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Just thought this was interesting. Someone's working on a Dreamcast emulator for Android:



Unfortunately, these games will never be easy to play on a touchscreen. I would imagine that this would be more playable on phones with physical keyboards, though. Makes you also wonder what the iPhone 4 is capable of as far as emulation goes.

Like any other game, Sonic Adventure had bug testers combing through the game. And those testers, way back in 1999, complained about things that will still be present in the ports released later this year.

The Sonic Adventure bug database has been quietly hosted on Sonic Cult for the longest time in FileMaker Pro format, but here is an Excel spreadsheet and plain CSV of the database. I don't remember too much discussion on this database, but it's really interesting to read through some of these. This is most likely not a comprehensive record of all the bug testing this game ever received. These bugs are dated from 12/10/1998 to 8/12/1999, almost after the Japanese release of the game on 12/23/98. Many have to do with how the website worked (remember the built-in Sonic Adventure online rankings and Chao sharing?). Some of these bugs were fixed in time for the US version, and the database indicates which ones these are. Most of the fixes were only grammatical/spelling problems on the website end of the game, though. I was looking at the wrong column. Looks like they fixed a lot of show-stopping things.

While I've been reading through these, I've said to myself a lot of times, "man I wish they had fixed that". A lot of other bugs would have been too tedious to fix, like a bug stating that Big's tail passes through the MR mine cart when he walks into it. Here's a few notable ones.

And among some of the things that were apparently fixed:


I don't know, I thought this would just be interesting to look at again considering all the recent developments in SADX hacking. Check out the wiki to download the file and see if there's anything else interesting.

So recently, it was discovered that there was no such thing as a "spindash", but there is a "Spin Dash". The original name for the attack, from the Sonic 2 US manual , is actually the "Super Dash Attack." Sonic 3 calls it the "Spin Dash Attack" and Sonic & Knuckles calls it the "Spin Dash." So because of that, the article has been renamed Spin Dash because that is its most well-known name, and a reference to its original Sonic 2 name was made at the beginning of the article

Now another problem is what jumping is called. In Sonic 1 it is called the "Super Sonic Spin Attack." In Sonic 2, it is called "spin jump" (no caps). In Sonic 3, it is called the "Super Spin Attack." In Sonic & Knuckles, it is simply called "Jump." So the first question is, what is the jump attack's most well-known name, and what should it be referred to as in an article?

The second question: the Sonic 3 manual calls jump "Super Spin Attack," but the Sonic 2 manual says the "Super Spin Attack" describes the attack Sonic makes when he's rolling in a ball on the ground and when he jumps from that roll. The Wiki has two articles: Spin jump and Super Spin Attack. So we need to figure out how these articles should be combined, and what the best way is to explain the different namings among games for the same attacks (and same name for different attacks).