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Just a quickie, but I optimized Sonic CD's time warping a bit.



The following changes were made:
- Disabled the cutscene
- Changed graphics compression to Kosinski moduled to speed up decompression times
- Level files are now modular, so when time traveling, only the appropriate time zone data is loaded, while anything shared between time zones is left as is
- Time zone data loading starts as soon as the screen locks and fades to white, instead of after

This is only merely a POC and only actually works when traveling to the past in PPZ1. I'd have to refactor every other level file to work in this new system.

 

This alone gives the game a thousand points in enjoyability.

 

I tweaked it even further

 

Not the port we wanted, but the one we deserved.

 

Coming on October 10th at the Sonic Hacking Contest!

 

Kinda cheesy, ngl...

 

Sonic May-nia

 

Ooh, a Taxman Hidden Palace port? Nice!

 

Yes, but this time with track #10.
Here is the other half of it (sorry for the big image).

 

Yes, this damn project is STILL alive. :P

Get ready for PINK MODE!

Ooh, I love the idea of a backport of HPZ. Didn't think it was possible before though. Bravo. :D

 

I've uselessly made Sonic Mania run on 64-bit Haiku/BeOS.

Behold, or something.

 

I have implemented the Yuu Yuu Hakusho font into Sonic 1! Had to free up some VRAM for the extra letters, but otherwise it wasn't too hard.

Bonus: Here's a tool I hacked up in 30 minutes for the font.

Spoiler: Hacked-up Lua script

Code (Text):

1. --PRIVATE VARIABLES--
2. local TitleText = "HELLO RETRO"
3. local Offset = {
4.     X = 0xB8,
5.     Y = 0xF8
6. }
7.  
8. local FirstLetterPosition = 0x2D
9. local TileIncrement = 0x4
10. local TileSpacing = 0xF
11.  
12. local FirstASCIILetter = 97
13. local GlobalSpacing = 0
14.  
15.  
16.  
17. --PRIVATE FUNCTIONS--
18. local function DecimalToHex(Number)
19.     local HexString = string.format("%x", Number)
20.     HexString = string.upper(HexString)
21.  
22.     return HexString
23. end
24.  
25. local function ConvertLetter(Letter, Index)
26.     local Shape = 5
27.     local AdditionalSpacing = 0
28.     local TrueLetter = ((Letter - FirstASCIILetter) * TileIncrement) + FirstLetterPosition
29.  
30.     if Letter == 105 then
31.         AdditionalSpacing = 0x4
32.     elseif Letter == 32 then
33.         return "\n"
34.     end
35.  
36.     return "        dc.b    " .. string.upper(string.format(
37.         "$%x, %d, 0, $%x, $%x\n",
38.         Offset.Y,
39.         Shape,
40.         TrueLetter,
41.         (Offset.X + (TileSpacing * (Index - 1)) + AdditionalSpacing) % 0xFF
42.     ))
43. end
44.  
45. local function ConvertString(Text)
46.     local Output = ""
47.  
48.     for i = 1, #Text do
49.         local CurrentLetter = string.sub(Text, i, i)
50.         local ASCIILetter = string.byte(string.lower(CurrentLetter))
51.         Output = Output .. ConvertLetter(ASCIILetter, i)
52.     end
53.  
54.     return Output
55. end
56.  
57.  
58.  
59. --INIT--
60. print(ConvertString(TitleText))

 

Sega CD, muthafucka!

 

Porting some proto conceptions in final Sonic 2 :p
Title screen sprites by Pacca The Satyr

 

D-d-double poost!



Thanks to E-122-Psi for SSZ graphics, and Pacca the Satyr for MTZ bg, looking like concept art

 

I seriously believe that the unused layout is, in fact, the single-cart multiplayer level. The GBA supports getting multiboot code downloaded over the link cable into RAM to be played; one of the main uses for this is to allow up to 4 players play a multiplayer game, but with only one copy of the game used. This is present in Advance 1 and 2 with a Capture the Flag-esque game mode, in which players run through a small zone collecting the most of something (I forget what the goal was in Advance 1, but in Advance 2 it was Chao). The reason it's looking garbled is most likely because the graphics are compressed, as the entire mutliboot binary has to be shoved down the link cable to each player, so they had to do SOMETHING to make the download go quicker, and the GBA BIOS already has a LZ77 decompression routine for the game to use.

I wonder if a modern emulator like mGBA can capture these multiboot downloads?