Meanwhile on the Wii...
virtual Console...
Sonic the hedgehog (genesis)
Sonic the hedgehog 2 (genesis)
Sonic the hedgehog 3 (genesis)
Sonic & Knuckles (genesis)
Wiiware...
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 : episode 1 (wiiware)
why no SEGA CD games yet?
Because it features both the US and the EU/JP soundtracks, it sports the Sonic 2 style spindash and camera (both optional), Tails is a playable character, and there will be achievements that encourage players to explore all the zones' ages. It adds more replay value, as if there wasn't enough. Not to mention that there is no hack of Sonic CD (besides Sonic CD++ which has the camera and spindash options) which incorporates any of these elements. The port was a single-man job, believe it or not, using a fan-made Sonic engine that perfectly replicates the Sonic Cd engine. This allows for it to be optimised for many platforms, and not dependant on emulation like previous releases. I'd pay $30 for it, $5 is a steal, especially when you consider how much it once cost to acquire the hardware that let you play this game when it was released.
Meanwhile on the Wii...
virtual Console...
Sonic the hedgehog (genesis)
Sonic the hedgehog 2 (genesis)
Sonic the hedgehog 3 (genesis)
Sonic & Knuckles (genesis)
Wiiware...
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 : episode 1 (wiiware)
why no SEGA CD games yet?
Wiiware size limits innit.
You could try out fangames such as Retro Sonic and Sonic Nexus (newer versions). They're running on Taxman's Retro Engine, which is what this version of Sonic CD is also running. It's not a sure scenario that you can run it, but a good indication. I'd imagine this Sonic CD version would have somewhat similar requirements at least. I had no issues running Taxman's game or the games using Retro Engine on an old ass Pentium III laptop @1ghz. I'm sure your netbook is far superior to that.
It's well known that the file size limit for WiiWare games is 40 megabytes. Sonic CD on the Sega CD (Japanese soundtrack) is 181 megabytes. Simply put, it wouldn't fit without heavy modifications. For example, the soundtrack would likely have to be scrapped and replaced with a sequenced version (apparently the Wii version of Sonic 4 used a sequenced soundtrack unlike the other versions which used a streaming one). That would be plausible, but it would just sound like complete ass and require more effort than they're likely to put into it. But even then, the base ISO file not even including the soundtrack is still about 116 megabytes, i'm guessing due to the video files or something (perhaps even the past soundtrack, which is contained in the actual ISO and isn't split into separate sound files, not sure). So it's still somewhat of a problem.prove it, whats the size limit? & wouldn't n64 games be bigger than sega cd?
& i have sonic CD on Sonic gems collection for gamecube(which i play on wii) so i dont really need it.
but still would like to have that option tho.
You could try out fangames such as Retro Sonic and Sonic Nexus (newer versions). They're running on Taxman's Retro Engine, which is what this version of Sonic CD is also running. It's not a sure scenario that you can run it, but a good indication. I'd imagine this Sonic CD version would have somewhat similar requirements at least. I had no issues running Taxman's game or the games using Retro Engine on an old ass Pentium III laptop @1ghz. I'm sure your netbook is far superior to that.
It's well known that the file size limit for WiiWare games is 40 megabytes. Sonic CD on the Sega CD (Japanese soundtrack) is 181 megabytes. Simply put, it wouldn't fit without heavy modifications. For example, the soundtrack would likely have to be scrapped and replaced with a sequenced version (apparently the Wii version of Sonic 4 used a sequenced soundtrack unlike the other versions which used a streaming one). That would be plausible, but it would just sound like complete ass and require more effort than they're likely to put into it. But even then, the base ISO file not even including the soundtrack is still about 116 megabytes, i'm guessing due to the video files or something (perhaps even the past soundtrack, which is contained in the actual ISO and isn't split into separate sound files, not sure). So it's still somewhat of a problem.prove it, whats the size limit? & wouldn't n64 games be bigger than sega cd?
& i have sonic CD on Sonic gems collection for gamecube(which i play on wii) so i dont really need it.
but still would like to have that option tho.
Suffice to say, won't work. The 3DS on the other hand is another story. No such limitation. I'm not sure what the limit is, but it's at least around 200MB or bigger. Gameloft's Lets Golf 3D was larger than Sonic CD. But i guess it won't happen. Perhaps it would take too much effort for them to alter the game to support the 3D effect between background layers...
N64 games aren't big at all. And it should come as no surprise that a CD would hold more than an old N64 cartridge (this was before modern handhelds used flash based memory and before large cartridges were available or affordable). A CD can hold up to about 700MB. The largest N64 games i've ever seen are 64MB, i'm not aware of any notable ones that are on a larger size (if any at all). And there are only a very tiny amount of 64MB N64 games. Conker 64 and Resident Evil 2 both used 64MB cartridges. Most were on less than 32MB. There are no 64MB N64 games on the Virtual Console. Paper Mario is probably the largest game on the N64's VC at 40MB. And that places it right within that limit (they may have applied some compression as well).
SEGA are definitely trying to recapture Sonic's past success after the last decade of half assed Sonic games that did nothing to capture what Sonic gameplay is really about. They've even gone as far as to wipe some of the bigger failures from their catalogue such as Sonic 06. They're slowly beginning to learn, but are still not quite "getting it" (see Sonic 4 and its lack of momentum based gameplay).
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