Advertisement

Read about the latest Gaming news and announcements. The official blog of Activision, publishers of Call of Duty, Sekiro, Crash Bandicoot, Skylanders, and more.

Sonic Origins fan-made mod halted with three words: “Screw this game”

Artist's interpretation of Sonic fans' impatience over a recent game's lack of updates and patches.

Enlarge / Artist's interpretation of Sonic fans' impatience over a recent game's lack of updates and patches. (credit: Sega / Sam Machkovech)

Three weeks after its launch on modern consoles and PCs, the retro gaming collection Sonic Origins has continued coming under fire from various fans and critics, each uncovering issues that range from nitpicky to noticeable. Without any formal response from Sega on if or when the collection may receive a patch, one group of fans took it upon themselves to deliver their own mod on PC—only to then confirm that they were immediately halting and deleting their efforts.

The mod in question, dubbed BetterOrigins, was poised to correct apparently unfaithful elements found in the Sonic Origins versions of classic Sonic The Hedgehog games. In particular, the mod had already swapped art and sprites due to fact that some of them had been lifted from different games. (As an example, the "skidding" animation in Sonic Origins' version of Sonic 1 was actually lifted from Sonic CD, which the mod corrected.)

But as the group of apparently three modders made progress on various art swaps and patches, the team ran at Sonic speeds into a brick wall: The game's "script" access was closed off. "After really digging into the files for this game, its [sic] become way clearer that this game is absolute shit," a modder by the name of XanmanP wrote in a post that has since been deleted. Until Sega opens up fan access to the game's scripts, he wrote, "there's not a whole lot we can 'fix' without just redoing sprites." (XanmanP did not immediately answer Ars Technica's questions about what this script access could look like.)

Read 6 remaining paragraphs | Comments



from Gaming & Culture – Ars Technica https://ift.tt/jJoU6Pq

Recent Posts

Unordered List

Text Widget

Blog Archive

Like US On Facebook

Email Subscriptions

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Like US On Facebook

Contact Form

Name

Email *

Message *