Sonic CD (2011) Post-Release Bugs/Fixes/Suggestions

You know these keys don't even exist in the Sega CD version, right?

You could argue about emulation but, ESC?

 

Fuck, did you both really have to make everyone else scroll past a billion huge pictures for no reason? If we wanted to see them that much, we could find your original posts.

 

But you could enable said debug mode through one of the menu options!

 

But for them to appear you had to edit the INI.

 

I bought Sonic CD for Steam today and some of the graphics are blown up, namely the Sega screen and the pause menu. My graphics driver is already updated, so it can't be that. Any suggestions?

EDIT: Since no one has responded, maybe I should show examples of what I mean.



The Sega logo is cutoff for some reason.



Note the Sonic sprite in the pause menu.

 

Also, on TTz 2 there's one of these statues that spill water balls on you that is near a spring. On the original you could jump on the spring and sonic would go up as usual. But on the redone version the balls still affect Sonic direction, I hope this gets fixed for Windows Phone 7 at least

 

In Metallic Madness 2, in the shrink-ray part of the level, it's possible to time travel by peeling-out/spindashing from a conveyer belt towards an upward spring. After time traveling, you are no longer tiny, and are likely to get crushed very easily. Worked for both Sonic and Tails in the iPhone version.

Is this possible on the Sega CD version?

 

I know there's a general thread on this game, but I'm not going to bump it: Sonic CD is on sale this week on PSN and XBLA. I know on XBLA it's 200 points... so 2.50 is a freakin' steal. Not sure what the exact price on PSN is either. I'd imagine it's also half off.

 

Simple. In order for the game to work smoothly across the full spectrum of iOS devices the graphics are rendered with the GPU instead of pure software like the standard version of the Retro Engine. And since not all the iOS devices support fragment shading, it's not possible to have the same water colour palette.

Why not use the software rendering on iOS?
- Bad iOS bottleneck transferring pixel data to framebuffer on earlier devices (something like 50% of cpu is used just to shift the data) = shit framerate
- More work on the CPU = more battery drain

TL:DR There's a perfectly valid and logical reason for this so don't bug me.

 

Sega has to pay him so he can do that, this is no fangame, Sega earns $$$ with that, working for free is dumb. :P

Also, glitch fixes are more important than that.

 

I also wondered this, so thanks for asking and thanks for answering Taxman!

 

I'm wondering, since we have this thread, will there actually be any bug fixes for Sonic CD available in the future?

 

Yes, Taxman has said in the past that he hopes to bring out a revised version (or versions) but, AFAIR, that it does depend upon the publishers/distributors being willing to accommodate the update.

 

Speaking of updates, two things I want to be implented:

1. U.S. Title Screen version music when making the soundtrack to USA instead of keeping the Jap Title Screen.
2. Enabling the classic cheat-mode system when you completed the game. Kinda pointless since Taxman, the developer probably was asked by SEGA to make it an unlock system with achievements included, so the original cheat system would be redunctant.
3. Improved Resolution.

Well I actually suck at Sonic CD levels, and I wish I could use the classic cheat system.

 

Actually, I'm not sure what version you're playing, but on the iPod, once you've switched to the US track, it will stay and the title screen will be the US versions- Sonic Boom.

I didn't quite get what you meant about the cheat mode system though. You unlock it when you beat the game. Did you mean that for that particular save file you would like the option to then choose your zone by default?

 

In what sense? What do you think is the problem at present?