFE%20B1%20Patch.7z
EDIT: Oh look, the permissions for this link here were f'd. Fixed; you can actually download it now.
The SADX PC 2010 version remains unchanged, since we haven't hax'd into that one enough to modify level models in it.

I aligned it the best I could, and I think I got it just right so you can't see through it. (as seen >here<, you could see through it originally. And teamviewer was running, so it stole my aero =P)

This post has been edited by Morph: 19 May 2011 - 05:05 PM

[Mr Lange]

I'm loving this idea and the project. I bet this could get really elaborate. In fact, let me know when you fix the cutscene animations so they don't horrifically suck, I may have to send you money.
Actually joking aside, if that's something that can be worked on, please let me know, I'd love to do the animation.

[Dude]

I'm loving this idea and the project. I bet this could get really elaborate. In fact, let me know when you fix the cutscene animations so they don't horrifically suck, I may have to send you money.
Actually joking aside, if that's something that can be worked on, please let me know, I'd love to do the animation.

It's possible, yes. I don't see it being very easy though. The mouth movements are all vertex animations, and the locations of each morph target are well known.

Also, might I suggest making all of the buildings in speed highway solid? In fact, making alot of the background models solid would make the game alot more believable.

[Morph]

I'm loving this idea and the project. I bet this could get really elaborate. In fact, let me know when you fix the cutscene animations so they don't horrifically suck, I may have to send you money.
Actually joking aside, if that's something that can be worked on, please let me know, I'd love to do the animation.

As Dude said, it is possible to do, but it'll most likely be pretty hard to pull off.

Also, might I suggest making all of the buildings in speed highway solid? In fact, making alot of the background models solid would make the game alot more believable.

Hm... I may do that.

By the way, it turns out that the fixed random ring capsule icon things don't work 100% the same in SADX PC 2010, so I may make a separate version of them specifically for it at some point.

[Dark Sonic]

Well even beyond mouth movements, is it possible to make it so the characters don't run in place in like half the cutscenes? That always looked cheesy to me. This project is a great idea though, unleash this games full potential by fixing all the crap in it.

[Hendricks 266]

How about the bug where you can hear the player hit the floor at the beginning of each cutscene? It's a nostalgic bug, but still a bug.

[E-122-Psi]

Or adding in some of the sounds or special effects missing from the original game (a few unused sounds such as Tails retro flying sound is in the games memory too) or maybe add the tracks intended to play in certain areas (eg. Calm After The Storm on the crash landed variant of the Egg Carrier, the Hedgehog Hammer theme not activated in the Adventure Field version) don't know how possible it is to implement them but they'd make a nice touch.

This post has been edited by E-122-Psi: 20 May 2011 - 09:48 AM

[MainMemory]

Well even beyond mouth movements, is it possible to make it so the characters don't run in place in like half the cutscenes? That always looked cheesy to me. This project is a great idea though, unleash this games full potential by fixing all the crap in it.

I don't know how the cutscene script works, but it's probably hardcoded, which makes it difficult (not impossible) to edit.

Or adding in some of the sounds or special effects missing from the original game (a few unused sounds such as Tails retro flying sound is in the games memory too) or maybe add the tracks intended to play in certain areas (eg. Calm After The Storm on the crash landed variant of the Egg Carrier, the Hedgehog Hammer theme not activated in the Adventure Field version) don't know how possible it is to implement them but they'd make a nice touch.

The first seems simple enough, find the place where it says to play the music, and add code to check for the character and the "Egg Carrier sunk" event flag, except that we only know where that is for Sonic right now. The second I'm not so sure about, it's probably simple, but I don't know.
Of course, this requires coding in x86 asm.

[E-122-Psi]

Or adding in some of the sounds or special effects missing from the original game (a few unused sounds such as Tails retro flying sound is in the games memory too) or maybe add the tracks intended to play in certain areas (eg. Calm After The Storm on the crash landed variant of the Egg Carrier, the Hedgehog Hammer theme not activated in the Adventure Field version) don't know how possible it is to implement them but they'd make a nice touch.

The first seems simple enough, find the place where it says to play the music, and add code to check for the character and the "Egg Carrier sunk" event flag, except that we only know where that is for Sonic right now. The second I'm not so sure about, it's probably simple, but I don't know.
Of course, this requires coding in x86 asm.

Shame it's not Gamma, he's about the only one who really needs it for his Adventure mode.

Is there a flag that activates for when the Hedgehog Hammer game activates after Amy stands on it? If there is a way round it there may be a convinience in that the Egg Carrier music resets straight after the minigame is over (suggesting it was meant to be put in the Adventure mode variant at some point).

[Mr Lange]

I'm loving this idea and the project. I bet this could get really elaborate. In fact, let me know when you fix the cutscene animations so they don't horrifically suck, I may have to send you money.
Actually joking aside, if that's something that can be worked on, please let me know, I'd love to do the animation.

As Dude said, it is possible to do, but it'll most likely be pretty hard to pull off.

I'd enjoy helping make that possible. Contact me if you decide to work more on it.

Also someone suggested improving sound effects. That too is a department I'd like to help with.