"Sonic 3 - Angel Island Revisited" full game released

MaxiBash · Apr 7, 2019

I'm just surprised this game got finished at all!
Usually, game devs make a demo, and then they go radiosilent.

BlackWizzard17 · Apr 7, 2019

"You must already own a copy of Sonic 3 & Knuckles on Steam to play"

Oh thank God, I thought this was going to be an epic store only exclusive.

Tomy Sakazaki · Apr 7, 2019

seanp2500 said:
Would someone explain how i play this on my switch? Thanks

You can't, this is a PC "custom emulator" tailored to bring improvements on S3&K, it's different from a ROM hack.
But you can try downloading a genesis core for retroarch and emulate Sonic 3 Complete, that's actually a very good ROM hack of S3&K with lots of welcome changes.

GuyInDogSuit · Apr 7, 2019

Is there something similar to this for the other 3 Sonic games?

Kwyjor · Apr 7, 2019

GuyInDogSuit said:
Is there something similar to this for the other 3 Sonic games?

There's Sonic 1 and 2 for iOS and Android, which uses the same Retro Engine as Sonic Mania and Sonic CD on Steam. I'm not sure why exactly those versions haven't been released for other platforms yet. There was some speculation that Nintendo somehow had exclusive rights to Sonic 1 and 2, but nothing concrete.

On that note, the 3D versions of Sonic 1 and 2 for the 3DS are apparently very good products, if you can stand 3D at all.

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Lumstar said:
Isn't the S3&K Collection entirely an x86 port, and has nothing to do with the Megadrive/Genesis?

I've read that uses some of the original code, but does weird things like using m68k CPU registers as variables.

FateForWindows · Apr 7, 2019

seanp2500 said:
Would someone explain how i play this on my switch? Thanks

You can't. It only supports PC at the moment, though an Android port is possible.

GuyInDogSuit · Apr 7, 2019

Kwyjor said:
There's Sonic 1 and 2 for iOS and Android, which uses the same Retro Engine as Sonic Mania and Sonic CD on Steam. I'm not sure why exactly those versions haven't been released for other platforms yet. There was some speculation that Nintendo somehow had exclusive rights to Sonic 1 and 2, but nothing concrete.

On that note, the 3D versions of Sonic 1 and 2 for the 3DS are apparently very good products, if you can stand 3D at all.

I've got both of those as well as CD on Android. They were a blast to play on my Shield Portable.

raxadian · Apr 7, 2019

Trash_Bandatcoot said:
I'm just surprised this game got finished at all!
Usually, game devs make a demo, and then they go radiosilent.

This is a Sonic 3 remake, is not like a full on new game. That means stuff is much easier.

By the way, here is another Sonic 3 remake:

http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_3_Complete

Kwyjor · Apr 7, 2019

Oh, I forgot about Sonic Classic Heroes, a massive Sonic 2 romhack that basically mashes Sonic 1 and 2 together. No fancy widescreen support, though.
http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Classic_Heroes

rich333 · Apr 7, 2019

gave it a play, digging the xBZR filter. any other game mods use this?

Sonic Angel Knight · Apr 7, 2019

BlackWizzard17 said:
"You must already own a copy of Sonic 3 & Knuckles on Steam to play"

Oh thank God, I thought this was going to be an epic store only exclusive.

Maybe when Sega games start using unreal engine.

MaxiBash · Apr 7, 2019

[QUOTE="raxadian, post: 8583633, member: By the way, here is another Sonic 3 remake:

http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_3_Complete[/QUOTE]
It's not really a remake, more a romhack with a lot of time and extra features being put into it.

raxadian · Apr 7, 2019

Trash_Bandatcoot said:
[QUOTE="raxadian, post: 8583633, member: By the way, here is another Sonic 3 remake:

http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_3_Complete

It's not really a remake, more a romhack with a lot of time and extra features being put into it.[/QUOTE]

True, but you do not need to buy a game on steam to play it. And it should also work on a real Sega Genesis if you have a rom loader thing for it.

CMDreamer · Apr 7, 2019

Sonic Angel Knight said:
I don't know if it's against the rules to share that information here. But if you search some rom hacks with patching instructions/info they do tell what the statistics you should use to patch with.

A good copy of the rom would normally have a "!" in the file name. If it has anything else like "b" or "f" it's not legit.
W = stands for world, usually mean not region locked when region locked games would have J,U,E in the title to represent which region console it works for.
! = usually is the best sign of a good rom copy.
b = bad rom dump, probably due to dusty contact problems or something.
f = I assume means something was modified in the code to fix a issue, not sure if it was a rom hacker or what.

Most likely, if your rom works with ips patches with no issues, it's the proper rom. The rom I have has "(W) [!].BIN" In the name, which is a good copy.

Thanks for the info.
But when I said legally obtained, I meant dumped from a real cartridge I got some time ago. Never played any Genesis game when it was competing with SNES on the 16 bit era, so started searching for some of them and I found it by... luck?

Can't see what's wrong with asking for a hash, I'm not asking for a rom file at all, so no legal concern here.

Thanks a lot for the info anyway. Best regards.

GerbilSoft said:
fba0677fde9f76df93f3e98d6310d8af68b9847bde16e253d73cd4dd8134ed23 Sonic and Knuckles & Sonic 3 (W) [!].gen

Thank you!, my file matches this hash. Great news!

Prior22 said:
Someone please explain to me why Sega wont release an all in one HD Genesis Sonic compilation. Sega milks the Sonic franchise for all its worth, and yet wont capitalize on easy Sonic nostalgia.

I don't think Nintendo has ever upconverted SNES content to HD either. Seems like there's tons of games from that era which would get people interested in an HD upgrade.

Sega is not Microsucks or that lame brand owner that tried to mount the Classic console bandwheel and miserably failed at it.
Classic games should be played as they originally meant to be (as much as possible).

Kioku · Apr 7, 2019

Why can't I get this to run in fullscreen? ;o;

JFizDaWiz · Apr 8, 2019

Memoir said:
Why can't I get this to run in fullscreen? ;o;

Yah I can’t figure this out also. ESC remove the title bar and ALT+Enter doesn’t work also. No settings for resolution that I can see.

UltraSUPRA · Apr 8, 2019

shaunj66 said:
You must already own a copy of Sonic 3 & Knuckles on Steam to play.

I don't remember this crappy DRM in Sonic 2 HD.

JFizDaWiz · Apr 8, 2019

UltraSUPRA said:
I don't remember this crappy DRM in Sonic 2 HD.

Well this makes it a bit more legal as no assets are being shared just custom code.

UltraSUPRA · Apr 8, 2019

FateForWindows said:
an Android port is possible.

WOO

Prior22 · Apr 8, 2019

CMDreamer said:
Thanks for the info.
But when I said legally obtained, I meant dumped from a real cartridge I got some time ago. Never played any Genesis game when it was competing with SNES on the 16 bit era, so started searching for some of them and I found it by... luck?

Can't see what's wrong with asking for a hash, I'm not asking for a rom file at all, so no legal concern here.

Thanks a lot for the info anyway. Best regards.

Thank you!, my file matches this hash. Great news!

Sega is not Microsucks or that lame brand owner that tried to mount the Classic console bandwheel and miserably failed at it.
Classic games should be played as they originally meant to be (as much as possible).

The PSX Spyro series being remade for an all in one release was a great idea. If you prefer playing the original PSX versions you can. But having a graphically superior release, in my opinion, is fantastic.

Sega should consider the same thing for all the Sonic games from the original to S&K. I'd suspect it would sell really well.

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