Some people call Sonic Mania the long lost Saturn Sonic game, however notice how the minimum requirements make it much more demanding than a Saturn and a Dreamcast game since it requires 2GB of RAM, a Pentium 4 1.6GHz quad core CPU and a DirectX 9 GPU, it also requires Windows 7 rather than Windows 98 or XP,. I feel it while it won't have any issues running on any modern PC, some of the folks who were hoping for an unofficial Dreamcast/Saturn port will be left in the dust. I'm slightly disappointed about it, but I'll live. Anyway here's a full list of the minimum spec required for Sonic Mania.
OS: Windows 7 Processor: Pentium 4 1.6GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 9.0c compliant video card 32MB DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 400MB available space Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible
Some autist will probably demake it or optimize it to make it runnable on a fucking Amiga or some shit in 3 years. I can't imagine the reqs are the result of anything other than bloat or just not really giving a shit since even fucking BR's have these specs now.
Juan Reed
Well of course, I doubt they wanted to optimize the game since there isn't a need to optimize it, still I would've liked to have seen a straight forward port to sega hardware.
Ian Ortiz
Oh boy another Sonic Mania thread
Josiah Nguyen
Well it's not so much about Sonic Mania, but rather the possibility and/or grief of it not being able to run on the Saturn or Dreamcast.
Jason Cruz
Ok?
Cameron Ortiz
user I normally wouldn't feel bad saying this but… who cares? I was always under the impression that Mania was just a less autistic version of the romhack Taxman and the funky bunch were working on, the fuck is this about long lost Sonic Saturn?
Wyatt Foster
sage isn't a downvote btw
Jordan Ward
It's not a major thing, but I'm still slightly disappointed.
Gavin Cruz
Maybe that's the lowest system spec they tested it on, who knows.
Dylan Peterson
Wait really? well then there might be hope.
Sebastian Bailey
Indeed iirc, the "lowest specs" are just the least powerful hardware devs have laying around.
Levi Robinson
Sage is for not bumping threads that shouldn't exist you cretin. This easily could've been one post in the ongoing Sonic Mania thread about specs. It's like making a new Splatoon thread about the file size or another Castlevania thread specifically about the music.
Carson Jackson
counter sage :>)
Kayden Cook
the 2gb requirement is all windows fault, you cannot install windows 7 without 2gb of ram.
Elijah Nelson
What I'm seeing here are bumfuck minimum requirements to run Windows.
Robert Jones
oh shit, you're right.
Brayden Powell
Release it already. What the fuck are you waiting for?
Jaxon King
Funny because I installed Windows 7 on a PC with only 512MB of RAM. They recommend you to have 2GB, but you don't need it.
Christian Martinez
after doing a bit of research, you can go low but doesn't windows end up using your hard drive as ram?
