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Monday Links: Recommendation Edition

So I don’t feel like writing anything with any real substance this week and I’ve been watching stuff lately so I’ll just recommend some random stuff: the Speed Racer movie, Death Parade, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, Star Trek (the J.J. Abrams one), a rewatch of Cowboy Bebop, the Sonic OVA, and Dragon Ball Kai. Also 30 Rock.
Also these links.
Sonic Retro stuff

snkenjoi made this web based mapping / tile / DPLC editor called Flex. [Real handy for if you need a quick way to edit sprites]
biggestsonicfan got the debug mode in the Xbox 360 version of Sonic the Fighters to work. [Maybe we’ll finally find out if Ashura was gonna be playable!!!]
Felik revealed new blurry screenshots of his fangame called Sonic Mega Drive. [After which someone made them less blurry and revealed that his game is actually pretty nice looking]
Our good friends at SEGAbits interviewed our good friend Stealth about the Sonic 1 and 2 remasters. [Shocking development secrets uncovered!]
Hit Reset wants us to give Sonic 3D Blast another chance in this new video. [If anything it’s worth playing for the music at least]
Nova mentioned my Monday Links thing in his Something For The Weekend thing so I should probably mention it back [Also that Sonic remix album is pretty sweet]

Sonic stuff

Sonic Runners got a soft launch for everyone in Japan, Canada, and people who know how to get around the region block. [Also surprisingly it’s a pretty decent time waster]
Also files were found by forum user Woun indicating that lots of other characters including Big and Vector will be playable in Sonic Runners in the future. [Also Charmy for some reason]
If for some reason you thought Sonic would go mobile only, Iizuka has reaffirmed that Sonic Team won’t stop making Sonic games for consoles anytime soon. [So chances of a new Burning Rangers are still zero]

March 2, 2015 by Scarred Sun

Fan Works, Miscellaneous, Music

Something For The Weekend: GameChops – Spindash

So another week draws to a close and just in case you missed it, here’s a link to my Monday counterpart TimmiT’s Monday Links from this week. While I won’t go over all of the news of the week here (otherwise what would be the point in reading anything other than this column?) I will briefly mention that a playable build of Sonic Xtreme was released for PC this week. Yes, I’m serious. Go see.
Now, bringing things swiftly back to where they should be on a Friday, here’s something for you to take a gander at – GameChops, a record label for video game remixes, have released a compilation of Sonic-themed remixes by several of their artists entitled ‘Spindash’. Do you like remixes? Do you like dance music? Do you like Sonic? Of course you bloody do. Featured above for your listening pleasure is the album’s teaser trailer, but here’s a link to a playlist consisting of the album in it’s entirety. However, if you want to give a little back to the incredible talent that produced these tracks, you can easily do so by purchasing the album for download from Loudr, iTunes or Google Play for $10 (links to each store to follow).
If this kind of pumping electronica doesn’t get your weekend off to a good start, well, I don’t know what will.
(Also, go check out GameChops in general because their stuff is consistently pretty damn good.)

February 26, 2015 by Nova

Fan Works, Hacking, Humor, Miscellaneous

Monday Links: Weekly Edition

I did it you guys. I got Monday Links to actually be a weekly thing for every Monday of a month. I checked and this is something that hasn’t been achieved since 2010 when Slingerland was doing this thing. This is something that I’ve tried very, very, veeeery hard to achieve since I did my first of these back in 2013. And really I probably wouldn’t have done it without Bartman3010 starting it up again. Speaking of which, why isn’t he doing Monday Links anymore? I bet he’s probably doing “more important stuff” and “chasing his dreams” like learning how to make games for the Nvidia Tegra. Pfft.
Now what was I supposed to be doing? Oh right, links.
Sonic Retro stuff

