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Sonic 1 - Dick Move Prevention Edition

Discussion in 'Engineering & Reverse Engineering' started by MarkeyJester, Aug 12, 2019.

  1. MarkeyJester

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    Greetings ladies and gentlemen~

    Are you tired of dick moves in Sonic games? Do you hate that you cannot see things off-screen? Are you unable to dodge things without lizard reflexes? Well fear no more!! Sonic 1 featuring a new revolutionary "Dick Move Prevention" mechanism, for all those pesky off-screen annoyances.

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    "now i've seen everything... and that's the point!" - MegaGWolf
    "Now we don't need to backport 16:9 aspect ratio to Mega Drive to make Sonic playable, you dumbasses" - Miss Fox
    "are you trying to save VRAM that badly? :v" - Sik


    A special thanks to Natsumi for bug testing, while not entirely bug free, it is certainly better than its proto version.
     
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  2. Overlord

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    Was stunned when I saw this running at Barcade. Great work as always =P
     
  3. Josh

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    Finally, I can actually enjoy a Sonic game without careening into unfair hazards that I couldn't possibly have time to react to. Seriously, crazy-impressive work, thank you!
     
  4. rata

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    This is lovely.
     
  5. Hez

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    I hate you. Lovely though.
     
  6. Jay

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    Will Sonya the Hedgehog be a playable option in a future release?
     
  7. Hez

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    I'd like to also request shit glove the hedgehog be playable. kthnx
     
  8. Knucklez

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    This has to be the best Sonic 1 port for the Master System I've ever seen. Bravo.
     
  9. ICEknight

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    Wow, this is absolutely amazing.
     
  10. Vangar

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    Super impressive! Any plans for other levels or is this just a PoC?
     
  11. Billy

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    I'm reminded of Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and it's super zoomed-out view at higher resolutions. Fantastic work.
     
  12. ICEknight

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    Would this work in split screen? Could make one heck of a non-squished versus mode.
     
  13. MarkeyJester

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    While it's possible to do the whole hack, it'd be quite tedious and time consuming, so I'm afraid I won't be doing the other levels. The special stages especially would be of concern, it's possible, I mean, we could get around the 80 sprites limit, but the number of sprites per scanline limit would be an obstacle to overcome.

    Yes, it'd be certainly possible to do a split screen of this, but I'm kinda busy with other things.

    I initially started this back in 2015, handled the sprites side of it, but the level concerned me as to fusing four tiles into a single tile, especially when they can operate their own palette lines, priority, etc, not to mention the VRAM costs, it essentially put me off bothering, so I shelved it.

    I only started it very recently because I came across it randomly while searching for something else, and that something else happens to be related to a project I should be working on.
     
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  14. Flygon

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    System E Arcade port!
     
  15. Dulappy

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    Still waaaay too big. I won’t be satisfied till sonic is 1 pixel high/wide
     
  16. MarkeyJester

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    Don't tempt me.
     
  17. Techokami

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    Is there a technical reason that the special stages are removed?
    Really impressive otherwise!
     
  18. rata

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    Sprites on screen limit I would guess. You can see how it already slows the hell down when loosing some rings, and it starts having the scanline issues when jumping on a lot of places (the problem that Marble Zone has when you're into the lava geiser). Now add rotating the layout, but this time with all the extra sprites loaded.
     
  19. Techokami

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    Yeeeah, I guess that would explain it. I did notice a lot of sprite limit issues just by being in GHZ1 at the second bridge.
     
  20. Vangar

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    Honestly i'm super keen to setup my megadrive just to test this on real hardware