The Many Sonic PC Games

Do like Sonic games? Do you like their shitty sub-par Windows ports? Here's a video tailor-made for YOU!
I had a cold when I recorded some of the audio for this but I needed to
get this video out so deal with it
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PCGAMINGWIKI: www.pcgamingwiki.com
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[@JumperTV33]

Back in my day, we called them Computer Games, which were different from Video Games.

[@Giveth_me_thy_memes]

I thought it was the only one

[@MischieviousJirachi]

SO REAL

[@concreteman03]

People still do that in 2023 to refer to where the game originated, in my world anyway

[@AROAH]

>2009 >elementary school >Roblox Hoo boy I’m old

[@JovialEclipse]

The weird thing about Sonic Heroes is that the Gamecube version uses the final build of the game and all other subsequent release is a weird beta build thats not as optimized Also the weird singing in the Sonic Heroes intro animatic was them vocalizing the song as the lyrics wernt finalized yet

[@ThatRetroGuy2005]

No wonder why the ps2 version was trash 😂

[@strangesonicfan9204]

@@ThatRetroGuy2005 At least it lets you change the voice acting unlike the gamecube.

[@cookieface80]

Like how the demo of Sonic 06 was a more polished build than the final game.

[@greatwavefan397]

Wow, so I actually played the best one 🤔

[@horserhimself8222]

Really?

[@basiltheleafeon]

This channel is so good. I could see myself rewatching this stuff. There aren't enough channels focused on cool obscure trivia. I hope you pop off in the KZbin algorithm

[@sentientsodacan]

dream jelly kinda does stuff like that, except it's mostly stuff from the 90s to mid 00's

[@eggsbox]

good news!

[@chvIry]

Well a year later and here he is on my feed

[@nik1234_]

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[@danielmclaughlin2190]

here, here!

[@perfectlybalanced8995]

1 advantage I find with the PC ports of these games is the amount of customization you can do with the OSTs. Most notably Sonic CD, you can replace some of the US Tracks with the JP Tracks while still having some of the US tracks for certain stages. Basically if there’s some songs you like from the US ost but still many songs from the JP ost (for example I want JP wacky workbench music but still want US Stardust speedway music) then you have your own customized Soundtrack containing songs from both the OSTs (something you can’t do in the Whitehead release as you can only change the entire OST and not bits of it) Also the PC port of Sonic R is pretty much a modding playground with different skins you can change on the characters or stages in addition to changing the music. Of course there’s also mods that fix some of the issues the game has and improves the experience overall

[@callumsparrow4379]

I’ve still no idea why both Sonic Adventure 2 Battle and Shadow The Hedgehog weren’t ported over to PC in a physical format. You think they’d would be a piece of cake to bring over, especially when Adventure DX and Heroes were already on there.

[@lpfan4491]

Tbh, I am glad. If the ports were as bad as the existing ones, then that would have just been bad news.

[@Studio-IV]

@@lpfan4491 appreciating games is hard huh

[@lpfan4491]

@@Studio-IV Making decent replies is hard huh

[@sanicsanic6890]

Actually, Nintendo had a deal with SEGA to make SA2 Battle exclusive to the GameCube. With Shadow the Hedgehog I have no idea why

[@seven_edge_official]

Actually SA2B is ported to PC

[@Seven19inkling]

Great video man, imagine getting a free video game in a fast food meal nowadays, that would never happen lol.

[@protadec]

Ultimate flash sonic was my introduction to the character. I recognize each flash game in the video, so nostalgic..

[@Xarcert_Moreldon]

Shocked by your low subscriber count. Glad the algorithm seems to be pushing this video again.

[@pvtests8248]

i subscribed on that intro. nothing else matters. i paused. and came here to tell u, it's been an year. u should come back, if not, i hope you're doing something equally satisfying. and all this just on the basis of your intro. i'll watch the whole thing and come back maybe, claybit.

