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Hey folks. I'm not often on here but I've been dicking about with the Sonic games on Steam lately, and thought I'd ask about an issue I'm having.

I've put together a basic No - HUD mod for SA2, that worked well enough. I then decided to see if I could replace the textures in City Escape with the signage from the Dreamcast version. It was easy enough to do, and after I made it mod-loader friendly it worked in-game as seen here;



All fine and dandy, and I did the same with the blimps in Radical Highway. However, for some reason upon beating or exiting a stage these texture edits affect, such as City Escape or Radical Highway, the game straight up crashes and I haven't the foggiest why.

TL;DR - I put the Dreamcast signage into the PC port, it crashes the game, I'm confused. I'll keep playing with the files in the .paks to see if I messed something up, but I'm seriously at a loss. The only thing I could muster was perhaps the filesize being much bigger than the original .pak, but that wouldn't be consistent with the No-HUD mod I made so... yeah. I'd imagine this kind of stuff has already been answered, but I didn't turn up anything through searching.

Using the SA2 Modloader log, the final line before the crash is:

Warning! Can not Read file: gd_PC/stg13_light_gc.bin
SOC_AsynDoWithCurrentFrame
War

But I have no idea what to do with that information.

EDIT: Well, it WAS the filesize. I shouldn't be surprised... and honestly I'm not. Disregard folks.

Absolutely amazing work! Especially estatic to see a Saturn build out there; nothing short of incredible work.

Disc swapping with the Saturn seems rather... strenuous, to say the least; but if I do ever manage to get it running on my Saturn, I'd be glad to capture some non-offscreen footage with my capture card (unless you folks already have that sorted!).

As a Saturn fanatic, I'm incredibly excited to see this. It looks so... beautiful.
Amazing work Jolly, this is nothing short of incredible.

Zephyr, on 13 August 2013 - 06:45 PM, said:

Don't quote me on this one, but those spacers were like prongs, that were included to ensure it worked with the Mega Drive I by sticking in the cart slot with the 32X or something. I don't think the Mega Drive II requires them.
As for connectors, I'm not entirely sure.

Also I don't mean to butt in on this topic, but I'm curious as to a good price for an EU 32X. I've had a copy of Virtua Racing Deluxe sat gathering dust in my game cabinet for ages now.

EDIT: No wait, I got the spacers and prongs muddled up.

The spacer, from what I've read, isn't necessary, but without it the 32X is quite unstable, and will wobble a bit. Should function fine though.

Spanner, on 13 August 2013 - 04:28 PM, said:

Righto, sent over my entry. Had to use Mediafire for the upload, attachments weren't co-operating for whatever reason. If that's for any reason an issue, lemme know and I'd try and fix things before the challenge ends.