Sonic Advance

For Android version, see Sonic Advance (Android).

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Sonic Advance

System(s): Game Boy Advance, J2ME, Blackberry

Publisher:

Sega (Japan, Europe)

THQ (US)

Developer: Sonic Team, Dimps

Gameloft

Distributor:

Infogrames (Europe)

Peripherals supported:

Game Link Cable

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1-4

Official in-game languages:

日本語

English

Français

Deutsch

Español

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	2001-12-20^[10]	¥5,800 (6,090)5,800 (6,090)^[10]	AGB-P-ASOJ AGB-ASOJ-JPN
JP (Okaidoku-ban)	2004-06-17^[10]	¥3,800 (3,990)3,800 (3,990)^[10]	AGB-P-ASOJ AGB-ASOJ-JPN-1
US	2002-02-05^[1]	$39.9939.99^[2]	AGB-P-ASOE AGB-ASOE-USA
DE	2002-03-08^[7]		AGB-P-ASOP AGB-ASOP-NOE
ES	2002-03-08^[6]		AGB-P-ASOP AGB-ASOP-EUR
FR	2002-03-08^[5]		AGB-P-ASOP AGB-ASOP-FRA
NL	2002-03-08^[8]		AGB-P-ASOP AGB-ASOP-HOL
UK	2002-03-08^[3]	£34.9934.99^[4]	AGB-P-ASOP AGB-ASOP-UKV
IT	2002-03-08^[9]		AGB-P-ASOP AGB-ASOP-ITA
AU	2002
AU (Limited Edition)	200x
BR	200x
US	201x	$3.00^[11]	?
US	2012-03-18^[12]	$2.99	?
EU	2013-05-28	€0.89	?
UK	2013-05-28	£0.75	?


JP ▼	2015-02-18^[13]	¥650 (702)650 (702)^[13]	WUP-N-PB8J

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Production credits

Sonic Team

Executive Supervisor: Tetsu Kayama
Executive Producer: Hideki Sato
Producer: Yuji Naka
Director: Akinori Nishiyama
Art Director: Yuji Uekawa
Technical Director: Takahiro Hamano
Designers: Sachiko Kawamura, Kazuko Ito, Makoto Yonezu
Programmers: Yoshihisa Hashimoto, Takaaki Saito

Dimps

Producer: Hiroshi Matsumoto
Line Producer: Koichi Sakita
Planners: Yukihiro Higashi, Masaaki Yamagiwa
Programmers: Shinichiro Shibusawa, Hirofumi Kono, Hiroki Yoshitake, Katsuya Kuramoto
Designers: Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Yuko Yamanoue, Etsuko Hosukawa, Toru Nakanishi, Sadaki Matsumoto
Sound: Hironobu Inagaki, Atsuyoshi Isemura
Special Thanks: Masahisa Naganuma, Takayuki Sakamoto

Sound Created By: Wave Master
Sound Creators: Tatsuyuki Maeda, Yutaka Minobe
Scrap Brain Zone, Star Light Zone, Power Up, Boss From Sonic the Hedgehog
Emerald Hill Zone(2P), Boss From Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Music Composed & Arranged Remodeling: Masato Nakamura

Sega Corporation

Promotion Management: Masanao Maeda, Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Seijiro Sannabe, Hideki Yokaichiya, Yasushi Yamashita
Product Development: Yoshiki Ohka
Marketing: Yasunobu Masahiro, Naoko Ohka, Takayoshi Ohuchi
Publicity: Yasushi Nagumo, Mariko Takeda
Marketing Research: Tsuyoshi Sawada, Ayako Hino
Manual Production: Yoshihiro Sakuta, Chieko Nakamura, Makoto Nishino, Toshiki Yamaguchi, Satoru Ishigami
Test Team: Akira Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Miyano, Yutaka Kawasaki

Sega Of America

Executive Management: Peter Moore
Localization Producers: Osamu Shibayama
Test Lead: Brian Ivanhoe
Special Thanks: Takashi Iizuka, Rich Briggs, Noah Musler, Roxana Hui

Sega Europe, Ltd.

