If Sonic The Hedgehog 2 was in HD . . .

[Gentlegamer]

Blog post at racketboy.com

I thought this looked pretty cool and wanted to share it with the Segaphiles.

[Aarzak]

I was about to chime in with a smarmy "then it'd look like it does on an emulator with an hqx filter", but then I saw that pic and thought it was badass.

[Joe Redifer]

That would rock, even though 1024x768 is not an HD resolution. Still, that picture is really cool. There are so many games I'd like to see have true HD versions like Street Fighter 2 HD Turbo. Keep the gameplay EXACTLY the same, but maybe upgrade the sound as well. If you want to change anything about the gameplay, then add a stage or two.

[AD2101]

Damn that picture went straight to my desktop background. It would be awesome if Sega did this but we know how Sega treats awesome ideas as of late.

[Rusty Venture]

Streets of Rage HD.

Original control/moves and updated SOR3-ish control/moves
Remastered Original Audio or 2007 Remix.

[Mr Smith]

Damn that picture went straight to my desktop background.

I was going to do the same, however, it would have meant removing my image of Isabella Soprano. That pic was pretty damn awesome though.

[Gentlegamer]

I want Shadow Dancer HD.

*ducks*

[Elusive]

Sonic looks deformed (ugh, the life icon has borders!), the fonts are all wrong, and it reeks of Photoshop faux-plastic filter. The flame in the mecha's jetpack is dreadful, and the lighting's all over the place (why all the light streaks?). It looks nice as a still picture, but as a moving image it would look confusing. Like watching boiled sweets bounce if you jiggled their bag.

And it's not even at a HD resolution! It's an emulator screenshot, blown-up and with less blocky sprites pasted on top! It's what every fifteen-year-old DeviantART member thinks Sonic should be like blaarg

[evildragon]

That's no emulator. o_O

[Elusive]

You take a base picture (the emulator screenshot), blow it up in your torrented copy of Photoshop, then place your own art on top, using the pixelly screenshot as a guide. Look:



Almost exactly the same image. Only with less time on the clock.

[evildragon]

...and yet the pillars don't line up.

Sorry, they may have looked at an emulator, but there's nothing in that picture FROM an emulator.

[Elusive]

The pillars line up exactly, the far-left one has just been half-cut off.

My point is, HD Sonic 2 would be nice, in the same way free icecream would be nice, or being an astronaut for a day. It would also be just as likely to happen, and I like the original as it is anyway

[edit]haha, post 1234. Now for number 1337.

[evildragon]

They don't line up with the score board or lives counter.

[0x15e]

My point is, HD Sonic 2 would be nice, in the same way free icecream would be nice, or being an astronaut for a day. It would also be just as likely to happen, and I like the original as it is anyway

I agree. It looks all nice and shiny but I just can't get over the feeling that if something like that were to exist, it just wouldn't feel right. Like the scrolling wouldn't be as smooth as it should (i.e., tearing, low framerate, etc.) or they'd horribly munge up the new arrangement of the music.

I just don't have the faith that modern-day Sega wouldn't just horribly mangle it.

[evildragon]

I think it could be done at a decent 60fps. A system like the original Xbox surely could do this, with no extra fancy animations. A 360, to the max.