Sonic Drift 2 on the Master System (2009/07/05 update)

Now is this just my computer or is there no sound while playing this game in Kega Fusion?

Either way nicely done. I'm loving these Master System ports. Stupid Game gear screen

 

That's excellent for a single day's work! I love Sonic Drift 2. I'm still kicking myself for not buying the mint boxed copy I saw while I was in Japan.

Works fine here...

 

Oh scratch that the sound works just fine. The mute button on my computer works in funny ways sometimes

 

shit! another GG to SMS port? wow, I agree with overlord about this being the latest craze in sonic hacking =P

be seriously, anyone have plans for yet another GG to SMS port? XD

 

The only one left worth trying is Sonic Labyrinth; Drift 1 And Skypatrol suck too much and I'm guessing Tails Adventures would look like total ass in only 64 colors (that and it was built for the small resolution).

 

So go off the Sonic ones then All of these are GG only and worth a play, many are "built for GG" though:

Ax Battler A Legend of Golden Axe
Mega Man GG
Megami Tensei Gaiden Last Bible Special
Ninja Gaiden GG
Phantasy Star Gaiden
Phantasy Star Adventure
Shining Force Gaiden Final Conflict
The Excellent Dizzy Collection
The GG Shinobi
The GG Shinobi II The Silent Fury

N.B. this is a suggestion only. I suck at this sort of thing and would not like to be taken as being unappreciative of whatever I get

 

Speaking of Sonic Drift 2, has anyone ever considered taking levels from this and putting them in Genesis hacks? Or make like a Sonic 2 hack that uses all of the levels in order of the GP each one act each except the ones that have two acts that are spread apart?

 

I'm working on a Super Mario Kart hack which features the original cast, sans the addition of Rouge. :x

 

I considered it, and even made a background for Emerald Ocean (I planned on putting the levels not in the Mega Drive games in), but it never got far.

 

Well I'm glad it has crossed people's minds before. We would have to say that Sonic Drift 2's Death Egg runs along the outside instead of the inside, with like a cityish tower system poking out of it, complete with spotlights. That kind of Death Egg hasn't really been done before in a hack, treating it as a planet.

 

Do want, if it doesn't play like crap.

EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC71npkAMx8

The game looks quite good, other than the horrible sound.

 

Heh, when I saw US Gold's name there I was quite concerned. To think that it didn't completely and horribly suck!

 

Aside from cleaning some graphical glitches and all that garbage being showed in the upper borders of the screen, this is actually good as it is now. It actually adds a funny panoramic format to the original game with the horizontal view enlarged by the Master System resolution (water, tunnels and ramps don't fit it, though). Relating to the vertical enlargement, the color layer surrounding the status screen seems to appropiately fuse with the sky in some stages. In others it gets a different color, though. Maybe it would be better to turn them all to green so they just fuse with the status screen.

I suppose nothing can be done to enable a 2-player mode to the port, as lot of coding and reprogramming would have to be done in order to replace the original two separated views in console link-up mode by a single split-sceen representing them both.

A list of this kind can turn into endless. There's for sure way more good Game Gear "exclusives" than just those, and we all agree it would be great to have them also on the Master System. Interest and work is needed in order to start a porting trend of this kind, though.

The Excellent Dizzy Collection, by the way, is already a Master System game. What the Game Gear does is actually switching to the Master System mode in order to reproduce it. What's odd for sure is the fact of the game not having a retail Master System release at all.

 

Since it has been asked to try this on real hardware, I see fit to bring this input from people in other boards:

Pretty similar to what the Triple Trouble port initially had. I wonder if the game still freezes at startup or not (like Triple Trouble does) after the bios checksum problem gets solved.

 

Note to myself: stop using exclusively the Japanese region when checking Game Gear to Master System hacks, it completely skips the whole checksum thing

 

Good news. The game seems to work on a proper Master System console.