I'd never heard of Colors DX. I played Colors on Dolphin close to when Ultimate came out but I just downloaded a 100% save file so I could skip the missions, the game's a lot more fun when you're not doing busywork half the time I'd love to see a mod that re-orders the levels to put the two main acts first, then unlocks all of the mission levels after it so they're fully optional
wow, i completely missed this. last year i made a dynamic texture pack that automatically changes your inputs depending on the dolphin mapping, but it has a bug that i should update where you need to open the controller settings for the bindings to load. maybe i should also make it compatible with DX
I feel like I never really played the game until I played it with the Wiimote + nunchuck controller combo last year. I’d always used a classic or GameCube controller and thought the game was a mediocre slog. It’s not meant to be as big as Unleashed or Generations, it’s on the Wii for a reason. and once I was able to actually experience it like that, I found a decently fun game that made me want to go for 100%, and that I can easily see myself coming back to again. Still nowhere near as good as most of the other boost games (including the DS version of Colors itself), it’s level design still holds it back most of the time, but it’s a fun time nonetheless. Although I wish I could play one game that has the intended 2 main act structure, as well as the acts and missions from the DS version (maybe with Unleashed/Gens gameplay too?). Now THAT would be Sonic Colors ULTIMATE
Its easy, play the Christian Whitehead versions of Sonic 1 and 2 on mobile since its widescreen and has more content. As for Sonic 3 play either Sonic 3 Complete or Sonic 3 AIR. Complete is a rom hack which is basically the full game on a single cartridge with a ton of fixes/changes and customisation options while AIR is basically widescreen Sonic 3 with quite a bit of options as well. Essentially just do that and avoid Sonic Origins and you're all good.
Should be easy, Sonic 1:Forever, Sonic CD: Restored, Sonic 2: Absolute, Sonic 3: A.I.R. We also have Sonic 3:Complete and Sonic Delta: Reloaded. Sonic Origins actually has a many fixes and changes to make it better, and that alone is good enough to be called “official definitive version”
How I play it: Sonic Colours Ultimate, on steam deck, using lighting fix mod, improved animations mod and UI fixes mod. And when the re rainbow mod comes out, add that to the list
I haven't played Colors in a while, maybe a year ago. But I just remember that I didn't jive with the game's level design; the greater emphasis on platforming combined with the speed and reaction-time focused style of the boost formula made for a poor combination and I just found Colors to be fine, decent; but never really reached the heights of Unleashed's or even Generations level design. I think Colors has some decent ideas, but the general idea of combining slower styled platforming with the fast paced boost seems like a poor idea from the get-go and I wish they either changed the level design to be more like Unleashed or remove the boost entirely. (I initially thought the greater emphasis on platforming was because of the Wii's hardware, but after seeing Forces. I'm more confident that it's an intentional design decision by the director/game designer Morio Kishimoto)
Wait, so, how does this work exactly? Did this guy just essentially make a PC Port by himself that rebuilds an ISO of Sonic Colors? Like Ship of Harkinian or the Mario 64 PC Port?
Sort of! It’s not quite on the level of a decompilation like 64PC/SoH, but it does work by rebuilding the ISO with a custom files added in place of some vanilla ones.
My understanding is that this runs in a custom version of the dolphin emulator. Made specifically to enhance and run the Wii version of the game. Kinda like how sonic 3 air runs on a custom Sega Genesis emulator.
The constant stutter is because of Denuvo, an anti-piracy program that works TOO WELL, and was the same responsible for poor performance in Resident Evil 8
personally I do think Colors Ultimate will be fixed later by "mods. all i personally think its more we just wait to wait till way later till someone has the drive to fix what issues still lie with the game. after all. We didn't get exact fixes with something like Adventure 1 and adventure 2 till way later. Im sure if the game gets put on steam that drive will come back for it to have more modders on it.
If that does end up being the case, I’ll certainly do a video to revisit the situation later down the road; it’s just that I sadly don’t see it happening. Would love to be wrong though!
Sonic fans: Sonic Colors is a 2D game Me looking at all of this 3D gameplay: did we play the same game? Sure, the "extra" stages that were added later in development are like mostly 2D and can be blocky, but all of the original main stages have a healthy blend of 2D and 3D. The shallow claim that its not 3D has always bugged me because it just seems like people dont understand this game's level design and what it accomplishes. Colors is definitely not my favorite, but I've really gained appreciation for it over time, since I used to think it was just ok as a kid.
