Someone is Fixing Sonic Free Riders
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Man, Cybershell came back and is finally doing the "I'm sorry Sega" run, we finally got a Sonic 1 Beta, and now this? It's official bois, we are living in the GOOD timeline.
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What do you guys think about this? Could this finally save Sonic Free Riders?
i hope
@@HEX_VENTURE Me too.
does not matter we already got other versions of sonic riders
@@BrendaSantiago1530 They're not other versions, they're entirely different games. Plus this is the only HD Riders title.
Lets goooooo
You know fans really care about a franchise when they're determined to fix their games
You bet!
Sucks that SEGA tends to treat Sonic like shit, all thanks to Sonic Team. Honestly people who work there need to be fired for their pisspoor development
@@SNESJerry Yeah it sucks. Maybe that's why they're so lenient with fan projects.
@@SNESJerry Atleast now it looks like Sonic Team is getting their stuff together so it looks like Sonic is seeing the light now
@@SNESJerrySo it's somehow Sonic Team's fault that Sega treats the franchise terribly, and not Sega themselves? I guess that means Sonic 06, and many other games came out unfinished because they're terrible and not because of executive meddling. Knowing all that, I'd say that what happened to this franchise is about 80% Sega's fault.
Wow! Hello, I am Rei-san's friend and thanks for the video! This is not an emulation of Kinect. Basically, this is an interception in the game's code with writing your own code, in this case something like "If stick's tilted -> return value of the movement control". The patch itself consists of two or more files: custom .xex executable (in PC terms - different .exe) with dll-like module and an additional Lua library (Rei has basically implemented Lua support to make the development easier). It's already been proven that everything works on a real console! We have a friend who has both hacked Xbox 360 and Kinect and everything works perfectly.
Anyway, stay hyped XD, a new HUGE update is already coming!!
Hi, thanks for commenting! Also yeah, I figured it wasn't magical Kinect emulation or anything lol. Also I just watched the new update and it looks great!
@@AccelerateHedge It’s not the gameplay that’s the only issue, it’s the lack of story compared to the previous games. Whereas the first two Sonic Riders games have a story revolving around the Babylon Rouges, the third had no such story to speak of.
@@robbiewalker2831 Well that's certainly not a good thing, but it doesn't have any impact on gameplay at all. For example, Sonic Generations' story is SUUUPER mundane and empty (figuratively and literally) and that's considered one of the all-time greats to most.
Holy shit this is INSANE
@@thechugg4372 Yea I agree, it's wild
I've been following this project since that first video and I would like to thank you for covering it as I think it deserves to be known about. So many people would finally be able to play this game and with regular controls no less.
Thank you for watching! And yeah, it would finally allow me a way to play this game on my PC without needing to spend like $200 on a Kinect just to play this game that isn't all that good on that to begin with.
@@AccelerateHedge Yeah, it's interesting how many games died on their original hardware because a specific gimmick made them too challenging to port to another system. SegaSonic and Sega Superstars come to mind. I also share your fondness for Sonic Free Riders despite never having played it myself. The track design seems so layered and there are so many things to interact with. Personality, I would probably enjoy a Free Riders remake (kinda like Chaos X's Sonic Riders Overdrive) more, as the controls would be probably better suited for a regular controller, but I am still very grateful to Rei-san for working on the no Kinect patch and I'm very excited for it.
@@Sovic91 Yeah, really sucks that Riders never got another chance after this. Also cool to see someone else sharing my love for the aesthetics and music of Free Riders.
Somebody is finally making Sonic Free Riders the way it was intended to be played…with an actual controller.
Nope, just fixing it, because the way they intended you to play it was utter crap lol.
This video just rose awareness of a next Sonic game fixing.
From 3D Blast, to R, to Forces, to 06, & now to Free Riders.
That was my intention with it. I figured that the original patch would eventually have somewhat of a following, but at the time I made this video, basically _nobody_ was talking about it, so that was what I intended to do here. Heck, people still aren't really talking about it enough.
Sonic 3D blast is a different example, because it was fixed by the game's lead programmer, Jon Burton, and not by the fans.
@@V-Ner_d True.
i imagine it would make sense to have some of the hand motion actions be tied to the right stick. wiggle it to shake rings out of the can, maybe even for using items so that you can still focus on steering. just a theory though. would love to give free riders a second chance if we can use a controller
That's certainly a possibility for the ink and steam parts, but for shaking it out of the can it sounds a little awkward tbh. Still, good idea.