Executive Management: Yoshio Sakai
Diector Of PD: Kats Sato
Producers Manager: Aude Donnan
Localization Producer: Kuniyo Matsumoto
Lead Tester: Matt Brooks
Product Marketing Manager: Jim Pride
Product Manager: Mathew Quaeck

Magazine articles

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

100% Consoles (FR)

NTSC-J

90

^[14]

Advance (DE)

PAL

84

^[15]

Advance (UK)

PAL

91

^[16]

Consoles + (FR)

NTSC-J

95

^[17]

Cube (UK)

PAL

91

^[18]

Cubezone (FR)

PAL

85

^[19]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

77

^[20]

Game Play 128 (FR)

PAL

93

^[21]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

85

^[2]

GameBoy Magazyn (PL)

80

^[22]

GBX (UK)

93

^[4]

Hyper (AU)

PAL

90

^[23]

MAN!AC (DE)

PAL

70

^[24]

NGC Magazine (UK)

75

^[25]

Nintendo Official Magazine (UK)

PAL

90

^[26]

Nintendo Power (US)

NTSC-U

84

^[27]

N-Zone (DE)

NTSC-J

85

^[28]

N-Zone (DE)

PAL

85

^[29]

The Official Nintendo Magazine (UK)

PAL

90

^[30]

PSX Extreme (PL)

93

^[31]

Power Unlimited (NL)

78

^[32]

Total Advance (UK)

PAL

96

^[33]

Virtual'nyye radosti (BY)

80

^[34]

	86
Based on 23 reviews

Sonic Advance

Main article: Sonic Advance/Magazine articles.

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

?

CRC32	63f70fd8
MD5	49ecc8ef1988e7ae81fbda1b4cf71eed
SHA-1	d842afa7dd1e84de08addb94a51506f1bcafd551

8MB

2001-10-31^[35]

Cartridge (US)

✔

CRC32	6232839b
MD5	93a2f28339858e955e4f17060e038bcd
SHA-1	eb00f101af23d728075ac2117e27ecd8a4b4c3e9

8MB

2001-11-21^[35]

Cartridge (EU)

?

CRC32	5f512223
MD5	b62f11b1d014d5c5c2dd703676cb443d
SHA-1	8dab4c2d38bd13ed88f98a9210cd0cb4ff11520c

8MB

2001-10-31^[35]

Cartridge (JP)

v1.0

✔

CRC32	85957a24
MD5	9e02f1c9f26f40905d43188b2bd2d98e
SHA-1	f43faca5d8df354a63471aebfea3be125e797e51

8MB

2001-12-20^[35]

Cartridge (JP)

v1.1

?

CRC32	a80de3b2
MD5	fca4c485f41412a4ddc05fbe105c3219
SHA-1	aae6516f72309920acd9fafd03a9d09e35cf755f

8MB

2001-10-31

Cartridge (US)

