Generations PC Unleashed Porting - Dragon Road Demo

The camera that is following Classic Sonic seems to be way too close to him. Would it be troublesome to zoom it out a little bit?

 

Runs quite beautifully; I've encountered no problems thus far, and it's nice to finally see these levels at a solid framerate.

That said, this might be a bit silly, but neither of these ports seem to be quite as hardware-friendly as the standard maps. I originally ran this game on an 8600GTm, notably below the minimum requirements, but it still handled everything at about 20 FPS. With both the Windmill Isle level, and this one, the level loads fine 'n dandy, but within a few seconds the screen is filled with either garbage or part of Sonic's texture; you might be a bit VRAM happy.

Still, it's below the minimum requirements, so I wouldn't bother with it too much.

 

Well, I've encountered no problems other than the Samurai robots damage.
Playing this reminded me how much I suck at Unleashed. ;_;

 

Oh, well in that case, sorry.

 

I asked around and quite a few other people had a hard time making that shortcut, and I think I figured out why; I think if you're still boosting when you get to the ring trail, the magnetic ring pull from the boost interferes with the rings. It's just a guess, though... (Also, any word on the enemy collision bug being fixed?)

 

Actually I think the reason the jump is hard to make is because randomly when you jump there air boost won't work. It's very noticeable if you press the button more than once. Keeps making me miss the jump. <_< It feels like if you edge a little bit to the left it'll work, but I haven't done much testing with it.

 

I actually don't recall coming across this bug in Modern Rooftop Run, but that's probably because you barely use the homing attack on any of them in the shortcut route. Apologies for assuming the bug was your doing.

While I definitely agree that it can be unreliable at times, I've tested my theory. I NEVER get it to work while boosting (even if Sonic was literally touching the trail), it DOES work somewhat reliably if I make sure to let go of boost before getting to it. Then again, I was boosting continuously into a jump, not jumping and airboosting towards the trail. (I should probably clarify here that I was using the Speed Up skill; I haven't experimented with the shortcut at the standard no-skill speed.)

 

I'm wondering if orange rings might be a better choice than a lightdash trail.

 

Actually, I never noticed that until I started playing Dragon Road, and I still rage when I homing attack into a robot and it hurts me instead of vice versa.

I remember having that same exact bug, though it wasn't at that location.

 

This probably bugs me a lot more than it should, but on the yellow spinny death things, shadows cast on it are straight down. I'm not sure if that's related at all to the :coughfeaturecough: of Sonic having merely a drop shadow but everything else also casts directly downward, including other level geometry. Having angled shadows does add to the eye candy in a non-insignificant way, especially considering all the architecture directly before/after does this- it's actually subconsciously jarring.

Yeah. Subconsciously jarring. I just invented a new phrase because I'm amazing.

 

I played through both stages. It'll take me a bit to get used to doing the main act without skills (I've done relatively well on the stage with skills.)

And as Dario mentioned, running on the water works well in the unfinished Night stage.
For others who'd want to try it, you just need to have enough speed before stepping on it (and you can't be jumping.) Eventually, you'll find your way to the (non-level-ending) goalpost.
Also, here's a screenshot of it!


P.S. - I'm glad to see that you included the speed shoes variant I made of the night song. It made using the Speed Shoes skill a lot more fun in this level.

P.S.2. - That enemy collision glitch everyone keeps talking about isn't too big of a deal to me. I just think of it as Sonic being a little off in his aim, causing him to hit the Egg Fighter's weapon instead of the robot (the same thing happens every now and then in a couple other Sonic games, such as Sonic Heroes.)

 

Question: When will you start cropping your videos to the correct aspect ratio? It's a little disconcerting looking at them with black bars. :v:

 

I'm sorry, but what?



Considering -all- my recent game footage regardless of game is at 1080p, the 'correct' aspect ratio is 16:9. I can respect that even in this day and age, especially considering this is Sonic -Retro-, some people still subsist with 4:3 (or even worse, 1280x1024) monitors, but don't expect me to crop natively widescreen footage into a hilariously boxed in field of view. It's not even 'correct' contextually. Not by a long shot.

Go blame Youtube or something. Or blame Retro's auto-embed code.

edit: There, fixed embed on videos. Happy? edit2: Actually, nope, still overriden by Retro.