I've always said free riders with proper controls could be a banger game but I don't have what it takes to make a version with proper controls so I'm happy someone is finally doing it
Same, I was actually thinking about it a little before this video came out and contemplating somehow doing something myself one day. But I'm much happier in this timeline since this is playable on real hardware.
sonic free riders was one of my first and favorite sonic games when i was young, so i can’t wait to see how far this project goes!
I can't wait either!
This is awesome, I’ve always wanted to play this game with a proper controller
Same!
I'm so glad this came across my feed! Sonic Free Riders is a game I've always wanted to play, but because of the awful decision to leave it as a Kinect exclusive, could never have been given the chance (or comfort, looking at those motion controls) to get into. I'm completely impressed by Rei-San's progress, and hope they know they're single-handedly reviving *and* expanding interest in Sonic Riders with this project.
I sure hope so. I'm in the same boat as you, actually. I know that I'd never be able to buy a Kinect until years from now, so this is amazing.
@@AccelerateHedge i never haved a problem with the kinect my favorite kinect games that i have are disney and pixar rush adventures and disneyland i never haved sonic free riders thank god
@@fabionoronhazampieri7639 The Kinect can be finnicky, but cool when you can actually get it to work properly from what I hear.
@@AccelerateHedge i haved a lot of fun when i was a kid with those games
@@AccelerateHedge i never had a problem if some problem happend i didnt care
Also @AccelerateHedge, since making the thread at 1:57, as an engineer myself, I did find "why" they dont have Xenia Kinect support now. Xbox 360 SDK heavily abstracted Kinect interface, nobody outside Microsoft ever had low level access to the kinect, and the Xbox 360 SDK abstraction library was heavily different than the Windows SDK abstraction library, which means you can't use HLE emulation to map one onto the other. The only way to make a Xenia Kinect emulator would be to write an entirely new Kinect driver for windows from scratch
I see.
This is following in your footsteps of fixing the storybook series!
You bet! Fr, could Sonic just have a GOOD game that made use of motion controls in a significant way for once?
@@AccelerateHedge I realy wish they would remake the storybook games and fix their errors lol
That would be cool, but 4Kids makes that near impossible lol.
@@AccelerateHedge wait do they own rights or something? I thought 4kids were only part of a sonic x dub?
@@Itz_YoshiMelon I mean I'm not ENTIRELY sure, but using those voices again could potentially mean legal trouble for Sega. However, I'm not a lawyer so idk tbh.
Also I REALLY like your editing and voice. I thought you were a legit 70\100k+ youtuber. Great job, good luck in achieving that! XD
Thanks so much! Maybe one day lol.
The riders series is so cool and I’m glad this game is finally getting what it needs
A controller
Yeah
Hey @AccelerateHedge, I was that "niko1point0" guy at 1:57. For what it's worth, this isn't the "only" game I care about, I just wanted to use RenderDoc to debug the game's graphics, and I knew SFR had "working" graphics while kinectimals had vertex explosions everywhere. I'm a graphics engineer for a living so I put every game I own into RenderDoc.
Ah okay, my mistake. I'm sorry.
Oooh, well this could solve that roadblock in an idea I had, if it comes to fruition in time for that. (Now I just need some SEGA Pico emulation)
No pressure to the modder, though. Figuring this stuff out takes a lot of time, and I'd certainly like it to be as good as possible.
Pico emulation is already a thing through RetroArch, I believe. But if I may, what's your idea?
Deep down, I always wanted to try Free Riders.
Same.
Sonic: If I can't take his trophy, then I'll take his virginity.
Jet: What the fuck?!!!!
Jehtt is funny lol.
@@AccelerateHedge That Sexhaver!
if only sonic heroes gets the same treatment as those other sonic games , especially in terms of level design to make more branching paths and exploration sections for them and to make them more in line with momentum , i know this could require a re make from ground up like P-06 , but some day i think we will see it
I think Heroes is a fine game as it is, and its level design is just as good as the previous "Adventure-styled" titles but it could do with some improving. Still, mods have done an amazing job at that thus far.
I...... wasn't aware it NEEDED fixing.
I thought it was fine as it was.
Oh boy you have no idea lol
Wait so that means we can finally play "Sonic Free Riders" With the controller?! OMG Neat!!
Pretty soon, indeed you will be able to!
