I Spent $4000 To Play Sonic Unleashed in 4k 

Idk how Sonic Team even made Jungle Joyride on the Xbox 360 and PS3 and got it to work. That stage looks better then a lot of games released even today.

This game was beautiful when it came out, and it is still beautiful to this day. Sega nailed the art style, colors and lighting effects in Unleashed. It's so polished.

It's obviously the PS3 ver that still have inconsistent FPS in some areas. No matter how beastly powerful your CPU+your spec is. Still. I hope your having a blast with your build!

damn dude, i thought emulating Unleashed didn't work right, this looks great

RPCS3 and Xenia are making some huge strides! Though there are stability issues with Xenia Canary at the moment. Don't let that stop you, but stay as little time in the main hub worlds as you can before the game crashes. RPCS3 is playable from start to finish, but dips in FPS happen. I hope that both can work together to improve stability and performance.

Jungle Joyride, Windmill Isle, Dragon Road, Eggmanland, & even Cool Edge. I love the thoughtfulness Sonic Team put into these day stages visuals and difficulty. This game released on consoles almost 14 years ago and to this day it’s a shame that in my opinion no boost stages come close to the treatment Unleashed got. Generations was cute with minor fixes but Forces was a major slap in the face, hopefully Frontiers can revive this captivating rush of adrenaline you get playing because the fact that we can’t port this game or get an Ultimate Edition like Colors is very frustrating. Sega lowkey knows that’d make bank too if they ever thought about putting Unleashed on the PS5/ Xbox

This is soooo damn good! I know that the FPS loss is not the fault of the game itself or the computer. The boundaries of optimization on the Playstation 3 were tight. Sonic Team did the best they could not to amortize the experience or have to cut any content. Nice video!

Is that really Unleashed?! THe stages were so long! Amazing!

It is genuinely surprising that even on the Ryzen 7950X and its additional benefits on the front of Instruction Sets, the Aero Chaser portion of Jungle Joyride (Day) is still able to see framerate dips, though I am not all too certain on if this is a Resolution or Coding issue with RPCS at this point due to not yet having worked with Zen IV (I have a 5950X, at the time of typing; it's respectable for its intended purpose, but even this, Hydrophobia, and PGA Tour 'I2 to 'I4 still struggle to stay at 060 FPS in many areas when paired with a Radeon VII); it's been genuinely pleasant watching the emulator evolve over the years, what was once a Slideshow or Crashfest is now reasonably stable (even if a title is still in Ingame status, rather than Playable) and I hope we'll end up in a position where AMD CPUs and GPUs will witness the same kind of optimizations that Intel and Nvidia have gotten, there's definitely a Hardware Bias still present for obvious reasons but wishfully that will significantly improve as this decade progresses. (:

This game will never cease to blow my mind every time I see it in action. Hope I can actually play it one day. TwT

The fact that one course lasted 5 minutes is a huge deal on Segas part. The maps are really intricate and abstract, not to mention the camera angles and speed used to make this come alive.

Now spend another 4000$ to get 120FPS

Man graphically this game still holds up so well

one of my favorite sonic games of all time… i enjoyed every second of the video !

Im convinced technology only advances in order for us to optimally play this masterpiece

What a great stress test. Unleashed is over a decade old and has the best boost levels of any sonic game to date!

When you think about the fact that this was the exact same amount Hellena Taylor got offered to do the entire bayonetta 3 game, it's really sad lol

This is definitely a game that deserves a remaster, along with the adventure series and a remake of Sonic 06

The AVX512 instruction set really makes a difference

Almost the same performance on my 11700k. I guess there's a limit at some point but at least you don't have to get the latest R9 to reach it. Nice runs btw 👏.

This game is a piece of art , this was a joy to watch 🥲

i wish they would make a remastered for this game like they did for colors

What’s funny is as soon as “compiling shaders” appeared on screen, the video buffered for me LMAO

Dude. This was a beautiful run!!!

3:17 Didn't know Sonic could be so excited to get electrocuted

$4K for 4K. Well done on the achievement 8:08 btw :)

MY MAN IS DEDICATED 🙏 I LOVE IT

“What would you do if you were rich?” Me: Shows them this video

ironically, if sega ported sonic unleashed, a 60$ gpu could've done the same thing if it was on pc natively

A PC port of Unleashed is still a far dream

This is fantastic! It really brings out color and graphical merit of Unleashed! The fact we're never going to get another game that looks and makes you feel like Sonic Unleashed is, however, sad.

Nice build and welcome to the new 7000 series world man. Hope you are enjoying the game and pc.

Do you have AVX-512 enabled? And did you use the game's patches in the RPCS3 settings? Might improve performance on your end.

Is it just me or does this look more engaging than sonic frontiers ??

This is by and far the best 3D Sonic yet. They are insane for not having ported this to PC yet. 😭

daum this voice actor for sonic fitted so well back in the day. lol

Good to see you've got your priorities straight.

the level design in this game is so incredible, now I want to play unleashed again :D

Ah yes, gonna try the same thing when the intel i9 13900k comes out.

they need to remaster the game like sonic colors ultimate, unleashed will always be my fav sonic game

I’m just asking for one, ONE sonic game that revives the unleashed rush boost formula. So sad to know this is not gonna be possible

underrated SONIC game ever ! Fantastic opus

BEST SONIC GAME !!!

Sonic unleashed: *takes over 5 minutes to complete a stage* Sonic forces: “best I can do is 30 seconds”

Playing it at sub-720p on Series X is still really funny to me even if it runs great lol

Fun fact: There is an option you can check to get rid of that awful audio crackling. "Enable SPU Loop Detection". Having it on or off (depending on the PC) will either create crackling audio or completely remove it. Tested this game out way too many times, haha.

