Sonic Megamix Un-Canceled

An old blog post from Sonic Retro but I think this is interesting enough to keep you sonic fans hyped.



"Sonic Megamix, the most well known Sonic ROM hack, has returned to the public spotlight with a post by, community oldbie, Stealth at Sonic Retro. Stealth revealed that the drama that resulted in the project’s cancellation months ago was a complete misunderstanding. Therefore, it was only canceled for three days and the once Genesis, now Sega CD project has had work done on it since being resurrected. When Stealth finally revealed that Megamix was not dead a few days ago, he and other team members brought videos with them to show the amount of progress that they have made in private.



Despite publicly announcing Megamix’s return, Stealth did lay some ground rules that I certainly approve of.

With that said, you know how I feel about my projects, and this is no exception. It never has been, less of Tweaker’s over-zealous promotion. I am protective, and I will remain so. We will do what we please with this project, and on a time-table of our own choosing. Requests and questions about release dates are annoying and pointless. There will be no further demos, or even “private” beta-tests. Fact is, Megamix was supposed to end development with “version 4″ (at a later point in time), until this mess happened. There is no way we can possibly make another non-final release and keep it substantially fresh. Trust me – you’ll thank us when you have much more to play with all at once than one level at the end of the game and a couple of menu text changes

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Finally, and this is important, we reserve the right to halt completely at any time. We owe a debt to no-one, and we don’t have to publicize any newer builds. All we ask for is some decency and respect. Don’t launch into actual complaints about how we choose to handle our business. Don’t rip us off solely for the sake of riding off Megamix fame. Also, don’t go asking for or looking for things that don’t belong to you. If we hear about the leaked material, or see it being spread/used, that’s it. If you want to do our jobs for us, we just won’t, and when you can’t handle it, you’ll only have yourselves to blame

The videos below showcases Megamix’s progress since its move to the Sega CD. The game is not only “Sonic CD” smooth, but now has CD audio, composed by DM Ashura of DDR fame. Megamix’s design continues to, in my opinion, bridge the old and new styles of Sonic. In addition to the classic Genesis presentation, new moves, such as the homing attack, and a higher emphasis on speed make their mark.








Now, if only the level design wasn’t so masochistic."

Sonic And The Black Knight Albums Availiable

Adding to our growing record of soundtracks from across the series, the two Black Knight Soundtracks, Face to Faith and Tales of Knighthood can now be streamed, and downloaded from the Albums section in the Retro Wiki. To download to your hard drive, right-click and save target as the little icon next to the stream. Why not also check out all the other albums and lyrics available while you’re there?

Thanks go out to forum member Ashram for ripping, tagging and uploading the CDs.

If you truly enjoy the albums, please support the company by purchasing the albums at an imports site, such as Play-Asia or CDJapan, or through a service like iTunes. Though we may enjoy the series music much, purchasing the album will resonate more with Sega to show they’re still cranking out good tunes, game quality aside.

6-year-old asks Norwegian King’s permission to be named Sonic X

"Six-year-old Christer was fed up with his name and sent a letter to Norway’s King requesting his name to be changed to Sonic X.

There’s a couple of things to explain before we continue with this bizarre story. Firstly, Christer wasn’t asking the King to change his name to Sonic X, though King Sonic X has a certain ring to it. Secondly, we’re not sure why Christer wanted the ‘X’ addition, since this was the simply title of the Japanese animé adaptation. Nevertheless…

Late last year Christer from Norway wrote a letter addressed to Norwegian King Harald V asking for his name to be officially changed to Sonic X, Norwegian newspaper and website dagbladet.no reports.

However, his parents were reluctant to send the letter. That is until months later Christer asked why they’d yet to post his heart felt request. The letter was sent and amazingly King Harald V replied.

Sadly, the King could not change Christer’s name, but not because the change would result in a child running around with a ridiculous video game character’s title. No, the request was rejected for the sole reason that at six-years-old, Christer was not old enough to make such a decision. Thus, the boy must contact King Harald V in twelve years time once he’s turned 18.

Christer admitted that he was disappointed, explaining that “it was a bit bad.”

First 2010 Sega Consoles

Now that new Sega West president Mike Hayes is in place, we here at Sonic Retro must say we’re immediately pleased with his work. Pulling a Marty McFly on us, clearly Hayes went back in time to alter a 1991 issue of French magazine Club Sega to get us exclusive shots of Sega’s upcoming 2010 console!

Too bad these kids forgot to mention in their drawings that it would be invisible.

Simon Jeffery Leaves Sega Of America

An expert at putting his foot in his mouth and insulting his company’s biggest fanbase, SEGA of America President and Co-Owner, Simon Jeffery, has packed his bags at SEGA. Jeffery will become an executive at iPhone developer and publisher “ngmoco,” a company founded last year by a former EA executive, Neil Young.

Jeffery has made it well known that he loves the iPhone. While the move might seem idiotic on the surface for a president of SEGA to move into another role at a smaller company, the move is likely a simple pursuit of interests. Whatever might have sparked Jeffery’s departure from SEGA, I know that some people are having a party regardless.

Jeffery will lead ngmoco’s Plus+ (redundant, much?) publishing group, “which integrates social networking and cross-promotional options into games.