I still have ptsd from trying to navigate the menus like 11 years ago.
Lol, those menus are something else I hear.
Here we have another "fans doing a better job at porting/improving a game than Sega" video, and im all for it
That's what Sonic fans are for
All i remember for that one sesame street kinect game was that they made you do a handstand so younger me would try to fake a handstand
Holy crap, they tried to get toddlers to do a headstand??
@AccelerateHedge idk it's been a while since I last played it like a decade so I might be wrong
@@keithflippers4429 Okay but if that's true, I hope nobody got hurt playing that game lmao
The moment that release comes out I'm definitely making a 4kids voice mod for this game
Awesome! I was thinking about that too!
I'm so glad I came across this video because now I know that one day I'll finally be able to play this third game I have both the first and second it for my PS2 and so upset that the third one didn't have controller support. But now with this project oai cannot wait for the day I can finally try that game. Lol
Lol, same. I hope it comes out soon.
free riders had so much potential
It really did.
You could map the motion movements to the right stick since it doesn't control the camera
True
Idc if it’s pointless, I still silently hope for a Sonic Riders revival, I’ve even had my own concept for one for a few years, tho I have literally no programming/game development experience so it’s not like I could ever make my new Sonic Riders concept, oh well, still a nice dream to have I guess
Well, there's always Sonic Riders X/Sonic Riders Evo.
Which Sonic is next. First Sonic '06, and now Free Riders. Will Secret Rings, or Forces, possibly be next?
Forces is already getting fixed, but honestly the thing that matters the most for me personally is that this game will be emulatable at all.
Free Riders is a whole other level.... 😂
It's about to be brought down to Earth.
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Thank you!
I feel like if it was on the Wii, it would make the Wii a home with a lot of good sonic games
The Wii already had a lot of good Sonic games, but yeah this game would have been a lot better on Wii. Still, at least we got a great Riders game on the Wii.
Just imagine a remastered collection on ps4 with online. I swear they’re sitting on money
They'd need to change all the voice acting first. Also why just PS4? Why not every new console?
holy crap your channel is great!
Thanks!
I was talking to a friend about how someone should make free riders without the use of Kinect and right after i said that I saw this video
Well, tell your friend that I bring good news!
To be honest, this game could have been great if it was implemented with the Wii's Balance Board.
It would have at least been better.
The voice acting in this was horrendous. This was around the time when they replaced All of their voice actors
The voice acting was fine, but the writing sucked and all the characters were really annoying.
@@AccelerateHedge Most of them grew on me, but Shadow’s “You Got this Sonic” line in generations will forever be cringe fuel to me
@@masemboross4996 That whole game's "story" is cringe.
I played sonic free riders once and I woke up sore next day,I hope I can play this game in a proper controller someday because I kinda liked it
Cool, I can't wait for it either!
I can’t believe you only have a couple hundred subs you deserve way more with this awesome content
Thanks so much!
4:52 THERE I AM GARY, THERE I AM!!! Anyways, it’s a really cool video ngl
Thanks!
Idea: Maybe the 2nd analog and/or some motion gyro detection could be used for some of the gimmicky arm/hand gesture stuff like the ink wiping
this project legit has great potential,reminds me bout what the fans are doing to 06
That makes sense, but the first option sounds a little awkward and the second option feels redundant. Although both of them sound better than the original to be fair, and I think if given the choice I'd choose door number one.
@@AccelerateHedge Yea im kind ofa motion control apologist tbh,feel like if done right and sparingly it can be tolarable,and hell even enhance the experience in some ways,its still better than using your entire body to controll a fast paced and non functioning game tho
@@CrimsonSkyLine Oh don't get me wrong, I'm a motion control apologist too, I said so myself at the end of the video. I agree with you, I think that it's possible to do "Sonic motion controls" well but Sonic just hasn't yet.
Riders 1 and 2 seriously are amazing games. Idk how I got here but I'm staying, and also getting the 2 games right now lol, thanks.
Yeah I agree, Zero Gravity is criminally underrated.
@@AccelerateHedge I always liked the vibe too, but it was a downhill fight playing it on the Kinect. As a game, it's like 06
@@StrayShaded Nah, '06 is a lot more playable than you'd be led to believe. That doesn't make it good, sure, but based on Game Journalism articles you'd think that taking five steps would cause the game to kill itself, which just isn't true.
