Sonic 1 Remastered

<!--quoteo(post=162460:date=Mar 12 2007, 08:41 AM:name=Puto)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Puto @ Mar 12 2007, 08:41 AM)

You now get to keep your rings across levels.[/quote]
Nice job taking pretty much all the difficulty from the game.

 

<!--quoteo(post=162463:date=Mar 12 2007, 06:25 AM:name=Tweaker)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tweaker @ Mar 12 2007, 06:25 AM)

You now get to keep your rings across levels.[/quote]
Nice job taking pretty much all the difficulty from the game.
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Didn't someone already do this before? Maybe Cinossu, I don't remember for sure.

 

I like the idea, but as Tweaker said it rapes all the difficulty the game had. I suggest that you only have the big ring worth 50 for the next level, but no other rings.

 

I love how you avoid walking when you're Super Sonic so the bad walking animation doesn't show up.

 

It's looking good.

Tweaker says that the idea of keeping your rings across levels rapes the difficulty, but on most levels there is a ring or three RIGHT at the start anyway, whether or not you start the level with 1 or 999 rings shouldn't make any difference. Even if you started with 0, chances are you'll have at least 1 by the time you come across some obstacle that could hurt you. I think it's a cool challenge to try to keep a large amount of rings for as long as possible, make you be more cautious about being hurt, as you'd rather not lose all the rings you've gained.

 

So, is this capped at 999, or will you add a digit to the HUD and make it 9999?

 

True there's usually always rings when you start a level anyways. But when you only have a few to lose, there are less for you to re-grab when hit. So yeah, it can remove difficulty a bit. On the other hand, the not getting a life every 100 rings adds the difficulty, so it evens out.
I do have a couple questions about the keeping rings things. Say I end act 1 with 100 rings and get a free life, then I complete act 2 with say 180 rings (including the 100 that were rolled over), would I get another life? Wouldn't seem fair to get more than one life for the same 100 rings. Also, say I were to end a round with 270 rings, would I get two free lives, or just the one?

 

Yes, but the variable itself can store more than this. Why don't you edit the cap and make it 9999? You just need to add another digit to the HUD.

 

You make it sound so simple. He'd need to alter the HUD mappings, find space in VRAM to accomodate this extra digit, and then reprogram the ring updating stuff to account for an extra number to make it automatcially update in the VRAM. It's not necessarily hard to do once you work out what needs doing, but it's not just a case of extending the mappings as you made it sound.

 

If you could get that many rings maybe it would be a good idea to make the score for rings worth less. But who goes for score on a Sonic game anyways. :P

 

Or just have an internal counter for rings obtained during that act, and then only those count towards points at the end of the level.