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By the founder of Traveller's Tales no less.
Cool find there. I spent quite a lot of time with this game a few years ago, I didn't play it during my original time with the saturn though. I think it's a great looking, colourful game and the slightly cheesy lyrics always made me smile.
Controls are just a little stiff, but after I vhanged my mindset a little and imagined each character as a vehicle I found it, somewhat bizarrely, easier to control. I seem to remember unlocking everything.
Some cool nuggets in the vid, like the technical info with the big red squre test.
I loved Sonic R. I played it on PC when it was new, then got the Saturn version in the mid 2000s. The PC version is far superior IMO (weather effects!).
looks just like how the final one played amirite
You mean those ripples? Looks like minnows at the surface to me. :p I just watched a quick run of the PC port, and I'm not seeing rain or anything else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blades
It definitely looks sharper. Was surprised to see Sonic R on PS2 advertised on the side, but I seem to have forgotten about the Sonic Gems Collection. The PS2 and GameCube have those ripples, and all three look to have some tweaks here and there -- namely I'm not seeing the shiny metallic Sonic head used as a loading screen in those, and the camera pan at the start of the race is further out and doesn't get as close to all of the Flickies.
did any sonic r release after the saturn ever fix the atrocious handling? i've never played a game so horrendously ill controlled.
Can't stop loving lyrics, voice and music from this game. ❤
Haven't played the game, but sometimes catch myself singing "can you feel the sunshine" in 3 different languages at the same time.
Don't even understand how I managed to get so far with this. How even.
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Which languages? Of course, we'd need to actually hear it... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Peeteris
:D That sounds too silly to be heard by anyone else, but languages are - English, Russian and Latvian.Quote:
Originally Posted by cleeg
No, I mean torrential thunder and lightning. That fool just disabled the weather effects for some reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benjamin
This is the GEMS version, which has a few errors (see Sonic Retro for those), but is the PC version. 3:42 for snow. 8:30 for sunset. Can't find a video for rain (which is the best effect IMO). There are others too.
It's night and day. The Saturn version is slower, laggy, has extensive fadein, and is missing some features.
The PC version runs silky smooth (even on a period '97 PC) with 3D acceleration, has night and day cycles, has weather effects (when it snows, the water freezes so you can run on it), and has a few bugs fixed (for example, Eggrobo has a piece of Tails' texture in the Saturn version for some reason).
It started as a F1 game if I recall correctly, so no surprise here.Quote:
Originally Posted by cleeg
I have footage of it in a playthu of the game I did a while back, (skip into it, it's at 2:36). I agree with the PC version being the best, but it's not easy to setup on modern Windows - you need to do a bit of tweaking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blades
Great video Jackal.
Does it even run on modern Windows?
That's a myth. Not sure who started it, but there's an article in Retro Gamer that talks about Sonic R's development.Quote:
It started as a F1 game if I recall correctly, so no surprise here.
That would be an interesting read. Do you remember which issue it appeared in?Quote:
Originally Posted by Blades
You need to find a patched executable (the most obvious bug it fixes being that Sonic R would crash on modern computers because they're so fast that when it tries to calculate the timings for the framerate it ends up dividing by zero).Quote:
Originally Posted by Blades
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/...Jon_Burton.phpQuote:
Originally Posted by Blades
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“Sonic R was actually a Formula One game for the Sega Saturn,” reveals Burton. “It took six months from start to finish [to convert the game into a Sonic title], hence the low number of tracks.”