Oh well, it's no big deal. It is funny that this is the only line out of place on all of the results screens though. It seems like the whole results screen would be misaligned or nothing. Thankfully that isn't the case.
How exactly does "ending the level" work? What I mean is, does it have to be a Capsule at the end of each of Sonic's levels? Are we able to replace it with something like a Goal Ring?
There are several times where something that isn't a capsule ends the level, such as Tails' crashed plane in Emerald Coast's first mission, the balloon in all of Amy's levels, etc. One could likely modify the "Chaos Emerald Goal" object to act as a Goal Ring.
The Test Level mod is now a general "AutoDemo Levels" mod, with the inclusion of Speed Highway: At Dawn. Unfortunately I don't know how the cars work, and I'm too lazy to disable them, so you'll have to watch for flying cars through most of the level. I also included the camera files from the demo, but they're horribly broken in SADX, so they're not enabled by default. If you really want them, just remove the underscore from the filenames. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX1xqsFmzc4
This post is probably a bit pointless, but I still wanted to pipe up! I've seen a lot of the hacking you have done for the community, both here and with Sonic Adventure 2, and I just wanted to thank you for the amazing work you have done for fans like us (who have no knowledge of hacking). So, thanks MainMemory :D
Putting it here because I don't think it warrants its own topic and I don't think it's been mentioned (though it likely has XD), is there anyway to fix the thing where the 2004 version auto-closes upon window switch?
Use windowed mode? I believe the problem is that when you switch away from an exclusive mode (fullscreen) application, the Direct3D device is lost and needs to be recreated, and I believe all the assets have to be recreated as well. SADX doesn't do that, so it just crashes instead. I would love to fix it, but I haven't the slightest clue how.
0x8C7694D0 is an interesting offset in the original Japanese release. Setting it to 02 will give you this. Here's my current list of values for it, still working on it. Not many so far. I've only been testing it from the title and main menus so far, will go in game. Spoiler Code (Text): 00 Sega screen 01 Empty screen 02 Debug level select, goes to 03 03 Empty screen unless triggered by 02 04 Hedgehog Hammer title card, hangs, crashes debug adapter 05 Normal gameplay 06 Empty screen 07 Empty screen 08 Sonic Team logo 09 Hedgehog Hammer title card, hangs, crashes debug adapter 0A Title 0B Used when on the title and in the menus 0C Empty screen 0D Empty screen 0E Loads recap screen, hangs after 0F Loads tutorial for Sonic, then a recap screen, then the Egg Carrier, finally crashes (Write error at 0x8C0F1484) Game sets this to 0F when you select Sonic from the character select, it functions normally in that instance 10 Loads tutorial for Sonic, then Station Square. Begins Sonic's story 11 Causes a reset 12 Sonic's credits 13 Causes a reset 14 Empty screen 15 Empty screen 16 Empty screen 17 Empty screen 18 Empty screen 19 Empty screen 1A Empty screen 1B Empty screen 1C Empty screen 1D Empty screen 1E Empty screen 1F Empty screen
0x8C768B38 in the autodemo... EDIT: Title uses 02, you have to change it to 02 during a cutscene for the level select.
After, like, 10 years of playing the PC version of SADX on and off, I only just learned that pressing E snaps the camera behind your character. XD Out of curiosity, is it possible to adjust the camera offsets for when this key is pressed? (I.e. if I wanted to make the height closer to the ground or more zoomed out/in or whatever.)
This should probably go on TCRF if you can get a PNG screenshot. Probably, but the E key seems to be handled separately from everything else so I really don't know where to look.
The menu functions, doesn't seem to allow anything other than selecting a level and character however. I'm wondering if there may be some values related to this that would help determine what mode to load, since I only found Sonic's credits and Sonic's recap screens. I'll sort the screenshots soon.
I would assume that the game checks the "current character" value to determine whose credits or recaps to show.
Yep, going to have to go hunt for that value now. What is the "current character" address in the US version? EDIT: Added images and info to TCRF articles.
