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I didn't know the C64 had blast processing!

The levels and characters look great, the gameplay pieces are mostly there, and the music at least sounds authentic, if not exactly pleasant. Something was definitely lost in translation there but short of writing new music I don't know what else they could have done.

Great work all around.

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Sounds like PAL audio speed. I would have preferred the intended NTSC speed used in the Japanese and American release.

That actually makes a lot of sense, I've only ever played NTSC Sonic. In that case it probably sounds great at the right speed.

Thanks for the insight!

EDIT: In fact watching the video at 1.25x makes the music sound substantially better. I think that's too fast[0], but either way you've nailed the issue I had with it. I'm eager to hear it "as intended".

[0]: I listen to podcasts at 3x speed so my sense of the "right" timing for audio has definitely weakened.

This is it at *60/50=1.2

https://jsfiddle.net/d9ob0teg/1/

Original NTSC https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_q1ozyZ6xYI

There will be an NTSC version as well.

Zero page = blast processing! ;-)

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