***Tech Demo First Release!***

My computer must be too shitty to run it, because all I get a green screen when I try to run any of the three programs...

I saw a video of it on Youtube though, and it looks nice so far.

 

Thanks everybody for your feedback and specs report!!
We are working hard to give you the best Sonic gaming experience we can, and this is thanks to everyone which contributed to let this happen.
It was a surprise to see such lower end PCs to run it so smoothly (while some other proven the opposite)!

Please continue posting out your results, they help us to solve bugs and figuring out closer real estimated specs!
The next step, will be an Alpha ver with a playable level and some shocking feature I cannot spoil yet!

About posts at GAF,

I'm very happy our work is judged and compared into a non-Sonic related videogame industries's major forum, because while someone dislikes the work done, many of them also loves it as we do. That means it has real potential, and that's just what we wanted to show with this Tech Demo.

 

God! This topic had 10 pages of posts in a day! Really impressive =)

It's good to see that Sonic 2 HD is being well criticized and accepted.

 

Geez, you weren't kidding. I haven't seen that kind of dedicated cynicism in a while.

Anyway, this runs at a near-solid 60 fps for me, though full screen fails.

2.0 Ghz Core Duo
ATI Radeon Mobility X1600
1 GB RAM
1280x800 native res
180 MB RAM consumption at 4x, 191 MB on 1 and 2x
Windows XP Pro


A friend gets 60 fps on the following:

1.66 Ghz Core 2 Duo
Mobile Intel 965 Express GMA Chipset
2 GB RAM
1280x800 native res
~189 MB RAM consumption
Windows Vista

Though he also says he gets 30 fps at the title screen, and 40 in 1x.


Fantastic job on the tech side, at least from what I was able to try in the limited areas available. I look forward to the time when it can show its muscle in a proper level.

 

I got this running in wine even without the required dll's. I just extracted the first rar, and it started right up.

 

1) One cannot make everyone happy, therefore, the best one can do is to aim to make the greater group happy.

If the critics believe the art sucks - then, offer them the job of creating something that does not suck.

"It's not my job to make the art for S2HD" - well - then, "It's not S2HD's job to make you happy... bitch"
And throw them out like the used condom they are

2) A lot of programmers talk the talk, but fail to walk the walk.
I still run into programmers who use UT to make their games, but when asked to recreate skeletal animation or rag doll physics from scratch, they crumble
Again, throw them out like used condoms and move on

3) All in all, I'm not saying to reject all criticism, but 99% of it is just idiots trolling/being stupid - wanting to ruin the happiness of others I guess
One guy on IRC said "The background sucks" "They could have done something more creative than a field of flowers"

I mean ... that's how S2's background really looks for the most part - and here this idiot is critiquing it
So I say again, throw them out and move on - they're mumbling idiots

 

WOW! This is impressive. The graphics are fantastic, but the engine could use some work.

Overall, I'm really excited to see where this goes.

 

http://kotaku.com/5050852/sonic-2-hd-tech-...last-processing

Welcome back to Kotaku, people.

...perhaps someone should tell them the specs aren't necessarily as high as listed. For the Kotaku readership, ATI Radeon 9600 ProTurbo 128MB, 512MB RAM, and 1.5GHz Pentium M can run the demo flawlessly. That's technology from four years ago.

 

This demo is great! My only complaint is the GHZ music lead instrument, but the engine is great.

 

Having read what's been said on SA and Kotaku, I'm hard pressed to see where the concern is. Both have far more positive comments than negatives, and the few imbeciles bothering to troll are met with contempt it seems.

Someone really needs to get Kotaku the straight goods on the system reqs not being so obscene though.

 

Yeah, I'm a bit surprised how positive the reaction is coming from Kotaku.

 

By the way, that was tested on my

Intel C2D E8400 @ 3 Ghz
2GB DDR2 ram
Nvidia 7300 SE with 256MB Vram, PCI-E x16
500GB SATA HDD
1280x1024 LCD

4X ran full and windowed with no skip perfectly, 2x had roughly an average of 6 skipped, and oddly 1x had only 1 or 2 skipped average.

Gonna try it on my old laptop for kicks.

On my LifeBook e7110, with these specs...

Pentium 4 (no HT) at 1.8ghz
768MB DDR Ram
40GB IDE HDD
32MB Vram on an ATI 128 Mobility 7500 whatever, AGP
1400x1050 LCD

Skips 28 on average with 4x. Gets roughly 10FPS with 2x. 1x gets 5.

 

Works full speed on my rig, both fullscreen and window:

C2D 2.13GHz @ 2.90 GHz
2gb DDR RAM
1400x900 LCD
GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB (Overclocked to something)
Windows XP Pro x64

Still though, I hope to see a complete act finished so I can really be sure that my computer can handle it. I really like the Title + it's music. Maybe we can have another tech demo soonish? :D

Oh and Kotaku, fuck.

 

Wow, I really wish I could try it right now, but I'm only around a Mac right now, ^^. With that, are you guys planning to release a Mac version of the final product? Thanks, =D.

As for helping out, I would really love to start trying with the music biz again like I did a few months ago, but I'm really tied up, =o. Plus, I'm not sure about the demand for real instrument players any way, XD.

-Blur

 

Jesus christ, this is nearly perfect as a pre-alpha. The only issue is that Knuckles isn't gliding quite right after spinning or spindashing. (try spindashing then jump+glide in the opposite direction.)
Keep it up, this is wonderful.

I've tested it with:

AMD Athlon XP (2500+) 1.6-2.5ghz
512Mb RAM
ATi Radeon 9800 512Mb
1280X1024 resolution

Keeps the 60fps cap windowed and fullscreen.