UtopiaUK put up a video showing some WIP zones from his Sonic 3 Resort Island hack. [Watch the video here and take a look at the forum thread]
Cinossu made a Blue Sphere hack and he assured us that it’s not a jump scare. [Also don’t look at the spoilers, it ruins the fun]
Hez shows off his unlockable Wood Zone level in Sonic Classic 2. [Cause unlockables are fun]
MainMemory has added support for Sonic CD in SonLVL. [Please don’t make more Wacky Workbench levels]
Enemies can now be constrained to a 2D plane in Xaklse’s new release of SonicGDK. [Handy for those fancy 2.5D platformer]
LakeFeperd gives an update on what’s going on with Spark the Electric Jester. [Making games can be kinda hard]
flamewing has released the first new update for SMPS2ASM in years. [Less buggy song stuff]
We have a new feature called “Something For The Weekend” by our new writer Nova, with fun and cool Sonic stuff. [So go take a look at last weekend’s cool Sonic thing]

Sonic stuff

Jollyroger has gotten the Sonic X-treme prototype that was found to work on SEGA Saturn hardware. [Progress!]
The first Sonic Runners gameplay trailers shows that the game is about running. [Now with a more classic but also still modern Sonic]
Yuji Naka/Prope’s new game Rodea the Sky Soldier will be released in the west by NIS America. [You know, that game that was announced four years ago]
The sequel to the Sonic and Mega Man Worlds Collide comic cross-over will feature cameos of other SEGA and Capcom characters. [Viewtiful Joe please]
Enjoyed the latest Sonic Boom episode? If so, good cause we’re gonna see a lot more this year. [If not, stop hating fun you fun hating not-fun-haver]
How many toys can SEGA still make out of Sonic Boom? [At least this many apparently]

February 23, 2015 by Scarred Sun

Comics, Game News, Hacking, Humor, Miscellaneous

Monday Links: Exclusive Leaks Edition

Oh man, you guys, we usually don’t do leaks by anonymous tipsters but this was just too good to pass up. Rayman is gonna be in the upcoming Sonic Runners! This tipster gave us this piece of promotional art in which Rayman is shown running alongside Sonic, Tails and Knuckles. What made this leak especially convincing is that just like Sonic, Rayman consists of a re-used model from previous games with black lines around the edges.
It makes sense as well. Just like Sonic will have, Rayman has had a couple of “endless runner” games that aren’t really endless but actually have stages. These games, Rayman Jungle Run and Fiesta Run, were pretty darn good. So hopefully they’re an indication of how good Sonic Runners will be. And who knows, maybe we’ll see additional guest characters from other mobile games as well, like maybe Mega Man!
Sonic Retro stuff

Fans want that Sonic 3 remaster by Taxman and Stealth so bad that they’re doing a campaign thing to get SEGA’s attention. [Here’s Stealth’s post about it]
flamewing has made some pretty big additions to his Big’s Fishing Derby hack. [It’s a hack in which you play as Big the Cat so you should probably play it]
Morph released a new update to SA Tools. (A thing that lets you mess with Sonic Adventure DX.) [Lots of new SADXLVL2 stuff]

Sonic stuff

Sonic Advance is gonna be released for the Wii U Virtual Console in Japan. [It’s the real Sonic 4 to us]
Unsurprisingly, the Sonic Boom games didn’t sell well. [Turns out that when a game is bad people don’t want it]
First 4 Figures is releasing an awesome looking diorama of Sonic on the tornado. [If only I could afford it]
Archie has released a preview of the next Sonic comic issue. [Now with more wrestling]
Ken Penders. [Ken Penders]

February 16, 2015 by Scarred Sun

Community, Fan Works, Miscellaneous

Happy Symbolic Heart Love Crazy Cool Day from Sonic Retro

Whether you’re sharing your life with other people or if today is more of a, “Nope, not getting out of bed today” sort of affair, we just want to take a little time to say, “Hey, thanks for still putting up with our insanity and we love you.” Truly! Retro wouldn’t be half of what it is right now both as an information hub and as the forefront (or at the very least, the knowledge base) of some of the neatest Sonic hacks out there if it wasn’t for your support.
It’s not much, but since trying to email chocolate to everyone who visits would not only be impossible and probably messy, we’d like to show our appreciation by hooking you all up with a project tucked away in the corners of SoundCloud aiming to recreate an often sought but never discovered soundtrack. Mr Kingalicious is in the middle of making the Sonic OVA soundtrack himself and it sounds pretty damn good, all things considered! Go show his work some love today too, since it deserves recognition for being pretty quality stuff.
And if today isn’t the best for you? Hang in there. Let this little gift at least give you some light.

