Sonic CD (2011) Post-Release Bugs/Fixes/Suggestions

He must mean the bubble generators, which I've already seen without even time travelling in Tidal Tempest. Those should disappear above water.

 

Kind of relevant, physics-wise:

There must be something about the physics that makes getting into certain narrow openings in the walls more difficult than it should. There's this hidden passage in Palmtree Panic 1 where a red spring shoots you through some fake ground, where it's very difficult to get into the underground path to the right (something that used to take just a couple of tries).






Also, it seems that, in this version, Amy can't grab Sonic as long as he's moving even at a slow pace.

This didn't happen in the original version, where she could catch him while he's walking (or get hurt if he's rolling or has a shield).

 

I think I've found a bug with the background scrolling, while exploring Collision Chaos 1 Past:

It looks like some of the clouds that move in the backgrounds might always move at a fixed speed, regardless of the horizontal speed the screen is moving at. All of them should alter their speeds accordingly so it looks like they're part of the background, and not fixed on the screen.

In any case, it might be just an effect of the fast speed they move at.



Also, in some backgrounds (might be only in CC1P), their vertical position, and speed of the background layers seems to have been changed for some reason, which is more noticeable in the scrolling clouds.

This, for example, makes CCZ1P have less speed variety in its clouds (there used to be one slow cloud you could easily outrun), and there's now a small cloud that oddly doesn't move at all.

It also makes certain parts of the level look a bit different (like the very start, which now shows less sky).

 

Found a bug with the Pause menu in the 360 version:

-Pause the game.
-Select "Exit game".
-Choose "No".
-The game will return to the game and immediately re-enter the Pause menu.
-Now choose "Main menu" or "Exit game".
-Music will resume playing.
-Additionally, if you chose "Main menu" and select "No", the music will resume playing again from the same place.



Now for the usual nitpicking:

-I've just noticed that if you're not rolling while stepping on them, you'll get the bounce height from the original version, without having to hold Jump. This is a bit inconsistent.

-If you charge a Super Peelout/Spindash and get pushed out of the platform you were standing in (can be done in the rotating platform with switch at the start of TT1, or any crumbling ledges), they will cancel themselves out when touching the ground instead of launching Sonic in the direction he's facing.

-Sonic's running animation while on PPZ huge loops seems to have a fixed speed, regardless on how fast he was going. It used to go really fast if you did a Super Peelout right before entering them.

-For some reason, Sonic can attempt to jump while inside the PPZ logs, in these openings:


-I just got hit by a bomb fireball while the "reverting back to normal size" animation was taking place (MM2), I'm not sure if it was possible to get harmed in this situation, in the original.

-I got squashed while the time travel sparks were active, and they didn't cancel out for the dying animation.

-EDITED OUT. See below.



Regarding the menus and stuff:

-Perhaps it could be made a bit more obvious that you can select the Special Stages in Time Attack mode? Some people might never find out that they were ever selectable from the menu.

-Holding up/down in the menus doesn't make the selection scroll, making them (specially the leaderboards) a bit more annoying to navigate than they should be.

-I would seriously re-add the opening cinema as the first demo, even if it also appears when starting a game (it can be skipped, anyway). Why, you'd ask? It might draw the attention of new costumers when the game's being displayed but can't be played. I know it worked for me back in the day...

 

So it's just my TV, then. Thanks for the comparison.

 

...Wrong topic guys. There's a "Sonic CD 2011 general discussion" down there.

If somebody could please move the off-topic posts to that topic, that would be nice. =\