Homebrew Sonic mania port to wii u

[2kshard]

Can anyone use the recent sonic mania decompilation to port it over to the wii u

 

[NinStar]

Updated to 0.9

 

[Lostbhoy]

Any news about playable Amy mod yet? I’m still very much interested in it I just don’t know if it’ll work since it uses dll files.

Both the amy mods work fine and also together. There was a little bit of weird sprites with the down attack on one but defo playable other than the load times when I tried a few versions back.

 

[niuus]

Mod load times now are completely tolerable. Having fun replaying the Ring stages now, as they are faster and more difficult . Super solid release.

 

[ShadowOne333]

This is absolutely fantastic.
I'll still hold off a bit from installing it into my WiiU, so I'll most likely wait until the v1.0 release, but I'm really looking forward to it
I have two questions only:

1) Is the only thing required from the original game to get this running the Data.rsdk file? Or do I need something else?
2) Does someone know if mods like Sonic 3XP (or any mod that changes the Sonic and Knuckles sprites to those of Sonic 3&K) work with this? I heavily despise the sprites they used for Sonic Mania, so I want to play the game only with those two characters changed.

 

[NinStar]

This is absolutely fantastic.
I'll still hold off a bit from installing it into my WiiU, so I'll most likely wait until the v1.0 release, but I'm really looking forward to it
I have two questions only:

1) Is the only thing required from the original game to get this running the Data.rsdk file? Or do I need something else?
2) Does someone know if mods like Sonic 3XP (or any mod that changes the Sonic and Knuckles sprites to those of Sonic 3&K) work with this? I heavily despise the sprites they used for Sonic Mania, so I want to play the game only with those two characters changed.

1. You only need Data.rsdk on your SD card.
2. Not all mods works, any mods that changes the game code won't run or will just have weird results, everything else should (theoretically) work fine.

 

[sonictopfan]

I just tested Amy Rose mod on both Wii U and PS Vita, it sort of works but it loads Mighty’s color palette instead along with his move set, 3D model in Special Stages and Bonus Stages has the correct colors though as well as Blue Sphere sprites, I wonder if I need a newer version of this mod as mine’s dated to 2020.

 

[cvskid]

Is it better to just get this wii u port of sonic mania or wait for Radfordhound's sonic mania wii u port instead?

 

[Lostbhoy]

Is it better to just get this wii u port of sonic mania or wait for Radfordhound's sonic mania wii u port instead?

Lol... How long has it been since he posted his video and not one release and how far has one came in the same time?

I don't even think he's bothering anymore but it's up to you man.....


(why are you still here lol?)

 

[sonictopfan]

Is it better to just get this wii u port of sonic mania or wait for Radfordhound's sonic mania wii u port instead?

It’s up to you but honestly this port is really good and I for myself am satisfied with it, I actually almost forgot radfordhound was making one until earlier today, I don’t know if he’s still interested in releasing it at this point or not.

 

[NinStar]

Is it better to just get this wii u port of sonic mania or wait for Radfordhound's sonic mania wii u port instead?

It has been so long that Clownacy added support for additional controllers and managed to make the special stages run near full speed (still using SDL2 by the way), which was two of the of the main points of Radfordhound's port.

Also, nothing is preventing you from playing Clownacy's port now and then installing Radfordhound's port later when it is available.

 

[sonictopfan]

Also Radfordhound will more than likely end up locking dlc like the other ports, just to give you a pointless headache to a game that will not work anyway without the needed files, Clownacy is quite active and committed and his port has gone a long way I say stick with it.

 

[Lostbhoy]

Version 1.0 is upon us!!

 

[AmandaRose]

Version 1.0 is upon us!!

Just my luck as I had moments ago just updated to 0.9. Gave it a quick try then came here to see your post lol

 

[Lostbhoy]

Just my luck as I had moments ago just updated to 0.9. Gave it a quick try then came here to see your post lol

Aw they been comin thick and fast lately!! This one hangs on returning to system menu from a forwarder for me on cbhc. No biggie but hopefully a fix be in next one....?

edit....Ok the second time it did not hang so we goooood!!!

 

[sonictopfan]

Aw they been comin thick and fast lately!! This one hangs on returning to system menu from a forwarder for me on cbhc. No biggie but hopefully a fix be in next one....?

edit....Ok the second time it did not hang so we goooood!!!

I too had a weird issue in version 0.9 when I installed NinStar’s forwarder it froze after installation was complete and upon reboot the Mania icon was broke, I deleted it and reinstalled it, froze again after installation was complete but this time after reboot it worked fine, not sure why this happened but my theory is it’s probably cause first time I installed the forwarder on top of the old one while the second time I had deleted the old one, idk.

 

[sonictopfan]

I’m grateful for all these updates but makes me wonder why hasn’t Clownasy updated Sonic CD, I mean it runs decently but it could use some updates like being able to exit back to homebrew launcher, increase speed in special stages, and add mods support, he could probably consider updating Sonic 1&2 as well to increase speed in special stages, add save support, and implement a proper options menu to allow to swap characters, monitors, move set, chaos emeralds, etc without having to rely on cheat codes

 

[sonictopfan]

I just tested Amy Rose mod on both Wii U and PS Vita, it sort of works but it loads Mighty’s color palette instead along with his move set, 3D model in Special Stages and Bonus Stages has the correct colors though as well as Blue Sphere sprites, I wonder if I need a newer version of this mod as mine’s dated to 2020.

Sorry for the double post but I’ve contacted the guys that did the Amy mod, long story short, they told me they’re releasing an update tomorrow that shall be compatible with the decompilation, project Amy in Mania lives on.

 

[Lostbhoy]

Sorry for the double post but I’ve contacted the guys that did the Amy mod, long story short, they told me they’re releasing an update tomorrow that shall be compatible with the decompilation, project Amy in Mania lives on.

Wow, that's pretty cool! I just assumed they had moved on in two years but that's awesome!

Long live the scene!!

 

[NinStar]

Updated to 1.0

I was expecting it to be v0.10 instead of 1.0.

 

[NinStar]

I too had a weird issue in version 0.9 when I installed NinStar’s forwarder it froze after installation was complete and upon reboot the Mania icon was broke, I deleted it and reinstalled it, froze again after installation was complete but this time after reboot it worked fine, not sure why this happened but my theory is it’s probably cause first time I installed the forwarder on top of the old one while the second time I had deleted the old one, idk.

Normally you can just install the newer version over the old one using WUP Installer, but sometimes it can break (even when it is the exact same file) and I also don't know why.

When that happens, first uninstall it from the data manager, then power off the console normally (don't force shutdown, otherwise some changes won't persist), then power it on and install it again.