Sonic Riders
Sonic Riders |
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Developer:
Sonic Team
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In Sonic Riders, you play as Sonic and his friends (or the newcomer Babylon Rogues) as they ride (obviously) air-based hoverboards, skates, and bikes in a race to win the World Grand Prix.
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Chao's Lower Body
The Chao that runs the shop has its lower body modeled but this can't be seen normally due to the fixed camera.
Platform Differences
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Sonic Riders was first developed on the GameCube, then ported to PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The Windows version is actually a port of the Xbox version; and, as with other Windows ports of Sonic games, it's a pretty poor port. Some of these bugs are only in the Windows version, while other bugs originate from the Xbox version. Here are some bugs present in the Xbox & Windows versions:
Choppy CG Cutscenes
Many copies of the Xbox version have problems displaying the CG cutscenes where they play but appear very choppy. The cause of the glitch is unknown and varies on how you play the Xbox version, as some systems, as well as the Xbox 360, play the CG cutscenes just fine.
Characters' Immobile Pupils
In the Windows version, every character in the non-CG cutscenes that has eyes has his/her eye pupils fixed to a forward-looking position and not moving around. This is not seen in any other version of the game.
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Misplaced Mouths
In the last non-CG cutscene in the Babylon Story Mode, some characters (mostly Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles) appear to have their mouth misplaced on their face. This bug is also present in the GameCube and Xbox versions.
PlayStation 2 | Windows |
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No Music Volume Decrement
There's no decrease to the volume of the background music in the PC version. This bug occurs in places such as:
- Pausing the game: The music is supposed to turn down on the pause menu. However, this doesn't happen in the PC version.
- Skipping the credits: The music played during the credits (High Flying Groove for Heroes' story, Catch Me If You Can for Babylon's story) is supposed to fade out when skipping the credits. In the PC version, music plays until it's suddenly cut off.
- Playing SEGA CARNIVAL/SEGA ILLUSION Jingles: In the tracks SEGA CARNIVAL and SEGA ILLUSION, when entering a game's area, a jingle plays that's based on the main theme of that game. The BGM should turn down for the jingle to play, and then turn up again. In the PC version, the jingles play as the BGM volume is still up.
Missing In-Game Lines
In the gameplay, characters have lines for landing a trick correctly, as well as incorrectly, attacking others, being attacking by others, etc. In the Windows version, almost every character has lost lines for at least one of the above in the English voice bank; however, the Japanese voice bank has no missing in-game lines.
To do: Upload some video footage of these bugs. |
Unused Text
Present in the PS2 version's executable are a couple of strings related to the libraries used for this game.
At 0x34BE90:
SEGA NN Library for PlayStation2 nn Ver 1.18.43 Build:Oct 7 2005 16:13:05 1.18.43 %s Version %s (C) SEGA Corporation Creative Center Graphics Sect.
At 0x34d041:
PX Ver.1.46.04 Build:Jul 15 2005 19:12:36
At 0x3518D1:
PX Plus Ver.0.87.02 Build:Aug 22 2005 15:30:24
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