It's time to drop a little bomb

Actually, I wonder if they've heard of S2HD yet......
Who knows what could happen........

 

I'm going to go with the consensus that says, "Game's amazing, but making it for the iPhone is a bad idea."

 

I think it's more interesting that SEGA is actually considering fan-created games as plausible additions to their games library. Granted, the port itself is also impressive—recreating all of the game's original objects through your scripting system is definitely impressive to the degree you've managed it, and to the untrained eye many of the subtle differences won't be noticeable by the general public, which is definitely a factor in your favor. By all means, this recreation could be something revolutionary for both the impact of this community and for your own professional career.

Here's my question, though—why now? Why not before? Stealth has created a 2D Sonic engine which has been available on a multitude of gaming platforms, and he even successfully ported Sonic 1 to the GBA—a feat that not even SEGA's hired cronies could properly manage with the sheer degree of accuracy that he was able to achieve. By all means, we've proven ourselves far more competent than SEGA's in-house designers in terms of staying true to the classic games and knowing what made them tick... so why did it take this long for them to take advantage of that? They should know that fans would practically jump at the opportunity to be part of a professional SEGA release. It would have only made sense! Sometimes I wonder...

In any case, congratulations! This is a great piece of work and I'm extremely happy for your success in getting SEGA's attention. Great stuff.

Out of curiosity, do you plan on releasing a non-iPhone version of Retro-Sonic CD? That'd be pretty rad. :D

 

Oooh, I hope this project comes through. I could use something fun to play on the go these days, since I'm bored shitless with the PSP and the DS is broken...

 

Wow. That's truly amazing.

Agreed. I just wouldn't buy it again if it didn't feature the music I grew up with.

Also agreed. A Wiiware version would be awesome, since they don't seem to be planning on releasing Mega CD games on the Virtual Console (plus, this would run at 60Hz).


The only thing that buggers me is, why the ugly PC title screen? =(

 

Wow, this is amazing. It really looks like the original Sonic CD running on the iPhone/Touch; you wrote this engine yourself?

 

I'm guessing that the distinction is that The Taxman actually contacted Sega with an essentially finished product (Retro Engine) running a proof of concept of something they could sell (Sonic CD on the iPhone).
But this still stuck out from the rest:

The Taxman, Stealth, LOst, and Saxman have done that. Everything else that I know of is either a modification of an existing game or something made in Game Maker/Multimedia Fusion. Sega has little use for a new game that they would still have to stick in an emulator anyway. I've also seen precious little in terms of level design that I would actually compare to the classic games in terms of quality... and I usually find out about it a few minutes after learning that the hack is canceled.

 

Sonic CD on a platform people might appreciate it on? Unbelievable!

 

*in awe*

EDIT: Hey Tax, any chance of adding iControlPad support?

 

That's some awkward button layout in there...

I know, better than no buttons, but still.

 

Taxman I want your babies (I am male )

Hope it all goes well for you and I will be the first at the door to buy such love.

 

I'm going to shit myself. I haven't got an iPhone though.

Congratulations and stuff! Your Retro Engine is heaps awesome.

 

Awesome work. I don't have an Iphone but am 100% supporting this!!!

 

I'd buy that in a heartbeat....But I have a big old crack on the Iphone screen...

 

This has been said before I think (somewhat), but basically, Taxman did business with Sega, instead of contacting them as a fan. Basically, he made a working engine, then contacted Sega to see if they're interested in publishing it. Publishers like when the job is already done by the way, as the costs they have to face are trivial for them. So basically, Sega gets to publish a new game, earn money from it but without need of spending big bucks on its development, meaning little risk and extremely high chance of profitability. It'd be stupid to skip this chance.

 

Ok. I'm not at home (summer holydays), and to be honnest, I'm writing this post from my iPhone cause I don't have a pc where I am. But I HAD to answer to this thread.

The Taxman, what you did there owns everything. It's totally awesome. Would I consider buying it? You ported my favorite sonic game on the best mobile ever created. I could buy an hundred copies of it.

Like Tweaker said, it's a great step for the fan game community, to show Sega that some talented persons can make good engine ports.

And for the port itself, glad to see you managed to make a 60fps totally functionnal game.
For the additions, well... I can dream, but the best thing would be to manage additionnal fan levels (like... A pc level editor, etc...) Imagine if we could share through the iphone our own levels?

Anyway, I really hope this port will work well for you.

 

Wow, just wow. I don't even own an ipod touch or iphone ( I'll probably eventually get one, when my current 5th Gen ipod kicks the bucket )

That was amazing and a lot better than SEGA can do, it seems. Good luck with getting this published.

 

Custom user made levels from a pc would be a nono, especially from apple who disallow you to access most if not all external files. Of course they let emulators from big names through sometimes but anyone else? denied!

Custom soundtracks from OS3.0 would be sweet, if it can be set up to each act has it's own playlist or song too. Online time attack scoreboard instead of just local times would also be rather interesting if included.

 

Even if Apple allowed the game to access user-made files (maybe they decide to jump on the modding trend?), PC would be a no-no because it isn't a Mac :P