[@JustJohn43]

The more time I spend with so called "insane purists", the more I understand the appeal. Very good video which took me back to my childhood. This is how I experienced a lot of Sonic in the late 90's. But to say these versions aren't worth going back to doesn't sit easy with me. I think it's completely worth going back to these versions if you wanna relive those memories

[@wetzinalvarado6930]

Hard to believe this channel doesn't have at least 10k subscribers, you channel is pure gold

[@reto-technique1742]

3 months ago it only had 500

[@Rotseer]

The cyber shell shoutout cemented you as a fantastic guy, subbed for sure

[@ianfarnsworth6309]

dude the production quality on these is crazy, i can't believe you haven't gotten more attention

[@ChevySamk]

the sonic pc collection was awesome. i had no audio emitting from the pc so i just played the entirety of sonic adventure dx completely silent

[@Cokenutz]

Good video claykid! There's also a demo for Sonic Riders PC, I was able to record it using FRAPS on Windows 8 like 8 years ago. Not sure if the demo works on Windows 10 though.

[@KebabTheLama]

Windows versions since Vista haven't changed much internally. They mostly fix bugs, add new features and maybe change some things. It's the reason why you can still use 7 and 8.1 on modern hardware, as most drivers are similar enough to the 10 drivers(tho im dumb so I could be wrong too)

[@BinglesP]

21:39 That Sonic Heroes puzzle game demo is actually a reskin of Columns. It's one of SEGA's two notable games of that type, along with Puyo Puyo(though Columns is definitely the simpler of the two).

[@Ismayamelasranaid]

Something that missing is; Sonic Riders on PC didn't gave you an option to map the controls of 3/4 players, you can only play 2 players even when the game it self clearly had that feature. It's very odd choice or maybe back in the day, pc doesn't have that much port to plug a gamepad 🤷. But I remember a lot of games before 2006 able to play up to 4 players, It really is just shitty port 😆

[@ECartmanist]

Poverty Cybershell 👍

[@lpnp9477]

Well if that motherfucker won't make videos then

[@rehabwithapplejuice]

I remember playing sonic heroes on PC as a kid, at some point i followed a guide on making the characters look "metal" by messing with the game files. good times!

[@Oddsfeline]

Very nice video. I love topics like this. I had the Xplosiv release of Sonic 3D and the game demo of Sonic & Knuckles Collection. Ah, the nostalgia

[@sonicroc237]

As an Australian, I bought the Modern release of Sonic 3D Flickies Island for PC in the 2010's and it is not compatible on my computer. I can confirm.

[@funwithoutpants]

Bruh. You had me messed up. When talking about the Mega Collection, at the exact moment Sonic got hit and lost his rings my phone vibrated. Very shortly followed by my 15% battery warning. But for a second it made me think you timed a corner notification that you made invisible or something with the hit.

[@waterklosetcartoons67]

Really well made video. Great research, tight editing, it's long form, and I love the animations.

[@nightzzmixx]

I’m so glad your channel popped up in my recommendations. Your style of content has this awesome flair, especially with the editing. I loved the intermission too, reminded me of the intermissions between cartoons you’d see in the early 2000s. Good stuff, dude!

[@robertdixon2555]

Wow, my friend showed me this and before I looked at the views I thought you were a big time sonic youtuber. This was really informative and well thought out and gave me lots of nostalgia, great video

[@carsisbest]

The music in the PC version of 3D Blast was used in the official Sonic ROBLOX game “Sonic Speed Simulator” but some levels have been removed so some tracks have been removed.

[@ryansock8269]

Got reccomended this video today, and it got me to get out my copies of Sonic & Knuckles Collection and Sonic 3D (I'm in Europe and they're both the Xplosiv reprints). This video was really good! You did a great job on it! :)

[@jordanhowell7798]

My first Sonic game I had on PC was Sonic Mega Collection Plus and I loved playing Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (a British/American version of Puyo Puyo for the Genesis) along with some Game Gear games like Sonic 1 (8-bit) and Sonic Chaos.

[@drummerman6488]

Bro, seeing The Sky Had a Weegee brought back so many memories of that time. I remember Weegee Towers was one of my favorite videos for a long time.

