Having a Gamecom and this game, the emulator is a superior experience. The screen refresh rate is so bad that it turns into a blurry mess. While the graphics look decent enough, on a real console the second you move it turns into a blurry mess that reminds me of accidentally looking at the sun and your eyes are screwed up for a minute or so. All I have to say is, "It stinks".
@@MaxOakland I actually doubt that it could get much better than this. The specs of the Gamecom are strange. The CPU was an 8-bit Sharp industrial controller clocked in at 10MHz. Now this sounds great, 2 and a half times more powerful than the Gameboy's CPU. Well that is great until you realize that the graphics, the I/O and everything else are run by the CPU. Now I am no expert when it comes to programming the Gamecom, but if I had to take a guess, the CPU has to render the graphics every other frame since it is trying to run the game's code as well. So you get one frame for graphics and another frame to execute code. For an industrial machine this is fine, for a game console, "It stinks".
When you say low refresh rate, you actually mean ghosting. The ghosting was so terrible, I can’t even think of any modern examples of what it was like. Like, the second you start moving the entire screen becomes a featureless grey smear!
I'm going one step further for a even worse game, sonic the hedgehog for the leapfrog didj (or sonic didj in short) and yes, it's also a official sonic game.
i know i have not commented in a while ive busy but these videos just keep getting better and better and you are growing a ton as a channel i hope you keep doing what you love best and keep making great vids
I actually talked about Sonic N in my Super Sonic video! I pretty much said all my thoughts there, so I don't think I'll ever make another video about it unless it's a part of a video with multiple games.
The music for this 'port' was HILARIOUSLY awful. I actually was stunned to realize I was listening to 'remixes' when I went to check out the soundtrack for this. The Special Stage remix is ESPECIALLY terrible as is Flying Battery.
I remember this being advertised and wanting one to play sonic 3 on the go. Having seen this now I think the developers just made enough of the game to make a convincing tv advert
Wow, ok, so not the worst then. That is a first, thank you for this, I was genuinely convinced that there was nothing redeemable or even remotely satisfying about this piece of garbage. I am very impressed you found some fun out of it.
Yeah the reviewers "looking back on it, it's not that bad". Well, yeah you're playing it for free on an emulator which can mask some of the problems that the original copy didn't or they are playing an update which was a year after the initial release
I think one thing that maybe would sway you into considering this game annoyingly bad is playing it on real hardware. You have no idea how much work this emulator is doing for the game, the original gamecom screen makes the game looks so much worse and it has terrible refresh rate
@@2_many_alts at least it had better music and visuals and also more content as well than Sonic Jam on the game com. Also if you hold the stick forwards while on loops they don't break.
@@2_many_altsThe only level I'd say is anywhere close to unplayable is Flame Core, because of a few genuinely awful parts. It IS a very glitchy and messy game, but it's not a Superman 64 situation. You won't have to restart the entire level because Sonic decided the entire floor doesn't exist or something.
You missed one of the worst parts because you used an emulator…the SCREEN of the Gamecom is quite possibly the worst thing even created by humans. No backlight, agonizing sprite ghosting, severe blur, and a generally faded look made basically everything on there with speed faster than a powerpoint slide literally unplayable. People who complain about the OG Gameboy having a bad screen have never tried to play that garbage device.
Seeing this, Segw deserved to crumble. Every decision they made after/post sega genesis was horrible. Game gear flopped, sega cd flopped, Saturn flopped, this nonsense handles made form their license, and the Dreamcast flopped.
I agree that Sonic Genesis is overall worse, Sonic Jam Gamecom is like Spyro Enter the Dragonfly where it's a funny kind of bad, but Sonic Genesis has no comedic value it's just a horrible port.
Bruh should have been unsubbed for saying sonic on genesis was trash matter fact why even listen to this guy 😂 You mean sonic 07is better than the sega one yea bro trippin not watching nothing he got to say
He’s calling the official Game Boy Advance port, which is literally titled “Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis”, bad. If you haven’t heard of that port, then that’s probably for the better. The original game on the original hardware is good, but the GBA port was a mistake.
@@rishyrish I, and the video, are talking about the GBA port of Sonic the Hedgehog, literally titled “Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis”. Released in 2006 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the franchise only in North America. It was, let’s just say, not good. Go look it up yourself.
