Topic: Sonic Classic Collection

Hi there from a Newbie. I have just got "Sonic Classic Collection" and don't know if I'm missing something here, but it seems like I'm not controlling the game and Sonic seems to just move by himself, even if I don't touch any of the controls he still moves and jumps.

Is this right? Or am I doing something wrong?

Maybe you had a button pressed when you started the game. Try restarting.

Sounds like it's the title screen demo. You probably didn't press the Start button on the start menu.

press start

I was planning to Sonic CC for the DS but have anyone here played it, and if so, how is it.

I didn't hear alot good things about it, like sound and gameplay feel glitchy.
If it plays like the one on VC, then I'll get it, if not then I'l just wait for a New Sonic CC

It's a good game, but can be a bad game.

You're doing it wrong or something is wrong with it, if it's running in its own as that's not right.

If you're playing it on a DSi it's a good game, but if you're playing it on a DS/Lite it'll fairly well suck due to little issues. See the Sonic games are the real Genesis ROMs running on a formerly public DS Genesis emulator called jEnesisDS. Sega bought off the coder and hired him at Sega, gave him the specs and crud and helped him well ugprade the emulator and custom coded it just for Sonic (which run like crap on his public emulator some time ago in the past.) The problem though is the emulator is faking a Genesis on the DS so there's all that overhead, plus the required RAM to boot load the game (ram required is size of game+emulator boot code into memory.) The old DS has just a 67mhz cpu and a 33mhz subprocessor with 4MB of system memory while the DSi is at 167mhz/33mhz and 16MB of memory (plus other little upgrades like more cache and work ram but that's minor to this point.)

So if you run the game on an old style DS the game will go between visually chopping up a bit or running a bit sticky slow just not at the right pace. Due to this drag response time may seem slightly slow, and audio (music and sfx) will come in off the normal. On the DSi the emulator regardless is not 100% perfect so a few sfx just have the wrong pitch but the music/sfx run at the right pace. Also as far as the visuals/gameplay go on the DSI it's not choppy and doesn't slow down anywhere really at all. The meh website kombo did the game justice as they didn't review sonic, they reviewed the emulation quality and it's quite telling. You may want to wander over and read it up in detail, but if you own a DSi it's a sure buy as a Sonic fan, but with a normal DS not so sure.

Well, J.K. summed it up really well, and I can vouch for this as well (since I own the game), it's decent on the DSi. Every now and then I see really weird graphical glitches (water can look really sketchy, shadows cast from walls look REALLY bad and flicker), but to me, playing these beloved classics on the go...I can overlook the games flaws. I have never played the game on an original DS, so I am not sure how bad it really is, but it is easy to look past the flaws with the DSi. Now that it's $20, I think it is worth picking up (I got it at that price, and don't feel jipped).