[@callmewumple]

These videos are really well made, like I could honestly listen to you talk about sonic for hours

[@saladplainzone]

love this video so much, i've always been interested in old pc stuff, i grew up with an old dell xp tower back in the day :)

[@rowjelio]

Oh dang! I was watching this thinking "watch he's gonna omit the jack in the box releases" Haha They weren't kids meal toys though that i recall. You just had to go up to the counter and buy them for like 2.99 . It was an extremely odd partnership that made almost no sense. My guess is that they made too many and needed a way to unload them hahaha i bought a couple! And I'll never forget the "wtf" moment when it played the original sonic 3 music

[@bastel_art]

Sweet video! Real interesting to learn that Sonic's schoolhouse didn't always use the hedgehog's ip, and it's a fun surprise to see trustycranberry make a cameo appearance

[@hedgethewedge]

Fun fact about the PC version of Sonic CD: The title screen is actually a different sprite from the Sega CD version, and the original PC version is the only version to have that certain sprite.

[@evanvinet8773]

Pretty well-made video for a dude with 750 subs. Keep this up and you're gonna be making money in no time...unless this is a backup channel for a much bigger youtuber....and you researched so well, you're a regular Cybershell. Soothing voice and all!

[@speedysonic14]

I've been waiting forever for a video that talks about these forgotten gems. Thank you so much for making this. You've just earned yourself a sub. Also. Is there a physical PC port of Sonic Adventure 2 out there? 🤔

[@mayh3xx]

I really love your editing and video style. I would love to see more content from you!

[@Salsamyt]

Awesome video! I remember when I was 7 and I got sonic heroes In a jewel case for PC and I had to play it on my moms desktop LOL. I’ve never seen anyone talk about these releases before! Keep making more content, you got a sub 👍🏻

[@aidenmartin4413]

I’m usually pretty skeptical about these random channels that come up in my feed talking about obscure topics. Some of them reeeeeeally suck, but this channel is awesome! Great video dude, I’d love to see more in the future.

[@RubyGalaxyYT]

This was a neat video to stumble across, I never knew there were more ports of sonic games.

[@MyNewSoundtrack]

3:51 omg I had that exact gif of sonic saved on a floppy disk back in the day! :') had no idea it was from the pc version

[@C4ST3R3T3RN4L]

Man, this video is just amazing. I just found out about your channel, and I may be already hooked. Your editing style is slick, your talking is smooth and the camera shots for when you are recording the monitor screen... Just so good! The only complaint I have, and this is small, is that Riders does not have a personal timestamp, it's mixed in with the Mega Collection Plus timestamp. But I don't really care about that, I still adore this video with all my heart. It's a dream for 8 year old me, who barely even manage to speak English. Keep up the good work, friend. 😊 One thing I could add, is that in the final part (talking about Unleashed), as with the Windows images, that's due to Xbox working with a similar engine that Windows computers use, that being DirectX. It's likely they used those 360 ports in modern computers to test out the graphics engine, which probably ran very well at the time compared to their console counterparts.

[@simtek3475]

Great vid and you gained a sub. Hope for more content in the future since it’s been so long since you uploaded!

[@Nightowljrm]

This is such a great video. I hope you make more! Subscribed

[@marklowery8193]

Ultimate flash sonic, the angel island act 1 flash, Sonic R and 3D Flickies Island were my childhood. And GamesSerpent Pokémon Red and Silver sped up holding the spacebar

[@Jonkeeb]

come back please i loved this vidoe and im craving more this is like the perfect video of obscure shit i alreayd know but still love watching

[@Papapaya101]

What a great video! Weird that Sonic heroes is so hard to find, I remember seeing it on a couple different stores here on argentina very early on the 2010s, which is weird because stores around that time weren't too well stacked with original games. All those copies gotta be lost on someone's old CD spindle

[@zubair1149]

24:08 - Nah, you're right about Generations phyisical release being the steam game on a disc, I own that physical copy. It just comes with a CD install disc and the manual with the Steam Key code on the back of the manual I also own that 20th anniversary pc pack when I was a kid, from an aussie kids magazine, they had a competition and 50 winners would get that pack.