Not even close to the worst game. Sonic 3D blast 5 is dog shit. The control is liquid shit. It feels like a way more stiff and less precise version of Sonic jam on the game com! Sonic falls through. Moving platforms unless you land dead center. The level design is horrible! Half the time you can’t even make the jump as you rely off of an enemy to bounce off of, and might I add the bounce physics as crap. You can’t move Sonic until he is at the peak of his jump. There’s only 5 acts but each one is crap. All are labeled as “green hill” but clearly aren’t. It goes green hill, star light zone, spring yard, Labyrinth zone, marble zone although the graphics are from Sonic 3 so they barely look like the Sonic levels there based on. The music sounds like a homeless man choking on his own shit smoothie. All the graphics are stolen from Sonic 3, the enemies are stolen from Sonic 1, Sonic is from the game gear? Which makes an inconstant art style, but also the world’s worst screen crunch. Might O add there’s nothing here to say that this is a sonic game besides the graphics, rings and monitors. There’s no loops, bumpers, water, level specific enemies, special stages, and there’s only in star light zone where you can get max speed. This game has horrible controls, the level layout is garbage, the game is “”””supposed”””” to be a port of sonic 1, yet the zones use graphics from Sonic 3 and the levels are out of order.
Sonic 3 music in Sonic 2, all while running at a crisp 10 frames per second. Thanks, Tiger!! Very epic!
2:22 Sonic 3 unused idle animation!
5:09 Knuckles the Hedgehog.
This isn't a game, it's a PowerPoint presentation
True.
ok guys so this is my uhhh this is my presentation of a sonic game for our programming… uh yeah
Even a PowerPoint presentation is better
even powerpoint presentation frame rates can go higher than this
@@orangewithtehdrip Approved!📄✔🤝
This game has prototype Sonic 3 sprites, and pre-release material even featured stuff we have never seen before.
Random fact: there are early screenshots of this collections featuring some parts of "Sonic 3D Blast"
Symphony of the Night is the only game that actually functions on the gamecom, and that one was cancelled before the first area was complete
I don't remember asking about that... 😮💨
@@That-NinjaYou don't need to, YOU ARENT THE OP.
@@That-Ninjahow about you BUTT OUT
@@CassiusStelar why didn't you use an apostrophe with that one word? You were supposed to use an apostrophe. Do you not like them or something 🤔
@@That-Ninja apostrophe?
Sonic on a console with a 10FPS screen.
What could go wrong?
Everything
Yes
Having a Gamecom and this game, the emulator is a superior experience. The screen refresh rate is so bad that it turns into a blurry mess. While the graphics look decent enough, on a real console the second you move it turns into a blurry mess that reminds me of accidentally looking at the sun and your eyes are screwed up for a minute or so. All I have to say is, "It stinks".
The frame rate is so low it looks horrible even on an emulator. I don’t understand how they thought this was releasable
@@MaxOakland
I actually doubt that it could get much better than this. The specs of the Gamecom are strange. The CPU was an 8-bit Sharp industrial controller clocked in at 10MHz. Now this sounds great, 2 and a half times more powerful than the Gameboy's CPU. Well that is great until you realize that the graphics, the I/O and everything else are run by the CPU. Now I am no expert when it comes to programming the Gamecom, but if I had to take a guess, the CPU has to render the graphics every other frame since it is trying to run the game's code as well. So you get one frame for graphics and another frame to execute code. For an industrial machine this is fine, for a game console, "It stinks".
@@jaysherman2615 Yikes. What were they thinking using that CPU!?
When you say low refresh rate, you actually mean ghosting. The ghosting was so terrible, I can’t even think of any modern examples of what it was like. Like, the second you start moving the entire screen becomes a featureless grey smear!
@@jaysherman2615 " Now this sounds great, 2 and a half times more powerful than the Gameboy's CPU" Power isn't measured in clock speed, just FYI.
I'm going one step further for a even worse game, sonic the hedgehog for the leapfrog didj (or sonic didj in short) and yes, it's also a official sonic game.
Sonic Adventure 7 was worse
Yes, but that game's a bootleg, so it being bad is to be expected.
Sonic adventure 8
Sonic 3D Blast 5
Sonic & Knuckles 5
Sonic the hedgehog 4 (snes bootleg)
I remember doing a play through of this game, this game is definitely hell to play.
I sure do love playing Sonic The PowerPoint Presentation.
