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Sonic Advance released for Android in Japan
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That is correct. It wasn't called Sonic Advance though, just "Sonic N". If that implies some slight changes in game design I couldn't tell, since I haven't played the original Sonic Advance.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
10 year anniversary re-release of DIMPS' only closest to the classics Sonic game. Here's to another decade of derivative shit.
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
2nd closest. Pocket Adventure > *
sixteen-bit
Member
Yeah it as a lunch game for the n-gage as I recall. The frame rate blew.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
ganking level designs and zones directly from 2 & 3 kinda disqualifies it since it essentially is the classics, just remixed and buggered a bit.
Lord British
Member
Level designs were completely different. Theme/zones were the same, yeah. Brilliant game either way.
Imbarkus
As Sartre noted in his contemplation on Hell in No Exit, the true horror is other members.
Whole advance series was very faithful in that it had decent level design with occasional very irritating instant falls, and maddening bonus stages ensuring I would never try to get all the chaos emeralds.
Playing them with no D-pad? FUCK THAT.
Sega's on a lazy re-release roll!
Playing them with no D-pad? FUCK THAT.
Sega's on a lazy re-release roll!
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Imbarkus, Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown isn't a re-release, it's practically a new game.
Azure Dream
Member
It's probably happening because they already did the work to port it to N-Gage, similar to how most of the DC ports we did so far were due to the PC versions that already existed.
Imbarkus
As Sartre noted in his contemplation on Hell in No Exit, the true horror is other members.
Okay fine. Trollin' a bit.
'Course if it was THAT new they could just call it VF6, right?
No? It's the same base system with heavy adjustments.
Think of the leap from Street Fighter 2 to Super Street Fighter 2: Turbo
It's still Virtua Fighter 5, but different. Improved.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
What if you play it on an Xperia Play? Could be good. But yeah, on most devices it will absolutely suck.
Hey, I just noticed that Sonic Advance is Free on the Japanese Android Marketplace:
https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.co.sega.sonicadvance.monthly.sum
If you have a rooter android, it's pretty easy to get it.
Download Market Enabler from the market, set your gsm.sim.operator.numeric to 44010 (DoCoMo's number).
Market Enabler will make Market think you're acessing using a Japanese DoCoMo SIM Card. Just search for ソニックアド(as Sonic will not return anything. The easier way of doing this is opening the URL I pasted at the top on your cellphone browser), download and enjoy. It's free, after all.
EDIT: Wait, this might not work afterall. I'll double check and come back in a bit. Sorry for the bump if it doesn't.
EDIT: Apparently you only download a wrapper from the market. After you execute it, it redirects to a website that prompts you to click a button to play the game. When you do, it complains that you don't have the latest version from the market,even though you do. I don't know what else to do with this. Again, sorry for the bump. Maybe somebody with better Japanese can figure it out.
https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.co.sega.sonicadvance.monthly.sum
If you have a rooter android, it's pretty easy to get it.
Download Market Enabler from the market, set your gsm.sim.operator.numeric to 44010 (DoCoMo's number).
Market Enabler will make Market think you're acessing using a Japanese DoCoMo SIM Card. Just search for ソニックアド(as Sonic will not return anything. The easier way of doing this is opening the URL I pasted at the top on your cellphone browser), download and enjoy. It's free, after all.
EDIT: Wait, this might not work afterall. I'll double check and come back in a bit. Sorry for the bump if it doesn't.
EDIT: Apparently you only download a wrapper from the market. After you execute it, it redirects to a website that prompts you to click a button to play the game. When you do, it complains that you don't have the latest version from the market,even though you do. I don't know what else to do with this. Again, sorry for the bump. Maybe somebody with better Japanese can figure it out.