Actions

SCHG

Sonic the Hedgehog CD (2011)

From Sonic Retro

Revision as of 16:59, 30 November 2017 by 2haloes (talk | contribs) (Created the page and added basic file information (Retro Engine specific))
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

This is the Sonic Community Hacking Guide for the Retro Engine version of Sonic the Hedgehog CD (2011).

Hacking tools

Retrun

Retrun is an unpacking/packing tool written by nextvolume, it is compatible with all Retro Engine RSDK files (at the current time) and is capable of packing, unpacking, and listing files within a RSDK file.

The download includes an exe but also source files to compile for Windows or Linux

File formats

Audio formats

SoundFX

The SoundFX files are encoded using PCM unsigned 8-bit in a wav container using a 352 kb/s bitrate and can easily be played with any audio player.

Music

All of the music is contained within vorbis ogg files an have the following codec information:

Channel sound: Stereo, Sample rate: 44100 Hz, Bitrate: 80 kb/s, Encoder: Sound Studio 3

Video formats

The videos use an ogv container with the following codec information:

Audio: Codec: vorbis, Sample rate: 4800 Hz, Channel sound: Stereo, Bitrate: 128 kb/s

Video: Codec: theora, Resolution: 640x368, Framerate: 30 Color profile: yuv420p

Graphics formats

Sprites are in a gif format with the size of each sprite sheet being a multiple of 256 pixels for the length and/or height (e.g. 256x512)

Sonic Community Hacking Guide
General
SonED2 Manual | Subroutine Equivalency List
Game-Specific
Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit) | Sonic the Hedgehog (8-bit) | Sonic CD (prototype 510) | Sonic CD | Sonic CD (PC) | Sonic CD (2011) | Sonic 2 (Simon Wai prototype) | Sonic 2 (16-bit) | Sonic 2 (Master System) | Sonic 3 | Sonic 3 & Knuckles | Chaotix | Sonic Jam | Sonic Jam 6 | Sonic Adventure | Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut | Sonic Adventure DX: PC | Sonic Adventure (2010) | Sonic Adventure 2 | Sonic Adventure 2: Battle | Sonic Adventure 2 (PC) | Sonic Heroes | Sonic Riders | Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) | Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing | Sonic Unleashed (Xbox 360/PS3) | Sonic Colours | Sonic Generations | Sonic Forces
Technical information
Sonic Eraser | Sonic 2 (Nick Arcade prototype) | Sonic CD (prototype; 1992-12-04) | Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine | Sonic Triple Trouble | Tails Adventures | Sonic Crackers | Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island | Sonic & Knuckles Collection | Sonic R | Sonic Shuffle | Sonic Advance | Sonic Advance 3 | Sonic Battle | Shadow the Hedgehog | Sonic Rush | Sonic Classic Collection | Sonic Free Riders | Sonic Lost World
Legacy Guides
The Nemesis Hacking Guides The Esrael Hacking Guides
ROM: Sonic 1 | Sonic 2 | Sonic 2 Beta | Sonic 3

Savestate: Sonic 1 | Sonic 2 Beta/Final | Sonic 3

Sonic 1 (English / Portuguese) | Sonic 2 Beta (English / Portuguese) | Sonic 2 and Knuckles (English / Portuguese)
Move to Sega Retro
Number Systems (or scrap) | Assembly Hacking Guide | 68000 Instruction Set | 68000 ASM-to-Hex Code Reference | SMPS Music Hacking Guide | Mega Drive technical information