Beating a Special Stage isn't worth it either. There are no chaos emeralds to obtain. Beating a Special Stage gets you more points.
i know i have not commented in a while ive busy but these videos just keep getting better and better and you are growing a ton as a channel i hope you keep doing what you love best and keep making great vids
If we’re talking about dumb sonic ports, might as well talk about sonic N
I actually talked about Sonic N in my Super Sonic video! I pretty much said all my thoughts there, so I don't think I'll ever make another video about it unless it's a part of a video with multiple games.
@@walkerslegendz What the Sigma is Sonic N 😂
isn't it just sonic advance ???
Sonic Advance ported to the N Gage
@@Salnax you actin like I know what the N Gage is 😏
man this looks so bad that i could've mistaken it for a bootleg lmfao. it fr looks a lot like sonic 3d blast 5
The music for this 'port' was HILARIOUSLY awful. I actually was stunned to realize I was listening to 'remixes' when I went to check out the soundtrack for this. The Special Stage remix is ESPECIALLY terrible as is Flying Battery.
It’s not a game, it’s a tech demo
I once would’ve fancied a game com. Never got 1. Now I’m glad
“Plays more games than you idiots have braincells!”
_Yeah, I don’t have 20 braincells._
Somehow the Saturn version is one of the best ways to play the genesis games, so the comparison between these is insane
"The gang plays a bad game"
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
this feels like if Sonic Jam on the Saturn and if those "Infinite" in 1 bootlegs had a baby, and then that baby was put up for adoption
It baffles me that this system has a half-decent port of Castlevania SOTN that never got officially released, yet this did.
0:43 I remember LOVING playing those.
I remember this being advertised and wanting one to play sonic 3 on the go. Having seen this now I think the developers just made enough of the game to make a convincing tv advert
what an all time classic! known about this game since i was 6.
Wow, ok, so not the worst then. That is a first, thank you for this, I was genuinely convinced that there was nothing redeemable or even remotely satisfying about this piece of garbage. I am very impressed you found some fun out of it.
“Sonic Jam is harmlessly bad” - said by someone who didn’t pay full price on release
Yeah the reviewers "looking back on it, it's not that bad". Well, yeah you're playing it for free on an emulator which can mask some of the problems that the original copy didn't or they are playing an update which was a year after the initial release
I like how the case is sonic R as opposed to sonic jam.
I think one thing that maybe would sway you into considering this game annoyingly bad is playing it on real hardware. You have no idea how much work this emulator is doing for the game, the original gamecom screen makes the game looks so much worse and it has terrible refresh rate
We need this on steam as an April fools game.
How did you play this game?
all fun and games till he sees sonic the hedgehog on the leapfrog diji
It baffles me they made FOUR acts for each zone, when they copy-paste the same geometry. Sonic 1 having 3 acts per zone was already too much, so… why?
Did you do voice acting for Sonic in some fan game a long time ago?
Damn, you sound familiar
Nope. There must be someone else who sounds like me!
This looks like creepypasta material xD
Clearly that song was the Blue Spheres Song. Not sure how you can't hear that
Nah Sonic Jam the Gamecom is easily the best Sonic game in the entire franchise it’s peak
Scott Wozniak isn't going to be happy about this
Now you’re gonna freak out, but have you heard of a game called “Sonic the hedgehog” (2006)?
at least that game is somewhat playable, had more than 3 levels, and the levels were all somewhat different
@@mr_red3 somewhat playable my ass that game glitches out every time you try to use a loop’de’loop
@@2_many_alts and this game glitches anytime you try to play more than one zone of a game
@@2_many_alts at least it had better music and visuals and also more content as well than Sonic Jam on the game com. Also if you hold the stick forwards while on loops they don't break.
@@2_many_altsThe only level I'd say is anywhere close to unplayable is Flame Core, because of a few genuinely awful parts. It IS a very glitchy and messy game, but it's not a Superman 64 situation. You won't have to restart the entire level because Sonic decided the entire floor doesn't exist or something.
Tiger Electronics? As in the ones who created the Furby?
uh why is the one Sonic Jam the cover of Sonic R?
Tiger was never one to care about quality.
Fun fact I have 19 brain cells
Did Tiger get the rights to port a Sonic game to their own system?!
You should look at the game known as Somari
Sonic 3d blast 5
That's not official so it doesn't count.
