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Sonic Mania

The Sonic Mania is a port developed by Sega. It was released in 2017.

This system scrapes metadata for the “pc” group(s) and loads the sonic-mania set from the currently selected theme, if available.

Grouped with the “ports” group of systems.

Quick reference

  • Emulator: sonic-mania
  • Folder: /userdata/roms/sonic-mania
  • Accepted ROM formats: .sman

BIOS

No Sonic Mania emulator in Batocera needs a BIOS file to run.

ROMs

Place your Sonic Mania ROMs in /userdata/roms/sonic-mania.

Add your copy of Sonic Mania, just the `Data.rsdk` file in here. Then create a blank file called 'Sonic Mania.sman' in this folder also. This file will allow EmulationStation to launch Sonic Mania and scrape artwork etc.

Once completed, it is highly recommended that you grab the Shaders folder in RSDKv5 and turn it into a mod. Otherwise, movies will not display properly and the filters from video settings won't work.

To do this, create the following directory structure inside your mods directory: 

GLShaders/
| Data/
| | ...
| mod.ini

Inside `mods/GLShaders/Data/` copy the `RSDKv5/Shaders` directory, and inside the mod.ini, paste this: 

Name=GLShaders
Description=GL3 shaders to enable filters and stuff
Author=Ducky
Version=1.0.0
TargetVersion=5

Emulators

sonic-mania

sonic-mania configuration

Standardized features available to all cores of this emulator: sonic-mania.videomode, sonic-mania.padtokeyboard, sonic-mania.videomode, sonic-mania.bezel, sonic-mania.bezel_stretch, sonic-mania.hud, sonic-mania.hud_corner, sonic-mania.bezel.tattoo, sonic-mania.bezel.tattoo_corner, sonic-mania.bezel.tattoo_file, sonic-mania.bezel.resize_tattoo

ES setting name batocera.conf_key Description ⇒ ES option key_value
Settings that apply to all cores of this emulator
VSYNC sonic-mania.smania_vsync Fix screen tearing.
⇒ Disabled n, Enabled y.
TRIPLE BUFFERING sonic-mania.smania_buffering Enable triple buffering.
⇒ Disabled n, Enabled y.
LANGUAGE sonic-mania.smania_language Change the game's language.
⇒ English 0, French 1, Italian 2, German 3, Spanish 4, Japanese 5, Korean 6, Simplified Chinese 7, Traditional Chinese 8.

Controls

Here are the default Sonic Mania's controls shown on a Batocera RetroPad:

Troubleshooting

Further troubleshooting

For further troubleshooting, refer to the generic support pages.

  • systems/sonic-mania.txt
  • Last modified: 16 months ago
  • by maximumentropy