You wanna know something even crazier? Some hacker made a "Proof of Concept" Sonic 1 on the GBA, JUST to show it can be done right... and yeah, it is, it played very well, it let you play as Tails, and Knuckles via holding button combinations on the title screen... No slowdown, and the GHZ theme sounds right... sadly, it's just GHZ, no other acts were finished. But crazier yet, this was made by ONE PERSON... so one person, did a better job then a team of programmers....
People only know the bad side of Sonic fans, but they don't know the good side of Sonic fans, especially the ones that make BETTER GAMES than SONIC TEAM themselves.
It's the Meth of Sefblef (the beginning of the video? You're awesome Bladeblur. I cannot thank you enough for bringing me enjoyment and laughs and introducing me to Projarod. Keep up the good work.
***** you're welcome :). Now for a request. Can you please review Die Hard Trilogy for the PS1? It's an awful game. If you don't have it, I'll gladly donate my copy... that I got yesterday... at a yard sale... it immediately put me in a bad mood even worst than the NES game or Die Hard 3 and 4 did.
I think I have a port on my iPod Nano and even that was better than the GBA port. Fun review and one you should be proud of. ...and extra points for the Tekken Tag Tournament 2 music in the outro. LOOVE me dat Tekken!
Glitches . . . and yet they removed the one glitch I actually loved about the game . . . *Me looking for some fun, about to laugh at something I loved about my childhood only to find out it's not there* FUCK! WHY IS SONIC WALKING ON THE SPIKES, HE'S SUPPOSE TO DIE WHEN HE LANDS ON THE 2ND SET OF SPIKES!!!!
"So to make the game look even worse than what it already is, it makes the physics of Sonic 4 Episode 1 look better. 'Nuf said." -BladeBlur, 2013 It's at 6:01 by the way
@BladeBlurX: Just wanted to say that the look on your face in reaction to the title screen's music was priceless; it reminded me of my reaction to playing Raid 2020 for the first time.
I keep hearing that the mastermind behind Sonic 1 for Android, is considering putting his Sonic 1 (and his latest Sonic 2) remakes to consoles and Steam, possibly wanting to put the two games together as a bundle. I hope he does it.
I’m not sure if you did this, but how you can get up higher by using the seesaw(s) in Star Light Zone is by going to the very edge of the seesaw, and hopefully you would get up higher and a bit faster.
Great review, I know the pains of the game, at first it doesn't seem that bad but it's easy to change your mind by the next few acts, I did a let's play and almost rage quit 2 times but the battery on the cartridge is dead so if I turned it off and reset it I would have to play through all of it to get back to where I was and decided just to do it in 1 run after starting it back up.
Yeah Super Mario Bros DX also gave you an easy way to pan the camera. plus at least it gave you the ability to get more lives & a save feature to make up for the screen crunch.
The GBA didn't have that blast processing. Pretty good review blade. You should really use your commentary mic and sync it up while you're filming. Also, Pokemon Rap remix, was pretty funny.
I saw some people complaining about this but fuck em, this may be your best video yet and thats saying a lot. One thing I have to say though is I would have liked to have seen you review more than 3 different versions of the same game. But I'm sure thats what the future is for.
Now look I love Wario World to death but I just got here from the Confusing types list where you use Greenhorn Forest music (unrelated to Pokemon) to come here where at the start you use none other than Greenhorn Forest music (unrelated to Sonic). Seriously?
So what if I use that track on games that don't relate to the source material? Others reviewers do the exact same thing. I don't even like Wario World that much as much as I do that track.
while recording live-action footage it's best you use your mic, rather than the camera mic, it will make the transitions from your camera stuff to off camera stuff much cleaner. It's nothing too big, it will help with the quality alot more.
Tropius always confused me even more than gyarados. Tropius looks like a dinosaur that taped leaves on it's back and what do they make it a grass flying like wtf. I could get grass and dragon or only grass but that is not the best part you can literately teach it fly. So you can fly on a thousand pound dinosaur with no wings only taped on leaves but not someone like beedrill that has wings and smaller pokemon can learn fly but beedrill can't.
***** Do I ever ever plan to play Sonic Genesis? Nope nope nope!! All aboard the fuck all that train headed straight to Nopesville! Does anyone know if the Nope train stops at Fuck This Shitville?
Good thing I never tried it out. It looks and sounds terrible, haha. How did they possibly mess up this port? But, yeah, the Sonic 1 for iOS is glorious, even if it seems cheap to use Sonic + Tails, Tails, or Knuckles. It's cool that the stages were modded a bit just for those new characters. I think it's more fun if you turn S2-S3 items on in debug mode.