For Game Suggesstions, I'd love to see some Heroes recommendations for mods that help the game run/look better (whether it be the abandonware PC Port or Dolphin) & maybe some gameplay tweaks to try (I like OG Heroes, what can I say?) Also, maybe a quick tutorial on how you add Dolphin Games (or emulator games in general) to Steam as shortcuts? I feel like I can't find how to do that ANYWHERE or they all tell me to buy another Hard Drive? Its confuses me. Edit: I forgot to compliment the video. It was great! The Ultimate Mod Recommendations AND the DX talk was cool, & I definitely agree on Colors being better when you go Red Ring Hunting, they really help you both explore the level & get those S-Ranks for people who like that aswell.
I popped a tutorial on the steam shortcut thing on Twitter earlier today (should be in my media tab), but I’ll definitely touch on it in a future video! Heroes is the one that’s come up most often so far, so it’s looking likely that I’ll tackle it, if not next then certainly at some point!
Oh, I wasn't aware of Colors DX, neat. I only knew of the True Colors mod that somewhat did the level order thing as well. 12:13 It's not just the frenzy wisp jump that gets affected by the 60 FPS thing, btw. Falling egg pawns also fall super slowly at 60 FPS for Colors on emulators which may or may not be a good thing. Meanwhile, in Colors Ultimate, it seems like they overcorrected it by making them drop like rocks instead.
Ultimate did fix the egg pawns falling too fast problem... I just wish that they've also fixed the rest of the issues... But maybe they will when Sonic colors ultimate eventually gets ported to steam
@@connorplays6263 here we are, and now we wait for the mods to roll in... if this really was enough to revive this game's modding scene, didn't even live long enough for people to finish fixing the game
7:29 You're joking right now, riiiight? oooooh, you're talking about colors DX. 10:55 i'm not gonna miss them! fuck colors ultimate, i'm actually gonna try out colors DX. (love the fact it's called like that, DeluXe edition!)
I would, but I’m not even sure if Unleashed can be played through start to finish via emulator right now - last I looked there were still crashes to iron out. As it stands I could sum up a ‘how I play it’ as ‘I have a Series X’. One day I’d love to do a proper mod deep dive though!
@@ethanwayne6973 bro don't tell me you believe that they were all taken from on the switch meaning all of them could be fake and video that aren't have the chance to be just TH-cam vids that were edited so shut the fuck up and enjoy ultimate cuz it's good
I'd never heard of Colors DX. I played Colors on Dolphin close to when Ultimate came out but I just downloaded a 100% save file so I could skip the missions, the game's a lot more fun when you're not doing busywork half the time
I'd love to see a mod that re-orders the levels to put the two main acts first, then unlocks all of the mission levels after it so they're fully optional
This boy just saved me 35 quid. Thanks a bunch man.
wow, i completely missed this. last year i made a dynamic texture pack that automatically changes your inputs depending on the dolphin mapping, but it has a bug that i should update where you need to open the controller settings for the bindings to load. maybe i should also make it compatible with DX
I feel like I never really played the game until I played it with the Wiimote + nunchuck controller combo last year. I’d always used a classic or GameCube controller and thought the game was a mediocre slog. It’s not meant to be as big as Unleashed or Generations, it’s on the Wii for a reason. and once I was able to actually experience it like that, I found a decently fun game that made me want to go for 100%, and that I can easily see myself coming back to again.
Still nowhere near as good as most of the other boost games (including the DS version of Colors itself), it’s level design still holds it back most of the time, but it’s a fun time nonetheless.
Although I wish I could play one game that has the intended 2 main act structure, as well as the acts and missions from the DS version (maybe with Unleashed/Gens gameplay too?). Now THAT would be Sonic Colors ULTIMATE
i've got a suggestion for the "how i play it" series how about sonic 1 2 and 3 mabye in one video i dont know
Origins with Sonic 3's original soundtrack restored mod, there you go
@@no.402 Origins lmao, you can’t be serious😂
Its easy, play the Christian Whitehead versions of Sonic 1 and 2 on mobile since its widescreen and has more content. As for Sonic 3 play either Sonic 3 Complete or Sonic 3 AIR. Complete is a rom hack which is basically the full game on a single cartridge with a ton of fixes/changes and customisation options while AIR is basically widescreen Sonic 3 with quite a bit of options as well. Essentially just do that and avoid Sonic Origins and you're all good.
