Sonic Unleashed port?

[JohnMX]

Now that the pc port of sonic unleashed is real, couldn't someone port it to other plataforms, especially wii u now?
The wii u can run sonic unleashed, with no problems, and it would even let us play the SD and HD versions on the same console.

 

[Subnetic]

yes and no, you still need someone willing and able to do it. It being ported from 360 to PC just gives an avenue for refactoring an existing port rather than trying to make a port from scratch, and refactoring can involve multiple programming languages and so forth. It’s not as simple as “well there’s a PC port now!”…
There is also still software and hardware restrictions. Wii U can run a lot of games that the Wii is not capable of running for example. Or, take a look into what devs had to do with the PS1 to make Crash Bandicoot work. Also, Dead Rising for any other console, then Dead Rising on the Wii. To successfully make the game run on Wii, they had to scrap a ton of content from the game and slash the graphics output.

Someone would probably be better off trying to mod the existing Sonic Unleashed game for Wii. I would think anyways.

 

[JohnMX]

yes and no, you still need someone willing and able to do it. It being ported from 360 to PC just gives an avenue for refactoring an existing port rather than trying to make a port from scratch, and refactoring can involve multiple programming languages and so forth. It’s not as simple as “well there’s a PC port now!”…
There is also still software and hardware restrictions. Wii U can run a lot of games that the Wii is not capable of running for example. Or, take a look into what PS1 devs had to do with the PS1 to make Crash Bandicoot work. Also, Dead Rising for any other console, then Dead Rising on the Wii. To successfully make the game run on Wii, they had to scrap a ton of content from the game and slash the graphics output.

The pc port is made from static compiling, if i remember well, they compile the code an emulator runs and make the game think the pc is a x360, for it to run, basically if someone did that for wii u it maybe would work

Post automatically merged: Mar 2, 2025

And after analysing the GitHub page, The game is recompiled to C++, so maybe using wut, there can be a Wii U port, not only for sonic unleashed, but probably sonic generations too (and after the 360 tool is done, all of 360 sonic games on wii u)