A Potential Sonic Boom Coming to PAX?
No wonder we’ve heard reprisals of Sonic Boom of late; it appears that theme may legitimately be playing on some XBOX 360s in due course.
Joystiq spotted a list of playable XBOX Live titles released by Microsoft’s Larry Hyrb, better known through his Major Nelson blog, that lists among other things a port of Sonic CD playable later this week at PAX in Seattle, Washington. It’s not listed in any details for Sega’s planned showcase–at least not yet–and so far there hasn’t been a peep from Sega themselves about it.
If it holds, it would be only the second time the 1993 Sega CD title has been re-released. The game saw a PC port in the 1990s, and was also a part of Sonic Gems Collection for the GameCube. And if it’s for XBOX Live, barring an exclusive, a similar release for the Playstation Network wouldn’t be totally out of the question. We’ll know about the prospects of a Sonic CD port soon enough, as PAX begins Friday.
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Finally!
Sonic CD is awesome. But id love there to be Sonic 3/&K or SA2 on there!
It’s about time…now I can chuck my SEGA CD and Gems Collection out the window….thank you SEGA for making Sonic CD more commercially available…
Come on, SEGA! We PS3 owners want some Sonic CD love, too!
Also: BOTH SOUNDTRACKS.
Still waiting on there to be some way of getting Knuckles Chaotix. That’s the only Sonic game I can think of that hasn’t been re-released on any other platform. And also the only one I don’t own in some format.
And it’s KILLING me.
I got Gems Collection, so I’m all good.
@DalekSaxon
Isn’t that wasting money though…?
HELL YEAH. SEGA isnt releasing enough of this game, its a classic!
*looks at his Sonic Gems Collection*
umm……… Yay?
No thanks, already have Gems Collection, even bought it twice and 360 probably will mess something up such as a cheat.
I want Sonic CD with Japanese/EU soundtrack >D
Heck yeah! I can’t wait for this! If only they’d end up bringing Knuckles’ Chaotix to Xbox Live.
Hey, I can dream.
Also, it would be cool to have both soundtracks for this port of the game.
No Playstation love?
Hopefully it comes to PSN too, along with S3&K (both games aren’t on Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection :/ )
Aww come on, no Wii Love? Now I know since it’s for the Gems Collection on GC, it’ll be kinda weird to bring it on Wii. But still, it would be awesome to play it with the WiiMote & heck even throw in a few motion controls while you’re at it.
YES! MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED! I can’t believe they are actually finally gonna do this! SWEET.
*Poof*
YES! Finally.
Lets hope it doesn’t have the shoddy presentation of the Genesis trilogy XBLA ports though, y’know, the bright blue menu screens that replaced the real menu’s of the originals. For a start, the anime opening would get cut. And it would loose some of its charm.
Don’t care about which soundtrack they use, but it would be nice (and frankly very unlikely) to have an option.
I already got the PC and Gamecube port. So unless they FINALLY give us the Japanese soundtrack (or at least give us an option to switch to either soundtracks), I don’t see the reason of getting another port of the same game.
Don’t stop there! Sonic 3&K still needs to come to XBLA and a port of Sonic Adventure 2 wouldn’t hurt either.
Don’t stop there! Sonic 3&K still needs to come to PSN and a port of Sonic Adventure 2 wouldn’t hurt either.
Wait, so is it only for PAX, or is it ACTUALLY coming to XBOX LIVE?? HOLY crap, if it did come to XBLA, I would explode with joy, because i was never able to beat that game! Now with the save option, I’ll be able to pass it! Btw, how many stages does CD have, and can someone please answer my first question?
About time Sega’s showing more love to Sonic CD by giving it another re-release.
I’d love if Sega can port SCD to the Playstation Network for us PS3s owners. That’ll be sweet.
How much you want to bet that it will come with the American soundtrack and then offer the JP soundtrack a month later as premium DLC?
“About time Sega’s showing more love to Sonic CD by giving it another re-release.”
Yes. Sonic CD is the best sonic created (best level design, best 2D pixel graphics, best classic music, best gameplay mode).
Sonic CD is underrated.
I’ve never understood why this game was always labeled as such a fan favorite, but it’ll still be good to see it again. I haven’t really played the game since the PC port for Windows 95 ><
I'm with everyone else hoping for an option to switch between soundtracks, but I wonder if Sega will really bother to be that generous… Even AJBSONIC's prediction seems a little far out to me.
…also, lol @ Ceejus's "poofing". I think we all know by now that he just likes to soapbox and doesn't stick around for replies. Seems kind of unnecessary to remind us every goddamn post (and in such a childish manner, to boot, lol).
@X
Maybe Sega's like me and still trying to pretend that atrocity never happened. Good music though, I'll give it that! XD
It’s awesome that Sega is finally having this game more prominently available! Even if it is overrated. Best Sonic game EVER? Sonic 2 through Knuckles say hi!
