Canceled Sonic Ports
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- Nowadays, Sonic games have ports to several consoles. But did you know that there are SEVERAL ports of Sonic games that never saw the light of day? Let's discuss this in today's video!
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Music Used:
"Aquatic Base - Level 1" from Sonic 06
"Hill Top Zone" from Sonic 2
"Main Menu" from Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
"Kingdom Valley" from Sonic 06
"Eggmanland - Day" from Sonic Unleashed
"Options" from Sonic Generations
"Ice Cap" from Sonic 3
"Metallic Madness Act 1" from Sonic Mania
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Sega : **cancels Sonic Unleashed DS because of hardware limitations**
Also Sega : **releases Sonic Unleashed on java phones**
They decided to SCRAP THE UNLEASHD ON PSP, DS AND PC BUT MADE A JAVA PHONE PORT. BRO, THE JAVA PORT IS A SCUFFED VERSION OF DS
Yep sega is strange sometimes
At least you can play the java port on psp with one of the java emulators for psp out there. It's cancellation and also gens psp port cancellation really sucks though since they only released 2 games on psp + a genessis collection which only includes Sonic 1 and 2. Would've been cool to have more official psp games honestly. At least if you mod it you can emulate the game gear, java, genessis and gba games + play some homebrew Sonic games too which makes the Sonic game library on psp better.
its not a port tho, its an alternate ver o the game
@@Octo4533 true. The java version kinda feels like a mix between Sonic Advance and Sonic Rush to be honest. It's also really short. It only has 4 levels from what I remember. So yeah it is very different compared to the other versions of it. But to be honest, the psp version would've been an alternate version too with probably similar graphics to the Sonic Rivals games.
Bruh, Unleashed mobile was made by an entirely different company who specialized with mobile phone games. Whenever someone mentions Gameloft making games outside mobile, people are surprised because it is not their forte.
We lost PC ports of Sonic 06 and Unleashed but Sega went out of their way to port Lost World 😭 we are *not* in the best timeline
Your pfp💀💀💀
Lost world is not bad, but yeah those pc ports will be missed, especially 06 since i really like the og game anr would have loved easier mod support and faster load timez
lost world rules idc
Fun fact, the generations wii port got repurposed into Sonic Colours, as can be seen via the cutting room floor
Colours came first
@@NativS2002 yes 😂😂😂
@@NativS2002 The team split into half again, wii team (storybook games) working on colors, while unleashed team working on generations.
hence why generations is more like unleashed than colors
@@NativS2002 They entered development around the same time
I wonder what 06 would look like on wii
Edit: Scratch that, i would loooovvvveeee to see sonic mania on 3ds
Probably would look like Superstars but alot more pixelated
It would’ve probably rubbed the same as on Xbox 360 but in lower quality
Ye true but it will still be cool on the 3ds
It’s possible if you have a modded new 3ds
It would look like shadow the hedgehog aka the physics and graphics
We were robbed of so many ports of sonic. Sonic 06 if it was ported to pc, the modding ocmmunity would've fixed the game ages ago.
On the topic of cancelled Riders ports, there was also a port of Zero Gravity planned for the Xbox 360, and a port of Free Riders for the Wii.
That sucks. If zero gravity was on 360 I probably would’ve bought it
@@ChargedTheHedgehog That game is worth pirating
UGH I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO INCLUDE THOSE!!
@@SFproductions1 lmao
Proof?
The real reason why Sonic Unleashed was not ported to PC was not only because they only wanted to be on home consoles, but because the development of the Windows version would take a long time, even the release date that Sega wanted would arrive and this version would continue to be developed, so Microsoft decided not to make this version.
We saw Sonic Unleashed running on PC in a few pictures!
where?
i heard sega lost the coding into the game so they couldn’t port it 😭
@@regretchoices I don't believe that's true
It's not that simple💀. These pictures are from devs testing the game on something called devkit. Both x360 and ps3 have different architecture from a normal computer, this is to make harder to jailbreak and modify the console, also to make the game more optimized. The devkit kinda of emulate these console's softwares and i assure you these computers running the game are very powerful, to make it run on a PC you need to code the game from scratch(which takes time).
