- #Sonic r pc windows 7 install#
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Addition of sounds Waterfall.WAV, beach.WAV, and flame.WAV. It's slightly more bearable to listen to. Tails.WAV has been changed to crop off decay and be less choppy-sounding. Amy.WAV has been changed, with no major audible differences but a slightly increased length. 
The music can now be set to multiple volume levels, rather than a simple On/Off toggle. Music only plays once per level and does not loop. The music does not pause when the game pauses. Strangely, they take up most of the disk space (~500MB) due to being uncompressed, so there's really not a net benefit beyond simplifying the burning process (which, considering how well the previous releases went, was probably well-needed). They can be opened with Audacity's "Raw Import" feature. SON files are really just signed 16-bit PCM Little-Endian Stereo 44100Hz raw data. In contrast, the 2004 version was stored in /MUSIC on the CD as ".SON" files. (It's worth mentioning that it was not present on some reprints.) This means you could stick it in a CD player and it would play. The old releases of Sonic R had CD Redbook Audio. EXE parameters have been added, presumably for debugging purposes. All the resources for the old DirectX test menu have been removed. Also, the controls work on modern systems without needing a DirectX windower. It no longer crashes on high-speed CPUs, either. It does not crash when Windows is switched to Security Desktop (locked screen/UAC). As such, all 8-bit bitmaps were also removed. DirectDraw support was dropped only Direct3D is supported. The 2004 version requires DirectX 9+, whereas the old version only needed DirectX 6+. Unlike the old version where the game was fully set up ready to go on the disk and was simply copied on installation, the 2004 version embeds the program files in an InstallShield installer. The program cannot be run directly from the disc. They are "Randomization tables" used for unknown reasons. New files "/bin/randtab.bin" and "/bin/randtab2.bin" were added. I tried this and it didnt work, i dont get the error anymore and it list the process in task manager but there is no game. My determination to play it anyway ended up paying off, good luck to you as well and I hope you find a solution! A lot of people hate Sonic R, but I say it's worth it. I love Sonic R too, and also had a lot of these errors. 
Just copy sonicr.exe somewhere else before you start fiddling with it in case you muck it up.Īny other problems you might have later, such as no music, you can find the answers to in the Sonic R Compatibility FAQ. (first number is the address, second number is the old value, third number is what you need to change it to) Once you've done that, open up sonicr.exe in it, and change these values:
#Sonic r pc windows 7 download#
If you're feeling a little brave and want to fix this permanently, what you need to do is go download a hexeditor (I recommend XVI32). If you hold down "enter" over sonicr.exe (should be found wherever you installed Sonic R to) eventually the program tends to run, even if you have about 50 error dialogues by the end of it. Of course, the program crashes when it tries to divide by zero to work out the processor speed and spews out an error. Of course processors are much faster now than in 1998, and if the value between clocks or something is smaller than the program would expect it gets rounded to zero.
My memory of why this happens is a little sketchy, but what happens is that for a reason which currently escapes me Sonic R tries to determine the speed of your processor.
#Sonic r pc windows 7 install#
If that is your problem, and you do somehow find a way around it and install Sonic R, you're very likely to get the infamous "The program has encountered a program at adress 004801d9 and cannot continue" error. I don't have time to google it at the moment so I'm not sure if there's a work around for getting the 16-bit subsystem to run on a 64-bit installation of 7. The 16-bit architecture was phased out for Windows Vista and is no longer supported if I remember correctly, so that could be why it isn't running.
However, my copy of Sonic R has a 16-bit INSTALLER. Velotix is right, 32-bit programs should run just fine on 64-bit 7.
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