Yes, LAWSUITS! ENDLESS LAWSUITS. There is zero chance something like this could have been released.

@@tarstarkusz I meant officially. If Sega had officially released this on the CPC at the time.

I was just sperging a little.

That could have happened, seeing as Amstrad and SEGA joined forces at some point. Anyone here old enough to remember the MegaPC?

@@GenMaster *raises hand* Yup, I used to drool over that whenever I saw it in the store... couldn't afford to have one, and by the time I could afford it, much better systems were out and emulation was a thing, so.. yeah :D But still, a 386 (or 486 if you were lucky! :o ) with a Mega Drive ISA board? Glorious!

I _guess_ so too.

The only thing this needs is replace Sonic's design with the master system one and improve drums

N'oubliez pas The Sword of Ianna pour l'Amstrad CPC!!

YesRecess

Same here, I love me some Sonic and my daughter loves him too.

The bad news: you will have a wait 2022 to get your hands on this. :-( The good news: the game is actually better than initially envisioned. ;-) Please read here details about this: norecess.cpcscene.net/news/sonic-gx-some-updates-on-the-project

Come on... ...give in... The power of the 6128 Plus compels you!

Un gringeaud est passé par là :)

@@MikeFr Hey Mike , oui en effet un EX Gringeaud 😉 ... J'en ai connu des Mike(s) mais tu es lequel ?? 😊

@@demangesebastien7106 : ah ah , mais quel mystère .... un ancien utilisateur et fan d’Amstrad CPC bien sûr ;-) Longue vie au CPC

@@MikeFr Un MIKE qui habitait à la sauteur ?

@@demangesebastien7106 : plutôt un mike qui a habité rue prosper ancel seitz puis après dans la rue David jusqu’en 1999 😊 , et pour en revenir à l’ amstrad , il y a vraiment des productions de fou qui sortent ces dernières années . C’est ouf de voir à quel point c’est impressionnant !

Probably a lot in Mega Drive and Master System sales after everyone bought the ports US gold would have made and decided the machine they already owned was inferior off the back of whatever awful quality the ports would have been back then. Of course the ports would have have still sold loads anyway even if rubbish, if hyped up enough.

Graphics are almost as good as megadrive

Hehe oui. Un vrai retour aux sources :) Bonne continuation Yoz

Don't wait for this game. There are so many things around the Amstrad GX-4000 nowadays, it definitively worth it to get interested right now! :)

@@norecess464 What is the point of trying to get everyone interested in a platform like this that no one can get easily, and is not even really that special in any way other than being the most advanced cheap british games computer?

At least from a high level standpoint the GX4000 is basically a Master System with a bitmap background and an extra d/a streaming channel so should it really need to be "pushed" to get this far? Maybe easy scrolling speed is limited by having to draw tiles to bitmap manually.

@@bangerbangerbro true, but this in-progress demo is probably more impressive than anything that was commercially released (admittedly a small number of games). I'd love to see an R-Type port, one even better than the SMS version.

@@JG-xd7wk Yes, definitely (to both of those).

Neither. Just something that needs tweaking.

Very impressive, but only fair to point out that it's running on the GX-4000 (i.e. based on the significantly enhanced CPC Plus, not the original hardware).

@@NotATube yes but if u ckeck out the contemporary games of the gx4000 back then, this is a miracle compared to them.

@@Misel982001 Well those were crude CPC ports for the most part, taking no advantage of the Plus/GX4000 potential, so what did you expect..? Even nowadays, renowned CPC programmers are beginning to learn about the 6128 Plus' true strength. Some of them claiming they don't want to make games for it, because its hardware makes things "too easy" for them...

@@NotATube Nice to see someone recognise the upgraded hardware. The internet is full of ignorant people claiming that the 6128 Plus/GX4000 is just a repackaged CPC...

@@GenMaster what do you mean by saying easy on them?

"Full release of the game is planned for end of 2020." In the description.

Nice memories, thanks for sharing!.. I personally went through similar stories when I was 10. :)

For some of us the interest in the GX4000/6128 Plus never waned, because they're awesome 8-bit machines. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kM6YpJaczbbXn30.html Make sure to check out the game's soundtrack, in the description, to get an idea of what one can do using the DMA channels.

@@GenMaster Ah, so it is an old owner's loyalty and interest that has continued? Thanks.

@@bangerbangerbro Not just owners, but programmers who also discover what the hardware can do. So yes, the proliferation of interest is very well justified. Why, the gaming scene has seen a re-emerging of development for many vintage platforms, so why not the Amstrad. The only way I can see that this seems odd to you, judging by your initial comment, is that you aren't so familiar with the CPC range in the first place, seeing as you don't consider these machines to be fit for gaming. An odd statement in itself, to be sure.

