I guess this means we should be hearing more about the collection soon.
Source: Korean Ratings Board
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I guess this means we should be hearing more about the collection soon.
Source: Korean Ratings Board
Glad they delayed it long enough to have a total rethink and just port Sonic Mega Collection Plus
According to Sonic the Hedgehog social media manager Katie Chrzanowski, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles will be playable in a widescreen format.
It appears this is more of a port job rather than an emulation job. I'm hoping it'll be good
Maybe one day we'll again have a gallery mode so beautifully robust.
I'm definitely buying this but damn this would've been the perfect chance to bring Knuckles' Chaotix
I mean, at the very least it should offer the games Sonic Jam offered 25 years ago lol (+ Sonic CD).
I wonder if they still have the code from the native saturn ports. Also curious if CD/1/2 will be taxman or new native ports.
Sonic Jam is so cool
I love that overworld 3d stage with museums and stuff
Yep. Manoeuvring sonic in 3D space for the trials was so tough though. I guess why we never got a full game out of the mode.
Sonic World was essentially the remains of Saturn Sonic Adventure before it got moved to Dreamcast.
Geez, about time. Felt like it just dropped off the face of the Earth after being announced. Seriously hope it has some of the mobile port additions.
The weird thing is, the games got ported to the Wii U VC....but only in Japan. My only guess as to why the US didn't get it is because THQ published the games here. But yes, I would love for an Advance Collection.
My hope would be all the content of both the sonic jam versions and the Whitehead versions in one
Maybe extra work on side games like wide screen game gear games, a composite version of 3d blast using saturn graphics and letting you choose sound track like CD
Hope for they go ham wild on characters with play styles in genesis style 2d sonic already so the chaotix even without knuckles chaotix, ray, Amy and cream from advance 3 but with genesis style sprites.
Maybe extra work on side games like wide screen game gear games, a composite version of 3d blast using saturn graphics and letting you choose sound track like CD
Hope for they go ham wild on characters with play styles in genesis style 2d sonic already so the chaotix even without knuckles chaotix, ray, Amy and cream from advance 3 but with genesis style sprites.
exactly what id wanted from this, cannot wait!
the secret last stage when you have all the emeralds blew my mind as a kid
haha watch them skip the SMS and do the gg version tho
I hope the announcement is soon and not like a month away. I also hope it's more than a straight port job. 1 and 2 are already available in like 3 different forms on Switch.
An ideal collection for me would be 1/2/3/K/CD and then MS/GG 1/2/C/TT and finally chaotix
But all the 8-bit sonic games often get ignored and Chaotix isn't very good. If Sega were smart they'd commision retro remakes of them all like the fan TT one
Unfortunately we still don't know. My hunch is that Evening Star (Mania team) is not involved, but maybe whoever is handling it is porting over the Taxman versions of 1, 2, and CD, but the Sonic 3&K part will be the product of whoever is doing this porting…
Hope I'm wrong though. I want Taxman S3K very badly.
Yeah kind of a shame really. It isn't like no one played them. Master System was popular in PAL regions and the Game Gear had a decent run in the US.
I wouldn't automatically assume that, personally. You could adapt the game to widescreen while it still being an emulator, essentially by changing the parameters of the emulated hardware and then adapting the machine code in the ROM to account for it. This is actually how the 3D versions of Sonic1&2 worked on the 3DS, by creating a hypothetical Genesis that had a Z dimension in the frame buffer and then adding support for that in the ROM.
So with that in mind it'll ultimately be interesting to see what they end up with. I could see it going many different ways, a modified emulation, a reverse engineered port (or even a direct one if SEGA has the source code in a vault somewhere) or even a recreation by eye. Assuming Taxman and co aren't working on this one, but even that happening as a surprise could be an option.
Spindash in 1.
Change difficulty levels.
Sonic World with a lot of interactive content.
As mentioned earlier, the Sonic World is actually the remains of Saturn version of Sonic Adventure. Worth a play.
I know they won't do it, but it'd be great if they preserved Sonic Jam. Never played it, I'm sure it's not great, but it would be cool to see.
It's been known for a while now that it is a native port and not emulation.
My dream is that one day we get Sonic 3D Mega Collection. Follow that up with 3D Gems collection. Between those 2 give us basically every 3D Sonic game on modern platforms.
I didn't know it was actually actually the remains of it. I'm fascinated by this period in gaming history, so that's exciting.
They should just do an Advance Collection, M2 already had a good GBA emu lying around ready to use. Advance 1-3, Pinball Party and Battle. If they feel like really going the extra mile they could throw in Chu Chu Rocket, Puyo Puyo and Nights Score Attack too.