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Sonic gems collection sonicretro11/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This PC code was not optimized for consoles. The PC version of Sonic CD made a call to a specific graphics card to display Tidal Tempest's water colors. The reason for the clear and clean water in the Gems Collection version is because the port of Sonic CD is the PC version. In the Sega CD and PC versions, the water was colored differently in all time zones (Present was green, Past was brown, Good Future was cyan, and Bad Future was red). In the port of Sonic CD, the water in Tidal Tempest in all time zones is clear.The port of Sonic R had a much improved draw distance over any previous version of the game.In the GameCube version, Sonic R still has the 4 player mode from the PC edition. In the PlayStation 2 version of Sonic Gems Collection, Sonic R is limited to the 2 player mode from the Sega Saturn edition.A third remix of Sonic CD is based on the opening song of the American version, Sonic Boom. Two remixes of Sonic CD's original soundtrack are present as extras.Some pictures based on Sonic Jam are also in the museum. However, there is an entire art section of the museum dedicated to Chaotix which suggests Knuckles' Chaotix was originally going to appear in the collection. Yuji Naka stated in an interview that SegaSonic was left out due to the original game being controlled by a trackball. Knuckles' Chaotix ( 32X) and SegaSonic the Hedgehog (Arcade) were games that were expected on this collection based upon the obscurity theme. The compilation is a GameCube-exclusive in North America, but has also been released on the PlayStation 2 in Europe, Japan and Australia. The North American and European releases only include the two Vectorman titles, in order to keep the former version's ESRB Rating as Everyone and Europe's similar rating. The other four unlockable games are only in the Japanese version are: The two unlockable games in all 3 regions are: The collection also includes the six Game Gear games that were absent in Sonic Mega Collection Plus: Sonic R ( Sega Saturn, port of the PC version, ported by Traveller's Tales).Sonic the Fighters ( Arcade, ported by Sega-AM2).Sonic CD ( Sega CD, port of the PC version, ported by Sonic Team).The closest Sega has come to recreating that magic is Sonic Mania, for obvious reasons, hence the disappointment it won't be getting a sequel anytime soon. While there has been the odd Sonic game that has gone down in history as being objectively good, most have been played and forgotten relatively quickly so we can all go back to playing whatever of the aforementioned collections we have to hand. On the flip side, Sonic fans' love for those first four games might well be an indictment on what has come since. Honestly, if the music from the first game's bonus levels starts playing, odds are I am going to fall asleep, and I mean that as a compliment. Some of us have played the games so many times and on so many different platforms that we could do it in our sleep. Whether you were five, 15, or 50 when you first played them 30 years ago, there's something that forever stays familiar when you revisit Emerald Hill, Mystic Cave, or Hydrocity. They are the ultimate comfort games for whoever played them the first time around. ![]() Sonic though, he gets a pass, thus proving those original four games are the most replayable games of all time. If any other series were to have shamelessly sold the same games over and over again with barely any tweaks, there would be uproar. Sonic Origins will bundle the games together yet again, and people will buy it without complaint. Since classic Sonic games can now be bought through online stores on various consoles, including an updated version of Sonic 2 on Switch, some may have thought the series' collection era might be over, but apparently not. Non-Sonic games such as Ristar and Streets of Rage set this apart from the collection that had come before. However, in this instance, Sonic came packaged with a lot of the games he shared a console with during the early '90s. Enter Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, a gathering of games that is exactly what it says on the tin, or in this case the box art. As the PS2 and the original Xbox were replaced by the PS3 and Xbox 360, Sega deemed it necessary to introduce even more people to Sonic. ![]()
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