[RELEASE] Sonic CD for PS Vita

I see, oh well. You can try reading separate tutorials on permanently hacking your Vita then.

 

Do you get recipes online or you watch a video instead?

 

It's fine, I hacked my Vita and I can still play online with the same PSN ID I use on my PS4. I'm playing Helldivers (legit copy I bought off PSN) on my hacked Vita, and I overcloclocked it, Helldivers 4 player online runs better than the official firmware.

 

Yeah, Sony likes to pretend the PSP and Vita don't exist nowadays.

 

Hmmm, very different though. Vita hacking text tutorial can be very technical and it usually assumes you already know what's what. It's like "Put this ,VPK file on your ur0 or ux0 directory", I was like VPK? ur0? ux0? What the hell is all this? Whereas with the video by Tech Savvy Buyer, he actually explains what VPK is, what the difference between the two directories, etc. It's much clearer and simpler in the video tutorial, just follow exactly what he does.

 

I prefer following tutorials in both text and video form.

 

Has anyone tested this on a real vita yet? I tried it on mine, but it crashes as soon as I try to open it. Does the game write to a log file or something else I can look into?

 

Me too. I usually watch a video to get the gist of what I'm about to do and then just follow a text guide.
Also: Just give this person a link already
https://vita.hacks.guide/
Plailect's guides are very easy to understand, explain every step as thoroughly as possible (sometimes too thoroughly) and are usually up to date.
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The release notes only mention "Data.rsdk" and the optional video files. Are the other files not needed at all?

Edit:
Great port. I just played through the game and everything worked. The later stages Wacky Workbench, Stardust Speedway and Metallic Madness dropped a few frames during heavy background effects or with lots of sprites onscreen. But nothing too crazy.
The bonus stages on the other hand are pretty slow, which is good for me, since I don't like them. (Still couldn't beat the second one...) Oh and when completing bonus stages, the background image doesn't reach the far right side of the screen and instead displays what was last displayed in that area. See screenshot.
I also encountered a few crashes. I don't know if you, OP, know what to do with these crashdumps, but I just zipped them and put a txt next to them with info on what I did, when the game crashed.

 

The Sonic CD mobile port actually started life on the DS. It was never finished but it's still pretty neat.
https://www.headcannon.com/hchc/SonicCDDS/

 

Text is more reliable anyway. Video tutorials can often gloss over important info and tend to not mention when they were made and what firmware they were made for, so the information being given can often be outdated and you may not know until too late.

 

I think text tutorials are better too. It's just that some people are visual learners so i can see why people would want video tutorials.

 

Wiiu port would be siick

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Wiiu Port would be siiick

 

Nice! if I get or ever find a PS Vita I will make sure to install this.

 

Oh yeah right. I remembered.

 

I expected, that the Bonus Stage thing happened, because of the resolution. I remember toying with the resolution of the Android port which also produced results like that. Kinda unfortunate, that it's limited to 240 vertically, but hey. I'm a pixel perfect fan, so that's a compromise I'll take

About my question regarding the files: Do we only need Data.rsdk? What about the font, images or sounds files?

 

The pixel perfect resolution is so important, it's odd that SonicMastr500 is in the r/vitahacks subreddit saying that it'll be "fixed" as if that's something wrong, and saying he's not sure why there's a slight black border.
I wonder if they don't notice the difference, some people don't (and they're lucky lol because I hate being bothered by it in ports of other games), but to me it sticks out to me like a sore thumb when the image is stretched to uneven pixel widths/lengths, and I'd much rather have a small black border over having the integrity of the whole image hurt to where it's hard to look at
At most, the pixel perfect image should be centered so the bottom bar isn't taller than the top, but it really shouldn't be changed, if the artifact is necessary to keep the resolution of the image intact and maintain integer scaling it should be kept, I very much hope you guys keep it that way when merging your ports together

In terms of bugs, I've received a few crashes so far, like clearing Wacky Workbench Zone 3 when it's in bad future mode on save file 1 crashed for me every time and I couldn't progress, but other than that and some random crashes here and there where I didn't know what caused them, it's a near-perfect port, beautiful on the OLED
I also noticed a bug in that the slowdown in the special stages seems to desync the timer. The actual timer that ends your special stage playthrough seems to be absolute, the exact amount of time every time, but the amount the time actually elapses in the numbers on the HUD seems to be linked to the game speed, so if there's slowdown and the special stage is not running at full speed, your time will run out before the timer on screen is at 000

 

When it comes to a device this small I personally prefer a sharp interpolation that fills the entire screen. Although I would like the option for pixel-perfect to remain for those who like that.

I also have to say that on most platforms the remake bonus stages are absurdly fast compared to the Sega CD original. Not just higher framerate but the overall game speed is just faster, making it more challenging. So I'd consider them running slower a feature really.

 

Interesting. I completed the whole game in Bad Future and Wacky Workbench 3 didn't crash for me.
Although, I used the US soundtrack, but I don't think that would lead to the game not crashing ^^'