Yes, I know this is in the wrong forum, but I didn't know where to put it so I just threw it here because I really can't tell.
As the thread name said, I'm looking for a download of Sonic & Knuckles Collection for the PC, preferably in a .zip or .iso, no torrents please. I can't do torrents. The reason for this is because all the downloads on this site for it are all dead links and I can't use them.
Is there a particular reason you want the Sonic & Knuckles Collection over just playing the games in an emulator?
I actually own it on disc but I have no idea where it is. I wish I could help ya, hun.
Quote from: Elija2 on June 09, 2015, 06:15:31 AM
Is there a particular reason you want the Sonic & Knuckles Collection over just playing the games in an emulator?
Modding the sound and stuff, plus some other things like some functions added only to this version.
Maybe try this? (https://archive.org/details/Sonic_And_Knuckles_Collection_1995_Sega_M5)
Quote from: Raidein on June 09, 2015, 06:19:44 AM
Modding the sound and stuff, plus some other things like some functions added only to this version.
I completely forgot about that. I remember thinking I was super cool when I realized where the game's sound effects were. Funny how it took me like...14 years to realize how easily they could be replaced. You could probably do higher quality mods on the PC version since it's a port and not an emulation. Makes me wonder why it doesn't have a larger hacking community.
Quote from: jkid101094 on June 09, 2015, 12:22:58 PM
I completely forgot about that. I remember thinking I was super cool when I realized where the game's sound effects were. Funny how it took me like...14 years to realize how easily they could be replaced. You could probably do higher quality mods on the PC version since it's a port and not an emulation. Makes me wonder why it doesn't have a larger hacking community.
I don't think it really makes a difference. It's essentially the same game other than it being native to PC instead of native to Genesis. Any hacking you could do in the PC version you could also probably do in the Genesis version.
Quote from: Elija2 on June 09, 2015, 12:41:22 PM
Any hacking you could do in the PC version you could also probably do in the Genesis version.
I remember seeing a mod that had CD quality audio for the PC version, I don't think you can do that on the Genesis version.
And Eli shows he knows nothing about how modding works.
If you hack the Genesis version you have to deal with the limitations of a 21 year old game. Since the PC version was built from the ground up, however, your only limit is what you know how to do.
Quote from: jkid101094 on June 09, 2015, 11:34:06 PM
And Eli shows he knows nothing about how modding works.
If you hack the Genesis version you have to deal with the limitations of a 21 year old game. Since the PC version was built from the ground up, however, your only limit is what you know how to do.
Please don't insult me.
Just because a game is on PC doesn't mean it's super-easy to mod. Even on PC you still have to deal with the limitations of the engine which are essentially the same as the Genesis version aside from MIDI music.
The game being on PC and loading music externally implies that the game is running on an engine made for PC. What this means is that the engine for S&KC isn't using the same methods of loading files as the Genesis cartridge. I can almost gaurentee you that not only are memory limits a non-issue but so are things such as palettes. A very large factor in rom hacking is ram, and while I'm not as well versed in PC modding I know for a fact that PC games can avoid it's problems completely.
I don't think that memory limits are an issue with Sonic hacks, but if they are then that's easily solved by playing the hack on an emulator.
That's not how it works, hun. All that data has got to be stored somewhere regardless of what emulator you're using. Think of a game as one of those plastic boards that you build Lego sets on. The original programmers start with a blank slate and arrange their blocks (or files) how it's most convenient for their project. What you download as a rom is that complete board. Hacking the game is like taking Legos off that board and replacing them with new pieces. Sure, you're free to do whatever but only in the confines of what's already there. I can't, for example, move a 2x2 brick and replace it with a 4x4. I'd need to move the pieces around to make room, but doing so would throw the entire board off by causing anything reading it to lose track of where everything is. That's where repointing comes in handy.
Compare that to a computer game, which is an open assortment of files. Instead of pointing to a specific place on a board to find files the game simply has to read a file with a certain name, therefore the file has no size limit outside of what the individual game can read. The two different structures make hacking a completely different experience between systems and has to do with why console mods are so much harder to make.
Of course this whole thing is more about cartridges vs. CDs than console vs. PC Hacking but in this case the console game is a cartridge while the PC game is a CD.
That doesn't explain how there are mods for N64 games that add HD textures that an actual N64 clearly couldn't store, let alone load into memory.
(http://biasedvideogamerblog.wdfiles.com/local--files/blog%3An64-texture-enhancement-projects/Risio-Retro-Mario-64-Castle.png)
I think you're overestimating the differences between how PCs and consoles (or cartridges and CDs) load data. Yes, the way NES games load data is different from the way games now load data, but that's only because of hardware limitations which all hardware back then had, even PCs. The format doesn't matter, what matters is how the game is programmed and since this is an exact port of the Genesis games I doubt it was programmed much differently.
Quote from: Elija2 on June 10, 2015, 07:06:18 AM
That doesn't explain how there are mods for N64 games that add HD textures that an actual N64 clearly couldn't store, let alone load into memory.
Those textures aren't saved to or even loaded by the game itself, though. They're stored in a separate directory and then taken by a plugin for Project 64 and plastered on what already exists. I'm not exactly sure about the specifics of how the textures work but from what I can gather the ability to do these things is a perk exclusively built into Project 64.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkCqAYd7nAI
Quote from: Elija2 on June 10, 2015, 07:06:18 AM
I think you're overestimating the differences between how PCs and consoles (or cartridges and CDs) load data. Yes, the way NES games load data is different from the way games now load data, but that's only because of hardware limitations which all hardware back then had, even PCs. The format doesn't matter, what matters is how the game is programmed and since this is an exact port of the Genesis games I doubt it was programmed much differently.
