Sonic CD Animated Intro Now Available in HD - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 March 2021 / 3,693 Views
Sega released the side-scrolling platformer, Sonic CD, in 1993 on the Sega CD add-on for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive.
The game featured an animated introduction video that users Tanks and Quazza on the Sonic Retro forums have taken the time to clean up and upscale it to 720p.
"There were always issues with the opening animation that made us feel we could do it justice with a little ESRGAN love," said Tanks on the forums. "And thanks to a some new model training techniques and a little effort we've finally been able to achieve this.
"We stuck to our proprietary models for most of the frame cleaning and scaling, using the film cels SEGA released not too long ago as a guide post. Some of the darker scenes needed some extra support and it's thanks to the recently released celframes model we were able to fill in some gaps."
View the upscaled Sonic CD opening animation video below:
The animated introduction to the game features the song Sonic Boom. You can read the lyrics to the song below:
- If you're strong
- You can fly
- You can reach the other side
- Of the rainbow
- It's all right
- Take a chance
- Cause there is no circumstance
- That you can't handle
- When you use your mind
- Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom (Trouble keeps you running faster)
- Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom (Save the planet from disaster)
- Through the dark
- To the light
- It's a supersonic flight
- Gotta keep it goin'
- Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom (Trouble keeps you running faster)
- Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom (Save the planet from disaster)
- Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom (Spinning through a world in motion)
- Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom, Sonic Boom
- (x2)
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Good on those guys for doing the work. But, are there more than a couple dozen people on planet Earth thay even care about this in 2021?
"11,129 views" at the moment, so slightly more than a dozen. It was also just post a couple days ago so its gonna get significantly more views.
You could already see a high quality version on Gamecube or Xbox 360. But this certainly looks cleaner, the color is also more vivid.
