SonicJPNews archive blog: 05/08/19

2019/05/08

Naka-san on improved port of Space Harrier Mark III by a fan

News from 2019.05.08
Archived on 2019.05.13

Back then, Naka-san worked on porting Space Harrier to Mark III, but he couldn't remove the frame by programming. His boss told him that it doesn't bother them much so he could decide to release it, but it seems like the frame remained a worrying factor to him.

Today, he found someone who ported Space Harrier with some improvements (removing the frame, smoothing out zooming in/out) is amazed by the result!

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More comments from Kanemaru-san on Sonic X!

News from 2019.05.08
Archived on 2019.05.13

Upon seeing the first three episodes of Japanese Sonic X released online on YouTube for free for limited time, Kanemaru-san comments further on each episode & on the interview footage to Sonic X casts!

Previous summaries:
Episode 1

Kanemaru-san on Dark Sonic

Episode 2:

Kanemaru-san and Senoue-san on TSR music video!

News from 2019.05.08
Archived on 2019.05.13

Kanemaru-san reacted to Senoue-san's lookback on TSR music making video!
Both of them seem to be very excited for the game like we are!

Senoue-san explains that he chose a blue metallic guitar to match Sonic's car 'Speed Star', and the its pickup cover is metallic red - a perfect 'Team Sonic Racing edition'!

Kanemaru-san praises it and tells him: 'If Sonic hears the sounds played on blue metallic guitar, he definitely will go 'Boost on!'.

Another reference to "Cyber Formula", the formula one Anime in which Kanemaru-san played the protagonist.

I'm really excited for the TSR and its music too!


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Naka-san on Sonic Adventure Production Presentation from 1998!

News from 2019.05.08
Archived on 2019.05.12

A few days ago, Kanemaru-san and Naka-san looked back on the unique advertisement for Sonic Adventure with Sonic plush.

Today, Naka-san recalled on the Sonic Adventure Production Presentation, which I also mentioned in the post above.

This exciting Presentation event was held in Tokyo International Forum on August 22nd, 1998.
Official announcement from back then...: http://sonic.sega.jp/sonicadv/info/happyoukai.html

SEGA invited fans and press to this once-in-a-life opportunity to have a sneak-peek into the latest work to Sonic series presented by Yuji Naka-san, the head of Sonic Team himself.

This event was initially planned to have two shows on this day, but since the number of people gathered to join the presentation exceeded the expectation of SEGA greatly, they had to add the third show on spot.
(from a report by MAYON)

The event included real-time gameplay of the product on Dreamcast with Naka-san's explanations, a video documentary on Sonic Team's business trip to mid-south America for collecting materials for ideas and aesthetics of the game, recording of 'Sonic!' call by the audience together with Segata Sanshiro, and live performance of 'Open Your Heart' with Jun Senoue-san.

What does Naka-san remember from the preparation for this memorable event?

Oh wow, so despite the hardware not having full memory. the Sonic Team did their very best to fit everything in to make the live-demo of the game happen! Hats off to them.

You can watch the summary of this presentation event including 'Sonic Team Story' (documentary of Sonic Team's business trip to mid-south America) in this VHS of the event which was distributed for the members of "SEGA Partners" back then.

Here is one Naka-san mentioned in his tweet & the one you can watch with English subtitles which I helped out a little bit.
Enjoy!




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Updated blog features: Navigation banner for both PC and mobile versions!

News from 2019.05.07

Hey all!
I did another update on this blog archive site.

This time, it's the navigation banner on top!

I didn't realize this function existed on Blogger. And it works fine both on desktop and mobile versions! So not only the PC users but also people visiting my site on their smartphones will have much easier overview and quicker access to different pages and categories. That is really practical!

I should have done this waaaay before...

But anyways, now I did!

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List and description of each tab:

  • Home (mobile version only) = Goes to the top page of the website with every posts listed in chronological order. (In desktop version, simply click on the blog logo at very top of the page.)
  • PC ver. = Switches to desktop version of the website. (usage for mobile version users / as HOME button for PC version)
  • Introduction = Posts for introduction to SonicJPNews & how-to-use for this archive site.
  • Sonic = Gotta go fast! Shows all posts tagged with 'Sonic'.
  • Game = Any game related news and fun stuff. Shows all posts tagged with 'Game'.
  • Art = Looking for good art? Here you'll find them! Shows all posts tagged with 'Art'.
  • Music = SEGA's Music = perfection. Shows all posts tagged with 'Music'.
  • -OMZ- = Direct link to the parent page of Official Materials Zone. (List of links to my translations of official materials such as official game/product page, user guide, game manual etc.)
  • -TAZ- = Direct link to the parent page of Translated Articles Zone. (List of links to my posts for translation of articles, mostly interviews.)
  • -ENSZ- = Direct link to the parent page of Event News Summary Zone. (List of links to my summary posts for Sonic related events)
  • Behind-the-Scene = Interesting backstories and look-backs by Sonic developers. Shows all posts tagged with 'Behind-the-scene'.
  • Discussion = Articles summarizing hot topics discussed by Sonic developers. Shows all posts tagged  'Discussion'.
  • Anniversary = Find something to celebrate for! Shows all posts tagged  'anniversary'.
  • Birthday = Check whose birthday it is today! Shows all posts tagged  'birthday'.
  • Plush = Need some comfort? You love plushies? Come here and adore Sonic plush adventures posted by SEGA Offcial! Shows all posts tagged  'Plush'.
  • Merch = Looking for cool SEGA stuff just for yourself? Then you came to the right place! Shows all posts tagged  'merchandise'.
  • JP Culture = Love Sonic and love Japan? What if they are combined together? Learn about Japan with Sonic! Shows all posts tagged  'Japanese culture'.
  • SEGA-JP = Shows all posts tagged  'SEGA of Japan'.
  • SEGA-US = Shows all posts tagged  'SEGA of America'.
  • SEGA-EU = Shows all posts tagged  'SEGA Europe'.

For more tags, switch to PC desktop version and look at the right side of the page. There you can find every tag I used in alphabetical order!

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On PC it looks like this...
Navigation banner on top of the site page. Make use of this for much easier SonicJPNews life!


and on mobile, like this.
Tap the blue banner which says 'Home'...

And you'll find this drop-down list of tabs.

Tap on 'PC ver.' to switch to desktop version which has more fun gadgets, such as World Map, Random Post, Popular Posts and Sonic Sounds Player!

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Alright! So what do you think of it?

Now it's much easier to navigate to major topics of this blog without scrolling down the labels section on the right or searching for keywords in that little searchbox above it. Nice!

I also put link to the desktop version of this site as the first button! So mobile users don't need to go all the way down to the bottom of the page to find 'switch to web version' link.

PC version has much more contents than mobile version, so please check it out too by choosing 'PC ver.' from the dropdown list!

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