Sonic 1

Yes that is how it would have had to happen, providing the devices had sufficient memory for all of the rotated sprites. I think it was removed for a combination of reasons - the heap usage, increases in file size pushing it close/over limits, and so on.

 

So wait... Claxon is a developer for Sonic 1 Mobile... woah. that's pretty nifty. In what form did you get the original material? Since the Marble Zone UFO is in the sprites I take it you got the data from SEGA in an "uncompiled" format?

Also, since Glu treated you so badly, hows about sharing some of that data? =P

 

Shall we keep all this to just one topic? Since there's two discussing essentially the same and that.

 

Yes What IK said. And I didn't make the iPod version, I did j2me enabled mobile phones. On a more on topic note, I wouldn't imagine that making Sonic on the iPod is terribly difficult. After all I have Doom running on a linuxified model of an ipod Mini, which managed to perform better than the original PC I used to play it on.

 

The crap in my cell phone that calls itself "Sonic 1" sucks. It's impossible to control on a cell or anything else without a proper controller!

 

Really? What model is it? I've never had any issue with the mobile controls on my phone (Sony Ericsson k750i), which has mini joystick (although using the keypad tends to allow better control anyway) & accepts multiple simultaneous keypresses. If yours really is so bad that it's 'impossible' my guess would be that you're using a slow handset, which is causing the controls to be less responsive.

I'm not sure about controls on this ipod version though, I always found iPod buttons awkward to use for any sort of game.

 

I think my phone is a Samsung d600 or something similar. Sonic fucking sucks on it.

 

That's Samsungs for you I'm afraid, they tend to make the best looking phones, but rarely are they capable of intense processing. In fact the only manufacturer I'd recommend is Sony Ericsson. Samsungs are slow, Motorola tend to recycle 3 year old components and have never been terribly good at sound, LG's tend to have random glitches & require separate builds for each device, Nokia's are quite a ride range, but are generally have better power than other manufacturers equivalents, alas they have some horrific memory management issues along with lots of graphical & audio inconsistencies.

Ah the wonderful world of "Build once, run anywhere"

 

Yes the samsung I used to have ran Sonic 1 terribly. The one I have now isn't that great (Motorola), but it is definitely better than the Samsung one ever was.

Funny thing about the Ipod version of this game. The swinging platforms in Marble zone taken from Green Hill Zone don't have any palette adjustments like in the original (they're still brown instead of purple). Also the life icon in the HUD is not affected by being underwater, nor does the title card, which I think both are in the original.

 

You may blame non-indexed paletted graphics.

 

Also, to people saying the GBA is a better candidate; other than graphics and controls, the iPod surpasses it in every other degree as reasons for a port platform.

 

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What version was that? Defiantly not either version that I've tried.
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It runs differently on different cellphones, I believe. Slightly.
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It depends on the version, the one in that screenshot is using an enforced play area width to reduce the load & increase frame rate, the majority of mobile ports will scale the play area to fill the screen horizontally.

 

A RAZR V3m...which probably explains everything.

 

According to video they apparently fixed the spike bug. Just a tidbit you guys might want to know.

 

Control being probably the single most important aspect of a game, of course. Graphics are debatably important, but are still a pretty large part of the experience.

 

From that video, it seems they left the REV01 shit out though.

 

I hope this is actually better than GBA version. That was much more worse than Sonic 06.

 

It is—it's practically a perfect port, even, stemmed from the original source.

There was a video earlier in the thread, I think. You should probably check it out.

 

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