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The '''Sonic Adventure New Year's DLC''' was a piece of downloadable content released by SEGA to commemorate New Year's 1998. According to [http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Adventure_Downloadable_Events Sonic Retro], when active, the DLC would place a traditional [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadomatsu kadomatsu] in Station Square.<ref>http://cinos-sonic.com/data/sonicadventure/sonicadventure-data.html Retrieved 27 Dec '16</ref> The DLC was initially released on December 26th, 1998 and was removed entirely on January 7th, 1999. On December 29th, it received a patch due to a glitch that made it impossible to finish Knuckles' story while the DLC was active.<ref>http://www2.plala.or.jp/sone/dreamup.html Retrieved 27 Dec '16</ref> The DLC's file size was reportedly 66 blocks of memory, and the file name would be something along the lines of "SONICADV_001".
The '''Sonic Adventure New Year's DLC''' was a Japan-exclusive piece of downloadable content released by SEGA to commemorate New Year's 1998.  


Additionally, the kadomatsu may have played the song "Dreams, Dreams ~ Sweet Mix in Holy Night" from the 1996 game ''NiGHTS into Dreams'' when touched, as the song remains on the disc unused by any of the other DLC released.
According to [http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Adventure_Downloadable_Events Sonic Retro], when active, the DLC would place a traditional [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadomatsu kadomatsu] in Station Square.<ref>http://cinos-sonic.com/data/sonicadventure/sonicadventure-data.html Retrieved 27 Dec '16</ref> The DLC was initially released on December 26th, 1998 and was removed entirely on January 7th, 1999. On December 29th, it received a patch due to a glitch that made it impossible to finish Knuckles' story while the DLC was active.<ref>http://www2.plala.or.jp/sone/dreamup.html Retrieved 27 Dec '16</ref>
The DLC's file size was reportedly 66 blocks of memory, and the file name would be something along the lines of "SONICADV_001".


[http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~matsu-s/dia/db.html A Japanese Geocities site] claims to have it for download, but the link is broken. No other save file archives seem to have any version of this DLC and, due to the temporary nature of the DLC, it's highly unlikely this will ever be found.
==Availability==
The main reason the DLC is so scarce and so hard to find is due to it only existing in Japanese versions of the game and for little time. The DLC remained Japan-exclusive due to differing tradition and release dates, Sonic Adventure was a launch title in Japan during the month of December in 1998. The Dreamcast itself and Sonic Adventure were only released in North America the following year, making it impossible to obtain the New Year's 1998 DLC in the US.
 
Due to the use of the Kadomatsu decorations, it also could not be reused for later New Year's DLC in the US. Considering kodamatsu is a Japanese tradition for New Year's.
 
While some sites claim to have the file for download, all have turned up with either fake or with dead links.  


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 14:36, 28 June 2017


Sa1jp.jpg

JP Sonic Adventure cover

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The Sonic Adventure New Year's DLC was a Japan-exclusive piece of downloadable content released by SEGA to commemorate New Year's 1998.

According to Sonic Retro, when active, the DLC would place a traditional kadomatsu in Station Square.[1] The DLC was initially released on December 26th, 1998 and was removed entirely on January 7th, 1999. On December 29th, it received a patch due to a glitch that made it impossible to finish Knuckles' story while the DLC was active.[2] The DLC's file size was reportedly 66 blocks of memory, and the file name would be something along the lines of "SONICADV_001".

Availability

The main reason the DLC is so scarce and so hard to find is due to it only existing in Japanese versions of the game and for little time. The DLC remained Japan-exclusive due to differing tradition and release dates, Sonic Adventure was a launch title in Japan during the month of December in 1998. The Dreamcast itself and Sonic Adventure were only released in North America the following year, making it impossible to obtain the New Year's 1998 DLC in the US.

Due to the use of the Kadomatsu decorations, it also could not be reused for later New Year's DLC in the US. Considering kodamatsu is a Japanese tradition for New Year's.

While some sites claim to have the file for download, all have turned up with either fake or with dead links.

References

<references>

  1. ↑ http://cinos-sonic.com/data/sonicadventure/sonicadventure-data.html Retrieved 27 Dec '16
  2. ↑ http://www2.plala.or.jp/sone/dreamup.html Retrieved 27 Dec '16
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