@@AccelerateHedge I *was* gonna say that Zero Grav is more unplayable, but I don't remember getting through the game when I was younger, it was just unpleasant and slow at times but doable, but didn't bother doing anything past the main storyline.
06 though, it doesn't require special equipment like ZG, can be played through also with just frustration and wasted time waiting for it to load, and get pretty much robbed of an enjoyable experience due to it being unfinished. Never played but I think I would've enjoyed it, in the mind of a child it's all a bit different.
I'd say they have enough ups and downs to make them equal. Both have huge potential either way.
@@StrayShaded I have played through it recently and I can say, while it's not a masterpiece it's a very technically sound game.
really i think the best way to play this game would be if someone ported it to wii and used the balance board. that could easily work with all the controls and be far far less jank. but pc with controller still looks fun
Well, as Xenia gets further and further along in its development, I'm sure it'll be possible to map other devices to it, which means that Free Riders on a balance board may one day be a possibility.
so i guess the way of preserving the kinect is by modding the games to not use it, honestly not a bad trade off
Basically. Hopefully this is the beginning of some massive Kinect Game-Controller Mod trend lol.
Guess the only 3D games that remain to be fixed are Sonic Boom and Forces
Forces is getting fixed. I don't think anybody wants to touch Boom with a ten-foot pole XD.
@@AccelerateHedge In my opinion the reimagined mod doesn't fix the game just improves it slightly
And yeah no one wants to touch Boom
@@Michael_Afton40 Well, there are also physics modifications for Forces.
There is IS horror game for the kinect that is actually pretty good. But the only bad thing about is its on the kinect.
That's basically Free Riders too.
@@AccelerateHedge Rise of nightmares. Thats the one
@@Sonicfalcon16 Cool, maybe one day the same thing will happen to that game.
Were was this!!!!!
In my files.
the patch is out now !!
Yes it is!
Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!
My reaction exactly
Bro how do your videos become more and more professional, this is great❤
Thank you!
Sega and Bethesda should start a club for devs that are awful at making games but have a fanbase with such powerful weaponized autism that they fix the games for them.
"DARK AUTIST, DARK AUTISM ATTACK"
The prediction become true.
which one
@@AccelerateHedge The fact Sonic Free Riders is actually playable now thanks to this mod.
@@criticalbuddy524 Did someone predict that before this was revealed?
@@AccelerateHedge literally no one until where I know
@@criticalbuddy524 oh ok
This game is awesome
Agreed.
If someone can fix sonic 06 anything is possible
'06 just needed a little polish, but this is just insane. Tbh I never really expected this to happen since not many people actually care about this game.
"someone" is the greatest artist the world has ever known
Yeah, Leonardo da Vinci's been real quiet since this dropped
A channel below 1k subs that has good pacing, editing, and a non-lifeless voiceover? Sign me up baby.
Thanks for the positive feedback!
You deserve to have more subscribers :0
Thank you!
I knew it was possible all this time, but people kept doubting me and saying that it will NEVER be possible!
Show them this video (and the updates that have come out since) and let me know what they say lol.
@@AccelerateHedge Wish I could, but that was back in 2016. And I HIGHLY doubt the video I commented on is even up anymore
@@giroandkarin2822 Dang that sucks. Well if you ever find it let me know.
whoa what indeed
whoa what
I almost broke my ankle playing this game lol
oh no
what is that white geometric background you used?
It's an edit of a gif I found here: gfycat.com/gifs/tag/networking
I don't remember which specific one it was, but it was one of the first 4. I then made the gif greyscale, inverted the colors, and then added some extra effects to it in Filmora (I don't remember which). I then exported the whole thing as an MP4 which perfectly loops. If you just want me to send you the file, message me on Discord. My Discord is Accelerate(hashtag)9222. If you don't have a Discord account, email me at sonicbetadocs@gmail(dot)com (why it's called Sonic Beta Docs is a long story, don't worry about it lol).
Hey, i have a question for video making. How do you even use your voice in the game? I hate hearing my own voice in recordings, so how do I make a video like how you do? (Also knowing the best editing software would be nice)
I record the voiceover separately, and then edit it over the clips of gameplay or whatever else I've selected. I use Filmora if you want a good recommendation, but that one does cost money and I hear there are some good free alternatives as well.