February 14, 2015 by Scarred Sun

Game News, Game Secrets, Miscellaneous

Monday Links: Swagtastic Introvert Edition

Okay look I was gonna make this Monday Links thing more about Sonic but then Atlus put out this amazing trailer for Persona 5 and oh gosh it looks so good. The style and the graphics and the characters and everything oh gosh. It’s like they took the swag levels of drunk Charlie Tunoku from Persona 4 and multiplied it by like ten or one hundred and then also made him introverted by day and oh gosh the game just looks great.
Also the opening theme of Persona 4: Dancing All Night is pretty good. By the way did you know that I usually put stuff beyond the jump in these Monday Links things?
Sonic Retro stuff

A video of Sonic X-treme’s level editor was released by Jolly Roger and Andrew75 [First official Sonic level editor that’s not that weird Play SEGA thing that was made in Java]
Gene made a funny front page post [Okay not much happened here this week sorry]

Sonic stuff

We got those Sonic Runners details we wanted to hear about so badly [It’s cause I complained about it last week]
Some guy called eLicense caused drama by putting illegitimate copyright claims on Sonic/SEGA Youtube videos by people [It was dumb]
Ken Penders continues to horrify everyone with bad CG renders of his characters from his not-Sonic comic [Say hi to Knuckles with weird robot eye, weird lips and tiny hands]
Meanwhile in actual Sonic comic news, here are the preview pages of the Free Comic Book Day issue of Archie Sonic [Apparently Sonic Rivals 2 needed more representation]

February 9, 2015 by Scarred Sun

Fan Works, Game News, Hacking, Miscellaneous, Music

Monday Links: Schrodinger’s Edition

Nobody knows if Monday Links is alive or not. Sometimes is just kinda pops up again, while at other times it just kinda seems to have died into obscurity. Some wonder if Monday Links was ever truly alive for the past year or so, as it only sometimes kinda popped up and then disappeared again for who knows how long. Others just don’t care cause really why would you you probably normally don’t even look at the front page and just go straight to the wiki or forums you jerk. >:(
Anyway, these Monday Links articles usually takes quite a bit of time to make so I’m gonna trim them up a bit from now on. From now on it’ll focus more on Sonic and less on SEGA in general. If you want to see the latest SEGA news and cool SEGA features, you should go visit SEGAbits. Those guys do a pretty damn good job covering all things SEGA and really I’m just wasting time linking all the stuff they put up there when you can just visit their site.
Also I’ll probably use more Space Dandy gifs.
Sonic Retro stuff

Ell678 put together a trailer and a couple of new screenshots for his snazzy looking 2.5D fangame Sonic Incursion. [I guess people really like to use Tenderoni for Sonic trailers]
The people working on Sonic 2 HD now put up a time lapse video of the new end level pose animation. [Cause who doesn’t like a cool end level pose?]
Andrew75 is still updating his impressive Sonic X-treme inspired fangame Project AXSX. [Go take a look]
S0LV0 has started a development blog on the stuff she’s doing for the Sonic Generations Unleashed Project mod. [Yup, work is still being done on that]
SonLVL now has support for Chaotix object layouts. [Admittedly I’ve never used it before but it sounds like a neat addition]

Sonic stuff

Here’s our first look at the Sonic X-treme OpenGL port [Holy shit you guys it’s Sonic X-treme]
A Sonic remix album called Spindash is out now for ten bucks on various digital platforms. [Officially licensed by SEGA]
No, Sonic’s not going to be mobile and PC only. SEGA of America is gonna have a huge re-structure but that’s not gonna affect any Sonic games Sonic Team or whatever has in production. SEGA is gonna push mobile and PC games harder (which they’ve already been doing), but they’re not gonna stop making console games. It’s still bad news of course, but not as bad as some make it out to be. [Not really Sonic related but it’s a rumor that needs to be cleared up]
This anime fighting game called Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax that has a Green Hill Zone stage will be getting a western release. [So it’s still Sonic related I guess]
We thought that we’d get to see what Sonic Runners looks like last month but we didn’t. [😐]

February 2, 2015 by Scarred Sun

Community, Miscellaneous

FTCR to Stream Sonic Boom for Young Girl with Cancer

This Saturday at 1pm EST/6pm GMT, the guys at Find the Computer Room will stream Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric to help raise money for Emily Monroe, a 3-year-old girl who has been diagnosed with cancer. Special guests lined up for the event include Mike Pollock and Cindy Robinson, among others.
FTCR member FTA has provided a video detailing everything that will go down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD1ShRFesS4
The stream will take place on the FTCR Twitch page. If you would like to donate immediately, you can visit Emily’s GoFundMe page.

