Posts Tagged Sonic

SonicTeam have released info and pictures of 4 new applications. NiGHTS into Dreams, Chu Chu Rocket Puzzle, Chu Chu Edit, and Samba De Amigo. Although hard to determin exactly WHAT these Sonic Cafe games are for (NTT DoCoMo Co.... 503i series.. sounds like a colour mobile phone, is it related to the making of Motorola phone Sonic Games?) They look darn cool. now if only VMU versions were released ^__^.

NiGHTS Into Dreams game seems to be a take on the classic "Snake" game found in most mobile phones. you collect the gems, and you seem to be able to circle around the NiGHTMaren. The Growing "Snake" is the row of light that follows NiGHTS. Chu Chu Rocket Puzzle and Edit seem to be your basic Normal Puzzle game of Chu Chu. Where you must get all Chu Chu (mice) into the rockets without getting hurt by Kapu Kapus (Cats). Edit would be to create your own Puzzles. Samba De Amigo is.. well Samba De Amigo. you listen to music, and push in the correct button for when the blue balls go into their rings. Downloadable Songs are also downloadable after.

At the moment, they seem to be free-to-download on your 503i phone (doesn't seem to show where, and it's a Japanese Phone), and when it turns 4th of Feburary you'll have to pay 300 yen to keep it (3 bucks) per month. They'll be downloadable January 26th.

Source: Sonic Team.com

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SonicTeam.com have release their latest Wallpaper offering! Much like the original Sonic Adventure game, he also has a new "phrase" about him

A Quick bolt of lightning, and Sonic's his name,
He helps the needdy- thats Sonic's game!
Speed is his glory, it's what he does best,
Sonic's the fastest north, south, east & west.

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Long has it been promised and well before Sony has made its broadband a reality, SEGA has released its broadband adapter for the Dreamcast. The following is a quote from the Gaming Intellegence Agency:

After months of anticipation, the Dreamcast Broadband Adapter is finally available at Sega's online store. The adapter allows gamers to connect with any existing Ethernet, DSL, or Cable network. Though only a few of the system's networkable games are supported, the highly anticipated Phantasy Star Online will be one of the first marquee titles to take advantage of the Adapter's broadband capabilities.

Source: The Gaming Intellegence Agency

Now HERE'S something to see. A "behind the scenes" video footage of Sonic Team's trip to South America that was found on the video of the unveiling of Sonic Adventure that Mr. Naka had sent me last year. I'm planning on re-recording this video to include footage at the beginning of the segment that I missed. (I had recorded in AVI and had cut out the beginning in fear of memory problems, but now I KNOW I can record the whole segment), so look for news on that soon. BTW, the video is in Real, so you'll need RealPlayer 8 to play it, which you can get here .

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From Zophar's Domain comes news that yes, a System 32 emulator is being built-- and progressing too! I repeat from Zophar's news page:

"17:08: Well, the Impact site is back up wityh news of a Linux port of Impact and Modeler. As far as Modeler goes, it was updated to version 0.0.5. Here's what's new and changed: New in this release is preliminary Sega Model 1 emulation with support for Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing and Star Wars but none of them are playable yet since the 3d graphics isn't emulated. Screenshots are available in the modeler section. Note: The System 32 emulation is disabled in this release. Please read the requests listed at the end of textfile included and see if you can help. You can download both the new vesrsion of Modeler and the old System 32 version of it from the Multiple Arcade Emulators section. Thanks to bwb for the awesome news."

What does this mean? Well, obviously one is progressing, but the folks working on it need help! If you think you can give some help, please check out the Modeler Website and see what you can do!

Source: Zophar's Domain

A new video was taken from SA2 demo. It's one that IGN did NOT post (nor anyone else for that matter), but it shows more on the mysterious dark Sonic. The file is a MPEG zipped up at 13.8 megs.

Click here to download

SOURCE: Atlantiscity.net Sonic Fan Website Hosting

Gosh, Sonic Team must be busy. Now theres talk of SA3. Apparently, Sega let slip. Find out more at Sonic Sages At this rate, we'll be playing Sonic Adventure 4 in, oh, a year's time!

I have just gotten off the phone with my friend, who works with the Sonic team. This person, who shall remain annoymous (at his request of course) has informed me that the Sonic Team is going to develop Phantasy Star Online for Gamecube! This confirms that the Sonic Team IS developing for other consoles, and the Gamecube will have it's own online network!