@@AccelerateHedge you don't need a mic or anything right? The phone recorder will do? (still hate hearing my voice, but I'm getting over it i think)
@@VRNGGF2 Well, if you can get the sound files to your PC, then yeah you should be good, although the sound quality will sadly be pretty bad because you're recording on a phone. :(
@@AccelerateHedge Eh, it's a start. Thanks alot man!
@@VRNGGF2 You're welcome, and good luck!
Kinect also killed Steel Battalion though I think it was always bound to be very niche due to the main control scheme it used prior to Heavy Armor.
Dang. I don't know what that is (because my brain is too rusted by Sonic to be aware of literally anything else lol) but depending on how it controlled, maybe one day this could happen to it as well?
@@AccelerateHedge Search "Steel Battalion Controller", my friend or alternatively see this that I copied from Wikipedia: "44 input points, mainly buttons, but also uses two joysticks, a throttle handle, a radio channel dial, five switches, an eject button, and three foot pedals". This was an Xbox game with an unconventional controller which makes driving simulation games with simple steering wheels and pedals blush.
It was basically a fully involved tank piloting simulation by Capcom/Microsoft from how it controlled and trying to recreate that with dodgy camera based motion plus voice controls was guaranteed to be a bad time even if simplified.
Sonic obsessed as we may be, they have Steel Battalion fans had a lot more to lose in comparison to Sonic games which tend to have simple inputs on paper even if deep mechanics.
@@thelastgogeta I see, wow.
lol i hope ur next vid is "someone just fixed sonic free riders"
Good idea
Well there you go, enjoy
wait wait.... cybershell came back??
source???
Go back to his channel. I know it's old news at this point lol, I was just recapping the past few years.
How did you get the riders games on steam? I have always wanted to play one.
You're going to need the ROMs and Dolphin Emulator to play the first two, and the ROM for Free Riders and Xenia to play the third (when the patch releases). You can then add Dolphin as a non-steam game twice, and Xenia once, and create a custom shortcut straight to the ROMs. If you'd like me to go more in-depth I can help a little more.
@@AccelerateHedge Thank you. You don't need to go more in depth, I'll be alright.
@@zachnewby4739 Okay. If you need help with the custom shortcuts to load the specific ROMs, I got you.
Can anybody please tell me how to perform spin tricks in the air with controller?
You can't yet. Version 1.1 is coming out soon.
Thanks
@@ezrat4248 You're welcome
I played the og free riders (really hard btw)
I'd imagine it is!
Are we still going to work on that series or what?
Maybe.
Awesome thumbnail
Thanks!
lol
lol
Anyone know like where to put the mod files into I'm so lost man
What mod are you trying to install
@@AccelerateHedge the no kinect patch cause I'm using xenia and I got the rom files for free riders but idk what to do exactly
@@AccelerateHedgelike idk where to put the content of the mod files from gamebananna into people keep telling me the me directory of the game but it's just a iso disc file idk if I did something wrong or not
@@katnova25 Read the readme. You have to extract the .iso file into a folder containing an .xex with an ISO Extractor.
@@AccelerateHedge oh so is this iso extractor I have to install cause I have 7 zip does that work?
Do you have tutorial?
No, but someone else did.
Interesting to see someone try and make Free Riders playable.
Unrelated, but could you do a tutorial for you Secret Rings mod? I can't seem to figure it out.
Hmm, maybe, but first I want to see if I can figure out what the issue is here. What's not working?
@@AccelerateHedge I put everything in the right place, but the textures never loaded.
@@walkernonya5887 Go into the Dolphin menu, and go to File>Load User Folder. Does it land you in %appdata% or Documents?
@@AccelerateHedge Documents
@@walkernonya5887 I see. Is the texture pack where it says to place it in Documents?
Does he know?)
Do I know what?
But it already works
That's being extremely generous to both the Kinect and this game.
@@AccelerateHedge It’s because I’ve been playing since 2015 and I 12 years old at that’s time and did online racing then and some in 2022 (Surprisingly).
@@destroyermcw626 I mean I'm glad that you were able to get it to work but calling it 100% functional by default is being pretty generous.
@@AccelerateHedge No generosity it just alraedy works and i lost my 1st place record yesterday on Dolphin resort to a TH-camr on Time trials Darn!
@@destroyermcw626 I know it works, but the issue with the original game is how much fiddling (or luck) was generally required to get the Kinect to work properly so I would consider this an improvement.
Hmm?
What?