Should be easy, Sonic 1:Forever, Sonic CD: Restored, Sonic 2: Absolute, Sonic 3: A.I.R. We also have Sonic 3:Complete and Sonic Delta: Reloaded. Sonic Origins actually has a many fixes and changes to make it better, and that alone is good enough to be called “official definitive version”
To be fair there not much to talk about when it comes to the classic gamrd
How I play it:
Sonic Colours Ultimate, on steam deck, using lighting fix mod, improved animations mod and UI fixes mod.
And when the re rainbow mod comes out, add that to the list
I haven't played Colors in a while, maybe a year ago. But I just remember that I didn't jive with the game's level design; the greater emphasis on platforming combined with the speed and reaction-time focused style of the boost formula made for a poor combination and I just found Colors to be fine, decent; but never really reached the heights of Unleashed's or even Generations level design. I think Colors has some decent ideas, but the general idea of combining slower styled platforming with the fast paced boost seems like a poor idea from the get-go and I wish they either changed the level design to be more like Unleashed or remove the boost entirely. (I initially thought the greater emphasis on platforming was because of the Wii's hardware, but after seeing Forces. I'm more confident that it's an intentional design decision by the director/game designer Morio Kishimoto)
I also play Colors DX as well, have for a while
Wait, so, how does this work exactly? Did this guy just essentially make a PC Port by himself that rebuilds an ISO of Sonic Colors? Like Ship of Harkinian or the Mario 64 PC Port?
Sort of! It’s not quite on the level of a decompilation like 64PC/SoH, but it does work by rebuilding the ISO with a custom files added in place of some vanilla ones.
My understanding is that this runs in a custom version of the dolphin emulator. Made specifically to enhance and run the Wii version of the game. Kinda like how sonic 3 air runs on a custom Sega Genesis emulator.
@@TwinTailsTurociExactly
Do you need the american version for sonic colors dx or does the european dump work too?
The constant stutter is because of Denuvo, an anti-piracy program that works TOO WELL, and was the same responsible for poor performance in Resident Evil 8
0:18 Since the videos are outdated, If you remade the SA2 video what mods would you add and remove?
Yo theres a steam version, can you tell us how to mod that
I got Colours DX To Work on a PAL rom
i installed it, but when i run sonic colors dx, the screen just goes white greyish
1:27 ayyy nice PSIV avatar
Do a how I play sonic rush and rush adventure.
I don't know if there's anything significant other than just emulating...
In what folder do I put the mods in? Please help!
You mean Colors DX?
personally I do think Colors Ultimate will be fixed later by "mods. all i personally think its more we just wait to wait till way later till someone has the drive to fix what issues still lie with the game. after all. We didn't get exact fixes with something like Adventure 1 and adventure 2 till way later. Im sure if the game gets put on steam that drive will come back for it to have more modders on it.
If that does end up being the case, I’ll certainly do a video to revisit the situation later down the road; it’s just that I sadly don’t see it happening. Would love to be wrong though!
@@TrackerTD yo… ITS HAPPENING
Sonic fans: Sonic Colors is a 2D game
Me looking at all of this 3D gameplay: did we play the same game?
Sure, the "extra" stages that were added later in development are like mostly 2D and can be blocky, but all of the original main stages have a healthy blend of 2D and 3D. The shallow claim that its not 3D has always bugged me because it just seems like people dont understand this game's level design and what it accomplishes. Colors is definitely not my favorite, but I've really gained appreciation for it over time, since I used to think it was just ok as a kid.
Yess, I feel the same
how i play it; the ds version
7:39 why the gay breakcore music
i've seen kids labeling breakcore to dnb but you went one step further
real
How I play it: I boot up the DS version. Colors DS is quite possibly a top 3 sonic game for me.
I agree
For Game Suggesstions, I'd love to see some Heroes recommendations for mods that help the game run/look better (whether it be the abandonware PC Port or Dolphin) & maybe some gameplay tweaks to try (I like OG Heroes, what can I say?)
