[MarzSyndrome]

Is anyone interested in the ValuSoft reissues of Sonic 3D and Sonic R? I obtained them off eBay a while back, around the same time as I made this thread in fact. They appear to be rebuilt differently from the original/more common releases after all, especially Sonic R.

They both seem very playable on my more recent Windows 7 rig, which is particularly great for R since the original always keeled over on the recent Windows OSes.

[SoullessSentinel]

I'm interested in the Sonic R, if it works without issues on my Windows 7 64-bit I'd be very happy.

[Scarred Sun]

Filed under "well, no one else was going to do it":

I bought a copy of Sega Classics for Palm Tungsten and Zire (yeah, I have no idea either) which includes an 8-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog. Dump's here. Enjoy.

[Dark Sonic]

How can I play these PC verisons of Sonic R without the disc?

[muteKi]

Easiest way is probably just rip the disc and mount in Daemon Tools. The disk checking is kinda fucked though, since it looks for the first CD drive by letter and nowhere else, so you'd probably have to reorder your drive letters.

[Heran Bago]

I have vague plans to update stuff with the last few posts.

The various betas and discoveries over the years are toughbut I'm considering at least linking where to get them.

This post has been edited by Heran Bago: 14 October 2014 - 12:13 AM

[Delta]

Heran.

I'm sick and tired of SonAR's 90's-esque design. It's unwieldy to navigate, it's a little painful trying to pick something out from the ROM listings (especially on wide screens), the code is a mess, and it uses that ancient "NEW" animated GIF, for Pete's sake. I am thoroughly nonplussed.

That's why I made this.

It's not perfect, and obviously the ROM links aren't working since it's on a different domain, but it feels a bit nicer to me. What do you think~?

[Covarr]

A lot of people tend to hate javascript, but AJAX and a dropdown that lets you choose what system would be even more swag than the Pope.

This post has been edited by Covarr: 05 November 2014 - 04:26 PM

[Delta]

Covarr, on 05 November 2014 - 04:26 PM, said:

A lot of people tend to hate javascript, but AJAX and a dropdown that lets you choose what system would be even more swag than the Pope.

I tried to be a little conservative on this redesign. The only javascript it uses is for switching stylesheets (same as the current SonAR).

It would certainly be easier to maintain if this gigantic mess of HTML were split into multiple files and accessed through AJAX. It'd be even cooler if it used some content management system with databases and all that fancy stuff, but I'm not sure if it needs all that. The content doesn't change that often.

In any case, the main benefit of AJAX is to avoid page reloads, which this one-page design already does. :P And the dropdown on the top already lists all the systems. I suppose I could turn the table of contents into submenus instead, but I'm not sure if that would actually be better.

[Flygon]

I admit I am not a fan of this style of dropdown menu. Too easy to lose track of where your mouse is and then you lose the menu and then you need to try and refind what option you were trying to find in the first place.

Clicking once to keep the menu up, even when the mouse moves away, is quite cromulent however.

[Delta]

Flygon, on 06 November 2014 - 03:07 AM, said:

Clicking once to keep the menu up, even when the mouse moves away, is quite cromulent however.

I can definitely see that being a problem in this case. Fixed.

[Flygon]

Aye, much nicer now. Thanks, man!

[SeanieB]

Delta, if you can zip those up I can slip them somewhere

[Delta]

https://dl.dropboxus...AR-20141107.zip

All the files are named such that it -should- be a drop-in replacement, which should makes things easy.