Sonic Adventure DX: Fixed Edition

I see. I would personally have kept the original fix until I implemented the new one, but hey, your mod your choices

Alright, here are most of them:

• The horizon in some areas with sea is misaligned in relation to the background, as noted here:
  http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=17091&view=findpost&p=860377
  The most offensive example is probably Mystic Ruins:
  http://imgur.com/a/nsioP
• Sand Hill seems to use an incorrect spawn point. If you play it in adventure mode (after beating it for the first time), you spawn next to the echidna temple upon beating it, rather than the Sand Hill entrance. Exiting Sand Hill without beating it spawns you in the right place instead.
• Chao Races: When swimming, Chao have a second shadow placed on the water surface and it looks awful:
  http://imgur.com/QIEu5VR
• The shadow models in this part of SS are really messed up:
  http://imgur.com/a/Cqm3p
  They're misplaced so they're floating slightly above the floor, and they overlap each other in some parts.
• The minecart that takes you to the MR Chao Garden vanishes when you're in the garden. This doesn't happen in the Dreamcast version.
• This is an obvious one and I'm sure you're aware of it, but the game has scaling issues with the hud and various screens, such as the character select screen, options screen, pause screen, mission list, map, etc. They're always rendered at the same size regardless of resolution, so they look really tiny and awkward on high resolutions. It looks especially bad for graphics that are supposed to cover the whole screen, as is the case of the mission list; it ends up looking like a tiny borderless window:
  http://imgur.com/a/SunL8
  The title screen doesn't suffer from this. I wonder if it would be possible to make it so that the other screens get properly resized too?
  The mod loader has an experimental option to upscale the hud, but it doesn't fix any of the other cases as of now.
• Part of the beach in the SS entrance to Emerald Coast isn't solid, so there's an invisible hole there:
  http://imgur.com/cQWkJAk
  It may look like you wouldn't be able to get to that part and notice the hole without debug or cheats thanks to the teleporter to EC being around that area, but it's actually rather easy to get to it and fall down the hole as the screen turns blacks with a well-aimed spindash:
  http://imgur.com/Fj5qdy5
  I do it every time I enter EC out of habit :v:
• The solidity in this part of the MR entrance to the bridge to Final Egg is off:
  http://imgur.com/SpGLJ5Z
• The feature to have the camera closely follow your character while holding E doesn't seem to have a gamepad equivalent
• When using the keyboard, you can't jump while holding left+up or left+down, which is especially bad for a 3d game
• The jungle maze looks ridiculous when seen from above in the PC version, as the textures above the paths look lighter. Here's a comparison:
  http://imgur.com/a/mh9DG
• Near the entrance to IceCap, there are bits of scenery that aren't properly covered by the ice layer and stick out:
  http://imgur.com/a/atniV
• These bizarre lines in the sky of last Windy Valley section:
  http://imgur.com/a/XExjO
  They don't look anywhere near as bad in the DC and GC versions, as they aren't that noticeable there.

While not necessarily issues, the following are regressions from previous SA(DX) versions that may be fixable:

• The Party Race mode in which you can have your Chao compete with each other was removed from the race menu in the PC version of SADX (and SA2). The DC and GC versions had it, and I wouldn't be surprised if it still exists in the PC version despite being inaccessible, as you can still access it in SA2PC from the multiplayer menu.
• The X+Y for clean pause trick from the DC version doesn't work in any of the DX releases

Edit: Added a few more

 

Good observation, I hadn't thought of it. It's probably due to the story events as you say.

I wonder if it would be possible to change the spawn point post-story without breaking the story sequence?

Hmmmm... wouldn't adjusting the shadows' positions so that they're as close to the floor as possible without causing z-fighting, and perhaps editing the shadow meshes with a 3d modeling program to better match the floor shape, be enough in this case?

You sure about that? SADX is the only game with that issue for me.

Oh, you already made a mod that restores the single most important feature of Sonic Adventure? Awesome! Now I can finally stop resenting Sonic Team for removing it


As for the rest of your post, it's reassuring to hear that the other problems are being/will be addressed. Your efforts are very much appreciated


One more report. At the beginning of Big's Hot Shelter, the camera has a tendency to dig into the floor:
http://imgur.com/a/L3vYi
I didn't even mess with the camera or do any funny movements as Big; it just gets like that as I'm walking from the first shield item box to the next section of the stage. It seems to happen 50% of the time.


Edit - More reports:

The texture in part of the hotel wall in SS is warped:
http://imgur.com/a/RD7l9
Compare the part marked with red (warped) with the one marked with green (right). In the former, the lines that should be vertical are leaning to the left. For comparison, they're perfectly vertical in the other part.

The markings on the SS streets overlap the shadows of the player characters and cars:
http://imgur.com/a/NMhyN

 

Looks like I'm the first to comment on this here! Looks great Morph! If I'm remembering right, this is the first release that's compatible with the mod loader. I'm very excited about that!

 

The last release actually was, as well.

 

I'm still waiting for that water misalignment to be fixed :v:

In all seriousness, great release. SA has more bugs in it than Swiss Cheese has holes.

 

Oops. :specialed: Still a great update!

 

I'm getting an error while trying to 'update' the mod using the dummy. The non-dummy mod.ini has the UpdateUrl wrong. It should have been 'http://sf94.reimuhakurei.net/sadxmods/sadxfe/core', but it was 'http://sf94.reimuhakurei.net/sadx/mods/sadxfe/core', causing the file size and checksum to mismatch.

 

I'm right-clicking SADXFE in the mod manager and selecting check for updates, but it keeps telling me that it's up to date and refuses to replace the dummy mod with the real deal. Should I be attempting this before putting other mods into the mods folder? The url in mod.ini seems to be the correct one.

edit: reinstalling SADX 2004 and then reapplying the mods seems to have fixed the problem. Sorry.