Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Carnival Night Background

Liraxus · Postby **Liraxus** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 9:26 pm

Basically my attempt of porting Sonic 3's carnival Night background.

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Save it as background2-30, and make sure it's a gif.

Tango · Postby **Tango** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 9:49 pm

2useful4me

Ah Carnival Night. All the cool ballons, classic music and... DAMN BARRELS.

Anyways, very good work you did here. You got my infinite respect. You are a ability that can't be wasted.
Keep the cool!

Postby **Murphmario** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 9:54 pm

This is pretty good, so good job here! I might do the barrel, because Carnival Night isn't complete without barrels!

MECHDRAGON777 · Postby **MECHDRAGON777** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 10:32 pm

Liraxus wrote:Basically my attempt of porting Sonic 3's carnival Night background.

Spoiler: show
Save it as background2-30, and make sure it's a gif.

uhh, Can you do the full tileset, and I hate the barrels! I may ise this if I ger the full tileset! Sonic 3 was my first ever PC game!

Superiorstar · Postby **Superiorstar** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 1:27 am

MECHDRAGON777 wrote:
Liraxus wrote:Basically my attempt of porting Sonic 3's carnival Night background.

Spoiler: show
Save it as background2-30, and make sure it's a gif.
uhh, Can you do the full tileset, and I hate the barrels! I may ise this if I ger the full tileset! Sonic 3 was my first ever PC game!

That is a very tall order since the tileset is one of the most complex of the sega genesis, let alone just trying to dissect it into SMBX.

Mable · Postby **Mable** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 5:39 am

So why don't ya do it by yourself? I could understand it if you not good at making gfx. Also why do you write like Vinyl.

Postby **Willhart** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 6:28 am

Superiorstar wrote:
MECHDRAGON777 wrote:
Liraxus wrote:Basically my attempt of porting Sonic 3's carnival Night background.

Spoiler: show
Save it as background2-30, and make sure it's a gif.
uhh, Can you do the full tileset, and I hate the barrels! I may ise this if I ger the full tileset! Sonic 3 was my first ever PC game!
That is a very tall order since the tileset is one of the most complex of the sega genesis, let alone just trying to dissect it into SMBX.

I have converted a large part of that tileset already. It's not fully complete, but might still be useful for making a level.
http://www.smbxgame.com/forums/v ... nic#p36410

Postby **Squishy Rex** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 6:43 am

I have to admit, I've never really seen how they can use this background for the Carnival level, it doesn't really feel like a carnival background, more like a futuristic city. In any case though this is a decent port Liraxus, well done.

MECHDRAGON777 · Postby **MECHDRAGON777** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 7:38 am

Sinem wrote:So why don't ya do it by yourself? I could understand it if you not good at making gfx. Also why do you write like Vinyl.

Can you explain what you mean "write like vinyl"?

Edit: yeah, I am not good at graphics! I made a playable lemmy a long time ago over Mario, but it was terrible...

h2643 · Postby **h2643** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 7:51 am

MECHDRAGON777 wrote:
Sinem wrote:So why don't ya do it by yourself? I could understand it if you not good at making gfx. Also why do you write like Vinyl.
Can you explain what you mean "write like vinyl"?

Maybe because you use the same text color.

Liraxus · Postby **Liraxus** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:20 pm

Oh, glad you all liked it.

To be honest, the thought came into my head of somehow making a fitting carnival night themed tileset from scratch, but it wouldn't do the original graphics justice IMO. Time to uh...get a bit technical.

How is sonic 3 so gorgeous? Well, lets look at the tileset I used for the background.

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This pretty much explains the whole thing. Sonic 3 is tiled by using a 128 by 128 system, basically, they fill in tiles that are 128 pixels tall and wide, for comparison, a regular tile in SMBX is 32 by 32 pixels wide, but simply sprited to look 16 by 16 most of the time.

This literally means if anyone wants to attempt to port ANYTHING from Sonic 3 into SMBX, you'd not only have to break through the 16 bit art style we keep in SMBX for quality purposes, but you'd have to use 16 seperate tiles to render one tile used in Sonic 3.

Not only was Sonic 3 a really impressive game for the time, it was also a technical marvel that pushed the Genesis to its limits.

SMBX can't exactly do that, you guys can make a SMB3 themed tileset, but it really wouldn't do the level justice for just being retro-spritework eyecandy.

Postby **Squishy Rex** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 5:25 am

Well, actually this would be possible to make in PGE, the 128x128 tiles at least, and then save it to SMBX so all of the tiles are shown as 128x128.

SilverDeoxys563 · Postby **SilverDeoxys563** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 5:34 am

Squishy Rex wrote:Well, actually this would be possible to make in PGE, the 128x128 tiles at least, and then save it to SMBX so all of the tiles are shown as 128x128.

Looks like it's time for me to rerip Starlight Zone, eh?
I guess I'll do it eventually and call it a v3.1.

Tango · Postby **Tango** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 6:31 pm

Squishy Rex wrote:I have to admit, I've never really seen how they can use this background for the Carnival level, it doesn't really feel like a carnival background, more like a futuristic city. In any case though this is a decent port Liraxus, well done.

If you pay attention, you can see some Ferris Wheels on the background.

Liraxus · Postby **Liraxus** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 8:24 pm

Miles Troopa wrote:
Squishy Rex wrote:I have to admit, I've never really seen how they can use this background for the Carnival level, it doesn't really feel like a carnival background, more like a futuristic city. In any case though this is a decent port Liraxus, well done.
If you pay attention, you can see some Ferris Wheels on the background.

That literally describes White Park zone from Sonic 4 Episode 2 perfectly.

All the fun crap is in the background.

YouTube · Postby **bossedit8** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 3:44 am

I really like this. It's Kind of rare to have a Sonic based Background like this especially animated ones. You made a good Job gaining those graphics together and make 'em onto functions. Good work!