@@wend34 What is this word salad dude, no one ever said anything about devkits or emulation
Maybe Sonic busting open monitors to get power ups in the original Sonic games was a nod to his disdain for PC ports.
As someone who loves the low-polyness of the DS, Unleashed on DS sounds so enticing to me
Fun fact: Sonic 4 episode 2 was originally planned to have a Wii port but was scrapped due to hardware limitations.
It was due to the limited file size WiiWare could have on the Wii Shop Channel
If they would've released it on disk I think it could've run well on Wii. It's not very impressive graphically and it doesn't have much content.
Not a fact, that game could have easily been on the Wii if the Android port is anything to go by.
@@OhKayEl true
If Sonic 06 came to Wii I most likely would’ve played it as a kid and might’ve been a bit fond/nostalgic for it like I am with unleashed and black knight.
Wanted to add a slight correction as to why the Sonic 06 Wii port wasn’t made. The port wasn’t finalised due to Sega just wanting to make a unique experience, rather the game was just too much for the Wii to handle so since 06 just couldn’t be made, Sega instead decided to split Sonic Team in half so a Wii game (Secret Rings) could be made. The engine used to make Secret Rings originally was utilised for a Wii port of 06. Also the project would have taken too long for the deadline so that’s another reason why the port wasn’t made. Feel free to add more information or correct me in the replies but this is what I got from a simple google search. Sorry if this a long comment just wanted to provide correct information about a cancelled port.
Matt muscle said the same thing in his what happen sonic 06 video
Fun Fact:Sonic Colors was originally the wii port for sonic generations but due to console weakness it was canceled and changed into a very differant game which is colors
The next thing is just a theory I make it up
Which I have a theory that sonic colors in concept was originally the third rush title
This meybe explain why there was a ds port in the first place
This is just a theory
It's not far from truth that the colors ds was originally also the ds port for sonic generations
That's another theory
Wait what SEGA wanted to give good Sonic games ports? The one thing that I think was going to be a weird port was Sonic 06. A lot of these games that people love I honestly think they don’t really need these Sonic ports. I can definitely see why people wanted an Unleashed port so badly and me too.
Unleashed on psp, dude I would have unironically played that. Also the gens port to psp is also wild. Would play both honestly but still both games and their ports that we got are still good and have their respective fans.
As a Sonic fan with a psp I'm sad that we only got 2 rivals games and one genessis collection honestly.
8:00 pov:
you loved the sonic 3 original soundtrack
so you used it as background music
Fact: the psp sonic generations port was gonna be the 3ds levels and yes it’s the exact same as the 3DS version
8:11 I think they got the ``canceled`` sonic 3 port and finished it for origins
nah, the one in origins is built off the mania version of the retro engine (on top of other new stuff that the 2014 pitch didn't use) and i believe was done from the ground up
The thing that confuses me is, why did sonic team split in half to work on 06 and secret rings, when they could have finished 06 without working on a different project, and just work on another game for the wii at the time. They could have done something like what they did with unleashed.
Sonic Team DID NOT split the team into two for 06 and Secret Rings. This has been going around for far too long and it’s just untrue
Source?
Sauce? 🤨🤨
6:24
It's very possible that we could see those exclusive zones from the 3DS remastered or remade for Sonic × Shadow Generations! It's a long shot, but I do recall the site saying bonus content as well. So some of those PC mods for other Sonic games may see the light of day officially.
Combine that with the updated graphics and the Shadow portion of the game, and we may very well have a game better than its predecessor!
Honestly, we shouldn't expect Sonic Team to add much, if anything at all to the base game of Generations.