Prototype

Page

References

↑ http://www.nintendo.com/games/gamepage/gamepage_main.jsp?gameId=786 (Wayback Machine: 2003-08-14 01:05)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 GamePro, "March 2002" (US; 2002-0x-xx), page 70
↑ https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Game-Boy-Advance/Sonic-Advance-267277.html (archive.today)
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 GBX, "March 2002" (UK; 2002-02-06), page 30
↑ https://www.nintendo.fr/Jeux/Game-Boy-Advance/Sonic-Advance-267277.html (archive.today)
↑ https://www.nintendo.es/Juegos/Game-Boy-Advance/Sonic-Advance-267277.html (archive.today)
↑ https://www.nintendo.de/Spiele/Game-Boy-Advance/Sonic-Advance-267277.html (archive.today)
↑ https://www.nintendo.nl/Games/Game-Boy-Advance/Sonic-Advance-267277.html (archive.today)
↑ https://www.nintendo.it/Giochi/Game-Boy-Advance/Sonic-Advance-267277.html (archive.today)
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 ^10.3 http://sega.jp/gba/sonic/ (Wayback Machine: 2004-06-23 13:49)
↑ http://www.gameloft.com/mobile-games/sonic-advance/ (Wayback Machine: 2012-01-11 18:51)
↑ http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/92655/ (Wayback Machine: 2012-03-25 01:07)
↑ ^13.0 ^13.1 https://www.nintendo.co.jp/titles/20010000012187 (Wayback Machine: 2017-11-26 02:40)
↑ 100% Consoles, "Février 2002" (FR; 200x-xx-xx), page 80
↑ Advance, "2/2002" (DE; 2002-xx-xx), page 22
↑ Advance, "Spring 2002" (UK; 2002-xx-xx), page 46
↑ Consoles +, "Février 2002" (FR; 2002-0x-xx), page 86
↑ Cube, "Issue Four" (UK; 2002-03-14), page 113
↑ Cubezone, "Juin 2002" (FR; 2002-xx-xx), page 102
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "March 2002" (US; 2002-02-06), page 146
↑ Game Play 128, "Mi-Mai 2002" (FR; 2002-0x-xx), page 100
↑ GameBoy Magazyn, "Kwiecień 2002" (PL; 2002-xx-xx), page 17
↑ Hyper, "April 2002" (AU; 2002-03-06), page 83
↑ MAN!AC, "04/2002" (DE; 2002-03-06), page 125
↑ NGC Magazine, "March 2002" (UK; 2002-02-14), page 54
↑ Nintendo Official Magazine, "April 2002" (UK; 2002-03-15), page 34
↑ Nintendo Power, "February 2002" (US; 2002-0x-xx), page 152
↑ N-Zone, "02/2002" (DE; 2002-01-30), page 48
↑ N-Zone, "03/2002" (DE; 2002-02-27), page 45
↑ The Official Nintendo Magazine, "March 2006" (UK; 2006-02-16), page 129
↑ PSX Extreme, "02/2002" (PL; 2002-0x-xx), page 76
↑ Power Unlimited, "Jaargang 10, Nummer 4, April 2002" (NL; 2002-03-22), page 34
↑ Total Advance, "Issue 26" (UK; 2002-02-28), page 28
↑ Virtual'nyye radosti, "" (BY; 2005-01-30), page 1
↑ ^35.0 ^35.1 ^35.2 ^35.3 Sonic Advance/Hidden content#Build dates

[http:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20030814010533.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fwww.nintendo.com.2Fgames.2Fgamepage.2Fgamepage_main.jsp.3FgameId.3D786-1] ttp://www.nintendo.com/games/gamepage/gamepage_main.jsp?gameId=786 (Wayback Machine: 2003-08-14 01:05)

[:File:GamePro_US_162.pdf_p70-2] 2.0 ^2.1 GamePro, "March 2002" (US; 2002-0x-xx), page 70

[http:.2F.2Farchive.is.2FJ0cZ2-3] ttps://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Game-Boy-Advance/Sonic-Advance-267277.html (archive.today)

[:File:GBX_UK_09.pdf_p30-4] 4.0 ^4.1 GBX, "March 2002" (UK; 2002-02-06), page 30

[http:.2F.2Farchive.is.2FdtZUb-5] ttps://www.nintendo.fr/Jeux/Game-Boy-Advance/Sonic-Advance-267277.html (archive.today)

[http:.2F.2Farchive.is.2F46Wlx-6] ttps://www.nintendo.es/Juegos/Game-Boy-Advance/Sonic-Advance-267277.html (archive.today)

[http:.2F.2Farchive.is.2Fg1qk9-7] ttps://www.nintendo.de/Spiele/Game-Boy-Advance/Sonic-Advance-267277.html (archive.today)

[http:.2F.2Farchive.is.2FnIBhi-8] ttps://www.nintendo.nl/Games/Game-Boy-Advance/Sonic-Advance-267277.html (archive.today)

