They got Sonic, Ray, and Mighty on RICO charges and sent them to Robotnik's prison island!
SegaSonic the Hedgehog has been a long-standing blind spot for me. The trackball controls makes it rather difficult to map in MAME, and obviously I'm never going to find a real cabinet to play it on. However, I've made the completely insane commitment to play every Sonic the Hedgehog game, and so I spent way too much time screwing out with MAME's input options to find something that worked. "You can set the trackball's movements to your mouse," uh-huh, I sure can and it feels awful! I ultimately configured the game to play with the arrow keys, which also sucks but hey, it got the job done.
SegaSonic - the real unbastardized version, that is - lets players spin the trackball to guide Sonic, Ray, or Mighty through hellish obstacle courses, usually while being chased by some sort of deadly trap or object. I have to imagine this all works fine on a real cabinet, and I bet it's pretty fun to play. Via emulation, everything feels incredibly clumsy and you'll be happy you can just mash 5 to feed more quarters to the machine. More coins for the coin god, because me and the boys are taking over this jail. They don't serve chili dogs in the cafeteria and the library has been closed for the last three months, these conditions are inhumane. Actually, is this a jail? You get locked up in the intro, so I always assumed this was Robotnik punishing Sonic, and by extension: ME, for my crimes (I enjoy Labyrinth Zone and I pronounce it high-draw-city.)
The struggle of screwing around with controller mappings and the hurdles it creates aside, I really like SegaSonic for its presentation. Just a great looking game, wonderful soundtrack, too. The action never stops, from the moment Sonic busts out you'll be careening from one disaster to the next, and some of the set pieces are really good. I'd love if Sega found some way to make this more accessible, but since doing such things no longer conforms to their MO, SegaSonic is something you're not likely to come across unless you scrounge around in MAME romsets, and that's really not the ideal way to play this anyway. Watch a video of this one.
SegaSonic the Hedgehog has been a long-standing blind spot for me. The trackball controls makes it rather difficult to map in MAME, and obviously I'm never going to find a real cabinet to play it on. However, I've made the completely insane commitment to play every Sonic the Hedgehog game, and so I spent way too much time screwing out with MAME's input options to find something that worked. "You can set the trackball's movements to your mouse," uh-huh, I sure can and it feels awful! I ultimately configured the game to play with the arrow keys, which also sucks but hey, it got the job done.
SegaSonic - the real unbastardized version, that is - lets players spin the trackball to guide Sonic, Ray, or Mighty through hellish obstacle courses, usually while being chased by some sort of deadly trap or object. I have to imagine this all works fine on a real cabinet, and I bet it's pretty fun to play. Via emulation, everything feels incredibly clumsy and you'll be happy you can just mash 5 to feed more quarters to the machine. More coins for the coin god, because me and the boys are taking over this jail. They don't serve chili dogs in the cafeteria and the library has been closed for the last three months, these conditions are inhumane. Actually, is this a jail? You get locked up in the intro, so I always assumed this was Robotnik punishing Sonic, and by extension: ME, for my crimes (I enjoy Labyrinth Zone and I pronounce it high-draw-city.)
The struggle of screwing around with controller mappings and the hurdles it creates aside, I really like SegaSonic for its presentation. Just a great looking game, wonderful soundtrack, too. The action never stops, from the moment Sonic busts out you'll be careening from one disaster to the next, and some of the set pieces are really good. I'd love if Sega found some way to make this more accessible, but since doing such things no longer conforms to their MO, SegaSonic is something you're not likely to come across unless you scrounge around in MAME romsets, and that's really not the ideal way to play this anyway. Watch a video of this one.
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Weatherby
1 year ago