Thread 11923429

>there will never be a port of the SegaSonic The Hedgehog arcade game
Kinda surprised they never considered porting it to the 32x

They were probably trying to make Sonic popular in Japan and failed (once again), as the 32x is an American abomination.

It relies on a trackball, you're not getting the intended experience on a dpad

>>11923429 (OP)
It's a pretty lame game, and if the scarcity of boards is anything to go by, was probably pretty unpopular in arcades. As suggested by another anon, without having a trackball, there's even less to really enjoy about it.

>>11923429 (OP)
well for one thing the 32x was basically immediately dropped by sega. it has 40 games WW and almost all of them were 1995 releases.

>>11923626
add a dash button and it's close enough

>>11923626
ColecoVision port inevitable!

>be Travelers Tales
>get tasked to make an isometric Sonic game
>make sonic 3D blast
>not making a port of Segasonic
Bro

>>11923429 (OP)
>perfect opportunity to finally release segasonic and sonic the fighters
>wasted on columns 2
fuckers didn't even included outrun

>>11923429 (OP)
It’ll pop up on mister one of these days. Sega arcade games are well represented there
>>11925242
It has fantasy zone tho

Still haunts me that this game could have saved the Saturn and they never ported it

>>11925242
>outrun with an arcade stick
Horrifying

>>11925351
it has joystick support

>>11925259
bait?

>>11925359
>driving game with joystick
Horrifying

>>11925216
God the colecovision is a sexy piece of 80s power kit. that's not a controller, that's a fucking command center.

>>11925359
plugging in a second specialized controller kind of misses the point unless they release it themselves, like taito did for the egret mini.

as others said though, segasonic is not a very good game, and aside from being bait for youtuber faggots to make 10 year olds watch their

>>11925379
Their what?

>>11925392
PENIS

>>11923429 (OP)
you're not missing anything. even on original hardware it's a novelty at best

>>11925379
>plugging in a second specialized controller kind of misses the point
then don't use it. I don't understand this argument, how is having less games a good thing.

Kinda strange that there are so many people who supposedly played this and say it was bad. This was a great arcade game which is an absolute blast to play co-op and would have been so much fun to be able to play at home. Why tf did they never make another game like this?

>>11923429 (OP)
I don't see the appeal for the game. It looks like 3D Blast with even worse gameplay and more baby artstyle.

>>11923429 (OP)

I'd rather have had OutRunners 32X, or an attempt at Galaxy Force II

>>11925619
It plays nothing like 3D blast and is very fun. Every level has different environments and new hazards with great pacing. It's pretty much like a partygame.

>>11923429 (OP)
The rom is available. Ghidra and Ida are free. Get to work.

>>11925638
So basically a precursor of Mario Party and Sonic Shuffle

>>11925683
No. It's nothing like those games.

Is more like many other "rides" at arcades.

>>11925683
>>11926005
Well, it's kind of like if they took a minigame from Mario Party or Wario or whatever and really fleshed it out and made a full game out of it.

I 1cc'd it using a combination of keyboard and mouse. It's a really cool game.

>>11923429 (OP)
Between this and 3D Blast they were really trying to make isometric Sonic work.

>>11926032
This game works for what it is and is fun. No idea what they were thinking with 3D Blast.
>>11926013
Mouse for turning? Was it hard?

>>11926097
You just use the mouse to make precision movements since the keyboard keys always make you travel at full speed. The trick to the game is collecting all the hidden rings so your health gets restored.
Here’s a video of my 1cc https://sp.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm21889054
Fun fact: I recorded this in university on a computer in some random empty classroom where I played MAME and PC Engine games. I was passing time between classes so I wouldn’t have to go home, and the computer lab was open 24/7 but it was occupied by a class sometimes.

>>11925541
I never saw it in an arcade back in the day, and only became aware of it when I started buying arcade stuff ~15 years ago. Never wound up getting it, but a few years back a local arcade had it installed in a candy cab with a trackball control panel. I played through it (credit feeding) with a friend, and thought it was pretty mediocre, certainly not as enjoyable as normal Sonic platformers.
>inb4 you credit fed so it doesn't count
I do not claim to be good at the game, and maybe I would appreciate it more if I went for skillful play, but using a trackball to guide Sonic through obstacle courses with basically zero enemies just wasn't very engaging.