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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #29 on: January 06, 2012, 11:54:50 AM »
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I also included a SoundTracker version of that Green Hill Zone mod, along with one from Spring Yard Zone, so maybe someone can take the instruments from the Spring Yard mod and replace them in the Green Hill mod.


There's not much to replace in the Green Hill zone mod, I don't know if it's just me but I only hear the bass and the drums, what happened to the tune?  And it's dreadfully slow!  Is that an automatic conversion of the Med file?  I don't think it's worked properly if it is.

I might just redo it from scratch instead, it would probably be simpler.
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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #30 on: January 06, 2012, 01:18:52 PM »
Sorry everyone!

I have re-uploaded a new archive for you to download again. This time it includes the Libs/ drawer which has the Libraries required to finish compiling the game. I used SnoopDOS to suss out the problem. If you had installed Backbone from the original package before extracting and trying this pack it would have worked, which is why I didn't notice the problem myself since I already had Backbone installed properly with the Libs/.

Anyway, download this new one and try to compile. I'm not sure if you'll need to copy the Libraries over to your SYS:Libs/ drawer or if they'll work from PROGDIR:Libs/ but you can try it yourself the way you like.

http://home.exetel.com.au/~amiga/SonicBackbone.lha

Mrs. Beanbag, sorry about that mod, I didn't even listen to the result before uploading the pack, and only discovered what a poor job OctaMED did of converting it after I had tried it in the first level. I suppose someone with more experience with music software will have to do the conversion, I've barely used them before.

I think you're right about Sonic using 32x32 tiles, I made my version use 16x16 because Backbone doesn't support slopes and hills, so the smaller tiles let me have a smoother pseudo-hill than the larger tiles would. Your Beanbag engine obviously handles slopes properly so that'll make it easier for me to convert the graphics. I'll have to create a new 16 colour palette combining the two 16 colour palettes from the foreground tiles and enemy sprites and remapping the graphics to suit, so it won't match the Mega Drive's colour count and the graphics will have to be compromised a bit, but I'll do my best. It may end up looking similar to what I've already done with the Backbone game though, which also combines the foreground tiles and enemy sprites (and player sprite) palettes into a single 16 colour palette. Thankfully I won't have to include Sonic's own colours, so the tile colours will have priority over the enemy sprites, which may be recoloured to work.

Since the Beanbag engine isn't identical to Sonic, I don't think we need to try and duplicate any of the original levels accurately, and think it would be nicer to have a completely original Sonic game for the Amiga, using our own custom graphics for new stages and enemies. Take the PC fangame Sonic XG for example, for a completely original Sonic game I think it's extremely impressive. Check out the pics and gameplay video here: http://www.williamg.plus.com/SXGWEBSITE/

Something like that would be incredible, our own unique Sonic game. Of course after you've made Mr. Beanbag 2 and completed your new engine perhaps we can have a go at reproducing a more accurate clone of one of the original Mega Drive games.
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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #31 on: January 06, 2012, 01:26:09 PM »
I dont if this would be possible to port to classic amigas or even ng amigas but its impressive anyway. http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/10/sonic-fan-remix/
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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #32 on: January 06, 2012, 01:46:06 PM »
I think it's doable on an A500, might need two floppy disks though... :p
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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #33 on: January 06, 2012, 02:35:01 PM »
Ok maybe not on a classic system but what about ng amiga systems?
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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #34 on: January 06, 2012, 03:46:36 PM »
Ok try this Green Hill Zone mod I just made.  Maybe someone with greater musical skills than mine can jazz it up a little more but there's the basic tune anyway.  I modified some samples from my own collection.
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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #35 on: January 06, 2012, 04:27:49 PM »
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Ok try this Green Hill Zone mod I just made.  Maybe someone with greater musical skills than mine can jazz it up a little more but there's the basic tune anyway.  I modified some samples from my own collection.
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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #36 on: January 06, 2012, 04:52:47 PM »
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I dont if this would be possible to port to classic amigas or even ng amigas but its impressive anyway. http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/10/sonic-fan-remix/
Classic isn't a problem, but you'll have to carefully rework the graphics (HAM just isn't an option here) down to a suitable number of colors and lowres. Probably not so easy to do without making it look crappy.
 