@@GenMaster As far as I know, the plus range does not have any features particularly interesting compared with other machines. It is reoughly similar to a master system with a bitmap background. The original CPC range are not great, being basic CPU-framebuffer machines, though as I learnt last year from these videos, they are capable of fine vertical scrolling and coarse horizontal scrolling. There is nothing to be offended by here, I just don't understand what in the CPC plus machines is particularly interesting moreso than other similar capability machines. However it is always interesting to learn about different machines and see people produce software for them even if they don't have many particularly unique characteristics. I also wonder why there would be any new interest now that wouldn't have been there before or just the normal rate of increase from new people discovering machines they didn't know before.

@@bangerbangerbro Not offended at all, it's hard to be offended by someone who's only misinformed. So no worries. Back on point: Does the SMS have DMA sound? No. Does it have sprite scaling? No. (only the GG does) Does it have a 4096 colour palette? No. Does it have 320×200/640×200 res sprites with 16 colours irrespective of the number of colours used in the background graphics? No. Does it have raster interrupts? No. I think the SMS also doesn't have sprite multiplexing, but I could be wrong on that. There are other things that make the 6128 Plus/GX4000 superior to the SMS, if one cares to look into it in more detail. "coarse"? The CPC is perfectly capable of pixel precise horizontal scrolling. Look up Batman Group's mario bros CPC demo. It is a common misconception that the CPC was lacking when it came to games, all because of Spectrum ports and lazy developers. As for the Plus range, it only makes sense that there was never a big interest in those machines to begin with, since they never really took off. Riddled with verbatim CPC ports (sometimes, backwards compatibility can be a curse) and very few games that took advantage of the advanced hardware _to some extent_ , games that were also hard to find...these wonderful 8-bit micros were doomed. Still, we have wonderful things coming up. This Sonic game, Bubble Quest, Ghosts 'n' Goblins...and who knows what else. For us fans it's a wish come true, to see a revival of this underappreciated micro. ☺️

It wasn't. :) Well, OK, more colors but absolutely no tileset facilities like NES or MasterSystem.

@@norecess464 A lot more RAM too, right?

The Plus GX4000 had some really nice hardware features. Definitely colour was superior.

@@andyukmonkey 64Kb RAM, where 32Kb of those 64Kb are used as VRAM.

@@norecess464 I'm pretty sure only 16KB is used for the screen but thats still quite a lot for an bit computer/console.

yeah baby

Hmm, actually it's a little more than a "port". Written from scratch, new level design, visuals improvement, etc etc.

I don't recall US Gold ever saying at the time that they were planning to release Sonic the Hedgehog for the CPC?

@@CPCGameReviews I definitely read that US Gold had the rights to home computer versions. The Amstrad got Lemmings in 1992 but no Street Fighter 2 so who knows. There are screenshots or mock ups of an Amiga/PC Version you can probably find in a google search quite easily.

Thanks. Different level design for sure, but we will make our best to provide something enjoyable for everyone. As a reminder, our goal is NOT to make a straight port of the game but really, design a new Sonic episode based on original (but enhanced) Game Gear graphics.

GG screen resolution is a better match. Also GG has more colours, as do the Plus machines. Enhanced Game Gear ports are a great match for Plus hardware.

Sorry, no demo. Only the final game will be publicly released in 2022.

@@norecess464 2022 now

Depends. You can actually display more than 16 sprites on screen when applying some advanced programming techniques.

@@norecess464 And with an Amstrad you can always draw to the bitmap if sprite multiplexing isn't enough.

Nobody cares what gets ported to a system like the amstrad kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bdRgl7ZznpOydY0.html

@@briandhamby Amstrad fans care. In some way or another, you care too, otherwise you wouldn't be here. ;} I know of that Malio tech demo. It doesn't prove your point. Quite the contrary, in fact, seeing as Shitendo waited ten years before they'd shut down the AM2R project... ;}

Sega is smarter. Sega chases them own... And hires them.

@@mattymatty8259 Exactly, that's how Sonic Mania came to be. And it's awesome.

You mean you want these remade for the Plus/GX?

@@GenMaster indeedy!

@@samcoupe4608KB Ah, so many to choose from... Gauntlet, too? Exolon? Saboteur 1-2?

@@GenMaster but exolon and saboteur are flipscreen we want full screen scrolling no?

@@samcoupe4608KB If the game looks and plays great, I'm fine with flip-screen. Besides, those two games were designed with flip-screen in mind, especially Exolon. Adding scrolling would affect its gameplay. Did they add scrolling for the recent PC remake? (edit: they didn't, I just took a peek) In Saboteur, you can exploit the flip-screen mechanic to dodge enemies...I don't know, I'm so used to the flip-screen mechanic in some of those games that it's hard to imagine them with scrolling implemented. :)

Just get yourself an Amstrad :)

No.

No.

@@ZXSpectrum128K No. :D

@@renaudg a + u mean!