New Video: An X-Tremely Good SRB2 Mod
Tristan Oliver | December 29, 2009
Why it May be Crucial for Sonic Research
While, on the surface, what SonicFreak94 may not seem that important, the work has some hoping it could lead to a playable edition of Sonic X-Treme that’s very close to what was intended.
What’s the work? It’s an ongoing project meant to replicate X-Treme levels with the Sonic Robo Blast 2 engine. It is considered a mod, and so far only level layouts are replicated, with Jade Gully getting the first treatment.
On his forum, SF94 said he plans to do more, and eventually finish the project, perhaps with those Sonic X-Treme textures that were released recently:
The camera has been modified to replicate that of Xtreme’s as much as possible. It’s pretty much unplayable in multiplayer due to the lack of analog (unless you reset the camera to the default settings), but in singleplayer it plays like a charm.
Size-wise, it’s pretty much an exact duplicate. Sonic may look bigger or smaller in either Xtreme or SRB2, but the level itself is the same. I plan to do some re-texturing to it so it’ll use Xtreme textures, though. Obviously there’s some things missing here and there, but they’ll go in eventually.
It’s that part we accented in bold that is of note. If this mod, under these terms, sees completion, fans may be able to enjoy the closest re-creation to date of what Sonic X-Treme was intended to be. That would be wonderful news, particularly for the Sonic research faction. Already, SF94 has conceptualized the gravity shift feature found in X-Treme’s Saturn version, and there are calls to emulate the fisheye camera lens, a feat that he’s said may not be easy.
So, for the moment, we have this video concept, which remains in the SRB2 universe, and you can view it below. If you want to help bring this mod to completion, you can always ask, but there are no guarantees you will be accepted into the project. We will keep tabs, as the prospects for this mod are very exciting.
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if it wouldent be so good i’d say its lame
Finish it and don’t mess it up!
Please don’t use those horrid slippery controls from robo blast please.
I think what Sanik is working on is going to make for a better experience.
Although I’d also like to add that the video pretty accurately portrays how X-Treme really did play – really badly.
Yeah the more I see of it the more I realize it was probably going to be terrible.
The only real appeal in X-Treme is the lore and stories and the fact that it’s unfinished and such. I still believe it would have been a mess to play, and not very fun.
SSNTails: I’ve been saying that for a while now! And treated like a heretic.
Y’all be hatin
You guys are a little late…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aXO_UEQy_4
[...] TSSZ News reader AkiraHedgehog commented on our previous story today regarding the recent strong effort to mimic what’s known of Sonic X-Treme in Sonic Robo [...]
Why did you make this post, Really Mike should have posted about this him self. Mike = SonicFreak94. I’m a BETA Tester for this And it’s like Xtreme but it’s still not it You just can’t make a SRB2 Sonic Xtreme it just won’t look the same, even though It does look good Xtreme still can’t be Duplicated. I’m the first BETA Tester who beta tested this and I say this, There is a good MOD here but it still can’t be Xtreme with out engine editing.
When I said I say doesn’t mean I’m saying what I say goes.
Yeah, Akirahedgehog proved my point. This has been done many times before. Put that right up in the topic, too. Wonder why it wasn’t acknowledged. =P
Also, I’m going to ask that you contact me before posting my content up here in the future (if that happens). It’d just be nice to know. And as a quick update, I’ve generally finished all the work on Jade Gully, including textures and what not. (except for one texture, but it’s not a big deal at this point)
/shamelessplug