Sonic Advance 2 decompilation

I'm happy that the decompilation is making progresses and it's now shiftable, though I feel a bit sad that I was unable to help you. I really wanted to learn and do something to help.

I still love this game and I'm still very interested in this project, I'm sorry for leaving the discord all of a sudden... I mean, it's not even that it was too hard for me, I was actually learning, slowly (I still have some of those tabs about assembly open in my browser)... it's just that real life stuff got in my way and I lost track of what I was doing, after months of hiatus.

I'm still looking into making my own levels for this game some day. Thank you for this great work!

 

Ooo hi-res Advance 2 is gonna make a lot of people pretty happy.

Screen crunch was quite a common complaint IIRC

 

Outstanding work, I'm super excited! You're making a lot of people's dream a reality

 

Without the screen crunch it's like a different game!

 

I'm very excited for this. :O

 

Me too. Expanded camera and the prospect of new (better?) levels is a dream come true. Very impressive work.

 

This is mind blowing!!!! The decomp team is doing fantastic work!

 

Looking great so far, keep up the good work! The more I see of this, the more I feel Sonic Advance 2's level design benefits greatly from having a much wider viewing area; it looks like it allows players time to react to hazards etc. which in the original version just felt plain unfair.

I hope the addition of audio means there'll eventually be a way to swap out the music for high-quality versions; I know someone who goes by Nuclear was tracking down the original high-quality samples with the goal of eventually remastering the Sonic Advance trilogy's soundtrack, though I don't know if the project is still ongoing. They definitely got at least a few tracks done from the first and second game; here's their take on Hot Crater Act 2, a link to download the other tracks they've completed can be found in the video's description:


That was posted on the "Church of Kondo" channel, but it looks like there's a link to their own YouTube in the description too - could be worth giving them a shout, showing them what you've been working on, and asking if the music remaster project is still ongoing. = )

 

Excellent work, glad to see you’re still making significant progress on this. Can’t wait to give it a shot as the small screen size is what killed this game for me.

 

This is great, impressive!
The extended camera makes the levels look less linear and also less unfair indeed, it would be great for exploration, especially the SP rings hunt.

I'd like to ask if is now possible to move water blocks? I would like to experiment with water at some point, it's so underused in the original game.

 

This project is awesome, I'm really excited to try Sadv2 with all the QoL updates.

Question though: Is there going to be options to change the screen resolution to what you'd like? Because while I found the original screen to be far too crunched, this honestly seems a bit far away. I'd wanna play in a resolution closer to the classics / Mania's sprite proportions.


Like this mockup, I guess.

 

I’ve been seeing people post widescreen videos of Sonic Advance 2 on twitter. I went to this project’s github page which says the “The build is 100% from C files with 80 functions which currently don’t match”. It seems there is still work to be done on “The "sub games" (Chao Garden and Collect The Rings) {which} have been disassembled but not yet decompiled”

I am in absolute awe of this team. The videos I’m seeing are incredible and I’m looking forward to the decomp/port being completed. I’m not a tech person so I apologize if I misunderstood any of the github comments

 

Gotta say, this is an amazing work. The fact that we have a working PC port is outstanding. I compiled and tested the windows version and it runs pretty great. There's graphical glitches and the Special Stages and Final Stage dont really work well but what we have here so far is great.

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With the decompilation also done, I think it's the perfect time to bring attention to the fact that a prototype build of Sega Rally Championship has half of an unfinished Advance 2 European prototype in it, starting at 0x800000 in the ROM. It's possible to import the data into a final European copy, although it causes severe graphical issues. Maybe one day it can also be ripped apart?