Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut

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Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut
System(s): Nintendo GameCube, Windows PC
Publisher: Sega Sega PC
Developer: Sonic Team
Distributor: Sonokong (KR)
Game total: 13
Save file size: GC: 9 blocks, PC: 51KB
Peripherals supported: GBA Cable
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1-2
Official in-game languages: 日本語 English Français Deutsch Español
Release Date RRP Code Rating US 2003-06-17 $? DOL-P-GXSE DOL-GXSE-USA US (Player's Choice) 2004 $? DOL-P-GXSE DOL-GXSE-USA JP 2003-06-19 ¥6,980 (7,329) DOL-P-GASJ DOL-GASJ-JPN JP (1) 2004-11-18 ¥2,800 (2,940) DOL-P-GASJ DOL-GASJ-JPN-1 AU 2003-06-20 $? DOL-P-GXSP AU (Player's Choice) 2004 $? DOL-P-GXSP UK 2003-06-27 £? DOL-P-GXSP DOL-GXSP-UKV UK (Player's Choice) 2004 £? DOL-P-GXSP DOL-GXSP-UKV FR 2003-06-27 €? DOL-P-GXSP DOL-GXSP-FRA FR (Player's Choice) 2004 €? DOL-P-GXSP DOL-GXSP-FRA DE 2003-06-27 €? DOL-P-GXSP DOL-GXSP-NOE DE (Player's Choice) 2004 €? DOL-P-GXSP DOL-GXSP-NOE ES 2003-06-27 €? DOL-P-GXSP DOL-GXSP-ESP JP 2003-12-18 ¥6,800 (7,140) HCJ-0344 JP (1) 200x ¥? ? US 2004-09-14 $? ? UK 2004-02-06 £? SEGA-PC002-UK INL-S002-UK UK (Sold Out) 200x £4.99 ? UK (MAD) 200x £? ? FR 2004-02-06 €? SEGA-PC002-FR INL-S002-FRE FR (Hits Collection) 200x  ? SAD3854AF SAD8AF-WRP FR (Xplosiv) 200x  ? ? FR (Just For Gamers) 200x  ? ? DE 2004-02-06 €? SEGA-PC002-GE INL-S002-GER DE (Software Pyramide) 200x  ? SEGA-PC002-GE ES 2004-02-06 €? ? ES (Best of Atari) 200x  ? SEGA-PC002-SP INL-S002-SPA IT 2004-02-06 €? SEGA-PC002-IT INL-S002-ITA AU 2004-02-06 $? ? AU (Valusoft) 200x $? THQ70536 BR 200x R$? ? KR 200x ₩? ? SG 200x  ? ? IL 200x  ? ? SE (PC Best Buy) 200x  ?kr ? HU 200x  ? ?

Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, known as just Sonic Adventure DX (Japanese: ソニックアドベンチャー DXデラックス) in Japan, is an enhanced port of the Sega Dreamcast game, Sonic Adventure, with many added features and updated graphics. It was first released for the Nintendo GameCube in 2003, followed by a Windows PC port the following year.

Gameplay

Sonic Adventure DX follows in the footsteps of Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, a GameCube conversion of Sonic Adventure 2, released in the tail-end of 2001, taking a Dreamcast game (in this case 1999 releases (i.e. the Western and International versions)) of Sonic Adventure and attempting to enhance the game for the more capable GameCube hardware.

Unlike Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, however, the changes in DX are far more significant, resulting in a graphical overhaul across most areas of the game, a new "mission mode", an enhanced Chao Garden and the inclusion of 12 unlockable Sega Game Gear titles. It pulls a lot of inspiration from Sonic Adventure 2, while attempting to fix some of the multitude of problems with the original release, and is generally considered by Sega and Sonic Team to be the definitive version of the game, being the basis for all conversions going forward.

Much of the game has been remodelled or re-textured, with the main characters being among the assets to be re-created with higher polygon counts. But while DX may improve on some 3D geometry, much of the game is untouched and some areas, such as the in-game lighting model and many of the texture choices, are often considered to have been downgraded. In many parts of the game, particulary areas in an around Station Square, these texture changes lead to a very different looking world as seen in the original Dreamcast release.

Sonic Adventure DX being the better version of the game, as is its design, remains a contentious issue among fans.

Mission mode

Main article: Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut/Missions

The Mission mode is a new mode that presents various challenges to the player. When a character's story has been cleared, that character than then be used in this mode. To start a mission, the player must find mission cards located all around the Adventure Fields and interact with one, displaying a hint. It is up to the player to figure out the mission's location based on its hint, which can be inside an Adventure Field or an Action Stage, then complete the mission's objective, such as collecting certain items or by bringing the Burger Shop statue to a specific location. Multiple missions can be active at any given point.

