You’ll shit your pants at the 45 second mark:

In a spur of the moment decision, the Sonic Retro podcast crew decided to get together last Saturday for a Sonic Retro podcast special focusing around discussion of the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 4. Participants this time around include Tweaker, InstantSonic, Spexfox, JackSkellinghog, Slingerland, Aquaslash, Katzu Niku, and David the Lurker. We’re a bit late for making the Super Bowl, but Instant was a bit sick and needed to eat more RINGS.

A bit of a heads up–this one is a bit longer than the most, clocking in at about two hours. Also, my sound quality sucks this time around for no good reason. Sorry about that! Hopefully you enjoy our extensive coverage of the things on the table right now when it comes to Sonic 4; we tried to cover as many elements of the game as possible, though an obvious classic bias would be expected from Sonic Retro. ;P

 

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This news has been bouncing around from site to site and more speculation has been running wild.

The Wiire is reporting that “Vash” from Game-Hackers.com has decompiled the flash website of Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 and looking at the code, you can make many guesses as to what it all means.

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Sonic 4 Jingle (Mega CD Version)

Credit goes to multiple members of the boards for the picture and Tweaker for the music.

Sega, please, please reconsider the direction you are going in. Pay attention to the things your fans are making in response.

In light of this week’s developments on Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1, we at Sonic Retro were concerned on what this would mean for the upcoming Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing. Imagine our shock when we were contacted by a source close to Sega with exclusive art!

More on this story as it develops.

Thanks to Retro member darkspines35, the Intro story has been found inside the Sonic 4 flash and is as follows:

WARNING: Possible Spoilers. Click the read link to see the full article!

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A minor add on, but worth mentioning no less, is a flash animation found–and now removed–within the Sonic 4 website.

The file is a flash of Sonic’s prototype running animation as seen in the trailer. Additional concept art and another SWF available too. Hit the jump for more. Read the rest of this entry »

Wow SEGA. Great job tucking away that special information.

Sonic 4's REAL Release date and last platform! And if you don't believe it, click the image for the source image on SEGA's website!

There's even an interview with Iisuka!

UPDATE: Well that was fast. SEGA has removed the images from their website already. At least we grabbed them while we could!

It’s here.

This is a pretty cool video courtesy of Arcane on the forums earlier today. It’s a montage of all the classic Sonic games played in sequence–normally about a 5 hour task–condensed into about 10 minutes. It’s pretty fun to watch and really brings the length and content of the classic games into perspective. It also makes you realize how short Sonic 2 is compared to pretty much everything else. Now all it needs is Sonic CD!

Check out the relevant thread on the forums here.