I planned to keep simple levels, with not too much geometry to make it easy on the hardware. I quickly made a Jade Gully look-alike level in Blender and went from there.
Then I had a basic AABB collision detection function, so I needed a “blocky” level to test it, so Sonic X-Treme‘s levels were perfect for this. After that, I just imported a level from Mario 64 (without collision detection). After that, I just tried to put a 3D plane and a rotating camera. At first, I justed fooled around Jo Engine and tried to put a 3d model in the 2D Sonic demo. Maxime: I didn’t plan to make Sonic Z-Treme. SEGA Nerds, however, needed to know more, so we decided to go after the man who created the game: Maxime. The demo itself is available to anyone who wants to try it in an emulator or on the real hardware. It looked so good that it was presented in one of the biggest European events about retro gaming, Retro Barcelona. However in 2017, a fan named Maxime built a demo that is superior to any prototype made by SEGA. All three were made using different technology and it clearly shows that SEGA was struggling to get a decent demo. The first one was made using the NiGHT´s engine, the second (the most known) was the fisheye version and lastly the unseen POV build. Through the years, some prototypes have been found. If you are a SEGA fan, you probably heard about Sonic X-Treme The game that was in all magazines back in the 90’s and had one of the biggest hypes but never got released. However, the SEGA Saturn didn’t get the same attention, but that could be changing. We got many indie releases and also some games back online. One year has passed and 2017 seems to be one of the best years for the Dreamcast Scene.
Back in 2016, we published an article stating that the future looked bright for Saturn and Dreamcast.
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