New Sonic Mobile game released by EA!

Sploit · Nov 25, 2009

I went onto www.lastlevel.mobi on my mobile phone's GPRS (great site for buying mobile games, as you don't need to subscribe to anything and once you've paid for a game it goes in your "inbox" on their site, and you can re-download to same phone as many times as you want).

And they had a new Sonic game advertised... Sonic Spinball and its was advertised as being by EA Has hell frozen over or something?

It wasn't compatible with my phone (nokia n-gage). But just thought I'd mention it in case anyone is interested.

Thanks,
Sploit

Overlord · Nov 25, 2009

http://www.lastlevel.mobi/Home/Categories/...onic%20Spinball is a direct URL, incidentally.

<a href="http://www.lastlevel.mobi/mqa/img?4518877,65536,625" target="_blank">http://www.lastlevel.mobi/mqa/img?4518877,65536,625</a>
Rotating GIF of screenshots that the board won't allow me to embed:

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By the FUCKING HUGE compatibility list I'd say it's Java based - possibly ported from the original C - if Sega still has it - by some lesser developer, but more likely to just be a close-physics knockoff like the Java Sonic 1 & 2 were. Either way, I guess worth Wiki'ing.

Sploit · Nov 25, 2009

Maybe I can get a version compatible for my phone then. Cheers for posting more accurate links and such. Much appreciated :v:

I agree it should be wiki'd given that every other mobile game has been

nineko · Nov 25, 2009

Overlord said:

<a href="http://www.lastlevel.mobi/mqa/img?4518877,65536,625" target="_blank">http://www.lastlevel.mobi/mqa/img?4518877,65536,625</a>
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Man I've been transcoding pictures a lot lately:

Yes, I love my imageshack plugin for Firefox 1.0 :P

MathUser · Nov 25, 2009

The title screen was definately redrawn. I don't know about the rest.

Phos · Nov 25, 2009

I don't think it's redrawn, but it is using a different picture of Sonic. <-an old one.

2WaterGuns · Nov 25, 2009

The text is different, too.

Yash · Nov 25, 2009

It looks like they cleaned it up a bit.

Enzo Aquarius · Nov 25, 2009

Yep, that title screen has definitely been redone. Looks a lot more modern, cleaner, and overall, I think it looks great.

Nice to see a game other than Sonic 1/2 being ported to mobile devices for once.

Herm the Germ · Nov 26, 2009

Isn't that more or less the style used on the old Japanese game covers and the Archie Sonic Archives?

OSM · Nov 26, 2009

That title screen is sexy as hell. I don't have any plans on getting this, but I absolutely love everything about Spinball.

Phos · Nov 26, 2009

Herm the Germ said:

Isn't that more or less the style used on the old Japanese game covers and the Archie Sonic Archives?
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That picture is a preexisting one, I think it was used in association with the Japanese release somehow.

Herm the Germ · Nov 26, 2009

Oh, right, how could I've missed this? :v:

Endri · Nov 26, 2009

God. Look closely in the Toxic Cave's screenshot.

What's with all these awful colors?

muteKi · Nov 26, 2009

Hm, it seems that it doesn't have the dynamic palette changes, instead just using the one for the top parts of the level (which I honestly liked the most anyway).

Enzo Aquarius · Nov 27, 2009

Herm the Germ said:

Oh, right, how could I've missed this? :v:
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Well that solves that then, good to see the Japanese art being used. I think it looks absolutely amazing like that.

MathUser · Nov 28, 2009

I wiki'd it, but there wasn't much I could put on the page as noone has downloaded it and fed info about the port.

<a href="http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball (EA Mobile)" target="_blank" style="background: url(http://info.sonicretro.org/images/5/50/Reticon.png) right no-repeat; padding-right: 20px; border-bottom: 1px dotted #3366BB; color: #3366BB; cursor:pointer; text-decoration:none;" class="wiki">Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball (EA Mobile)</a>

Leonard the Genie · Nov 29, 2009

I have it :v:

Honestly it's amazing. First of all, SAVES.
Second, you are given a map of the level.

Then there's the fact that the game has solid FPS and good controls. Very few things are missing and I daresay the game is much more fun than on the genesis.

There's also menus, etc etc. You can choose to have music on, sfx with no music, or silent.
I also must mention that unlike the GBA version, all levels don't have toxic caves music.

Graxer · Nov 29, 2009

Leonard the Genie said:

I have it :v:

Honestly it's amazing. First of all, SAVES.
Second, you are given a map of the level.

Then there's the fact that the game has solid FPS and good controls. Very few things are missing and I daresay the game is much more fun than on the genesis.

There's also menus, etc etc. You can choose to have music on, sfx with no music, or silent.
I also must mention that unlike the GBA version, all levels don't have toxic caves music.
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Sounds great! I wish they would port it to the iPhone, I don't really like playing games on my 3250. (That and I don't actually know how to buy games for a phone that won't connect to the internet) This being a J2ME game though I wouldn't hold my breath for a port.

I'm still wondering whether this is emulation... it is really beginning to sound like it is an actual port made using the original source code.

Does anybody else feel that £5 is a bit of a ripoff when Sonic 1 is only £3.49 from the app store currently? (I think it is less than that occasionally) Also EA sell The Sims 3 for just £2.99 on the app store. Mobile phone games should cost less in my opinion, not more!

biggestsonicfan · Nov 29, 2009

Sploit said:

It wasn't compatible with my phone (nokia n-gage). But just thought I'd mention it in case anyone is interested.
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Wow, do people still use those and are they still sold anywhere? O_O

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