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Sonic The Hedgehog Coming to the iPod

Posted by Zonk on from the gotta-get-some-rings dept.

mrneutron2003 writes "Sega has announced that Sonic the Hedgehog will be a new gaming option on the iPod. They're looking to charge about 4.99 for the classic title. 'Support is slated for the iPod nano with video, iPod classic, and fifth generation iPods ... Sega hopes that tremendous install base of the iPod family will lend to exposing a whole new audience to the old time wonders of Sonic The Hedgehog. The game has apparently been redesigned with the iPod in mind and should provide good port experience.'"

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  1. non-article by Takichi · · Score: 2, Informative

    $4.99 (assumed US currency) on iTunes store. Specially designed for the iPod. That's pretty much the extent of the "article".

  2. Re:Call me cynical but.. by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 2, Informative

    I own PacMan on the iPod, and you don't need to slide, you just need to touch the direction you want to go. My guess is that you'll run in whatever direction you touch, if you let up on the click wheel you'll stop, and touching either the menu or play keys will cause you to jump. Pretty simple control scheme actually.

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  3. Forget Sonic... by sammydee · · Score: 2, Informative

    Rockbox is free open source firmware for DAPs that allows you to play Doom! Granted the frame rate is a little juddery and the controls aren't laid out perfectly, but who cares? It's Doom! On an ipod! Every geek on slashdot should be drooling at the thought!

    I supposed I should also point out at this moment that Rockbox also supports, among many, many other things:

    -Voice driven menus for the visually impaired
    -A gameboy and gameboy colour emulator
    -Over 15 sound codecs, including ogg and flac
    -Gapless playback
    -Replaygain
    -A five band parametric equalizer
    -Dual booting with original firmware and others, including ipodlinux.

    And runs on the following architectures:

    -Apple: 1st through 5.5th generation iPod, iPod Mini and 1st generation iPod Nano
    (not the Shuffle, 2nd/3rd gen Nano, Classic or Touch)
    -Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio
    -Cowon: iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5 and M5L
    -iriver: H100, H300 and H10 series
    -SanDisk: Sansa c200, e200 and e200R series (not the v2 models)
    -Toshiba: Gigabeat X and F series (not the S series)

    More are in development. Unfortunately there isn't likely to be a port for 6th generation ipods for a very long time, if ever, due to the firmware encryption present on these devices.

    More information is available on the rockbox home page, at http://www.rockbox.org/

    Sam

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