November 12, 2014 by Scarred Sun

Miscellaneous

Monday Links: That Game With The Smashing Edition

Chances are that if you played some video games this past weekend, that you were playing Super Smash Bros. for 3DS. And if you did, chances are that you noticed that Sonic’s taunt is not nearly as fun to use as it used to be. No longer does Sonic annoy other played by saying “You’re too slow!” or “C’mon, step it up!”, instead he just says “Sonic Speed!” or “C’mon!”. Sadly this isn’t nearly as satisfying to use.
So it’s a good thing that Shulk from Xenoblade Chronicles is there his incredibly British voice. He’ll shout “I’m really feeling it!” or “Now it’s Shulk time!” when taunting, which really fills in the gap Sonic’s lack of satisfying voice lines left. He can also say “This is the Monado’s power!”, but I don’t think that’s quite as satisfying to use as his other two taunts. Also, one of Shulks alternate costumes is him wearing nothing but his undies. Basically my point is: everyone should be maining Shulk instead of Sonic.
Oh right, this article is supposed to have links in it. They’re all after the jump cause oh god there are so many. Continue Reading

October 6, 2014 by Scarred Sun

Miscellaneous

Monday Links: Faster Than a Subway (or Metro) Edition

Remember that time some guy with a Sonic hat on just ran alongside a subway? Cause some guy somewhere did that, and there’s a video of it that I can’t find right now. There’s this gif though which pretty much shows all you need to know about it anyway, that being that some guy with a Sonic hat ran alongside a subway. Or it’s a metro, but who can tell the difference really?
By the way, I recently started watching this anime I barely ever see mentioned called Dennou Coil and it’s super good and all of you should watch it. Just thought that I should put that out there. Anyway have some links:
Retro News

Josh has finished his Classic Sonic retrospective for the Mega Drive-Saturn era [Go watch all of it here]
Forum member doc eggfan found a Sonic Labyrinth proto [Gotta preserve as much of that one game where Sonic lost his shoes]

SEGAbits News

In this week’s Round Table SEGAbits and Sonic Retro writers speak about what they think Sonic Adventure 3 should have been like [My answer: “Just rename Sonic Unleashed to Sonic Adventure 3” didn’t make the cut]
Barry talks about the Power Stone 2 box-art in his new SEGA by Design feature [He just loves the US one]
Ben has a few words to say about what Japanese RPGs could learn from Skies of Arcadia [For one thing they need more pirates]
This new edition of Sonic Talk is all about those Sonic Adventure games people liked so much [I thought incredibly long names were exclusive to Street Fighter games]
My Life with SEGA busts some ghosts in this new episode about [Ghostbusters]

Sonic/SEGA News

New gameplay of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Shattered Crystal was shown at Tokyo Game Show [It looks about as good as it did at E3]
Also Rise of Lyric‘s release date has been pushed up to November 11th, a week earlier than the original release date [No change for Europe though]
Yakuza Zero looks far too awesome for something that’s probably only gonna be released in Japan [I’m not gonna shut up about that until we get it!]
As if that trailer wasn’t enough reason to want Yakuza Zero, it will also feature various classic arcade games by AM2 [Just let me have this game please]
Wait, China is getting Yakuza Zero but we’re not? [AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH]
SEGA will be publishing Persona 4 Arena Ultimax in Europe this November [Still a big improvement over the way previous Persona games were handled]
Alien: Isolation will have a survival mode, which will just have one map. It will also have DLC just three weeks after release with more maps. [Hmmmm…]

September 22, 2014 by Scarred Sun

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