Gens is going to be base version with the casino DLC, most likely the only changes will be new button layouts to support joycons, dualsense and xbsx controller and improved performance on some laggy parts in levels like crisis city
it's more of a side dish served along Shadow Generations, sadly
I don't think we'll get bonus content inside the og generations part of the game sadly outside of the pinball DLC level, some new music from the newer games included and maybe some extra missions and cosmetics but I hope that the Shadow part of the game will have a decent amount of content.
unleashed pc was shown in sega gdc 2009, and they run it through a laptop
they made a port just for that event lol
It's not a port 💀. Devs always test the game on something called devkit. Both x360 and ps3 have different architecture from a normal computer, this is to make harder to jailbreak and modify the console, also to make the game more optimized. The devkit kinda of emulate these console's softwares and i assure you these computers running the game are very powerful, to make it run on a PC you need to code the game from scratch(which takes time).
@@wend34 Still a port though, it is not running directly from the engine. but they exported into exe it for that GDC.
devkit is the real PS3 & XBOX360 but with extra devtool and ram for debugging.
What shown in GDC is running directly from windows
@@wend34 you gotta watch the convention, there some point the game is crashing, but then open it again , the format are indeed .exe.
@@Ismayamelasranaid i already watched and i do not believe they would port the game just to an convention(and even an unstable port as you mentioned). Sorry for the devkit mistake, what i actually wanted to say it's that some engines can test run your projects by mocking the console APIs
Sonic generations,Wii was too big to fit on the console so it turned into sonic colors and then for the DS it turned into sonic colors for the DS and for the PSP version it turned into the 3DS version and sonic free riders gonna be on the Wii
on the sonic 3 mobile port being cancelled part you forgot to mention that there is a fanmade port of sonic 3 out there and it's called sonic 3 a.i.r (angel island revisited). it's available for windows, macos, android and ios
Apparently, that PSP prototype disk of Generations was actually damaged and 14mb of it’s contents was recovered, It’s possible that there was a lot more on the disk, and maybe even a playable demo build, but it’s all unrecoverable now.
Since those recovered textures are similar to the ones in mushroom hill from the 3ds version I assume that it would've been a port of it like how the ps2 version of unleashed was a downgraded port of the Wii version. Honestly, I'd love to see a fan made homebrew port of it on psp.
I now REALLY wanna know what Sonic 2: Escape from Ring Zone would have looked and sounded like.
I remember that at some point it was confirmed that the Mega CD port of Sonic 2 was dropped so early on that the Genesis/MD version was still in its earlier stages of development, at that point the plan still was for Sonic CD to release late in 92 so there wasn't much need for other Sonic titles to show up for the add-on, but then Sonic CD ended up being delayed into 93. If you go back and look at that point in time it was fairly common for "deluxe" versions to be released on Sega CD a few months after the cartridge release, these CD versions were usually just the same game with a new soundtrack and some extras like a couple new levels taking advantage of the new hardware features, nothing too high effort.
Also the first Sonic Riders was also ported to Xbox and PC, those two versions did make it to release.
Sonic unleashed on pc and sonic 06 on pc would make my so happy. (Love the fan mods for it but having the og games on would be great.)
9:30 you forgot the Wii. Also, the Sonic Mania Wii port is a decompilation from Mefiresu
I think Sonic Colors on Wii existing is a result of Generations not being able to be ported to the Wii so some of the SonicTeam devs worked on Colors while the others worked on Generations
mannnnnnnnnn I would've been so down with a Unleashed DS port. Dimps was on top of the world back then with Rush, Rush Adventure, and Colors DS
The Wii version of Gens was cancelled very early in the development, since the Hedgehog Engine wasn't compadible with the console.
But since a lot of Sonic fans only onwed a Wii at the time, Iizuka decided to split Sonic Team in two, so one half would develop Gens and the other one a original Wii exclusive game for those fans... and then Sonic Colors was born. :)
Videos like these I long for!
I love the fact that the pc cover uses pegi and not esrb because europe was the only place where you could get a physical pc release.
Unfortunately, that one game might have been the last sonic game on pc to have a physical release...
gee.. I already knew about unleashed PC being scrapped but learning about the reason for it actually makes me even more upset.. thanks for the video though, that was a pretty fun watch
ayy appreciate it!
To clarify, Mania on 3DS and Wii U isn't illegal (at least in the United States, where jailbreaking is totally legal), as long as you provide data from the PC or Switch version of the game that you own.
