Sonic 1 (2013 - iOS/Android) Post-Release Bugs/Fixes/Suggestions

I've just watched some footage of Green Hill and it seemed like the noise made by the crumbling ledges was more quiet than usual.

Also, somebody mentioned the left and right facing ledges shouldn't be sharing graphics because they have slightly different shading, something that I admit I had never noticed before.

 

On the top of my memory from the first playthough:

- Sound bug where the Act End music kept looping the second half, not sure what triggered it.
- The sloped edges in Spring Yard Zone are more sensitive now, leading to Sonic being flung around the area a few times.
- The shortcut in Scrap Brain Act 3 seems harder to do now, since Sonic doesn't clip as much into the roof tiles.
- Light Hazard from Final Zone is solid, which can crush the player in certain scenarios. I don't recall it being solid in the original game.

 

An option to regulate controller sensitivity would come really handy.

 

copy pasting from the other thread.

So, the game shows up as compatible for my device (Xperia X10 Mini), but it's unstable as hell, it crashes very often without a pattern or even a force close message, it just drops me back to the homescreen.

It's rooted, running MiniCM7 (CyanogenMOD 7 for the X10 Mini) on kernel 2.6.29.6

Sonic CD runs perfectly on this so I don't know what the hell

 

Springs have odd collision, hitting the ones hidden in GHZ's palmtrees from the side will send you directly up into buzzbomber territory.

Not sure why, but the rolling just feels... off, like you're not gaining much momentum going downhill in some places (not Sonic 4: Episode 1 or Generations level of bad, but it's noticeable).

 

That's possibly just an optical illusion due to the widescreen mode. Or are you using a non-widescreen device?

 

The only notable things I experienced through my play through was in the special stages. The first bug I encountered was that if you are a cheating bastard like me and hit restart after hitting a "Goal" but before getting kicked to the emeralds scorecard screen, when you restart the special stage there is no rotation until you hit a "Down" sphere.

The other bug in the special stages I noticed was that sometimes Sonic can zip through the breakable gems surrounding the Chaos Emeralds, making the end of the stage easier.

 

I actually thought that a little more momentum is gained when rolling. :v:

In fact, I'm sure it must be the case because I can seem to get more speed from rolling through the first loop in GHZ 1.

 

The special stages (while they look very very nice) feel kinda off. It feels like the bumpers are too strong and Sonic falls downward too fast.

 

When you first go into MZ1 and you get to the first set of crushers, right before the puzzle block, I keep falling into the floor.

 

whoops, wrong thread, please ignore

 

One thing I've noticed is that when starting over in a Special Stage (Pause > Restart) the rotation picks up where it left off when you paused it. ie this variable in RAM is NOT cleared when the player restarts, and one could take advantage of this and land themselves in a better position to get a Special Stage completed easier and/or quicker. I did this myself and nabbed a decent 14 second time on one stage.

Also the aforementioned bug of moving too quickly in Special Stages at times, my guess is it has to do with hitting the blocks, and Sonic spinning quickly. If Sonic is spinning progressively faster on top of a block, and rolls off of it, he usually zips downward at a faster rate... My best guess is that his momentum is picking up when it shouldn't be (That is, when the player pushes left or right to try to move off of a block)... and this causes his speed when he falls off the block to be MUCH faster than it should be. (I dunno how exactly the Special Stage physics work but I think this is causing the issue.)

Knuckles cannot do the Glide bounce trick as well. I tried it on a monitor... was hoping to be sent sailing... no such luck. Hope to see this fixed.

On a final note (NOT a bug) - Love the feature of being able to make Tails fly when Sonic & Tails. Just hold up when tapping jump, and make sure Sonic lands with Tails... I'm going to implement this in Sonic 2 & 3 REV C for sure...

EDIT: Suggestions - Change that ugly ass Knuckles title screen sprite... it just doesn't match Sonic or Tails' title screen graphics. AND please make Knuckles + Tails a possiblity to play as.

 

Bug (Android Samsung Galaxy S2): Marble Zone Act 1: When playing as Sonic + Tails, the block you are supposed to push to raise the platform with spikes on the bottom to advance spawned underneath the platform. Walking back a bit and coming back respawned it in the correct place. I guess it would make sense to use Tails as that block if there were a second controller to pick up, but since this is a phone I'm counting this as a bug.

I'm curious if anyone else has encountered this?

 

http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=31061&view=findpost&p=743337

 

Edit 2: Well, good(bad?) to know I'm not the only one. XD

Because it's such an easy fix, it's more funny than game breaking but I imagine that confusing newbies.

 

iPhone 5

I beat the game with knuckles today, but in the credits cut scene where the character is sucked down the underwater passage onto the grab bars, knuckles will let go and die on spikes, repeating the scene until you force quit the app. My save still says knuckles on final zone so no idea if it classed as beating the game with him or not.

If you keep bouncing on enemies or monitors you will slowly lose bounce height over time, this doesn't happen in the original. Good example is starlight zone act 1, drill through the wall to the 4 hidden monitors, you can never bounce combo enough to get back out and have to use a spring.

 

Yeah, this was already fixed with the Android release, iOS will be fixed soon.

I think people are getting confused here. The bouncing works in Sonic games like this:

- Y Velocity is flipped on colliding for the bounce, but if you jump and let go of the button the jump height cap will affect the bounce height. Rolling into the air will also avoid the jump height cap.