Sonic and the Secret Extended Edition

Yes, that's the point =P I'm planning to have the classic Mario grow and shrink sound effects for when you grow and shrink, and if you die while you are mini size (anything that hurts you will kill you if you are mini size, regardless of rings and shield), the Mario death music will play (because of its one-hit-KO gameplay)

EDIT: Ooh, I should put Starman music in for when you are mini and hit an invincibility monitor. That would be awesome.

Yes. That's been planned from the start.

The big Sonic in the SEGA logo stuff is done by scaling up the sprites and putting them all in VRAM, then just messing with the mappings. It works for a few frames, but takes up a ridiculous amount of VRAM. Considering there's only about 4 frames used there, compared to the IIRC $63 frames in SATSEE's Sonic, I'd never be able to use that even if I didn't have anything else in VRAM. Besides, Big Sonic already lags the game, and implementing something extra would just slow it down even more.

 

I don't know, but not soon, thanks to all the bugs that adding Big Sonic has created. :P

I added two slight speed optimizations earlier, as I want to try and reduce lag as much as possible until Big Sonic's sprites stop being glitchy. One is in the player DPLC loader (it now caches the pointers in some spare RAM instead of calculating them every single frame) and the other is that I deleted about 90% of the spindash code, as it did just about nothing and certainly didn't need to run every frame (the end result is exactly the same as before to the player).

 

Yeah, it will. When I get round to it (I.e. after fixing the tons of Big Sonic bugs that still remain), I'll have a look at the GHZ4 and MZ4 DSRs, because MZ4 autoscrolls without messing up the background at all.

 

In about 12 hours, sure. Big Sonic, that is. Mini Sonic's graphics don't exist yet.



... And yeah, I know you're probably confused about the 12 hour thing - my hacking comp is in the attic, which I can only access in the daytime :P

Edit: I don't know how I managed to not post this here earlier, but I finally fixed the damn "Sonic pushes against slopes" bug, which means you can now run around loops without becoming a glitchy mess!

 

sigh, you're not the first person I've heard that from...

I'm just upscaling/downscaling all the sprites. it would take more effort than I can be bothered with to mess with the s3 multiplayer sprites until they are correct for SATSEE.

 

Okay, pictures:



Big Sonic walking on solid ground



Big Sonic standing on a platform object



Big Sonic collecting more rings than ordinary-sized Sonic would here (the ones that are behind him get picked up a frame or two later as the touch response only handles a maximum of one object per frame)



Aaaaaand a weird glitch. This happens whenever you try to jump into the big ring at the end of GHZ2 as Big Sonic. It doesn't happen on any other acts, nor does it happen when you are normal sized, so I have no clue what's causing it yet.

 

I'm pretty sure it's a dplc error, because they tend to cause this "crap gets loaded all over the screen" kind of glitch.

I think you mean tst

I know the end of act code off by heart by now, it never checks for act 2s.

 

Ok, quick update. Right now I'm working on combining all the levels for each zone into one (as you might have guessed from my level combiner topic). This has already fixed all the title card and PLC issues (I actually redid the entire PLC engine while doing this), and has also fixed the GHZ4 background problems, but has introduced a couple of odd bugs: spindashing at the start of an act makes the camera go crazy, and bosses won't appear. Anyway, we're a little closer to beta 5