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video game music and shitposting,
but never in that combination*
*(not a guarantee)
...still have a Dreamcast and a CD burner?1
enter Sonic Shuffle, by Hudson Soft (who also made Mario Party) and Sonic Team. lots of people skipped this one back then, including me, but i'm glad i gave it a second look.
you'll want specifically the DCRes repack of it - the official disc has terrible load time issues.
you forgot "an A-masher challenge that you literally need a controller with a turbo button to complete"
i recall bad, frequent load times overshadowing this one. nice to see fresh takes though!
the DCRes repack by TuxTheWise reorders the filesystem to improve loading times, in my experience pretty substantially:
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Sonic Shuffle *Repack 2* (NTSC-U)
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Ripped: Nothing.
Downsampled: Nothing.
Source: GD dump and Echelon's release (oRARs).
I decided to launch this game again after developing my newest optization technique when working
on Headhunter. Now loading times are much faster, and this game is much less annoying.
I hope it's the last time I work on this game. Have fun.
Features of my release:
- Much faster loading times!
- Not corrupted files at all, it was made with GD dump files and Echelon's oRARs.
- Dummied for 700mb CDs. It means faster loading times.
- Used custom file order. It means faster loadings and less Dreamcast reader noise.
- Selfboot.
About the game:
- It has VGA Box support.
oh, neat. think this has the same effect when loaded by ODE? i just got an ODE so actually haven't don't much load-time observation.
wonder if other such releases / fixes are worth seeking.
it would depend on whether your ODE allows you to turn off seek time emulation (which might ??? default to on for compatibility reasons, though i don't have a DC ODE to know)
it (MODE) does have settings to speed it up or slow it down to simulate the actual disc reads, yeah. this has me curious how much per-game file layouts could have an additional effect.
well if you get around to trying it, i think most or all of DCRes's repacks do this and it'd be great to know if it makes any difference (though if i do get around to picking up an ODE it'll probably be a different one)
understandable. i ordered it based on the featureset, then later found out about the not-so-great guy behind it.
i almost ended up in the same boat actually, but at that point i'd already had the experience of owning their megaSD and dealing with its asinine restrictions on firmware updates (being tied to your registered account on their site and being encrypted for your unit specifically)