My friend has also informed me that Sonic Adventure has not been pushed back to the fall, but rather has been pushed ahead to January 30th, 2001! Expect an article about this on IGN DC when it opens back up after the new year.

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And here we are, the link above to the cover, and below, the plot, as describes by Worlds of Westfield.

Enemy Mine. A trip to Robotropolis to rescue the roboticized Overlanders baffles Sonic and Bunnie, as many of the Overlanders haven't even been roboticized.

There you go. Enjoy, folks.

Credit: Worlds of Westfield

Anyone else wondering why these spoilers are so dang early? Didn't Sonic #95's spoilers JUST come out? I like it when things are ahead of schedule, but the spoilers are here at Sonic-speed! Or is that Mina-speed? Anyway, at this rate, #97's spoilers will be here in... oh... 5 days, 6 hours, and 22 minutes. I'll be waitin'!!!

I FINALLY BEAT WB TO THE SPOILERS! CHEER ME, DOUBLE?CROSS! HAHAHAHA!!! :?



Sonic the Hedgehog #96
Written by Karl Bollers & Ken Penders
Art by James Fry, Ron Lim & Ken Penders

"The Messenger." The answers to many questions are revealed - and a few new ones are raised. Has his Majesty's Secret Service learned of Sonic's heroic, secret trip to Robotropolis? Will Princess Sally and Sonic finally see each other again? Has Dr. Robotnik finally figured out a way to get back into Knothole Village?

32 pages, $1.99, ships on April 6.

The Spaz cover looks odd to me... mostly because I can't tell what's happening. Sonic and Mina are being chased by one of those SatAM-ish hoverpods, and... are riding some kind of hoverbike? I dunno! That's what it looks like! Or some big robot in front of them? Curse my 20/30 vision!!! I'll wait for it to be colored...

And what's this... "Has Dr. Robotnik finally figured out a way to get back into Knothole Village?"??? He finally got into Knothole? Cool. ^^

This will be another issue that Fry and Lim will pencil. Fry's work, IMO, is excellent, but Ron Lim, as quoted by someone I know, "is the devil." We'll see how it comes out, though. Ken Penders also writes and inks the Knuckles story, which is missing spoilers again. Well, at least it ain't Ron Lim. :)

This also marks another issue where Sonic and Mina star on the cover together. The question "Where's Sally?" has been on the minds of many fans, and it's on mine, too. Since Mina is scheduled to become Sonic's new "love interest", who knows where Sally'll be??? Probably going for Mina's throat...

The events leading up to Sonic #100 are proving to be more interesting with every bit of new information. I wonder what they've got planned for it. ^_^

That's all for now.

Source: Comics Continuum

While maybe not earth-shattering news, small Sonic-themed figurines can be bought as you play the new marvel game from Sega: Shenmu. While it really does nothing to the advance the game, it's fun to see the 3-D Furs. So far, all but two characters from Sonic the Figthers have been found (the two missing being Metal and Super Sonic) by me. Another note of intrest is that they are by their Japanese names (i.e. Nack is called Fang and Dr. Robotnik called Eggman).

Happy Holidays, friends--whatever you may be celebrating this time of year. It's been a long time since I've actually written news for Sonic HQ, and I send out my apologies for that. But, enough of that, let's get to what you really want--news! I bring in my big red stocking today more sales information for PSO, Saddam Hussein Stockpiling PS2s, and Sonic Team Junior's Holiday gifts to their fans.

I'm not really sure if this is true or not, but I heard a rumor about a new Sonic cartoon. They say it is called "Sonic Kids". I'm gonna look into it a bit.

If you know more about it I'll post something at the Mobuis forum if I ever find anything about it.

PSO is no.3
IGNDC's daily Jap. top 10 has PSO listed as number 3 for December 22nd. At number 2 is another DC game called "Let's Make a J-Leage Soccer Club Expansion", which was also released on December 21st.
SOURCE:IGNDC

Sonic Adventure 2 Demo Available for download
From TSSZ:
That's right--AJ Freda has the guts to do it! You can grab it by heading to this link, but you're on your own as to how you get it from the PC to the Dreamcast.
SOURCE:TSSZ.