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It's pretty awesome that a kid shows interest in Sonic Classic Collection.

The news report itself is just disgusting, makes me want to consider Amtrak.

 

Do the Japanese versions of Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog, and Sonic Riders have options for English text? I really enjoy Junichi's voice-over work but I'd also like to be able to know what's being said.

 

The long spring in Marble Zone has to be post-edited. I mean, Sonic Team couldn't have planned on doing that. It looks horrible and ridiculous, and, to my knowledge, you can't just have a regular object be 16x16 and then all of the sudden be 1024x16.
I like how the... guy there shows how accurately how Genesis cartridges are inserted.

Now for something a bit different, there's a spring out-of-bounds in SA's Emerald Coast. Of course, all those that tried to enter EC with Knuckles, Tails or Amy will know that, but anyway... I managed to get really close to it with Sonic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH5-oQ3Wf6k

Anybody have any ideas? I'd love to see this happen. Well, I'll try making a short TAS in Dolphin by tomorrow, if no-one can make the jump until then. Note that this was recorded on the PC version, but the GC version is basically the same thing.

 

No it doesn't work! Those are all edits on top of the video. I think a better quality video is needed to actually see it though.

 

Random spam email I got:



Familiar font anyone?

 

While fixing our list of Third-Party T-Series Codes, I found one that led to "Sega (? - cleaning kit)". Turns out it's this thing, by a company "C-Seven":

http://www.satakore.com/sega-saturn-game,,T-25901H,,Cleaning-Kit-for-Sega-Saturn-USA.html
http://www.retromags.com/forums/topic/5964-saturn-cleaning-kit/

Go nuts

 

Not sure if this was ever pointed out, but I doubt it because no one seems to care about this game.

In Sonic Shuffle, it appears there's a debug menu that can appear at the title screen, or somewhere around there. It seems you can access a sound test, maybe a model viewier, a file system viewer, and a bunch of other stuff.

Code (Text):

1. Debug Menu DrvVer %1X.%02X.%02X
2.   $@0Select Game[%s]
3.  
4.     $@7Select Game[%s]
5.  
6.     $@7Select Trap[%s]
7.  
8.     $@7Select Mev [%s]
9.  
10.     $@7Select Btl [***]
11.  
12.    $@7Select Tut [***]
13.  
14.    $@7Select Rec [***]
15.  
16.    $@7Select Sev [%s]
17.  
18.     $@7Select Bev [***]
19.  
20.    $@7Select Srm [***]
21.  
22.    $@7Select Vev [***]
23.  
24.    $@7Select End [***]
25.  
26.             DAT  NUM  STAT
27.         $@4>$@7BGM    [**] [%02d] %s [%s]
28.     $@7>BGM    [**] $@4[%02d] %s [%s]
29.      $@7JINGLE [**] [%02d] %s [%s]
30.          $@7SE SYS [**] [%02d] %s
31.      $@7SE %s [%02d] [%02d] %s
32.         $@7 SE ST0 [**] [%02d] %s
33.     $@7 VOICE  [%02d] [%02d] %s [%s]
34.     $@7 SE ST2 [**] [%02d] %s
35.     $@7 SE ST3 [**] [%02d] %s
36.     $@7 SE ST4 [**] [%02d] %s
37.      $@7BGM    [**] [%02d] %s [%s]
38.         $@4>$@7JINGLE [**] [%02d] %s [%s]
39.     $@7>JINGLE [**] $@4[%02d] %s [%s]
40.     $@4>$@7SE SYS [**] [%02d] %s
41.     $@7>SE SYS [**] $@4[%02d] %s
42.     $@4>$@7SE %s $@7[%02d] [%02d] %s
43.     $@7>$@4SE %s $@7[%02d] [%02d] %s
44.     $@7>SE %s $@4[%02d] $@7[%02d] %s
45.     $@7>$@7SE %s [%02d] $@4[%02d] %s
46.     $@4>$@7SE ST0 [**] [%02d] %s
47.     $@7>SE ST0 [**] $@4[%02d] %s
48.     $@4>$@7VOICE  [%02d] [%02d] %s [%s]
49.     $@7>$@7VOICE  $@4[%02d] $@7[%02d] %s [%s]
50.     $@7>VOICE  [%02d] $@4[%02d] %s [%s]
51.     $@4>$@7SE ST2 [**] [%02d] %s
52.     $@7>SE ST2 [**] $@4[%02d] %s
53.     $@4>$@7SE ST3 [**] [%02d] %s
54.     $@7>SE ST3 [**] $@4[%02d] %s
55.     $@4>$@7SE ST4 [**] [%02d] %s
56.     $@7>SE ST4 [**] $@4[%02d] %s
57.  

