Sonic R (PC)

The PC version of Sonic R was notably improved over the Saturn original, and was later included in Sonic Gems Collection. Regardless, it still made people feel like they were pushing a cinder block across a rubber floor using a pen cap.

Also, Tails Doll.

Leftover Direct3D Test Menu


For some reason, the executable contains the menu from a very old Direct3D test program.

APPMENU MENU LANGUAGE LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL { POPUP "&File" {	MENUITEM "&About..\tF1", 1 MENUITEM SEPARATOR MENUITEM "&Single Step\tSpc", 27 MENUITEM "&Go\tEnter", 28 MENUITEM "&Toggle Stats\tTab", 10 MENUITEM SEPARATOR MENUITEM SEPARATOR MENUITEM SEPARATOR MENUITEM "E&xit\tESC", 2 } POPUP "&Render" {	MENUITEM "&Flat\tF2", 12 MENUITEM "&Gouraud\tF3", 13 MENUITEM "P&hong\tF4", 14 MENUITEM SEPARATOR MENUITEM "&Point\tCtrl+P", 20 MENUITEM "&Wireframe\tCtrl+W", 21 MENUITEM "&Solid\tCtrl+S", 22 MENUITEM SEPARATOR MENUITEM "&Dithering\tCtrl+D", 24 MENUITEM "&Anti-aliasing\tCtrl+A", 26 MENUITEM SEPARATOR MENUITEM "&Z Buffer\tF5", 15 MENUITEM "&Clears\tF6", 19 } POPUP "&Lighting" {	MENUITEM "&Specular Highlights\tF7", 23 MENUITEM "&Fog\tCtrl+F", 25 } POPUP "&Textures" {	MENUITEM "&Textures On\tF8", 3 MENUITEM "&Swap Textures\tF9", 4 MENUITEM "Perspective &Correct\tF10", 16 MENUITEM SEPARATOR MENUITEM "P&oint Filtering\tCtrl+O", 17 MENUITEM "Bi-&Linear Filtering\tCtrl+L", 18 MENUITEM SEPARATOR } POPUP "&Modes" {	MENUITEM "&Fullscreen\tAlt+Enter", 7 MENUITEM "&Previous Mode\tAlt+PgUp", 9 MENUITEM "&Next Mode\tAlt+PgDown", 8 MENUITEM SEPARATOR } }

About Dialog Box


The "About" dialog box is still in the executable, and can be accessed with a resource hacker.

Window Caption
If you force windowed mode using D3DWND and you choose Direct3D, the caption will read SonicR by Traveler's Tales but if you choose DirectDraw it will read BackBuffer.

This cannot be seen normally because Sonic R always runs on fullscreen.

Balloons Out Of Bounds
In the courses Radical City and Resort Island, there are balloons that can be found out of bounds.