Then can you please explain to me why Nintendo DS games use a file system for storing data, yet still can only be modded like a cartridge?
Go dig through any DS rom and you'll see a file system like in CD based games, but if you try to replace any file with something larger, the entire rom will go to hell. This is what happened to me when I attempted to replace Pichu's cry here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIAXJ77GGVc&index=8&list=PL2850424B8760A325
Now do the same thing with Brawl. Chances are it'll work perfectly fine. Why? Because that's the way CDs store and load data. I've seen people replace two minute loops in Brawl with a song that goes on for 30 minutes and have everything work out fine. I'm sure you could ask anyone else that has experience in both kinds of modding and they'll tell you the same thing.
Quote from: jkid101094 on June 10, 2015, 07:28:52 AM
Then can you please explain to me why Nintendo DS games use a file system for storing data, yet still can only be modded like a cartridge?
Go dig through any DS rom and you'll see a file system like in CD based games, but if you try to replace any file with something larger, the entire rom will go to hell. This is what happened to me when I attempted to replace Pichu's cry here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIAXJ77GGVc&index=8&list=PL2850424B8760A325
Now do the same thing with Brawl. Chances are it'll work perfectly fine. Why? Because that's the way CDs store and load data. I've seen people replace two minute loops in Brawl with a song that goes on for 30 minutes and have everything work out fine. I'm sure you could ask anyone else that has experience in both kinds of modding and they'll tell you the same thing.
I'm assuming it's because of the way the DS is designed, not because of the cartridges. Cartridges are literally just a different method of storage to CDs, they have nothing to do with how the games are programmed.
Well you can believe what you want while everything I've said have facts and experience behind them. :P
Not to mention that S&KC nativity to PC makes the files easier to get to.
Well I think the fact that there are only a few hacks for S&KC while there are thousands of hacks for the Genesis games means that the native PC port doesn't make hacking much easier.
Because the amount of hacks for a game has absolutely nothing to do with how many community developed tools exist for it or how easy it is to obtain in the first place. I mean, it's not like this topic was only posted to get the game in someone's hands or anything.
(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/2518807/thomas-rolling-eyes-o.gif)
Quote from: jkid101094 on June 10, 2015, 08:11:58 AM
Because the amount of hacks for a game has absolutely nothing to do with how many community developed tools exist for it or how easy it is to obtain in the first place. I mean, it's not like this topic was only posted to get the game in someone's hands or anything.
(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/2518807/thomas-rolling-eyes-o.gif)
If the game was easier to hack than the Genesis games, it follows that there would be more community developed tools for it. And it's easier to obtain a copy of S&KC than it is to dump your own Genesis cartridges.
Because everyone in the world dumps their own roms rather than pirating them off the internet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb0YLKDv_20
I'm sure that there are plenty of difficult-to-obtain games with active modding communities.
I swear to God I'm going to reach my arm through this computer screen and bitch slap the living shit out of you.
What did I say?
Quote from: Elija2 on June 09, 2015, 06:22:55 AM
Maybe try this? (https://archive.org/details/Sonic_And_Knuckles_Collection_1995_Sega_M5)
I am noob. How do run ISO?
No seriously, I have no clue.
Quote from: Raidein on June 12, 2015, 09:18:23 AM
I am noob. How do run ISO?
No seriously, I have no clue.
Install DAEMON TOOLS, then mount the image on the virtual hard drive the software creates.
Quote from: Ioshyriku on June 12, 2015, 09:35:04 AM
Install DAEMON TOOLS, then mount the image on the virtual hard drive the software creates.
Is it possible to do it without installing DAEMON TOOLS? I'd rather not install anything. I do have a USB Stick if I can use that.
You can install DAEMON tools too the USB stick if you're afraid of being caught using it. Alternatively you can just unistall DAEMON tools after mounting and installing the ISO. Keep in mind that there's pretty much no way to use an ISO without an external program and that most games still need to be installed from the ISO anyway.
Quote from: Raidein on June 13, 2015, 09:09:49 AM
Is it possible to do it without installing DAEMON TOOLS? I'd rather not install anything. I do have a USB Stick if I can use that.
Do you have Windows 8? I believe it lets you mount ISO files without third-party software.
Quote from: Elija2 on June 13, 2015, 09:19:15 AM
Do you have Windows 8? I believe it lets you mount ISO files without third-party software.
I've got windows vista.
I'm good at buying things.
Well I'm afraid there's really nothing you can do without downloading some external software.
Quote from: Elija2 on June 13, 2015, 09:28:13 AM
Well I'm afraid there's really nothing you can do without downloading some external software.
It turns out that apparently you can do it with Winrar, which I already have on my PC from ages back and I use it to unzip .rar files of course. So I'll do that and hope it works.
Good luck, hun
Any idea on how to bypass 'please insert CD rom' thingie?
Quote from: Raidein on June 13, 2015, 10:23:28 AM
Any idea on how to bypass 'please insert CD rom' thingie?
Mount the ISO...
...and we're back to square one.
Or download a crack, but scan it first.
Quote from: Elija2 on June 13, 2015, 10:24:13 AM
Mount the ISO...
...and we're back to square one.
kek, sorry. Tried to see if I could bypass having to get a CD and just use a USB but eventually I gave in and used a CD and it's working fine now. o3o