Also, maybe a quick tutorial on how you add Dolphin Games (or emulator games in general) to Steam as shortcuts? I feel like I can't find how to do that ANYWHERE or they all tell me to buy another Hard Drive? Its confuses me.
Edit: I forgot to compliment the video. It was great! The Ultimate Mod Recommendations AND the DX talk was cool, & I definitely agree on Colors being better when you go Red Ring Hunting, they really help you both explore the level & get those S-Ranks for people who like that aswell.
I popped a tutorial on the steam shortcut thing on Twitter earlier today (should be in my media tab), but I’ll definitely touch on it in a future video!
Heroes is the one that’s come up most often so far, so it’s looking likely that I’ll tackle it, if not next then certainly at some point!
While not a big deal, there’s also a 3D boost wisp mod
The only problem with Colours DX is that it doesnt run well on lower end machines such as my own
Oh, I wasn't aware of Colors DX, neat. I only knew of the True Colors mod that somewhat did the level order thing as well.
12:13 It's not just the frenzy wisp jump that gets affected by the 60 FPS thing, btw. Falling egg pawns also fall super slowly at 60 FPS for Colors on emulators which may or may not be a good thing. Meanwhile, in Colors Ultimate, it seems like they overcorrected it by making them drop like rocks instead.
Ultimate did fix the egg pawns falling too fast problem... I just wish that they've also fixed the rest of the issues... But maybe they will when Sonic colors ultimate eventually gets ported to steam
@@connorplays6263 here we are, and now we wait for the mods to roll in... if this really was enough to revive this game's modding scene, didn't even live long enough for people to finish fixing the game
Can't install it, I get an error message, unhandled exception about cpkmaker.dll (which is indeed there) I don't get it. Does this work on Windows 11?
DX or Ultimate mods?
There's the official site for DX on GameBanana and it has explanations for how to download it
i might need to work on getting DX working on linux, cause i really wanna play the actual ultimate ver of colours on my computer
7:29 You're joking right now, riiiight?
oooooh, you're talking about colors DX.
10:55 i'm not gonna miss them! fuck colors ultimate, i'm actually gonna try out colors DX. (love the fact it's called like that, DeluXe edition!)
Did you have a good time with it?
Are they fr not even patching Colors Ultimate anymore? I haven't seen anything since December and Jesus Christ they can't just leave it the way it is.
I'd say at this point barely expect something, but once its at the 1 year mark fully lose hope.
.....If you somehow haven't already....
What sprite pack did you use for Sonic in the Sonic 3 AIR gameplay at 0:22?
You should do this for Sonic Unleashed
I would, but I’m not even sure if Unleashed can be played through start to finish via emulator right now - last I looked there were still crashes to iron out. As it stands I could sum up a ‘how I play it’ as ‘I have a Series X’. One day I’d love to do a proper mod deep dive though!
@@TrackerTD Yeah it is playable through on xenia canary, I could help you set it up if you want
Definitely do a video on Sonic 3. Those sprites in the intro really caught my interest.
Have you uploaded your custom icons for Sonic games? I'd love to use them myself.
There is a new Sonic Colors Ultimate mod in Development called Project Re-Rainbow
Do you know if it’s better than dx
@@Bigger-smoke45 It's modifying the game to look more in line with unleashed and generations, and they are also reanimating the cutscenes
@@connorplays6263 too bad you can’t combine them I don’t know which one to install
@@Bigger-smoke45 Actually this is all part of one mod
@@connorplays6263 but colours dx is for dolphin not ultimate
2:59 and ihave egs for sonic origins
3:41p.m. 4/19/2023
ALMOST A YEAR LATE SQUAD WHERE YOU AT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
2 years late 😅
How did u add it to steam
Bro colours dx looks absolutely horrible ultimate looks way better
Ah yes because getting blinded is better than normal graphics with better models
@@ethanwayne6973 bro don't tell me you believe that they were all taken from on the switch meaning all of them could be fake and video that aren't have the chance to be just TH-cam vids that were edited so shut the fuck up and enjoy ultimate cuz it's good
Wtf is colours?
I am fine with my Sonic Colors Ultimate on PS4.
Useless
uggggghhhhhh its one of those people again.....