**Sonic Adventure is a pretty divisive game, but most will agree that it really was a great showcase for the Dreamcast when it was a console in its infancy. It had great visuals and some fantastic set pieces - who can forget the killer whale sequence in the first stage? These days the vast majority deride the game for its bugs and somewhat aimless later levels...but that's a subject for another day. The reason I bring Sonic Adventure up is that news has reached me via Liam Ashcroft of SEGAbits, that somebody has gone to the trouble of purchasing the original Sonic Adventure Dreamcast homepage and restored the site in its entirety. Just for the hell of it.
The news first broke on the Sonic Stadium forum, and out of curiosity I went to have a look...and it's actually true. Everything from the original site that you'd access from a Dreamcast browser or the Sonic Adventure disc is there - all of the guides to the VMU mini games, Chao gardens, level maps...even the community sections and competition winner listings.
Screenshots from the game are expected to be added in time, but for the most part the site is all there in its 1998-flavoured glory! Some links, such as the guides on how to get your Dreamcast online appear to be broken, but as a pure nostalgia hit this is hard to beat. Thanks again to Liam for bringing this to my attention.
Link: Sonic Adventure Homepage
Update: I managed to speak to the creator of the site, a cool guy called Scott. He replied to my email asking for further info on his reasons behind the Sonic Adventure homepage resurrection:
"I run a Chao website, Chao Island. I've always been a big fan of Sonic and Sega, especially the Dreamcast. I still update my Chao website to this day and we have around 10k members registered after multiple forum closures!
I'm always looking for ways to keep the Dreamcast spirit alive and restoring this classic site gave me the chance to do that.
My website has no ads, and I make no profit from it, I just try to do my best to keep a happy community and get as much Chao information out there as possible!"
- Scott, Chao Island**
Parafraseando al gran Marcos García: "Al recordar el año 1999, un rotundo y helador escalofrío recorre mi pálida y no muy bien formada espalda"... qué época...
Una consulta ahora que colocaron esto si yo quiero conectar la dreamcast a internet necesariamente lo tengo que hacer con un cable de telefono o puedo ponerle uno de esos transformadores con cable de red?.
fede2222 wrote:Si los servidores están levantados.. sólo tenés que poner en el medio un router.. el tema es saber que protocolo usaba la DC, pppoe o similar..
Enviado desde Koprulu Sector
Es un buen acertijo para que resuelvas en los findes retro...
Sent from Latveria.
Para todos aquellos que tuvieron la revista Número 1 de Club Nintendo que se comercializaba en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay