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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #37 on: January 06, 2012, 05:52:28 PM »
There's a really rather nice game called "Kid Chaos" that is pretty much a Sonic clone. Runs extremely fast and smooth on an 1mb Amiga 500.
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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #38 on: January 06, 2012, 05:58:07 PM »
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Classic isn't a problem, but you'll have to carefully rework the graphics (HAM just isn't an option here) down to a suitable number of colors and lowres. Probably not so easy to do without making it look crappy.
Hey, if the SMS/GG Sonic titles could look okay, an Amiga version easily can.
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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #39 on: January 06, 2012, 06:24:01 PM »
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There's a really rather nice game called "Kid Chaos" that is pretty much a Sonic clone. Runs extremely fast and smooth on an 1mb Amiga 500.

That's a game I'd never seen before.  Nice work.  Plenty of parallax, but the graphics suffer a little from the 7-colour limitation, they've done well but to me it has a kind of "dirty" look.  If they made an AGA version it could have been really nice.

Not sure what the fascination was with rave music on Amiga games of that era, I never much got into it, but at least it has a different tune on each level, which is one of the things that disappointed me about Zool, even though they managed to fit 5 or so mods on the disks, you had to pick one at the start and stick with it all the way through - weird.
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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #40 on: January 06, 2012, 07:01:59 PM »
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Hey, if the SMS/GG Sonic titles could look okay, an Amiga version easily can.
I was refering to the Sonic version in carvedeye's link ;) SMS/GG Sonic is indeed a piece of cake.
 

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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #41 on: January 06, 2012, 08:56:24 PM »
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That's a game I'd never seen before.  Nice work.  Plenty of parallax, but the graphics suffer a little from the 7-colour limitation, they've done well but to me it has a kind of "dirty" look.  If they made an AGA version it could have been really nice.

Maybe it's because it's taken from an emulator? It doesn't look 'dirty' (as I suppose you mean with thatthe transition from one colour to another to be pixely) at all on my real amiga.

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Well, back in the heyday I thought I could sounds like that on my pc if I bought a sound blaster. *Quite* a disappointment as I was a huge rave fan back in those days (and I've seen xenon 2 on my cousins' Amiga).
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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #42 on: January 07, 2012, 02:58:52 PM »
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Maybe it's because it's taken from an emulator? It doesn't look 'dirty' (as I suppose you mean with thatthe transition from one colour to another to be pixely) at all on my real amiga.

I mean the colours are mostly very brownish/greyish.  The only way to get lots of shading with only 7 colours is to "overlap" your ranges by cleverly selecting neutral colours.  After black and white you're left with only 5 colours to work with so you've got to make compromises like using brown for the darker shade of everything.  A friend of mine had a term for it, "stinky graphics" he used to call it.

Soccer Kid did it better, in my opinion.  That's another game with smooth scrolling and parallax.  Good music too.
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« Reply #43 on: January 07, 2012, 06:05:44 PM »
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That's a game I'd never seen before. Nice work. Plenty of parallax, but the graphics suffer a little from the 7-colour limitation, they've done well but to me it has a kind of "dirty" look. If they made an AGA version it could have been really nice.

Yeah OCS dual playfield is limiting with only 6 bitplanes. You would have to use the blitter for parallax and I'm not sure you could achieve 50/60 fps with that.
 
AGA would be better, but still not as good as the mega drive because of the sprites. But you might be able to pull it off.
 

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Re: Sonic the hedgehog?
« Reply #44 from previous page: January 07, 2012, 10:37:48 PM »
I think Mr. Nutz does a great job of OCS dual-playfield mode without resorting to using brown as a base colour in the graphics, in my opinion it's closer to how I imagine Sonic on the Amiga to look than Kid Chaos, even though that game shares the same awesome control and spinning attack method.

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