More Gems in Sonic Gems Collection

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:37 pm

I like how you used the phrase 'as best'. Your poor grammar makes my penis harder.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:53 pm

Baba! I thought you were pro-grammar, not anti-grammar!

chriscaffee · Post by **chriscaffee** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:58 pm

The real question is: Just who is Sonic5887?

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 7:04 am

Locit wrote:Baba! I thought you were pro-grammar, not anti-grammar!

I am pro-grammar. Who needs to walk around with a stark erection all day just because some dumbass can't string a coherent sentence together?

Frieza2000 · Post by **Frieza2000** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 12:57 pm

For anyone wishing to pirate the Japanese version of Gems, here's the torrent:

http://www.sonic-torrent.sytes.net/down ... VD.torrent

It will probably go down in a few days. If the link doesn't work, either create an account on the main site or AIM me.

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:05 pm

Just to clear this up now apparently the Japanese PS2 version actually features both Sonic CD soundtracks but it depends on the language setting of your PS2 as to which version it plays. It also affects the screentext. According to someone at GameFAQs you can get around this by holding select when you start the game.

EDIT: Apparently this trick only works with certain modchips. For the majority of people it doesn't seem to work.

Frieza2000 · Post by **Frieza2000** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:14 pm

Seriously? Damn. I wasn't going to steal this game, but now...can anyone confirm this?

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:22 pm

I'm only going by what other people have said. There's some pics here that show the game with English settings and another set on the next page of the topic where the same guy has hacked the game to change it to Japanese settings. It seems to differ to the extent you get different manual scans. I haven't played it myself so I can't verify any of this.

THEbigLANDMAN · Post by **THEbigLANDMAN** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:28 am

The game is in english in an english system, Sonic CD has the american soundtrack, and the menus are in english. My last hope is that the european version has the original soundtrack for sonic CD...

Frieza2000 · Post by **Frieza2000** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:25 pm

The following games are unlocakble

Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Genesis)
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Sonic and Knuckles
Sonic Spinball (Genesis)
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Genesis)
Sonic 3D Blast
Sonic the Hedgehog (Game Gear)
Sonic Chaos
Sonic Drift
Sonic Labyrinth
Sonic Blast
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Game Gear)

The catch is that you start on the last level and have 5 minutes of play time. When time runs out, you're kicked off. However, if you finish a game quick enough you can go to the title screen and start at level 1. This seems to indicate that Sonic Team included the games in their entirety on the disk and turned them into demos just to be assholes.

If you thought having to play Sonic 1 and Sonic 3d Blast 20 times each to unlock a game in Mega Collection was stupid and annoying, you won't be disappointed to know that Sonic Team continues to challenge the limits of the word ineptitude with their new system. Vectorman will unlock itself after you've spent 5 hours playing the collection. You'd spend 5 hours playing anyway, you say? Fear not, it gets better! Unlocking items in the museum has been turned into a game in and of itself! Simply perform tedious, arbitrary menu commands given to you by the hint beneath each unlockable. One such task is to play the game on 20 separate days. The supposed appeal of this system is as confusing to me as that of Sonic Jam for the Game.com.

The good news is that both soundtracks of Sonic CD and both versions of manual scans are present on all regions of PS2 and Gamecube disk. The trick is getting them to load. Lots of stuff about mod chips, console versions and regions, and such things I don't know about. Someone else can clear that up.

Post by **Crazy Penguin** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:48 pm

Last level as in what? Zone? Act? The Super Sonic boss in S&K?

I guess it won't be long until someone hacks the time limit away and we essentially have SMC+ on the disc as well. =O

firemario1001 · Post by **firemario1001** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:54 pm

I assume their movies section contains nothing but trailers for their upcoming steaming piles of shit.

I heard that they also removed the codes to Sonic CD. So much for keeping close to the console version.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:05 pm

My vibrations are getting nasty...

Frieza2000 · Post by **Frieza2000** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:45 pm

Missing codes? Try missing water in Tidal Tempest. The color layer is gone. From what I understand, you can hardly tell you're underwater.

It is indeed the PC version. So for those of you hoping for the bad future music to start in the race against Metal Sonic, that's out. Even if you switch it to Japanese it won't work, though I've only heard one person say this. That should also mean no sound effects during the closing movie. You can also control whether the game is 30 or 60FPS.

I don't actually care about any of that; I'm just reporting it in that scornful GHZ way.

More on how to access the Japanese content. Apparently it loads the region based on the "Browser" language. The mod chips were working because when you press and hold the select button while booting, it skips the PlayStation 2 logo and goes directly to the game, skipping the browser check. I don't know PS2s, so don't ask me. Gamecubes have no such options however, and I've yet to hear of any success in loading both regions.

Don't know what they mean by last stage.

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:25 pm

Missing codes? Try missing water in Tidal Tempest. The color layer is gone. From what I understand, you can hardly tell you're underwater.

What do you Mean? But is the Water effect gone? or just the dark color.

firemario1001 · Post by **firemario1001** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:31 pm

What about the frequency of the sound effects? Did they improve that?

gr4yJ4Y · Post by **gr4yJ4Y** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:21 pm

The sound effects don't umm.. blur together with the music, just like in the PC version. It's too bad they didn't do it right...

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:22 am

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:24 am

Frieza2000 · Post by **Frieza2000** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 2:06 pm

SegaSonic wrote:What do you Mean? But is the Water effect gone? or just the dark color.

Someone from Gamefaqs wrote:The only difference underwater [compared to above water] is that there's bubbles and the background is swirly.

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 2:34 pm

Background is swirly? what does that mean?

Bubbles? in which version?

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:56 pm

SegaSonic wrote:Background is swirly? what does that mean?

I would assume that means either that there are swirls in the background, or the background is swirling. I couldn't have imagined that that would be so hard to guess until I met you.

firemario1001 · Post by **firemario1001** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:14 pm

SegaSonic wrote:
Bubbles? in which version?

Like in practically every underwater stage in Sonic's games.

Frieza2000 · Post by **Frieza2000** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:50 pm

Above water
Below water

Post by **Segaholic2** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:52 pm

I can't really tell any color difference between those two shots, but I also can't tell if it's because of the crappy lighting/camera/focus. Not to knock your effort, because I appreciate it.