Sonic

[MarioMark]

Some people love these filters, they're like what you get in emulators on PC, 'smoothing' to make it less blocky.

Destroys any clarity in the image though, I think it looks nasty. Gimmie blocky as it's meant to be tbh.

SotN XBLA had it, optional enable/disable. I think they call it 'enhanced' mode...

Depends on viewing distance and what TV you have. On my HD set I have it turned on, and I'm not too close to the TV. I do notice the disadvantages to it though when I'm up close, but because I'm at the correct viewing distance away from the TV it looks better to me.

[El Leone]

No, just confirmed that's all. But now the Xbox Live Arcade SEGA Emulator is built, I can't see it taking long to slap the Sonic 2 Rom on it. Surly Streets of Rage Online is a must now Golden Axe is out and Online.

Do you have a link to confirmation? I love Sonic 2, alot alot more than the original. Co op as well. Still, Sonic 3 and Knuckles would be the dream.

Managed to get 32k as well, I'm on the top of my friends leaderboard.

Edit: http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/06/es...-for-xbox-360/

[MarioMark]

Still, Sonic 3 and Knuckles would be the dream.

Yeah, but I bet they release them as a seperate game to make more money

I'd love to see 3&K come out as a whole package, as one massive Sonic game, it's the best IMO.

Edit: Just thinking about how good Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 + Knuckles were, how did they let the franchise get so bad over the years? Sonic Advance and Rush are ok but they don't feel like the old Mega Drive ones.

[prinnysquad]

OOf I had to have a go at that Marble Zone speed achievement quite a few times. The annoying thing = it's all about when you reach the lifts, spikes, crushing platforms, etc.

I did a flawless speed run through that clocked in at about 92 seconds because I happened to reach the green platforms when they were blocking the way, and that set in motion an unavoidable series of waiting games.

When I got the achievement it was on a really grubby runthrough featuring numerous jumps straight into the lava, but I seemed to hit all the moving platforms at the right time. That achievement felt unclean.

[AngelsInFlight]

Just picked some points up for this! Can't wait to get it, along with Golden Axe to play with my mates !

[VR46]

Prinnysquad I spent about 40 minutes getting that one last night, you know you can save mid-level ? there are some good runs on youtube - if anyone's still struggling. It's just a case of getting to the chandlier shaped thing near the end of the level before it climbs and costs you another four or five seconds.

[prinnysquad]

I may have had a sneak look at youtube at one point ... only to notice there were no magical shortcuts that I somehow missed when I played the game religiously as a kid. It quickly became apparent that the sub 80-second runthrough was all down to luck and flukey timing.

[AngelsInFlight]

Picked up the Win, Perfect Win and the achievment for obtaining 100 Rings today! A good day for the ol' Gamerscore !

[VR46]

I'm just playing through slowly, without losing a life, got no chance of getting the sub 40 minute achievement though. Nice game to pick up and play for ten minutes