Hey SadisticMystic,
I just watched the video. Nice. That was cute. I have no idea if that's possible on the Dreamcast. My DC is broken currently and I haven't gotten around to getting a replacement. It amazes me that after all these years people are still fiding glitches and shortcuts. This has to be the game with the most ever.
Here's the deal about the Dreamcast Sonic Adventure: It all boiled down to a third party controller. The Interact Quantum Fighter Pad. With this pad, because it had different input values (I don't really know the particulars but the 200% theory might be correct), you were able to do things you normally couldn't with a standard pad. When you jumped, along with holding down the Right Shoulder button you could go much faster in the air, attaining jumps not normally possible. There were other things: With tails, while flying, you would hold down the right shoulder button and move the stick left and right as you were flying forward and you'd go faster. With Gamma, the controller was programmable, and someone figured out a way to program it in such a fashion that Gamma has INFINITE lock-on time. However, you couldn't go through the whole level locking on and then let go, if you went far enough out of range of a group of enemies, it would reset. Amy of course, could fly farther and faster through the air when she both jumped and hammer jumped. Knuckles went a little faster in the air, but not much. And of course, it had no effect on Big.
Here were the results of the Sega 1999-2000 Sonic Adventure contests. Due to the fact that I missed a couple (because my DC crapped out and had to save up to buy a new one) I missed 2 contest results and I forgot to write down the winning time of the last contest, and I forgot to write down info during the last few:
Course Character My Time/Score My Place Winning Time/Score
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Emerald Coast Sonic 1:15.81 35 1:03.53
Windy Valley Sonic 1:36.24 40 59.33
Ice Cap Tails 21,110 pts 23 49,100 pts
Red Mountain Knuckles 8.83 37 4.48
Emerald Coast Big 2,390g 76 2,770g
Twinkle Park Amy 21.26 31 6.56
Red Mountain Gamma 7:39.36 29 12:22.56
Sky Chase Act2 Tails 44,365 pts 29 52,970 pts
Twinkle Circuit Sonic
Casinopolis Knuckles
Sand Hill Sonic 12,840 pts 112 1,195,270 pts
Final Egg Gamma 5:17.03 37 127:59.97
Lost World Knuckles 16.68 36 .41
Icecap Big 2600g
Red Mountain Sonic
Hot Shelter Gamma 127:54.64 7
Interesting notes: It was not known if 'I-Pads' were used for the first contest, but it's certainly possible. People openly admitted using them during Windy Valley. Emerald Coast was later bettered to 59 seconds after the contest was over. Emerald Coast for Big was the weight of 1 fish. Amy Twinkle Park was obviously done by going over the wall at the very start. I used a different route then that and my current one. It doesn't work in the GC version, but back then, even without the I-Pad, after you opened the double doors, you could jump on top of them, then up and to the right to an invisible ledge, then up, then to the left, through a wall and to the balloon. There is a well known glitch with Gamma that I'm sure everyone knows. If you target a group of enemies, then get hit, before they do, you'll see 2 numbers a 1 second and then another one dependent on how many enemies you targeted. The 1 second will count down, but you'll get time added equal to the other number, so essentially, you're getting doulble time. I think the Sonic Twinkle Circuit winning time was around 1:30 or 1:29, Firehawk might remember some times/scores that I don't. Knuckles in Casinopolis was around 6-8 seconds for the the winning time. Lost World with Knuckles was obviously a cheat. At this time, a few gamers had figured out how to hack into their VMUs. That really sucked. There was a lot of cheating going on then. I'm just as guilty, I used an I-Pad. I did it just to be able to compete and get an acceptable time/score. I started using one for the Amy Twinkle Park contest. Most people used I-Pads back then, but others hacked into their VMU's and others even shared times/scores. By that I mean a top player would get a good time, email it to a friend who wasn't as good and the friend would submit that time as his own. Then, the good player would beat his original best and submit that. A few players admitted to that. I couldn't believe it.
I trust everybody here and really love this site. The guys who are most respected, obviously, are the ones who have submitted videos, so everyone can see they aren't cheating I really like that.
That's all I have to say for now. I'm having so much fun going back and playing my Sonic games again. All of you have inspired me to do better. Thank you all for rekindling my interest and desire to better my times. I hope to make a lot of friends here and swap stories/glitches/shortcuts/strategies.
I am definately going to give Casinopolis a go later. Look out, I'm right behind you!
See ya!
Dave