Thank you for not cussing cursing and swearing I have heard enough of those kinds of tongues. You were much better than Clementj642 Somecallmejohnny and Darknessthecurse. By the way I dont think this game is bad I think my ears can take it and I dealt with slow computers before.
damn straight it is, i'm just saying the game com version is worse as a port than this. Take all of the problems in this, amplify them by ten, and add the fact you only play four acts of the first level of sonic 2, 3, & knuckles, AND add the fact that the levels are almost completely redesigned with a few landmarks of the original level here and there, AND add the fact you can't charge your spindash, and you have a port of 2, 3, & knuckles that is FAR worse than this. It's pretty obscure, but people need to bring more attention to it. It deserves all the hate we can muster, good fucking loooooorrrrrrd. oh, and knuckles can't glide. Or climb walls. He's just a clone of sonic. This doesn't seem so bad now, does it? Things can always get worse, my friend. Things can always. Get. Worse.
For some reason I must have erased this port's existence from my memory. I'm assuming the cropped view was down to the vertical resolution of the GBA being lower than would be needed for a full field of view. Wouldn't be able to scale it down really as it would require all the art to be entirely redone as processor scaling wasn't really a thing then. As for physics I wonder if they tried to use an existing GBA game's engine as the basis for this and just ported the existing sprites and tiles over and then did an awful job replicating the physics. This can't be a straight up porting of the code. Has to be something reworked at the engine level for sure. That might explain the slow down too as it's likely conflicting with whatever base they build it off of. Music was a weak point for GBA in terms of fidelity and the Mega Drive audio has never really been emulated well but man those tunes are awful. I may have to get this.
My gramma got me this for my 14Th birthday I believe...oh the many times I raged....so much rage....but it's still alright as to me it have value, but the other versions are better/funner however I believe getting the emeralds are easier, IF you manage to get to the special stages my God that's hard...but I managed it. XD EDIT: I think I played this game so much and for so long before, I was mastering it (if I didn't rage XD) and adjusting, sad I know but was getting good enough to get all 6 emeralds. And when replaying the better version on my Gamecube...MAN was adjusting hard! I was so used to the bad and terrible controls when doing the special stages they felt harder and more easy to mess up....got better tho.
I prefer Sonic 1 on the Genesis/Mega Drive and Sonic compilation games such as Sonic Mega Collection/Sonic Mega Collection Plus, Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, Sonic Classic Collection and onward. I hate the GBA version of this game because of the slow-downs, glitches, bugs, bad frame-rate and the music and sound remixes. Playing Sonic 1 on the GBA is like playing a Sonic game on the Sega Game Gear. And I hate Game Gear Sonic games.
God Damnit how could they do this on Sonic? I mean Making a Bad reboot for the Blue blur is one thing but Castring and Mutilating the 1st Sonic that its considered one the Best Games on The Mega Drive (Genesis) and puttting on the GBA is a Big No No
Bladeblurx, I challenge you to a Pokemon battle on X & Y! You already have my Friend Code, so it's not hard to find me, and while we're battling, we'll film it, and put it on TH-cam!
Part way through developing this they should have realized it wasn't working and just stopped. Where was the quality control? How could anyone have looked at this and said it was ready for release? Oh, it was released in 2006, the year of Sega not giving a single fuck. That explains it.
You wanna know something even crazier?
Some hacker made a "Proof of Concept" Sonic 1 on the GBA, JUST to show it can be done right... and yeah, it is, it played very well, it let you play as Tails, and Knuckles via holding button combinations on the title screen...
No slowdown, and the GHZ theme sounds right... sadly, it's just GHZ, no other acts were finished.
But crazier yet, this was made by ONE PERSON... so one person, did a better job then a team of programmers....
People only know the bad side of Sonic fans, but they don't know the good side of Sonic fans, especially the ones that make BETTER GAMES than SONIC TEAM themselves.
And the guy that made this proof of concept is called Stealth. Sounds familiar?
That same guy is Simon Thomley, one of the people who brought us Sonic Mania. He is a hero.
_Data_Drain_ holy Fucking shit
4:55
Me: Where are you Robotnik?
Game: "Ha ha!"
Me: Fuck you!
I'm glad I never had to play this game on the gba.
Even more crazier, the sonic cd, 1 and 2 ports are now FREE!
It makes it look like pokemon sun/moon.
It's the Meth of Sefblef (the beginning of the video? You're awesome Bladeblur. I cannot thank you enough for bringing me enjoyment and laughs and introducing me to Projarod. Keep up the good work.
