1753: Sonic Mania PC \\ My 1st 2D Sonic! 1st 3 stages & fixed video freeze
0Playing Sonic Mania from Steam on PC!
My Sonic playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzMQt4FKIZafIKq1LZwrOXBR
0:00 - start
5:55 - Options - Video & a freeze fix
42:21 - mach race confusion
44:55 - Mean Bean Machine
1:07:40 - darn missiles again
1:31:35 - garbage pits
1:57:42 - darn robot spider
2:00:04 - wrap!
The game's video was freezing on me when task switching or when changing settings in its Video menu until I opened the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sonic Mania\Settings.ini" text file in Notepad (after making a backup copy!) and changed "exclusiveFS=y" to "exclusiveFS=n" on line 11. Now it's fine and I guess running in borderless windowed mode; why there isn't a way to set that in the game's video options screen, I'm not sure!
There's so much pixelated goodness in Sonic Mania--maybe a bit too much? ; D It can be exhausting trying to keep up with it! ^ ^+
The difficulty can be unpredictable; like, you're fine for ages and ages of rampaging along, then suddenly slightly pinched between two innocuous-looking blocks and dead as a doormat. Maybe this is normal in 2D Sonics, I dunno, I'm a noob!
Speaking of which, this made-by-superfans game doesn't explain anything, so I'm a bit lost by certain things so far, like what to do in that 3D-ish "mach" race where I just seemed to be going in circles and maybe gradually speeding up, but timed out? And the blue sphere collecting bonus game gets a tad old. : P
I suppose the block-dropping game Sonic and Robotnik play briefly would more properly be called "Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine" than "Puyo Puyo"; DRMBM is the "Westernized version of Puyo Puyo" according to Wikipedia; both games were made by Compile.
It's funny having another Sonic character along with you as an AI. That Tails is always up to wacky shenanigans! ^D ^ I appreciate that there's no control swapping or character tethering or power summoning or any of that guff, just good ol' one-button control! Drop-dash is cool, too.
Used my arcade stick here which was fine but I'll probably go back to DS4--easier to sit with for long periods. ^ _^
I did end up making the entire Tyson Hesse-directed intro animation into a single GIF ; D: https://smbhax.tumblr.com/740018563706945536
(Animation-optimization-wise it doesn't have a patch on that crazy mysterious Metal Sonic mobius hand-pixel-arted runner GIF I swiped from Selectbutton https://smbhax.tumblr.com/738365350038683648 ; )
(And because I can't stop: the entire Sonic CD animated intro as a GIF (from Sonic Origins): https://smbhax.tumblr.com/740063026733105152/ )
(Notes to self: 300px+ width. 8 fps; 6 via .avi if needed for sub-10MB. AVC 7.1.8 from mp4/avi, then Ulead GIF Animator 5 to cut KB & catch stray 1sec frame delays added by AVC.)
1/19/24
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