Sonic Shuffle

Sonic Shuffle
Developers: Sonic Team, Hudson Soft Publisher: Sega Platform: Dreamcast Released in JP: December 21, 2000 Released in US: November 13, 2000 Released in EU: March 9, 2001 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden level select. This game has regional differences. This game has hidden bonus content. This game has a prototype article

After the success of Mario Party, Sonic attempted to follow in the plumber's footsteps in the party genre with Sonic Shuffle, which was unsuccessful thanks to the cheatsy AI and excessive load times (not as bad as that Sonic game from 2006, mind you, but still pretty annoying).

Oh, and both Sonic and Super Sonic are separate characters for some reason.

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Prototype Info

Unused Graphics

MG049.MDL

The Bomb Relay minigame has a crudely-drawn white cloud with a face, likely meant as an emote of sorts when the bomb blows up.

Unused Models

MG102.MDL

The Sonic Darts minigame has an unused dart pertaining to NiGHTS, who despite having a cameo appearance when the game is played on Christmas Eve, is not playable. While all other characters have their faces on their darts models, NiGHTS only went as far as having his name on it as a placeholder.

Debug Features

Present in the SUBPROG directory are files for debug tools, such as a model viewer and a level viewer which includes a small debug system. To access these features, replace TITLE.BIN with any of the below files:

To do: These all need looking into.

Model Viewer (MDLVIEW.BIN)

It's...a model viewer. Duh.

Level Viewer (TEST_0.BIN)

This uses the Nindows debug system for games developed with the Ninja libraries from the SDK like Space Channel 5 and the Scud Racer SDK sample. It functions similarly to Windows in appearance and lets you use a keyboard and mouse to navigate menus and view the level models outside of a game scenario.

Character Viewer (HPVIEW.BIN)

Lets you view character models, although only Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Illumina, Lumina, and Void can be selected. Note that this file is referred to as "High Poly Viewer" within 1ST_READ.BIN.

(Source: Woofmute)

Debug Menu Text

Text from the Debug Menu from the European debug version can be found TITLE.BIN, before the text used for VMU access. To enable the menu:

• If running the European debug version, hold Y during the Sega logo.
• If running the NTSC-J version, set the byte at address 8c0fcd63 to 01.
• If running the NTSC-U version, set the byte at address 8c1a6256 to 01.
• If running the PAL retail version, set the byte at address 8c0fba97 to 01.

Sonic Shuffle DEBUG MENU
BOARD Stage No %d
Mdl File Viewer
HI-Poly Viewer
PST=%d
GENERAL
SPECIAL
  CLEAR
START SELECT (VS)
START SELECT (Story)
RECORD Announcement
Rank Demo
Tutorial Demo
Sonic Room
Void EVENT
Duel
Movie
SOUND TEST
Event No %d
TEST-0
Mini Event Menu
Ring
Badbge Enemy_%d PST_%d
EXDEMO.BIN
Leave a hand
DEBUG MENU:Proc start fail
PLAY

Sound Debug Menu DrvVer %1X.%02X.%02X
Select Game[%s]
Select Game[%s]
Select Trap[%s]
Select Mev [%s]
Select Btl [***]
Select Tut [***]
Select Rec [***]
Select Sev [%s]
Select Bev [***]
Select Srm [***]
Select Vev [***]
Select End [***]

Regional Differences

Title Screen

US/Europe	Japan

Bonus Content

Eight 1024×768 wallpapers can be found by placing the Dreamcast disc into your computer. The files on the disc are 24-bit bitmaps (BMP), but here they have been converted to PNG.

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  C20.BMP

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  C21.BMP

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  C22.BMP

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  C23.BMP

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  C24.BMP

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  C25.BMP

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  LUMINA.BMP

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  VOID.BMP