Luckily 06 didn’t release on Wii cause I have it and if the game get released on Wii it’s just another story
Hopefully 06 & unleashed will get their pc port. Just look at how long it took sonic adventure 2 to get its own pc port. There's a chance we might get what we want.
I’ve heard that knuckle chaotix was originally planned for the Sega Saturn but that was cancelled
The revisionist history that people *LOVED* Unleashed at launch is always wild to me.
AT BEST people liked the day stages and even that was in question.
Apparently Sonic Riders Zero Gravity had plans for Xbox 360 port would of been cool especially since it could of been backwards compatible with the xbox series x/s
I heard the reason they didn’t make a Wii port for 06 and or Generations (I don’t remember which) is they wanted a Sonic experience in HD, something the Wii was not capable of
Imagine they cancelled sonic 1 and 2 on the sega cd so they had to buy the sega genisis and sonic cd to get all the games.
2 videos the same week 👏👏👏
It’s at the PC port of sonic unleashed was gonna take longer
Does anyone have a direct source for “Escape To Ring Zone”? I’ve checked a couple of magazines that the Sonic Wiki Zone cited, and I didn’t find any specific mention of a Sonic 2 port to the Sega CD. All I’ve seen from Sega Force issue 16 is a mention of “Sonic CD”, no Ring Zone mentioned.
Kinda confused on this, if anyone has any insight I’d appreciate it.
I think a Rush styled Sonic Unleashed port for the DS would’ve been cool.
I agree
Damn it would be cool if they ported Sonic Generations on the WII , just imagine the exclusive levels that could've been added to it .
And of couse unleashed on PC could've ruled ( because you know better performance and mods )
After playing P06 so many times, the original 06 legitimately gives me war flashbacks. Like I'm not kidding.
06 on wii would be beyond broken
There is a TH-cam channel called “Sonic Unleashed 3DS” and as the name suggests, they are making a port of Sonic Unleashed for 3DS
didnt know that sonic mania can be played on wiiu i do only have it on the 3ds , gotta play it on wii u rn
They could have made the DS port of Sonic Unleashed like Sonic Rush but with the nighttime levels being a 2D platformer and daytime like Sonic Rush.
had no idea that somic 2 was going to have a cd version, i thought both sonic 2 and cd were both in development around the same time
The psp disk was damaged so It could've had a playable rom but couldn't find it intact
Well thanks for the info
unleashed on PC....we would've had that by now thats insane
i wouldve loved to see a gens wii port but i have no doubt in my mind it wouldve forced motion controls and uh, im good
Sonic Generations could’ve been on the Wii and DS!?
Fun Fact: Sonic Generations Wasn't Planned For The 3DS Until They Found Out That The 3DS Was Releasing, The PSVita Probably Didn't Have A Port Due To Poor Early Sales, Finally, YES, The Wii Version Of Sonic Generations Didn't Happen Due To Technical Limitations, So They Instead Made Sonic Colors.
Honestly, I still think we should've gotten Sonic Generations on the Wii U and PS Vita. It would've been a great addition to the respective consoles' libraries
4:31 why did sega put it on ps2 when unleashed came out after tge ps3
Because the ps2 was still selling well back then. Also the ps2 port is just a port of the Wii version with worse textures and lighting so it probably wasn't as expensive to produce.
06 is still a better game then secret rings to me…i couldn’t even get past the first level in secret rings….
The tutorial level where you just run in a straight line? Or the first actual stage that only requires basic steering and jumping?
@@Crow_Rising I don’t remeber which one it was over 10 years ago.
unleashed definitely could do with a native PC port, but it’s hardly stuck at its original 720p/30 - Series X BC has 4K60 and both Xenia and RSPC3 are capable of it too
SF, do you think the Knuckles series will be better than Sonic Prime?
