Share your love of Sonic with random strangers
For a while now we’ve known that Sonic Generations on the 3DS would have some kind of Street Pass functionality, but we were never quite sure what. For those of you without a 3DS, Street Pass is a way for the 3DS to share data with users that are physically close by, by broadcasting tiny snippets of data over a wireless connection. Games like Street Fighter IV 3D use it for a figure battling minigame, and the upcoming Mario Kart 7 will let you trade ghost race data with users.
As part of the recent media dump, how Sonic Generations 3DS uses Street Pass has finally been revealed via Andriasang. It seems that the game allows you to construct your own “Profile Card”, where you can provide Street Pass users with a variety of information about yourself, including how far along you are in the game, favorite Sonic characters, and more. Alternatively, you can also choose to share special missions with other users – like “Revenge”, where you are tasked with defeating a certain number of enemies before time runs out. In total, there are more than 100 missions that can be shared over Street Pass. For those of us in territories where Street Passing is a rarity, these missions can also be unlocked using 3DS Game Coins – a currency earned by using your 3DS as a pedometer.
I’m a little bummed it’s not following Mario Kart 7‘s lead – starting with Sonic Rush, these games seem to have more and more in common with racing games, so it would make sense to trade time trial ghost data over Street Pass. Still, unlocking special missions does sound pretty clever, and a similar idea will be showing up in Super Mario 3D Land, due for release sometime next month. What do you guys think about this feature? Let us know in the comments.
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100 mission. Sounds great to me. So it looks like sonic team and dimps are working hard to emphasize that 3DS features. Make me more excited to find out what are the multiplayer levels. Looks it some thought was placed into this
That first screenshot–is the Mii there of what Eggman looked like in his 20s?
haha Eggman in his hippy years
Given the lackluster online support on all of Nintendo’s systems I really wasn’t expecting any type of matchmaking service for online races. Would have been nice, but.. yeah.
@x: not to float to much off topic but Mario Kart 7 is intergrating online communities.
@Timothy
Yeah, and Mario Kart Wii did as well. But not much changed on the Wii after that, either.
Awesome as hell. It looks like both versions are bursting with content
Could be better, but at least it doesn’t seem as boring as some streetpass features. I’ve got 300 play coins every couple of day, I’m wasting a few on Find Mii which I’ve beaten many times. I need another 3DS game to put my million+ steps to use.
The use of Play Coins to unlock the content is definitely a good idea. The only place I’ve ever gotten hits is at Disneyland.
I wonder what that exclamation mark button on the touch screen is for…
streetpass commercials xd
So…I will not beat this game in just few hours like in Sonic Colors? AWESOME!
Thank god you can unlock them with methods besides street pass. I dont have any street passes from where I live so I would be extremely lucky to come across someone with not only a 3DS but Sonic Generations aswell. Guess im just gonna have to sit and shake my 3DS up and down to accumulate those coins lol.
Give the 3DS version for the Street Pass missions.
^Give the 3DS version props for the Street Pass missions.
I wonder if the hub worlds is gonna be like the console versions where you can run from stage to stage
Yay… now to find someone with a 3DS in my area… :/
This feature would only be usedul in Japan
@jackaroo: Or you can put it in your pocket and run like Sonic to get that 1,000 step in for the day.
@Tundiam
No, 3DS is more like a map screen.
If anyone needs to get some streetpasses, you should take your 3DS with you to an amusement park or to a really big mall.
@X
I agree about lackluster online support on older Nintendo systems, but alot of the games on the 3ds have online connectivity. Sonic Generations has online multiplayer via spotpass.
@lolwut: Yeah that could work but wouldn’t the other supposed 3DS owners have to have a copy of generations 3ds with them in the slot for you to recieve missions from them. I don’t have a 3DS yet so I’m not to savy on how streetpass works.
@Timothy
Streetpass basically transfers data between systems that are 30(?) feet apart. Basically you’re supposed to put your 3DS in your pocket and go to places w/ other 3DS owners. As long as the systems are both on and in sleep mode (with the wireless switch on), then it’ll happen automatically. When you check it later, the notification LED should be on green, telling you that you’ve met someone. I got 7 hits from Disneyland, but none since.
@ A: Thanks. Also do you know if its necessary to have the same game to recieve something. Like what we have here. Can I get a mission without the other owner having generations 3ds? I know this article said that in your profile card you can add 3 mission but would they transfer without having the game card in the slot?
@Timothy you have to active the SP function JUST ONCE on your 3DS and then you will be able to exchange stuff with other 3DS owners who also activated the SP function of the same game, even without the cartdrige.
With Streetpass, you are hunting for other users, using dumb luck and logic (where would gamers go in a mall? what kind of 3DS owners would go to Disney World? etc)
@lolwut and A: thank you very much, I really appreciate the explainations.
@AM
Barely. Starfox, anyone?
@x street fighter, PES, Sonic, Dead or Alive, Ghost Recorn, Need for Speed, Samurai Warriors, and even more are comming
@ X
Starfox 64 3D was a very lazy attempt by Nintendo. Mario Kart 7 and Kid Icarus Uprising are two game that will have proper online multiplayer; as will games like Sonic Generations 3DS, Skylanders, and Resident Evil Revelations. Now the good news is that we are getting more games with multiplayer support and Nintendo is also adding chat support (both in game and outside of game) through a Swapnote application. However, I still believe that they are behind services like Xbox Live and PSN because their systems still does not do random matching (at least I do not think it does, maybe someone can correct me if I am wrong) and we still have no social gaming support or challanges (like trophies).
Yeah, I fucking love StarFox 64, and Nintendo did not give Q-Games enough time and money to make it with proper multiplayer online. It really could’ve been fun, but Nintendo is just making a couple quick cash-ins like Zelda and StarFox to boost 3DS popularity a bit. Not to say they are bad ports/remakes/whatever, the graphics have leapt from N64 to Dreamcast quality, but they didn’t do much else to the games to make it more appealing.
100 missions sounds good, but I hope they aren’t like the 100 ones in Sonic Rush Adventure, where they were in some cases insanely hard to beat and also very repetitive… and serve no purpose in the plot whatsoever (Colors DS at least made a bit of a story for each mission by having all of the other NPC’s and different endings depending on rank; try getting an S on all of them).