SegaSonic The Hedgehog native port
セガソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ
A native PC port of Sega's trackball arcade Sonic, rebuilt from a decompilation of the original program, with a home-console mode, widescreen, English text and local network multiplayer. You supply the arcade ROM set.
What it is
cheviman's project turns the arcade game's own code, decompiled to C in a companion project, into native builds for Windows, Linux and macOS, with tools that also produce versions for the Switch, Android and Anbernic handhelds. It is not an emulator, and no game data is included: on first launch the game extracts what it needs from your own MAME ROM set.
What's new
- A console version for playing at home: no coins, a title menu with Time Attack, continues instead of credits, and up to three local players each with their own controls.
- WIDE mode draws the stages and menus in 16:9 or 16:10, plus display filters from sharp pixels to CRT scanlines.
- The how-to-play screens and Eggman's taunts appear in the English text boxes that exist in the program but were never shown by the Japanese board.
- Version 1.4.0 adds network play: one device hosts and up to two others join over the local network, one player each. The original arcade version is also included alongside.
Playing it
Download a build from the project page, put your own copy of the arcade ROM set beside it and start the game. The project was made with AI assistance.