@@AccelerateHedge I'm just wondering when I saw this video. Someone's fixing Sonic Free Riders? Who is this? Not to mention, this video suddenly caught my eye.
@@donaldson9410 I go over it in the video, but their name is Rei-san, and they're making a controller support hack for this game.
@@AccelerateHedge I see. I think someone should send a complaint and tell SEGA to take notes when making the next Sonic Riders game.
@@donaldson9410 I doubt that we'll ever get another Riders game ever again, as much as that totally sucks to say.
Xbox Kinect was aheay of it's time tech can be used VR but it was implemented badly in this game bad game
The Kinect was limited by money. They had to scale it back to meet costs at the expense of the device's quality iirc
I've always put this game in the same boat as the Sonic Storybook series and Zelda DS games.
Amazing games, loads of fun, but locked behind a questionable control scheme.
I wish that in future, companies make special gimmick controls an optional feature as opposed to forcing them, so many great games get overlooked or misjudged for their poor controls.
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity did exactly that and I think that game is really good.
Honestly, I’d say it more adding another control scheme rather than ‘’fixing’’ since this is just really an underrated game, the controls really work me and you just need to play it right lol
Even if you do get the controls to work, it is a very technically flawed game. Plus getting the controls to work properly is kind of a coin flip, so even if it is pretty fun when you get it to work properly I think I'd still consider this a fix. Plus the title is shorter and simpler this way lol.
I KNEW SOMEONE WOULD COME IN CLUTCH FOR THIS GAME
About time tbh
Gems collection here, WOW i didnt know you had this much editing skills! pretty nice!
Thank you! 🙂That's very kind of you to say!
HOLY SHIT THE MENU WORKS! jokes aside. this all looks great! i feel like free riders has huge undiscovered potential with its music and art style now i have not fully played all the riders games but this idea and concept is super intriguing and its a shame the riders series never really got the send off it deserved, UNTIL NOW
I totally agree! Not to mention, the whole trilogy will be playable on PC, Series X, AND Steam Deck!
I’m not shocked that this is being made. As this community, and it’s many branches, are the most dedicated compared to any other.
Besides, I think Sonic would be the only franchise anyone would care about on the Kinect than anything else.
Lol yeah, mark my words by the time both you and I are dead, EVERY Sonic product ever made that features an interactive screen of some kind will be playable on PC haha.
As someone who grew up with Free Riders and thinks it’s more of a fun game than OG Sonic Riders (I know its a better game, but I have never had fun playing it) I love the fact that I can play it with a controller now
Cool!
You leave me and my Kinect alone, The kinect actually works fine, free riders just tunes it every single time its in the "on your gear" section. which it never explained (this is my theory to why the kinect stuggles in free riders, once you get used to tuning it the game becomes way more responsive).
The kinect shines in dance games as long as it does not involve crossing paths (Just dance 4 did this in some songs and it drops tracking)
Also I will break your "universally hated", I like stock free riders and I play it online with people some times :)
But yeah, this project is super cool whether you like the kinect or hate the kinect
want to point out, incase this comes off wrong, This is just a frendly comment, not actually any critism of someones opinions on this, I just wanted to share mine, as someone that loves the kinect
@@joeatron3222 Well, I did say "almost" lol, because I know this game has its fans. And you know what, that's great. If you find enjoyment in something that I or most other people don't, I think that's very admirable. If you have a different opinion than me, please keep having it. Preferences are part of what make us unique individuals.
Despite how fundamentally garbage Free Riders is, it will always be my guilty pleasure.
I feel the same about Shadow the Hedgehog and Knuckles' Chaotix tbh.
Honestly, if we forget about the kinect exists for a second and I know that's hard to do but let me just talk about the game. This is by no means a bad video game in any other aspect outside of the controls, if the game HAD standard controls this would've been a system seller without any hesitation whatsoever.
I unlocked every single thing in that game after it was released despite the asinine controls and constant desyncing I had to suffer through, I would never do that nowadays if I gave this game a shot for the first time. Technically sonic free riders is actually a REALLY fun sonic racing game with fantastic in-depth mechanics, perhaps the best soundtrack out of the riders trilogy, and the graphics are actually impressive. The story however is the worst in the franchise for how boring and uninspiring it is until the climax in the final race with metal sonic, thankfully that race was so cool and hype after the slog required to even get to that point.
And about Super sonic, he is also good this time, at least better than zero gravity's super sonic, and not as broken and overpowered as riders 1 super sonic.