[http:.2F.2Farchive.is.2FQjFr0-9] ttps://www.nintendo.it/Giochi/Game-Boy-Advance/Sonic-Advance-267277.html (archive.today)

[http:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20040623134921.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fsega.jp.2Fgba.2Fsonic.2F-10] 10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 ^10.3 http://sega.jp/gba/sonic/ (Wayback Machine: 2004-06-23 13:49)

[http:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20120111185104.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fwww.gameloft.com.2Fmobile-games.2Fsonic-advance.2F-11] ttp://www.gameloft.com/mobile-games/sonic-advance/ (Wayback Machine: 2012-01-11 18:51)

[http:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20120325010731.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fappworld.blackberry.com.2Fwebstore.2Fcontent.2F92655.2F-12] ttp://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/92655/ (Wayback Machine: 2012-03-25 01:07)

[http:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20171126024031.2Fhttps:.2F.2Fwww.nintendo.co.jp.2Ftitles.2F20010000012187-13] 13.0 ^13.1 https://www.nintendo.co.jp/titles/20010000012187 (Wayback Machine: 2017-11-26 02:40)

[:File:100.25Consoles_FR_10.pdf_p80-14] 100% Consoles, "Février 2002" (FR; 200x-xx-xx), page 80

[:File:Advance_DE_02.pdf_p22-15] Advance, "2/2002" (DE; 2002-xx-xx), page 22

[:File:Advance_UK_02.pdf_p46-16] Advance, "Spring 2002" (UK; 2002-xx-xx), page 46

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_121.pdf_p86-17] Consoles +, "Février 2002" (FR; 2002-0x-xx), page 86

[:File:Cube_UK_04.pdf_p113-18] Cube, "Issue Four" (UK; 2002-03-14), page 113

[:File:Cubezone_FR_04.pdf_p102-19] Cubezone, "Juin 2002" (FR; 2002-xx-xx), page 102

[:File:EGM_US_152.pdf_p146-20] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "March 2002" (US; 2002-02-06), page 146

[21] Game Play 128, "Mi-Mai 2002" (FR; 2002-0x-xx), page 100

[22] GameBoy Magazyn, "Kwiecień 2002" (PL; 2002-xx-xx), page 17

[:File:Hyper_AU_102.pdf_p83-23] Hyper, "April 2002" (AU; 2002-03-06), page 83

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_2002-04.pdf_p125-24] MAN!AC, "04/2002" (DE; 2002-03-06), page 125

[:File:NGCMagazine_UK_065.pdf_p54-25] NGC Magazine, "March 2002" (UK; 2002-02-14), page 54

[:File:NOM_UK_115.pdf_p34-26] Nintendo Official Magazine, "April 2002" (UK; 2002-03-15), page 34

[27] Nintendo Power, "February 2002" (US; 2002-0x-xx), page 152

[:File:NZone_DE_2002-02.pdf_p48-28] N-Zone, "02/2002" (DE; 2002-01-30), page 48

[:File:NZone_DE_2002-03.pdf_p45-29] N-Zone, "03/2002" (DE; 2002-02-27), page 45

[:File:ONM_UK_001.pdf_p129-30] The Official Nintendo Magazine, "March 2006" (UK; 2006-02-16), page 129

[31] PSX Extreme, "02/2002" (PL; 2002-0x-xx), page 76

[:File:PowerUnlimited_NL_100_200204.pdf_p34-32] Power Unlimited, "Jaargang 10, Nummer 4, April 2002" (NL; 2002-03-22), page 34

[:File:TotalAdvance_UK_26.pdf_p28-33] Total Advance, "Issue 26" (UK; 2002-02-28), page 28

[34] Virtual'nyye radosti, "" (BY; 2005-01-30), page 1

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Sonic Advance

From Sega Retro

Contents

Production credits

Magazine articles

Technical information

ROM dump status

References