Taxman's Sonic CD remake hits XBLA tomorrow. For those who haven't seen the trailer yet...

Trailer's here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ_esthqnaU&feature=player_embedded

It features a perfect 1:1 replication of the engine (with very minor enhancements) reproduced in widescreen, with unlockable flying tails, dual soundtracks (Meaning both Japanese and American are selectable in options, unfortunately, I don't think you can toggle between them during gameplay), optional sonic 2 spindash physics (turned on and off in options), and pretty much whatever else is needed for the perfect port of what is undoubtedly one of the best Sonic games.

Best part? The remake's only 5$.

Coming to Steam, PSN, XBLA, Iphone, Android, and Windows Phone 7. Do NOT miss out on this one people. If this does well, it could lead to more official use of Taxman's engine, which could lead to us either having more enhanced ports (Sonic Jam style), or better yet, perhaps someday a full on official game that uses his engine. For those of you who don't know, this is a direct community based success story, and Sega should be rewarded 1thousand fold for finally getting it right after all the shit we've given them these many years. Taxman is an old-school fan with enough hacking discipline to learn the old genesis engine from top to bottom and reproduce his own engine that can (for once) accurately recreate not only CD (his favorite game), but the other Sonic 2D classics while also allowing for new games to be developed on it.

Sure, Sonic 4 Ep 2 won't use this engine, but both Taxman and SEGA should reap good profits for doing the right thing, even if it does just point at the incompetence of their own core development team (they had to get a fan to do it for them, but eh, at least they embraced it).

I'm getting this FOR FREEKIN' SURE! My reaction to the announcement of this re-release was just bizzare, and you likely don't want to know. This is still a certain buy, no matter what.
SEGA gets my hopefully permanent respect for even considering making this re-release, let alone hiring the guy that made this engine!
Now if only this release was on GOG...

I'll be honest, Ive never liked sonic games (Well maybe Sonic Adventure). I just cant get into the gameplay.

you can't get into the 3D or 2D games?

Yeah, I would love to see more console classics on the PC like this but I just don't dig on Sonic (or Sega, honestly).

well Generations was on PC and since CD re-release is as well...I think this is a sign of good things for the future

just cant get into the 2D games
Ive played some 3D levels I like but most get destroyed by horrible camera

Have you Played Generations?

That does not have Any camera problems that some of the early 3D games have

I did like the demo so I might pick that game up sometime. I want to like Sonic since I like the characters, I guess its just hard when I grew up with Mario games :)

Go ahead man, it's a great game

let me know if you need help with anything in the game, I already got my platinum in it :)

I'll keep that in mind :)
But after this gog sale it might take a while to get it :D

It's good work, but it's also unfortunate that SEGA is involved in any way. Fan made Sonic games and reproductions of the Sonic series in open-source fashion would have been cool.

How is it unfortunate? This way the game gets released without graphical or character alterations. When SEGA first gave a cease and desist order two years ago, they could have left it at that but realized they could capitalize on it and allowed this fan to complete the port.

Anyway, I finally broke down and pre-ordered it. If this was Sonic 2 for example, I'd pass. But to get it working on original hardware we're talking about getting both Sonic cd discs (Japan and American), and sega cd attachment for my Genesis. That's far more expensive than the $3.90 CAD I payed after conversion. I hope that the pre-order ending in five days means it comes out in five days. According to SEGA's site, the PC version is supposed to already be available to play. According to Gamersgate is you ask them, they just know it's coming out this month.

I remember getting the Mega CD with Sonic for Christmas when I was very young. My brother had a NES, but the first system I called my own was a Mega Drive, and sonic was my hero. He also turned out to be literally the ONLY reason for keeping the Mega CD.

I couldn't play the 3D Sonic games until Generations, they all made me sick. Being able to get Generations was one of the things that excited me most about being able to use Steam :)

So, is there somewhere I can pre order this now? I don't see it on Steam :/

http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-SONICCD/sonic-cd
Pre-order price is $3.74 USD

It will require steam. Strange that a steamworks game isn't available for pre-order at steam.