(08-01-2014, 01:04 PM)E-Man Wrote: Well, if you're going to make a Sonic game that looks as though that it is ported to the Game Boy, some visuals need to be tweaked. For example, the scaling of Robotnik in the intro is too clean and could only be achieved with either a Super FX Chip or the advanced hardware of the Game Boy Advance. As far as scaling goes, try to fake the effect.



If you take a look at the 12th row down, you'll see sprites of Link falling into a hole. You should take those sprites as inspiration as you create the frames to manually scale Robotnik down.

(08-01-2014, 03:38 PM)Neweegee Wrote: I think the fading and parallax scrolling(Game Boy is capable of this) is OK, but I think you should give Sonic and any enemies outlines, so it'd be easier to see them, since the background is white.

(08-01-2014, 09:17 PM)Vipershark Wrote: It sounds like you made that music using only Square waves, which makes it sound like a Game Gear (aka terrible) and not like a GameBoy at all.
You should use something like Famitracker or LSDJ to accurately get the GB sound.

(08-02-2014, 04:38 PM)Vipershark Wrote: The Gameboy uses square waves but not only square waves.
It's also got a triangle wave, noise generator, and DCPM but as far as I know the Game Gear uses square waves only so all of its music (the sonic games in particular) has this distinct "doot doot doot" sound to them because everything is just squares all the time.
I think most gameboy games generally had the main melody and accompaniment be squares while the bass and percussion were triangles and noise/DCPM respectively (but that doesn't apply to every game of course)

You'd probably be best asking Gorsal or someone more familiar with chiptunes how to give it the most authentic sound (particularly if this would have been a first party Nintendo collaboration, the music would have been really good).

On the intro in your OP for example, when the title screen comes up the first three beats you use an ugly buzzing sound when noise or DCPM would have worked much better.

(08-02-2014, 05:30 PM)Gors Wrote: Just correcting Vipershark right now: The game boy uses 2 pulse wave generatos, 1 custom wave generator and 1 noise generator. This means, the bass doesn't need to be locked to trangle waves, and you can create your own waveform to make music. Some games even inserted low resolution samples in it (such as Pokemon Yellow's title theme), but usually, it's just used for musical purposes instead of samples.

The most common mistake when people try making chiptunes is pretending that all notes are 50% square waves. While this is true for the PSG (Master System, MSX, Game Gear), this is not the same for the NES and Game Boy, which could manipulate their pulses to have different timbres.

(08-03-2014, 01:09 PM)Trollerskates Wrote: Sonic's colors in his sprite should be more like his colors on the title screen. (Darker fur, lighter skin)

Also, the clouds(?) on the top of the first screen look odd.

(08-03-2014, 05:11 PM)Jinzo-Advance Wrote: Sonic in Grayscale. Well, I'll have to make a note to keep an eye on this as a Sonic fan.