alt Hacker NewsYou mean run them side by side ? No, I did not do that. I played the ported game on my Mac only. The movement feels right based on my thousands of hours playing the original. There was only small tweak I had to make the trampoline jump, but everything else ported so smooth. I think the decision that Claude made not to use Godot physics and just port everything as as, made the gameplay feels right without much tweaks.
Have you been following the videos on Youtube of the Amiga port of Sonic?
Their approach to replicating the behaviour is to run the original game logic. The display has to be totally rewritten but they had the advantage of 68k for both machines.
I don't know of any games that used the blitter for calculation like some programs did for MFM decoding, that might have presented quite the porting challenge.