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Post by Bry on Sept 28, 2004 6:09:22 GMT -5
hmm, yes, Koshi unintentionally reminded me I had these two 'oldies'. These were my first 2 'proper' pictures. Scanned, coloured and given a background etc. Must have done them in Summer last year. So each one took ages. Anyways, nothing to do with Mario or even Nintendo... well.. actually... I guess it is now.. Sonic Adventure 2: Battle and DX were Gamecube exclusive afterall. Some things you just don't get used to, lol   Yes, yes, you can run along now.  |
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Post by Dragoncube on Sept 28, 2004 6:22:40 GMT -5
Cool I like your pics...especially the first one ;D
Great work
....Could I ask you which programm you did use?
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Post by Mailtroid on Sept 28, 2004 6:22:42 GMT -5
*Dies*...Woooowey! The clearyness! Nice metal effects, excellent shadow effects...what can I tell you? Just the pure awesomeness! ;D
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Post by joshi on Sept 28, 2004 8:45:53 GMT -5
Cool, Metal Sonic! He's pretty fast and he jumps incredibly high! I use him to reach shortcuts unreachable by any other player during racing. He comes in pretty handy, even though he can't use special attacks. If he could, then he's be unstoppable.  |
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Post by Koshizu on Sept 28, 2004 9:32:30 GMT -5
Yeee, as I said before, they are really great. I love the rain effect in the first one, and the speed sense in the second. That and his overall sheen and metallic look, iss stupendous! ;D
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Post by Bry on Sept 28, 2004 10:26:36 GMT -5
 Quiet you! *Gags Koshi* These were all done in Photoshop 7, a couple of months after 'upgrading' from 6. Just about everything done in them was something new to me. I've got to wonder now, how many of you folks here ever got to actually play or even see Sonic CD? Its kind of become the 'lost' Sonic game, since its never been released or added to a compilation game like Sonic Jam or Mega Collection. Metal/Mecha Sonic made his debut in Sonic CD and was one of the toughest 'classic' Sonic battles. It was a race with Robotnik/Eggman chasing both of them with a deathray and Metal was invincible. Good days, good days. I still remember the intro and ending very vividly since they were proper anime FMV sequences. Way back in 1993. (11 years!? Where has it all gone) At the time, they were jaw dropping stuff to have in a video game. Maybe I should upload them sometime along with the original cheezy music. |
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Post by Koshizu on Sept 28, 2004 10:36:33 GMT -5
OHHH...hold the phone. I DO remember seeing those anime FMVs for Sonic CD! They were awesome. And yeah,m the music was cheesy. I just liked the part where Sonic was racing against Metal Sonic on a long strip of runway.  |
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Post by Fifth on Sept 28, 2004 13:57:19 GMT -5
*Gasp*
Sonic CD?
Yes! I've still got a working Sega CD! Whoo!
Sonic CD was such a strange game, what with all the time warping.
Anyway, cool pictures!
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Post by Bry on Sept 28, 2004 19:06:23 GMT -5
Ah, but that means you know the US version and not the original Japanese/European versions The gameplay is pretty much the same but the Jap/PAL versions had different music. It just isn't Sonic CD without the cheesy "You can do anything" opening soundtrack XD |
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Post by Yoshata on Sept 28, 2004 21:26:15 GMT -5
Those pics are both great! ;D I'm not even a fan of Sonic and I love both of these! Excellent work.
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Post by Fifth on Sept 29, 2004 1:44:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I know...
I wish I'd've been able to hear the original soundtrack of the game. From what I understand, all of the levels' songs are along the same themes as their past musics (which I'm guessing were the only songs to get by unchanged.)
Shame. I really like the past musics.
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Post by Bry on Sept 29, 2004 5:08:59 GMT -5
Well, if you still want to, just give me a bell on msn. I happen to have the soundtrack, bar the past music which for some reason was hard-coded into the game. One of the joys of Mega-CD and Saturn music was that most of the tracks were on the disc in standard CD audio format. ie, you could drop the disc in a normal CD player, skip the data track and the rest would play just fine. On a side note, I dusted off the Saturn and Sonic Jam CD to recover the original versions of the Sonic CD intro/ending. Before they were cut and 'optimised' for playback on the Mega-CD (ie tiny resolution with 16 colours at about 5 frames per second if that) www.x-plane.org/users/ukguybry/Sonic%20CD%20intro.zip < Sonic CD uncut intro (might hurt your ears!) www.x-plane.org/users/ukguybry/Sonic%20CD%20ending.zip < Sonic CD uncut ending. (good & bad combined) www.x-plane.org/users/ukguybry/soniccd.zip < Japanese Sonic CD commercial. I wish we got ones like these here! CG Sonic vs Metal Sonic back in a 1993 commercial. Ahead of its time. Keep in mind you younger folks that back in 93, this kind of thing was unheard of in a console game. You needed top end PC's to even dream of this sort of thing. It was also before any sonic cartoons had ever been produced and anime was something you would probably only see in a tiny section of a dedicated video store at astounding prices. To turn on a game and see an anime Sonic running around and jumping was a really big deal at the time, lol. How so much has changed since then. |
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Post by Fifth on Sept 29, 2004 18:49:21 GMT -5
Yeh, the past songs were all synthesized, I think, which always caused them to load faster than the others. I love pressing start partway through the past-travel sequence, so that the music starts overlapping the travelling sounds... sort of a weird fade-in thing... but I just love how it sounds.
Heh.. I still use Sega CD games as soundtracks... some of them have got some really good music! Sonic CD (yeah, even the US version is still pretty good,) Pugsy, Lunar, Keio Flying Squadron... plus one or two songs off Lunar 2 and Popful Mail.
Anyway, I would still love to hear the original soundtrack, 'cept my connection can be pretty ridiculous at times... Let's see...
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Post by Teo on Sept 29, 2004 19:43:39 GMT -5
*Dies*...Woooowey! The clearyness! Nice metal effects, excellent shadow effects...what can I tell you? Just the pure awesomeness! ;D Are you a cat? Because you've died about 5 times already looking at art. And I had the Sonic CD game. That deathray level is the one I couldn't pass  . I had a brilliant idea, but could only try it once. The deathray was behind, chasing you and the metal sonic in front, but when you pass him he hurts you. I discovered that if you stayed between long enough the death ray and metal sonic would trap you and the ray get you. But just before that, jump over metal sonic and HE will get hit. I did that, he got hit, he lost rings, and then he ran me over and I fell in some spikes while carrying no rings. Sad, isn't it? Nice artwork though, I need to find some good backrounds like that... |
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Post by Toshi on Sept 30, 2004 14:01:16 GMT -5
Robots and rain don't mix! Hehehe!
I like them, both look slick and really smooth, they are great!
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Post by goldyoshi on Oct 9, 2004 3:40:22 GMT -5
Cool pics! *glairs at them*  |
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