Yes
Only one I know is there was going to be sonic adventure or adventures 2 for switch. Mostly likely most recent story. Writing before I watch. Otherwise poor sonic pc cant get a break.
if we had a port for sonic 06 on the pc and it is the same as the xbox360 version i would buy it because i want to play the full game i want to see what 06 was actually like i have an xbox360 but its in storage i dont want to wait more years for project 06 to finish
ngl seeing the riders port being for portable consoles, along with there having a cancelled sonic generations psp port
that couldve been the perfect console to make another sonic riders entry but instead we got rivals and free riders
couldve saved the series n its sad to see
I wanna see Sonic 3 & Knuckles on the Master System
What I meant to say was: What if S3&K got a port to the Master System like 1 and 2, but got canceled?
Cant believe they cancelled sonic 06 from wii but not sonic unleashed nokia version
i always wanted sonic mania for android officialy and netflix gave us a beta
and now i hope this netflix port gets cancelled
We need a sonic unleashed port in nintendo switch ps5 & ps4 and xbox
I had a Xbox 360 and I had no glitches somehow ( I have bad memory) but the loading screen took like 30 seconds man I miss it.
I hope someday Riders 1 gets remastered with the Zero Gravity characters backported. Primary for Blaze if I'm being real
7:10 the WII version of gens was scrapped because the WII could not handle it,
but because the WII was the most sold console and had the demograph they wanted
they created a fully original game..
thus SONIC COLORS was born.....
and don't ask me how sonic team made two good games at the same time
Interesting
i don't think colors was ever meant to be gens. it had the codename project sonic 2010 whereas generations was sonic anniversary. If they were meant to be companion titles, then colors likely wouldn't have released literally a year before gens lmao
@@CrashFan03 they fist planned to make
a version of gens for the WII, then they scaraped it and descided to make colors instead
Rush style Unleashed woulda been nutty
Pretty certain sonic riders wasn’t just on ps2 and Xbox. It released on xbox same day and pc later on in like 07 I think
Unleashed was developed on pc if i'm not wrong. There's a GDC video where they show off things in unleashed on a pc
It's not a port 💀. Devs always test the game on something called devkit. Both x360 and ps3 have different architecture from a normal computer, this is to make harder to jailbreak and modify the console, also to make the game more optimized. The devkit kinda of emulate these console's softwares and i assure you these computers running the game are very powerful, to make it run on a PC you need to code the game from scratch(which takes time).
@@wend34 What are you even on about? Did I even mention anything about port? Read my fucking comment properly before trying to act like a genius
06 on PC would have been great with mods, i love that game, yes the og, not just P-06
How is 9:23 any different from 5:48 where you didn't say anything? If you own the copy, it's legal.
Sonic Riders was also on the Xbox SF Productions.
Indeed it was
@@SFproductions1 yeah you forgot to include it but that's okay.
@@cepherinorodriguez8995 oh shoot I did didn't I? 😭
9:04 "sega then realized thar Sonic sells best on nintendo consoles" imagine telling a 90s kid that
I was hoping you'd have mentioned the canned C64 port of Sonic 1.
What’s the first song playing in the beginning of the video
Aquatic base level 1 from Sonic 06
9:15 i don't think renegade kid ever actually formally offered. the lead dev asked on twitter and never got a response. also the decomp ports are legal lmao
It is an absolute shame that Riders Zero Gravity never came to PS3 or Xbox 360 despite it coming out in 2008, hell even Riders 1 could have come to Xbox 360, it came out after the release of the 360
Yo, imagine sonic 06 on Nintendo switch
That's wild
If Sonic X Shadow Generations is successful then I honestly think we'll get an Unleashed remaster next
Do you know sonic unleashed has a Java version
That's kind of angering if you ask me. I would've loved these ports
Sonic 06, boy, do I love that game
9:28 also on psvita and ps3
Well damn i was going to make this.
I’m back to talk about one more thing IGN reviewed sonic unleashed and it was the same person and he said it’s one of the best games and he said the night stages are better than the day stages
1:32 The Last Of Us Franchise rn: 😳
9:23 bros got opps
I just hope someone like chaosX just gets bored and ports unleashed
fun fact: the mobile ``ports`` of the classic games are NOT ports,
they are REMAKES made from the ground up
which is really surprising