Sonic R

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Name: Sonic R Year: 1998 Publisher: SEGA Entertainment, Inc. Developer: not specified Platform: PC Genre: Racing Total rating: 65.6% - rated 121 times rate now: please log in to rate Submitter: Res Added: Feb 10 2005 Warez status: Abandonware

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Author: Scentimo Date: Mar 16 2005 - 22:17 Score: 45 points

Sonic on the PC? Our favourite blue hedgehog leaves the Sega consoles, and likes it. The "R" is for racing (or maybe race). And that's what it's all about. Sonic and his friends, Knuckles for example, and his archenemies, Dr. Robotnik of course, in a 3D racing game.

At first, it looks a little bit strange, because this time there aren't any cars, karts or hovervehicles, most characters are running (of course, Dr. Robotnik is still flying) but you'll get used to it after the first rounds.

There are three different game modes: Grand Prix, where you can prove your racing skills in a full cup, Time Attack, where you can race against the clock and the funny multiplayer mode if you want to play against your friends (on a split-screen). The Time Attack mode also offers three other methods of playing the game: Reversed tracks, get five baloons (do I have to explain what that means?) and "tag 4 characters", where you have to catch four other characters. IMO the funniest time attack mode.

Mario Kart comes to my mind, the whole concept is pretty similar, but Sonic R is much faster and looks much better. There are the typical power-up items like increased speed and you have to collect the usual Sonic golden rings we still know from the first Master System Sonic games. The game is easy to learn but difficult to master as your enemies are very quick and not dumb. It may take a while until you have won your first race against Knuckles and the others. On the bright side, you won't finish the game too fast. And there are a lot of characters and tracks that aren't available from the beginning. Hours of fun are guaranteed.

The 3D engine is powerful and the game looks pretty good, even today. The graphics are smooth and fast (sometimes a little too fast) but the sound isn't really worth mentioning. The game works good on my Windows XP System and even recognizes my Geforce 3D card. You can control your favourite character with your keyboard or with your joypad. I prefer the joypad, it gives you a feeling like playing a console game.

For lovers of the old Sonic games, Mario Kart fans and for all people who like non-realistic racing games, this is really worth trying and playing.

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By JB_VXR - Jun 09 2009 - 20:22       ok, last message I hope. I was mistaken in my last message. After some more research I found... SCSI Emulation works as long as the Emulated Drive is 'D' (or at least a letter before your primary 'real' IDE drive). Further, if you get the "The program encountered a problem at address......." if you hold 'Enter' while the sonicr.exe is highlighted it will repeatedly attempt to load the app. You system will slow down temporarily while all the 'failure' messageboxes come up, but eventually your game might start. For example, I hold enter, ~40 message boxes appear with failed run attempts before the game runs, but the game will eventually run for me (while holding enter screen will just go black and game will load). You will find many sonicr.exe processes running after you quit however. An easy way to get rid of them all quickly is create a txt file, rename it to a .bat file. Paste this into it taskkill /F /FI "IMAGENAME eq sonicr.exe" and double click it. If it doesn't work you likely don't have taskkill installed. Google to download it and put it in C:\Windows\System32, then double click the .bat file again. So for me, the game is now working, hope this helps someone else.

By JB_VXR - Jun 07 2009 - 20:13 ISO Version doesn't play music and won't go anywhere but the options screen. Compatibility Mode and the game won't launch. The non-ISO version works ok, but no music. Anyone finds a fix post it up

By MajorX9999 - May 07 2009 - 21:10 my fav song in this game is diamond in the sky!

By Pedro_2009 - May 03 2009 - 11:49 I Can't Choose any Characther or Mode in the Menu Screen! How Can i Do?

By Wheelebigger - Apr 11 2009 - 14:22 This a great game thanks guys! consider joining my facebook group for fansite of Classic Gamin Network  http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1178401082&ref=profile#/group.php?gid=65263282438&ref=mf

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