Worth it, worth every freakin cent... too bad I can't afford this lol... maybe one day but rn I'll stick to console for the unleashed experience I once tried emulating the ps2 version of unleashed and it ran like a dream on my potato laptop, 30 fps on that thing was mind blowing

5:28 that's goku's voice

Thought this was gonna be commentary not just gameplay but it does look nice and smooth

RPCS3 is now where Dolphin was at version 4. Incredibly impressive software but there's still issues like audio hitching and you need really good hardware to run it at a playable frame rate. If they keep this up it'll be amazing.

Man I wish I had that kinda money to spend lol I love being in college

$4000 well spent!

Now this is what can be called A worthy investment

I am currently building a PC quite similar to yours to do the exact same thing. The loop holes I will go through to play this game at it's best quality.

Remembering how long the stages are really makes me apreciate how many drugs the devs were on

When I was younger, I almost beat this game. The button smasher at the end was the ONLY thing keeping me from beating it.

Meanwhile my laptop rips 10-25ish fps XD Thank goodness for Series S/X.

Is an Intel core I7 processor enough to run the game?

Just get a over power computer they said , who need to pay bills they said.. jokes aside if you can afford it it's awesome. Nothing wrong with console either

This game almost has no 2D segments too one of the best boost sonic games

Bro spent 4000$ and still has fps drops💀

I've always been an emulation enthusiast, but my cheap Dell Vostro rig with a Quadro T400 could only emulate up to Dreamcast and some GameCube games. I spent $1100 on my 12600k, rtx 3060 build, to play 6th gen consoles at 4k. Can play 360 games at full speed at 1080p. Being able to play Cyberpunk and Elden Ring is just a plus lol. Check out the Golden Eye Remaster on Xenia!

What's the audio stutter at 5:46? I'm using a 3950X and not even I get that, might be good to change your Driver Wake-Up Delay to 0ųs in case that's causing stutter, also disable buffering in "Audio", and try both Async (multithreaded) or (Shader Interpreter) in settings in GPU. Heck, even try turning off multithreaded RSX just to see if that does anything for your performance! Mazel tov.

Looks gorgeous.

Do you use Cemu at all? Would be nice to see BOTW running on Zen 4, no gameplay of it on RU-vid as far as I can tell yet. There's very little emulation showcases. Good stuff here.

PS3 players, 2008: How good would be this game on PC ?? PC player, 2022: yes.

Sonic Unleashed is still quite a thrill to play, even to this day. The rollercoaster feel of these levels is what made me enjoy these 3D Sonic games, no matter how bad any of them were. Sonic Generations is still my favorite 3D Sonic for its level design, while Unleashed was simple but still holds a lot of action to entertain you for a long time.

I do not blame you, I love Sonic Unleashed. Hope to somehow figure out how to run an emulator so that I can play this and more on my PC.

This was one of the best games i ever played, good challenge to finish this game. Hope everyone could played it

This looks better than Sonic Frontiers.

i would do anything for a remake looking like this. sonic unleashed had the best levels wen it came to the day ones

Just such a fun game for me when I was younger. Hope they revisit this someday I enjoyed the story

1:13 This stage was utter garbage the first time i played it on xbox one. Some areas had like 10 frames a second and it was unplayable.

5min. long stage, I miss this type of Sonic stages 🤧

sonic frontiers can only dream of having levels like thses

Dropped frames still persist on a 7950x 💀💀💀. What will it take for this game to run Smoothly on Rpcs3.

If there's one game that should be remastered for the next gen it's THIS game!

how do you have the power to support the 4090 like that thing needs more power than like 2 washing machines... Still very happy for you and your build I have a 3080 and I cant run Sonic Unleashed at 30 fps consistently!

He spent 4K to play 4K.

Holy shit the nostalgia hit me like a tidal wave

The first zone kinda looks like Indonesia. I saw the building that looks like Rumah minang

Still in my opinion the best looking Sonic game

Been using Rooftop Run as my benchmark personally. Has some very obvious weak points. Especially the start, the fountain, and that dash to the goal.

Sonic unleashed is probably the most visually impressive looking sonic games to exist frontiers could look stunning too and can’t wait to see modified graphics enhancements to it just like this

Game looks crazy nice. 👾

I'm here again 1 year later. All I can say is "i9 13900k and RTX 4080 goes like brrrrr"

Wow thanks for showing this i was truly curious how it runs with the new shit. wondering if avx realy helps here

One of the best sonic game ever made, so happy I bought it when I was younger loved the game

Man I love this game. Take you on that lovely Flow State ride. Day stages for this game is goated, the dragon stage was legit too 💯

Bought a 360 back in the day just to play this game, don’t regret it. Sonic Unleashed is an under appreciated gem!

Dude it's looking insane it's soo smooth

i forgot how incredible this game was. also you gotta get your lightspeed dashes in order man, no good

Why no one show the werehog in these 60 fps videos do people hate ot that much?

It’s insane how this looks better than modern games. Especially frontiers.

i spent too much money to watch it in 480p

I've played this on my series s and it's at 60fps at long last, the fps booster really helped. How can u make a stage 2 generations ahead of it's time 😭

Xenia just got it’s black screen issue fixed LOL

ayo bro can you tell me what settings you got? I've basically got the same except Ryzen 9 5900X and a 3060TI with 16 gigs of ram. If you could help a brother out it would be most appreciated

XSX : LOOK AT WHAT THEY NEED TO MIMIC A FRACTION OF MY POWER

How does one emulate this version on a pc? I never got the pleasure of playing the 360 version I always had the wii version growing up