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frederic-mahe / Analogue-Pocket

An issue tracker for Analogue's Pocket, a handheld FPGA device released in December 2021
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Sonic the Hedgehog stutter #45

Open sfcgeorge opened 2 years ago

sfcgeorge commented 2 years ago

Playing Sonic the Hedgehog 1 original cart there's noticeable stutter in several areas. Most noticeably the first few levels of Green Hill Zone with bridges that collapse when walking on them, the speed slows way down and controls become unresponsive until you're past the bridge.

Don't have an original GG to test on but for such a popular game I doubt it always had this bad lag. I suspect it's to do with the number of sprites or music samples at once.

GreatHierophant commented 2 years ago

I have a working Game Gear and I have noted when playing Sonic 1 with it (via EverDrive GG X7) that the game has many instances of momentary slowdown. The Bridge Act 1 has a particularly memorable moment of molasses-like slowdown as you run across the first collapsing bridge. So in my opinion, this is a fault in the game, not Pocket.