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Discussion in 'General Sonic Discussion' started by McGuirk, Jan 10, 2007.

  1. Antheraea

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    oh hey, they're still using the "Sonic in a band" concept at that time. also....that hedgehog girl's outfit is pretty reminescent of a playboy bunny outfit, just blue and with hedgehog ears instead of rabbit ones. the playboy bunny is actually somehow considered more family-friendly over there, so it's not that far of a stretch...
     
  2. Jaxer

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  3. Blue Spikeball

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  4. Blue Blood

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    These designs are hilarious, especially when the official illustrations in the manual look like they're from a children's book. Caterkiller is a dead ringer for the S4E2 Sandworm:
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  5. Jaxer

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    That's the point, though.

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    They look like their normal selves in the other panels, but they just got hit with the realism ray in that one panel for comedic purposes. Kind of like how many cartoons (Spongebob Squarepants comes to mind) occasionally sneak in absurdly detailed closeups. Or hell, even the Sonic Boom Archie comic has an example of this.

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  6. Blue Blood

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    Oh I see! I just glossed the context of the panel and reacted to it in isolation.
     
  7. Londinium

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    Today I learned that there are bonus stages in Spinball you can go to if you collect every ring in a stage.

    The Crawl's sprite resembles the beta sprite more than the final, for some reason. (2:20)
     
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  8. CaseyAH_

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    Anyone know what this passage is referring to?

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    Was re-reading the SA1 AutoDemo page on TCRF when I noticed this claim that some early Chao images use this specific proto garden in them- But I can't recall or locate any promotional images of the SA1 Chao Gardens other than the ones taking place in Station Square. Whats up with that?
     
  9. shilz

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    getting my daily allowance of vitamin kk
    Referring to the crusty ass images that look like this that were always floating around
    SA_Chao_Garden_Beta_1.png SA_Chao_Garden_Beta_3.png Image66.jpg
     
  10. CaseyAH_

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    Huh, somehow I've never seen these. And now I double-check, they are on the Development page for SA1 here, oops. Haven't read that page in ages. Though, they don't seem to be anywhere on TCRF.

    Feel free to trash, this one's user error.
     
  11. Black Squirrel

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    I keep an eye on archive.org for fresh, interesting Sega-related things. In the last few hours, two books were uploaded - not "fresh" because we already had scans, but "interesting" because I'm not sure this has been raised before:

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    Sonic the Hedgehog Adventure Gamebook 1

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    Chemical Plant Zone has rainbow tubes. Why? Because some models of Mega Drive have terrible composite output, and this is the effect. It's not meant to look like that.

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    did you know you can emulate this now? I'm not sure why you'd want to, but it's an option, apparently. Which one is real?!


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    Pense Bem: Uma Aventura Científica com Sonic the Hedgehog

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    What's that weird black rectangle in the bottom lef--- no

    no

    surely not.

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    artwork inspired by unfinished prototypes. Put the unfinished tiles back together!
     
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  12. Blue Spikeball

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    What's the filter?
     
  13. Chimes

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    blastem ntsc

    Kega Fusion "cvbs/rf"
     
  14. Blue Spikeball

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    Thanks, but Kega Fusion's built-in CRT filters don't have that rainbow effects. As for BlastEm, all the CRT shader seems to do for me is add borders:
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    Laziest CRT implementation ever. Just like BlastEm's interface.
     
  15. Clownacy

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    Composite and CRT are different things; I use a SCART cable with my CRT specifically so that I don't have to put up with ugly composite artifacts.

    If I remember correctly, RetroArch has an authentic CRT shader which can be used with Genesis Plus GX, BlastEm, PicoDrive, and even my emulator.
     
  16. Chimes

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    re: crt shader

    No as in the blastem shaders have both "ntsc" and "crt" as shaders. That's the crt shader, you're looking for the ntsc shader
     
  17. Blue Spikeball

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    Then where can I enable the NTSC shader, cuz it doesn't appear in the video settings?

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    Or does it have to be downloaded separately?
     
  18. Chimes

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    I use the latest nightlies. There are a lot more shaders on my end
     
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  19. Blue Spikeball

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    Ah, gotcha :thumbsup:

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    Still no rainbow artifacts tho :V
     
  20. Joe Applebrook

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    I don't remember if it's censored in the game, but Unknown From M.E. v2 has this bit:
    "Climb the mountain, see the valley around the hill
    Wild and hungry, ain't a damned thing funny"
     
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