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Revision as of 03:51, 9 December 2022

Sonic's Schoolhouse
Sonic's Schoolhouse cover
Developers
BAP Interactive
Orion Interactive
Publishers
SEGA
Expert Software
Release dates
Windows October 18, 1996
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Educational
Art styles Cartoon
Series Sonic the Hedgehog
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Sonic's Schoolhouse is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person educational game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 Game assets are loaded from the CD. See Remove CD requirement.
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %WINDIR%\SONICSH.INI[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %WINDIR%\SONICSH.INI[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
640x480 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 15 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Only music is toggleable.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
General MIDI audio

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op, Versus
LAN play
Online play
Asynchronous multiplayer

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Unable to install on 64-bit systems

Both installers on the CD are 16-bit.
Use InstallShield Wrapper
  1. Install the latest release.
  2. Mount the game CD.
  3. Run AUTORUN.EXE as an administrator and install the game.

Game window is too small

Enable the Run in 640x480 screen resolution compatibility setting for SONIC.EXE

Unable to initialize sound system error

Apply the CorrectSoundDeviceId compatibility fix to SONIC.EXE in Compatibility Administrator

ERROR: Specified System Has Not Been Initialized

Use CoolSoft MIDIMapper
  1. Install the latest release.
  2. Open the MIDIMapper and set the default MIDI device.
  3. Click Apply.

Video not available, cannot find 'vids:IV32' decompressor error

Occurs when entering the field trip school bus without the Indeo Video codec enabled in Windows.
Re-enable Indeo Video codec 3.2 in Windows
  1. Download the Indeo codec registry patch for iv32.
  2. Run the patch.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
WinG
[1]
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Human Machine Interface (HMI) audio drivers

Remove CD requirement

Copy over files from the CD
  1. Open the SONIC folder on the CD and copy all the subfolders (ART, AVI, MAP, MIDI, TEX, WAV).
  2. Extract the folders to the <path-to-game>.
  3. Open %WINDIR%\SONICSH.INI.
  4. Replace all CD path entries for variables under the [PATHS] section with the corresponding paths for folders in the <path-to-game> (e.g. Tex=D:\Sonic\tex\ --> Tex=C:\SonicNT\tex\).
  5. Save the file.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.1, 95
Processor (CPU) Intel i486 DX2 66 MHz Intel Pentium 60 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA, 256 colors
Sound (audio device) Sound Blaster 16 or compatible


Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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

  1. ↑ WinG - Wikipedia - last accessed on 2020-03-20