Sonic cameo in Sim City 2.000 for Sega Saturn

I remember reading about this somewhere before, but I don't remember where I saw it, sorry dude

 

I always wondered myself.

In one of the built-in cities, there's an industrial zone near the edge of the map that turns into a sonic statue after a few minutes. I think it's the one that has a ton of launch arcos.

 

Sounds like a case of a missing secret.

 

Or it's just a random award, and not something you can consciously build.

 

It's not a scenario but a pre-saved city, called Monroe. But, I couldn't get the statue to appear when I tried it right now. It may have been some other scenario or pre-saved city, but bear in mind that I'm going on a 13 year old memory here. I'm very sure I did see it in-game however, and I also recall that it did not have a special movie when viewed with the in-game help button (press the R shift) - it just showed the building that was normally there.

 

any tech members wanna click around in there and see if it exists?

 

No one figured it out in 14 years, and there's no specific mention of unlocking it in any magazine or code sheet that I know of, nor in the manual (which I read letter to letter when I was little).

I say it's random, unless you guys can come up with a reproducible way to build the damn thing.

 

That's a reference to the exodus sequence, which happens if you have 300+ launch arcos by 2050.

... speaking of which, that's something I've yet to see in the Saturn version. On the Monroe city, you start with 6 million money, but thats only enough for about 20 launch arcos.... hmm...

 

Strangest thing just happened, someone IMed me from their phone mentioning the Mario statue, I'll quote what they said:

What do you guys think?

EDIT: The gentleman says his name's Dr. Hackman!

 

The Mario statue being the bonus for a Megalopolis is well known, and also mentioned in the manual as well. There is however nothing that mentions the Sonic statue.

I've played the game for months back in the 90s, unlocked damn near everything minus the Exodus scene, and only accidentally got the Sonic statue. No special mention in the game, no ability to build - a random zone just turned into that.

 

That's the Mario statue in the SNES Sim City. You get it as a bonus item for reaching Megalopolis.

 

You are a douche for linking that site.

Having never played the Saturn version of SimCity 2000 I really don't know what to suggest; I know the PC version has a basic statue that's easily unlocked. HOW it's unlocked in the PC version I've forgotten over the years, but given how simple it must have been and the responses in this topic I'm -pretty sure- that that method doesn't work for the Sega Saturn version.