Sonic Adventure DX (Preview) Discussion

Heroes version 11.08 is almost identical to the final, while 10.8 is the most beta with different music and level layout (plus a debugger of some sort). Review builds are nothing (even the SA2 one, which is the same as the final in size I think) special except for maybe DX. The weird thing with the DX build is that it has this inside, which gives you the list of files used to create this build. It gives the actual dates when the file was last edited (?) and gives a interesting look at what they really had to edit for DX. Most of the models date from 2003, others (mostly music, some models and levels too) date from 1999/1998. Another thing with this build is that, even though is a lot like the final, they are still working on the A-LIFE system up until this point. The debug features of this build have been removed, but there's a debug screen when you enter/exit one area while inside a chao garden. The chao are positioned wrong in Sonic's hands as you pick them up, but other than that, they've ported the Sonic Adventure 2's chao system about 95% up until this point (it has the chao racing from SA2, the GBA machine, the map edits, etc). The funny thing with this build is that the Egg Carrier's chao garden is still a little unfinished (water is shit), and to prevent anyone from going inside they added a collision barrier over the warp to the chao garden from the Egg Carrier room after you solve that letter puzzle. But you can still enter it through the other chao gardens.

There are little to no crashes in this review build. All the Game Gear games have been unlocked. I'm not sure if Metal Sonic is in here. And, Mission mode looks complete to me at least. That's all that there really is in the review build. I don't think it's worthy of a topic so since you asked, I decided to post what I knew already. I only played it once, so maybe there's some other things here and there I forgot to mention. :P

Anyway back on topic. I still haven't found a way to open the A-LIFE debugger in game yet. Hopefully Saz can help with that.

EDIT: Speaking of Heroes, you can think of 10.8 as the build that was hoarded by Solly (I think) and friends. Or maybe, that alpha build that Dream-Avenue has. I don't see why not, they do look identical. But maybe it's called Alpha for a reason, so maybe it's one of the builds IGN/Gamespot/Meristation.com could've used. :P

 

Another Spanish guy, I see... =P

 

nononononononononono

I just picked from a list of sources from SOST (Secrets of Sonic Team ~ pictures to compare from here) above some of these pictures. I suck at Spanish, but it's better than French. :P

EDIT: I'm trying to get something out of these GVM files (any gvm file), and I still can't seem to get anything out from it. Anyone think they could attempt to look at this format?

EDIT 2: Nevermind. Just use the PVR Viewer to scan for PVR files inside the GVMs and it works.

EDIT 3: Nevermind again. I don't know what I did to get it to view, let me look into it.

EDIT 4: Now I see what I did. I rename the GVM file to a PRS file. I then ran prsdec.exe and it outputs the file into a viewable pvm file (comes with a .bin file too, don't know what it's for though). Then as I said before, used PVR viewer to scan for PVR files inside the output file and I can look inside.

EDIT 5: GOD DAMMIT. I thought that would work, but it doesn't now. I have no idea what I did to get this one GVM to load though. And I'd do anything to look inside these multiple amy.GVM.

 

You don't need the to know what it does, if you're familiar with the hardware at all. Honestly, I don't know why he thought it was interesting in the first place. AX is the abbreviation for the Gamecube's Audio hardware. (Similarly, GX is the graphics hardware and most of the graphics functions in the SDK start with GX_...)
It's just a config file that sets up the mappings for the extra 16MB of Auxiliary RAM in the GCN, and some Reverb settings which are more obviously related to sound. The file GCAX.conf can be found left on a few other GC discs, I think one of the kiosk demo discs I have has the file. (I know I've at least seen it somewhere else...) I'm guessing if you really want to know more about it, you can find it in the SDK.

 

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<- more familiar

Yeah, if these are the textures for the dragon they didn't use much. I might be forgetting other parts I could find in here, but it's hard when the stupid thing's moving all around on my screen. At least the last texture should be good enough. Now I want to look at the model.

 

Speaking of that Christmas tree...



I wonder why they wanted to make a mission out of it. Took this picture from the Dreamcast version because I noticed they were in different spots. Does the tree do anything if you touch it from mission mode? For some reason, I can't unlock Trial Mode for now in the preview build. :\

 

I believe you. This isn' Sonic Next.
Somewhat off-topic: Did drx have an SA beta for Dreamcast that he sent away to get ripped? What games were there?

Thanks.

[Alex Trebek]That is correct.[/Alex Trebek]

That was my hypothesis.

 

Well that's amusing.

 

Hehe, developer humor is always nice to see. Kinda reminds you of the people who worked on these games rather then just the specs and logic in it.

 

Looks like I won't have trouble with it then, heh.

 

Very good find. Is there a PC version on download? :D

 

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So how does 9A play its animation?