Thank you :). I am surprised I was the one who introduced you to Jared but glad to be of service. Now I hope he introduced me to people :P
***** you're welcome :). Now for a request. Can you please review Die Hard Trilogy for the PS1? It's an awful game. If you don't have it, I'll gladly donate my copy... that I got yesterday... at a yard sale... it immediately put me in a bad mood even worst than the NES game or Die Hard 3 and 4 did.
Amazing video man! Enjoyed the month and a half of Sonic, also cool to see you on the Completionists video to!
I think I have a port on my iPod Nano and even that was better than the GBA port.
Fun review and one you should be proud of.
...and extra points for the Tekken Tag Tournament 2 music in the outro. LOOVE me dat Tekken!
nice short circuit reference.
I grew up close to where those 2 movies were filmed.
I actually really enjoy your reviews, and this one is no exception! Funny, but mostly on point. Flawless editing. What else can I wish for?
i haven’t thought of this channel since i was like 12… insane nostalgia
Same lol
Glitches . . . and yet they removed the one glitch I actually loved about the game . . .
*Me looking for some fun, about to laugh at something I loved about my childhood only to find out it's not there*
FUCK! WHY IS SONIC WALKING ON THE SPIKES, HE'S SUPPOSE TO DIE WHEN HE LANDS ON THE 2ND SET OF SPIKES!!!!
"So to make the game look even worse than what it already is, it makes the physics of Sonic 4 Episode 1 look better. 'Nuf said."
-BladeBlur, 2013
It's at 6:01 by the way
2:06 I almost forgot how bad the music was in this game. _Almost._
I Like to call this game, Sonic 1, 06 Edition.
more like boom edition
@BladeBlurX: Just wanted to say that the look on your face in reaction to the title screen's music was priceless; it reminded me of my reaction to playing Raid 2020 for the first time.
I keep hearing that the mastermind behind Sonic 1 for Android, is considering putting his Sonic 1 (and his latest Sonic 2) remakes to consoles and Steam, possibly wanting to put the two games together as a bundle. I hope he does it.
maybe he will put a bundle on consoles and steam once the sonic 3 & knuckles rehanced port is made
Hey Tails230 and FlowJoe. I am Tails230 from 2 years in the future.
Its bee two years, nothing yet, and it doesn't look like it sadly.
tails230 im also from the future, mania looks juicy
I come from the future to say this won't happen
You missed some cheats for sonic 1 for the ios...
Great vid, Blade!
I’m not sure if you did this, but how you can get up higher by using the seesaw(s) in Star Light Zone is by going to the very edge of the seesaw, and hopefully you would get up higher and a bit faster.
Awesome review, I'm subbing.
Great review, I know the pains of the game, at first it doesn't seem that bad but it's easy to change your mind by the next few acts, I did a let's play and almost rage quit 2 times but the battery on the cartridge is dead so if I turned it off and reset it I would have to play through all of it to get back to where I was and decided just to do it in 1 run after starting it back up.
Haahhaha this was great Blade! This game is just.....just.......there are no words.
I loved the pokerap parody LMAO!
That port is why I'm extremely happy to have a Sony Xperia Play. Slide the phone, and it has a game pad on it.
Yeah Super Mario Bros DX also gave you an easy way to pan the camera. plus at least it gave you the ability to get more lives & a save feature to make up for the screen crunch.
What's the music between 8:30 and 8:56 ????
"Sadness" from Sonic Adventure
BladeBlur thank you
How do u put ur GBA games in your GameCube
GBA player in the GameCube
How are the sonic 1 videos such high quality?
Some of the footage I took was from Sonic Generations.
if your done playing it,give it!i wanna review it!
This game makes all the *new* Super Mario games look like GOD
The GBA didn't have that blast processing. Pretty good review blade. You should really use your commentary mic and sync it up while you're filming.
Also, Pokemon Rap remix, was pretty funny.
6:16 Hey look, my video just cameo'd :V
The ds version makes me question why they didn't do this?
12:01 Gotta love those sound effects.
I watch the end of the video. YOU ROCK
You can do the spin dash with any character
Nice review, BB! My god this game....agggggggghhh.....
He means use your mic you use for voice overs instead of your camera mic then sync it to your lips in sony vegas
4:05 either that or because sonic would be too damn small to see otherwise
Question, what do you use for editing software?
I saw some people complaining about this but fuck em, this may be your best video yet and thats saying a lot. One thing I have to say though is I would have liked to have seen you review more than 3 different versions of the same game. But I'm sure thats what the future is for.
12:54-13:38 best part of your review man.
Want Tails and Knuckles in Sonic 1? PLAY SONIC 1 REMASTERED FOR IPHONE AND IPAD!