There are a total of 60 missions in the game, and all of them are character-specific, encouraging the player to clear every character's story and explore the Adventure Fields with different characters. At any time, the player can track their mission progress via the pause menu. When all of the missions have been cleared, they can all be replayed at the player's leisure.

Mini Game Collection

The Mini Game Collection, accessible from the main menu, houses all 12 Game Gear Sonic games as unlockables awarded after collecting 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 110, 120 and 130 Emblems and completing 20, 40 and 60 missions. This also marks the first time Sonic Drift and Tails' Skypatrol were officially released in North America and Europe. Each game is unlocked in the following order:

1. Sonic the Hedgehog
2. Sonic Drift
3. Sonic Chaos
4. Sonic Spinball
5. Sonic Labyrinth
6. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
7. Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
8. Sonic the Hedgehog Triple Trouble
9. Sonic Drift 2
10. Tails' Skypatrol
11. Sonic Blast
12. Tails Adventures

Multiplayer support is also available for all Game Gear games and can be enabled by pressing on a second controller. This will reset the current game and display two separate gameplay sessions. For games that supported the Gear-to-Gear Cable for multiplayer, this can be used to link up the two game windows for multiplayer.

Metal Sonic

When all 130 Emblems have been collected, Metal Sonic will be unlocked as a playable character for use in Trial mode. Here, Metal Sonic simply serves as a skin swap for Sonic, as he can access every Action Stage normally visited by Sonic and has all of the same abilities. No Emblems are awarded for clearing Action Stages as Metal Sonic, but progress is still tracked.

Versions

Comparisons

Main article: Sonic Adventure/Comparisons

Also released on

• Sonic Adventure 2-Pack (200x)
• Sonic PC Collection for the PC (2009)
• Sonic Adventure for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network (2010) and Steam (2011)
• Dreamcast Collection for Xbox 360, PC and Steam (2011)

Production credits

Main article: Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut/Production credits

For a list of voice actors, see Sonic Adventure#Voice Actors.

Manuals

Main article: Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut/Manuals

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Physical scans

GameCube version

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GameCube, US
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File:SADX GC US PlayersChoice manual.pdf Manual

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Disc File:SADX GC UK manual.pdf Manual

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Disc File:Sadx jp manual.pdf Manual

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PC version

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PC, US
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Disc 1 Disc 2 File:SonicDX PC eng.pdf Manual

PC, UK
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Disc 1 Disc 2 File:SADX PC UK manual.pdf Manual

PC, UK (Sold Out)
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PC, FR (Xplosiv)
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PC, FR (Hits Collection)
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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 f4e4e141 MD5 b5d979135826338fa0d90d40f907c9b2 SHA-1 70c7ae65cd83c65675e279cd15cbf69cdda29565	1,459,978,240		Game Disc (US)
✔	CRC32 9ba7f3af MD5 2136ed4b6a27dc64066c8a689918dce0 SHA-1 99ce5f51388919a95d571a730c50362ba14277c3	1,459,978,240		Game Disc (EU)
✔	CRC32 df558413 MD5 33a86929c71dcb0cab980121379eb5de SHA-1 7c969b25acfec194382ff24f8ebcc7e7671368d9	1,459,978,240		Game Disc (JP)
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1 b8fa7d16a87ad40e0b2410b199a664f0249c6afe	1.36GB		NR Disc	Preview			Page
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1 7f46e13e4ac513485f116e7db7bc1a9f8f89da53	1.36GB		NR Disc	Review copy

External links

• Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): GameCube, PC (archive)
• Nintendo catalogue pages: US (archive), UK

References

Sonic the Hedgehog games for the following systems

2001  Sonic Adventure 2: Battle     2002  Sonic Mega Collection     2003  Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut | Sonic Heroes     2005  Sonic Gems Collection | Shadow the Hedgehog | Duo Pack: Sonic Heroes/Super Monkey Ball 2     2006  Sonic Riders      Unknown date  Sonic Team JoyCarry Collection  Prototypes  Sonic Mega Collection (prototype; 2002-08-15) | Sonic Adventure Prereleases | Sonic Heroes Prereleases

Retail

1996  Sonic the Hedgehog CD | Sonic the Hedgehog The Screen Saver | Sonic's Schoolhouse     1997  Sonic & Knuckles Collection | Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island     1998  Sonic R     2003  Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut     2004  Sonic Heroes     2006  Sonic Mega Collection Plus | Sonic Riders     2010  Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing     2011  Sonic Generations     2013  Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed     2022  Sonic Speed Simulator      Demos  Sonic Heroes Trial Version  Unreleased  SonicPC