#Sonic r pc edge 3d windows#

Outside of a few Sega fan sites, thereвЂ™s not many places that talk of these games. Honestly, the era when Sega developed and published PC games in the mid-to-late вЂ™90s is woefully undocumented online. Probably due to the aforementioned music problem. ThereвЂ™s been rumors of a compilation featuring all the classic Sonic games with the same updates that the mobile phone versions of Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 got, but IвЂ™ve heard nothing of that since. Nowadays if you wanted to play Sonic 3 legally on PC, IвЂ™d honestly recommend buying the game on Steam and using the Angel Island Revisited modification. Hell, the game often hitches up while playing, which makes for an awful Sonic 3 & Knuckles experience. Now in an age where monitors can go beyond 60Hz, no amount of INI file updating and hacks are gonna make this reliable to play on modern devices. I wouldnвЂ™t recommend playing the game this way nowadays though. Nowadays itвЂ™s redundant considering you can play the original version through emulators like Sega Genesis and Mega Drive Classics on Steam, but when it was the mid вЂ™90s and emulation was still in its infancy, this was a suitable substitute. Other than that, the game is fairly the same as the 1994 Genesis classics. You can check out more about that prototype on Hidden Palace here. This leads more credence to the Michael Jackson theory, but itвЂ™s good to know that the tunes were originally made for Sonic 3 and werenвЂ™t made exclusively for Sonic & Knuckles Collection. Update: On November 16, 2019, the group at Hidden Palace released a prototype of Sonic 3 from around November 1993, and it turns out the replaced music that was in Sonic & Knuckles Collection was originally in the game all along.

Maybe one day weвЂ™ll have proper credits for who composed what. The whole Sonic 3 music thing is an interesting story, since about a dozen people made music for both this and Sonic & Knuckles. Though this might be for logistical reasons, since replacing music in older games is a bit harder than, oh say, changing Spider-Man so heвЂ™s pink in later releases of The Revenge of Shinobi. All later releases of Sonic 3 & Knuckles, from Sonic Mega Collection, to SonicвЂ™s Ultimate Genesis Collection, still use the original music. This particular change only applies to this release. Damn you Yukifumi Makino, making a 10 second ditty that haunted kids for generations!

While it doesnвЂ™t bother me nearly as much these days, I can still get a bit of a twinge whenever I hear that damn drowning music when playing a Sonic game. I ended up getting Sonic 3 not long after it came out in 1994, but when I got to Hydrocity Zone and realizing it was involve a lot of water, I got so scared that I shut off the Genesis and asked to return the game. Well, that infamous platform jumping section through rising water in Sonic 2вЂs Chemical Plant Act 2 traumatized me pretty bad when I was younger. While I did own other platforms, including a Genesis, I never really got to really experience the platformвЂ™s greatest stuff until many years later, thus I never got to play Sonic 3 & Knuckles until this PC release. I was strictly a Nintendo kid pretty much until the late вЂ™90s, when I got my first PC. Though the Hedgehog was branching out to other ventures, including the educational SonicвЂ™s Schoolhouse, this was probably one of the biggest gets for PC gamers who didnвЂ™t really dabble much in the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive library.

#Sonic r pc edge 3d windows#

Sonic & Knuckles Collection was released in late 1997 for Windows 1995, and was the second major Sonic game to reach PC, the first being two different ports of Sonic CD. Anyone who says Sonic the Hedgehog 2В is the best Sonic game is a liar.