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Yuji Naka Talks Sonic, GTA, Emulators

Posted by simoniker on from the everybody's-super-sonic-racing dept.

Thanks to The Next Level for its newly published interview with Sega's head of Sonic Team, Yuji Naka. Naka discusses the games that impressed him most in 2003 ("probably GTA3 in the West and Shin Sangoku Musou [Koei's Dynasty Warriors series] in Asia"), his programming of a not-intended-for-release NES emulator for the Genesis/Megadrive ("I did it primarily for [private] study purposes. It ran things like Dr. Mario, although it did not work perfectly, actually."), and the whereabouts of the Sonic-sponsored Williams Formula 1 racing car from the '90s ("It's supposed to be in our offices or warehouses somewhere. We just can't seem to locate it anymore; we don't know where we put it!")

16 comments

  1. from the everybody's-super-sonic-racing dept. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Try to get your feet back on the ground.

    When you're Super-Sonic racing, there's no time to fuck around.

  2. syntax error by BinLadenMyHero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Missing ')' on story text. :-)

    1. Re:syntax error by simoniker · · Score: 1, Informative

      Thanks, fixed.

  3. Yuji Naka by Nakamiya · · Score: 4, Funny

    is the sexiest man in the games industry

  4. comment from the peanut gallery by bersl2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Sonic X English dub sucks. Both organizations that have made fansubs up to this point, WolfPackProductions and Team Artail have not turned out any episode past 11. Goddamnit.

    And the back-in-the-day ABC series still was more dramatic and had more potential. Oh well, I should be happy with what I have now.

    1. Re:comment from the peanut gallery by Asmor · · Score: 1

      Personally I wasn't too thrilled with Sonic X, and I'm not complaining. I wanna know when Wolfpack'll start churning out some more Rockman.exe Axess goddammit!

    2. Re:comment from the peanut gallery by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A group known as Bsub has subtitled more episodes in the past 6 months than both of those groups ever did. They've subbed episodes 12 through 39, and the final epsiode, 52. The US has only shown up to Episode 26, so they're ahead by a good amount.

      Unfortunately, the Bsub's only seem to be available from one place, a bittorrent tracker.

    3. Re:comment from the peanut gallery by bersl2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      OK, so that's what those Bsubs are on bt.s0nicfreak.com. Which is mysteriously down right now.

      I guess I wasn't curious enough to see what they were.

    4. Re:comment from the peanut gallery by Nakamiya · · Score: 1

      Tthey are getting & moving to a deticated server. It will be back up in a few days.

  5. They lost a multi-million-dollar F1 car. by Pluvius · · Score: 4, Funny

    And people wonder why Sega never really made it in the hardware business.

    Rob

  6. Obligatory bitching by Stormwatch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Goddamnit, Naka! Get your lazy ass off your comfy chair and go bring NiGHTS back from the limbo where you left him since 1996! >:(

    --
    Circumcision is child abuse.
  7. Goddamn it! by YOU+LIKEWISE+FAIL+IT · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Shin Sangoku Musou [Koei's Dynasty Warriors series] in Asia

    Arrgh! I passed on picking 3 & 4 of these up because they got panned in the reviews I read. Is this another Eastern tastes / Western tastes thing?

    YLFI
    --
    One god, one market, one truth, one consumer.
  8. Misplaced F-1 Car by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'll tell you where it went:

    Alain Prost owns it. He won his final championship in the damn thing. Come on! Sega doens't lose F1 cars.

    Williams-Renault FW15, 1993.
    http://www.f1tip.ch/f1/grafik/prost5.gif

    It is still considered one of the best Formula 1 cars ever built. It destroyed Senna that year.