***Tech Demo First Release!***

Awesome stuff, it runs at 60FPS in my laptop even without having installed the correct drivers. No fullscreen for me, though.



By the way, am I really the only one who knew about LOst's involvement, just by reading the forum's posts?

 

Well, I just tested. This is pretty amazing stuff you got there! Very good work, I liked it on first sight.

It's running flawlessly on my system.

AMD Athlon X2 6000+
2 GB RAM
Geforce 8600 GT 512 MB
Windows XP x64 edition

And you've got great artists.. Sonic's tumbling animation is awesome!

 

Yeah, and you'll sometimes get stuck in the ground after trying that.

If I remember correctly, there's a specific routine that was made in Sonic 1 so he could do just that near the beginning of Spring Yard (and other curves in ceilings). It might not have been ported yet, I guess.

 

I've got a laptop with this:

Intel Core 2 at 2.0 GHz
2 gig RAM
Intel Integrated Mobile 945 Express


Needless to say, that last part is clearly the weak link in my performance. Playing the 4x demo runs well when I disable visual themes/desktop composition, but the other two demos hold at 45fps when I do this. Incidentally, I have a TON of unused CPU clock time during all of this that I can't help but feel is going to waste in the other two modes.

 

Fullscreen needs a 1280 x 960 resolution to work, if your monitor support that res, It will work, if not, it will show a black screen cause its looking for that res and It cant find it.

1280 x 960 is HD after all, we still need to fix the fullscreen for others resolutions.

 

Moral: Get a computer

Anyway, this is stunning. With the slow but open progress, I wasn't really that much interested but now I'm wowed. I just can't get enough out of it. Can't wait for the final release Vincent, and the other S2HD staff!

 

Man, screw Apple and it's inability to work OpenGL into its X11 server (thereby making Wine mostly unhelpful). I really wanted to play this thing.

 

I enjoyed it a lot, I don't really have any complaints since it ran at a solid 60fps. Although my computer can run Crysis on High with a constant 30+ fps

 

Ran at 1 to 7 FPS for me, lol.

 

Excellent work, LOst, it's good to see that your intentions are finally made public.

I'm a bit worried about the copyright issues, though. As far as I understand what has been said, this game will be completely free when finished. But that means that it will essentially become a carbon copy of Sonic 2, but a completely free one. Take a look at HD projects for Doom or Duke Nukem, for example, they're not really 'free', they still require the original level data to function, they would be deemed piracy if they didn't. If Sonic 2 HD will function on its own, SEGA will have a good reason to shut down the project, as it will be tampering with their sales of the original Sonic 2 (and its ports, e.g. Virtual Console). I'd suggest making the engine read the level data from Sonic 2 rom.

 

Yeah, But look what happened to Chrono Trigger: Resurrection, It was not for sale/profit, and it got shut down.

 

It's looking great. I'd like to get some work done on the sound effects, I think they could be improved.

 

There are several hundred [crappy] Sonic fangames, they haven't done anything about that. Oh, and don't forget the leak of over a thousand inhouse prototypes

Either Sega doesn't care, or they know that drawing attention to this will make it more popular. On the off chance a C&D is sent, it will be ignored.

 

Specs:
Windows XP Pro SP3
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz
2 GB DDR3 1333 SDRAM
Geforce 9800 GTX 512MB

There are a few places where it dips below 60fps. Namely fade-ins, the Sonic Retro fade-in drops to 56ish, the 4x Res screen fade-in drops to 53ish, the title screen fade-in drops to only 59, and the ingame fade-in drops to 23!
Ingame is mostly a solid 60/60 with an occaisonal rare random drop to 59. However I also get slightly more rare 1 skipped frame while the counter still shows 60/60, then after it says "SKIPPED 1" the counter drops to 59/60...

 

Ah... according to my current display settings, I'm running at 1024x768 at 75hz. My graphics card supports higher resolutions than this, but my monitor doesn't—that's probably why I can't run it. Should I try switching to 60hz to see if that helps?

Also, wouldn't it be possible to have the screen scale to the monitor's max resolution or something? I don't see myself having the monetary resources to get anything above 1024x768 for a while, and the windowed version fits within that resolution—it should be entirely plausible to make full screen cover that area just as well, shouldn't it?

 

Okay. Downloaded and tried it.
The engine is awesome, works very well and the art is really cool too.

It worked at 20-26 FPS skipping from 1 to 17 frames in windowed mode. Full screen didn't work.

My specs:
Windows XP Pro SP2
Intel Celeron 420 1.60 GHz
512 MB DDR RAM
nVidia GeForce 2 MX/MX 400 64 MB

I didn't think it would need so much graphical power.

 

Spec:

AMD Sempron 3000+ (1.81 Ghz)
896 Mb RAM
Radeon XPress 200M

Windowed Mode:
~30/60 fps in all modes
1x Mode RAM = 190Mb
2x Mode RAM = 190Mb
4x Mode RAM = 180Mb

Full Screen
Black screen even though the monitor supports the resolution.