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Says its a remake of Sonic 3D Blast 5, Sonic Adventure 7, and Sonic Adventure 8; turns out https://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_3D_Blast_5 S3DB5 was a GB bootleg game with horrible gameplay, graphics, and sound, SA7 was a remake of the bootleg to GBC, and SA8 was a remake of that to for emulators, or something; anyway I was able to run SA8 in Mesen and yeah it's remarkably bad.
StH:BA is a remake of that only in the sense that yeah the first enemy is a crab and yeah there are death pits after that (they're particularly tortuous in SA8 as they're not bottomless pits where you fall quickly off the screen, but rather spike-bottom pits just taller than you can jump: you fall in, take that spike hit, lose your rings--and in SA8 there's no ring-flinging with a chance to re-gather some of them--no animation at all except for your ring counter dropping instantly to zero ; D--and then you can stand there seemingly indefinitely if you want, but any move and you take that zero-rings hit and die), but it has actually unusually spritely physics and lovely clear widescreen visuals.
Controls from the fan page text:
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F4 - Toggle Full Screen/Windowed
Arrow keys - Move
Z - Jump
X (while jumping) - Insta Shield (Sonic), Fly (Tails) and Glide (Knuckles).
Down Arrow + Z - Spindash
The package includes JoyToKey, since I couldn't implement joystick buttons in the project.
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(The old version of J2K there even auto-loads a pre-programmed profile with keys set, although they were kinda wrong keys (A instead of X or something I think) and that version of the utility doesn't close with the "X" button; you have to select the "Exit" menu option so for a while I thought it had taken over my later version of J2K and deleted all my own configs--it hadn't.
But I'm using DS4Windows so I just set the keys up in that anyway. ^ _^)
On their YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/gustavofirminocazonato , the author identifies as Brazilian. |
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Playing through the free game "Sonic the Hedgehog - Blasting Adventure" for PC, the 2022 update of the fan game by @GustavoCazonato available as a free download from https://sonicfangameshq.com/forums/showcase/sonic-the-hedgehog-blasting-adventure.589/ ! (Also https://gustavocazonato.itch.io/sonic-blasting-adventure !)
A startup screen says it's a remake of Sonic 3D Blast 5, Sonic Adventure 7, and Sonic Adventure 8; S3DB5 was a really bad GB Sonic bootleg, from the looks of it; SA7 was a GBC bootleg of THAT, and SA8 was a emulator-playable remake of THAT; I got that info and the SA8 ROM from https://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_3D_Blast_5 S3DB5 and yeah SA8 is real bad. Fortunately, Blasting Adventure is only a remake of that ol' bootleg series in the loosest possible way, and it's actually really good!
The credits say Blasting's graphics come from the Master System and Game Gear Sonic games--so that's how they got that 8-bit look! Not sure where the music is from but it's really good too! And the action is simple platform fun, with this version of Sonic being really nimble--I was just mashing the jump button whenever there was a spare moment, 'cause his jumping is so quick and fun! = D
It's just what I want in a platform game and nothing of what I don't--I even kinda liked the force-scrolling jet shoes level!--so yeah this might be my favorite Sonic game! : D What a delightful little game.
The game doesn't have built-in controller support, so the author included a now-old build of Joy2Key in the download, complete with pre-made config file for its controls--although those don't seem to have been updated to the latest keys so you'd have to correct those probably (F4 full screen toggle, Arrow keys to move, Z to jump, X for additional power in mid-jump I guess oh I forgot about this), but I just set them up in DS4Windows and played through using my DS4.
("TSR" in the credits is The Spriters Resource spriters-resource.com.)
I still don't know how Sonic knew my name. = ooo |
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