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Source of Sonic Unleashed JAVA mobile found

Discussion in 'General Sonic Discussion' started by Rlan, Jun 21, 2020.

  1. Rlan

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    So a friend of mine sent me this link:

    https://github.com/djsoftware/pallan

    This appears to be the source for Gameloft's 'Sonic Unleashed' for mobile. This game obviously went through a few versions with different phones, but this seems to be a bit of a middle ground of the game in development.

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    It's got a lot of tools inside it used to make the game, which might be very useful for Gameloft stuff in general.

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    It also is full of sprite sheets of the game. Including some Sonic sprites which appear to be in-between getting uprezzed for a higher resolution version of the game.

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    Based on this I don't think it's the source of the final version, but man, this is kind of great. Someone look to port this to Unity? :P

    Edit: Backup of source.
     
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  2. biggestsonicfan

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    I think this was discussed extensively in the Retro Discord, but I'm shocked no one made a topic until now!
     
  3. Speeps

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    It was private (for the leaker's safety I think) I guess until now. Anyway, one of my friends compiled and played it already:
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  4. Dark Sonic

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    Someone port these levels to Mania because that game... yikes
     
  5. The Joebro64

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    Someone should hack Sonic Rush and import these levels.
     
  6. Rudie Radio Waves

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    Many a game.
    How playable is it? Digging in the Github source I could only find two level files (in the levels folder).
     
  7. Loop

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    There's also this in the game's files, what looks like an early screenshot of Sonic '06.

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    And this, which uses the Sonic logo from an early proposal from the Japanese version.
     
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  8. Joseph A. Rose

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    I went to Github to download the Source Code of the Java version of Sonic Unleashed by Gameloft, but it's unavailable because of the DMCA takedown.
     
  9. Forte

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    Damn, I remember playing this back in the day. Sonic sprites were actually kinda cool looking, and the gameplay wasn't that bad - for a Java game.

    We sure went a long way with our phones, huh?
     
  10. Metalwario64

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    Did anyone back this source code up before it was taken down? It would be a damn shame for this to have gone up and nobody to have preserved it.
     
  11. shilz

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    Yeah, people definitely saved it.

    I wonder if there was more than just Unleashed but I never saw anything about other Gameloft Sonic games' source getting put out.
     
  12. Hm, I don't see a link to a backup of this data (...or anything else about this prototype?) on the Wiki but my search-fu has grown pretty weak over the years so it's possible it's there and I'm just blind. Are we certain it's backed up?
     
  13. Techokami

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    It is, in fact, backed up. I got a copy of the archive from Rlan. If he doesn't edit the OP of the thread, you can politely ask him for it.
     
  14. Rlan

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