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Title: Sonic X-Treme E3 Prototype released
Post by: Mystical Ninja on Jul 17 2007, 11:22 PM

http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showt...2907#post212907 (http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=212907#post212907)

Title: Sonic X-Treme E3 Prototype released
Post by: Yerix on Jul 18 2007, 12:10 AM

HOLY SHIT!!!

it's about time they get a playable piece of sonic x-treme out to the public!! it's a fucking miracle!!

Title: Sonic X-Treme E3 Prototype released
Post by: Mystical Ninja on Jul 18 2007, 02:38 PM

The bad thing about this, though, is that Sega Saturn emulation hasn't progressed far enough, yet. Lots of these emulators are incomplete, run slowly, or you just can't get them configured properly. So at this point, I think our only option is to burn the X-Treme ISO to a CD, and play it on an actual Saturn. But of course, you would have to get it modded for that...

Title: Sonic X-Treme E3 Prototype released
Post by: Yerix on Jul 18 2007, 06:10 PM

it's a hard system to program for because of the complex hardware it's made up of, thats why saturn emulation never got far. not even the most potent of computers today have the processing power to make any games run smoothly...

you don't need to mod the system, you can burn the ISO on a CD-R and perform the swap trick (http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2004/12/learn-how-to-perform-sega-saturn-swap.html).

edit:and this can't be the e3 demo, this is probably the jade gully test engine...

Title: Sonic X-Treme E3 Prototype released
Post by: Mystical Ninja on Jul 18 2007, 07:11 PM

I may have to try that swap trick, sometime. And yes, this is the build that was playable at E3, back in '96. At least according to one of the staff members who worked on X-Treme (I forget which one, but it might've been Chris Coffin).

Title: Sonic X-Treme E3 Prototype released
Post by: The Light on Jul 18 2007, 11:13 PM

Gah, if only I had a Saturn.  So there aren't any emulators at all that'll run games at a playable speed?

Title: Sonic X-Treme E3 Prototype released
Post by: Mystical Ninja on Jul 18 2007, 11:26 PM

Up to my knowledge, no.

Title: Sonic X-Treme E3 Prototype released
Post by: Yerix on Jul 19 2007, 03:58 AM

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I may have to try that swap trick, sometime. And yes, this is the build that was playable at E3, back in '96. At least according to one of the staff members who worked on X-Treme (I forget which one, but it might've been Chris Coffin).

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or maybe senn?? there were more than one chris working on xtreme, if i'm correct...

so this is really the E3 proto and not this?? (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Sonic_X-treme_engine_test_screenshot.png)

Title: Sonic X-Treme E3 Prototype released
Post by: Mystical Ninja on Jul 19 2007, 04:14 PM

You're right, it IS that one. That is the gameplay engine, yes, but that's the one they made available to the public years ago. I remember one of the staff members saying that it was the boss engine, and Nack the Weasel ended up getting scraped from that build right before E3. I'll point you out to the source, as soon as I find it.

Title: Re: Sonic X-Treme E3 Prototype released
Post by: Mystical Ninja on Feb 24 2015, 01:46 PM

Another prototype has been found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aCMdV_oywQ
http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=34038

Title: Re: Sonic X-Treme E3 Prototype released
Post by: Yerix on Feb 24 2015, 04:57 PM

so the source code to the actual functional engine is about to go public?

maybe a proper real fanmake+revival of it can happen for once

hell let's get sega involved and they make another of their dinky phonegames out of it