I did not know that at all, especially after making this whole video!
You should finish mouth of sonic with sonic 3 & knuckles review "our favorite"
11:00
Sonic1-Rap!
u my friend just got a subscriber
Also referring to Mario deluxe
4:00 OH, they should totally make that a game version, it'd be the ultimate trolling, lol.
Now the question is...
WHEN IS SEGA GOING TO RELEASE THE PORTS OF SONIC 1 AND 2 FROM IOS TO STEAM!? We have CD, why not 1 and 2? It makes NO SENSE.
Playing as Tails & Knuckles in Sonic 1 breaks it that's why Sonic 1 couldn't lock on to Sonic & Knuckles in the first place
Wait, I can playy GBA games on my GCN?!?
If you have a Game Boy Player set for your GCN, yes.
Now look I love Wario World to death but I just got here from the Confusing types list where you use Greenhorn Forest music (unrelated to Pokemon) to come here where at the start you use none other than Greenhorn Forest music (unrelated to Sonic). Seriously?
So what if I use that track on games that don't relate to the source material? Others reviewers do the exact same thing. I don't even like Wario World that much as much as I do that track.
***** That's fair. I'd probably do the same thing.
***** Yeah Wario World was pretty hit and miss. I really hope Nintendo makes a traditional Wario Land or Warioware game soon.
while recording live-action footage it's best you use your mic, rather than the camera mic, it will make the transitions from your camera stuff to off camera stuff much cleaner. It's nothing too big, it will help with the quality alot more.
IT'S AWESOME
also there is a xbox 360 version.
Why are you still doing moth of sonic, because this video is a few weeks after!
Play 7:17 on slowest speed possible, HAHAHAHA😅, also 9:10
I fucking luv these plz I need to see the godly sonic 3 & knuckles game review, keep it up plz.
Tropius always confused me even more than gyarados. Tropius looks like a dinosaur that taped leaves on it's back and what do they make it a grass flying like wtf. I could get grass and dragon or only grass but that is not the best part you can literately teach it fly. So you can fly on a thousand pound dinosaur with no wings only taped on leaves but not someone like beedrill that has wings and smaller pokemon can learn fly but beedrill can't.
Wrong video, buddy ;)
***** Do I ever ever plan to play Sonic Genesis? Nope nope nope!! All aboard the fuck all that train headed straight to Nopesville! Does anyone know if the Nope train stops at Fuck This Shitville?
Sonic Genesis makes the PC version of Arkham Knight look like Metroid: Zero Mission.
Great vid keep it up :)
Good thing I never tried it out. It looks and sounds terrible, haha. How did they possibly mess up this port?
But, yeah, the Sonic 1 for iOS is glorious, even if it seems cheap to use Sonic + Tails, Tails, or Knuckles. It's cool that the stages were modded a bit just for those new characters. I think it's more fun if you turn S2-S3 items on in debug mode.
Thank you for not cussing cursing and swearing I have heard enough of those kinds of tongues. You were much better than Clementj642 Somecallmejohnny and Darknessthecurse. By the way I dont think this game is bad I think my ears can take it and I dealt with slow computers before.
Thanks, means a lot to read comments like this :).
*****
Welcome. It was great!
Actually: 12:52
ur worries have been heard, u can play as tails and knuckles are playable
The GBA is powerful than the genesis, but the game lags? 😕
12:53 Oh, cool! It's that french narrator from SpongeBob.
i was almost going to get this because nostalgia....
is this port as bad as the silent hill HD collection? Is that even possible?
>worst port you've ever played
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
*cue horrifying music*
SONIC JAM ON THE GAME COM!
The Saturn version is much, much, MUCH better.
damn straight it is, i'm just saying the game com version is worse as a port than this. Take all of the problems in this, amplify them by ten, and add the fact you only play four acts of the first level of sonic 2, 3, & knuckles, AND add the fact that the levels are almost completely redesigned with a few landmarks of the original level here and there, AND add the fact you can't charge your spindash, and you have a port of 2, 3, & knuckles that is FAR worse than this. It's pretty obscure, but people need to bring more attention to it. It deserves all the hate we can muster, good fucking loooooorrrrrrd.
oh, and knuckles can't glide. Or climb walls. He's just a clone of sonic. This doesn't seem so bad now, does it? Things can always get worse, my friend. Things can always. Get. Worse.
I haven't played it, but I've seen it, and it looks horrible.
+CowboyJoseph64 He's never heard of it. But yeah I saw a review of it & it looks like garbage.
I know he probably hasn't heard of it, it's pretty obscure because the game com is already a bit obscure. I tried playing it through emulator. YUCK.