I don't know if all these strings are tied to the menu though. I found this in TITLE.BIN in the SUBPROG directory, not in 1ST_READ.BIN. Not sure if there's a way to get it to load up anymore.

 

After looking for more work by Hideki Naganuma, I came across Ollie King's OST... and a nice link to Sonic Unleashed.
Go to about 2:12 in the following video:

I swear this is the exact same part that is used in Apotos - Windmill Isle Day. Not only that, but this track in itself also sounds eerily similar to Deep Core from Sonic Rush Adventure in parts. I'm not totally suprised by this, but it's a little strange as, to my recollection, he didn't do any music for Sonic Rush Adventure or Sonic Unleashed.

 

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKU2vUAx4sc[/video]

I'm not sure if it was mentioned before but apparently someone found an unused attack for Perfect Chaos in Sonic Adventure.

(If this was mentioned before please disregard)

 

I'm fairly certain I knew about that even before I found the object in my disassembly.

 

Huh. That's a pretty cool concept, though like Chaos itself it loses some effect by the water not quite matching up. Maybe it was intended for when you were further from the boss.

 

These 2 things should be added on TCRF. Or at the very least on our own Wiki. I've never heard of these things before.

 

You know when you play emerald coast as knuckles and the second area will spawn you under the water? that's the red spring you can see in that video.

It must be an area off the map that they used to move stuff too while building the stage, since knuckles will spawn above the spring, maybe it was intentional until they decided to now allow knuckles to play that stage overall thus leaving it there.

I agree, never knew about that missing perfect chaos attack at all.

 

Don't want to clog up the other Generations topic(s) with this so

Retro,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNXBpzDp1K8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3a6lv6aJOg
old | new

some of you are musically gifted - is the lead in the newer track a tiny bit delayed in places? I notice this without fail on both the classic and modern variants in Generations, though less so with the modern verison because that's wildy different to the original track.

It's not the first time I've heard these "errors" before too - I think there might be a few fan MIDIs from back in the day making similar mistakes. A difference between Mega Drive models? Some fancy reason regarding timing only musicans can explain? Squirrel has dodgy ears?

 

So looking at the surfboard gif from Sonic 3, I noticed something about the Sonic 2 sprites.


They don't seem to be exact clones of the Sonic 2 sprites, some detail is different (most noticeable on the gloves and socks, but not limited to those).

 

Weren't those frames just added to illustrate how the full animation would have looked like?

In that case, whoever did that, might have taken the sprites from an altered sprite sheet.

 

I dunno about the Sonic Shuffle one. It might need some testing first as there's no point in making a new page on TCRF if it's not been explored or documented in any way.

 

Kinda, the entire tempo of the song seems a little slower, so it's logical you'd come to that conclusion.

 

This is really trivial, but I thought I'd mention it, anyway -- Stages in Sonic Heroes internally numbered as 40-46 are the special stages. What's weird here is that the first Special Stage (after Seaside Hill/Ocean Palace) is actually the 2nd internally (stg41), and vice versa (so stg40 is the second SS played).

EDIT: Correction, the Bonus stages are 40-46 -- Special Stages (as in, Emerald Challenges) are 80-86. But the "2nd comes first" occurs there, too.