[@RosenshineRewby]

I love finding amazing channels under 10k It feels like an early Christmas gift

[@riskybiznuiss2234]

Dude really great job on this video. Thanks a lot man, and I just want to tell you, keep with it. There’s a real niche here for a creator with Some aesthetic, some wit and real drive. Thanks.

[@fluffcake]

This was a fun watch, PC Sonic games are interesting, even if it just is the ports.

[@xProErax]

Hope you'll be able to come back and make more videos man this was definitely enjoyable and it would be great to see what else you have in store!

[@n_worder]

Just 8 more years

[@HyperSonic1999orJTH]

4:02 🙂 The reason why I played this version was to force myself to give the US ost a go and ended up 100%ing it too cause why not.

[@RoingoBoingo]

Johnny Gioeli is most definitely singing like that in the demo intro because the melody and lyrics probably weren’t finalized, so he just scatted a lot of the lyrics so it can be easier to make new lyrics as they please. This is very common for almost every musician’s demos that can be found online.

[@Xalusc]

Funny that you mentioned the Sonic Heroes demo but not the SADX demo that included three whole levels. Emerald Coast as Sonic, Windy Valley as Tails and Red Mountain as Knuckles

[@diddledoosandmore5094]

You are criminally underrated and this video was great

[@stratoplayer1988]

Great stuff! I had played Sonic 3 & Knuckles on the Genesis. Years later, I got the Sonic Mega Collection from Target that had the Sonic 3 Collection, Sonic CD, and Sonic R. It was great getting to play those other games as I never had a Sega CD or a Saturn.

[@chanhjohnnguyen1867]

Crazy good video, just as good as any of the bigger channels

[@venforya]

hold thje pjhone first thing I've seen of you, your style is absolutely fantastic. instant sub from me pal

[@galacticmoomoo413]

The way this entire video made me ugly laugh; nice work!

[@wisesthacesha2791]

Man, this channel is about quality over quantity

[@chris_3706]

Blessed video. Hope you make more

[@artikz7349]

I can’t believe this man only has 2k subs

[@greenswag7763]

The Flapjack reference at 9:28 made me subscribe instantly.

[@Sly88Frye]

15:31 Hey you're not an old school 1950s movie theater. What's with the intermission?😂

[@jackychangreal]

underrated channel, great video!

[@OhHeyJude]

Video was great, also it was a massive nostalgia trip for me cause back in the day I didn't have any consoles to play sonic games on and my first introduction to the series was when i was 3 or 4 back in 2007 and i saw the big box version of mega collection plus. I'm not sure if my dad still has that but i do own the PC disc for riders and I used to own the explosive rerelease of sonic r until i gave it to a friend a few years ago. But yeah this gave me a massive nostalgia trip as it was the main way how I played these games. Good stuff.

[@MrMegaManFan]

Dude… did you just make a Guru Larry joke? I’m subscribing just for that! 😂

[@myrmeko]

How is SADX barely compatible with modern Windows? I had the exact same copy of SADX (literally copying the files over) from Windows 7 all the way to the latest version of Windows 10. Never had any issue with it. Also it's a matter of preference. I personally like how SADX looks more than the original DC version. I never liked the cartoony colors. SADX brings more realism to its world. Also it really sucks that the installer for Sonic Riders simply doesn't work on modern Windows. I have the physical release and, nope, the installer just crashes.

[@BrianH1988]

A number of these were my child to teenage years.

[@four-en-tee]

Seeing that Shadow the Hedgehog flash game unlocked a lot of memories of playing flash games on Kongregate.

[@dylan.t180]

Great retrospective

[@LieseFury]

When you come across a name you're not familiar with, look up how it's pronounced. It takes five seconds and saves you the embarrassment of saying "neyodo ohshima".

[@catsupcatsup]

Can't wait to see this channel blow up See you all at 1 million subs!