This was actually my first sonic game -_- either this or sonic and knuckles
I feel bad for you. Here, have a sonic advance 3 copy
Even Big Rigs is less bugged than this port ...
I found this game in the thrift store and it was going for 6 cents while sonic advance was going for 12 dollors...
what is life anymore
You should've given it a 0.1 out of ten
lol
Nah a 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 out of 1,000,000,000 stars
There's a 3ds version
"Month" of Sonic. Lol, jk. I'm sure it takes a lot to review Sonic Genesis.
For some reason I must have erased this port's existence from my memory. I'm assuming the cropped view was down to the vertical resolution of the GBA being lower than would be needed for a full field of view. Wouldn't be able to scale it down really as it would require all the art to be entirely redone as processor scaling wasn't really a thing then.
As for physics I wonder if they tried to use an existing GBA game's engine as the basis for this and just ported the existing sprites and tiles over and then did an awful job replicating the physics. This can't be a straight up porting of the code. Has to be something reworked at the engine level for sure. That might explain the slow down too as it's likely conflicting with whatever base they build it off of.
Music was a weak point for GBA in terms of fidelity and the Mega Drive audio has never really been emulated well but man those tunes are awful.
I may have to get this.
the GBA should be able to have Sonic 1 at 60 FPS because it had competent remakes of the DKC Trilogy which I find better than the originals.
Personally? Didn't mind the soundtrack that much. It was interesting to hear the tunes remixed.
Otherwise, though, I agree with everything you said.
Review the iOS and android version,you'll be crying with tears of joy with the graphics.
My gramma got me this for my 14Th birthday I believe...oh the many times I raged....so much rage....but it's still alright as to me it have value, but the other versions are better/funner however I believe getting the emeralds are easier, IF you manage to get to the special stages my God that's hard...but I managed it. XD
EDIT: I think I played this game so much and for so long before, I was mastering it (if I didn't rage XD) and adjusting, sad I know but was getting good enough to get all 6 emeralds. And when replaying the better version on my Gamecube...MAN was adjusting hard! I was so used to the bad and terrible controls when doing the special stages they felt harder and more easy to mess up....got better tho.
Play it again 😬
I did last year you monster
@@BladeBlur doesnt mean you cant do it again
Actually this game is sonic advanes engine making sonic 1
Nice short circut quote
I prefer Sonic 1 on the Genesis/Mega Drive and Sonic compilation games such as Sonic Mega Collection/Sonic Mega Collection Plus, Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, Sonic Classic Collection and onward. I hate the GBA version of this game because of the slow-downs, glitches, bugs, bad frame-rate and the music and sound remixes. Playing Sonic 1 on the GBA is like playing a Sonic game on the Sega Game Gear. And I hate Game Gear Sonic games.
What is wrong with the music I like
Well if you want a good portable port of the original games play sonic classic collection da it's great
God Damnit how could they do this on Sonic? I mean Making a Bad reboot for the Blue blur is one thing but Castring and Mutilating the 1st Sonic that its considered one the Best Games on The Mega Drive (Genesis) and puttting on the GBA is a Big No No
22 people disagree with him!
This is why sega NEVER adds a holiday dead line. This is why Sonic 06 and Sonic Genesis failed because of these two things.
Quinn The Quartz Think again! Sonic 2 had to released by the holidays!
Axyl Fredrick Should have canned it.
The mobile games are now free. Both the 1st and 2nd one.
I feel your pain...I own the game too:(
Bladeblurx, I challenge you to a Pokemon battle on X & Y! You already have my Friend Code, so it's not hard to find me, and while we're battling, we'll film it, and put it on TH-cam!
It was good marketing for you. Heck, that's how I found out about you!
This is on the same system as the Sonic Advance trilogy. Why is it so bad?
I can't buy Sonic 1 iOS - i did. With 2
While this review is pretty solid I prefer Exoparadigmgamer's ROR review.
So is it "BladeBlurEx" or "BladeBlurCross" or even "BladeBlur10"? "BladeBlurx"?
Also, yeah, Sonic Genesis sux.
+PokeMaster22222 It's just BladeBlur, the X was because the original bladeblur url got suspended :\
the music is not that bad
Part way through developing this they should have realized it wasn't working and just stopped. Where was the quality control? How could anyone have looked at this and said it was ready for release? Oh, it was released in 2006, the year of Sega not giving a single fuck. That explains it.
I think this game is the way it is is because it runs on the Sonic Advance engine witch isn't comparable with Sonic 1 . I think.
1:45-2:05 ⚠=Sonic Genesis= F*cking terrible=AAAAAAGH!!!😣