Sonic for the Amiga

[s2325]

Originally Posted by Cammy

Here's the first half of Green Hill Zone Act 1 recreated in Backbone with Rebel's Sonic pack and using Tricky's music. Just extract it and double-click the icon to play, but remember this was made with Backbone, not coded properly and suffers from all of Backbone's limitations.

http://home.exetel.com.au/~amiga/Sonic.lha

Would anyone who has WinUAE be able to make a video of the game being played? I don't have Windows but I'd like to be able to show some other Sonic fangamers how it looks.

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[Lonewolf10]

Cool video of it in action, s2325


Regards,
Lonewolf10

[Cammy]

Thanks for making the video, s2325! I'm sorry I never got back with this in time.

If anyone would like to try the latest half-level demo of Sonic the Hedgehog on their Amiga I have just uploaded a new archive http://amigachristmastree.ultimateam...ckboneDemo.lha

Here's a screenshot of my Workbench showing the cool new GlowIcon Rebel pixelled for our Sonic games:

[Graham Humphrey]

Loving the background!

[marcfrick2112]

Cammy! Wow, very nice! I am downloading that demo now! I only just heard of and installed Backbone....

Eager to try this!

Hey, can you upload your WB backdrop to the Zone?

[Shoonay]

Yes, WOW, what they said, just WOW.
Shows what you can really achieve if you're skilled enough, well done Cammy!

[Cammy]

Hey guys. I'll resize and remap some wallpaper images for anyone who wants to use it on their Workbench, but if you would like the original image it's here: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6...2587a321_o.png

[Graham Humphrey]

That's tremendous, thanks!

[s2325]

[ Show youtube player ] There is also A500 version in archive with smaller playfield.

[Lonewolf10]

I love the new version. A glitch allowed me to go through a wall I shouldn't have (I was jumping at the time) and fell to the bottom of the level where I was able to walk along the bottom of the level instead of dying! (FYI, I was playing the Turbo version when this happened on my A600 setup in WinUAE)
I know it's still a work-in-progress, so perhaps you could add it to your "to-do" list


Regards,
Lonewolf10

[Cammy]

Thanks for pointing out the bug, I'm sure there are a few places through the level where this might happen thanks to Backbone's crappy tiling engine. Can you remember exactly where you fell through so I can have a look at the blocks and add some more solid ones below?

[Retrofan]

Originally Posted by Cammy

Groovy!

[s2325]

Aonic the Alien Hedgehog for Amiga: [ Show youtube player ]

Anoic the alien hedgehog 2d platform that I very quickly put together to see
what was possible with backbone when I first used the program. Graphics based on
Sonic and where done in Personal Paint. Features:- One short level, 2 bad guys,
collect the rings and free the birds Requirements: , Backbone libs.
Made: very quickly thanks to backbone, I think at the start of 2000.

http://aminet.net/package/game/misc/amigang

[Lonewolf10]

Originally Posted by Cammy

Thanks for pointing out the bug, I'm sure there are a few places through the level where this might happen thanks to Backbone's crappy tiling engine. Can you remember exactly where you fell through so I can have a look at the blocks and add some more solid ones below?

Sorry, it's been a while. I have taken a few snaps so it's easier for you to take a look at.

1 & 2 are from the top route and 3 is the bottom route. The 3rd one is easier to slip through than 1 & 2. I was playing the Turbo version in WinUAE (on my A600 setup) when I slipped through all of the marked parts.
Hope this helps.


Regards,
Lonewolf10

[lolafg]

Just tried it and it's really good , would be cool to have a full game!!

[s2325]

Sonic demo for Atari ST: [ Show youtube player ]

[lifeschool]

Just to update this thread; I tried several times to get a 'Sonic on the Amiga' experience, and this is what I came up with.

Ok, first of all I tried to track down a fan made sonic for the Amiga, these are the WinUAE savestates I made of the results:
(All these savestates can be loaded by going to the Miscellaneous tab, click 'Load State...' )

Sonic Dual Playfield Demo
Sonic Backbone Demo 1
Sonic Backbone 030 Demo

I gave up on the original fanmade idea and tried the emulator approach. First I tried to find a Sega Mega Drive / Genesis emulator that workes on M68k, but they all seem to require PPC. I even tried the GENESIS option on MESS, but no joy. So that failed.

Next I found a working Saga Master System emulators, these are the savestates:

Sonic The Hedgehog SMS (Press ESC to see the options)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 SMS (Press ESC to see the options)

So that was fun. Next I found there was a hack of Sonic on the SNES. Since I can get Snes9x working on the miggy, this is the result:

Sonic The Hedgehog 4 SNES

As we all know, this is a hack of the Speedy Gonzales game. It's keyboard only, press Enter to start, arrow keys, 'c' = jump. It runs very fast on my 040 configuration with JIT + setpatch.

So that wasn't quite right. Next I found a version called 'Sonyc' for the MSX2 machine. I got the emulator running and finding the disk in the drive but it errored out with a V9958 (Yamaha video display chip error) - so I didn't get Sonyc working after all. And that's as far as I got with all this. Any thoughts?

btw, I use Gens+ to play Sonic SMD on my PC. There is a version of Gens+ for the ami but it's OS4 (ELF files, not HUNK). I tried running it through AROS but it didn't run. Does Morph OS run ELF files?

[James]

Originally Posted by lifeschool

First I tried to find a Sega Mega Drive / Genesis emulator that workes on M68k, but they all seem to require PPC.

There are versions of AmiGenerator and DGen for 68k you can find them both in this pack:

http://amigan.1emu.net/aw/emuspack.lzx

[ma693541]

Any news about this game?

[Lonewolf10]

Originally Posted by ma693541

Any news about this game?

Agreed. A status update would be most appreciated