Sonic & SEGA All Stars Racing

On my god, I didn't just hear someone use the word "tier" did I? lol

 

Hear it? No. Read it, yeahs, you probably did. xD

 

*EDITED THIS SHIT BEFORE SOMEONE SUSPEND ME AGAIN*

Anyway! Did anyone find shortcuts on the DS version?

 

Tried the game today.

...It's surprising good!
I didn't expect actually an good sonic these days.

It's good to have an Sonic game that actually delivers.

 

Well fuck. A trophy glitched on me.

The Bronze license one didn't unlock on me despite getting the thing. Lame.

Hope there's a fix coming or some shit.

 

Ok jesus christ, the DS soundtrack is so fucking good. All the Sonic music sounds like stuff I would hear from SNES Mega Man X. I love this shit.

 

Oh man my fingers hurt.

I just beat all of the Trophies on Beginner in Grand Prix. First place each time, too.

I wish I could play online but with the shitty online at the college here... :<

Edit:

oh shit. I didn't get my Amber License trophy! :<

Man, there better be a fix for this. D:<

 

I really don't like how the animations work in this game, especially when it comes to 'pulling' off tricks. For some characters, their trick animations are very brief, which rewards them a boost sooner than later. FOr others, it takes forever, making them worthless when it comes to setting any kind of records or getting ahead of the pack. So far, it looks like Shadow is the best match for when it comes to using boosts, since when he power slides he can get a power slide boost very quickly, and his little 'hop' makes it easy to get trick boosts much quicker than other characters.

I've got plenty of other problems with the game, I'll probably throw in my two cents down the line...

Edit: The game failed to give me the Ghost Master Trophy for some reason (Beat every staff ghost on Time Trial mode) even though if I go through the in-game trophy accomplishments page, it says that I have it, even though on the Playstation XMB says that I don't have it.

 

probably because your not obsessive compulsive/anal. I NEVER like the IDv2/3 tags blank otherwise it nags on me until I start fixing it.

Ha so I'm not the only one! awesome. We need HQ MP3 tracks.

 

...and now all my ASR trophies got deleted.

I demand an explanation here.

 

http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?sho...mp;#entry418495

Yay for DRM!

 

Guys, PS3 Network is hacked, DO NOT SIGN ONTO THE INTERNET ON PS3

Sucks, some asshat ruins first decent Sega game I've played in years....

 

How did this happen? Also, this implies you haven't played Yakuza or Valkyria Chronicles.

 

http://us.playstation.com/PS3/dearplaystation/
Might be a clue

Also, it's been hard to come by money for games past few years :P Now I have all 3 consoles I'm gonna buy a few

 

Looks like I got to this too late...

So, I was playing online last night, and I did awesome (PancakePanda is my PSN name). I played as Shadow and won both matches by a huge margin... but today, my PS3 gives me problems when signing into PSN (it basically just disconnects and says there was an error) and it thinks I'm living in 1999... is this related to what you mean by PSN is hacked?

 

It's not a hack, it's a datehandling/DRM fuckup.

 

So I got Sonic and Sega All-stars racing up and running in dolphin (the Wii emulator) at 720p with 2.25xAA. I decided to see how the Wii version stacks up against the HD versions when resolution is thrown out the window. All the following screenshots were taken from my rig at 1360x768. The PC version has its settings at maximum.

In case you're wondering about my specs, they are as follows:
AMD Phenom II X4 at 3.9 ghz
2x SLI nvidia Geforce 8800 GT 512 MB
8 gb DDR3 memory

The game runs at 60 fps in dolphin, but drops considerably if I go beyond 2.25xAA (I.e. 4xAA or 8xAA)

These are linked because the pics are pretty big:

Character Select Screen
Wii: http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9342/charselect1.png
HD: http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7264/charselect2.png

Race Start:
Wii: http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/2162/racestart1.png
HD: http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/4209/racestart2.png

Track:
Wii: http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2732/light1.png
HD: http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2302/light2.png

Running over flowers:
Wii: http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/1115/flowers1.png
HD: http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/7638/flowers2.png

Casino Park:
Wii: http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/3954/park2.png
HD: http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/8484/park1h.png

Pre Race:
Wii: http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/8860/casino1.png
HD: http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/8313/casino2v.png

Big Blue Ball (lul)
Wii: http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/8219/balls1.png
HD: http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/9906/balls2.png

Red Floor:
Wii: http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/3356/redfloor1.png
HD: http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/6522/redfloor2.png

Racing:
Wii: http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/5865/dollar1.png
HD: http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2592/dollar2.png

Start of the Track:
Wii: http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/9366/crace1.png
HD: http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2139/crace2.png

Cards:
Wii: http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/520/cards1.png
HD: http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/598/cards2.png

A lot of little stuff to notice. The building in Casino park in the background is completely different, as is the roulette wheel. The chao are missing from the stands. Also, a lot of the art seems to be completely redrawn rather than just resized from the HD version, the most obvious example being the coins in casino park. They're the S from the sega logo in the HD version, while they're normal dollar signs in the wii version.

The Wii version lacks any sort of blur. But beyond that, it's a pretty incredible conversion, definitely one of the best I've seen.

EDIT: Son of a bitch, haha let me edit those links

EDIT AGAIN: There, fixed. Text to image plugin in firefox makes this a bit easier to use, too.

 

Images are broken.

 

Ugh... this disappoints me greatly! I'm fucking loving this game, and this has to happen. Hopefully, when my console doesn't think it's 1999 anymore (I would change the date, but the TV's being used) something will fix itself... not likely, but I can dream.

So... Is it just me, or does anyone on a bike have a huge advantage with their wheely-boosts? Mostly Shadow, since his balance allows for a a lot of quick boosting and amazing handling.

 

still?

Alex Kidd has a huge advantage.

But man my favorite racer is easily opa-opa. His acceleration is awesome. He floats like he's, well, flying.