Sonic & Knuckles finally coming to the Virtual Console.

With them (I'm going to assume both SEGA and Nintendo) finally figuring out how the technology behind the lock-on system works, would it be safe to assume that they have enough technical experience/capacity to start working on Sega CD and perhaps 32X emulation on VC? I know Sega CD/32X emulation and S&K Lock-On are two different things, but I remain optimistic to see Sega CD games on VC in the near future. =)

 

...and I already have all of the above.

Really, though. Even if it's more or less a moot point for us, since we've already bought these games a thousand times over and are starting to get a bit too frugal to bump that to a-thousand-and-one, it means somebody who has no other means of doing so (yeah, yeah, SMC is readily available and then there's always emulation; just... go with it, okay?) can finally play the TRUE version of Sonic 3 without too much hassle. That alone is an awesome fact. I was kind of expecting Sega to never even bother, and there they go, defying my expectations (although really, with low expectations, it's not hard to defy them). So, well, I'm happy.

 

lol, "figuring out" what they made to begin with

To be realistic I imagine this is simply four different S&K ROMs bundled together, with certain ones activated by the presence of Sonic 1-3. I'll be genuinely suprised if this is proven wrong by Sonic 3 VC save data being upgraded when you load S3&K VC, like the actual carts.

$30 (a points card and a half) for the whole trilogy is also dubious, but still this is a classy move with what they have to work with, and accurate cart behavior or not, already it's well-deserved egg in the face to the butchers at Backbone.

 

In Backbone's defense their versions cheaper. However it's still wrong what they did.

 

I don't know why anyone here would be too excited about this. I mean surely, basically everyone here owns these games in some form or another at this point? Whether it be the original carts, Sonic Jam, or one of the many, many emulated collections released.

Plus the fact that these can be downloaded and played for free right on your computer.

 

They have a long history of loosing source codes, documentation, etc to many of their games and hardware. Plus, the Sega of today is not the one from 1994 you know.

 

I'm guessing that S&K comes with the other already locked on ROMs and it just detects if you have the other games so it knows to let you play them or not. That's how it's been done in Mega collection anyway IIRC.

 

I wish I still had Gerbilsoft's post in that article about Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection.

 

The original has a save feature, and so does the Wii version. (Even the XBLA version had a crappy save-state feature, which was just thrown in to presumably prevent cheating for achievements.) I don't really understand.

 

I can't wait to buy the same game again for the Nth time!

 

Funny. Just in time for proper Lock-On emulation being implemented in Genesis Plus for Wii.

Dude... This is about copying a ROM at the end of the other one.

 

Perhaps they forgot that Sonic and Knuckles had that extra chip on it for Sonic 2 to lock on. :v:

 

That's cool I guess, but I'm not paying $8 for all the Sonic games again when I have them all on cartridge form. :P

 

Well, I stand corrected. I'm not that familiar with the engineering behind the games though.

 

I was waiting for this. I only like buying games of series from here when you can buy and play them in the order they came out. Sonic was all messed up because of 3D Blast being on VC before S&K.

Now they need to fix Breath of Fire by releasing the first one and not leaving the 2nd one on there all by itself...

Also, if Final Fantasy 4 for SNES comes out on VC before a translated version of 8-bit FF2 & FF3 for Famicom, I will wait until they are added before purchasing 4.

 

I still own all my original carts (though I did lose my complete Sonic3&K files somehow) but it's nice that they've given the feature, shows the difference between M2 who has been doing the Virtual Console ports and Backbone who couldn't be arsed to add the feature in Ultimate Genesis Collection and messed it up on XBLA. Do you honestly think they were working non-stop for a year on this though? Come on, now. :v:

People sure love to pick apart anything they do, don't they? Why didn't they do this sooner/why would I buy this I already own it or have illegally downloaded them to my PC/etc etc? Christ almighty.