[@deslardesslok]

4:58 I busted out laughing when he said "Sonic's School from Hell" 😂 😂 😂 😂 5:23p.m. 5/18/2023

[@Colonel_RamRod]

Liking your stuff so far dude, you remind me somewhat of sam o nella and i cant begin to explain how huge of a compliment that is. And damm guru larry is everywhere 😂😂😂 holy shit that was chris chan dancing 🤣 im dead.

[@scarlettwiddowson4245]

This was an awesome video!

[@RyneMcKinney]

8:58 BEST. HAPPY MEAL TOY. EVER.

[@slaneyinfamous]

you’ve done the cutest possible implementation of having a cartoon “sona” i think i’ve seen, love the colors and dithering as well

[@MMDAQ]

Why do you only upload once a year, this is like my father not being around for most of my childhood defining moments just to come over on Christmas to give me a fucking limo and then disappear into obscurity again.

[@CorruptFox92]

WAIT THEY FINALLY FOUND ART OF THE HARMONY THING LETS GOOOOOO CYBERSHELL WOULD BE PROUD

[@dontletmebrown]

this rules, love your aesthetic

[@tedbasher3000]

Unleashed had a PC Port, it was just only ever shown publically at a GDC Conference in 2009 when a developer explained how they did Global Illumination. And god you're right in that Conference the game averages 5 FPS

[@hibbsification]

This was my introduction to Sonic as a child lol, got pc games at the public library

[@Tails_and_Luigi101]

Underrated channel

[@portalworld9880]

I remember playing the US version of Sonic 3D Blast on the PC when I was super young. That, and along with with some Sega compilation that I remember including Sonic 2 and Kid Chameleon. There was another Sega compilation I remember on console, but all I played was Kid Chameleon on that one.

[@uhguhfu]

This channel is amazing

[@willrichard6921]

Good vid brother

[@jacobscarberry4799]

New here and I loved the vid! +1 subscribed!

[@hollowligth956]

This is a pretty underrated content ngl.

[@piratebear3126]

After trying Sonic Adventure on a friend's Dreamcast, I ended up getting a collection with Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Sonic R, and a Sega Smashpack with some great Genesis games like Comix Zone and Shining Force. Even ended up with Sonic CD later, which I thought was a PC exclusive because I couldn't comprehend the idea of a CD addon for a console. As a Nintendo kid who only had a Dreamcast for Sega systems growing up, these were actually an amazing way to experience these games before emulation was so widespread.

[@jeancoenders4119]

As a kid we only jad the family computer, I played so many of these haha, many had bugs and issues (sonic R couldn't save, 3d blast didn't have music etc) but these were my entire childhood. Can confirm that all stars racing and generations were steam codes in a box and a disc.

[@fluff_505]

this man is insanely underrated

[@Xegethra]

I always thought in Sonic R that limiting the run speed was an odd choice. The lore excuse is Sonic giving the competitors a fair chance, much like how Superman limits his strength when fighting people. Sure, I guess.....But just give the other racers speed shoes and they can all go super fast! Then that will be the lore reason they all go fast.

[@megspitzer9406]

You know what's funny? I still have Sonic's Schoolhouse in my possesion!😮

[@wizardblizzard]

Hey babe wake up, claybit uploaded!

[@Meleedroit]

Im not that far into the video yet, but from intro and art alone i can tell this is gonna be good

[@leftysheppey]

Cybershell did a video on sonic adventure DX directors cut (I think...somebody did) It's a shame they butchered the ports so much. The original game was tons of fun. I sunk hundreds of hours into it as a kid. My sister played it even more than I did. Me and my sister had a ton of consoles from 90s era that were originally my dad's, but he no longer wanted to play on them. Dreamcast was a favourite, even if we only played 4 games lol. Every Saturday morning we'd be playing on these consoles all morning. Good times. It's a shame people won't get that same thrill as I did because of poor ports

[@superfandesonic1]

Sega sent you a letter because you pirated a game!?? I didn't know that could happen 😨