Still, it’d be cool to have both soundtracks, if they decide to do that.
Yay! Finally!
In Europe, Gems Collection had 50 **cking Hz, so it was a bad port. It didn´t have both japanese and american soundtracks, so maybe we can get a right port now.
The only thing I won´t like it´s not being able to play each level in the level select for viewing all timelines (I´ve always thought the entire timelime gimmick made many chunks of each level unknown to most people).
Anyone else like to see a Sonic R port on XBLA/PSN ? Its a shit game, but its the best shit game in the series lol
Make it happen Sega!
I would get Sonic R without any second thought, I loved it back in the day. It looks nice in higher resolutions too
CD gets an X360 port? Cool beans. Don’t really care though, since I have the game on Gems Collection anyway. On top of that, CD is my least favorite Classic Sonic main series game, so I don’t even go back to play it that often.
Bring Sonic3&Knuckles to XBLA with hard challenging achievements
Oh, and CD is not underrated. If anything, it’s obscenely OVERrated.
Looking at YOU, Lucas.
THANK YOU SEGA!!!!!!!!!!!
…now I have no reason to want to buy the Gems Collection except for………….Sonic R.
….
._.
Sonic CD for Xbox360? yheeeee
@ChaoticFox
Chaotix is the only game in the entire series I’ve never actually played even once. I’ve heard… disparaging things about it. But like S2K6, the completionist in me is just drawn to it. Like a moth to the flame, I am.
Yeah, great soundtrack though.
are you fking kidding me? I have a ps3 and i wanted to play sonic cd:(
Sonic Gems was on the PS2 everywhere except North America! Why don’t we get some of the PS2 love here in The United States?
I love how people assume that this port will be as broken as the awful PC/Gems Collection one. Wait till we see footage from PAX, it may actually be more in line the Mega CD original (and if you don’t see the differences between the two, well, look closer).
Xbox 360 has what Playstationever gets XD
@Sai Start Marker
How the Hell were the ports broken?
@Sai: The ports were broken? lol Don’t think so.
@Stephan
Waste of money? You mean about Buying Sonic CD again on Xbox live or buying the SEGA CD in the first place which in itself is a waste of money…
I don’t like having my SEGA CD out…the only reason it’s attached to my Genesis is for Sonic CD…I do own the Gems collection for my Gamecube but oddly enough I don’t really play my Gamecube that much…or my Wii…I play my 360/PS3 more often now than anything else…which is sad because my Genesis is starting to collect dust…
but never the less…if Sonic CD was released tomorrow on Xbox Live/PSN I would get it in a heartbeat so whenever I’m on my 360/PS3…which is very often…and I’m in the mood for Sonic CD…well…my demands are met…(no I will not play emulators because I don’t like emulators…)
So since I don’t need my old SEGA CD anymore…I’ll probably put it in my closet never to be seen again by the eyes of any human being…I’ll still keep my Genesis out simply because I have other games besides Sonic…but the SEGA CD…if Sonic CD is released on Xbox Live/PSN…I’ll have nothing for it…hence…the closet…or the window…my choice…
@Dalek Saxon
Oh, I thought you said you DID I’ve the Gems Collection. Go ahead and buy it then. XD
I misread the comment and thought you said you DIDN’t have the Gems Collection.
@Stephan
I have it…it’s collecting dust with all the other compilations like Sonic Jam, Sonic Mega Collection, Mega Collection Plus, and any other compilations I haven’t mentioned…the only collection I really play is Classic Collection for my DS because having Sonic 3&Knuckles on the go is always awesome…oh and maybe Sonic Genesis when I feel like torturing some of my friends…a punishment worse than death in my opinion….
Sonic Genesis is that bad? JESUS.
@Stephan
People say Sonic 06 was bad…but it had the excuse that it was rushed and unfinished….therefore it could’ve been a lot better…Sonic Genesis however…has no excuse…at least to my memory…You take a great Classic Sonic game… (Sonic 1) and you make it unplayable…
which in my opinion is a bigger insult than whatever anybody says about Sonic 4…because it’s one thing if you can’t match the classics….but when you port it and make it so inferior that you’d rather want to play Sonic 06….then you have a recipe for an ungodfully awful experience….
It’s one thing to consistently shove out mediocre Sonic games, but when you fuck around with the classics, THAT’S NO GOOD.
I think this would be another great opportunity to re-release Knuckles Chaotix much like how Capcom released Final Fight: Double Impact on XBLA and PSN. The deal included both Final Fight and a very different arcade sidescroller Magic Sword. Sega could easily combine the two games into one deal to further push sales.. because let’s face it, when someone wants to play a Sonic game, they search under S in downloadables, not “K.” Hell, why not throw in Tails’ Adventure while you’re at it to give Sonic fans a look back on three great titles considered niche in the series.
One can only dream, right?