Hyper

This will be Sonic the Hedgehog in 2006

A Discord conversation reading the following: Hyper: "I probably have more hours in Visual Studio this year than I do in any game" João: "pick your game of the year" Attached is a screenshot of The Game Awards' website, with Visual Studio edited in to be the last "game" in the list.

This week, I made a bunch of progress on XNOEdit, my cross-platform editor/viewer for Sonic '06 objects powered by .NET and WGPU.

Still lots to do, but many objects now correctly visualise, including textures! Next up, bringing in original recompiled shaders so everything looks perfect.

Screenshot of an in-progress XNO editor/viewer for Sonic '06 objects written with Silk.NET WGPU and ImGUI.

Been a bit since I've done a weekly update, so here's what we're up to! Lots of stuff is in the works:

- Achievement support (Hyper)
- Physics-based high FPS fixes and APIs for character controllers (Rei)
- MSAA & resize support (Rei & I)
- External cross-platform XNO editor (Me)

Stay tuned!

It was produced by an anonymous contributor.

You can get the raw uncompressed audio for it here: github.com/hedge-dev/Un...

I thought it'd be fun to outline (literally) how much of a hack the custom UI in the recomp is. Anything surrounded by an outline is drawn using Dear ImGui and isn't rendered by the game.

Quick update on this, I made the borders mirrored and added a faded letterbox when narrower than 4:3 instead, so it doesn't look as horrific as it used to.

The button window wasn't implemented yet, even by the XBLA demo, so this is just a retail issue.

I'm only posting this because I accidentally broke the main menu, so this was a good opportunity to show it clearly. lol

Fun '06 fact: the button window text is always rendered twice, but is covered up by the main menu panels, so you don't see the duplicate at the top left.

I thought you were asking this at first and changed my response in case you meant "portable" as in "handheld"...

Anyway, much like Unleashed Recompiled, this is already supported.

We'll only be providing builds for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Anyone could fork it and add support for other platforms, but we wouldn't be maintaining those. And with Linux support, it's a given it'll at least work on Steam Deck out of the box.

"Soon™", as in, soon to be added into already public builds that anyone can download via GitHub Actions and test.

There's more issues than just high frame rate bugs that are left to deal with which are pretty major and may take some time.

We're not working towards any deadlines.

This is the achievement text from the original game.

We'll be relocalising all of the achievements in all languages, as the existing text isn't very helpful and is probably the most poorly localised text in the entire game.

Special thanks to brianuuu, LJSTAR, Kitzuku, DaGuAr and @nextinhkry.bsky.social for helping with localisation.

After almost a month of work, the '06 recomp options menu has been merged!

This comes with a few new options, along with some improved existing ones to make them work at runtime.

It's still not 100% there yet though, as many of the video settings available are yet to be implemented on demand.

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It's not ready for release yet. Marathon Recompiled is unaffiliated with hedge-dev.

Neither of these mods will work with the recomp on release as they modify game code.

The recomp will contain embedded patches and QoL improvements, but anything drastic will be disabled by default to preserve the original experience.

listen I wanted to spend maybe a couple weeks on it, not months smh 😔

None, it's the full retail game (original files are required)

This week we got more progress from @hyperbx.bsky.social on the options menu! All of this is implemented outside the game's UI engine in ImGui :)

Particle effects have been patched for HFR, this video is the game running at 60fps, so this is normal behaviour.

Nothing much to report this week, but here's a sneak peek at what @hyperbx.bsky.social is cooking up :)

Marathon Recompiled running Mephiles Phase 1, showing high resolution Mephiles "shadow" rendering.

This week, we've fixed several more high FPS issues, including particles, UI animations, and bullet collision, improvements for the debug camera, and added patches for rendering Shadow's shadow-Mephiles in crispy high res!

A person facing the sunset with their hands raised in the air breaking chains between their arms.

I'm finally free from aspect ratio code

Marathon (Sonic '06) Recomp, Castle Town in ultrawide aspect ratio showing correctly aligned UI and town map.

Marathon (Sonic '06) Recomp, Kingdom Valley A - Sonic in ultrawide showing correctly aligned UI.

Here it is! The most anticipated patch yet...

Ultrawide support in the UI, along with several restoration patches and high frame-rate fixes.

This took a lot of work, so make sure to give your thanks to @hyperbx.bsky.social

Oh the entire game was letterboxed, not just the main menu. A 60Hz 16:9 display was required to play this game. lol