IF we actually had this game without kinect involved, while it would be repetitive, too simplistic, or too tacky and gimmicky that it can hold the game back, we have a legitimate solid entry that would mop the floor over any of the non sega all stars sonic games.
True enough. Except calling the story the worst in the series is... nah, that's not true, Lost World exists lmao.
If there's one Sonic game that I wish if the fans remaster or rebuild the controller is SEGASonic Arcade.
I looked on the internet and surprisingly there are no fan projects or any of that. Wish if there's a fanproject that change the controls from trackball to analog. Seriously, that game deserves some love.
The difference there is that there are already emulation options for SegaSonic. This is the ONE console Sonic game that was, quite literally, IMPOSSIBLE to emulate AT ALL until now.
Ngl, I actually enjoyed playing Free Riders when it came out. But seeing a project fixing the game is something I am very interested in. Reminds me of ChaosX fixing Sonic 06
This project makes me really excited too. Maybe one day we'll get a full-on remake of this game, or a project like DX or Regravitified.
I see a few of my vids got noticed, thanks for reminding me back in my younger years when I started my TH-cam Channel more than a decade ago this game I started making gameplay videos of it and to this day I have no idea how I manage to make Free Riders look fun to play despite knowing how bad it is with the Kinect and was sadden that this is the only Riders game that had online multiplayer that will be forever dead because of the Kinect, I'm glad dedicated people in the Sonic community are never gonna let a game like this not go to waste as this game had the potential to be a good racing game if it's played on Controller instead.
Hopefully one day SEGA would revive the Riders Series and not use motion controls.
Hey, thanks for commenting! One thing I'd like to mention is that I mistakenly put your PFP over SonicJGB's video, whoops. And yeah I agree with you, sucks that this was the only one to get online play. No reason ZG couldn't have had it.
@@AccelerateHedge Me and SonicJGB raced each other a lot on this game even had each other's perspectives on the same races, Zero Gravity could've have online for the Wii version but real shame it didn't.
@@BluRacer7 Yeah, too bad. It had some online functionality but it was pathetic.
All it needed to be fixed was one very simple thing... CONTROLLER SUPPORT!
Precisely.
One problem to play Sonic Free Riders would be having an actual Kinect, since it wasn't included in every console.
Well yeah, but pretty soon that might not be an issue anymore. Soon the game will be playable on PC, Steam Deck, Series X, the OG Xbox, and that funny PSP-looking Windows handheld thingy. Plus perhaps more if emulation on PS5 ever becomes possible (if it isn't already lol).
_remembers how wii emulation figured out a way to bind motion controls to buttons and analog control_
...I wonder if someone would try to recreate the same
The difference there is that the Wiimote is one, singular fixed point of motion detection, where as the Kinect uses full-on motion capture. Crappy motion capture, yes, but motion capture nonetheless. Too complex to emulate, too sucky to work properly, that's the 360 Kinect lol.
Why are Sega fans so based? Literally remaking cursed games from scratch to be good, multiple times. I wish other series I liked had this love.
Well, part of it is that Sega lets their fans do that in the first place.
I used to adore this game on my 360
also remember that goddamn switch feature NEVER worked lmao
Lol, it can finally work correctly now!
As someone who enjoys the Riders games - even going as far to see it has the best character models besides 06's - its good to see Free Riders getting controller support, however this is one equally important question, or perhaps the most important question of all! Does it have a Japanese dub? It maybe an obvious or silly question, but as someone who's always enjoyed the Japanese cast over the English one, more so now with the 2010s line up, its kinda a deal breaker for me to hear Jun'ichi and Co. rather than Roger and Co..
It does, but I don't know if there's an option to switch it. If not, I'm sure you can find the Japanese version online if you look hard enough.
@@AccelerateHedge fingers crossed, because to me Jun'ichi is THE voice of Sonic, and has been since his debut in Sonic Adventure in 1998. Ryan's perhaps second in the running, but Kanemaru-san and his random bits of Engrish - that only adds to his charm - is easily the best.
@@DemonDethchase While Jason Griffith is my favorite, as far as who the "true" Sonic is, yeah, Jun'ichi just IS Sonic to me. He's so charming and cool.
Fun fact:everyone saying and showing white Xbox360 but i had the black one and i never seen a people who showed a black Xbox360
Huh interesting, it must have been more rare like the black Wii.
Lol