The Coding Secrets hidden in "Sonic the Hedgehog" 

Maybe Sonic 2, I love that game.

Lego Star Wars

LEGO Star Wars The Video Game, I think people who love that game like me would love to know how that game was made, and explain as well why characters cannot swim if it was planned to swim in prototype Gungan_B and Gungan_C level. If you want more advices for that video, check your discord app, I sent you some ideas and more. Keep up the good work 💪😉

I'd like to see how the splitscreen in Toejam & Earl works

Virtual Fighter on genisis

And there's the old design.

RU-vid now says 1991 game?

RU-vid says 1991 game

@@vittosphonecollection57289 it was different when my comment was made.

@@PinClockFuntime Ok

This sounds a lot more interesting

Would be awesome

Yeah, that's a good concept for this channel.

mistakes were made

Probably every project has some sort of "mistake" or other in the code. It's just the nature of programming

Was gonna say. I'm glad someone else did, so now I don't have to. 😛

So then why not just make that wall part of the foreground instead?

Likely because there's no such chunk and the amount of chunks that can be put there is limited.

It's actually both. It's a free roaming meta-tile vs a fixed map meta-tile because the overlay saves on number of combination of tiles, but the collision data is attached to this object rather than the wall metatiles beyond it, because there's no need to be redundant.

Clickbait worked

The clue's in the title, surely?

@@adamplenty1645 the movie is also called "sonic the hedgehog"

The Sonic movie is a true video game movie because it was delayed following fan backlash, finished with heavy crunch, and then after it was finished the studio that made it was shut down despite product's critical and financial success.

@@rhombidandy394 Yes, but you don't "code" films.

Do you remember which video ? I would love to watch that

Here's how to do it with game genie codes: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2MKByhhm_S4.html I think there was another vid with a direct screen capture, but can't find it...

@@chunye215 oof, after seeing that I can see why they'd intentionally make it less smooth. Looks really good, but it's pretty disorienting.

Cool. Doesn't use any extra animation frames though...

I think I remember hearing that it was because it made Yuji Naka sick

I agree with this.

There's not that much technical information on youtube about the Saturn and a lot of misinformation. the videos about programming Sonic r are some of the most interesting on this channel and I'd love to see more

If GameHut talks about the Sega Saturn, it'd be interesting as hell to talk about the tech that went into Grandia for the Saturn, even though we never got it in the US. From a technology standpoint that is a pretty important game as I understand it, having the first streaming compressed audio.

Gunstar hero's would be a good one. I feel that's already been done though.

@@smash461986 gunstar heroes has a two plane "mode 7 like" rotation, something SNES can't do back on the day, so it would be cool to see

Yes, Treasure! Do Dynamite Headdy

AS does not get enough attention.

Haha, you may as well have said the entire Treasure collection.

Yeah... Feels pretty weird given it was 'genesis' only in America. Must be a calculated move based on guessing at the most likely audience... But it still feels really weird.

GH is in the US though and has been for some years, so it's probably just force of habit at this point!

That could be it I guess... Though old habits die hard, so if you grew up with it being one thing you're probably not going to swap over to the other name that easily... XD

Playing it safe with his American viewers! Shame on him 🙄

Nice passive aggressiveness there, Newton.

Crash Bandicoot: Warped might be intriguing considering it's one of my ten favourite games.

Contra Hard Corps!

@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 I feel Crash 1,2 and 4 are better than Warped. But agreed it would be interesting.

@@cookiesontoast9981 Do you mean better for coding secrets? Or as games? For the former, most likely since 4 is a TT game, and the first 2 came before 3 even though 3 has multiple engines. For the latter. No, absolutely not. If we're talking the N Sane Trilogy, then I would say I prefer 1 to 3, but lets talk specifically the original trilogy. Warped fixes every problem present in the first 2 entries, and is far above 4 in quality. Crash 1's flaws -Rough control -Unforgiving difficulty -Meh boss fights -Awful save system Crash 2's flaws -Inconsistent jumping momentum -Uninspired and repetitive level design -Artificial difficulty (trial and error, and backtracking) -Bad boss fights especially the last one -Poor story Crash 4's flaws -Hit and miss platforming -Bad uses of vehicles (Lacking the strong level design that made them fun in 3) -Poor boss fights aside from the last -Uninteresting plot -Poorly executed time trials -Worse versions of certain moves -Meh presentation

Do you have any idea why the effects were removed in the later versions (presumably JP came out first)?

@@josiahgoodman8875 Actually the other way round, the original Sonic was published by Sega of America so North America got the 1st release date, closely followed by the EU then a month later Japan, The extra effects were added during that time, but it wasn't just aesthetics some bug fixes and programming tidy up was also done assuming the NA/EU release must have been rushed, apparently the JP version can be found on much later release date copies of NA and EU carts but I have never came across one yet.

