I’ve been enjoying this remake on my PS Vita and I would like to play it on my TV, I request a Wii or Wii U port.
[Request] Sonic 1 SMS Remake Wii U Port
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I'd say it's more of a port with some features, not a remake itself.
I would call it a remake if it was done in the Mania engine or the decomp engines in the style/graphics of proper Sonic 1, but yeah this is a port.
I would call it a remake if it was done in the Mania engine or the decomp engines in the style/graphics of proper Sonic 1, but yeah this is a port.
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I see a couple of roadblocks here:
All that in mind, in order to get a Wii U port of this, you'd need to find somebody who wants to ingratiate themselves with a team of developers in order to be given access to their privately held source code so that they can completely rewrite the game in an entirely different programming language, on top of the normal work of getting a port up and running like CPU endian fixes, a new graphics backend tailored to GX2, etc., while also avoiding the use of any copyleft libraries, which would clash with the closed source nature of the code and make any release a license violation.
In all likelihood, that person does not exist.
- the remake is currently closed-source. There's no code for the original PC/Android version or any of the other console ports like Vita or Switch. Obviously those ports do exist, so that roadblock has been surmounted before, but then we come to the issue that seems far more likely to prevent this happening ...
- the discontinued open-source version of the engine is built with GameMaker Studio. GMS does not support Wii U as a build target, either officially or unofficially. This is explicitly the reason why Undertale never came to Wii U (or 3DS) either, because it's a GameMaker game so it would need to be rewritten from scratch, as the entire game is written in GML
All that in mind, in order to get a Wii U port of this, you'd need to find somebody who wants to ingratiate themselves with a team of developers in order to be given access to their privately held source code so that they can completely rewrite the game in an entirely different programming language, on top of the normal work of getting a port up and running like CPU endian fixes, a new graphics backend tailored to GX2, etc., while also avoiding the use of any copyleft libraries, which would clash with the closed source nature of the code and make any release a license violation.
In all likelihood, that person does not exist.
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I just found out that the EU version is better in literally every way, better sound quality, better lighting, and there's even a patch someone made to make the text look nicer
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TwoSpikedHands:
Do I restart now using what i've learned on the EU version since it's a better overall experience? or do I continue with the US version since that is what ive been using, and if someone decides to play my hack, it would most likely be that version?
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@TwoSpikedHands, I'll preface this with the fact that I know nothing about the game, but, I think it depends on what your goals are. Are you trying to make a definitive version of the game? You may want to refocus your efforts on the EU version then. Or, are you trying to make a better US version? In which case, the only way to make a better US version is to keep on plugging away at that one
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Sicklyboy:
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TwoSpikedHands:
@Sicklyboy I am wanting to fully change the game and bend it to my will lol. I would like to eventually have the ability to add more characters, enemies, even have a completely different story if i wanted. I already have the ability to change the tilemaps in the US version, so I can basically make my own map and warp to it in game - so I'm pretty far into it!
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TwoSpikedHands:
I really would like to make a hack that I would enjoy playing, and maybe other people would too. swapping to the EU version would also mean my US friends could not legally play it
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TwoSpikedHands:
I am definitely considering porting over some of the EU features without using the actual ROM itself, tbh that would probably be the best way to go about it... but i'm sad that the voice acting is so.... not good on the US version. May not be a way around that though
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The Real Jdbye:
@TwoSpikedHands just switch, all the knowledge you learned still applies and most of the code and assets should be the same anyway -
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The Real Jdbye:
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Karma177:
do y'all think having an sd card that has a write speed of 700kb/s is a bad idea?
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Karma177:
@The Real Jdbye it hasn't given me any error trying to write things on it so I don't really think it's faulty (pasted 40/50gb+ folders and no write errors)
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DinohScene:
when SD cards/microSD write speeds drop below a meg a sec, they're usually on the verge of dying
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DinohScene:
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