{"id":55864,"date":"2020-08-17T18:37:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/sonic-hedgehog-snes-fan-port\/"},"modified":"2020-08-17T18:37:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T18:37:09","slug":"programmer-gets-sonic-the-hedgehog-running-on-an-snes-game-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/08\/17\/programmer-gets-sonic-the-hedgehog-running-on-an-snes-game-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Programmer Gets Sonic the Hedgehog Running on an SNES | Game Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sonic the Hedgehog is no stranger to showing up on new consoles. Ever since Sega quit the console-making business<\/a> at the turn of the century, there are few major platforms the blue blur hasn\u2019t made an appearance on. Even so, one programmer is making it possible to play the very first Sonic the Hedgehog<\/em><\/strong> game on a console few would\u2019ve ever dreamed of playing it on: the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.<\/p>\n

The thought alone might seem almost heretical for those who grew up in the early 1990s, back when the great console wars between Nintendo and Sega<\/a> were at their fiercest. As weird as it might be to imagine Sonic\u2019s 1991 Sega Genesis debut running on the very console it was made to compete against, a programmer known as TiagoSC made it a bit easier recently by posting a tech demo for a SNES port of the game online.<\/p>\n

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The current demo only showcases the third stage of Green Hill Zone, but that\u2019s enough to show the promise here. What makes it stand out from other Sonic<\/em> fan projects<\/a> is that TiagoSC\u2019s port is based on actual Sonic<\/em> code (provided by engine disassemblies of the original games from fan site SonicRetro), which they then mixed with customizations designed to optimize it for the SNES.<\/p>\n

Given the considerable differences between the Genesis and the SNES\u2019s hardware, the result isn\u2019t an exact one-for-one recreation. As Eurogamer notes, having played it, the demo sports a reduced view of the level during gameplay, while sprites are half their usual sizes, which forces the game to load in more to compensate, straining the CPU in the process. Despite these issues, the demo nails the key parts of the game\u2019s smooth gameplay, that being the speed of the level-scrolling and how Sonic moves, resulting in a sample of Sonic the Hedgehog<\/em><\/a> that feels nearly identical to its original release.<\/p>\n