Sonic — 3 Rsdk

Whitehead first gained fame for his mobile port of Sonic CD.

While we have Sonic Origins and the amazing Sonic 3 A.I.R. mod, the polish of Christian Whitehead’s engine still hits different. Who else spent years refreshing Sonic Retro hoping for that mobile release? Sonic 3 Rsdk

When Sega released Sonic Origins in 2022, it was the first official port of Sonic 3 to modern consoles in decades. However, the community had already been at work. The RSDK decompile project effectively took the logic of the original Sega Genesis game (written in 68000 assembly) and translated it into the C-like scripting language used by the Retro Engine. Whitehead first gained fame for his mobile port of Sonic CD

In 2014, Christian Whitehead and Simon Thomley (Stealth) of Headcannon released a video showing Sonic 3 & Knuckles running in RSDKv4 (the engine used for the 2013 mobile ports of Sonic 1 and 2 ). Who else spent years refreshing Sonic Retro hoping