Sonic Riders
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Developers | |
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Sonic Team | |
Publishers | |
Sega | |
Engines | |
Sega NN Graphics Library[1] | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 17, 2006 |
Reception | |
IGDB | 66 |
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
⤏ Go to series page | |
Sonic the Hedgehog fangames (series) | |
Sonic CD | 1995 |
Sonic's Schoolhouse | 1996 |
Sonic 3D Blast (series) | |
Sonic & Knuckles Collection | 1997 |
Sonic R (series) | |
Sonic Adventure (series) | |
Sonic Heroes | 2004 |
Sonic Mega Collection Plus | 2006 |
Sonic Riders | 2006 |
Sonic Racing (series) | |
Sonic the Hedgehog | 2010 |
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine | 2010 |
Sonic Spinball | 2010 |
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | 2011 |
Sonic 3 & Knuckles | 2011 |
Sonic Generations | 2011 |
Sonic CD (2012) | 2012 |
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I | 2012 |
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II | 2012 |
Sonic Dash | 2014 |
Sonic Lost World | 2015 |
Sonic Mania | 2017 |
Sonic Forces | 2017 |
Sonic the Hedgehog (Mobile Decompilation) | 2021 |
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Mobile Decompilation) | 2021 |
Sonic Colors: Ultimate | 2021 |
Sonic Origins | 2022 |
Sonic Frontiers | 2022 |
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog | 2023 |
Sonic Superstars | 2023 |
Sonic Dream Team | 2023 |
Sonic X Shadow Generations | 2024 |
Key points
- No in-game quit option. Must use Alt+F4 to quit.
- 3-4 player modes from the console versions are absent on the PC version and can only be played with up to 2 players.
- Unfavorable to the console versions in many ways, including missing graphical elements (such as the heat wave effect in Egg Factory), characters' pupils being stationary in Story Mode cutscenes, FMV playback occasionally being choppy, and several in-game lines being excluded.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc v4 DRM[Note 1]. | |||
Retail | Available in the "Sonic PC Collection" bundle. |
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- This game is not available digitally.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save\Config.ini[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save\Game Data##\save.dat[Note 2] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Use Sonic Riders HD Resolution Patch | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | Use Sonic Riders HD Resolution Patch | ||
4K Ultra HD | Use Sonic Riders HD Resolution Patch | ||
Field of view (FOV) | See Field of view (FOV). | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Toggleable on/off. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS | Optional 30, 15, and 10 FPS caps available. | ||
120+ FPS | Capped at 60 FPS. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Field of view (FOV)
Change FOV with Cheat Engine[citation needed] |
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Change FOV with hex edit[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | Launcher only works with Keyboard & Mouse. | |
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | Lacks native support. Use DS4Windows as a workaround. | |
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PlayStation button prompts | ||
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes |
Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | Despite a vibration option being available in the Options menu, it does not seem to work when enabled. | |
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sliders for BGM and SE/VOICE available in the external launcher. | |
Surround sound | Supports up to 7.1.[4] | |
Subtitles | Limited to cutscenes in Story Mode only; cannot be disabled. Voiced dialogue during races, such as pre and post-race lines and play-by-play commentary, are not subtitled. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Spanish | Castilian. | |||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | 2 | Versus The PC version supports 4 player gameplay like the console versions without issues. However, the developers decided to disallow 4 players in the game's menu code and did not implement reading of inputs for players 3 and 4 (their input data is still stored). Through hacking, playing 4 players is possible. [5] |
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LAN play | ||||
Online play | ||||
Asynchronous multiplayer |
Issues fixed
Occasional freezes during the loading screen
Update the d3dx9_25.dll file[citation needed]
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9.0c |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III or AMD equivalent running at 1.0 GHz or higher | Intel Pentium 4 running at 1.4 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | 256 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Direct3D compatible video card 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible | |
Other | DirectSound-compatible sound card, Windows compatible keyboard and mouse |
- Windows 98SE and ME also launch the game fine, but are not officially supported.
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[3]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Sewer56lol on 2019-11-03
- Confirmed via checking file formats and embedded strings in executable:
nn Ver 1.18.43 Build:Sep 14 2006 15:08:29
,SEGA NN Library for Direct G1.1
- Confirmed via checking file formats and embedded strings in executable:
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2020-05-09
- Tested in 7.1 using Orban Loudness Meter in conjunction with Razer Surround.
- ↑ Verified by User:Sewer56lol on 2019-11-03
- I will make a patch for this someday. [https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sonic-riders-pc-hacking-info.28359/#post-919475 Relevant forum post.)