/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5486017
>You must already own a copy of Sonic 3 & Knuckles on Steam to play.
why?

>>5486058
Sonic 3 A.I.R. is built on top of the Sonic 3 & Knuckles Steam version. It works in some way similar to an emulator, and gets basically all of its data from the ROM that is part of this Steam release.

>So in order to play, owning the S3&K Steam game is a requirement!

Or download from the archive.org link.

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this is great, but how the fuck do I fullscreen it?

>>5487958
Press escape

>>5488035
Neat! Thanks!

So... is this basically an emulator with some sort of a widescreen hack fine tuned for S3&K?

It sucks that the Taxman/Stealth remaster got shot down by Sega, that one was great.

>136MB front end for a 4MB game from 1994 that's not even included.

Honestly seems like the best way to play it these days, but it's missing the nostalgia from running the games directly. I expect more fan mods and projects claiming to be the authoritative version before we get an updated release from SEGA.

>>5488152
I think it's a full on reverse engineered source port.

So this is for those, like, three(?) guys out there who cannot stop saying the words “original hardware” and really want to play the game Sonic 3 & Knuckles on a computer? I don’t get it.

>>5486017
just skimmed though a complete playthrough on youtube, it seems legit.
a long time ago i thought widescreen would be strange on these 2 bosses but its not too bad. rather than extend the launch base arena they added invisible walls. and the lava reef boss they just extended the lava. pretty basic but it works.

>>5486017
Just found out it has every sonic 3 complete option in-game along with a lot more options
i'm kinda blown away

>>5488178
I think it includes multiple soundtracks, which probably has a lot to do with the filesize.

>>5488178
That doesn't even make sense. If this gets all of it's data from the rom like it's advertised, shouldn't this be fucking tiny? The coding for extra shit wouldn't be that big. It couldn't be that big.

It was "Floating Island" in the classic era, but I guess "F.I.R." isn't as catchy.

Anyway, glad to see a replacement for the highly overrated Sonic 3 Complete.

>>5486017
>You must already own a copy of Sonic 3 & Knuckles on Steam to play

Into the trash it goes

>You must already own a copy of Sonic 3 & Knuckles on Steam to play.
Can't you just use a rom of Sonic 3 & Knuckles from like No-Intro or what?

>>5489090
>being poor

>>5489104
I own the originals, both US and JP releases.

>>5489101
no, only the steam rom
https://archive.org/download/SonicKnucklesWSonic3/Sonic_Knuckles_wSonic3.bin

>>5489127
So what? Does A.I.R. scan your Steam directory for this exact rom or can you just point it towards the rom placed wherever?

>>5489090
>>5489101
>>5489104
>>5489127
>>5489131
The requirement is just bullshit to try to guilt you into giving Sega some money. You can use any Sonic 3 and Knuckles rom and it'll run. Pic related is the rom that I used to test it and the game ran fine.

>>5489086
whats wrong with S3C?

>>5489153
It's popular, so people feel the need to be contrarian

>>5489153
It was "Two Steps Forward, One Step Backward: The ROM Hack", meaning it was never going to be the "definitive" way to play Sonic 3 & Knuckles like everyone and their mother was claiming.

So is there like a fullscreen mode in this? I can't seem to find it.

>>5489153
Literally just the lack of widescreen.

We have widescreen versions of 1 & 2 courtesy of Taxman, but his S3&K remaster got shot down by Sega, so somebody made this shitty fan game.

>>5488338
>all these options to cater to autism

>>5486017
>its own custom engine written in Visual Studio to "translate" the original games source code on-the-fly

Does this mean it will work on other non-Sonic games? Otherwise that's some wasted effort.

Just finished the game with it. It's a pretty neat thing overall.
Liked that it was widescreen, the small QoL changes to level design and level interaction like pushing boxes and switches faster in Sandopolis Act 2/the Flying Battery Act 2 miniboss happening faster/countdown timer for the light tunnels in Death Egg being faster. It felt real good. The achivements are cute too. Liked that the drop dash was an unlock.

the widescreen is great but I wish there was a way to remove all the "air" name inserts.
like they force "air" in the zone title cards and the title screen, and you also can't display the '& knuckles" text.
another option of pressing start at the title screen taking you directly to the file select would be nice.

does anyone else have a problem. i used the rom from the link provided here yet everything appears glitched up. can someone help?

>>5489551
I think your problem is mentioned in the PDF manual.

>it removes the stuttering in the intro

The fuck? Did they actually fix this?

>>5489206
The good old alt + enter.

Also I noticed that the blue sphere minigame was updated. Nice.

If only they'd do this with Sonic 1 and 2 as well so I don't need to use a phone emulator. They probably won't though, and if they did they'd require you to have the APKs.

Funny to think that this is pretty much a Sonic 3 & Knuckles source port if anything. Most likely the closest we'll ever get to a Taxman-style remake. Hell, just being able to play it in full widescreen with no FPS drops is pretty damn cool. But even though, I do wish it had a couple more of the control settings that Sonic 3 Complete had like "Max Control" and the different frames of animation for Super/Hyper Sonic that don't just look like normal Sonic but yellow/silver. Having the drop dash is cool though.

>>5489620
Thank you very much. And yeah, the special stages look a bit shinier/spit-polished.