You missed one of the worst parts because you used an emulator…the SCREEN of the Gamecom is quite possibly the worst thing even created by humans. No backlight, agonizing sprite ghosting, severe blur, and a generally faded look made basically everything on there with speed faster than a powerpoint slide literally unplayable. People who complain about the OG Gameboy having a bad screen have never tried to play that garbage device.
Sonic leapster & didj games?
Checking the Sonic wiki, it says Sonic Jam for GC was developed by Sega.
yo why did they use sonic r box art??? Lmao
0:32 - 0:38 Basically similar to Nintendo’s Game and Watch.
1:13
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This is one of those games where you have to play to fully understand how horrid it is
I rather play 8bit versions of sonic on master system, they are lovely on an 80s console.
So you only say sonic genesis is worse because it gives more views
Gamescom released crappy games thats why it failed. Choppy framrate too.
The only good thing this game did was use unused and beta elements from Sonic 3 tbh
Just watching the gameplay hurts me
i love sonic advanced games cream is broken and overpowered in the second one and oh my she's awesome
Seeing this, Segw deserved to crumble. Every decision they made after/post sega genesis was horrible. Game gear flopped, sega cd flopped, Saturn flopped, this nonsense handles made form their license, and the Dreamcast flopped.
Somari looks better
Sonic 2006 its even worse
Edit: i comment this before watch the video and i see this is even worse
Which is worse, this or the crappy GBA port of Sonic the Hedgehog 1?
This
This.
At least, Sonic Genesis is actually playable.
@GekkoCircleHead Is it though? Even with the chugging framerate, terrible hit detection, screen crunch, and slowdown?
As dire as this game genuinely is I do wonder if some of the bugs you encountered are because of the emulator rather than the game
The king of the crappy ports.
Besides Sonic 1 on GBA.
This has to be the worst officially released sonic game, right?
I agree that Sonic Genesis is overall worse, Sonic Jam Gamecom is like Spyro Enter the Dragonfly where it's a funny kind of bad, but Sonic Genesis has no comedic value it's just a horrible port.
No, the worst is sonic edusoft
SONIC BLASD 5 is bad
sonic chronicles the dark brotherhood is pretty terrible
Bruh should have been unsubbed for saying sonic on genesis was trash matter fact why even listen to this guy 😂
You mean sonic 07is better than the sega one yea bro trippin not watching nothing he got to say
He’s calling the official Game Boy Advance port, which is literally titled “Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis”, bad. If you haven’t heard of that port, then that’s probably for the better. The original game on the original hardware is good, but the GBA port was a mistake.
@@isbragg bro brought up GBA when this game came out on sega in the 90s lol wtf are you talking about bro
@@rishyrish I, and the video, are talking about the GBA port of Sonic the Hedgehog, literally titled “Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis”. Released in 2006 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the franchise only in North America. It was, let’s just say, not good. Go look it up yourself.
@@rishyrishGenesis game is pretty good for its time. The gba port "Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis" is abysmal because they completely botched it.
@@rishyrishand you call yourself a Sonic fan
Not even close to the worst game.
Sonic 3D blast 5 is dog shit. The control is liquid shit. It feels like a way more stiff and less precise version of Sonic jam on the game com! Sonic falls through. Moving platforms unless you land dead center. The level design is horrible! Half the time you can’t even make the jump as you rely off of an enemy to bounce off of, and might I add the bounce physics as crap. You can’t move Sonic until he is at the peak of his jump. There’s only 5 acts but each one is crap. All are labeled as “green hill” but clearly aren’t. It goes green hill, star light zone, spring yard, Labyrinth zone, marble zone although the graphics are from Sonic 3 so they barely look like the Sonic levels there based on. The music sounds like a homeless man choking on his own shit smoothie. All the graphics are stolen from Sonic 3, the enemies are stolen from Sonic 1, Sonic is from the game gear? Which makes an inconstant art style, but also the world’s worst screen crunch. Might O add there’s nothing here to say that this is a sonic game besides the graphics, rings and monitors. There’s no loops, bumpers, water, level specific enemies, special stages, and there’s only in star light zone where you can get max speed. This game has horrible controls, the level layout is garbage, the game is “”””supposed”””” to be a port of sonic 1, yet the zones use graphics from Sonic 3 and the levels are out of order.
Sonic 3D Blast 5 is a bootleg, i wouldn’t say it counts
The worst 3D sonic game is Sonic 06 on PS3. p.s doesn't play p 06 even though you should play that instead.
Sonic 4. Lost world. Black knight and dark brotherhood is bad