@@robertmclaren1456 interesting, didn't know that!

the ripple is probably horizontal interrupts again. scroll the screen left or right according to a sin wave while underwater

unlikely. 8 and 16 bit computers all tend to use a television signal hack to create a 'progressive scan' signal. Thus interlacing isn't present. You can get something to look transparent using the fact that composite signals blur the chroma signal across adjacent pixels... But this won't help with effects based on alternating frames. The hack computers use is basically to omit the part of a TV signal that causes the 1 line offset on each alternate field. Thus instead of 2 alternating 240 (or 288 for PAL) line fields that draw half of the lines each... The hacked signal draws the same 240/288 lines twice, leaving the other lines blank. (part of what creates the 'scanline' effect of these systems is that they leave every other line on a TV blank. ) Plus, I still regularly play sonic 2 on real hardware with a CRT and it still looks like it's flickering...

the 60 times per second flicker does that pretty well by itself

@@jc_dogen It works OK. Really doesn't look the same though. It doesn't blend nearly as well.

@@mielthesquid6536 This is one of the areas where the SNES' built-in proper transparency really proves its worth.

i'm no expert, but from what i can tell they used the same trick that they did for the background in green hill!

Heck, just gather up all the GBA games that achieved 'impossible' 3D graphics (like the port of _Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam_ that most people missed), and use the differences between them to help explain how they worked.

the main cheat is no perspective correction and a much lower polygon count than ps1 class graphics.

PS1 games also don't do perspective correction. They do affine texture mapping. They needed their own weird workarounds to avoid massive texture warping. Still, the GBA is a 20 mhz ARM chip. At a bare minimum you have to compare it to a SNES with a 2nd Generation SuperFX chip. And if you've seen the things that run on that, you'd note there's more textures and higher framerates than you might at first expect. The GBA also has a graphics chip that just makes software rendering a lot less complex than it is on the SNES. Plus, you know. 240x160 resolution is fairly low... GBA's processing power and graphical capabilities when using it's 'bitmap' mode aren't that far removed from a 486 with an SVGA card. Doom can run on a 486, but so can Descent, which is full 3d (albeit with level geometry restrictions caused by it's portal rendering system) So can stuff like 'magic carpet', which is more in line with the kind of game you're describing...

@@KuraIthys Yeah the bitmap mode will help, but in terms of texture correction ps1 games tend to tessellate triangles to avoid massive warping. asterix and obelix on gba doesn't do this at all as far as i've seen of it.

A coding secrets on Knuckles Chaotix would be fantastic.

"Megarace" pal you sure dug deep for this one

That would be interesting. I'd like to hear Jon explain how Sega stole a bunch of chimpanzees from a zoo and locked them in a room full of cocaine and computers. Because that's how knuckles chaotic was made.

The wiki pages on Sonic Retro have an excellent explanation of how those things were achieved - just Google "Sonic retro physics guide". Sonic's rotation on terrain is mostly covered in the page "SPG:Solid Tiles".

Derser It could also be a visual sign to players, to make it clear that this isn’t an area you can walk through compared to other parts of the level. Otherwise they likely could have just made the ‘barrier’ invisible.

hell yea, that game blew my freaking mind, its mode 7 on the genesis

oh jeez, yes please. That game is kickass.

That would be cool, but I can't say I'm all that hopeful. Insomniac have gone on record saying all of their project files up until about the ps4 era were a hot incomprehensible mess of bad organisational practices, so I imagine digging into it would be an undertaking at best.

Several Fighters the code could be badly organized but what matters is if there’s any documentation/comments. If not, then I can see why Insomniac wrote off their old projects as such

It already exists.

I made an old Sonic 1 rom hack that uses it, you can probably look it up on youtube tho

@@baraksha1 Please provide a link.

@@FullHitPoints Thanks for that vague unhelpful reply.

@@alainchristian It can be reactivated in-game using Game Genie codes. Just look up "Sonic 1 special stage smooth," and you should find a video of someone showing it off.

In the first game, the chaos emeralds in the special stages are a bit of a secret. The special stage is acting as though it's an ordinary special stage for the time - a bonus opportunity to rack up some extra score (and potentially a continue, if you collect enough rings) between the ordinary stages.

Same

I'd have thought the clue's in the title? How can you "code" a film?

@@adamplenty1645 So either you're assuming that the animation in the movie was hand-drawn, or that they got an actual anthropomorphic hedgehog and robots to film on-set.

@@otaking3582 Maybe it's because I'm a programmer, but I'd have thought the meaning of 'coding' is obvious in this context. Also, the Oxford English dictionary defines 'code' in this context as: 'Write code for (a computer program)'. A film is not a computer program. I'll be honest; the film didn't even occur to me, despite the thumbnail. I assumed it meant the 1991 video game.

@@adamplenty1645 If you're working with CGI models, then there's some amount of coding involved: lighting, shadow, telling a model's limb to move from Point A to Point B, hair and fabric blowing in the wind or getting wet, etc.

Definitive Dubs nonetheless, it is a nice thing to have. Also the broken mirror effect might be being performed by horizontal interrupts...